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I've been kicking around a new idea.

A group of renegade angels and devils banded together to help each other resist their former lords. They aren't fully good or evil. They act independently, but occasionally participate in the blood war. The flavor I'm going for is a group of supernal gunslinging wild-west outlaws. I don't know what the group would be called, but I'm thinking of some stats for rank-and-file members and their leaders. I like the idea of something like a chain devil with an infernal six-shooter riding some sort of hellbeast or a demon grinder and a celestial archon with a cowboy hat riding a scarred ki-rin or unicorn and slinging the angelic equivalent of a sawed-off shotgun.

Does this evoke any ideas in you folks?

 I ain't a fan of devil angel team ups but we don't have to get into that. I do love the idea of supernatural gunslingers. You might want to take a look at the Gunslinger Spawn comics. 

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I've been kicking around a new idea.

A group of renegade angels and devils banded together to help each other resist their former lords. They aren't fully good or evil. They act independently, but occasionally participate in the blood war. The flavor I'm going for is a group of supernal gunslinging wild-west outlaws. I don't know what the group would be called, but I'm thinking of some stats for rank-and-file members and their leaders. I like the idea of something like a chain devil with an infernal six-shooter riding some sort of hellbeast or a demon grinder and a celestial archon with a cowboy hat riding a scarred ki-rin or unicorn and slinging the angelic equivalent of a sawed-off shotgun.

Does this evoke any ideas in you folks?

 Love this! While there is an argument it doesn’t work for lore reasons, lore can be changed easily and if you don’t like it then who cares. Make your lore whatever you want

But This is a kickass idea and I would love to see this in a game! Recently read very good book about a Wild West setting where people are blessed by Christianity style saints with magic powers and it was very good. Wild West stuff is great!!

*Me wishing I could be in one of your games so I could encounter these guys*

I've had a few more thoughts on the idea. I'm working with the title "The Hollow Legion" as an homage to the Lord of the Hollows from Darksiders 3. In the game, that entity makes deals with angels and demons sick of fighting, and annihilates them so that they are freed from the cycle of rebirth and servitude. I've also decided that they are led by a former archdevil who is an advanced chain devil that uses an infernal chain-driven gatling gun and a former archon who uses a big ol' holy revolver. Haven't worked out their names. I'm also tinkering with some infernal machines crossed with angel tech.

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 I ain't a fan of devil angel team ups but we don't have to get into that. I do love the idea of supernatural gunslingers. You might want to take a look at the Gunslinger Spawn comics. 

 
Yeah, I believe we've litigated this in the past. It's not your cup o' tea. Sorry. But I'll look up Gunslinger Spawn. I'm also thinking of Roland Deschain.

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 Love this! While there is an argument it doesn’t work for lore reasons, lore can be changed easily and if you don’t like it then who cares. Make your lore whatever you want

But This is a kickass idea and I would love to see this in a game! Recently read very good book about a Wild West setting where people are blessed by Christianity style saints with magic powers and it was very good. Wild West stuff is great!!

*Me wishing I could be in one of your games so I could encounter these guys*

 
Yeah, my thoughts exactly on the lore. In 4e, celestials and fiends were much more flexible, really more akin to separate species of mortals. We've seen plenty of fallen angels in D&D lore, but fewer liberated devils. I think it could make sense, both being aligned with law, for them to be able to find common ground. Especially as they'd both be hunted by their former lords.

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I've had a few more thoughts on the idea. I'm working with the title "The Hollow Legion" as an homage to the Lord of the Hollows from Darksiders 3. In the game, that entity makes deals with angels and demons sick of fighting, and annihilates them so that they are freed from the cycle of rebirth and servitude. I've also decided that they are led by a former archdevil who is an advanced chain devil that uses an infernal chain-driven gatling gun and a former archon who uses a big ol' holy revolver. Haven't worked out their names. I'm also tinkering with some infernal machines crossed with angel tech.

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 I ain't a fan of devil angel team ups but we don't have to get into that. I do love the idea of supernatural gunslingers. You might want to take a look at the Gunslinger Spawn comics. 

Yeah, I believe we've litigated this in the past. It's not your cup o' tea. Sorry. But I'll look up Gunslinger Spawn. I'm also thinking of Roland Deschain.

 If you need symbolism/design ideas for cowboy and desert angels and devils, here are some ideas. The angels could have buzzard wings and maybe the sherif star they wear could be an actual star veiled as a badge. Barbed wire is a huge thing in the west. Maybe the devils have barbed wire lassoes. I think a devil that looks a little like a Texas horned lizard would be sick. Maybe you could take a page out of Something is Killing the Children and give them a bandanna mask that opens up into a toothy maw. 

I don't know if any of this is what you're going for, but I thought I'd throw out some ideas. I love Westerns and deserts in stories. 

Fun fact. Starting September 29th, the Earth will likely have a second moon for 2 months.

Just got back from an awesome night of salsa dancing.

Question of the Day: Do you dance? What sort of dancing do you do? Do you ever use dancing in your DnD game?

To answer my own question, the biggest city in my world is known for its swing and jazz halls. It’s based on New Orleans. The swing hall is where you go there to get information and socialize rather than a tavern.

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QotD: What other websites do you use for D&D besides this one?

For my Dragonlance game I run (not the D&D Dragonlance game - one of my own making) - I use the Dragonlance Nexus a lot. It's got a lot of useful information.

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Question of the Day: Do you dance? What sort of dancing do you do? Do you ever use dancing in your DnD game?

 

I only danced when I was intoxicated. I no longer drink. And so, I no longer dance.

Mostly because what I called "dancing" when I was intoxicated was more - just random movements on a dance floor.

To be clear, I didn't stop drinking because of those dance moves.

I just quit drinking in general, for my own health and sanity.

i BEEN DANCIN IN THE STREETS

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Just got back from an awesome night of salsa dancing.

Question of the Day: Do you dance? What sort of dancing do you do? Do you ever use dancing in your DnD game?

To answer my own question, the biggest city in my world is known for its swing and jazz halls. It’s based on New Orleans. The swing hall is where you go there to get information and socialize rather than a tavern.

 I adore this lore.

QotD: What should I homebrew next?

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

 Well, I want to know what you would have cooked up if given the chance to make something for your category in the current Comp of Finest Brews.

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

 Maybe you can help me. I’ve been thinking about a kind of ‘Fragmented Staff’ that had an offensive and defensive form. Any ideas or do you need more context?

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

A race of bipedal Prawns.

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

 
You should wait until the CotFBXIV and write a submission for that.

Ok, 

Through a series of unfortunate accidents, on a different space in the wild and wooly internet, I made a comment about PCs engaging in fights with Plushie versions of monsters using pillows and cardboard armor.

Cute and adorable cardboard armor and plushie monsters.

Played straight. Because nothing is more subversive than the absurd treated as normative. Or at least, I thought that way until the current election year.

In any case, I thought I would share this idea with you because I am feeling particularly cruel, in light of the spooky season coming upon us, and the notion of a Party of Hardy Souls with mighty powers flinging sparkly rainbow and flower magic (I cast Fireball! The room detonates in an explosion of rose petals.) and swinging pillows round while the barbarian has a giggle fit (Rage) might just be exactly the kind of peculiar brain worm that can stick around in the heads of some of you.

I am a generous lass.

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

 

A race of bipedal Prawns.

 
I have to note that this hit me because I saw a "joke" called the Circle of Allergies by Xen the DM which features an AI image of a bipedal Prawn. And I need a deep sea pair of peoples since I am expanding things a bit.

WHich reminds me, tomorrow I should bore you with some stuff about Wyrlde...

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

 

A race of bipedal Prawns.

My instinct was Chuul, but alas, too many legs.

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Ok, 

Through a series of unfortunate accidents, on a different space in the wild and wooly internet, I made a comment about PCs engaging in fights with Plushie versions of monsters using pillows and cardboard armor.

Cute and adorable cardboard armor and plushie monsters.

Played straight. Because nothing is more subversive than the absurd treated as normative. Or at least, I thought that way until the current election year.

In any case, I thought I would share this idea with you because I am feeling particularly cruel, in light of the spooky season coming upon us, and the notion of a Party of Hardy Souls with mighty powers flinging sparkly rainbow and flower magic (I cast Fireball! The room detonates in an explosion of rose petals.) and swinging pillows round while the barbarian has a giggle fit (Rage) might just be exactly the kind of peculiar brain worm that can stick around in the heads of some of you.

I am a generous lass.

 
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OK, so, the real trick to it is that the plushie monsters are real monsters that have been turned into plushies. All they can do is physical attacks, and because they are plushies they can only do improvised weapon damage -- just like the PCs. But they can still talk, and they are not at all happy about this. 

especially the Beholders.

THe whole thing takes place under the eyes of a Fae Lord, of course. Who just wants everybody to have fun while they are playing. And everybody should play.

OF course, to overcome the whole thing, you have to not play -- but who's going to do that in a game?

.-= as threatend =-.

So, Wyrlde now has an entire set up in space, where the idea of doing the kessel run in fewer than 12 parsecs is an actual thing, and the ships use sails and thee is air and there's more involved. If a person on the surface of the planet flies high enough, they enter space. And it won't be a lack of air that kills them. It will be the extreme cold (not absolute zero, though).

It also has a second continent, where the basis for it is literally the disney films. Everything is a Principality. 

Then there is a third continent, that I will figure out when I set up to do an open game on Wyrlde.