@BardicWizard the biggest problem with that opinion is that in renaissance times you could reasonably expect to stand against a guardsman with your pitchfork. These days the powers that be have significantly more tools with which to not fight fair
@RevenantBacon My wife says yes, but not with canadian bacon, I say "if you like it" and I have two friends at work who are vehemently opposed. When we do the office pizza run once per month, I make sure that they are accounted for.
@G.Moylan Their job is to exert control, rather than foment chaos. (Wait, am I thinking to much about the old Get Smart TV show, with Chaos and Control being opposed?)
@KorvinStarmast let me find the video. It was more that people approach the word Law with certain preconceived notions that skew our interpretation of what "law" is actually supposed to mean in the context of alignment
@G.Moylan Civilization versus the Wilderness is roughly what Poul Anderson and OD&D had it as ... with a variety of exceptions to that simple explanation
@KorvinStarmast he mentions that. I'm checking his videos, should have a link here shortly
Matt Colville School of Alignment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPhiLBW7jo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgNQ3NXqqiQ
[Revised] Matt Colville's Take on Alignment RtG, Alignment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPhiLBW7jo Alignment Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgNQ3NXqqiQ Law vs Chaos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKMqxDkc0gY
In the recently released preview of the Wild Magic Barbarian that will be in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (preview here), I noticed the 6th level feature 'Bolstering Magic'. This feature has two applications. One acts as a Bless-type option, the second one reads:
Roll a d3. The creature [you'r...
@AncientSwordRage I've been slowly backfilling a lot of stuff I'm the right "age" to know, but the wrong class/location/etc demographic for. It's kinda fascinating how much "popular" culture is actually a very specific and relatively small audience.
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(I've mentioned before that a lot of my childhood media touchstones would lead people to think I'm rather older than my physical age.)
"You were a kid in the '90s. What TV shows did you watch?" "I really liked All Creatures Great and Small, but mostly I read." "Oh, like Goosebumps?" "No, like The Chronicles of Prydain." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Creatures_Great_and_Small_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Prydain
(You can tell I didn't get much sleep because I forgot what kind of markdown fails on line breaks.)
@AncientSwordRage On the other hand, it did mean that I could lift whole characters and stories for my games and my peers wouldn't notice the references.
And I have all these amazing films to watch, or as an adult to choose not to watch.
@BESW what’s the best plot/character you lifted from something else? Mine’s the human rogue/wizard Aria est Rebelle of house Carmen, a thief in red. Nobody ever got it
I've really enjoyed it whenever I bring Enchanted Forest character/plot/setting into a game. I once ran an explicitly Enchanted Forest campaign too, that was great.
I also put the wombat society from Digger into a setting, that was fun. It was a high-magic D&D-derived campaign and wombats are deeply skeptical about the usefulness of both magic and gods. The culture shock gave the players whiplash.
Captain's Fancy Valentine Sweeheart from Skin Horse was a ton of fun to play; she was checking up on @doppelgreener's character and making sure her placement was good, so she did a ride-along on a mission and wound up out-red-taping a hell dimension.
I really liked the character interactions with the other PCs there.
Those sound fun. One of the ones I did that players liked was the time they ran into the OOTS characters talking about 3e stuff ... when we were playing 5e
Most of my PCs at least start based on a fictional character or a real person I know; eg Fiametta from the Gondoliers, Aline from the Sorcerer, the aforementioned Aria that’s really just Carmen Sandiego with a neutral alignment, and Clara Sugarplum, come to mind
I once set a campaign in a loosely Florence-like city, drawing on my art history classes.
...actually I did that a couple of times.
After a couple years worth of art history with a professor who is reluctant to talk about anything outside Renaissance Italy, you wind up with a lot of weird worldbuilding tools.
I build settings for fun, but never get to play in a lot of them. Most of them are historical/fictional but twisted and turned until nobody thinks they’re references
My last D&D campaign was loosely inspired by the Punic Wars, but I can't claim credit for the idea; I'm quite sure the 4e devs were using the Punic Wars as a model for the Arkhosia/Bael Turath conflict and I just made it more explicit.
I loved doing that, yeah! Stellata was Sweetheart's reason for being there and Stellata had... never really had that kind of "I'm here for you" before.
