Necroes

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Einkil had been busily unloading the crates from the wagons as the dwarf spoke. Being a friendly sort, as well as a fellow dwarf, he was more than happy to lend the older gentleman a hand. His had been the first name signed on the list, before the sum of payment had even been mentioned. Being less than sober, the idea of getting to test a bunch of magical wands-something he'd never done before-seemed like a good time in general. 'What harm,' he reasoned, 'when the man asking is a fellow dwarf? Surely he could be trusted to not put others at risk, especially with money involved.'

So it was that Einkil would use his large battle axe to pry open the lid while the dwarven wizard spoke, reaching in to snatch up a dozen or so of the wands for himself. With one wand in his left hand, and the others carried under his right arm like a bundle of twigs, he began to wave the short rod about above his head. When nothing obvious occurred, he turned to the wizard, pointing the wand at him.

"Say, cousin," he began, speaking in only slightly slurred dwarven. "How does one go about using these kinds of fancy magic tools? Thinking about it, actually, what exactly are we meant to use them on?" While Einkil was not entirely estranged to magic-the world was full of it, after all-his teachings on the matter essentially amounted to his parents warning him to steer clear of it; A fact that often crossed his mins when faced with similar predicaments, but which he was currently too intoxicated to recall.

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A gnome and a kobold in the same party...

If we're keeping to the traditional Greyhawk lore, this is going to be interesting indeed.

Praise be to Garl Glittergold!

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@Dark Cloud It's best to ask @Mae about rules and the like. It's her campaign. Anything I say about the world is with an invisible asterisks with the disclaimer: "Standard to the lore. The DM determines if this is actually true."

Also, I wasn't trying to get onto you. Asking a question is fine; Talking is fine; Holding a conversation is fine. When you repeatedly ask the same question, without expounding in any way as to why you needed to make the question multiple posts, you're not doing any of those things.

You may not have noticed, but not all of us get onto this thread very often. I get to post maybe once a day, sometimes less. This is currently the only game I'm in, because I outright don't have time for any others. Having to scrolls through pages and pages of posts, looking for the ones relevant to me, takes time I don't necessarily have. This is true of many people in the guild. Generally, it's a good rule of thumb to respect people's time by keeping your posts concise and not spending multiple posts addressing the same topic without adding new information. Having to wade through all of that can be irritating, thus why I warned you that doing it could get on people's nerves.

Likewise, interactions between yourself and the DM that can be handled privately are best handled through PMs. It gives other players less access to meta knowledge they shouldn't have, and helps make sure things that aren't relevant to the entire group aren't taking up pages of dialogue in the shared group OOC.

No one is perfect, we all break away from this sometimes. It's still a good rule of thumb, and calling someone on it isn't about trying to insult or belittle them. It's a reminder that said rule of thumb exists for a very good reason.

@Cao the Exiled Deedra may be smart and pretty, but Einkil is rocking a double-digit health bar and a +2 to hit on a d10 weapon. By all accounts, I'm the group tank.

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Also, @Dark Cloud

Fun fact; The creature you linked to has an intelligence of 11. That makes it a sentient creature. 'Owning' it would actually be slavery.

Please knock it off with the begging. Spamming the DM about whether or not you can have an item, or if we're using a specific rule, clutters the OOC thread and will do nothing but get on everyone's nerves. If you're not sure about something, ask in a private thread. Or, better yet, because this is supposed to be a fairly casual game, just assume that you'll have to settle it in-character. If the rule comes up in character, we'll address it then. If your character wants a winged cat, see if you can buy one in-game.

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I like Pathfinder Goblins better than D&D Goblins.

@Dark Cloud

Pathfinder goblins are worse! Have you read their lore? I own every core book on the subject. Those things are monsters. Their race is default chaotic-evil for a reason.

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@Dark Cloud You think that's bad; Goblins of pretty much every walk of life have all the same negative connotations, with none of the positive ones, and are often put up there with things like ghouls and zombies in terms of 'things to kill asap.'

The memes that are generated by popular D&D culture about these races dramatically differ from the actual lore about them. While a lot of DMs like to portray them as loveable, goofy idiots that get a bad rap, in all the literature they're basically seen as a nuisance at best, and an active plague on goodly society at worst.

There's a reason that killing them wholesale isn't seen as a crime, and is often rewarded by nearby civilizations.

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I thought it was the gnomes that kobold had a mutual restraining order with.

@rush99999

Kobolds have an extreme hatred of gnomes because the gnome god, if I recall correctly, pulled a 'prank' on the earliest kobold society that took them from having the largest fortified civilization in the world, to where they are now.

As a rule, the majority of races look down on kobolds because they're essentially raccoons. They breed like rodents, they live in squalor, and they steal other people's trash because their culture teaches them that that's okay. For most races, the main benefit of having kobolds around is that they tend to fix random objects/tunnels/paths/buildings, often using tools made from repurposed refuse.
The problem between kobolds and dwarves is that dwarves are very particular about ownership, and will often repurpose their own refuse. So, stealing it isn't okay. More over, dwarves rarely need anything fixed, because they like to fix things themselves. When kobolds try and fix their stuff, it's more of a nuisance than useful, because they don't build up to dwarven standards.
Also, while most species are too big to fit into kobold tunnels, dwarves can fit into the bigger ones and it's often hard to tell the difference between an old, deserted kobold tunnel, and a fresh one. Old or new, they often have a great deal of traps in them, which are hazardous to dwarves mining those tunnels.

So, while most races will generally ignore kobolds until they make themselves an active nuisance, dwarves view them as more like a rat infestation. None of the goodly races actually see them, on a grand scale, as anything more than a monstrous race. So dwarves basically get a free pass to actively commit genocide against the little lizard-lings, and will do so whenever they find them in/on/near their homes. Thus, standard practice for dwarves is to kill kobolds whenever they see them.

Luckily, Einkil is not a normal dwarf. He's very much a hippy, by dwarf standards, and is happy to live and let live. However, he is still a dwarf, raised by dwarves with dwarven morals and ideals, and would not hesitate to kill what to him is essentially a vermin if it actively caused him problems.

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@Necroes Can I steal your template?? I love the way you have it set up!

@Cao the Exiled

Go for it.

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@Dark Cloud It's common practice among polite dwarven society to kill kobolds on sight. Don't make me have Einkil do something polite. He hates that.

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@Dark Cloud@Cao the Exiled

Both of you can stay entirely the hell away from Einkil's stills. Poor guy has enough problems keeping those things running, doesn't need a bunch of little folk running around swiping parts.