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#1 Ornum Nov 22, 2003 2:16:32	First of all, I would like to say that I'm glad that someone is finally bringing Planescape back (even if it's unofficial). Great work to those that are working on it. I bought into 3E when it came out, but my gaming group couldn't get together as much to play as we got older due to our various jobs AND the lack of an updated Planescape kept us from playing, so we've been without the game for a few years now. With this new version of Planescape, we look forward to playing once again. (Pick up your swords, friends. The old gods show us favor once again!) Yes, I know that we could have continued playing Planescape with the old rules, but we enjoyed the new rules which allowed us greater individualism with characters of the same class. And I don't count the MotP because it just doesn't have the same flavor or level of intrigue that Planescape possessed. Anyway... Second, does anyone know where I can find a decent conversion of hordlings? For some reason I loved 'em, so I would like to include them. Third, as much as I liked hordlings, did anybody else think that they were a little too differentiated as a species, to the point that they should have been chaotic instead of being neutral? I mean, almost everything about them was determined by a random die roll. As a species, they were less regimented in appearance and abilities than the slaad and tanar'ri, which were chaotic. Just curious as to your opinions on this matter, that's all. Gotta go, there's a contract out with a fat little merchant's name on it that I have to collect on.
#2 zombiegleemax Nov 22, 2003 2:38:54	I don't know. Perhaps best not to think of them as a species. Think of them as a generic category for everything else. For example, Sex: male, female or others. Hordling is probably the "others".
#3 Shemeska_the_Marauder Nov 22, 2003 8:56:48	I wouldn't call them chaotic, so much as the product of utter unique individualism. The end product perhaps on a mortal soul of the pushing of the self, reactionary selfishness, and individual torment. To some extent it depends on your interpretation of the origin of Hordlings as well. Each of them is unique in form because its a reflection of the unique nature of each one of them's pain that they latch onto as the Waste seeks to drain everything from them, and they refuse and fight it tooth and nail with the hatred against everything that one see's manifested in their bahavior as they encounter anything on the layers of the Waste.
#4 incenjucar Nov 22, 2003 13:15:07	Think of them as individuals who have no choice but to be individuals.
#5 xanxost_the_slaadi_dup Nov 22, 2003 14:10:13	Xanxost once met a hordling that didn't try to kill me, instead it was lamenting and moaning about how awful its life is. Xanxost didn't pay much attention to it, because Xanxost hates them so very much like bladelings. See, Xanxost hates them because they both end in "ling", and the bladelings are so prickly on the way down. Oh, was that hordling? I thought you meand Dust Mephit.
#6 zombiegleemax Nov 22, 2003 20:37:53	Where can I found something 2e about them?
#7 Ornum Nov 22, 2003 21:28:46	Planescape Monstrous Compendium, Volumn I At least I think that is right.