Let's talk about Lacrymas' homebrew fantasy setting where paladins are eunuchs

[Heroic Liberator]

Barbarians are only women who have lost a child because people in this culture think this is the only way to constantly feel the perpetual abstract anger needed for Raging.

In my setting barbarians are people who fight against bronze age "civilized" people.

т. Р. І. Говарденко

 

[Reinhardt]

Actually Conan was big inspiration and help for fleshing out the world, but it started from Golden Axe games.

 

[Cryomancer]

I din't understood how barbarians works on his setting but an pretty sure that he also bastardized barbarians.

Barbarians are only women who have lost a child because people in this culture think this is the only way to constantly feel the perpetual abstract anger needed for Raging.

What you did to Druids? Are druids in your setting?

 

[Lacrymas]

Druids are part of the priests (they comprise one of the churches) and can only be men.

 

[Lacrymas]

Now that I think about it, who wants to play a one-shot online on Discord and roll20 in my setting? I already received a DM from an interested Codexer and I'm sure I'll be able to convince my boyfriend to play with us, so we need 2 more people I guess.

 

[NJClaw]

Now that I think about it, who wants to play a one-shot online on Discord and roll20 in my setting? I already received a DM from an interested Codexer and I'm sure I'll be able to convince my boyfriend to play with us, so we need 2 more people I guess.

I'd love to, but sadly I'm not confident enough with my spoken English. Also, things might get weird between me and your boyfriend due to the obvious and UNDENIABLE sexual tension between me and you.

 

[Lacrymas]

He knows you are my forum husband because he has read some threads on the Codex, including this one ;d

 

[NJClaw]

He knows you are my forum husband because he has read some threads on the Codex, including this one ;d

You know I'm never going to let this go now, right? Unless you're a trust fund kid or something, in that case IT'S OVER.

If you're one person short for the one shot, count me in. But I can only play some sort of retarded Italian chef, because my terrible pronunciation won't allow any other type of character to be believable.

 

[Larianshill]

Now that I think about it, who wants to play a one-shot online on Discord and roll20 in my setting?

Man, I feel obligated.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

I've never said they kill anyone as punishment or that there are slaves (the religion forbids both of these things), or a caste system. You aren't born into being a priest or anything else, everyone can in theory do that, so we can't talk about castes. Dwarves and halflings (and gnomes, but they don't differentiate between them and are only mechanically different) are born from humans and are seen as a bad omen, so they are shunned.

The issue is that you're yet to mention any positive, interesting, intriguing parts of the setting. It's all "the worst totalitarian regime imaginable" + "it's not as bad as it seems".
-Paladins are eunuchs controlled by totalitarian church + but people kinda like them
-Church controls your breeding + but you can still do anal if you want
-Everyone hates you if you don't roll a human + but they won't murder you for that

 

[Lacrymas]

Interesting - orcs are necromantic desert dwellers.
Positive - virtually nobody is starving or dying of diseases in the cities.
Intriguing - there are quite a few mysteries and key points of this setting I haven't mentioned. I have mentioned one, though - the unclear origin of the priests' magical power.

 

[Lacrymas]

If you're one person short for the one shot, count me in. But I can only play some sort of retarded Italian chef, because my terrible pronunciation won't allow any other type of character to be believable.

You have no idea how much that isn't a problem.

Man, I feel obligated.

So this is a "yes, I'm in"?

 

[Lambach]

They never kill anyone as a punishment.

I think I'd rather be killed than have the Paladin-punishment Special, thanks.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Man, I feel obligated.

So this is a "yes, I'm in"?

If not, Lithium Flower might be up for it.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

Interesting - orcs are necromantic desert dwellers.

That's the first thing about the setting that seems like fun. Probably the reaction would be kinda different if you've started with this kind of stuff instead of listing all the different ways of how horrible is the life in human cities. Kinda similar to Deyja in MM VII though.

Positive - virtually nobody is starving or dying of diseases in the cities.

But that's the same as almost every DnD fantasy settings.

Intriguing - there are quite a few mysteries and key points of this setting I haven't mentioned. I have mentioned one, though - the unclear origin of the priests' magical power.

I thought you just didn't create it yet.

 

[Lacrymas]

Life isn't horrible in the cities, though. Like I said, most people will never have to deal with most of these rules except the baby thing which affects everyone. How often do you get someone randomly pregnant either way for them to take your baby away? Non-humans are also rare, a lot of people go their whole lives without interacting with a dwarf or halfling. Adventurers are the ones who will mostly deal with these rules because they stick their nose in everywhere, a lot of dwarves and halflings also choose the adventuring life because it frees them of their place in everyday society.

 

[Cryomancer]

Considering what you did to barbs and palas, I an so gladly there there aren't arcane classes in your setting.

PS : And I personally like low magic settings where magic is a outsider force like Conan, like when magic is a alien thing which our mind can't comprehend and leads to insanity(Lovecraftian) and like high magic Netherese floating cities. Love when magic and tech are opposite things like Arcanum or one complement another, like on Eberron. Also like urban fantasy like GURPS technomancer. Also like non magical settings, like Fallout. I just think that your suggestions to arcane magic are awful. Like limiting mages to 6th circle of magic.

 

[BING XI LAO]

I think Lacrymas is halfway to some good ideas here.

It'd be interesting and thematically congruent for castrati to be the only ones wielding healing powers - cut yourself from the physical cycle of life, and perhaps your innate life energy can then be redirected to the magic of life.
Just using it as a punishment is a bit boring, I guess. But I don't find it implausible, Roman legions could engage in Decimation of their fellows, so why wouldn't a Paladin order engage in castration as a form of discipline?

Female schooled barbarians is retarded, but only because women are too weak to hit things and don't do aggression properly. Lacrymas is a libtard who thinks trannies are real, sad!
Switch ''stillbirth into special training'' into a school for witches instead of barbarians or whatever, and it could be interesting. Maybe with a more malign form of life magic compared to the castrati paladin healers.
Or Necromancy - a redirection of the innate ability to give birth. Potential to get really edgy here. What if the perished baby was used as a connexion to the afterlife, like a necromancer's familiar?

Lacrymas' removal of wizards does have a legitimate reason - there is a genuine problem with most settings, owed to cause of magical ability.
If it's from training then everyone would train to their maximum possible ability and the setting becomes a clusterfuck where absolutely everything is magical.
If it's from bloodlines then those bloodlines would dominate over time and you have the same problem.

Only solutions I see is to make a dangerous limiting factor - powerful magic attracts attacks from void creatures, or causes madness and sterility. In either case perhaps you could have servile subraces of mad, psychologically manipulated magicians, with the political power resting with their handlers. But that'd be too 'fascist' or whatever for Lacrymas.

Another possibility is that magic could only be done by those supported by thousands of citizens, like in that one fantasy series who name I forget, where people make Endowments to the nobility of their physical attributes. But that's more blood magic or psionics, not magery. Too fascist again lol.

 

[Reinhardt]

so why wouldn't a Paladin order engage in castration as a form of discipline?

"Cool, this guy can heal! Let's castrate him so he won't have kids who maybe could also be able to heal! I mean we still don't know from where priests powers come so what could possibly go wrong"

 

[Storyfag]

Oh, you are free to have (heterosexual, non-paid-for) sex, just no baby plopping.

What sort of magic is used to provide contraception?

the magic of animal guts around your benis, invented in -16,000 BCE

But what sort of magic is used to force proper sex education into the peasants' minds? Gods witness, it isn't possible to this day.

 

[Lacrymas]

The healing abilities do come from removing yourself from the cycle of life - the vow of chastity is a less extreme version of castration because the end result is theoretically the same.

RE: Sex education - since this society is built on the idea of baby control, I'd assume it's natural for the parents or at least mother of children to educate their offspring in these matters. I wouldn't say (hetero) sex is shameful in this society.

 

[Reinhardt]

But you are not removing yourself. You just promise to do it. Maybe.

 

[Delterius]

Oh, you are free to have (heterosexual, non-paid-for) sex, just no baby plopping.

What sort of magic is used to provide contraception?

the magic of animal guts around your benis, invented in -16,000 BCE

But what sort of magic is used to force proper sex education into the peasants' minds? Gods witness, it isn't possible to this day.

goat guts and their applications are inherently pop culture you elitist

 

[Lithium Flower]

Man, I feel obligated.

So this is a "yes, I'm in"?

If not, Lithium Flower might be up for it.

This sounds like D&D and I don't fizzle with none of that shizzle, but thanks for the offer.

Lacry-chan your ideas sound p. interesting friendo keep up the good work /dab

 

[Sharpedge]

You should record these gameplay sessions that you are planning for the codex's perusal.