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

Lacrymas

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I can't wait for you people to diagnose me with all kinds of shit when I'm done explaining the entire setting. Although I'm not sure if there's a more transgressive aspect than the barbarian woman school (it's not a school).
 

Reinhardt

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don't worry, you can do with mages whatever you want in your setting. they will enjoy it most likely anyway.
 

MerchantKing

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In my personal setting, clerics and paladins have to be circumcised. But they can have wives and are encouraged to do so since they have be part of specific tribe. Being male is a requirement to be part of the clergy as well.
 

Lagi

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In my personal setting, clerics and paladins have to be circumcised. But they can have wives and are encouraged to do so since they have be part of specific tribe. Being male is a requirement to be part of the clergy as well.
i am guessing the password:

Jews

that's my final answer.
 

Lagi

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Lacrymas do you have your setting in some pdf? or blog?
im not going to read 55 pages of shitposting.
I am writing the setting book now. That's why I posted the foreword 3 pages ago ;d
so its low-magic or no-magic even
and the villain doesn't want to destroy the world? so there is nothing to do for players, that have no other aspiration than being world-savers.


and what are your controversial ideas?

That there are no hot, always clean, half naked, teenage chicks in medieval setting (and society gave them no rights at all to do anything, except breed babies)? and you are afraid of being cancelled?
Would you make some allusion to current migration crisis and lack of integration of different cultures?
Or would you make a "secret" setting flavour of gods being just man made fiction. And all clerics have no powers at all, except persuasion on the lowest members of society?

.... hey i know... no, no, no you wouldn't!!
there would be no dual wielding?!!
 

Reinhardt

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Lacrymas

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so its low-magic or no-magic even



and what are your controversial ideas?
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There is magic, just no arcane magic. Some of my controversial ideas include no arcane spellcasters of any kind, only women being able to be barbarians, paladins who get castrated if they break their vow of chastity, people needing permission to make babies. I'm probably forgetting something. I remember someone accusing me of inserting my fetishes into the lore.
 

Cryomancer

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Nope. Shapeshift Druids are incredible powerful. Zero pew pew.
A "race" born with the superior genes of magic is a fascist's wet dream, yes.

Anyone except brainlets can become a wiz in dnd. In hp is a pure genetic trait.

And the power of wiz is setting dependent. A Cyclone torpedo in a 40k can destroy any human psyker. Hell, a bolster can kill 99 percent of psykers mainly those who don't know telekinesis.
 

Cael

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Anyone except brainlets can become a wiz in dnd. In hp is a pure genetic trait.
Intelligence being genetic, this makes it a fascistic concept in the eyes of Lacrymas. Likewise other in-born traits. Best sprinters only from Africa? Fascistic. Weightlifter Slavs? Fascistic. Habsburg jaw? Fascistic.
Anyone with stats above 10 is a fascist in the eyes of lackeyofmass.
 

Beastro

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The more concerning aspect is how you think we somehow don't have to follow rules when we live with other people.
That's not what people are saying.

We follow rules all the time interacting with others. There are unspoken rules in simple conversations that make shitnhet awkward if you break them. Doubt me? Take your clothes off in the middle of a conversation about the weather and see how then other person reacts.

The thing is these rules are established and constantly negotiated and renegotiated between people all the time, they do not require a overarching government authority to do so unless they severely break those rules (such as the rules made laws).

You fail to grasp this free floating relational aspect of people, that or you understand but hate it for whatever reasons are motivating you to make this setting as a whole.
 

Lacrymas

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The more concerning aspect is how you think we somehow don't have to follow rules.

The thing is these rules are established and constantly negotiated and renegotiated between people all the time, they do not require a overarching government authority to do so unless they severely break those rules (such as the rules made laws).
The only rule (of the controversial ones) enforced by "the government" is having to seek permission to have babies. The paladin thing is strictly within the ranks of the paladins as a way to atone for being born without the blessing of the church (i.e. the mother didn't get permission). There are other ways to become a paladin but all of them involve some atonement or other, so the vow of chastity remains.
 
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