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I've been saying this for years. But I've been shrinking a inch a decade since 8th grade, so by the time I'm 50 or 60 I should be just right

Good summary of them really tbh

If you haven't checked out his old blog series called the DM experience I highly recommend it! Even if it's about 4th edition, it's a hoard of knowledge.

Seems like you've heard of it, champ.

Mordenkainen's Tome page 188. Very interesting, because there was no picture I never actually understood that they were in robot golem bodies. The blurb didn't leave much of an impression on my mind, but sure enough they do describe it that way.

Do you have Volo's, there's 10 pages worth of general info about their culture, obviously it varies somewhat depending on the setting.

Could a being without passion, inspiration or joy even be a paladin?

I play a Duergar oath of vengeance paladin in a game set in Exandria and his main thing is he discovered the Duergar gods were all fictions created by Asmodeus. A sinister deception that led to their separation from dwarven society, enslavement by the mindflayers etc. He now views their religion, society, behaviour etc to be nothing more than a carefully planned way to covertly enslave and control their race. After being branded a heretic and a criminal and then being cast out my character eventually met and hired the party bard as a tutor (session zero) and then they both joined the party proper. Now he’s found faith with Sarenrae and is working towards both his own grand goals for the Duergar people and his goals with his friends.

I'm doing something just like that lmao

@@mrsalmon3791 Let me know how it goes :D

I like the idea of a duergar who found Ilmater through interaction with the surface world slaves. Here’s a god that seeks to ease suffering but also persevere through suffering. What a perfect way to redeem a Duergar.

Or she likes it deep.

Direct quote from a CP tweet concerning sunlight sensitivity “Even sunglasses or tinted goggles won't alleviate that sick feeling drow get in sunlight. #WOTCstaff”

There's a magic eyepatch that removes sunlight sensitivity so it doesn't affect the creature's body, just their ability to see.

@@BigBunky And yet shade works just fine (as referenced in Waterdeep: DH). Clearly the solution is magic sunglasses!

Sounds like the solution is a big hat! Take the shade with you

I'm right there with ya

@@lorddreemurr ye

Does anyone know when that new TORCH show is going to happen? I know they had a first episode at one of the PAX conferences but I don’t know when they are going to make more episodes.

@@yellowbeard1 from what I understand they are going to start sometime in the fall. But I could be wrong

@@Zionswasd ye right there.😉

Great Anaolgy. They also make a analogy in this video about the *Drugar* being like *Soviet Culture*

​@@brandonblackfyre5783Any system that does not ultimately prioritize maintaining a baseline quality of life for its participants will fall into this.

What I'm hearing here Is dur Oh GAR

Would probably be pretty awkward, given that the Duergar are allied to Asmodeus while the Githyanki are allied to Tiamat who's a prisoner of Asmodeus. Also the part where Githyanki are planar pirates who steal whatever they want and kill anyone in their way, and Duergar want to own everything, probably wouldn't take long for weapons to get drawn.

@@whiskeyhound While a prisoner, Tiamat is a formal ally of his and in the interest of furthering the agenda of the Nine Hells I could see Devils acting as mediators. Also being in an environment where they can't unleash their full armada the Gith might be forced to negotiate, and in the interest of profit and hatred of the Mind Flayers they might start supplying the Gith with armament. Though speaking of Tiamat, i'm curious what her agenda is now that she's one of only a few contenders for rulership of Avernus now that Zarial is out of the picture?

​@@cameronpearce5943 Is Zariel officially out of the picture? it's hard to say with Tiamat as she wasn't particularly interested in the blood war and as a goddess, I can't see much reason for her to want to replace Zariel as the guardian of the hells.

@@whiskeyhound Which is exactly why I imagine Asmodious would land her with the job

@@cameronpearce5943 I could see him giving the job back to Bel, since everything I've read says that Bel isn't particularly well liked by most devils, which would suit Asmodeus's goal of keeping every devil busy working against each other and would allow for a return to a less risky style of defence for avernus.

I thought the same thing when he said it.

Technically they are worshipped, it's just not something formalised into a religion with rituals and priests.

@@whiskeyhound Then how do they stay gods the act of worship and faith is what keeps gods powerful without it they wither and die/are killed

@@Ghastly_Grinner Gods don't require an act of worship like specific prayers to stay alive, merely being revered by enough mortals is enough to sustain them, otherwise half the gods in the game would've starved as they're not actively worshipped outside of very specific circumstances. Specifically here's what Mordenkainen's tome of foes says about Laduguer's worship. Duergar don't worship Laduguer in any traditional way; their communities include no temples or formal services. They honor their deity by acquiring more power and wealth through any means possible. Priests of Laduguer maintain the internal functions of duergar society but have no role that is expressly religious. As for Deep Duerra, the same book suggests that attacking Dwarf and Illithid civilisations is their main form of worship for her.

I saw some images recently of some buildings in moscow with really beautiful engravings on the sides. During the Khrushchevite era they were covered in some ugly cladding but when the cladding was removed it revealed this art that would put any building in the west to shame. Soviet art and architecture is almost unparalleled in the world.

Found the Dwarf