What is Spike's Problem???!!!

Spike · October 14, 2007, 04:48:43 PM

Heh. Sorry to flood the front page with me own necromantic army of threads, but since I just started to work more on the same general line of work, I thought it would be nice to clue the new guys in...

... also, I was bored of all the crappy old threads. Really. :raise:

TonyLB · October 14, 2007, 04:52:37 PM

Yeah, dude, WTF is your problem, flooding the front page with delicious, insightful, clever, entertaining content?

The heck is wrong wit'choo? :mad:

Consonant Dude · October 14, 2007, 05:08:25 PM

I'm enjoying the threads, Spike. Never read them before. I do think you didn't go far enough with the "evil" races but that's me.

The one essay I would be most looking forward to is on gnomes. I've always found them terribly uninspiring and I'm sure you could spice them up!

Nice work, Spike. Thanks!

Spike · October 14, 2007, 05:25:52 PM

Gnomes kinda got missed in the inital run, since I found that with Dwarves and halflings and kobolds and the like there wasn't much room left for 'Dwarves lite', but I'll give 'em some thought and see what I can come up with.

One point of interest is that these are not meant as reinterpretations of 'D&D' races nearly as much as they seem like. For my purposes, these were for a Runequest based world, though they could be adapted to other generic settings.

Of course, now that I've got all these races placed into the world, the newer articles are less generic than the older ones I ressurrected (and I still think about cross posting them to RPG.net.... wide audiences and alla that)

Silverlion · October 14, 2007, 06:52:42 PM

You know Gnomes to me are the culture of investigation--they often are collectors, craftsmen of strange technologies in "D&D" like settings, jewelers and so on.

It be interesting to see if you tied that into the Dwarves Isolation, perhaps Gnomes suffer from a form of OCD impulsiveness--they are isolated like cousin dwarves but do so as a need to fulfill their own goals/insights into whatever curiousity is the one that calls to them. From the absent minded gnome tinkerer, too the serious scholar gnome professor of a magic school...

They are both sincerely interested in some "thing" and that things drives them to exclusion of all else.

Spike · October 14, 2007, 06:54:50 PM

My first instinct was to do a 'culture of memory'... partly a play on the fact that they are often forgotten or overlooked. That does mesh well with collectors and curious investigative sorts. Its been a busy workday for me, more than I thought it would be so I haven't had time to do much more than percolate the subject a bit....

beejazz · October 14, 2007, 07:18:17 PM

I'd second the obsessive gnomes bit. It's usually the route I take with them. They'd probably be real masters of whatever field they picked, but would probably suffer tunnel-vision that would cause them to neglect everything else.

Oddly, I always imagine gnomes as being isolated from other gnomes... just one or two running a shop in an otherwise predominantly human, halfling, dwarf, or elvish community.

Caesar Slaad · October 14, 2007, 09:41:03 PM

Quote from: SpikeHeh. Sorry to flood the front page with me own necromantic army of threads

riprock · October 15, 2007, 08:03:59 AM

Spike's problem is that he's a vampire with a chip in his head that prevents him from drinking human blood. Also, he's been hurt emotionally in the past, so his love life is far from happy.

What, not that Spike?

Then Spike's problem is that he hasn't really escaped his Martian Yakuza past, and his Lupin-like bounty hunting won't solve his problems. Also, his love life is far from happy.

Lawbag · October 15, 2007, 08:53:21 AM

Is this theRPGsite's first invitational for attacking posters?

Zachary The First · October 15, 2007, 02:38:17 PM

Spike, you just necro all you want, so long as they're like the ones you just did.