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| | #REDIRECT [[Fellspyre Chronicles]] |
| '''The Last God''' is a [[grimdark]] fantasy comic by Phillip (two Ls) Kennedy Johnson, set in [[Cain Anuun]] and published through DC.
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| The story is told along dual plotlines across time - and there's no [[Chronomancy|time ''travel'']], so the current line is the later one. In this the current line, the world (rather, as usual, the narrative's [[The Silmarillion|Beleriand]]-shaped corner thereof) has enjoyed a generation of peace and prosperity (on the surface) thanks to the heroics of heroes a generation ago, who now rule as kings. In the previous line we get a shufty on what the heroes of yore had actually done.
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| It is hardly a spoiler to reveal that the yore heroics weren't nearly as heroic as what the retired heroes have claimed.
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| Back In ''MY'' Day, 329.4 Guild Reckoning, the heroes had put an end to a scourge of [[Dusanu|zombie-inducing plantlife]] by putting to the sword, Mol Uhltep; the Melkor of this damaged world. In ''this'' day, 358ish, the bill is due. A new generation of heroes (aided by some of the previous heroes, and by some of their victims) must fix the mess for real.
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| =Oh. Right. /tg/.=
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| Johnson brought in Dan Telfer to help design ''The Last God: Tales From the Book of Ages'', with Amedeo Turturro as main editor. This short (under 50 pages!) supplement translates, ''[[Dragonlance|DL5: Dragons of Mystery]]''-style, the base rules of the comic into something d20 / 5e playable.
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| It starts with a Trigger Warning for "a brutally repressive environment when it comes to gender roles" totally on their own, and not because content-creators all have to do that in this Enlightened And Modern And Totally Not Oppressive NOR Hypocritical Age if they want to be published outside Castalia House <strike>or CreateSpace</strike>.
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| Nor because we're being dogwhistled [[Hackmaster|NOT FOR WIMPS]] hinting at [[Edge]] for Edgesake. Amirite??
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| Besides all that, there's ''another'' note here. This cites for the real Book of Ages, Mol Choresh, "god of knowledge and of riddles" - it seems the note-taker spoke an inflected language with the genitive case. This much is a conceit taken from [[E. Gary Gygax]]. Anyway the present "excerpt" is from Grandmaster Skol 358.1 Guild Reckoning (GR).
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| Here we get lore and maps. But ''also'' we get ''stats'': Barrowfiend, Drake, Ebonsnare, the Flowering Dead (the whole point of this arc, with many subdivisions), Gallows Imp, Gryndel, Gyrehawks (''sic''), Harlot o' the Gale, Harpy, Hearteater, Maertroll, Rimefoot, Ursulon, Water Dragon.
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| Following that, magic: Fey, [[Elf|Aelvan]], [[Dragon]], Guild [Eldritch]. Then four magic items, but you probably won't see 'em since they're Wondrous or [[Artifact]].
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| Playable Subclasses kick in next. Guild Eldritch, [[Paladin]] (Oath of the Grauniad), and [[Ranger]] (as "Ferryman", for "Aelvan only").
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