Felion: переводы

→ICY BLOWS

→OMEN OF STORMS

→STINGING SNOW

→Winter Magic

→of elemental earth who fail a Constitution saving throw take 8d6 cold damage from stress fractures in their bodies.

→This crucial work takes time, however—more time than mortals have. Only someone who has conquered death can carry this standard, and only the paladin who has sworn the oath of the giving grave—an antipaladin—is equal to the task.

→Even then, we don't recommend it. These abilities are best reserved for evil NPCs and villains.

→Before even thinking about making up a character that uses the spells and abilities in this chapter of Deep Magic, you must clear it not only with your GM but also with the other players. Make sure everyone understands what they're allowing into the group and that they're willing to put up with the consequences.

→Blood and Doom deals with antipaladins and blood magic. Antipaladins, blood mages, and wielders of blood magic in general are intended to appear only as nonplayer characters. That's not because antipaladin or blood mage player characters are unbalanced or no fun. They can be great fun for the person who's playing them, but either of these characters in a group of mostly Good or Neutral PCs can be a real problem for everyone else. Evil characters in general, and antipaladins and blood mages in particular, are more than the sum of a few distasteful class abilities. Both represent an approach to life and society that's utterly amoral, self-centered, and uncompromising—a bad combination where party harmony is concerned.

→О The Trouble with Lovecraft

→With that in mind, we’ve explored those “hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars" that Lovecraft and his contemporaries pioneered in their strange fiction. Herein you will find a host of forbidden secrets and eldritch lore; a clandestine sort of magic that is full of both cosmic potential and horrific consequences, and knowledge of which erodes the sanity of all who pursue it.

→The work of author H. P. Lovecraft—the so-called “Cthulhu mythos”—has been a cornerstone of RPG storytelling since E. Gary Gygax immortalized its influence in his “Inspirational and Educational Reading” list. Taking its name from Lovecraft’s famous story “The Call of Cthulhu,” the mythos has become the backdrop for a wide subgenre of fiction called cosmic horror. At the foundation of cosmic horror are two ideas: that the human mind is too tiny and weak to comprehend more than the barest glimmer of the vastness of the universe and the alien mysteries it contains, and that among those mysteries are entities so ancient, powerful, and malevolent that they could extinguish Earth’s insignificant civilization without caring or even noticing. These ideas are perfectly encapsulated in two quotes from Lovecraft himself. The first, from his essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature," * disclaims that “the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." The second quote is from “The Call of Cthulhu," wherein the narrator opens his tale with the warning that “the most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."

→Few people have the strength of body or mind to do what must be done, and too many view the necessary measures as acts of evil. Is it evil to cut diseased flesh away from a body that's struggling to survive? Is it evil to bring a cat into your home to kill the mice that make nests in your mattress, eat tallow candles, and befoul stored food with their waste? The mouse might well say so, as it's being devoured by the cat. But the mouse is wrong; it's grisly death is both necessary and right. The truly wise know that what's right and what's popularly called "good" are often not the same thing.