#aka the camp gay stereotype playable race
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Believe it or not, @mikoyanstan, this is core D&D! The 1e Dungeon Masters Guide by Gary Gygax. And only Gary Gygax, which explains this. It’s basically a peek into one man’s very weird psyche for 240+ pages. Even if you never run a 1e game in your life, I recommend it as an artifact of what the guy who made the game thought it should be like.
Also, as @abominationimperatrix pointed out, since D&D has such a history of splitting (A ghost is different from a wraith is different from a spectre, for instance)... should we assume that each of these entries would have a different stat block and different abilities? Are the adjectives modifiers? So a “saucy” character would get a bonus on Charisma checks made to insult or tease, whereas a “slovenly” one might save at a higher level against disease effects?
And thinking about this is how the Book of Erotic Fantasy was written...
Tag yourself, I'm brazen strumpet.
#still salty about that one#not for its existence#but about how gwendoline kestral was the only one who wrote it to keep her job at wotc#because she was married to bruce cordell#and then she wrote the spellscales#aka the camp gay stereotype playable race#with completely unusable abilities#and i hold her responsible for mmiv#sorry#ranting#D&D#tabletop rpgs#1e D&D#gary gygax
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