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Kai Tave posted:^^^Yeah aight, fair enough. There are two I know of. I think they might be trans but I've not cared enough/been creepy enough to find out. monstermanualsewnfrompants.blogspot.com and rachelghoulgamestuff.blogspot.com
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Chille Tid posted:There are two I know of. I think they might be trans but I've not cared enough/been creepy enough to find out. monstermanualsewnfrompants.blogspot.com and rachelghoulgamestuff.blogspot.com Easiest rule to avoid wandering into unpleasantness: trans women are just women unless that's integral to the discussion.
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Chille Tid posted:There are two I know of. I think they might be trans but I've not cared enough/been creepy enough to find out. monstermanualsewnfrompants.blogspot.com and rachelghoulgamestuff.blogspot.com Thanks, I figured there had to be someone out there. Rachel Ghoul's blog seems pretty cool on a quick read.
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Bruceski posted:Easiest rule to avoid wandering into unpleasantness: trans women are just women unless that's integral to the discussion. Oh. I've been chewed out for not using trans before that's why I said it. Forgive my ignorance.
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Chille Tid posted:Oh. I've been chewed out for not using trans before that's why I said it. Forgive my ignorance. Unfortunately it's one of those things that people tend to be rather picky about (understandably, labels matter) but not everyone is picky the same way. The folks I know do it that way so I try follow their lead, but it was probably overstepping to correct someone else.
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Chille Tid posted:monstermanualsewnfrompants.blogspot.com and rachelghoulgamestuff.blogspot.com I skimmed the first one and, like, the third thing I saw was a woman whose womb "violently prolapses" into a barbed stinger.
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Jul 17, 2015 09:27
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Its almost impossible to overstate the grog fear of women.
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Jul 17, 2015 09:49
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Ronwayne posted:Its almost impossible to overstate the grog fear of women. That blog is written by a woman.
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Jul 17, 2015 10:13
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Well then I guess there's a different chain of events that resulted in girl bits firing inside out like the fist of an insectoid god?
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Serious question, why do you all have such an aversion to crazy womb monsters? I get that you think its sexist but I just can't fathom the logical leap from "a person made up a feminine monster" to "that person hates/fears women IRL". I can definitely get behind the push against rape stuff in gaming because rape is something that really affects people and it can be hurtful to them when it's trivialised. But stuff like the prolapsed womb ia harmless and although you might personally not like it i think its very cool. Idk, I guess I am irritated because IMO Scrap Princess is one of the best RPG writers I have ever read and it sucks to have her work dismissed because you read one thing that squicks you out. Try reading her post on reinterpreting the traditional D&D classes and races, that is an absolute classic.
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Sailor Viy posted:Serious question, why do you all have such an aversion to crazy womb monsters? I get that you think its sexist but I just can't fathom the logical leap from "a person made up a feminine monster" to "that person hates/fears women IRL". I can definitely get behind the push against rape stuff in gaming because rape is something that really affects people and it can be hurtful to them when it's trivialised. But stuff like the prolapsed womb ia harmless and although you might personally not like it i think its very cool. I can't speak for others (and I'm both a lib arts graduate and currently under the influence of dayquil, so take anything I say with a grain of salt), but my personal aversion stems from the fact media doesn't exist in a vacuum. The surrounding context of these monsters is usually coming from some level of systemic sexism, whether that's as simple as just making an 'other' for the group to rally against or continuing to use tropes or cultural standards that are damaging to a gender (see sex monsters that only show up as sexy ladies as a trap for male adventurers as one example). I haven't had a chance to look at that blog in particular, but anything involving monsters and reproductive organs is already getting into iffy territory even if written with the best of intentions in TTG spaces. Either due to outright squick factor and demonization of sex (like weaponized womb creatures), rampant abuse of rape tropes (see any time half orcs come up in grog context or poo poo like fimirs in the old WFRP books), or tropes that use the fear of the consequences of sex, typically reframed to be at the male (the surprise father trope, most recently demonstrated in the Numenera succubi monster that literally gave birth to monsters whose main motivation was kill their dad). So while it's not something I'd ever say 'no, no one can do this EVAR' to, it's an area where so many people in this hobby fall so flatly on their faces with that I'm inherently very skeptical of it. And then there's the section of the community the product is getting handed to being terrible with it regardless of what the creator meant as a further twist on top of that. But that's just me and I should really go lay down and get some rest. 
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Jul 17, 2015 11:04
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>>Grognards.txt: I think a prolapsed womb is very cool
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Ronwayne posted:>>Grognards.txt: I think a prolapsed womb is very cool If what you are going for is body horror I can sort of see where Viy is coming from, but as Dulkor points out in his medication-induced haze it's always women that end up as the monster when it comes to sex flavored horror. It's not that I object in principle, but there is a enough squickiness in the hobby that a mention of something like that raises up some red flags. This actually makes me think: how do you put male sexuality in an horror context without cutting into Rape Avenue?
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The logic on this one is actually kind of interesting. Basically, a bee's sting is a modified ovipositor. The womb is the closest human analog. I think in this case it's not coming from a terrible place, but I can definitely understand the knee-jerk reactions, due to pretty much all the things Dulkor just listed. It gets done with misogynistic intentions so often, it's hard to give someone the benefit of the doubt.
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paradoxGentleman posted:This actually makes me think: how do you put male sexuality in an horror context without cutting into Rape Avenue? Alien.
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Lightning Lord posted:Alien. Did you miss the final part of my sentence
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JackMann posted:The logic on this one is actually kind of interesting. Basically, a bee's sting is a modified ovipositor. The womb is the closest human analog. I think in this case it's not coming from a terrible place, but I can definitely understand the knee-jerk reactions, due to pretty much all the things Dulkor just listed. It gets done with misogynistic intentions so often, it's hard to give someone the benefit of the doubt. Human-bee monsters are basically never stabbing you with their loving womb though, they have a goofy bee bit coming out of their rear end. The aversion is there because it's been done a trillion times and those were all awful, so the hope that this time maybe they could get it right runs thin.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Did you miss the final part of my sentence Then only consider the fear of pregnancy aspects. Actually you know, the way the thread is going is towards a pretty unsavory topic. I think with Zach Jesse still fresh in my mind (still can't loving get over that) I've had my fill for the foreseeable forever.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Human-bee monsters are basically never stabbing you with their loving womb though, they have a goofy bee bit coming out of their rear end. How about this, instead of bee-rear end a human-bee monster should have bees for hands.
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Sailor Viy posted:Try reading her post on reinterpreting the traditional D&D classes and races, that is an absolute classic. Link?
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I don't want to read about prolapsing womb-stingers because what the gently caress is wrong with you holy poo poo why. I mean it's fine to look at here in grogs.txt where horrific poo poo like that belongs, but if I encountered that in an actual game I'd be out immediately.
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Sailor Viy posted:Serious question, why do you all have such an aversion to crazy womb monsters? I get that you think its sexist but I just can't fathom the logical leap from "a person made up a feminine monster" to "that person hates/fears women IRL". In my case it's less about the sexism and more that within the context of the OSR this is Yet Another Monster From Woman's Genitals. Like, the whole goddamn movement is drowning in body horror sex beasts and after hearing this woman trumpeted as one of the greatest OSR writers there is, it made me roll my eyes a bit to trip over this pretty much right away. I've gone back and read some more of Scrap Princess' stuff, though, and it looks like this was a one-off, so my judgement was excessively hasty.
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Serf posted:I don't want to read about prolapsing womb-stingers because what the gently caress is wrong with you holy poo poo why. I mean it's fine to look at here in grogs.txt where horrific poo poo like that belongs, but if I encountered that in an actual game I'd be out immediately. A GM springing this to you with no warning is terrible, of course, as is one that only does it to because it's his fetish, but maybe you just want to play a body horror flavored game, kind of like Resident Evil, , and if you are aiming for an horror atmosphere, a sense of uncomforableness is more than welcome.
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paradoxGentleman posted:A GM springing this to you with no warning is terrible, of course, as is one that only does it to because it's his fetish, but maybe you just want to play a body horror flavored game, kind of like Resident Evil, , and if you are aiming for an horror atmosphere, a sense of uncomforableness is more than welcome. Nah, some poo poo just doesn't need to be used. I would be cool with people mutating into monsters or limbs getting hacked off or whatever but once you start bringing prolapstingers or killer dicks etc. into a game you've gone from "uncomfortable creepiness" to "perverse creepiness" and I'm just not down for that. I hope most GMs would tell you what they're going for beforehand but I don't have that much faith in people.
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Serf posted:Nah, some poo poo just doesn't need to be used. I would be cool with people mutating into monsters or limbs getting hacked off or whatever but once you start bringing prolapstingers or killer dicks etc. into a game you've gone from "uncomfortable creepiness" to "perverse creepiness" and I'm just not down for that. I hope most GMs would tell you what they're going for beforehand but I don't have that much faith in people. This is a perfectly understandable point of view. I feel that this sort of horror has its place and can be used in a non-creepy way- or rather, in a way that is creepy for the PCs and not the players- in the right setting, but I can see how some people might feel it's just taking it too far. e: to make my point perfectly clear: I am not saying I'd use these elements myself, but I am willing to accept that they might add something good to a campaign in the right hands.
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Kai Tave posted:Thanks, I figured there had to be someone out there. Rachel Ghoul's blog seems pretty cool on a quick read. I believe she's RPG.net's LibraryLass (not doxxing, it's linked in her signature there).
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Serf posted:I don't want to read about prolapsing womb-stingers because what the gently caress is wrong with you holy poo poo why. I mean it's fine to look at here in grogs.txt where horrific poo poo like that belongs, but if I encountered that in an actual game I'd be out immediately. It's fine if you don't like something in your game but when you turn it into a moral issue and say "nobody is allowed to use this ever" that's where I have a problem. For the record I would use the prolapsed womb lady in my game and I think my players would find it cool and funny. I probably wouldn't use it in a game with strangers but I hate playing with strangers anyway. Sage Genesis posted:Link? http://monstermanualsewnfrompants.blogspot.co.nz/2011/12/insomnia-vs-traditional-fantasy.html?m=1 quote:Mountains rise and fall, continents collide, stars flee the day, all through the turnings of the great machine. Pistons and cogs, of titanic size and inexorable purpose, are the true bones of this earth. Deep down in the endless factory and forges, passed clockwork bigger than cities, are the wombs dwarfs. Dwarfs are made in molds, with secret clay, and fired in cavernous kilns, and glazed in blood. Each clan has a identifying series of characteristics , The polishers have big noses and plaited beards, the Stokers triangle beards and monobrows, etc. The molds are more akin to typeset , allowing each clan to fire each dwarf with a variation of characteristics allowing easier identification between the batchs.
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Sailor Viy posted:Mountains rise and fall, continents collide, stars flee the day, all through the turnings of the great machine. Pistons and cogs, of titanic size and inexorable purpose, are the true bones of this earth. Deep down in the endless factory and forges, passed clockwork bigger than cities, are the wombs dwarfs. Dwarfs are made in molds, with secret clay, and fired in cavernous kilns, and glazed in blood. Each clan has a identifying series of characteristics , The polishers have big noses and plaited beards, the Stokers triangle beards and monobrows, etc. The molds are more akin to typeset , allowing each clan to fire each dwarf with a variation of characteristics allowing easier identification between the batchs. Sounds a lot like Gloranthan dwarves, who are also constructs built for various castes, and who usually spend their time repairing and maintaining the immense World Machine deep below the earth.
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quote:I've been seeing the phrases Daily Powers and At-Will Powers used on this reddit, but given the different design philosophies it feels weird to describe 5e things in 4e terms. I don't hate 4e on principal or anything, I just think that the term is not as descriptive as it could be in 5e's context. quote:Some things are recharged at dawn, so it would make sense to call those daily. quote:My AL DM uses the term "bloodied" constantly. Can we stop using that? quote:I'd rather see something specific to the enemy. quote:
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Sailor Viy posted:It's fine if you don't like something in your game but when you turn it into a moral issue and say "nobody is allowed to use this ever" that's where I have a problem. I am not advocating for censoring stuff, people are allowed to like whatever perverted crap they want, that's fine. But for me personally, if I was browsing an RPG blog and just came across this prolapstinger poo poo I would probably post it here and then never go back. I don't play elfgames to hear/think about creepy sex organ stuff. And frankly I lack both the capacity and the will to understand anyone who would accept that in their game.
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Sailor Viy posted:http://monstermanualsewnfrompants.blogspot.co.nz/2011/12/insomnia-vs-traditional-fantasy.html?m=1 Thanks. Hm. May have oversold it a bit, the blog is basically a bunch of stuff that's already been done before. Like, subterranean machine clan dwarves? Isn't that exactly what Exalted did? I guess the only thing that's new is gnomes as mole people, but that's mostly because it comes up with a completely different kind of being and slaps the "gnome" label on it. Saying something like "Gnomes are now penguins" is not a creative spin on gnomes, it's just mucking about with mislabeling things.
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Sage Genesis posted:Thanks. Except that the term "gnome" originally referred to earth elementals, as that blog notes. It's very much a return to form, not mislabeling.
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Sage Genesis posted:Hm. May have oversold it a bit, the blog is basically a bunch of stuff that's already been done before. OSR.txt I don't have a copy to hand, but this is pretty much a verbatim quote from the last retroclone I looked at, some recent space opera-ish spiritual prequel to Empire of the Petal Throne, which manages to sum up my disinterest in the entire D&D cover band community in one line: "Locked doors may be a serious impediment to adventurers exploring space dungeons."
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All this discussion of monsters or aliens or whatever that weaponize or mutate the general shape of a vagina make me wonder how the 2edgy audience for fighting bomb-farting toxic wombcannons would react to a horror setting where every goddamn thing in existence is some form of lethal phallus instead.
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senrath posted:Except that the term "gnome" originally referred to earth elementals, as that blog notes. It's very much a return to form, not mislabeling. The origins of the word are not as clear-cut as that. And even then, earth elementals in mythology are not mole-dudes. They were pygmies. Dwarfs. Not muscle-moles who seek to escape the earth. (Really, earth elementals that seek to escape the earth? If the deep earth is a prison shouldn't they be the wardens rather than the imprisoned-yet-clearly-not-imprisoned?) So yes as far as I'm concerned this take on the gnome is just some mislabeling. Not interested in discussing it at great length though. If you disagree it's all good.
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Parkreiner posted:I don't have a copy to hand, but this is pretty much a verbatim quote from the last retroclone I looked at, some recent space opera-ish spiritual prequel to Empire of the Petal Throne, which manages to sum up my disinterest in the entire D&D cover band community in one line: "Locked doors may be a serious impediment to adventurers exploring space dungeons."
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