Pasadena CAS

Pasadena Cartoon and Animation Society - an anime club located in/around Pasadena, CA (but we hold a bunch of our showings over Discord these days)

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Cake day: December 17th, 2022

  • @juergen_hubert I think this type of setting gets even harder to build when we base the discussion on D&D sorcerers. For all they may be born to a certain amount of power compared to an ordinary person, they have to put themselves through real effort and danger to progress from there - they really don’t get that much for free (c.f. characters in Zelazny’s Amber).


  • @juergen_hubert It’s tricky to build a setting that actually examines this sort of privilege not just because we know how people born to privilege behave in the real world (forming an aristocratic class and - if pressed - coming up some sort of narrative like noblesse oblige or divine Right of Kings), but also because well before 3rd edition’s take on sorcerers was a thing, many medieval fantasy worlds had people born to unearned magical power and privilege: gods.

    A setting with divinities who are actively using their power to better the world can easily make the inborn power of a typical PC or point of view character feel irrelevant. OTOH those which feature apparently-inactive deities probably inspire many born to power to worry about themselves first, and others second (or never)