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What is something you've enjoyed doing lately?Hmm... I've had a real crappy year and I've been staying inside at home most of the time, so I haven't really been doing much. But! A few weeks ago I got over my covid fear and went to a show to see one of my favorite bands AJJ with my friends Will and Sharaya. (The band/venue required proof of vaccination to enter and everyone was masked.)
Cool to hear!
Hanging out with Will and Sharaya sounds like a great night. :)
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What non-Core Ancestry is your fav? Bonus points if they’re a people found running around in Arcadia, but I honestly just like hearing who the writers are excited about.
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Hmm, that's a little tough, because I'm bad at favorites and almost always play humans (for all reasons good and ill). I'd like to try out a sprite or a skeleton or a poppet and I love spiders, so anadi would be rad. It really depends on the campaign and what fits and what is needed.
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If you were teleported into the WotC IP Vault and had the chance to take exactly one thing and smuggle it out to the OGL, what would it be?
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Was the rougarou directly based on the old school D&D lupin?
I'm not super familiar with the lupin, but anthropomophic canines are a pretty generic idea. The rougarou we did for PF1e was more or less supposed to fill the role of anthropomorphic canines AND something werewolf-lite. Rougarou is a critter from southern Louisiana Cajun folklore which is essentially a werewolf (the word being adapted from the French loup-garou). I don't necessarily like how it was implemented, and if we use that word again I'd like to see it work better with the folklore.
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If you were teleported into the WotC IP Vault and had the chance to take exactly one thing and smuggle it out to the OGL, what would it be?
I honestly don't know. Nostalgia's a powerful drug, but it's one that I try to abstain from. I much prefer new stuff.
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To each their own! Thank you for the answer. :)
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Ah, so obviously the Age of Worms AP. Me too!
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Nostalgia's a powerful drug, but it's one that I try to abstain from. I much prefer new stuff.
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I'm not super familiar with the lupin, but anthropomophic canines are a pretty generic idea. The rougarou we did for PF1e was more or less supposed to fill the role of anthropomorphic canines AND something werewolf-lite. Rougarou is a critter from southern Louisiana Cajun folklore which is essentially a werewolf (the word being adapted from the French loup-garou). I don't necessarily like how it was implemented, and if we use that word again I'd like to see it work better with the folklore.do you know who wrote the rougarou up? htd and i are trying to settle the matter because the dnd lupin also had a pack-based culture with a hatred for werewolves and forming anti-werewolf hunting parties as part of their culture
also, what were conrasu based on?
I did. :) That was like over six years ago, but... I think my thinking at time was that the werewolf enmity was about them getting annoyed about mistaken identity since they're not generally bad guys like werewolves tend to be.
As for the conrasu, Luis or Eleanor would have a better idea of that. I think the idea first appeared in print in a piece written by James Sutter. He is great at sprinkling seeds of ideas, particularly naming creatures as part of gazetteers that later get picked up as creatures or ancestries. I believe that was the case with the conrasu, and I'm pretty sure someone other than Sutter actually gave life to the conrasu.