Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!campaignwiki.org!.POSTED.staticline-31-183-191-26.toya.net.pl!not-for-mail From: Kyonshi Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Subject: Re: [Bell of Lost Souls] D&D 2024 Edition Heads Back To Greyhawk, Makes Aasimar A Default Option Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 15:19:23 +0200 Organization: Campaign Wiki Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 13:51:01 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: sibirocobombus.campaignwiki; posting-host="staticline-31-183-191-26.toya.net.pl:31.183.191.26"; logging-data="2290480"; mail-complaints-to="alex@alexschroeder.ch" User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Hamster/2.1.0.1548 Cancel-Lock: sha1:mSBzkLZSrAvYtfQgOsFt/sKh3Pk= sha256:ZK1nyUH9S1OkWcMx2MFYidusKpP1lQ0EbaANSzJ96Vo= sha1:bvDkIrkvx5hhist5RzinBDkXaoI= sha256:rUCqkofcuRQxmTDSU/ZVrZHvKn0FF2SvZefKIMPBWrc= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2176 Lines: 20 On 5/21/2024 3:31 PM, Justisaur wrote: > On 5/20/2024 4:20 AM, Kyonshi wrote: >> On 5/17/2024 10:44 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >>> On Fri, 17 May 2024 07:53:37 -0700, Justisaur >>> wrote: > >> I find the choice of goliaths a bit weird. I would have thought they'd >> choose something they can trademark, but I doubt you can properly >> trademark a character type based on a biblical story, wihthout even >> the name changed. >> > > They seem like they're just 1e's Half-Ogre with a different skin and > origin.  Also not really trademarkable. > I would actually trace them more to Dark Sun's Half-Giants. Although the true genesis most likely was "hey, we have a book called Races of Stone coming up and one of the things we deal with is dwarves. What else do we have?"