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Question on the finger sucking - SPOILERS

posted 12 years ago by lvalure
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If someone had a good heart, the zombie girl would consider it poison when she fed. Grayson didn't poison her (attributed to his use of poison to kill the barbarian), but the witch did? And the masked vermin guy was OK with this? And Grayson didn't question it either? Just seems odd.

On another note...not a horrible movie, better than I expected. A couple of observations:

That walled town was in the shadow of the mountain that served as the dragon's lair. Stupid place to put a town. And the dragon never attacked before? Just then, when the adventuring party happens to be coming through? Maybe before editing it made a little more sense, but right now it just seems silly and contrived. Then again, I suppose so are most D&D adventures. ;-)

And speaking of silly, the mind flayer (?!?!) speaks with telepathy, as well as his two slave girls repeating it aloud. That's kinda cool. But absolutely ridiculous and comical was him moving his stapled-shut mouth at the same time. It's telepathy, dumbass, no lip-moving necessary. =)

[–] ChanceX74 12 years ago

And speaking of silly, the mind flayer...

The silliest thing about that was the absence of the squid-like Cthulhu head. They could have made the prime villain just about anything other than what he was if they didn't have the ability to make him what they were intending.

Grayson didn't poison her (attributed to his use of poison to kill the barbarian), but the witch did?

Shadar-Kai are shadow fey from the Plane of Shadow. The best I can figure is that he wasn't at all concerned about her because her race isn't known for their good streaks (their souls are pretty much poisoned) and the writers needed to set up Akordia's later Heel Face Turn without it seemingly coming from nowhere. The Slaymate was screaming about love though, so it wasn't anything inherent in Akordia but the fact that she had feelings for Grayson.

As for the dragon, especially in a property where they encompass half the properties name and because they are used so much in the media surrounding said property, there is this perception that there are dragons dragons everywhere when the opposite is actually true. In the franchises under D&D, dragons are rarely encountered even in the wealth of official modules. Many times a dragon actually does live near one community or another and doesn't really bother with them. Save for the odd plot necessitated interaction, they just don't bother with lesser beings.

All the relevant material states this as well, but ultimately many of your home gamers will almost always inevitably toss a dragon in every campaign.

It's kind of like looking at the game books. If you have five monster manuals plus one "Monsters of..." and another four "Races of...", you'd get the impression that places like Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms are completely overrun with creatures and nasties and those worlds should technically be always at war with no down-time while, in actuality, modules and campaigns are the exception to the rule.

[–] ughmoretodealwith 10 years ago

The dragon seems to have made several attacks on the town. Dragons often sleep for decades or centuries between bursts of activity. Plenty of time for a town or other settlment to get established and not realize there is a dragon sleeping in a collapsed cave or years or decades would pass after a series of attacks. So they would forget about the danger or just accept it like you would floods every decade or so that would just destroy some homes and a few people. Also there were bones and horse corpses outside the cave so odds are adventurers did come to slay the dragon.

The girl had feelings for Grayson. Grayson due to what he did such as murdering the barbarian had darkened his heart hence the undead child's comments he had done bad things.