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Unpierces your ears
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This is exactly the kind of RAW debate nonsense that I play DnD for.
So, what about the whole belly-button and umbilical cord situation? That might be on the line as far as "mortal wounds" or "missing body parts" go.
Random fun fact: there is a German roleplaying system (Das Schwarze Auge) which explicitly mentions that elves do not have belly buttons, because the "wound" gets magically healed right after the cut. There is a lot of similar weird official canon that occasionally makes me wonder what TH they smoked at the time of writing their rulebooks.
My Fams been playing the game care to tell a few More facts to mess With Them?
Sure, why not? ;) Sorry that most of the sources are in German, but I don't know about relieable English sources.
So...yeah. There you go. One big serving of coversation starters ;)
Honestly, their orcs don't seem odd so much as old. Green orcs mostly come from Warhammer and Warcraft and were backported into DnD after they became popular enough to be the default. Dark, hairy, and short isn't actually far off from how Tolkien described his orcs.
Agreed.
I've seen The Dark Eye at book and game store in the past, but I've always passed it by. Thanks largely to this comment, I will now be spending a lot of money on it.
That animal companion thing sounds like the daemons in His Dark Materials, which is cool.
Lots of neat unusual concepts there too, I like. Though using familiar names like orc and goblin just makes things confusing. They should have come up with different names for their weird races.
It's basically that, minus the ability to talk (the "daemons" in HDM can talk like people, whereas the soul animals in DSA can only talk telepathically with their respective witch). The only other difference is that a witches' companion is usually born elsewhere and has to find their witch in the real world later, which usually happens when the witch is around seven years old and her magic awakens. IIRC the daemons in HDM are somehow born alongside their respective humans and keep shapeshifting until they settle for a matching animal form eventually.
I fully agree with the name change tho. I mean, it should not have been that hard to just stick to Blackfurs and Redfurs for orcs & goblins when they're "nicknamed" that way in the actual game anyway. Both races also have noticably different names for themselves in the game (goblins call themselves Suulak, for example) so that would have been yet another option for a unique name. No need to call these fictional races by a name that most people already associate with very specific traits and then go out of your way to make them "different".
To be fair, most ear piercings are not "cored", but merely punctured. Considering all phalanges begin as flippers, would this spell also render the target a better swimmer, as well? 🤣😜
DM: I have good news and bad news.
Player: give me the good news.
DM: We're naming a new PC race after you.
Personally, I'm fond of healing potions, when used in lieu of common sense after the fact, posting a risk of addiction (likewise, arcane healing spells) as a cautionary lesson to would-be murder-hobos dabbling in meta-dickery at the table. 🤘🏼
So, this is very on-brand for me, as well. 🤩🍿
DM: Oh, so we're meta-gaming now? Is that why you keep executing my quest-givers and plot-leads? Hold my ale.
But seriously, as a DM I'm chill with some meta-ness if it fits the "rule of cool" and doesn't break the game or story into unusable pieces. Then again, my style is heavily improvised so they can't break much in the way of grand plans (there aren't any). Besides, I can always call down some deity and rewrite physics to my liking, so the risk is basically nil.
Sounds like you might really dig Ironsworn/Starforged. 🤘🏼
I'll look into that, thanks!
And the revived’s first words are “Dry land is real!”
It also says that the spell "closes all wounds".
So, if an intentional body modification is a "wound", I guess that means the spell doesn't differentiate and mundane sex changes would also be reversed? 🥲🤷🏼♂️
I feel like puncturing a hole is pretty clearly a wound, but having a cockatrice petrifying someone and casting Stone Shape (which I assume is how sex changes and cosmetic surgery works) probably wouldn't be a wound.
Heh. Mundane sex changes don't often involve a cockatrice, AFAIK.
The placenta. Next question.
It's right there, though?
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I would say that "missing" implies that in some sense the body parts ought to be there but the umbilical cord ought not to be there in both the "natural" and the "desired" senses.
the innie becomes an outie
What about scar tissue? Does it get cleaned up? People who have been in a lot of fights tend to have a big build-up of scar tissue. Also, what about calluses? Does the warrior suddenly have baby-soft skin, losing the calluses he/she built up over years of training with the sword?
Also the classic question of does a lock of hair or a drop of blood count as a body with (a lot of) missing parts?
oooh that sounds like a variation on the ship of thesius.
Imagine all the dust from dead skin cells that you've accumulated over your entire lifetime, returns to you as skin. I wonder what that would look like.
The RAW debate nonsense I like makes the game unplayable. It's what I argue online for. Though I suppose people probably debate RAW while playing and just don't actually play that way.
I'll admit, I'm coming from a very heartfelt and argumentative place. For instance, my brother and his friends complained that Warhammer 40k 2nd edition ruined the game because they made the rules clearer. It upended the whole dynamic by eliminating all the arguing.
As a DM, I use moments like this as a way to let the players help craft house rules; this is the flavor for our game and it just feels like DnD that way.
BrikWars has a rule where if you disagree on the rules, you just roll to see who's right.
I like this. That has "Roll for Shoes" energy behind it.