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    I vote for everything 137ben has ever said.


    I vote for everything this guy says. I like the cut of his jib.
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    We can all go home now. 137ben has won this thread.
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    She was about to say "--this new place that just opened up, Starshinia, which was founded by a red-headed aasimar, but was just taken over by an Azurite fallen paladin turned blackguard. Apropos of nothing, I hear they just invented a new spell called Halflings Don't Have To Breathe."
    You forgot that the half-orc cleric who researched it is Redcloak's niece.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    This thread actually turned into a Morally Justified thread while I was composing this post. A Morally Justified ninja, as it were. DOUBLE locked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flickerdart View Post
    That might have sufficient degrees of doublethink to work. It's getting very 1984 in here. Repeat after me: "we have always been at war with East Optimisasia..."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flickerdart View Post
    I hate Tome of Battle. It's nowhere near anime enough. In a game where everyone else is flying and shooting lasers and transforming into dragons, it lets you...poke a guy, or sometimes poke a guy twice. And you aren't even required to call out your attack, unlike every spell in the game. It's ridiculous.
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    Quote Originally Posted by A_Moon View Post
    How many times, when the Fighter says "I draw my sword", did you just want to smack that cheating-optimizer in the face and say "No! You don't draw your sword! You draw Orcus!". When the Cleric says "I run away from Orcus!": "No! You run into Orcus! Rogue tries to hide? He hides behind Orcus! The bard in a tavern on the other side the town tries to order a drink? How about a nice frothy mug of Orcus?
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    Quote Originally Posted by oppyu View Post
    Besides, if the overlords of social justice forced the Giant to break up a main character's relationship in order to facilitate a samesex relationship, it would be Roy breaking up with Celia to get with Durkon. Everyone knows that.
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    Where are the rules for "Just Playing"?
    Rule 1: The DM is as inerrant as Orcus is omnipresent.
    Rule 2: Play exactly like the DM wants you to, or rocks fall.
    Rule 3: They might fall anyway.
    Rule 4: Only these 5 rules matter.
    Okay, I know you want someone to ask, so I'll do it.

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    You're too obsessed with numbers, Real RoleplayersTM don't go around counting things. Rocks fall, you die.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oppyu View Post
    There is nothing more emblematic of this forum than three or four pages of debate between people who, as it turns out, pretty much agree with each other.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    If you're one of the folks who likes the comic just the way it is and feel the need to defend it against other people's opinions, rest assured that readers have been telling me to get on with the main plot at the start of every new book since there started being new books, and there is literally zero chance that I am in any way going to take such requests under consideration. They are just background radiation at this point and have as much chance of meaningfully impacting the story as would a request that I replace the main cast with talking purple ostriches playing badminton.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slipperychicken View Post
    There are laser guns in the DMG, brain-eating green aliens in the MM, and the PHB has a whole character archetype built around making deal with cthulhu to get magic lasers.

    I don't think lightsabers are much of a stretch here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nilehus View Post
    But then you get poofed out of the campaign to get caught in 137ben's perpetually-casting SMI trap. REROLL!
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    This is how I have always understood it (and keep in mind this is a basic D&D answer, and not a statement about OOTS per se):

    On the most basic level, the substance of D&D multiverse is able to be shaped by personal belief. This is one of the main tenets of the Planescape setting, where planar locations shift around based on the moral leanings of the population. Most mortals don't have enough belief to really accomplish anything on their own, though, but the gods do. So mortals become clerics of a god, and their devotion to the god allows the god to funnel that belief-power back to them in the form of concrete magical effects. The gods aren't really the source of the power as much as they are the catalyst to convert it into something useful. They can tinker with the power in the process, by dictating spells or withholding power or what have you.

    Non-theistic clerics get their spells from a wide distributed network of beings with similar philosophies who can act as catalysts for the cleric—but because these are not centralized, none of them can exercise "veto power" over the cleric, nor is the cleric required to acknowledge their dominance (or even their existence). In Gontor's case, it may be that a powerful Earth Elemental is granting him his spells, but it could be a different one each day, or even some spells from one and some from another. If any of those elementals decide they don't like what he's doing with his magic, he just gets his spells from someone else that day. He may even be entirely oblivious to which elemental provides his spells at any point, and therefore is under no obligation to any of them. Unfortunately, that also means that no single elemental is going to be invested enough in Gontor to care what happens to him.

    Analogy time! Regular clerics have an employer-employee relationship, where the employer (god) consumes the work (prayer) that the employee (cleric) generates and in return provides them with compensation (spells), where that compensation is actually generated by the work being done by the entire company (church). A non-theistic cleric is more like a freelance writer; they perform the work (believe in a philosophy) that they feel is right for them, and then sell that work to whatever client (quasi-deific elemental beings) is willing to pay (provide spells) for it. The freelancer has more flexibility than the employee to do as they wish, but they also do not have many benefits of steady employment.
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    I redid Wee Jas as a psychopomp in one of my own settings.
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    You know, I actually asked if I could play an expert at one point, and was told that Expert and Adept were OP on player characters and only available to NPCs. I can't imagine commoner going over better.
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    Therefore, you just need a taller statue -- or a sufficiently high pedestal for your statue, if you're a cheese-weasel -- to permanently kill any god in 2e.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    If the goal is No Racism, then the existence of Always Evil Orcs is one of millions of obstacles on the road to that goal. It happens to be the only one I am in any position to make great strides against, so I do so. The alternative, to do nothing when I could speak out, is not acceptable to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flickerdart View Post
    If Orcus was a nesting doll, that would certainly make the whole thing work smoother. When you cast a level 1 summoning spell, you summon the little Orcus from the middle, but when you cast Gate, you get the really big Orcus that holds all the small Orcuses.
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    That's not... that's not how opinions work. You can't just opinion your way out of definitions. It's like me saying, "In my opinion, I'm typing this post on a banana." It's just not what's happening.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    There is a huge difference between EVERY main character having such powers, and ONLY ONE main character in a group of supposed equals having such powers. There is no power—no power in the world—that is story-breaking all by itself, especially if the author has the freedom to detail the costs and drawbacks of that power (a luxury I don't have with OOTS).

    Superman by himself is not a problem. Superman as part of the Justice League is not a problem. Superman as a member of an ensemble FBI team IS a problem, because sometimes Agent Fred is supposed to be the one to catch the serial killer. You end up resorting to a LOT of kryptonite.

    That said, I'd ask that we please drop the, "Was the young black dragon morally justified in attacking the OOTS?" derail. It's off-topic in multiple ways.
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    Actually im saying all of them are trans, even if theyve made babies or not. Its fantasy, baby!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
    For people who say "they're just words, toughen up," y'all seem to have very strong reactions to a bunch of words on a forum and webcomic.
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    You schooled me 137ben.

    I feel shame.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Red Fel View Post
    "Is a stack of ten pancakes too many pancakes to give to the party, even if most of them fell on the floor and one or two were stepped on? I wanted to give my party pancakes as a reward but I'm unsure if it's too much. The pancakes are also laced with blowfish poison so the party would probably have to get an antitoxin before they could eat the ones which weren't pulverized by shoes."

    At that point, I don't think anyone would want the pancakes even if you paid them to eat them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Max_Killjoy View Post
    If artists have freedom of speech to create what they wish, then others have freedom of speech to crtique, criticize, and discuss the broader implications and effects.

    It's like somewhere along the way, "freedom of speech" became "all negative response is censorship".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Caedrus on The Gaming Den
    I want to stab dragons the size of a small keep with skin like supple adamantine and command over time and space to death with my longsword in head to head combat, but I want to be totally within realistic capabilities of a real human being!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Luminiere Solas on Paizo
    i don't get why people see D&D or it's derivatives as medieval european.

    you have medieval knights wearing rennaiscane era armor, wielding roman era falcatas, worshipping greek gods, traveling with native american shamans wearing the hides of saharan beasts, who transform into prehistoric dinosaurs who are accompanied by modern japanese schoolgirls wielding Tokugawa Era Daisho and Wearing black pajamas, and old men wearing robes and pointed hats who chant mathematical equations to control reality, on a journey to kill brain eating space aliens, giant sentient firebreathing spellcasting reptiles and sentient jello.
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    I guess I'll amend my original statement and instead say that Pathfinder is close enough to 3.5 to spark an argument about how close it actually is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirth Gerson on Paizo
    I've often posted before about the guy I played with whose character's prized possession was his flaming sword. The first time the group encountered a troll, he said, "I drop my sword and draw my dagger."
    Everyone at the table stared blankly at him.
    I said, "You ALWAYS use your sword! You yell 'flame on!' every time we meet a monster! And now all of the sudden you don't want to?"
    Player (proudly): "Well, my character wouldn't know that fire hurts trolls! I'm not metagaming!"
    Me: (headdesk)

    There definitely comes a point at which the efforts of the "metagame police" are self-defeating. In this instance, the poor player was so traumatized by previous DMs that he resorted to blatant metagaming in order to avoid the appearance of metagaming.

    I'd rather let the players know stuff, and have us all know that we all know it, and then let the game proceed based on how the character would act.
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    Honestly, I don't have much to say. I'm just impressed. That's beautifully, creatively, utterly batspit. I love it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by skim172 View Post
    Well, Babylon was a notable city-state in Mesopotamia which rose to power in ancient times, and the time period after it was conquered by the Persian Empire in 6th Century BC could be considered the "fifth" Babylonian era (following the Old Babylon, Middle Babylon, Neo-Assyrian, and Neo-Babylonian periods) - or as many of its fans refer to it, "Babylon 5."

    It's not as well-known or popular as some other empires of the genre, and unfortunately it was cancelled after only a couple centuries, by Alexander the Great - but it has since developed quite a cult following. Babylon 5 fan groups are all over the internet, celebrating the great achievements of Babylon as it became the new center of the Persian Empire, and bickering over plot details and minutiae from texts in Herodotus and the Cyrus Cylinder. You'll even see their fans cosplaying at conventions as their favorite Babylon 5 characters, like Cyrus the Great, Darius II, and Nebuchadnezzar IV.

    Just don't confuse them with other, more popular ancient empires. Babylon 5 fans are very sensitive about being overshadowed by the more visible franchises of the genre. I mean, sure, "Egyptian 19th Dynasty" is the one that gets the mainstream attention, and the catchphrases, and the gaudy reboots featuring Chris Pine, but once you get past the pyramids and the mummies, it just lacks substance.

    Babylon 5 had complexity.
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    I just want to say that being used as a unit of measurement is one of the highest honors I have ever received.
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    this is the longest conversation i've ever read about whether a serial killer would make a good boyfriend
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    Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, my post was dumb and semantic, but on the other hand, you, are... 137ben, and that is a... dumb name?
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    The missing nail is obviously foreshadowing for Not-Not-Nale’s inevitable glorious return as the true final vilain as he crushes Xykon while riding Trigak.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    Allow me to explain it in sufficient depth:

    It's a comic strip.

    No other explanation is necessary, because unless you have some weird mental disorder that prevents you from understanding the concept of fiction, you already know the "explanation" for any aspect of any story that differs from reality: Because the author wrote it that way. Because you are a real person in the real world reading a made-up story in a made-up world, and the real person who made up the made-up story decided to make it up that way for a variety of real world reasons.
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    I think the main question here is what Dragon God Ash Ketchum's Superman evolves into and how good he is at poker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Luna_Mayflower View Post
    Imagine it. In the frosty wastes of the polar cap, Xykon rocks up. For whatever reason, he decides to pick a fight with Malack. I mean, they're both evil, so he might not, but whatever.

    Here are the rules of the engaugment:
    +Malack has none of his normal gear, but the exact same gear as Xykon. That means no holy symbol, but he does have all of Xykon's current magical items and scrolls.
    +Malack made a deal with the IFCC, but jokes on them because he has no soul (after killing his friend like that, doubly so). In return for a non-existant soul, he gets a 44 Revolver. For this battle only.
    +Xykon, having been buddies with the IFCC before V, which is why he knew about soul splices, has gone for an anti-soul splice. This basically means he can summon V's soul for 1 minute in this battle, and shim can cast any prepared spells for Xykon.
    +Since Xykon has burnt Durkon before the battle, Malack is angry. He acts as if under a Rage spell.
    +Since Xykon nicked Malack's special altar to his beast god, Xykon is under a heavenly curse that stops him from using his 9th Level spells, but he can still use epic and 8th level spells, and all below.
    +But, you will be reminded that Xykon sold the altar to Ian for hard cash, and used the money to buy ONE scroll of Energy Drain, which he may use despite losing his 9th level spells.
    +Malack has learn Familicide, but, after using it on Nale, he has lost both his only ally (Tarquin) and his only epic spell slot (he got a ring that let him cast it once form the IFCC)
    +Redcloak fell over Durkon's burnt corpse and cracked his head on the pavement. While he is still alive, he is in a coma for the rest of his unnatural life, and so is now a veg.
    +Xykon nicked Red's cloak, but didn't want to give up his own really stylish cloak, so he is wearing it as a turban. It has the same powers as when Red was wearing it, minus the clerical spells, as Xykon isn't a cleric.
    +Neither parties have any lackies, like summoned devils or undead.
    +Malack is wearing a positive energy ring as a toe-ring, and so can halve Xykon's HP with a toe attack.
    +If the fight goes on for 6 minutes, then Belkars of all races will fly in from all direction, punishing both parties involved with instant death.
    +Malack can use his bottle to summon Krampus once during the battle, for two rounds.

    And there we have it. Who do YOU think will win? Also, if you think you have an idea about how the battle would go, and who would do what and when, then please feel free to write below.

    Thanks,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Luna_Mayflower View Post
    Do you believe in magic? Because he can do anything if he wishes hard enough. In fact, time for a new song.

    When you wish upon Xykon's eye, be worried, be scared, because he'll make you cry.
    He hates children, but loves Ghosts. I've seen him with one, it's gross.
    But don't worry, he's a friend after all! Xykon's just a bear, without all the hair.
    So grab a plushie, when rIcH 043 builds one. Come on! Friends! Have fun in the sun!

    Redcloak can't breath, now he's a colourin'. Jirix can't leave, now he's markettin;.
    Forget Oil, rez the mystic theurge, because you know, she has the urge,
    to make plushies, oh so grand. Sorry, Belkster, 'bout the sand.
    Kill that sand, like it's 1989. Because that elemental, she's just fine!

    Forget your friends, forget your dad. You can all suffer, like Belkars 'nads.
    Who cares for love, you've got Xykon. No need to get your fight on,
    he's not a man, not a gal, so all can love him, even gays y'all.
    Oh Xykon, fill out dreams until doomsday.
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    My dreams have been proven to provide "end time prophetic insights". No time to hold.
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    What? I feel betrayed! All these years I thought Luna was nice
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    Responding to stress with rudeness is not the same as responding to stress with genocide.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Unavenger View Post
    I mean, yeah, the fact that animate dead on a corpse is Evil, animate objects on the same corpse is nothing, and animate with the spirit on the same corpse is not just Good but Exalted is part of the sticking point for alignment making sense, here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Unavenger View Post
    Also, "Good is harder than evil" isn't even an unreasonable point. It would take years to build something that I can destroy in minutes, decades to nurture a person who I could kill in seconds, millenia to build a society that an army can tear down in a few days, and aeons to build up a world that we are destroying in decades and can potentially annihilate in two hours flat. Of course it is easier to do evil than it is to do good.

    My main gripe with the "Cosmological balance tilts" or "Pollution" or whatever arguments isn't that, and it's not that they're never actually represented mechanically and therefore it's hard to argue that they're actually relevant anyway. No, my main problem with them is that they're platitudinous coverups for a system that glorifies disproportionate posthumous retribution and stipulates a variety of moral tenets that now make even WotC themselves, who wrote the damn things, recoil in disgust.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChaosOS View Post
    I think Durkon might feel dwarfed by Maxrah's demands
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    Okay.

    Thats your point of view. you view it as an escape from killing people for hateful reasons.

    but for some people its just a reminder that they happen at all. its too similar and they'd prefer an escape where no one is killed for hateful reasons. your not going to persuade them with that line of reasoning. you'll never sell them on "the escape is that prejudice is good in this world" because they want to escape from prejudice entirely see?

    like, why are trying to sell me an opportunity to hate something in the first place? I don't want to feel hate for things. thats a negative emotion. I don't have some desire deep down to hate something at the first excuse. I don't need some substitute to hate so that I don't hate real people, I just don't hate. There is no reason for me to think thats beneficial or that its an escape I want. This offer of an escape is mystifying to me, because if I want to escape, escaping to an emotion I've been taught my entire life is bad is not really something I want.
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    Quote Originally Posted by icefractal View Post
    I think maybe the test for "does this evil justify itself in a non-arbitrary sense" could be:
    If you renamed evil to a fake word like "Zoop", so certain spells had a the [Zoop] tag, we talked about lingering Zoop auras and Protection from Anti-Zoop, and so forth ...
    Would someone reading the material get the impression "this Zoop stuff seems pretty evil" or not?
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    Quote Originally Posted by zzzzzzzz414 View Post
    If someone described an evil, immortal king who uses what essentially amounts to a form of mind control plus massive social pressure to subjugate an entire race of people and make them perform unspeakable atrocities against their will (or bend their will into wanting to commit atrocities, whatever the ethically and mechanically accurate phrasing is), and a cold, unjust judgement system decided to place the blame entirely on said people for those atrocities after death, sending their souls to act as cannon fodder for that same king in an eternal war, the reaction of most DnD parties will probably be "Wow, we should probably kill that guy at some point." (Or, at worst, "Wow, someone will probably pay us a lot of money to kill that guy at some point.) And with the sort of tone FR and DnD in general goes for, the fact that said king also happens to be a god would probably be viewed as part of the challenge, not some kind of insurmountable barrier to killing what is clearly a great evil in need of some killing. And so with this in mind, while I can't really address the "more alien creatures/more robust worldbuilding" side of the argument, the argument that it makes hack n' slash, no guilt adventures simpler and easier is...odd. Because this explanation for Orcs' evilness (and the similar ones for goblins, drow, etc.) very much doesn't achieve that, at least by my reckoning, because this is something that very much doesn't fade smoothly and painlessly into the background of an old-fashioned hacky slashy beer'n'pretzels dungeon crawl.

    I can't speak for anyone else's table, but if I as a player had this exposition dropped on me in the aftermath of raiding an orc shrine or whatever, my response would not be to go "Can murderize all these things with zero remorse, got it." It would be to go "Wow that's pretty effed up" and assume a plot hook leading to the eventual overthrow of this Gruumsh guy is being dropped. My next move isn't going to be to run to the nearest archmage while screaming "ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD" obviously, but I'm definitely going to be looking for more info on the gods and outer planes, asking for leads on who might be working to depose him right now, figuring out how to get to his plane, how to kill him, if anyone's successfully killed a god before, how exactly this whole effed up soul judgement system works, and generally assuming that the father of all BBEGs has been dropped in my lap, and whatever we were doing before was a prelude to this massively larger plot. I'm definitely not going to be wantonly murdering a lot of orcs if i can help it, seeing as they apparently aren't even fully in control of their actions.

    And if we got to the end of the campaign and the Gruumsh issue hadn't been addressed, I'd feel...well, about as confused and unfulfilled as I would if any obvious ongoing atrocity were left inexplicably unadressed. "Congrats, you guys saved the valley from the green dragon, campaign over!" "Uh, wait, were we gonna do anything about that big child-slavery empire across the mountains that you've been telling us about...?"

    None of this "multiversally condemned slaves to evil god" stuff seems terribly conducive to guilt-free hack'n'slash gameplay as opposed to just using, like, slavers or something, is my point. YMMV obviously, but I can't imagine this sort of response is terribly uncommon, especially among first time players hooked in on DnD's well-publicized generic premise of "heroic fantasy evil-fighting simulator". Which is who this all boils down to in the end.

    There's an argument to be made that this sort of thing is just part of the setting for campaigns emphasizing elemental evil and futile-yet-heroic struggle etc. and players who have properly bought in shouldn't try to abolish the inherent evilness of orcs/goblins/drow and their evil gods any more than they'd try to abolish, say, the laws of gravity, but, whew. "This entire race of intelligent beings is doomed to a wretched existence through factors outside of their control and the best any one of them can hope for is to die mercifully in the womb and there is absolutely nothing you or anyone else will ever be able to do about it because that's just the natural way of things" is one heck of a premise to ask for buy in on. "The multiverse is ruled by unjust laws and tyrants beyond your power. Here's a bugbear to kill, it lacks free will but not sapience. Screw you." Cripes, at least Dark Sun's evils are, like, hypothetically solvable and not written into the fabric of reality itself.
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    In fact, it seems like the worst, most reprehensible descriptions are reserved for the humanoids that aren't pretty. Demons start out with, "In their many and varied forms, demons are living engines of annihilation. They embody the destructive forces of chaos. All things tend to decay into entropy, but demons exist to hurry that process along."

    So demons get a more objective even-handed portrayal in their first sentence of their place in the world than orcs.
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    Because that's exactly what it is. It's a blatant statement of, "You don't have to worry about the moral repercussions of killing these things. They're evil, now roll initiative." It's a clear indication that the writers of that book felt that the appropriate way to play their game was to dispense with such concerns in one sentence, and then get on with the fun.

    The fact that it gets more over-the-top the closer you get to something that could look or act human is very telling.
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    Or since the book's purpose is to "Give the DM things for the PCs to fight", that it's giving the understandably relevant details of why the PCs would be fighting them to the DM as well.
    Sure, if you want to pretend that you couldn't start a description with, "Minotaurs are bull-headed warriors with a deep sense of territoriality that often leads them into conflict with those that would explore the ancient ruins they have claimed for their own." Or literally any other description that outlines a potential conflict without passing judgment on them.
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    As we all know, the most important question to ask in a Vs. battle is "But can it beat Goku?".

    From that starting point, everything flows logically.

    Goku loves "Who would win in a fight?" questions; they're his favorite questions. He comprehends them in the same way a doctor understands anatomy. There's no way Goku could be beaten by a question of this type as they're one of the few he asks himself all the time.

    Now the other two are a bit more interesting.

    Rhetorical questions can be confusing to Goku, as he takes them at face value. However, taking a rhetorical question at face value isn't NECESSARILY a failure state, it just makes you look a bit silly. And, arguably, it's exactly what the asker want you to do, so by taking it at face value Goku is succeeding at the goal of the question (making Goku look stupid). That's a win for the rhetorical in my book.

    Bad-faith questions are similar in that Goku would absolutely take them at face value, assuming someone is dealing straight with him. But unlike a rhetorical question, consistently and earnestly engaging with a bad-faith question as if it's a genuine one and not getting mad is the exact opposite of what that question wants. it only works if the person being asked gets pissed off and starts making less coherent arguments! Goku easily trounces the bad-faith question by simply assuming the asker is a good person asking dumb questions, which he can sympathize with.

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    I think the failure of imagination lies squarely in the hands of the wizards of the coast. Consider this, what are goblins? Violent tribal raiders who are enslaved and worship an evil god.
    What are orcs? Violent nomadic raiders. They worship/are enslaved by an evil god.
    Gnolls? Violent hungry raiders. They worship/were created by a demon.
    Drow? Violent advanced raiders. Enslaved by evil god again.
    Ogres? Violent hungry raiders again, but this time bigger. Do they even have a history?
    Trolls? Exactly the same as ogres except they have regeneration.
    Bugbears? Violent lazy raiders. Except they worship/are enslaved by a different evil god than the goblins.
    Lizardfolk? Violent hungry raiders but this time they get no joy from raiding. This time they worship evil dragons.
    Githyanki? Violent raiders FROM SPACE! Worship/enslaved by a lich pretending to be an evil god.
    Duregar? Violent raiders but this time they're dwarves oooo. Worship the evil dwarven god and were enslaved by mindflayers. They half a point.
    Kobolds? Cowardly raiders. Worship dragons. They're just tiny lizardfolk with more feelings.
    Hobgoblins? They were once a noble empire building race NAH JUST KIDDING, RAIDERS AGAIN BABY! They're less sneaky more fighty bigger goblins.

    Sure, each has great lore, except 90% of the time the lore is the same story: some evil deity or godlike fiend enslaved them and turned them evil, or created them to be evil. Some of them don't even have that. And Zhorn is right, WOTC is changing this bad status quo, and one of the consequences of that is that the poorly written monster of the week evil races are getting less evil. What remains to be seen is if the current WOTC team can write orcs to have something interesting, merely making them less evil isn't more interesting.
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    If the aliens are super-genocidal P-Zombies that we need to genocide back, that IS STILL BAD. INCREDIBLY. HORRIBLY. BAD. It still causes all the suffering of war, all the problems of war even if you win, with no possibility of a better solution. You have to deal with the social problems of people thinking genocide is a good solution afterwards and having to convince them that its NOT because you NEVER EVER have full control over humanity, what its cultures learn and react to and what they apply their lessons to. Experiences like that shape generations, and cause problems decades or more down the line no matter what, there will be idiots who will take the wrong lesson, there will be idiots powerful enough to ENFORCE the wrong lesson for generations to come, so that their children and their children's children learn the wrong lesson, you might never see that wrong lesson be unlearned in your lifetime, on things this large of a scale with politics, cultures and so on involved, you cannot say "oh this was an exception, we'll just go back to normal afterwards" because it doesn't work like that, because when something like that is DONE? its a precedent. Its a validation of all the worst impulses of humanity. People would look back at the precedent set, and see not that reasons why it was allowed, but that it was allowed at all, and figure out ways to make sure its allowed again for worse reasons at people who do not deserve to be targeted. and people will have to fight for that precedent to not be used, for that influence to be curtailed, lessened, unlearned, dismantled, for that to NOT become normality.
    it doesn't matter what moral high ground you have when you victoriously kill the genocidal hive mind aliens or whatever, your civilization will still be traumatized and hurt from that conflict, and twist that trauma to see enemies wherever they want, not to mention the kind of leaders that could easily come into power whose only experience is making everyone kill the nasty bug monsters and exploiting peoples fear and hatred of the nasty bug monsters. methods they can easily turn to do other things that are less good, and thus sooner or later will, because those are the methods that got them results and thus think maybe they can apply it to get results elsewhere. whatever outcast group of the generation (it doesn't matter which one) will sooner or later be compared to those aliens out of sheer stupidity (it doesn't matter how this stupid conclusion is reached) and they will face problems because of it, and they will have to fight tooth and nail to be accepted, maybe even just get to back to where they were before the aliens ever attacked, and more to actually get accepted.

    and all that.....are the complex problems you face without having a sympathetic villain or good people on the other side of the conflict involved when you do that. because humanity is still the complex, flawed and often full of people doing bad decisions and believing stupid things no matter how simple and evil you make the opposition, and in some ways facing such a foe would only make humans worse.
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    Personally, I go to great effort to make sure that the enemies I populate my world with are morally black and white. I don't typically have people fighting bandits, or even enemy soldiers. It has happened a few times. However, a list of things that I can remember them fighting include:
    * Expansionist hive mind animated fungi
    * Soul trapped conscripts who they watched die instantly when they tried to surrender or flee — I wanted them upset at the controller and sickened at the need to fight
    * Demon analogues who took the time to thank them when killed and thus desummoned back to their home plane
    * Summoned enraged beasts
    * Literal pieces of the ground rising up against them
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    * Peasants in a place where they literally can't be killed permanently in any way that matters (Regeneration 3 and respawn at HP negative max as a planar property)
    * A rogue construct left over in an abandoned facility

    I just... I see too much hate already, I don't want to put it in my games. I don't have racism in my game world.
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    The Beginning Pokemon Tabletop United In a post-apocalyptic world a band of survivors struggles to gain an edge over the strange beasts that now roam the world.
    Team Rocket: The Next Generation Pokemon Tabletop United Fifteen years after the events of the previous Team Rocket, Ethan Halsey sends a small band of elite trainers to explore a new continent rife with new dangers and Pokemon.

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    Aeon City Mutants and Masterminds 3e Cupid A superhero with dazzling good looks and the ability to make people fall madly in love with him due to his bow and is really just in it for the money. TheSapientOne Freedomverse
    Miracle Men Mutants and Masterminds 3e Second Shooter An aged sniper who was been in the business since long before you were born and is currently on a superpowered squad in order to get out of prison. TheSapientOne Freedomverse
    The Beast Within Pokemon Tabletop United Fawkes Theysson A minor noble who hopes to work his way up in the court until he is eventually able to usurp the current king. MesiDoomstalker Aatos
    Emerald City Knights Mutants and Masterminds 3e Kadabra A scared boy who, following the Silver Storm, gains the powerful ability to teleport himself and others. Dudeons Freedomverse
    To Be a Master - Bright Futures Pokemon Tabletop United Pitch Stevens A "reformed" sociopath that will stop at nothing to become the Pokemon League Champion. King_of_GRiffins Dunia
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    Every so often, I will post another one of these in my sig. In case you missed one and you really wanted to read more of them, there's going to be an archive of them here.

    The first rule of unarmed combat: Don't be unarmed.
    The second rule of unarmed combat: Don't be in combat.
    If machineguns aren't working, you need more machineguns.
    The key to the survival of humans is that so few of them realise what a terrible thing it is to survive.
    One who is taught by riddles shall learn only in guesses.
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    Just like the reds apple ale commercial.

    A guys walking along and someone zings a spell book at his head.

    *SMACK*

    thinks about it

    "I know magic"

    Or kung fu, depending on which reference is more suitable.
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    Nice job, Backwaterj! Now how are we going to proceed after that? I can't even...I just can't...
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    Lark, strongheart halfling chainfighter/crusader of Tymora (Red Hand of Doom/Cyclopean Deeps)
    "It is clearly the Lady's divine will that we go . . ." *flips coin* "this way!"

    Stormcrow, human cyber-ranger/ex-shaman with amnesia (Shadowrun 4e)
    "Enough of this superstitious mumbo-jumbo. Let's get to some **** that makes sense!"

    Sumasqi Ek'lhamae, deep imaskari duskblade (Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk Zhentil Keep)
    "Well, whether this is the work of the Netherese or some other planomancy altogether, it's certainly substandard. Frankly, I expected better of the Great Demon Prince."

    Banshee, elf technoshaman, currently operating by proxy via a military-grade spy drone named Alice (Shadowrun 4e)
    (texting god) "In the meantime, think on this: could you make a rock so big you yourself couldn't move it? And if so, could I give it a go?"

    Tarrog Fleshrend, feral gray orc totemist (Slumbering Tsar 3-man, 'cause we're crazy that way. )
    "You're not as useless as you appear, elf. I don't think I'll eat you today."

    Thorvald Maginnis, dwarven arcane trickster (unnamed 3.5 campaign)
    *pounds empty bottle on table* "Oy, wench! They don't pay ye t'look pretty! An' a good thing that be!"

    Seraph NT-063, Xellarian battle mech piloted by rabbit-sized insectoid pilot (Stellar University on Discord)
    "What's a macroid?"
    "It is the term we use on Xellaris to describe biological entities of immense size and strength such as yourselves. When we first encountered macroid cultures we were . . . amazed. Imagine meeting for the first time biological entities the size and shape of . . . spacecraft? Is this the correct term?"

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    Brand (Kevlin Delmar), halfling thrower (Rappan Athuk mk I)
    "That's not a human-sized greatsword, that's ammunition!"

    Nocturne (Junea Delmar), halfling ecoterrorist druid (Rappan Athuk mk I)
    "But for the races of man there is no such balance. They band together, build cities of brick and stone and the flesh of trees far older than their civilizations, and they make war upon all that keeps the world healthy. They have made themselves immune to the balance that governs the natural world. Or so they would like to think."

    Grannarg Mot'leth, half-orc hexblade and Gruumsh devotee (Rappan Athuk mk I - yes, I killed a lot of characters in this campaign)
    "I do not respond to dwarven clerics of debauchery or elves who cannot spell a simple orcish name correctly, and I make no apologies for provoking the dragon who would have killed you all. If a glass bowl is worth more than your pathetic lives I will gladly take the latter."

    Lriyhani "Moonscar" Al-Saryhim, drow sword dancer/priestess of Eilistraee (Rappan Athuk mk II)
    "We face the laughter, indeed embrace it as one of the kinder fates to befall those of us who choose the path of the Dark Maiden. Should the laughter turn to hatred that burns as the noonday sun then we face that as well, knowing our Lady dances with us even in the brightest day."

    Leannith Av'laraek, maenad dragonborn Knight of Bahamut (Sons of Gruumsh)
    "By the blessed breath of Bahamut, show yourselves, cowards!" *turns to teammates* "What do you mean you were trying to sneak up? Surely you have more honor than that!"

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    Waiting on that lazy GM to get his act together: Freeholders (3.5 monstrous gestalt)

    Untitled (Eberron 3.5, multiple character sets, home group, on hiatus due to friends running other stuff)

    As a player:

    Shadowrun 4.0 (home group, 2 campaigns)

    Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk Zhentil Keep 3.5 (home group)

    Slumbering Tsar

    Cyclopean Deeps

    ...so apparently we like Frog God.

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    Left to right: Lriyhani, Lark, Sumasqi, Banshee/Alice, the Abotar, Seraph

    What's that you say? Recruiting for an interesting PBP? Drop me a line!
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    "In reality perfection isn't really what we want, so we just throw words at the page and we call it a masterpiece if any part of it fits." -Schmidt

    Monstrous law. Human slaves. Feuding dragons. And the evil elven empire. Freeholders, coming soonTM.

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    Kazudo: The inventor of Rudisplorking, king of the sane.
    Keledrath: The great Rudisplorkian, knower of Rudisplork.
    FidgetySquirrel: The unknowable Rudisplorker, summoner of Orcus.
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    Orcus: Summoner of Rudisplorkers, our eternal ally in the Rudisplorking against Cheaters.
    Roland St. Jude: Let not his Rudisplork fool you, this is Orcus when he Rudisplorks.
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    Torrasque666: Rudisplorker of the faith, true Rudisplorker
    Irk: Adjudicator of Rudisplorking, Judge, Jury, and Rudisplorker
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    A halfling must be a half-ling human... So the real question is, what is a Ling?
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    My work

    I created (but never finished) Giantitp's first 5e fighter fix!

    Here I made bunch of quick homebrew for 5e, mostly regarding Eberron.

    My project to update Eberron for 5e. Canceled for the foreseeable future, because I'm not good at turning ideas (even complete ones) into formatted stuff to put on the internet. However, you may be interested in Unearthed Arcana: Eberron (direct link to pdf), which is an official draft of some Eberron material for 5e.

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    In the most Biblical sense,
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    Fame hooker, prostitute wench, vomits her mind
    But in the cultural sense
    I just speak in future tense
    Judas, kiss me if offenced,
    Or wear an ear condom next time

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    If "dude doing ninja rolls with a pair of hand crossbows and shooting the hell out of monsters" is wrong, I never want to be right.
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    Step 1: Find a wealthy person.
    Step 2: Pick their pocket.
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    You say unwanted attention, I hear chunks of XP.
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    You wouldn't believe how many plans would be improved with 'first, teleport into a star'

    And the point of being a conjurer isn't throwing physics out the window, it's throwing physics at people you don't like =D
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    3.5E, 4E: "Here, we made a rule for his - but feel free to ignore it if you want."
    5E: "We didn't make a rule for this - because we trust you to be able to decide for yourself."

    And you know what, I kind of like this mindset.
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    Say I get swallowed by the Tarrasque. I then put a portable hole into a bag of holding. Sure we're both drawn into the Astral plane, but the Tarrasque was sucked through the portal insides first, so he comes out the other side inside out. Isn't this a foolproof way of defeating the Tarrasque?

    Also, this is a really neat way to conceptualize the implications of four-dimensional space.
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    There are laser guns in the DMG, brain-eating green aliens in the MM, and the PHB has a whole character archetype built around making deal with cthulhu to get magic lasers.

    I don't think lightsabers are much of a stretch here.
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    Because the coward guacamole smelled kinda old.
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    D&D 3.5 -- 2011-2012 Gorovan Dramsson, Human Wizard 3 Retired
    D&D 3.5 -- 2012-2013 ??? Retired
    D&D 3e The LERG, part 1: Welcome to the League of Extraordinary Roleplaying Gentlemen 2012-2013 DM, Levels 1-9 Retired
    D&D 3e The LERG, part 2 2013 ???, Human Wizard 5 Killed by inept bomb defusal team
    D&D 3e The LERG, part 3: Aleschwitz 2013-2014 Thamior Liadon, Elf Druid 8 Retired
    D&D 5e The Shattered Skies 2014 Basil Birch, Woodnymph Floran Lore Bard 1 Retired
    D&D 5e The LERG, part 4: The Defenders of Stormfast 2014- DM, Levels 1-5 Active
    D&D 5e Adumbral Tarris 2014- Bronn Haleheart, War Cleric 10 Retired
    D&D 5e When Armies Clash 2015 DM, Level 1 Retired
    D&D 5e The LERG, part 3.5: Army of Three 2015- DM, Levels 1-4;
    Meeso Orney (aka Baggo Deex, aka Jeeves), Human Death Cleric 4
    On Hiatus
    D&D 5e 5th Edition low-level game 2015- DM, Level 3 Active
    D&D 5e I6 - Ravenloft 2015- DM, Level 5 Active
    D&D 5e Out of The Abyss Solo Campaign 2015- DM, Levels 1-3 Active
    D&D 5e The Second Militia 2016- Magnus Stormflame, Human Thief Rogue 2/Fiend Warlock 1 Active
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    Current Live Game: Defenders of Stormfast, "A Brave New World of Adventure" Obsidian Portal
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    Oh no, Duck999 is a mason.

    How can I possibly suspect you of being a wolf now? :(

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    Duck: Mason. A really shifty mason, but a confirmed role nonetheless.

    Slii: Slii is town. He looks better than Duck even with that mason claim.
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    Oh no, Duck999 is a mason.

    How can I possibly suspect you of being a wolf now? :(

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    Duck: Mason. A really shifty mason, but a confirmed role nonetheless.

    Slii: Slii is town. He looks better than Duck even with that mason claim.

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    Mithril by CoffeeIncluded
    Current Avatar of Badger from Runite's Rise: Tales of Aequar by Lucy


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    Vampiric Touch
    Magic Missile
    Magic Missile
    Burning Hands
    2(5):
    See Invisibility
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    Dispel Magic
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    Dimension Door
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    Healing Belt Changes Admirals Ruling
    1 charge: Heals 2d6 points of damage.
    2 charges: Heals 3d6 points of damage.
    3 charges: Heals 4d6 points of damage.

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    Wand of Magic Missile (28/50) Level 3
    Wand of Magic Missile (50/50) Level 3
    Wand of Dawn Burst (50/50) Level 4

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    Rod of Empower Spell, lesser (2/3)
    Rod of Enlarge Spell, lesser (3/3)

    Circlet of Mages (1/3)

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    Boots of Swift Passage (5/5): Teleport 20ft as move action
    Hat of Disguise: Works as disguise self
    Efficent Quiver: Stores arrows and some weapons inside



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    I'm going to try and sum up my beliefs in writing as best as I can.

    The world, the universe, is a place that seeks balance. Everything has an antithesis, a polar opposite. We understand the world in the equal, yet opposite ideas that make it up. Up, down, left, right, forward, backward, past, future, good, evil, order, chaos, yes, no, summer, winter, spring, autumn, hot, cold, simple, complex. Everything exists on a line measured between two extreme points that oppose each other.

    Don't believe it? Republican, Democrat. Freedom, security. Tolerant, intolerant. Enemy, friend. You're with me, or against me. It's either the death penalty, or letting murderers walk the streets. We turn everything, every issue, every argument, into black and white, trying to ignore the gray areas, the points somewhere between the two extremes that make up most of the world. Some people think that listening to the argument's of others opens you to being "corrupted" by their ideas. It's not about that: it's about understanding.

    "If you don't know your opponent's argument, you don't fully understand your own."

    I've spent my life listening to the arguments of others. I've listened, watched, and waited for a chance to speak, while those who have never listened prattled on about subjects they themselves didn't fully understand. Ignorance and intolerance irk me something fierce. I try to represent multiple points of view in my writing, to present different arguments in the hopes of bringing others to some epiphany regarding their own beliefs.

    I try to listen to the arguments of others, in an attempt to gain more knowledge, more understanding, so that I can try and find the truth of things as best as I can.

    The universe seeks balance, and the only way to reach it is to argue the issues while only seeking the truth, rather than attempting to further our own agendas. We should be concerned with what is best for everyone; while screwing people over financially doesn't help anyone except big business, if we support everyone in every way, they never learn to take care of themselves, only learning to rely on others to make it through life.

    Maybe those of you that read this agree with me. Maybe you think I'm nuts. Maybe you're right.

    But what if we could all work together? What if we could embrace the differences that separate us, celebrate our diversity? What if we could use all these different view points to reach the Truth, to help everyone enjoy their lives financially, spiritually, emotionally?

    I think that would be a beautiful thing.




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    Star Wars parody comic. About as funny as that sounds; if it's your kind of thing, I suggest checking it out.
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    BDSM comic. Story occasionally shows signs of becoming interesting, or that it's going to delve into deeper issues, but mostly it just makes sex jokes. And if that's all you wanted, you won't be disappointed.
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    And for those of you who've read it that disagree, I'd like to remind you of a few characters you might have forgotten about: among others, there's Mike's "friends" the redneck trees, the mobs of ferocious catgirls (and their first victim), and Rippy the Razor.
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    An orange is orange, but Greenland's not green.
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    Original thread here.

    As you are likely aware, if you've come this far, evil clerics in PF have to channel negative energy, and spontaneously cast inflict spells. This complicates healing immensely, creating very difficult situations independent of the actual threat of the campaigns. This is intended to solve such a situation in (what I think is) an interesting and thematically appropriate manner, without breaking the game or making other domains worthless by being overpowered.

    I will gladly admit that I've never home-brewed much of anything, and this could be ridiculously off-base on the power level. I certainly hope not, but thus the thread.

    TL;DR: I want evil parties to be evil. Not shirking from the killing of innocent townspeople or their livestock to fuel their healing magic. The process is described in detail behind the following spoiler. Allow me to introduce the:

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    Blood Domain(I realize this the name of a subdomain of war. It's kind of pitiful. I'm ignoring it).

    Granted Powers: You can manipulate the very essence of living beings, drawing power from both willing and unwilling targets.

    Syphon life (Sp): As a standard action, you can draw energy from a living target through a supernatural connection. You can target any living creature within 30 feet as a ranged touch attack to initiate the connection (treat this action as any ray attack). If you hit, the connection causes 1d4 points of damage +1 point for every two cleric levels you possess. If the target is willing, this damage increases to 1d8 (+1/level), instead. This damage is stored as healing energy (independent of positive or negative), which can be transferred as healing to any other living target. The recipient of healing does not require a touch attack, if in melee with the cleric and willing to accept the healing energy. The act of healing requires a move action at any point within 3 rounds following the successful attack (or a swift action, to heal himself). This damage (and healing) cannot exceed the hit points of the target which received the drain. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3+ your wisdom modifier.

    Lifesurge strike (Su): At 8th level, you can give a weapon that you touch the lifesurge special weapon quality for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 your cleric level. You can use this ability once per day at 8th level, and an additional time per day for every four levels beyond 8th.

    Domain Spells: 1st-Light Blood Healing, 2nd-Moderate Blood Healing, 3rd-Serious Blood Healing, 4th-Critical Blood Healing, 5th-Blood of Life, 6th-Blood Infusion, 7th-Bloodied Regeneration, 8th-Mass Critical Blood Healing, 9th-Mass Blood Infusion

    (I realize that the spell naming is pitifully unoriginal. I'm not that creative- sue me)

    The above mentioned spells all work exactly like the domain spells of the healing domain, with two significant distinctions. 1: Each of them produces either positive or negative energy healing, whichever will actually renew hit points to the target(s). 2: Furthermore, they each have a material component of 1 vial of desecrated blood per spell level. These two effects apply to any spell with the (good) or (healing) subtext, changing all bonuses to profane, and enabling all healing to manifest as positive or negative energy, depending on the target.

    Desecrate Blood is a bonus ritual spell available to clerics with access to the domain, with the following relevant details: the spell requires a living creature (size tiny or larger) to be sacrificed as a material component. The casting process takes a minimum of 10 minutes. Each casting generates units of desecrated blood (and requires vials for collection) according to the size and sentience of the sacrificed creature, as follows:

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    Tiny 1 3 10 minutes
    Small 2 6 20 minutes
    Medium 3 9 40 minutes
    Large 6 18 90 minutes
    Huge 10 30 3 hours
    Gargantuan 15 45 6 hours
    Colossal 25 75 (good luck restraining a sentient, colossal creature) 12 hours

    Finally, desecrated blood lasts for 3 days, when drawn from a non-sentient source; or 2 weeks, when drawn from a sentient source. After this time, the stored magical energies have dissipated. Any spell attempted with inert blood fails, though the spell is not lost and can be attempted again, with a new material component.

    All clerics of an evil deity (or evil clerics independent of deity) have access to this domain, in addition to their deity's other domains (I could see this being limited to the more organized evil deities (Hextor, etc..), but that's largely subjective, and limits the point of providing a thematically appropriate answer to healing issues).

    Furthermore, clerics with the blood domain can spontaneously exchange any prepared spell for a blood healing spell, in addition to their normal option of inflict spells (Thus, an evil cleric with this domain could prepare offensive spells (as their good counterparts already do), and not forgo his ability to be a support character. And I don't think the inflict spells are so good as to be overbalancing).


    So? My eyes and ears are open for feedback, of any variety other than "wow, this is stupid." I want actual, mechanical feedback, please. Thanks all, for taking the time to read it, if you did.

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