You know how the editors have remarked that certain tropes seem to appear at roughly the same time, like there is some sort of weird Jungian collective unconscious shared by all the contributors and would-be contributors to Dungeon. Well, I had that experience after reading Nicholas Logue's "Swords of Dragonslake." Desriya the nymph assassin has more than a fleeting resemblance to a Critical Threat I've been toying with for over a year, Anhedonia, the Lady of the Veils, an evil nymph assassin whose cover is a veiled dancer. D'oh! This one ranks right up there with my South Seas island romp that I proposed last year...
So does anyone else have weird cases of serendipity that they would like to share?
Pretty much the whole of Eberron. Down to the main campaign occuring within the former kingdom of Galefar (Galifar in my campaign). I was hashing out an inventor base class and a construct race when Eberron arrived at my FLGS. Didn't have a subscription to Dragon at the time, so the whole thing hit me at once. Had dragon conspiracies, magic shards from the sky, the whole works.
*cry*
Back in the 70s I had an idea for a quasi-Tolkienesque wargame that involved most players pretending to be "characters" with one player pretending to be a "Dungeon Master."
El Skootro
a.k.a. The Complete Scoundrel
Pretty much the whole of Eberron. Down to the main campaign occuring within the former kingdom of Galefar (Galifar in my campaign). I was hashing out an inventor base class and a construct race when Eberron arrived at my FLGS. Didn't have a subscription to Dragon at the time, so the whole thing hit me at once. Had dragon conspiracies, magic shards from the sky, the whole works.
*cry*
Oh, dude! That sucks a donkey's batter sack.
I feel for you and for all of us. Happens to me all the time, and certainly not just for D&D related things.
The way I see it the next time you come up with a great idea, imagine that someone else somewhere else just came up with the same idea. It's a race to market. They might have better resources, confidence, or know how. It's up to you to evolve in place and become the monster who gets there first. Like Darwin and that other guy who thought up evolution but didn't get published in time. What was his name again? Oh yeah, who cares?
I invented the internet.Back in the 70s I had an idea for a quasi-Tolkienesque wargame that involved most players pretending to be "characters" with one player pretending to be a "Dungeon Master."
El Skootro
a.k.a. The Complete Scoundrel
I invented goring.
I invented the internet.
I also had plans to invent an alter-ego who was a snarky lycanthrope. Why do I never follow through with these ideas?
El Skootro
I invented the internet.Back in the 70s I had an idea for a quasi-Tolkienesque wargame that involved most players pretending to be "characters" with one player pretending to be a "Dungeon Master."
El Skootro
a.k.a. The Complete Scoundrel
I invented goring. Yep, taught it to the bulls back in my younger days.
I invented the internet.I also had plans to invent an alter-ego who was a snarky lycanthrope. Why do I never follow through with these ideas?
El Skootro
Improper footwear.
Improper footwear.
It's tough when you have cloven hooves.
It's tough when you have cloven hooves.Improper footwear.
Not when they're four leaf cloven hooves.
Like Darwin and that other guy who thought up evolution but didn't get published in time. What was his name again? Oh yeah, who cares?
Darwin had the denizens of the nine hells on his side.
El Skootro
Denizen
Like Darwin and that other guy who thought up evolution but didn't get published in time. What was his name again? Oh yeah, who cares?Darwin had the denizens of the nine hells on his side.
El Skootro
Denizen
It behooves me to add that he also had nine bells on his side because he was afraid of mice and wanted to scare them away before they could wind up underfoot. Galapagos mice are nine feet tall and have a taste for man bladder.
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It behooves me to add that he also had nine bells on his side because he was afraid of mice and wanted to scare them away before they could wind up underfoot. Galapagos mice are nine feet tall and have a taste for man bladder.Like Darwin and that other guy who thought up evolution but didn't get published in time. What was his name again? Oh yeah, who cares?Darwin had the denizens of the nine hells on his side.
El Skootro
Denizen
Mice feet or man feet?
Mice feet or man feet?It behooves me to add that he also had nine bells on his side because he was afraid of mice and wanted to scare them away before they could wind up underfoot. Galapagos mice are nine feet tall and have a taste for man bladder.Like Darwin and that other guy who thought up evolution but didn't get published in time. What was his name again? Oh yeah, who cares?Darwin had the denizens of the nine hells on his side.
El Skootro
Denizen
My half-ogre fighter took the Of Mice And Men feat. It gave me a savage boost to strength (+4, good fer crushin' ladies while dancing) but I lost all ability to resist lepines' adorable gaze attacks.
Mice feet or man feet?It behooves me to add that he also had nine bells on his side because he was afraid of mice and wanted to scare them away before they could wind up underfoot. Galapagos mice are nine feet tall and have a taste for man bladder.Like Darwin and that other guy who thought up evolution but didn't get published in time. What was his name again? Oh yeah, who cares?Darwin had the denizens of the nine hells on his side.
El Skootro
Denizen
This thread was going so well. Then someone let the fluffy puppy play. Now it's ruined ... FOREVER!
I invented dice.
El Skootro
This thread was going so well. Then someone let the fluffy puppy play. Now it's ruined ... FOREVER!
I invented dice.
El Skootro
Well I wrote Of Dice And Men on a typewriter custom made for my big fuzzy paws. Cleaning the Mudd off that sucker was a five year mission.
someone let the fluffy puppy play
Sorry. "Big Fluffy Puppy" is not very specific. I meant to say "Big Fluffy <i>Lycanthropic<\i> Puppy." Please forgive my error. Any non-lycanthropic puppies may continue to post at their leisure.
El Skootro
someone let the fluffy puppy playSorry. "Big Fluffy Puppy" is not very specific. I meant to say "Big Fluffy <i>Lycanthropic</i> Puppy." Please forgive my error. Any non-lycanthropic puppies may continue to post at their leisure.
El Skootro
Thank you for the distinction, oh horned one. But I personally vouch for this lethal poodle. He can leg hump a man's shinbones into ivory granola within seconds and would make a fine addition to your brimstone ranks.
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Thank you for the distinction, oh horned one. But I personally vouch for this lethal poodle. He can leg hump a man's shinbones into ivory granola within seconds and would make a fine addition to your brimstone ranks.someone let the fluffy puppy playSorry. "Big Fluffy Puppy" is not very specific. I meant to say "Big Fluffy <i>Lycanthropic</i> Puppy." Please forgive my error. Any non-lycanthropic puppies may continue to post at their leisure.
El Skootro
That's no fib.