The point that he is making is about the trope of well poisoning: Persecution of Jews during the Black Death - Wikipedia
But it's an aside in the thread, and he admits that it is conjecture
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TSR I think we’ve finally made it!
But it's an aside in the thread, and he admits that it is conjecture
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J.Quondam
CR 1/8
(Just a note: according to his twitter profile, Kim Wincen uses "he/him")
thanks! I didn't see that
Nefermandias
Hero
We could do an in depth analysis thread like that one we did for Oracle of the Forest.
Okay friend, leave the dramatic "pause" comma alone. Next thing you know you will be critiquing the Oxford comma.
Divine2021
Adventurer
It’s pearl clutching on top of making absolutely ignorant comparison. You can hate on who ever this NuTSR weirdo is, but you can do it without saying stupid stuff like this. It could also be a Final Fantasy 6 reference, they had a well poisoning scene in that!
see, see how stupid that looks?
Benjamin Olson
Hero
Indeed, I think if anything the marginalized group most closely associated with false accusations of well poisoning in the middle ages was lepers (I read an academic article on it at some point, but can't remember the details). And really if I was going to look for a reason why someone would write a fantasy story involving a cult poisoning a well, and somehow the common fantasy trope of that happening and a clunky allegorical reference to supposed toxicity of the community of "Morrus" didn't explain it, I'd just guess that the author used some of their pandemic downtime to binge the Wild, Wild Country documentary series on the Rajneeshpuram community that was promoted heavily on Netflix a few years back, which featured a real world religious community actually being involved in poisonings (including of public water supplies, though the main incident was salad bars).
LaNasa and co. seem to suck plenty, but even Freud acknowledged that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Benjamin Olson
Hero
How is Morrus a small village in an obscure kingdom? Last time I checked ENWorld was a "very big company".
toucanbuzz
No rule is inviolate
I stand corrected. So it's likely a copyright violation unless they got permission from WOTC. Which maybe they did, but my gut says given their relationship, probably not.
