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Mkhaiwati
Learned Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 04 Aug 2006 : 21:51:29
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Does anyone know of any 2e sources for the Kir-lanans. I have very few 2e sourcebooks, mainly just those from the WOTC website, with a few others I picked up.
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Mkhaiwati
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"Behold the work of the old... let your heritage not be lost but bequeath it as a memory, treasure and blessing... Gather the lost and the hidden and preserve it for thy children."
"not nale. not-nale. thog help nail not-nale, not nale. and thog knot not-nale while nale nail not-nale. nale, not not-nale, now nail not-nale by leaving not-nale, not nale, in jail." OotS #367 |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 04:07:23
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| I may be wrong, but I think the Kir-Lanan were new additions to 3rd edition. That having been said, I've been trying to come up with a good introduction to them for my players. I can picture that they would make fairly good villains with the right work put into what they might be after . . . |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 04:17:23
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I think they are 3ed. I seem to remember Richard Baker saying something about them on the Wizard page some time ago as an element they threw in the 3ed campaign setting to see if anyone would work with. That's actually the only time I can remember seeing them mentioned outside of the early source books so I don't think there has been to much interest in them.
To me personally there is something I just cant put my finger on that makes me dislike the Kir-Lanan thoroughly and I have never given them much thought until this question popped up. Has anyone used them in a campaign? |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 04:27:33
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| I had an encounter with one set up as one was desecrating a shrine in a tomb in the City of the Dead in Waterdeep, with the whole "red herring" being the idea that the thing going bump in the night in the crypt was undead, when it was actually something going from tomb to tomb looking for religious shrines and destroying them. In the end, the PCs ended up doing something else, and they never followed up on that lead. |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 04:33:15
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| To me they just become a variant of gargoyle and I end up using the original instead. I know the Time of Trouble and atheistic element associations with the Kir-Lanan can be used to make them different, but I never liked the idea much, so gargoyle's it is. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 06:17:24
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Kir-lanans are new additions to FR.
From Rich -
"Kir-lanans are one of those "let's throw some new elements out there and see what sticks" things you do with a world or setting. At the time of the FRCS, we thought they were pretty cool."
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Gray Richardson
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 07:31:10
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I am working on a plot hook in my campaign where the Kir-lanans are in league with the Ethergaunts. The Kir-lanans are somewhat in awe of the
Ethergaunts, and think of them as kindred spirits. While the Ethergaunts find the Kir-lanans to be least objectionable of all the Material Plane inhabitants, and consider them adequate servitors.
So far the Kir-Lanans have attacked the shrines of both Malar and Tyr on successive nights in Suzail, slaying several of their clergy in mysterious sneak-attacks. The players have not taken the bait yet, and have since got tied up in other doings. Hopefully they will have opportunity to get back to that thread. |
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Mkhaiwati
Learned Scribe
USA
252 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 17:02:14
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Thanks for the replies. SO I guess I have all the info then.
Yeah, I was going to work them into a few small side treks in my campaign, and was seeing if I was missing anything.
Thanks
Mkhaiwati |
"Behold the work of the old... let your heritage not be lost but bequeath it as a memory, treasure and blessing... Gather the lost and the hidden and preserve it for thy children."
"not nale. not-nale. thog help nail not-nale, not nale. and thog knot not-nale while nale nail not-nale. nale, not not-nale, now nail not-nale by leaving not-nale, not nale, in jail." OotS #367 |
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Kes_Alanadel
Learned Scribe
USA
326 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 19:07:34
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| They have a write up in Lords of Darkness, in case you hadn't known of it. :) |
Ack! I seem to have too much blood in my coffee stream!
When did 'common sense' cease to be common? |
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Reefy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
892 Posts |
Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 01:08:06
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The only time I can recall using them is the one featured in one of the adventures at the back of Silver Marches.
I'm fairly ambiguous about them generally; I've nothing really against them, but don't think they're as interesting as many other groups. |
Life is either daring adventure or nothing. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 01:19:43
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| Yes, I'm pretty indifferent about these...things, myself. Just jumped-up gargoyles with an atheistic bent. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Ergdusch
Master of Realmslore
Germany
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Posted - 10 Aug 2006 : 11:10:05
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| I never got around using them (except once in the WOTC Adventure City of the Spider Queen, and only because I was too lazy to rewrite the official encounter). However, I think there is a nice intriguing twist to them and I still consider throwing them at my PCs some time in the future. |
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