A “goblin” is a dark elf. In D&D terms, a drow. They are also called “snow elves”, and mostly they live in Snowdonia, the toughest mountain terrain in Lyonesse, a week or more to the north (west of the Saexa Kingdom of Powys). A Hwb is the non offensive term for the Fair Folk / human mixed race travelling tinkers and storytellers that travel by … Continue reading Lyonesse Monster Terminology Update
Generally speaking, when pulling from commercial content based on default D&D conventions: “Orcs” map to Chaos Brutes. “Halflings” map to Hobgoblins “Dwarves” map to Caledonians. Humans, for non-adventuring NPCs. Caledonian Halflings for adventurers. “Elves” map to Hibernian Gaels “Half-elves” map to Hibernian humans Damn if I’ve figured out where to map default Hobgoblins to, though. Most of the good critter names are already taken. Goblin-magi, … Continue reading Universal Import Matrix
A hobgoblin’s prime requisites are INT and DEX, which are required to be 9 or higher. Hobgoblins have darkvision to sixty feet, but do not possess any particular keen senses otherwise. Continue reading Hobgoblins
Solar Elves tend to be of the Balance Lunar Elves tend to be Unaligned Tenebral Elves tend to be of Chaos Dwarves tend to be of the Balance Gnomes tend to be Unaligned. Halflings tend to be of the Balance Hobgoblins tend to be Unaligned Goblins tend to be of Chaos Sprites and Naiads TBD Hags tend to be of Chaos Banshee are only ever … Continue reading …Six Folk, Four Alignments…
The demihuman classes in Labyrinth Lord list average height and weight (which I threw out for my elves to make them more statuesque, and hardly matter for halflings in exile or dwarves in extinction). Size guidelines for humans are a touch more obscure. My initial plan was to just provide a paragraph or two of human default information. But the more I think about providing … Continue reading Human size ranges
There are generally reckoned five races of Fair Folk: the Ellyllon (Solar elves, Lunar elves, Tenebral elves), the Coblynau (dwarves, gnomes), the Bwbachod (halflings, hobgoblins), the Gwragedd Annwn (sprites and naiads), and the Gwyllion (hags and banshee) Continue reading Seven Realms, Five Folk…
Perilous Paths 