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2019-05-08, 02:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
My problem with this is that, either way, by taking this approach Durkon is ramping up Redcloak's hostility towards him without necessarily needing to. Durkon likely already has enough information to get Redcloak to listen to him, if he plays his cards right. He doesn't need to antagonize the goblin high priest, which, ceteris paribus, will make diplomacy harder once the meeting occurs.
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2019-05-08, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
Durkon does: Panel 8. And given he and Minrah considered "TDO survives" a positive outcome almost immediately, I'd be surprised if he didn't realize Redcloak does.
EDIT: Question regarding the the thread title: are there non-religious DnD Clerics? Besides poor roleplaying, I mean.Last edited by Fyraltari; 2019-05-08 at 02:37 PM.
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2019-05-08, 02:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
Probably not, since even the clerics of a "cause," like the stone-worshipping cult we just saw, have something that they revere. It would be theoretically possible to have an atheistic cleric (and I'm sure some people have played just such a character over the years), but since said cleric would have to dedicate him or herself to something in order to receive spells and other clerical abilities, even that person would have a religion of sorts.
I... guess you could lose your faith, and cease to be religious, but still retain all of your cleric levels? It'd be pretty bad, though, since you'd no longer have access to most of your class abilities. All you'd have left would be the basics, like your hit points, saving throw bonuses, armor and shield proficiencies, proficiency in simple weapons, skill ranks, and maybe some feats. Could be an interesting roleplaying challenge, but your effectiveness as an adventurer would be close to nil.Number of Character Appearances VII - To Absent Friends
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2019-05-08, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
That only shows that Durkon is aware of the danger to tDO. Not that he is aware that the plan counts world destruction as a victory. Thus, he might not think to highlight that in a sending.
It comes down to how you define religion (which I won't go into, for obvious reasons), but by some definitions, the clerics of the Stone don't have a religion since they don't worship a god.
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2019-05-08, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
Okay.
Fair enough.
Well the one definition by Merriam Webster that includes God also accepts the supernatural instead so while the Creeders of the Stone are atheistic I don't think one can count them as areligious.Forum Wisdom
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2019-05-08, 03:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
And I agree, but I can see how others might not - including the idea that stones are supernatural.
But dangerous topic, and one were I'd be defending a position I don't myself hold, so I wouldn't do a great job of it. Best I can hope for is for you to glimpse where the argument would lie. But I can't sell it to you, and it'd probably be against forum rules even if I could.
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2019-05-08, 03:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
They don't worship stones, though. They worship the Elemental Earth, and elementals are magic and therefore supernatural. Well, magic is natural is this universe, so the Elemantals aren't any more supernaturals than the Elves, gods, undeads and giant-strong human anyway.
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2019-05-08, 03:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
So the message is, "Redcloak! Redcloak here."?
Pish tosh, we can certainly go into it as for how it relates to D&D. For instance, one definition of religion could be "has skill points in Knowledge (Religion)," or "lists a deity on their character sheet." The first would have the Creed of Stone being very religious, the second would have them being not religious at all. Me, though, I'd just define it as "if you asked the character if they were religious, how would they respond?" and call it a day. Imean, sure, they could lie, but that can be dealt with like any other sort of lie if needed.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-05-08, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
As has been mentioned, it depends on how you look at it. Clerics, specifically, get magical powers through the strength of their devotion; so it's a question of where to draw the line on how much devotion constitutes a religion.
There are also non-cleric classes that get cleric spells, through other means. Offhand....favored souls have an innate connection to a deity independent of any sort of belief; while ur-priests hate deities in general, and siphon/steal divine energy from them to power their own spells.FeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
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2019-05-08, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-05-08, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
Also, one of the points is to split RC away from Xykon. The melee option doesn't necessarily work because you'd have to defeat Xykon to be in such proximity, which opens another can of worms. The Sending really is convenient here in that Redcloak, and only Redcloak, can get clued in to Thor's infodump without Xykon catching it at all.
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2019-05-08, 03:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-05-08, 04:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
No, it's because Redcloak's name is made up of colour + clothing, and it doesn't sound like it's his real name*, so, when you contact him, you may as well use a pseudonym that is built the same way.
*I would assume that it isn't his real name because he is wearing a red cloak. Otherwise, it could be something like Thundershield.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-05-08, 04:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
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2019-05-08, 04:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-05-08, 04:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
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2019-05-08, 07:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-05-08, 08:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
D&D 5e gets around that in the DMG, pages 10-13, where a cleric or paladin can serve a Force or a Philosophy as the conduit to divine casting abilities. Yes, I know that's not very OT for a 3.5e based comic, but it's a way to avoid the religion topic ... which I usually defined to my students this way: faith is personal, while religion is a collective endeavour. (Yes, I used the Brit spelling on purpose, and I think I stayed withing guidelines?).
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2019-05-08, 08:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Does that mean that when gods are out of divine energy, they need to ask their Clerics to go into Ur base and starting killin Ur dudes?
On the topic: Is it even possible for RC to stop Durkon from attempting to reach him via Sending? Furthermore, do you guys really think he would? It doesn't seem like a common tactic to need to defend against, and RC has plenty of reasons to not block sendings (Xykon does stuff, Gobohobbotopia is under attack, etc.).Last edited by Squire Doodad; 2019-05-08 at 08:43 PM.
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2019-05-08, 08:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
If Redcloak is currently under the effects of Cloister, Durkon can no more Send to him than Vaarsuvius could send to Haley during Don't Split the Party.
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2019-05-08, 10:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
Me in the third-to-last and penultimate panel.
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2019-05-09, 03:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
Your OP did not include that information.
If the intent is to drift Redcloak away from Xykon, then the Sending I would make is:
"Xykon shared Ritual. Backstabbing you. Vampire clerics of Hel have full plan for Snarl. My god offers parley by proxy with Dark One. Call back."
Technically all is true or an educated guess at least. And Durkon already shown at Azure City prison that he is into Jedi-Truths when necessary.
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2019-05-09, 04:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-05-09, 05:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
I don’t follow, how would Durkon know Xykon knows even part of the Ritual and with whom has Xykon shared it? Tsukiko? Durkon doesn’t know that and Redclaok has already dealt with it. How is Xykon backstabbing Redcloak? And what do the vampires have to do with the Snarl? Their plan hinges on the Godsmoot not on Team Evil’s actions. Why would Redcloak even care about them?
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2019-05-19, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
Dark One is in danger. Greenhilt got your niece. Halfling will tickle her with knife if you don't meet me in Firmament by tomorrow noon.
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2019-05-19, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Does anyone even know Redcloak has a niece?
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2019-05-19, 11:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How would you, as a religious cleric, write your thesis?
There's been a couple, yeah. (5th panel).
I stand by my cross-canon-reference-gibberish.
Hm, Redcloak does.
Honestly, I don't think that's been brought up in the online comics at all except for maybe a passing remark by Redcloak. And even then it would have been while everyone else is busy because the only place I can think of it happening would be maybe the war on Azure City or a discussion with Oona. Small chance that the ACUG knew about it from their poly-polymorph spy, but the odds of them feeling it important to tell Hinjo or the Order is fairly small.Last edited by Squire Doodad; 2019-05-19 at 11:56 AM.
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2019-05-19, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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