Things I did not know

[james_davis_nicoll]

Apparently in their current version, the skin of Drow who convert to good becomes lighter coloured while the "blackness of the drow's skin has become a permanent sign of their depravity". The Curse of the Lamanites angle seems to have been introduced by self-confessed Canadian author Lisa Smedman in The Lady Penitent.

Nicked from arielstarshadow

Comments

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Ew.

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

(echo)

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's just D&D, the rpg dedicated to depicting permanent race war.

[paleshadow.livejournal.com]

Thank God for Rule 0.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

What?? o_O

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

It would be interesting to see a D&D world where all of the sentient races had the full spectrum of alignments, instead of being shoved into boxes.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just...wow.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

But then how would you know who to sacrifice to Lolth?

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

People of science fiction, you can rejoin modern society without shame, without embarrassment.

If any of you are still white, we can cure you.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Sacrifice them all, let Lolth sort them out.

[(Anonymous)]

And this is why we have GURPS.

tlönista

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Of course.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

This is RPGs, not SF. SF has persistant issues but roleplaying has them turned up to 11. I mean, there are rpg companies selling miniatures of semi-naked women being tortured.

I remember being amazed when my copy of Ex Machina and the woman on the cover turned out to have been drawn by someone who had actually seen breasts.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that the Drizzt books are NYT bestsellers.

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

Ah, like Eberron was?

[kynn.livejournal.com]

Apparently in their current version, the skin of Drow who convert to good becomes lighter coloured while the "blackness of the drow's skin has become a permanent sign of their depravity".

What's your source for this? I just pulled out the Monster Manual and the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide (which has Drow as a playable race), and neither one says anything about this.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

I didn't look much at Eberron - did it keep the myriad of non-humanoid races?

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

Not knowing what Ex Machina is (though a quick Google search suggests it's the Tri-Stat Cyberpunk book), what attribute of the cover makes you say that?

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

I always give them that anyway. It's more fun that way.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

Ah, that seems to be a misreading of the event described at the end of this entry, which isn't really about Drow "converting to good."

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Lolth sounds like the god of LOLcats. It's Ceiling Cat's true name that can't be spoken, or something.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The woman's breasts on the cover actually look like women's breasts. They're even subject to deformation due to the combination of their mechanical properties and the effects of gravity.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

Al Qadim also rejected "permanent race war" in Zakhara.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

I would *love* to see a macro of that.

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

It did, and it generally threw the idea of race-based alignments out of the window. That said, it wasn't perfect - the enemy races tended to be enemies because they wanted the same sort of land that the 'player' races, though, more than because they were born evil.