It’s so funny when people get caught up with things like that.
It’s also funny but a little sad when people’s expectations of how colorful ancient times ought to be, or rather shouldn’t be, create standards of “realism” that are completely opposite to how history really was.
I’d love to read it! Sometimes I wish to do it but I don’t think I could do it justice. I’m but a fledgeling bi occultist.
Given HP Lovecraft’s known status as a paranoid raging bigot, I wonder if there’s some game where the elder gods are cool actually, the “cultists” are just people broadening their horizons into cosmic queer transhumanism, and the investigators are just close-minded people wishing to restore their own sense of normalcy. Which, true to form, about half the time awaken into these horizons anyway.
Truly an eldritch horror for Cthulhu to inflict over a cis man
Big beefy warrior with a heart of gold and a peanut brain that could crush anyone easily but she would rather be friends with everyone and have everyone play along. It’s a heartbreaking character to play in games that just assume all you’re gonna be doing is killing, but it could be pretty cute as the muscle of more diplomatic sorts of campigns.
Wouldn’t be the first time awful people tried to take over and twist well-meaning jargon from black people.
Not so sure. When it comes to human hatred, big differences, petty differences and made-up differences work just as well as one another to motivate atrocities. Elves and aliens would end up on the list, but I don’t think they’d hold us back from being awful to ourselves. Ultimately there’s no real logic, so in what order that would happen is anyone’s guess.
Boring AND conceited. I always roll my eyes at this trope of “unlike all these different fantasy beings that are good are specific things, we can be good at everything”. Seems like imagination falling short, that other beings would not have their own breadth of possibilities, and humans wouldn’t have their own unique advantages that are particular just to them.
If I had to pick one thing, it would probably be something teamwork related. Humans are very social beings compared to other animals.
Only in fantasy humans get to not be genocided by humans
Nah, it’s good that it’s hard. People who want to use with heavy themes, they gotta earn it.
Folks could get away with so much edgy bulshit back then…
Of course. But at the same time alignment is under the domain of gods and it’s part of the cosmological structure itself. I wouldn’t think one can simply declare to be outside the purview of morality.
As adults, probably. As kids they likely just saw cool heroes saving the day but didn’t know enough of the world they live in to apply that to it. Some might even have agreed with those heroes until they were taught they were not supposed to.
They just miss the days they were too young to realize what it all meant.
Druids when the new party member is another Druid: Bear with me for a moment 🐻🐻
They are funny as memes, but beginner DMs might not be able to tell the difference.
I feel the same way about the False Hydra. As a recounted creepypasta it sounds cool. As an actual TTRPG enemy it’s unworkable. Either the adventure will be very scripted, because the DM has to pretty much allow you to perceive it, or it will be completely unfair and insufferable, because you’ll need to constantly pretend you don’t notice it and that you forget things as it decimates the party. It’s not a good D&D enemy, it doesn’t even fit the rules of D&D well. Mind effect with no saves unless you cover your ears? C’mon…
It’s also a quick way to turn a regular player into a murderhobo, because if can’t trust anything not to be hostile, the best approach is to attack first.
Oh damn, I thought knowing Vampire the Masquerade was a given in TTRPG circles. I’m getting old.