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It's another Homestuck in the wild! I love it when I find one. HONK honk HONK honk HONK honk HONK. Through one of the characters in my DND campaign is based on Gamzee.
It's another Homestuck in the wild! I love it when I find one. HONK honk HONK honk HONK honk HONK. Through one of the characters in my DND campaign is based on Gamzee.
We're going to need a lot of fridges then.
Didn't he literally write articles in Dragon Magazine where he hangs out with his own FR self insert and Gygyx's self insert in El Greenwood's house? I heard that he did that.Which is peak self indulgent fan fictions and wrote a long novel series of his self insert wizard character Elminster who has fathered many children. and also fucking the goddess of magic.Also because Ed Greenwood is a perverted freak who fills the setting with grotesquely horny details straight out of hentai and just absolutely will not ever stop. Anytime I read about Faerun lore I cannot stop thinking about how it is undeniable by the power of Greenwood's contracts canon that most people have had incestuous sex for fun and whatever the protagonist is; they probably fucked their sister/brother or took a daddy/mommy kink way too literally.
The real secret about RPG settings is that nobody actually cares about the details because they don't actually matter any more than you want them to.
Honestly the self-inserts don't really bother me, people can write what they want. It's that the setting was written with one hand that bothers me because it's really creepy and it basically ruins every character in the setting.Didn't he literally write articles in Dragon Magazine where he hangs out with his own FR self insert and Gygyx's self insert in El Greenwood's house? Which is peak self indulgent fan fictions
Check out Valkriya Chronicles which we discussed earlier in this thread their Jewish metaphor is unjustified hated because of likes made by people in power How hard is it to show discrimination as unlogicalOne thing I cannot stand in Fantasy is metaphors for anti-semitism that try to make it nuanced by giving some rational reason for the majority to hate the Jewish people metaphor beyond them being an easy scapegoat due to being corralled into ethnic neighbourhoods separate from the majority, being relatively invisible and thus making it easy for propaganda to stir fear about how they could be anywhere, and medieval social engineering through barring us from a very long list of jobs to push us towards certain forms of high-training requirement labour to become a management ethnicity.
Ummmm…. WTF are you even talking about. I can't recall even a single instance of incest in Greenwoods writing. He's definitely an old "free love" hippie, but that's about it. (And writing Elminster as genderfluid all the way back in 1994 was pretty bold)The real secret about RPG settings is that nobody actually cares about the details because they don't actually matter any more than you want them to.
They just tend to be very permissive of a wide variety of character concepts because fundamentally; they exist to facilitate whatever the GM and the players want to do. No more, no less.
Lore is whatever you want to make of it, cohesion, whether aesthetic or whatever, is buzzword that is primarily the concern of weird nerds and I'd rather have respectful representation than "coherency". I don't care if your setting is supposed to be focused on the aesthetics of medieval France, if you have nothing but European aesthetics and people and excise all non-European culture and mythos from your setting; I am still judging you negatively. Stop making excuses to not acknowledge the world beyond western Europe and post-colombian North America.
I don't really care about the sectionalised nature of Golarion or the more unitary nature of Faerun. I don't like Faerun because it's a rather racist setting where the non-white parts of the world literally don't matter and are tiny and irrelevant outside of some obscenely orientalised east-asia equivalents. Like, the whole of the Africa equivalent is this small peninsula almost nobody actually cares about rather than a substantive part of the world and that's just abysmal. Golarion's equivalent of Africa is a large and substantive part of the world and that's cool with me.
Also because Ed Greenwood is a perverted freak who fills the setting with grotesquely horny details straight out of hentai and just absolutely will not ever stop. Anytime I read about Faerun lore I cannot stop thinking about how it is undeniable by the power of Greenwood's contracts canon that most people have had incestuous sex for fun and whatever the protagonist is; they probably fucked their sister/brother or took a daddy/mommy kink way too literally.
Thanks to Greenwood's deep lore I cannot see Faerun as anything but medieval-fantasy Alabama.
Oh you are in for a treat.Ummmm…. WTF are you even talking about. I can't recall even a single instance of incest in Greenwoods writing. He's definitely an old "free love" hippie, but that's about it. (And writing Elminster as genderfluid all the way back in 1994 was pretty bold)
"100% canon" but only on an unofficial fan site. Right…………Oh you are in for a treat.
It all comes from Ed Greenwood's one hundred percent canon responses to fan queries on candlekeep.
I can provide the link but I'm unsure if it would be allowed on the site due to the material in question. So you might have to contact me off site? Dunno, up to you.
These are official, verified responses from Ed himself though and as per Ed's contract with WotC everything he says about the Forgotten Realms is canon. This is a general list of them so you'd need to dig through a lot of mundane queries and answers but I can directly link to the less than wholesome stuff.
In which case everything in FR still runs as per 2e because he's said that too. So I'm not sure how much that really works.These are official, verified responses from Ed himself though and as per Ed's contract with WotC everything he says about the Forgotten Realms is canon.
As for Incest; by word of Ed:In which case everything in FR still runs as per 2e because he's said that too. So I'm not sure how much that really works.
bruhAs for Incest; by word of Ed:
"It's important to remember that many of the Realms deities encourage "sex for fun" (or even "sex for religious rapture") and their priests have magical and pharmaceutical meals of preventing contraception, so "it's only incest if the female partner gets pregnant." This, by the way, usually means family members satisfy their curiosity and indulge feelings of mutual affection, and then go looking for less "safe and familiar" but far more exciting partners, elsewhere."
So all your faves in the forgotten realms fucked their own families. I'm sorry.
Any cool fact about FR lore can be ruined by the knowledge that the character doing said cool fact almost certainly committed routine acts of incest throughout their growing years and this is just how things work.
I gotta say, you have a very low bar for "ruined".Any cool fact about FR lore can be ruined by the knowledge that the character doing said cool fact almost certainly committed routine acts of incest throughout their growing years and this is just how things work.
I'm mostly memeing.
Depends on how far you're willing to stretch "pretend to care" and "civil rights/equality cause".speaking of this topic villains hiding behind a civil rights/equality cause while just using it to justify their pity spite, which is surprisingly common in fiction. Like has anyone IRL ever pretended to care about the plight of their fellow /Jews/Asians/Sami/Gays erct, just as a power ploy. It also shuts down discussion of the discremtion because evil villan
A rather famous example would be the entire concept of the "White Man's Burden", which managed to fit faked altruism, imperialism and racism all up in a single package. When people write about fictional imperialists talking about conquering "lesser people" for their own good, they didn't make that concept up out of whole cloth...Like has anyone IRL ever pretended to care about the plight of their fellow /Jews/Asians/Sami/Gays erct, just as a power ploy.
A rather famous example would be the entire concept of the "White Man's Burden", which managed to fit faked altruism, imperialism and racism all up in a single package. When people write about fictional imperialists talking about conquering "lesser people" for their own good, they didn't make that concept up out of whole cloth...
- Movement starts due to legitimate grievances
- As movement gains relevance, movement gets co-opted by ambitious assholes mouthing alliegance but actually just out for their own gain
- Movement makes ambitious asshole boss/dictator/president/whatever on promise that they will make things better
- Ambitious asshole does not, in fact, make things better, puts their own posse in power