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Simple Dark Sun Racial question

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#1
phoenix_m
Feb 10, 2009 14:34:03 Where are the Gnolls?

I'm only asking because I was thumbing through the Sandstorm supliment and found the Marruspawn. With just a little bit of tweeking, they could be issue from some far off land akin to the Kreen Empire/Dead Lands/Last Sea regions.
#2
Pennarin
Feb 10, 2009 15:17:58 Apparently not all races were included in DS. Also, many races were there yet did not have a Champion to cleanse them. So I guess it's up for grabs if you want them in. Nothing canon against or for.
#3
redking
Feb 10, 2009 19:06:36 You could have gnolls. The great thing about DS is that you can have literally any creature, thanks to the mutating effects of the Pristine Tower. The only potential problem arises when you try to fit them in as a major race. Bizarre monsters in infinite diversity fill the wastes of Athas, some of them even unique beings. A good way to introduce old favorites to the players in DS is to not use the names of the monsters - don't say "gnoll", say "beastial canine headed new race spawn", or some such.
#4
phoenix_m
Feb 10, 2009 20:37:52 If I use the history given for the Marru and Marruspawn it would be a major species remnant.
An excerpt:
A people known as the marru once lived and warred in the world, but their civilization has long since passed into the waste, devastated and destroyed by internecine wars of terrible magnitude. As a result of these so-called Flesh Wars, the marru turned to a little-understood art called spawncraft, and in so doing created living weapons to wage their battles.

Now if you change Flesh Wars to Cleansing Wars and Spawncraft to Life-shape, viola you have a new Dark Sun species in a can. The process has become un-replicatable due to the Marru being destroyed sometime later (by one of their own creations).

Using the image of the Marruspawn and looking at an image of a gnoll the resemblance is very close. My thoughts are the now extinct Marru and Gnolls were one in the same. Destroyed not by a Champion, but their own hand – some thing Rajaat may have even foresaw, hence no champion.
#5
cnahumck
Feb 16, 2009 17:56:20 I always thought that gnolls lived on one of the moons, and that a Champion was sent to eradicate them. They still war there today.

jk.
#6
phoenix_m
Feb 17, 2009 10:05:23 No, no, no Everyone knows the Silt Wyrm spawn on Gunthay amongst the lush greenery.
#7
Pennarin
Feb 17, 2009 13:47:42 ...greenery that composes the gardens surrounding the berthing place for the Space Halflings' Mothership, the USS Messenger.
#8
brun01
Feb 17, 2009 19:38:21 OK, who leaked our newest book to the public? I want names!
#9
phoenix_m
Feb 17, 2009 22:06:59
OK, who leaked our newest book to the public? I want names!

Well I'm not going to point fingers but...

(Thumbs don't count as fingers right?)

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 phoenix_m Feb 10, 2009 14:34:03	Where are the Gnolls? I'm only asking because I was thumbing through the Sandstorm supliment and found the Marruspawn. With just a little bit of tweeking, they could be issue from some far off land akin to the Kreen Empire/Dead Lands/Last Sea regions.
#2 Pennarin Feb 10, 2009 15:17:58	Apparently not all races were included in DS. Also, many races were there yet did not have a Champion to cleanse them. So I guess it's up for grabs if you want them in. Nothing canon against or for.
#3 redking Feb 10, 2009 19:06:36	You could have gnolls. The great thing about DS is that you can have literally any creature, thanks to the mutating effects of the Pristine Tower. The only potential problem arises when you try to fit them in as a major race. Bizarre monsters in infinite diversity fill the wastes of Athas, some of them even unique beings. A good way to introduce old favorites to the players in DS is to not use the names of the monsters - don't say "gnoll", say "beastial canine headed new race spawn", or some such.
#4 phoenix_m Feb 10, 2009 20:37:52	If I use the history given for the Marru and Marruspawn it would be a major species remnant. An excerpt: A people known as the marru once lived and warred in the world, but their civilization has long since passed into the waste, devastated and destroyed by internecine wars of terrible magnitude. As a result of these so-called Flesh Wars, the marru turned to a little-understood art called spawncraft, and in so doing created living weapons to wage their battles. Now if you change Flesh Wars to Cleansing Wars and Spawncraft to Life-shape, viola you have a new Dark Sun species in a can. The process has become un-replicatable due to the Marru being destroyed sometime later (by one of their own creations). Using the image of the Marruspawn and looking at an image of a gnoll the resemblance is very close. My thoughts are the now extinct Marru and Gnolls were one in the same. Destroyed not by a Champion, but their own hand – some thing Rajaat may have even foresaw, hence no champion.
#5 cnahumck Feb 16, 2009 17:56:20	I always thought that gnolls lived on one of the moons, and that a Champion was sent to eradicate them. They still war there today. jk.
#6 phoenix_m Feb 17, 2009 10:05:23	No, no, no Everyone knows the Silt Wyrm spawn on Gunthay amongst the lush greenery.
#7 Pennarin Feb 17, 2009 13:47:42	...greenery that composes the gardens surrounding the berthing place for the Space Halflings' Mothership, the USS Messenger.
#8 brun01 Feb 17, 2009 19:38:21	OK, who leaked our newest book to the public? I want names!
#9 phoenix_m Feb 17, 2009 22:06:59	OK, who leaked our newest book to the public? I want names! Well I'm not going to point fingers but... (Thumbs don't count as fingers right?)