Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:59 am
1. Ack! There are no people actually hanging from the Lover's End tree (despite the fact that the session says there are). Are they invisible?
2. I take it that device (people hanging from a tree) was inspired by that place near the start of "Pillars of Eternity 1" ... or "Dragon Age Origins" (where you also see that sort of thing) ... or similar?
In part, Pillars of Eternity - but more so, because this Saturday I am DMing for a group - and we're doing a Halloween episode (in my world called
The Hollowing) - and there's two monks in that group - and they're headed to their monastery after getting word from a spirit about something terrible has happened. So I was wanting to include some creepy Japanese lore and had been reminded of the "
Suicide Woods of Japan" (better known as Aokigahara).
And for the off week game (the notes you read) - they're on an island full of creepy things. So I thought, "Why not mix the Suicide Woods with Pillars of Eternity?"
Where as Pillars of Eternity, people were hung for crimes - I wanted a single tree that people went to - to take their lives.
The tree in question is a Moreton Bay Fig Tree (which I've talked about before on the forums, I am sure) - about the massive tree that is here in San Diego at
Balboa Park. (I love these trees, as it was also the inspiration for a tree in a story I've been writing for a kajillion years).
Also - since I am not an artist, I clearly can't make exact images of what I am describing - so I use photos I find for general ideas.
Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:59 am
3. Um, the session says:
The roof appears as if it’s been ripped apart, the doors are broken off the hinges, windows lie shattered.
But in the picture, the house is in perfect order?
I don't know if I'd call
that house to be in perfect order.
Also - since I am not an artist, I clearly can't make exact images of what I am describing - so I use photos I find for general ideas.
Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:59 am
4. Um (again), the session says:
Galiena does notice that there’s a photo a painting of what appears to be Shelly, her husband and her son...
(emphasis mine)
Is it a photo or a painting? I think it can't be a photo - there are no cameras in D&D.
Should have just been painting.
Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:59 am
5. It also says:
...and the painting has been torn apart.
How is that possible? Torn bits of canvas everywhere? If so, how would they know who is represented in the painting?
A painting that's been torn apart can still be seen. Depends on what portions are torn. Or if they've been RIPPED OUT, versus just ripped.
If you draw on a piece of paper and cut it all over with a razor - but it's still in a frame - you can still see your picture.
Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:59 am
6. Hmm. It says:
Ramgor and Galiena sit out on the tattered porch...
Eek!
A porch can't be tattered (i.e. torn). Cloth, paper or rags can be tattered - that's what a beggar would wear - but a porch/house/etc. are probably
shattered.
Should have been "battered" actually.
Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:59 am
7. Hmm. It says:
Unfortunately, Baldur’s mind and ceases paying attention...
I think you mean that Baldur's mind
wanders and he ceases to pay attention.
9. It says here that
The Harpies lung for an attack.
I think they
lunge in for an attack - they don't use their lungs, except to breathe with!
Yup, just writing too fast.
Also, by "Wendy's", do you mean the fast-food place? I assume it has nothing to do with them -- the licensing fees alone would be enormous!
An evil Ronald McDonald. I hope he doesn't "Mwa-ha-ha" -- that would be way too corny. 
If he could bounce, he might be a kind of antwerp (from Quest for Glory). I suppose Mayor McCheese would be the Evil Mastermind? 
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