{"id":35043,"date":"2021-08-14T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=35043"},"modified":"2021-08-16T01:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T05:15:50","slug":"drizzt-dourden-addendum-the-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/drizzt-dourden-addendum-the-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Drizzt Do'Urden addendum: the cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned in today's review<\/a>, the Drizzt & Guenhwyvar set included a set of cards featuring various D&D monsters.<\/p>\n

\"cards\"<\/p>\n

The text on the cards is written in the Thorass alphabet, the script used for Common language in the \"Forgotten Realms\" setting. Fortunately, it's just a simple replacement cipher, meaning you don't have to be especially smart or talented to translate it even if you don't know what the font is; as proof, we made yo translate it from scratch, and he's neither smart nor talented!<\/p>\n

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White dragon<\/dt>\n
The great dragons are the preternatural beast. The basic element of the best [sic]. That darkest part of our imagination.<\/dd>\n
Goblins<\/dt>\n
I am living in a land of stark beauty and stark reality, a place where you have to be wary and alert and at your very best at all times. I call this paradise.<\/dd>\n
Hunter<\/dt>\n
To learn how to use a sword, one must first master when to use a sword.<\/dd>\n
Beholder<\/dt>\n
If we just step back and watch the truth of the world, we will find that there is indeed magic all about us unexplainable by numbers and formulas.<\/dd>\n
Frost Giant<\/dt>\n
As death is the greatest mystery, so it is the most personal of revelations.<\/dd>\n
Charger<\/dt>\n
When you live with death so close, you come to appreciate life all the more.<\/dd>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Those may sound like zen koans, but they're all quotes from Drizzt in the various books.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>