Right! I want to hear from women GMs, not for a project, just for my sanity.
All your stories, how you run your table, about your parties, your writing process, etc.
I will NEVER not want to hear about your stories 💜🙌
(Pls RT, cause I feel like I’m going out of my mind here)
Apparently an early version of D&D had a demon-hunting devil that you could summon? It would attack everybody, but it would always attack any nearby demons first.
(Or maybe it was a devil-hunting demon? Can't remember.)
@SPavel Are you sure you're not thinking of NWN1? In 2 Gate summons a horned devil that's automatically your ally, but in 1 it summons a balor that attacks you unless you cast Protection from Evil first.
> Circle of Protection: Backstabbing. Once per session you can draw a Circle of Protection: Backstabbing around a zone. No one in that zone can be attacked by their allies or partners for the rest of that scene.
@PeterCooperJr. btw I'll be sending another e-mail along later tonight talking about character(s), setting, &c. I'm just busy pulling together dinner, getting kids into a car, and there's an 'ockey game we're going to tonight.
@Mithrandir It would take a lot of time and energy I don't have right now to support the claim, but it boils down to: No, because the central theme "know who you are" has an individualist rather than collectivist conclusion.
It could branch out into other subjects like the ways Moana doesn't understand the Pasifika relationship with the landscape, but the core conclusion is that the film is about identity and it completely fails to understand that indigenous identities often don't start with the self.
You can see occasional reefs of indigneous identity poking up above the Disney waters, and I suspect those are remnants of Taika Waititi's original script. But they don't significantly inform the film's running themes or its final conclusion about what the characters need to do in order to reconcile their identity crises.
(I suspect that Waititi's script put wayfinding on the center stage, and the line "We know where we are" would've been a statement of the main theme. But the mystical, spiritual ways that wayfinding and identity are connected in Polynesian epistemologies would've been very hard for a Disney audience to comprehend, much less swallow.)
(Instead, we got the Ocean as an Abrahamic God figure. sigh.)
@Skyler This article isn't Pasifika, but it's a good example of how an indigenous collectivist epistemology influences a person's daily life and fundamental sense of identity, and how alienating and bizarre it can be to live in a world which doesn't just fail to understand who you are--it fails to recognize that you have a who-you-are-ness.
> The self signifies something plural for me, and trying to communicate that to so many people has been exhaustive.
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@BESW oh, that was a very excellent and enlightening article.
Yeah, I find it very important to read sites like Indian Country Media Network and e-tangata, because they aren't written for me. They don't gloss; they don't explain the words and concepts shared by their common audience, and so they can talk about things more deeply and truly because they aren't worried about outsiders understanding the "weird" bits.
It's been one of the great joys of working on the UOG literary magazine, too.
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Yeah, that's a good way to go about things, I think.
An anecdote about local storytelling: there's a ghost who haunts a bridge and kidnaps young men, but when we tell stories about her, it's never about who she was or why she's doing that.
It's about our cousin who saw her and got away, or how we scared our friend in high school into thinking she was after him, and made him scream.
Most people I've asked don't know the origin story for the White Lady, and the few who do... I've heard a very different version from each one.
It doesn't matter. What matters, what we propagate and carry with us into the future, is the role she plays in our community.
