u/opsap11

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I just had a dumb thought. These photos clearly contain spaces outside of the room itself. Stairs and furniture on the merchant tier, a table on the noble tier, and an expensive red rug on the royal tier.

And it would make sense for the developers to just screenshot random houses from different areas to use for these tier icons anyways, not many will notice and it's an easy asset for use.

So are these areas actually just real areas you can find in random houses and interiors in the game?

I couldn't let him go...

As y'all know, AD&D—looking specifically at 2e for these rules, if they're different in 1e—has restrictions on race; for two examples, an elf cannot be a mage of higher than 15th level, whereas a halfling cannot be a mage at all.

How do you personally run these at your tables? Do you run it fully RAW, or homebrew changes to this system?

My personal preference is somewhat picking and choosing. I an fine with some of these restrictions, such as no dwarf mages, but others—such as no elven paladins—never stuck right with me. I pretty much always rid myself of the level restrictions...

Title. How often, if ever, do you add any of the late-game companions, such as Jaheira or Minsc, to your team?

To be honest, an overwhelming majority of the time I do not. I usually find that by the time I'm done with Act 2 and getting onto Act 3, my party dynamic is incredibly locked in with tight bonds and an already established general party build.
Suddenly changing out one of my members for even an interesting new companion is almost never worth it to me.

I'm wondering if anyone here has it similarly to I, I guess?

I was just thinking about this, and it seems to me that the population of Valinor in the Third Age would probably be pretty big, aye?

I mean, elves have really low libido and population growth, sure. Most elves have 2-4 kids max with those having 5-6 being really exceptional and 7 being Fëanor only territory. And it would be rare for an elf to have kids within a century and a half of their birth.

But even still, Valinor is the world's most fertile bread basket. The Pastures of Yavanna have an effectively limitless number of the world's healthiest grain. And after the turmoil of the First Age, Valinor is completely and utterly peaceful. There is zero death rate. Plagues do not occur. Elves will have nothing to stop their population growth and really nothing to do except grow it, I guess.

And even if slow, their population can only expand regardless. Unlike with men, the parent generation will not die out and every addition to the elvish population is permanent. Even if somehow one of them dies, say a hunting accident or they went off to Middle-earth and got killed by an orc, they end up reincarnating in Valinor anyways.

So logically, wouldn't the population of Valinor by the end of the Third Age be pretty big? Even if it's not supermassive like in the hundreds of millions it'd still have to be pretty sizeable... right?

>!Of course, I'm thinking about this from a very realistic perspective and not from a story-lore-aesthetic-myth perspective. It's the wrong way to go about things, especially when it comes to elves, but it's fun to ponder regardless.!<