>>88477063
I really should copy some of the puzzles out as handouts for players.

>>88477071
I really wanna try a proper Valley of the Lost dungeon-spanning puzzle at some point, but god knows that my players are complete retards.

I always really liked the Jalis and thought they were the coolest tribe, and always try to include a reference to them because I was big into knights.

I still want to have an Ol appear in a campaign and befriend the party.

>>88477063
Australia is an embarrassment to the Anglosphere, and that's saying something when Canada and New Zealand exist.

I shamelessly ripped it off for game of 4e and no one noticed until halfway through.
I want to suck on anime Jasmine's dirty, stinky toes

Are the books worth reading, or should I stick to the anime only?

>>88477264
seethe harder

>>88477063
God the creatures in this series were great.
Vraal, Ols and The Glus scared the shit out of me as a kid

>>88477348
they're literally written for 8 year olds. if you want good kid's fantasy try the Prydain Chronicles instead.

>>88477362
The Glus still gives me the shakes. I have no idea who approved it being the cover of a book lol.

>>88477348
I'd say the books are a better experience, but the anime's still enjoable regardless.
>verification not required

>>88477376
>>88477376
Somehow they made The Glus more pants-shittenly terrifying in the anime, since it regenerated from all damage like a sea-sluggy Wolverine and could squeeze through gaps like it was liquid.

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>>88477264
No need to be upset mate, she'll be right

>>88477063
>it was Australian
huh never knew

>>88477788
> the plants want you dead
> the animals want you dead
> the environment wants you dead

Deltora itself is basically fantasy Australia.

>>88477788
For a fantasy series, the continent of Deltora is a fucking shithole, even before Malverlain took over.
Less than a few days from the nation’s capital, Del, you have:
>maneating centaurs that’ll riddle you to death and eat you piece by piece
>paralyzing locust things
>a bigass sauropod thing that’s carnivorous
>maneating pitfall plants that accelerate blood loss
>a fucking dragon

>>88477885
Nah canberra's not that bad, like you said, only one croc at a time! Head on up to darwin if you really wanna get nipped

>>88478198
>Dread Mountain
what a shithole, there’s Vraal every two bloody feet up there

>>88478198
Does this make Ned Kelly Gorl?

>>88478577
>I am now imagining a Wild West/Frontier rendition of Deltora
Please stop, I can only get so erect

Deltora Quest is actually interesting because while all the heroes are armed, they almost never are able to use force of arms to defeat a foe. At best it's a delaying tactic until they can do something else.

I would argue a faithful Deltora-style game wouldn't have a combat system, just a 'keep the enemy busy' move.

>>88478948
I think it’s moreso a result of how comically powerful the antagonist is. Malverlain/The Shadow Lord is almost godlike when compared to a normal man, having lived for millennia and entirely forsaken physical form. You don’t beat something like that in a fight, you have to trick it or create a means of negating it’s advantage, and the same goes for the lesser monsters. Direct combat against something like a Vraal is tantamount to suicide, but you can still defeat it by playing around it’s lack of sight and single-minded drive to kill. Ol’s are shapeshifting monstrosities with enough intelligence to hide their weaknesses and capitalise on their strengths, but they all share that singular weak spot under the brand of their master.
Strength isn’t a factor in winning most fights because the opponent will just overpower you or render that advantage null and void, so strategy becomes key.

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>>88477063
there are a handful of aussie books that are worth being entire tabletop settings.

>>88477063
I still own all the books. This series and Myth Adventures and are wall defined my childhood.

>>88479648
>Redwall*

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>>88477063
I remember this. Heck, I think I still have some of the books somewhere! Does anyone have any ideas on what system would work best for a Deltora game?

>>88479668
I'd default to saying some sort of OSR game to capture that lethality feel.

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>>88477063
the cover art on the series was absolutely spectacular.

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>>88477063
>TFW no toxril "The Glus" edh deck.

>>88479825
Interesting beasty, but I think that one well placed nail (the metal kind) of sufficient length would be enough to pierce its squishy skin.

>>88479832
According to >>88477419, it has Wolverine tier regeneration, so while you definitely damage it with a nail of sufficient size, making that damage last is the hard part.

>>88479857
In that case I would nail it to the floor.

>>88477063
I had never heard of Deltora until I was in a bookshop in Fukuoka around 2010. I bought vol. 1 at a BookOff for like 100 yen.
I was really disappointed until I realized it was Australian, then I guess it all made sense.

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Fuck it, it’s time for the Book of Monsters

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>>88481492
Everyone’s depressed, music loving giant catfish
Soldeen stands out amongst the many big fuckoff monsters, mainly because he’s kinda civil at the end of the day, and could legitimately be reasoned with.

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>>88481543
Ah Gorl, the selfish fuck

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>>88481567
Neckbeard brachiosaur and his legion of paralysis inducing busybodies

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>>88481604
Thaegan, milf, bearer of thirteen monstrous children, vorer of ravens, and surprisingly prominent in the anime

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>>88481701
And now I feel sorry for the cruel bitch
Imagine having to push out thirteen of these fuckers

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>>88481730
>10/10 in bongland

>>88477063
Loved this shit, the Three Doors series too

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>>88481763
Somehow these overgrown chickens managed to last all the way to the last few chapters of the final book, and if that isn’t impressive I don’t know what is

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>>88481811
Kinda liked that Reeah had three heads in the anime. Made Jasmine and Barra evading his attention a far more impressive feat.

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>>88481845
Don’t really have much to say about these guys beyond the whole “plans within plans” fuckery that was the City of Rats.

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>>88481879
Cute mounts, I like their nonsensical body plan immensely

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>>88481901
S A N D
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>>88481930
become the bugs anon
listen to their call

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>>88481948
fat fuck

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>>88481963
This page is always a fun one
Try spotting any Ols in the image
Yes, they are there, yes, you missed at least six, yes, your ass is dead as fuck if you ever wound up in western Deltora

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>>88481986
god I hate how much detail they put into this thing utterly terrifying

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>>88482010
cloppity clop, it’s the rape lizard

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>>88482040
Imagine what it’d feel like to have your own set of sin-derived flesh hounds growing out of you like the unholy fusion of a tumour and a pitbull.

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>>88482073
Forgot Steven had a stand

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>>88482096
there are literal fields of mini-sarlaac pits across Jalis territory

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>>88482127
these things gave me a deathly fear of parasites for a good while
hope to Adin himself that based Veritas burnt these godforsaken flowers to the ground

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>>88482170
Almost there

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>>88482197
And that’s it

I remember reading these books. Such cool cover arts.

>>88480351
Dude, it’s a book for 8-9 year olds, the writing isn’t exactly gonna be Tolkien tier.
The reason why people find it worth discussing is due to its fantastic use of strategy and puzzles, alongside the imaginative creature designs

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>>88481701
I want anime Thaegan to piss in my mouth

>>88477329
>I want to suck on anime Jasmine's dirty, stinky toes
Based, me too.

>>88477348
Loved the books when I was a kid, not sure how they hold up now. There are audiobooks if that's more your speed.

How were the 2nd and 3rd series? I honestly had no idea they came out, figured everything wrapped up perfectly with part 1 and moved on to other books.

>>88486399
ok

Post yfw Link was the true heir the entire time

>>88486583
>The Wicked Witch of The West (anime adaptation)
pass

>>88481986
The dog and the accordion player, the bird and the butterfly, the horse and its master
Thats all i got rip me

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>>88486671
I love that you never see it coming because the entire first half of Forests of Silence is set from Jared's POV, so when the timeskip hits and we meet Lief, "Jared's" son, we accept it at face value
If memory serves, the anime does this in a flashback episode with "Jared" recounting his story to Lief. In that episode, to keep up the illusion, "Endon'' looks remarkably similar to a certain scarred man. Ideally they would've never shown "Endon" or "Sharn's" faces in full, but sacrifices must be made in the translation to visual mediums

>>88481986
I think i got it
Accordion player + dancing dog (The player is heavily robed and the dog is covered in spots. Pretty easy.)
Any combination of the two birds and two butterflies.
Mother + child (the mother is heavily robed and the kid appears to have a mark on their foot)
Now to stalk all eight simultaneously and wait three days for The Tremor.

>>88487234
We don’t know how long those ones have been in their forms, so they could all tremor at different times, to be fair.

>>88482010
That thing still makes me shudder thinking about it.

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>>88482010
Oh shit, this thing was in Godzilla: The Series.

>>88486583
>pussy window
I now understand why she has 13 kids

>>88477063
I probably would have loved this as a kid, had no idea there were books.
>>88482096
Please tell me this shows up in the anime, or some allusion to it. I'm almost obligated to read the books just b/c of how hilarious this is.

>>88488441
Only really in Maze of the Beast and Return to Del he also lands the killing blow to the monster protecting the Sister of the South
He does show up in the anime and is even more inhuman in appearance there, doing crazy shit like travelling several kilometres to BTFO a pansy-ass wizard and wrestling with Ichabod, strongest of Thaegan’s brood

>>88482096
[21st Century Schizoid Man]

>>88482218
Thanks Anon

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>>88486399
I know, right? Rodda obviously took inspiration from the fact that she lives in Australia in that regard.

>>88477063
I've run several games in the setting and it's a lighthearted blast every time. Most of my players have never read the books, so it's a blast to half to give them Secrets of Deltora as an over the top in game handout. One player actually read it and learned the setting and kept the team alive. What good times.

>>88477348
Absolutely read the books. They're short and simplistic as most children's literature is, but the anime in no way does anything justice. Admittedly the writer's effort goes chiefly into creature descriptions, but if nothing else that's worth the read
Now. Wider question time. You choose to replace one iconic monster in your system of choice with a deltora quest creature. What you choose, and why?
I would replace dragons with Wennbar, and have the wenn take over kobolds

>>88486631
>How were the 2nd and 3rd series?
Each one gets a little more contrived. Second series is about dealing with a shadow lord contingency left in place should he be ousted. It works and is only a little bit of a stretch, considering he seems to work a lot like Sauron and most of his minions died when he withdrew
Series 3 is overall kind of pointless. Short, disconnected from the world you know. It's only point of note is Glock Fucking Dies in book 1

>>88490215
Ya got it the wrong way around, DQ2 was the underground seas beneath Deltora where Glock fucking died to a old as dirt nautilus, DQ3 covered the Shadow Lord’s overly complicated contingency plan

>>88491760
I.. checked this before posting. It's not the end of the world, but I'd have sworn they saved the underground BS for the end-of-series.
Though, thinking back on it, the ending with the dragons had a lot more actual ending to it

>>88493053
By looking at the greater scale of things, the plot looks like this:
>Deltora Quest: Gathering the Belt to evict The Shadow Lord, ending his tyranny and restoring peace
>DQ 2: Venturing into a long-forgotten network of caverns to sneak below the mountains and infiltrate the Shadowlands, attempting to rescue the countless people dragged away there during the Shadow Lord’s reign.
>DQ 3: Dealing with the contingency plans left behind by the Shadow Lord, cleansing the land of his corruption once and for all.
I don’t blame you for mixing up 2 and 3, because venturing into enemy territory and blasting a belt-boosted pipe in his ethereal face feels like endgame, but nah, it’s the end of the second major story arc, go burn some singing rocks with dragon flame lmao.

I nevcer realised Rohan of Rin was also in the same setting.
That also had the same level of random nature fuckery and weird cultures.

>>88493605
I haven’t read any of Rodda’s works past The Three Doors
Did she canonise Rowan into Deltora’s universe?

>>88493656
Yes, the islands are to the west of Deltora.
This was not revealed until 2012.

>>88493556
I still really dig the sisters scheme. It's a clever enough long play and while the need to layer on a grey goo scenario feels pointless now. It's still a good one.
This is something for a post-campaign game.

>>88477063

Snugglepot & Cuddlepie as a TTRPG, run away from the Banksia men

>>88495253
gumnut pilled true blue reply

>>88493656
>>88493685
Yeah, they stop at a port in Star of Deltora iirc

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>>88477063
Which Deltora monster is your favorite and why? The Glus is mine, personally, in part because of that rhyme.

>>88499488
So much Glusposting in this thread. I think it’s because it’s the one that really sticks in the mind due to its design and the aforementioned poem.

However, Gorl will always be my favorite because of the badass armor.

>>88499559
The last Deltora thread had bumpfag all over it as well, and the Glus was the only one they consistently brought up as well. You can tell the bumpfag by the way they contribute literally nothing from the actual series that isn't immediately already supported in the thread, they have zero original thought.

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>>88499559
Ol chads rise up

>>88500330
Could a Grade 1 or 2 Ol impersonate one of the Ra-Kacharz?
It seems possible they might be able to hide the mark in the patterns of the outfit
>>88499559
Shameless Vraalfag here

>>88501902
oooh
big brain thinking from anon here
wouldn’t be surprised if at least two of the nine would be Ol’s, especially given that Noradz was effectively the only piece of Shadow Lord controlled territory before his full on invasion

>>88477365
Sell me on it.

>>88501972
ah shit, I meant “at least two of the nine would be Ol’s if Rodda ever rewrote the series”
as for the namefaggotry, that was just an accident

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>Absolute Chad poster

>>88477264
No worries mate, we know you tried to say a joke here and that's what count's, yeah?

>>88482010
This thing is so fucking nightmarish.

>>88503942
>Reminder that the Glus is almost silent and capable of "ghastly" speed when angered or actively chasing prey
>If you stop for any length of time the cavern will encase you

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>>88486671
Man, maybe it's just because I was a dumb and trusting kid, but each and every twist this author tossed at me sent me for a loop for the first time. I swear, between Dain's shit, Jarred and Endon switching, Doom's identity, Lief's reveal, and each gem in the belt spelling out Deltora, I don't know how my little mind kep up.

>>88504695
>disturbingly fast
>can shoot webbing with pinpoint accuracy like fucking Spider-Man
>capable of squeezing through disgustingly small gaps like an octopus
>nigh on impossible to kill
>can see your every move
>not moving just results in the cave suffocating you in stone
what on god’s green earth inspired Rodda to conceive this utter monstrosity

>>88477063
Would you prefer to play in the book continuity or the anime one?

>>88477063
I remember it being surprisingly dark for a children's book series. Loved it to bits when I was young though, still have all the books except most of the worldbuilding ones. Most of the places and beasts were so icky when I was a kid, I wonder how I'd feel about them nowadays.

>>88482010
theres a reason this overgrown lettuce eater is my favourite.

>>88506859
Book. A lot of the series charm is in it's art and creature descriptions. The Ol as depicted in the anime really lacks that "hateful specter wrought in white fire" quality
>>88506763
>Any splash, any real sound will attract it
>>88507164
It deals with some surprisingly dark themes. A king in a children's fantasy series should be wise and beloved. Not the latest in a succession of powerless figureheads kept in a deluded state
>>88507481
Is The Glus the only "true" monster that protected a gem?
>Gorl was a man and is still a mans spirit
>Soldeen was once a man
>Reeah came from the shadowlands or was once a normal snake
>The hive has some intelligence and alien quality
>Gellick is intelligent and willfully evil
>The guardian is a man
Only Worms Mckenzie is a full-blown monster. Seemingly native to Deltora and untouched by an external power. Nothing grew it, nothing created it. It's just one of the worlds natural horrors

>>88509227
>that "hateful specter wrought in white fire" quality
I always got the impression they looked more like a bad candle-wax sculpture of a person in their true forms.

>>88481948
>You WILL offer the belt to the Hive

>>88506763
Real life experience of living in Australia.

>>88478948
>>88479142
I was thinking of creating a openquest derived hack called cloak quest loosely based on emulating deltora quest lord of the rings and other books I liked as a kid

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>>88477063
Who's your favorite Deltora character, and how would you use them in a campaign?

>>88511785
Average Australian Animal

>>88516268
Main man Tom
Classic example of “don’t fuck with the merchants”

I hunted down Numenora (on release was hard to get in Aus) to try and homebrew a DQ game with it, but asking around the RPG folk I knew at uni couldn't find enough people who knew the source material enough to put in the effort to make that work.

What do y'all think about removing the wiz class from Numenora to make a Deltora Quest 'brew? The other thing i was always scared of was just how that reduces players to two choices for class, kinda sucks.

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>>88504730
Australian children’s authors have a habit of that, it seems.
It blew my mind when I reread Lirael and took a closer look at the Dog’s first words.

>>88519687
holy shit I’m dying
fukkin saved

>>88488644
>wrestling with Ichabod, strongest of Thaegan’s brood
Pretty sure this is in the books.

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>>88499559
He was pretty cool, yeah. Shame we only really see him in the first book and the monsters book and don't develop his character more.

>>88524300
Tales of Deltora gave him a bit more fluff, mainly that he was a Jalis knight who set out with his friends to get some nectar from the Lillies of Life. Considering he’s a hollow shell and there’s no other undead sets of armour around, I’m pretty sure you can fill in the blanks

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>>88527631
Can you imagine the hissy fit he would have thrown if the Lilies ever managed to bloom and he realized that he had no mouth to drink the nectar with? Not to mention how he was stupid enough to forget that plants need light to glow, and his vines were blocking out the sun.

>>88531026
>know that the Lillies only have enough nectar for one man, takes his friends anyways
>seething rage over loosing the Lillies nectar allows him to persist after death, doesn’t realise it and wastes away until he’s a spirit possessing his centuries-old armour
>fortifies the Lillies’s little section of the Forest with his new whack plant control powers, failed basic biology so he doesn’t realise that it’ll just prevent the Lillies from blooming
>a fucking totem gem manages to land in his little meadow via Ak-Baba, but rather than actually use it, he just slaps on his swords pommel.
Gorl’s an actual retard, holy shit

>>88531822
>Topaz strengthens ones awareness of the spiritual world
By rights Gorl should have realized he was already dead and zero sum'd himself

>>88534181
But yet he didn’t
Typical Jalis
No wonder those buffoons were considered extinct

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>>88477063
Hey, do you think that that rhyme about the origins of the Glus is true? And if so, might Enna still be down there, could that be a good plot hook?

>>88542132
She’s either entombed at the very heart of the Maze, or served as adequate Glus chow.
Point is, no way in hell is she still alive.

>>88477063
I still have the dragon necklace I got from scholastic

Deltora would be great for tabletop because a lot of the adventures were solved through wits, items, and riddles

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>>88542409
I was asking because of the "where Enna sleeps" part of the rhyme. Also, why hasn't someone tried sealing up the Maze so that nothing can get in, causing the Glus to starve?

>>88478948
This is what I loved about deltora quest. As far as kid's books go it feels like it does horror very well. Lief and even barda, an experienced fighter never really have success in combat. It feels realistic in a sense. The heros arent superhuman fighters tasking down 20 orcs at a time, and something like Vraals are scary as shit to even consider taking on with a sword. You'd just get slaughtered.
If you want a deltora style campaign then fighting should be dangerous and discouraged akin to the CoC rpg system, and monsters should have ways of being defeated via outsmarting them, using the environment and solving puzzles etc.

>>88543916
Ironically I’d say that the Glus is best kept alive, damn thing pretty much single handedly protects Deltora’s upper western coasts from being swamped by Kobb like the coasts of Jalis territory.
That, and I doubt that dropping the cave on it would kill it, given it’s regenerative prowess, capability of slipping through disturbingly small gaps, and likely having extremely low energy expenditure via its highly patient hunting strategy.

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>>88531822
My theory is that Gorl actually died at the same time his brothers did, slain by the wounds they inflicted even as he killed them. As for the totem gem thing, remember, he was last out of the forest before Adin’s time, so it’s entirely possible that he never heard of the Topaz of what it could do.

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>>88477063
How do the Wenn and Wennbar rate as monsters? I feel like they should have shown up more.

I always liked how badass the Jalis were described as. This tribe of warriors where they wear heavy armor and deal with plants that kill normal people.

>>88479648
You know, I don't think I've ever seen anyone else (not related to me) talk about Myth Adventures in my entire life. Brings me back. I should reread those someday. (And Deltora Quest of course, but I've seen that discussed a few times before)

>>88477264
>The Anglosphere
Cringe. We aren't the same thing weirdo.

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>>88552802
The anime just made them these feral looking dudes with hunched backs, exaggerated cainines, claw like nails, and jawlines capable of cutting glass.

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>>88555371
How would you have depicted them then?

>>88555993
Get rid of the more hunched apperance but keep the cainines and nails. Make them tall as fuck too, Gorl was a Jalis and he was fucking huge.

>>88482170
The level of sheer murderousness among the flora and fauna gives me Dark Sun vibes.

>>88481879
>Nine of them
>Travel in pairs
How though
Is one guy just constantly on call?

>>88556412
I interpreted it as four pairs plus Reece.
Three pairs do other shit, while the final pair travels alongside him, and since Reece never leaves Noradz, the only thing the normies know is that they travel in pairs, and that there's supposedly nine of them.

I stopped reading after the second "serie" where they go to Not!Mordor

Is the serie with the dragons any good?

>>88560306
Laughing Jack is pretty cool with his ghost-casino-pirate ship, and the Masked Ones are horrifying once the (metaphorical) mask comes off. Also had some cool monsters like the Kobb, the blood lilies and fleshbanes seen in >>88482170, and some wild whodunnit shenanigans with the Sister of the South’s guardian.

Beyond that, it also serves as the official end of Leif, Barda and Jasmine’s stories, so it’s worth reading for that at least.

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>>88477063
Which Gem is your favorite in the series? What about your favorite tribe?

>>88562997
Topaz is best, dude was lucky for starting with that

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>>88477063
What are some cool Deltora AU ideas that could work for campaigns? What about settings that would do well for crossover campaigns?

>>88562997
Topaz is the best because it has the most direct usage out of all the gems, since it grants you immunity to illusions, the ability to contact the dead, and immunity to any dream fuckery that isn't your own.
Opal comes in a very close second though, future sight is busted, no ifs or buts about it.

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>>88546620
>Sire, the Glus is loose
>>88547158
If memory serves, Gorl slew his brothers by treachery? I can't remember if there was a full-blown fight or if he just hacked them down. As for the gem? That makes sense, though the gems are still powerful without the belt. Maybe he was just too obsessed to notice or care
>>88549576
>Huge fuckoff dinosaur and it's paralyzing slave-minions
It's a creature of legend for a reason anon. I like them and think they should be a little more widespread. Given you need to be deaf to really avoid their stun, and the Wenn can move with uncomfortable haste when it wants to? They're solid monsters.
>>88560306
Better then the underground arc. The plot is more grounded and the shadow lord contingency is in-character for him. Plus we get to see some new bits and bobs

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>>88477063
How do you feel about the Shadow Lord as the BBEG of the series? Would you prefer to use them as the main villain of a campaign, another major villain like Thaegan, or an original creation?

>>88566739
>In other news sire, we've stopped recieving reports of piracy around the Toran coasts and waterways altogether.

>>88568518
>Lief got to fuck her countless times
>Lief imregnated her thrice
>Lief got to watch her tight, toned body be overtaken by mature femininity
>Lief held her hand each time as she brought new life into the world
>Lief and Jasmine got to grow old, knowing that their efforts led to a new golden age for Deltora, and that the future would be safe in their children's hands.
it's just not fair bros

>>88568693

>>88568693

>and that the future would be safe in their children's hands.

Nah man, he wasn't sure but he made sure they knew that the Enemy is clever and sly, and that to its anger and envy a thousand years is like the blink of an eye.

>>88569126
Problem is, Malveain's gonna have to get either extra sneaky on his next attempt since Ols are public knowledge now, or go back to the ole direct invasion strategy.

Hell, if memory serves he just fucked off and tried taking over Dorne, only to fuck that up too. I have absolutely zero idea as to what the fuck happens in Star of Deltora, so if he actually does shit there I'm completely unaware.

>>88568693
leave your basement dude, holy fuck
get your glus-lookin ass some sunlight

>>88572265
>get your glus-lookin ass some sunlight
Mild kek.