I kept it as is, I like the telling everything they've known and experience to their offspring ritual, I've even had the rest of a party's PCs show up to their Tortle colleague's last stories to tell to attest, "Yes, Dad did in fact save the universe, a few times actually" as a campaign epilogue. It's not a cursed feature, it's a story hook. Though house rule every Tortle who gets that sort of moment has to say "Tears in rain" at some point during the monologue.
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At first I believed that this was because tortles died after reproducing (much like octopi) but, after looking this up, I think this is what WOTC based it off.
I had a version of the tortles in a PbP game. I used this as the justification- they can live a very long time (7-800 years) but the reproductive urge gets stronger and stronger every decade. It is rare that any resist it for more than 150 years. Two tortles get together and spend 5 years building their nest/fort, supplying it, and then raising their clutch of hatchlings. They never leave the hatchlings, never eat or sleep, and spend all of their time tending & teaching their brood. It wears them out, and they die- passing along their belongings to their progeny.
I only made it a short distance reading people's ideas when it occurred to me the life span on real humans, vs D&D humans varies greatly. If they outlive their lifespans by great amounts it is usually due to magic being used. I don't see why this is such a stretch for Tortles? It is a fantasy setting, with fantasy rules. Make your Tortle 500 years old, and chock it up to a pact they made with some powerful being. In this fantasy world there really are no limits, just continuity points to consider.
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I also houseruled that they can live for hundreds of years, at least as long as dwarves if not longer.
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I kept it as is, I like the telling everything they've known and experience to their offspring ritual, I've even had the rest of a party's PCs show up to their Tortle colleague's last stories to tell to attest, "Yes, Dad did in fact save the universe, a few times actually" as a campaign epilogue. It's not a cursed feature, it's a story hook. Though house rule every Tortle who gets that sort of moment has to say "Tears in rain" at some point during the monologue.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I had a version of the tortles in a PbP game. I used this as the justification- they can live a very long time (7-800 years) but the reproductive urge gets stronger and stronger every decade. It is rare that any resist it for more than 150 years.
Two tortles get together and spend 5 years building their nest/fort, supplying it, and then raising their clutch of hatchlings. They never leave the hatchlings, never eat or sleep, and spend all of their time tending & teaching their brood. It wears them out, and they die- passing along their belongings to their progeny.
I only made it a short distance reading people's ideas when it occurred to me the life span on real humans, vs D&D humans varies greatly. If they outlive their lifespans by great amounts it is usually due to magic being used. I don't see why this is such a stretch for Tortles? It is a fantasy setting, with fantasy rules. Make your Tortle 500 years old, and chock it up to a pact they made with some powerful being. In this fantasy world there really are no limits, just continuity points to consider.
I am not sure what my Spirit Animal is. But whatever that thing is, I am pretty sure it has rabies!