Random idea for high-lethality D&D campaigns: Character death unlocks new classes and races. Maybe useful in “special snowflake” campaigns where no one reads your carefully crafted setting material. Instead you roll it out piecemeal as PCs bite the dust. “I really want to play a saurian warlock…sure, I’ll take a drink of that mystery potion.” Someone probably thought of this before.
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ReplyDeleteThere's a Stuff You Missed in History Class episode about these beasties that will scare you silly.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to look that episode up.
ReplyDeleteI know the people who did the exhibit and wrote the related book. Highly recommended.
ReplyDeleteI've seen that exhibit, I think. Where are you? Chicago? Cleveland?
ReplyDeleteChicago at the Field Museum.
ReplyDeleteI think there's a movie about it too. With Val Kilmer maybe?
ReplyDeleteAnd Michael Douglas. I remember liking it.
ReplyDeleteThe Ghost and the Darkness. William Goldman wrote it, and there's the story of a better, lost version in Which Lie Did I Tell.
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