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Crimson Longinus reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with
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The important thing about Arthurian Fantasy as opposed to other Fantasy is that Arthurian Fantasy is embedded in Chivalric Morality... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with Like.
The genre itself has the following tropes: 1) Knights do all the interesting stuff 2) The crown is fair and good, but bad is done in...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with Like.
Right now, I'm reading through the Medieval Bestiary (well, I've gone through it before; I'm just going through it more attentively)...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Sepulchrave II's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
Mostly, yes. But a fair number of Greek and Roman philosophers were either atheistic or theomachistic, and it's not hard to envisage a...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.How D&D handles religion is of course in many ways weird, and common magic certainly would warp societies in myriad of ways. But I still...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to maeve's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
Other people have mentioned how followers of pre-modern religions (at least) absolutely saw proof of their gods in the world around...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
You could ask one of the 1.2 billion Hindus that live on planet earth, they might have some insight into how it worked.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to MGibster's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
We tend to separate the natural from the supernatural, but I'm not sure that was as common in the past. And if we're to posit that...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Levistus's_Leviathan's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
This video is long, but informative and thoughtful. We live in a very secular world today. Many people, even those that are religious...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Reynard's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
I think that is just philosophizing about religion by way of gaming without actually interrogating what makes people religious and what...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Reynard's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
The problem with this question is tat it ignores how much magical thinking humans have always had and still do have. In the West, we...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards? with Like.
Yeah, it’s a bit embarrassing that I know this, but canonically magic is genetic in the Potterverse. Yes, muggleborn wizards are a...
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I'm aware of what mind control is. Sorry, I just disagree insofar as one being more or less inherently bad than the other. Doesn't...
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For a silly little semantic tangent for fun, where does mind control start? Sure, just directly replacing their thoughts with yours is...
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Is it more evil than killing someone? We don't have qualms about that in D&D. I'd certainly rather somebody did a jedi mind trick on me...