Recent content by Emberashh

I've already highlighted twice that how DND defines magic is stupid and constantly complained about. You're not making some revelatory point here. Did I say that? Was I being vague in what I thought was a straightforward and unambiguous statement? Rhetorical questions, obviously, don't start...

The joke was in reference to Hobbits, given I was previously talking about them being entirely ignorant to what was or wasn't magic. And what I and the other person were discussing is what happened in Lord of the Rings. Yes, he wrote Aragorn saying he was doing those things. He also wrote...

Asimov's Fantasy stories weren't sci-fi pretending to be fantasy, however, so one has to take that quote with a grain of salt. He was talking about the dynamics of pushing sci-fi beyond the near future or super realistic.

The point, as its not being made clear enough, is that you fundamentally limit where you can go when you insist on basing whats mundane or not on the real world. One of my personal ideas for a Ranger capability is sending messages on the wind. Sure, that's an impossible magic thing in the real...

Im pretty sure you've expressed that you get the idea of immersing yourself, though now I suppose I'll have to second guess that.

No, it doesn't. If you can't conceive of accepting that a different reality has nothing to do with how our real world works then thats a shame, given thats the entire point of fantasy worldbuilding. You're approaching it as though its science fiction and expecting things to be based in how our...

Let me introduce you to Warlord Discourse 2.0

Naturally I disagree. As I said originally, theres a different aesthetic at play when we call something uncanny vs magical, and the same extends to supernatural. One can choose to not put any value in the differences, but that doesn't mean they're not there or that everything has to be...

*if you're an ignorant hole person. It isn't supernatural, however. Not in Middle-Earth.

No, he didn't. And Tolkien acknowledged in one of his letters that Men are never supposed to be able to use Magic. It was actually a mistake he made in describing Numenor; so if the Numenorians weren't supposed to be spellcasters, Aragorn sure as hell isn't. DND idiosyncrasies are irrelevant...

One not appreciating the aesthetic differences between the uncanny and the magical doesn't make it magic.

No, he did not. Aragorn has an uncanny skill as a healer because he was destined to, and thats derived from his backstory being effectively raised by Elves. People don't often understand or even realize that much of what we see as "magical" in LOTR is just uncanny skill. Things like Lembas...

Skip to the attached rules if you don't want to read my musings. The martial/magic doc cuts out what I'm talking about, but I also threw in the full CombatDoc for those that want to chew on it or just see how different things work. Keep in mind this is a development doc. Its only meant to be...

I didn't get the phrase from a thread, but I use the title "Enigma Horizon" as a title for my doc where I'm compiling all my ideas for a Scifi take on the system I'm building for Labyrinthian. Pretty apropos, given my take would be NASAPunk meets John Wick meets Vaporwave, but I'm not married...