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Halloween Jack posted:The Chinese mind has a genetic predisposition to prefer emperors. If you disagree, you don't understand Confucianism. Now, regarding the Russian mind...
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:What was the -phobia in Persona?
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The English being less actively evil in this zombie world version of the Great Famine than they were in the real world version of it is kinda weird. If it were true to life they'd be forcing them to work those zombie blighted fields regardless of casualties.
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Oct 9, 2019 06:24
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Nessus posted:They didn't particularly try to stop emigration during the Famine, or at least if they did I never heard of it. They just didn't help particularly, either.
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Oct 10, 2019 01:07
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Mors Rattus posted:The one thing that's always confused me about the Sasquatch is like...is smelling that big a part of Sasquatch lore? Is that a thing? I thought that was just the skunk ape.
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Nov 1, 2019 17:57
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Everyone posted:The weird thing for me is that it wasn't until this thread that I grokked the concept that gully dwarves are what happens when humans and dwarves mate. That... is just deeply hosed up on so many levels. First off, enough humans wanted to gently caress enough dwarves to make an entire subrace of these guys. Then, instead of caring for their offspring they threw them the gently caress away in places like Xak Tsaroth. At this point I think the gods should've thrown multiple mountains at Krynn, wiped out the lot of them and started over with something else. Dolphins, maybe.
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Dec 5, 2019 07:26
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Robindaybird posted:there is very unfortunately a 3.5e splat book that's all that, it's very much peak "Because you can make a splat book of it, doesn't mean you should"
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Dec 6, 2019 01:45
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I'd just say pick where you play as a drow with funny hair or a beholder with elf ears.
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Dec 6, 2019 06:14
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Covok posted:RE: Song of Ice & Fire, do the campaign rules have systems to support dropping 90% of the plot points and having everyone be wildly out of character in the last 2 sessions? Gun Jam posted:Their opening post says it's based on the books, and not the show, sooo
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Dec 18, 2019 04:42
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The Shallows is a drat fine short story that does all of that better, by just having a guy go about his day in a post Mythos world and remember bad poo poo that happened between the apocalypse and now.
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Dec 23, 2019 04:57
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Kaza42 posted:It's a decent fanfic, given the steep grading curve that implies. It has some genuinely good bits, some genuinely bad bits and a lot of mediocre bits. It probably doesn't deserve the heavy scorn it gets from some people, but definitely doesn't deserve the worship its biggest fans give it
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Dec 24, 2019 14:32
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My Immortal isn't a fanfict it's art. I was referring to Dumbledore's Army.
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I don't get why D&D proposes societies that people only worship one god out of a pantheon. Why wouldn't it be more like real world polytheism where you worship the whole pantheon based on occasion, and mystery cult priests dedicated to one god or people who have a single god as a special patron are specialties rather than the norm?
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Jan 4, 2020 02:11
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:another practical reason is that, functionally speaking, real life pantheism frequently represented an attempt to unify the individual gods or smaller pantheons of different people who were conquered, assimilated, etc. into a common (or at least overlapping) framework
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Jan 4, 2020 02:29
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Nessus posted:So who was patient zero for the entire "what if gods... gained power... FROM THEIR WORSHIPPERS" idea, anyway? Who is the son of a bitch who invented Comic Sans? It's even present in the Bible Exodus 29:18 "Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the Lord."
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Jan 4, 2020 02:34
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Yes it is and I'm not arguing that Christianity or modern day Judaism believe that God is dependent on humans, but rather that the idea of humans providing food to deities through ritual is present. Even if the deity in question does not need to to survive. The passage I quoted is the New International version, but food for good through sacrifice is present in most translations of both Exodus 29:18 and Exodus 29:25. Here's a link if you're curious. This was also a commonly held belief among other religions of the Levant, Anatolia, and Greece, with Exodus just providing a specific example. It isn't a far logical leap in a setting with gods that aren't all powerful to go from sacrifices and worship rituals being food to worship giving the gods power directly.
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The gods appreciate aroma, therefore one must light an extra bowl for them at all gatherings.
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Mors Rattus posted:It is important to look at your site you linked and realize those are all Christian translations, and none include the commentary that is customary with Jewish translations, which collate and summarize key rabbinic arguments of the past, explain the nature of the Hebrew and its etymological roots or meaning as understood by the rabbis, or the legal traditions built up around the actual verses and the Talmud. edit: Is there a similar context against anthropomorphic interpretations of Greek gods accepting burnt offerings? Terrible Opinions fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Jan 4, 2020 |
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Thank you for the additional information, I am woefully uneducated wrt Jewish traditions. Though I was aware of the reasoning for Greek gods whole being tricked by Prometheus deal.
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To be honest I hadn't consider the Christian translation issue and had erroneously assumed it was some pre-Judaic paganism slipping in from earlier traditions.
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I think what a lot of people want out of a real robots show is just Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan but with robots.
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Unless the Union specifically and violently excludes them there is no way there aren't Juggalo hunters.
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Ithle01 posted:The product doesn't actually tell you not to root for them because, it just assumed that it didn't have to. Or at least that people understood the empire is really bad and writes their own propaganda. Turns out, big mistake.
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Everyone posted:I never really got into 40K at all and admitted don't know that much about it. That said, from what I understand, it's not that the Imperium are "the good guys" exactly so much as that every other major faction or power group is measurably, horrifyingly worse.
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If the fiction presented terrorists fighting against the imperium as the protagonists this wouldn't be as much of an issue my dude.
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Ultiville posted:Not that I'd keep the card without removing the nudity and adding some more detail about why freeing her might be difficult, but is it actually bad here? Per the summary of the card, if you free her she's grateful. edit: evidently elves thinking tigermen are animals was removed in the most recent version, but it's still an interesting emergent gameplay bit, even if it was unintentional. The encounter card has a kinda weird implied backstory. Either the zookeeper made an honest mistake and the weretiger lady was good natured enough to not use her supernatural power to kill a normal dude just grabbing tigers for a zoo, or the zookeeper knows he has a sapient being as a zoo exhibit and is thus the villain. Either way it doesn't really make sense for the twist of her being a weretiger mean she shouldn't be helped. Terrible Opinions fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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Ultiville posted:Yeah agreed, I'm not interested in this card as a "aha, you shouldn't have helped her!" situation. It just didn't look like that was the case from the card summary. Maybe there are some details in there that got glossed over that change it. The Pcs are given free tickets to the zoo from the inn where they are staying. As they travel about the zoo they see many strange and outright unusual creatures from all over the realm, as well as numerous mundane, ordinary animals. While passing the tiger cage they see a beautiful unclothed woman in the cage with the big cats. She calls out to the Pcs for help, crying that she is hurt and trapped, and needs their help to escape the cage. If the Pcs help her out of the cage she responds gratefully. However, if they suggest calling the keeper, she urges them to rescue her now. An Intelligence check means the Pc has noted she seems to be in no apparent danger of attack from the beasts. Indeed, they react almost like house cats around her, if they are not ignoring her completely. The Pcs must choose between the lady and the tigers. If they refuse to release her, she becomes infuriated and changes to her weretiger form. She springs forward, throwing herself against the bars of the cage in an attempt to grab any of the Pcs standing near the enclosure
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I mean if we could remove everything Carnegie or Rockafeller did that'd probably be a net positive on America. "Built America" either means killing natives or killing union members and both of those had nothing but negative effects on present day life.
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Falconier111 posted:Not saying you’re wrong about the racism or the hostility, but there’s even precedent for running against that grain: 
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The Chad Jihad posted:Yeah, and like, there's a lot of room to play around with 'good' in this context. Like, keeping with the "we are ants to them" thing, an entomologist is probably going to have positive feelings for an ant colony but he's still going to collect some for study, maybe tag a couple with paint to track, disrupt food trails to observe behavior etc etc. Which is all terrifying and incomprehensible if you're an ant! Even just passive observation, if he gets too close, is going to freak you out because instinct says "looming shadow, warm mammal breath = extreme danger". There's an experiment where they attached stilts to ant legs and it hosed with their ability to navigate because they have an internal pedometer tied to their actual leg length. They didn't do that specifically to gently caress with them, but it had that side effect. You summon some ancient Thing and thinking it's helping it opens your third eye and leaves, and now you see things you shouldn't and your thought processes are scrambled in ways that make day to day life almost impossible but hey sometimes you can rip apart reality. Anyway I lost my train of thought but there's ways to play around with things
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Undercover mission going well until your protoshoggoth party member just can't take talking to enemy even one second longer and slimes out. You're now in a desperate siege situation, but drat did mercing that guy in the middle of his speech about racial superiority feel good.
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Mors Rattus posted:Got their own afterlives, still in Shyish. I imagine that there is probably a push by the Order Alliance to get to and protect those underworlds. I’m...not totally clear on what the Orruk afterlife beliefs are.
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Mors Rattus posted:...in the RPG materials.
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I somehow think that people still preferring Warhams Fantasy over AoS are the last people to be mad about their game being old. Like Age of Sigmar the thing being discussed is already half a decade old. so given the horrendous speed GW released army books at any given example is going to be a decade or more old. The last Bretonnian army book was released 17 years ago for sixth edition, Tomb Kings was 9 years ago.
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Elder Things and Yithians would be my guess. Both are immigrants to earth who have a vested interest in keeping it around, and don't have any real connection to things that man was not meant to know, beyond advanced science. Both also have interesting social dynamics that would make them difficult but not impossible partners. The Elder Things have the fantasy elf thing going on where they were in charge in the past, but have long since mostly died off and now would likely have difficulty adjusting to a world run by someone else. Even if that someone else is on their side. Then the Yithians have an impossibly long view of what is important and would cause conflict by always prioritizing the long term good over immediate goals, even if the immediate goals are more important to the humans and Elder Things involved. Then you also have all the old necromancers and evil wizards running around Lovecraft's earth. Yeah they're evil but they still want to live in their horrible old castles and rule the world, not destroy it. Randolph Carter is a similarly powerful dimension wizard who is willing to do anything he can up to any including dooming another full sapient species to extinction to get back to living a as a normal human, so he also works as a human ally. With the Case of Charles Dexter Ward you even have the implication that Merlin of all people is real, a good guy, and running around as a super powered zombie. It seems weird that zombie Merlin as quest giver isn't more common in Cthulhu RPGs.
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TBH in Shadow of Innsmouth itself, going full deep one seems pretty nice. Yeah there is the "oh the madness is taking hold" framing, but it''s immortality and a family of unconditional love. Even willing to forgive accidentally getting some of your cousins killed. The downside is what, having to live underwater, getting scales?
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Imagine actually wanting to facilitate characters interacting with all three parts of your game.
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Libertad! posted:Thank you all for all of your suggestions. I'm compiling these into a single multi-quote in case I ever try to do CthulhuTech But Better or something.
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Hey buddy I like snakes and feed mine quite well.
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