Tuarheivel

[Matthew M. Colville]

Jonathan Picklesimer wrote:
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> Does anyone have the Tuarheivel Player's Secrets? Is it pretty good? I
> wonder how well it would fit other elven kingdoms?

I bought it. . .it's OK. If you liked the Baruk-Azik PS, then you'll
probably find Tuarheival PS just as intriguing.

Personally, I prefer Dwarves and Elves to be a little more. .
populous. The idea of each of them having one tiny little country to
themsevels is too limiting. I think of elves and dwarves as living over
and around humans.

-Matthew

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[Jonathan Picklesimer]

Does anyone have the Tuarheivel Player's Secrets? Is it pretty good? I
wonder how well it would fit other elven kingdoms?

Does anyone have any advenurers in Rjurik?

May Moradin guide you.
Thak Stonehead

[Jonathan Picklesimer]

On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Matthew M. Colville wrote:

> I bought it. . .it's OK. If you liked the Baruk-Azik PS, then you'll
> probably find Tuarheival PS just as intriguing.

I thought that the Baruk-Azhik stuff was pretty cool at points, but some
things were a little much, like the dwarves just happen to have captured
and are keeping a minor awnsheigh for a time of trouble. What is the
deal with that??? The thing with Grimm Greybeard becoming part of the
mountains was pretty lame at first, but then it kinda grew on me.

>
> Personally, I prefer Dwarves and Elves to be a little more. .
> populous. The idea of each of them having one tiny little country to
> themsevels is too limiting. I think of elves and dwarves as living over
> and around humans.
>
> -Matthew

I hear what you are saying, but at the same time I kinda like it the way
that it is. The Siedhe are extremely powerful due to their magical
connections with the land (as evidenced in _Great_Heart_). Their lack of
clerical abilites though really put them at a disadvantage. The dwarves
are fairly isolationistic, but what else is new? In all of the stuff
that I have read about Cerillia, it does not appear that the classic
enmity between elves and dwarves that we see in other campaign settings
exists. This could prove to be a great boon! If the dwarves and the
elves could work together, they could combine their strengths and
weaknesses to make a terribly fearsome political and military force.
With the dwares' experience with the orogs, and the elven experience with
the other demihumans (surface demihumans) things could get really
interesting fast! Especially if the elves and dwarves decided to stand
and fight with the humans as they did at Desimaar (only after securing
proper concilliations from the humans). I think that these races could
add a whole lot of flavor to the political climate if they would openly
embrace one another!

Thak Stonehead

[manwe@valinor.hna.com.au]

Hi Jonathan , on Dec 16 you wrote:

> Does anyone have the Tuarheivel Player's Secrets? Is it pretty good? I
> wonder how well it would fit other elven kingdoms?

I have Tuarheivel. I think it's excellent, although I havent bought many
domain books so I am unsure of how it compares to others. It was nice to
see Steve Miller doing some nice BR stuff (has he worked on any other
items?). The political situation certainly is twisted.

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Jason Mulligan
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