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    3/11/2016 9:10 am  #1

    Barnett1967
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    Dodged a pronunciation bullet at Gary Con VIII

    So, since first purchasing and reading AS&SH, I had been wondering what exotic race an "ES-KWI-MOKS" was, until Jeff offered up an "ES-KI-MO" as a player character at one of his sessions....boy was I ever "surrpized" that I had been pronouncing it wrong in my head this entire time.

     

    3/11/2016 9:11 am  #2

    Handy Haversack
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    Re: Dodged a pronunciation bullet at Gary Con VIII

    Ha! Awesome. One of players managed an Esquimmeaux cleric with an 18 CHA. That one was the "Sexquimmeaux."

    But one way I point out to them how super unfriendly "civilization" is in Hyperborea is how the gate guards treat Esquimmeaux PCs.

     

    3/11/2016 9:20 am  #3

    Barnett1967
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    Re: Dodged a pronunciation bullet at Gary Con VIII

    This is why AS&SH is so great, it pulls no punches!  I am running a campaign of a system that shall not be named, and a person took tiefling as a race, after I advised them that they would have trouble - they ended getting all butt hurt after they kept getting chased out of the smaller towns....

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    3/11/2016 10:26 am  #4

    gizmomathboy
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    Re: Dodged a pronunciation bullet at Gary Con VIII

    Barnett1967 wrote:

    This is why AS&SH is so great, it pulls no punches!  I am running a campaign of a system that shall not be named, and a person took tiefling as a race, after I advised them that they would have trouble - they ended getting all butt hurt after they kept getting chased out of the smaller towns....

    I sort of do that with the half orc fighter in my 1e game. He was getting a little harassed but then the townsfolk learn his backstory and STFU right quick. He's basically a hero in and around Verbobonc/Furyondy/Dyvers/Veluna/Kron Hills for the s*** him and the party has done (ran my own version of the creation/founding of The Temple of Elemental Evil).

    Of course, now he's a 9th level Fighter so it's unlikely anyone will want to start s*** with him in the first place. That and his golf bag of misc. weapons he's carrying about.

    What? Me worry?
     

    3/11/2016 11:22 am  #5

    mabon5127
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    Re: Dodged a pronunciation bullet at Gary Con VIII

    Barnett1967 wrote:

    This is why AS&SH is so great, it pulls no punches!  I am running a campaign of a system that shall not be named, and a person took tiefling as a race, after I advised them that they would have trouble - they ended getting all butt hurt after they kept getting chased out of the smaller towns....

    Yup.  Even playing OD&D many years ago Elves and Dwarves were looked at with much distrust let alone something looking other worldly like a tiefling.  That's why it was much easier in a role-playing sense to be human.  In ASSH the harsh reality of racism and stranger phobic behavior is explored as the group sees fit.
     

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    3/11/2016 12:43 pm  #6

    Scalydemon
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    3/11/2016 1:24 pm  #7

    Blackadder23
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    Re: Dodged a pronunciation bullet at Gary Con VIII

    Barnett1967 wrote:

    So, since first purchasing and reading AS&SH, I had been wondering what exotic race an "ES-KWI-MOKS" was, until Jeff offered up an "ES-KI-MO" as a player character at one of his sessions....boy was I ever "surrpized" that I had been pronouncing it wrong in my head this entire time.

    Does this mean you haven't read "The Call of Cthulhu"?
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    3/12/2016 1:40 pm  #8

    Barnett1967
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    Re: Dodged a pronunciation bullet at Gary Con VIII

    Blackadder23 wrote:

    Does this mean you haven't read "The Call of Cthulhu"?  

    I have not, but it's on the list!

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