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Trench_Raider 10-03-07, 07:08 PM	Ok, bear with me for a moment. In a few more game sessions I will be setting my current group of players up to run through a conversion of the old "Expert Set" module "The Island of Dread". As with all the pre-generated adventures I run, I'm looking for ways to personalize it. Likewise, I make a it a practice to have painted figures for all the planned encounters were possible. I'm a fast painter and have a large collection of miniatures that spans decades, so this is not as big an issue as one might think. While digging around in one of my cases I stumbled across a whole bunch of old Citadel pygmy figures. I had quite forgotten I had these things. As my camera is down right now, I'll post a stock image of these delightfuly un-PC old figures: http://www.solegends.com/citc/c27pigmiesc3.jpg In keeping with the tropical island theme, how does a tribe of dusky, agressive, halfling cannibals sound as a change of pace? (yes, yes...I know the textbook definition of cannibalism. In this case I'm using it to refer to a group that eats other sentient humaniods) Is it too humorous and over the top? "Trench Raider"
Artector 10-03-07, 07:59 PM	I think it could be downright scary. To the party it'd be like throwing (a) kobold(s) at them... until that/those kobold(s) kick(s) their ass. (all the parenthesis are crazy, eh?) What the idea is making me think of is the pygmy-undead from the Mummy Returns. Ooooh, also, figure out how to give them a bite attack. Just for insanity's sake.
CeruleanPhil 10-03-07, 08:09 PM	Jerrin (spelling?) from the Evil races section of the Book of Vile Darkness.
Tempest Stormwind 10-03-07, 08:14 PM	Two words: Dark Sun. (Not for your game or anything; I just meant the halflings in that setting were jungle (forest) dwelling cannibals and they weren't something you joked around with.)
Seeker95 10-03-07, 08:47 PM	Sounds good, and I would love to be a player in your campaign. Is there any reason they cannot also be textbook cannibals? Perhaps ritualistically so? Here are some different forms this can take: They execute and eat those convicted of capital crimes. They eat their dead as a matter of course. They eat only their honored dead (fallen in combat). They eat their stillborn. They eat the leader when s/he dies.
Waterhammer 10-04-07, 01:17 AM	They eat only their honored dead (fallen in combat). They eat the leader when s/he dies. I like these two. It gives the idea that if you eat such a person, you can obtain some of thier essence. Of course, when they eat outsiders, they are considered no more than cattle.
lulzapalooza 10-04-07, 01:24 AM	This doesn't have to do with anything, but in the game Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn, inside the planar sphere, you fight cannibal halflings. It's one of the hardest fights in the game.
CCS 10-04-07, 01:38 AM	Ok, bear with me for a moment. In a few more game sessions I will be setting my current group of players up to run through a conversion of the old "Expert Set" module "The Island of Dread". As with all the pre-generated adventures I run, I'm looking for ways to personalize it. Likewise, I make a it a practice to have painted figures for all the planned encounters were possible. I'm a fast painter and have a large collection of miniatures that spans decades, so this is not as big an issue as one might think. While digging around in one of my cases I stumbled across a whole bunch of old Citadel pygmy figures. I had quite forgotten I had these things. As my camera is down right now, I'll post a stock image of these delightfuly un-PC old figures: http://www.solegends.com/citc/c27pigmiesc3.jpg In keeping with the tropical island theme, how does a tribe of dusky, agressive, halfling cannibals sound as a change of pace? (yes, yes...I know the textbook definition of cannibalism. In this case I'm using it to refer to a group that eats other sentient humaniods) Is it too humorous and over the top? "Trench Raider" As a fellow DM who did the exact same thing , using the same models, ages ago, I say DO IT.
The Ubbergeek 10-04-07, 02:44 AM	I like these two. It gives the idea that if you eat such a person, you can obtain some of thier essence. Of course, when they eat outsiders, they are considered no more than cattle. Dark Sun characters are stronger than base D&D one - it's a brutal, savage world where only the strongest ones survive. An example - instead of 18 max in the first version.... it was 20.
RaevenSkye 10-04-07, 06:06 AM	I played a character one time, a cleric of Wee Jas (I was going for the necromancer prestige class), who made the mistake of hurting a cannibal halfling. He was also a masochist and necrophiliac, and hence fell in love with my character and became her guardian. He was a very interesting character... loved to kill things - then "hump" them, then eat whatever was left. The Book of Vile Darkness was the inspiration for him; while making characters the DM threw the book at us and said, "Have Fun". I used to game with some very interesting people.
Fatalis_902 10-04-07, 06:12 AM	I played a character one time, a cleric of Wee Jas (I was going for the necromancer prestige class), who made the mistake of hurting a cannibal halfling. He was also a masochist and necrophiliac, and hence fell in love with my character and became her guardian. He was a very interesting character... loved to kill things - then "hump" them, then eat whatever was left. The Book of Vile Darkness was the inspiration for him; while making characters the DM threw the book at us and said, "Have Fun". I used to game with some very interesting people. That is extremely creepy. Interesting, but creepy.