What I'm trying to figure out is who else we are likely to meet...

I could see the port having a job for a kraken....thats a monstergirl obviously...Candlekeep...either a scholar type or something like a dragon that wants the shinies..dragon also works for the magic focused city..

I dont know enough of DnD lore to work this out
 
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[] [Candlekeep]
The city of knowledge. All sorts of bestiaries lie there. Perhaps you could find an origin. Also rather bookish wizards… one can hope she doesn't set fire to anything particularly dangerous and ancient.

Nope. We will not take the person whose tail is permanently on fire to a city full of books and ancient knowledge written in flammable material.
The historian in me would rather lose half my liver. So no.

Also, while there would be knowledge of bestiaries there it would be knowledge of the beasts of Faerun, which might not always translate to knowledge of the monster girls and their problems/needs/habits/etc.

A salamander and a monster girl salamander, might be similar, but they are not the same. What works for one, might actually have the opposite effect on the other, so I'd rather go in without faulty expectations, and ask her directly when in doubt about something.

And what do you all mean you want to find a nerd-type next you've barely met this one what

[] [Waterdeep]
City of sailors and merchants. Those in that city had traveled to shores even beyond your knowledge, they may know of her species. It was also a city of tricks and dirty plays… one might expect she may set some poor thief on fire.

In the last campaign I watched that took place there, Waterdeep has a magic barrier over it that ah, would it be spoilers to say what (I think) it does @Erien? Actually is the barrier there at this time? Suffice to say the barrier may react somehow to her if it's there, considering it was made to prevent dragons from entering Waterdeep nilly-willy and stuff.

OH, and the Drow Mafia are there too, I think.

[X] [Silverymoon]
The city of magic. Perhaps you could get to the bottom of this 'teleportation' she was subjected to. It was also a city of spectacle and nature… one can only pray she doesn't set fire to the invisible bridge.

I like this one the most for a bunch of reasons.
For example, she's an alien to Faerun's dimension, is magic in her dimension different from the one she's now inhabiting? If so, how is she adapting to Faenor's magic? I assume it's not going to be bad for her health, but I'd like to find out, it sounds like it could be neat if nothing else.

The Temple of Sune where Baeran was raised, is there too. In fact, Silverymoon is his hometown and the place he probably knows the most about and has the most connections in by dint of growing up there. I hope that translates into more opportunities to get the salamander to someone who could help her. Or at least make her status as an inter-dimensional traveller known to her.
Also, if the salamander still wants to be a paladin, maybe she can actually learn what that is about there, and maybe learn some compassion and empathy, and that stealing from farmers is regularly a bad thing while she's at it.
She has a "might makes right" mentality at the moment, that is not really conducive to people not getting stabbed. So uh, yeah.

I mean, the quest is called Sune's Solution, there's a temple of Sune there...

This has nothing to do with the fact I want Baeran to go back to his hometown and have a wholesome, heartfelt reunion with whatever adopted family he has at the temple, and all his friends that he left there, not at all.
 
In the last campaign I watched that took place there, Waterdeep has a magic barrier over it that ah, would it be spoilers to say what (I think) it does @Erien? Actually is the barrier there at this time? Suffice to say the barrier may react somehow to her if it's there, considering it was made to prevent dragons from entering Waterdeep nilly-willy and stuff.
The dragonward is there, yes. Silverymoon also has a giant shield amusingly, but that just keeps out magic.
 
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Hmm... Good enough to keep reading, certainly, but as someone who's more of a PF player (and by extension knows practically nothing about D&D's official setting), and is familiar enough with MGE that throwing out the worldbuilding strikes me as a bit eh, even if tossing out the lewds makes sense (the narrators tend to be biased, and the Wandering Scholar was relying on pitiful sample sizes of one or two married girls per species rather than anything more comprehensive, so less lewd interpretations of the setting are very feasible to an extent!), that I must admit most of the crossover appeal is completely lost to me. So it's mostly coasting on quality borne of an experienced writer, and the hopes that the characters will grow on me.

But of course, my own opinion hardly represents most of your readers, I would assume.
 
Hmm... Good enough to keep reading, certainly, but as someone who's more of a PF player (and by extension knows practically nothing about D&D's official setting), and is familiar enough with MGE that throwing out the worldbuilding strikes me as a bit eh, even if tossing out the lewds makes sense (the narrators tend to be biased, and the Wandering Scholar was relying on pitiful sample sizes of one or two married girls per species rather than anything more comprehensive, so less lewd interpretations of the setting are very feasible to an extent!), that I must admit most of the crossover appeal is completely lost to me. So it's mostly coasting on quality borne of an experienced writer, and the hopes that the characters will grow on me.

But of course, my own opinion hardly represents most of your readers, I would assume.
Hey, thanks for being honest! And thanks for calling me an experienced writer.

When I say 'throwing out' it's mostly the... world corruption, and avoiding any loli elements. Also hey, I'm a PF player myself thank you! Just I'm more familiar with Faerun than Golarion. I plan on keeping how the girls themselves work true to the setting however.
 
I plan on keeping how the girls themselves work true to the setting however.
I must admit, I'm less worried about that, and more worried about, like... The Sabbaths, Dragonia, the Lilim, the reasons Heroes and Incubi actually become such... All the actually interesting bits of worldbuilding, the stuff that shows us how the world actually works rather than just individual species divorced from context. Not all of it would actually be relevant, admittedly, due to this taking place in a D&D setting, but... That's the kinda stuff I'm more worried about.
 
I must admit, I'm less worried about that, and more worried about, like... The Sabbaths, Dragonia, the Lilim, the reasons Heroes and Incubi actually become such... All the actually interesting bits of worldbuilding, the stuff that shows us how the world actually works rather than just individual species divorced from context. Not all of it would actually be relevant, admittedly, due to this taking place in a D&D setting, but... That's the kinda stuff I'm more worried about.
I'll be working to include plenty of that stuff, they may be coming to Faerun, but their ideas come with them.

Ignis, however, is a bit ignorant about a lot of things.

There are... some power players planned. That shake things up quite a bit more.
 
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It's interesting to me, because my understanding of MGE is, without the excessive hornieness and monster girls, a pretty basic JRPG world. Which means it actually tracks pretty close to D&D, because that's what the OG JRPGs were based on. So this is like a descendent setting meeting its grandparent.

Not that I can speak much on either. MGE I know through like, two or three other stories that had their own take on the world. D&D I know through the cultural zeitgeist, plus the recent movie and a video I watched on Bulder's Gate. Maybe a few source books I've skimmed through.

Still, interested to see what happens!
 
It's interesting to me, because my understanding of MGE is, without the excessive hornieness and monster girls, a pretty basic JRPG world. Which means it actually tracks pretty close to D&D, because that's what the OG JRPGs were based on. So this is like a descendent setting meeting its grandparent.

Not that I can speak much on either. MGE I know through like, two or three other stories that had their own take on the world. D&D I know through the cultural zeitgeist, plus the recent movie and a video I watched on Bulder's Gate. Maybe a few source books I've skimmed through.

Still, interested to see what happens!
MGE isn't super complicated yeah, just it has a lot of corruption, mental and otherwise that gets kinda... rule breaky on SV. I plan on explaining things as I go along, as I do with every story.
 
I'm less interested in the actual IPs involved [but thats nice] and more interested in seeing...well I suppose its not entirely an out of context problem for our paladin - cross planar invasions are a thing iirc. But it's still interesting to see two worlds colliding like this.

Also how a story works when you have a max level character is fun to see.
 
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Library time?
 
Adhoc vote count started by Erien on Aug 4, 2023 at 3:27 PM, finished with 66 posts and 27 votes.


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Library time?

...yay books!

*pulls out artwork of cute librarian spider girls*

too soon?
 
If we can get a bookish spider, then how about a bookish Minotaur? Oh, or a Naga...

...wait. we're going to a place full of old, rare books, and we have a companion who's tail is on fire...
 
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