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Thanks for this! I was already trying to make a kraken playable character, so this is excellent!
Found your video, from the other kraken week videos. Discussion was interesting, but the first four minutes before it started weren't.
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Who is making the delicious at wotc this is so far off the reservation off the range for a fantasy roleplaying game I wonder what gygax would think
Given how mythic and extremely long lived Kraken are, much like dragons, you could go in a direction similar to the Lux Aeterna from your playable dragons.
At the base levels, I would look at the pirates of the Caribbean movie character Davy Jones. He would be good for the intro levels and can be moded as one gains levels.
Thanks for watching and commenting with great ideas! I'm reading all of your comments and taking notes for the writing process ^_^
Really cool that you guys already set up stuff for next year’s Kraken week, looking forward to seeing it!
Great video! Can't wait for this ancestry. The vampire squid can produce flashes of light to disorient its prey. That could make for a neat ability. There could also be a nautilus kraken with a shell.
Also, some squid have really big eyes, so first level feat giving you all round vision, and possibly upgrading later so you can't be flanked.
An ink Kraken, the can use produce ink for concealment or to blind / dazzle enemies similar to a breath weapon?
The kraken in divinity original sin 2 was amazing!!! 🎉
Oh yeah, for sure! I just finished that game a couple of months ago. I played co-op with my little brother over the course of more than a year. The inevitable result of getting a pair of completionists together in a game like that, haha.
Great info!!!
I'm excited to see what MCDM does and wish them success. they have a unique game and we need more popular but smaller ttrpgs if we wanna make a dent in the monopoly wotc has created.
I really liked the way Mark contributed with alternative views on the art, as in the dwarven characters. It's a keen lesson on keeping an open mind and don't rush to the first interpretation. I'll try to do that from now on. Thank you!
More moral gate keeping in RPGs. Reminds me of the Satanic Panic.
I watched Eye of the Beholder and it was fascinating. My only complaints about it were that It had Satine Phoenix in it for some weird reason and when it started talking about how diverse the art was now I turned it off, but up until that point it was a great watch.
you know, there's only so many times you can say "This doesn't bother me, it's fine" and be believable when everything you bring up is followed by saying that
I'm sad about your dog mr Glicker, that's just bad news...
So basically these are the Mexican elves? Which monster are they going to make into the asian elf?
The pike wielding story at the end cracked me up. Like a scene out of a Discworld novel. "The orc strode out of the kitchen wielding a vicious pike. The sight of it made Rincewinds empty stomach rumble and he could only imagine how it would taste freshly cooked with a side of chips."
1:34 actually you can 1 for 1 translate from one language too another language. As some languages are more precise than others in different areas. Examples. 1) Some languages don't have a word for blue. 2) Some languages have five levels of distance , some have 3 & some have 7 levels. 3) Some languages are gendered ( everything has female or male ) and some have 3 types ( male , female & neutral ) 4) some languages use limited range of words that get re-combined to make new words.
GREEN HUMAN SHORT HUMAN POINTY EAR HUMAN CHILDLIKE HUMAN
RED HUMAN WITH HORNS SCALY HUMAN
Oh Stephen, you sweet summer child
The other thing art does is signal who the game is for. After seeing that orc art, it's clear they're not making the game for me anymore. I hope there are enough preteen girls out there to keep the game afloat.
Sounds very much to me that you really know why they did all these changes but dont want to bring up the real reasons..Its just so weird and the orc art is managed to really get offensive by making orcs look like mexicans
Russell Crowe sadly *thinks* he can sing. His band is awful.
The main problem I have with the art is that there's no unified vision. There are so many different art styles while being uniformly bland design-wise that it just comes across as uninteresting. At that point, you may as well not have art and just tell the reader to imagine them how they will for their specific table.
This was fascinating!, I missed it live because I was at the hospital, whish I hadn't!
People are boring that's why the most played old race and class combo is human fighter. Also most people play and connect to what looks familiar to them that's why we see faces in everything. That also why we have majority of fantasy books/shows/games and ect with the main character/ majority are human, elf or human with different color skin and horn. More different you get away from human less people see themselves in the creature.
In general problem with modern D&D, both in art and writing, is that is reeks of modern west coast urbanite sensibility and culture. This is why they code orcs as Mexicans, and dwarfs as Portland baristas. But this is not flavor D&D should have. It should embody motives of the old continent before 1492, it should drove inspiration form pre columbian Eurasia and Africa, with possibly only slight undertone of renaissance in most urban areas, but noting more modern then that.
Stephen comes off looking like a grognard here in the most derogatory sense.
One fun fact, there are almost 0 orc enemies in official dnd adventures. Even on settings like Icewind Dale where they would be expected as a random encounter enemy.
how many of the dwarves in the hobbit were male ?
creatures that live underground / in darkness lose the ability to see .... they don't gain different types of vision ... tunnel vision for dwarves ?....
did Gary Gygax think EPT was the best rpg ?
el orco the mexican goblin ? .... not thinking outside the box ....
please understand that Tolkien wrote fiction, if you don't like his orcs it is you that is wrong....
Humanizing orcs can actually be super dangerous. Calling people orcs can be used as hate. (Most commonly against Russian people. Set the politics of that war aside, we shouldn’t call Russian people orcs.) Is making them more human taking the wind out of it as a slur? Or since it’s a preexisting slur and any cultural expressions that parallel anything in real life be problematic. Idk seems difficult to navigate. Idk if humanizing orcs is the right call if they’re trying to make things inoffensive
please understand that Tolkien wrote fiction if you can't handle that you need serious psychological help.... jrrt spent time in south Africa ..... onwards and upwards and beyond
2.5 mins of silence ....
That whizkid mini is an abomination of Elmore's work, and an insult to real D&D players. It was indeed designed to enrage real D&D players, to drive them from the game. Micro-wotc hates anyone over 40.
This is all part of the plan by micro-wotc to infantilize D&D to pander to the 20 somethings with the maturity of an 8 year old. 6e is NOT D&D.
My guess art would be slightly better received if they say there San Citlán orcs from Radiant citadel. Mexican orcs in a Mexican setting. Don’t solve the looking too human problem. Also Radiant citadel needs more support. One anthology book, a small GMguild supplement on release and not sure what other unofficial projects after that? Has some potential as long as it’s getting some annual expansions.
I was puzzled by the tagline of the video until I realized that I consider Lockwood's dragons the truest dragons.
22:00 Mark saying that maybe D&D is trying to get more people to play orcs like WOW did with Blood elves and horde... No. WOW had a problem because it was an MMO and the game became globally unbalanced across thousands of servers when too few people were playing horde. D&D has no reason to care how many people do or don't play orcs. It wouldn't unbalance anything if nobody ever played orcs because the orcs "aren't pretty enough." The only unbalance would be if their stats were off-kilter, which maybe they are, but has nothing to do with the art. D&D wants to make orcs more human because they are turning D&D into "cozy" fantasy instead of swords-and-sorcery.
Listening to Mark carefully walk around any type of gender slight while talking.
Watching these Videos and I get really frustrated at the constant inturruptions from Mark Seifter. why does he always ask Stephen a question and then cut him off? The guy needs to learn to shut up when other people are talking.
Why is a monstrous orc considered offensive?
Someone people are saying they’re stand in for black people. Idk how saying “oh oops” and then making them look more human helps. That just needs to hand waved away.
You guys struggling to understand and discuss WotC's motives with the Orcs and the gender-swapped D&D art and calling it everything else but what it is... was extremely awkward. I know you don't want to step onto the cultural warfare woke/anti-woke landmine, but I mean... guys... you stepped on it by bringing up the art in the first place. The culture war stuff is clearly the motive.
Very well spoken.