Alignments: Team America Style

[Haffrung Helleyes]

Team America

Someone needs to write D20 Team America.

Ken

 

[Krypter]

A good sense of sarcasim is essential, if you take the film seriously you'll just be offended. I loved it, though i've allways wonderd how they manage to take the piss out of so many people without being sued into the ground.

Because the US has the most protected free speech in the world, and you can't sue someone for libel/slander when it's satire.

I loved Team America too, but you know what they say about analogies...

In the movie, didn't Yang blow away several Yin? I guess the analogy would be that NPCs are such untrustworthy cowards that you eventually have to kill them when they side with the evil monsters?

Thanks, and "I'm Matt Damon!"

 

[kenobi65]

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[I'm A Banana]

Paladins IMC are all about the Yang. The "Yin" is typical clerics, who are the peaceful, the healer, the diplomats, the ones who tend to the community, the ones who have the greatest wisdom. Yangs, the Paladins, go out and do Great Justice.

....this is giving me an idea for a Paladin/Cleric split in a church, though....

 

[davidschwartznz]

Because the US has the most protected free speech in the world, and you can't sue someone for libel/slander when it's satire.

[I had something satirical to say here, but I've self-edited because unfortunately (or, perhaps, fortunately) ENWorld isn't the US.]

In the movie, didn't Yang blow away several Yin? I guess the analogy would be that NPCs are such untrustworthy cowards that you eventually have to kill them when they side with the evil monsters?

As I said, it fits the traditional D&D model very well. As we all know, every harmless seeming NPC is a potential doppelganger... or evil cultist... or annoying roleplaying scenario that distracts us from the real fun - combat. Because Yin is just an inch and a half from Evil... er, uh, in Eastern mysticism, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

As I said, I don't agree entirely with the movie - some might call me a Yin - but it certainly sums up concisely (in the vulgar argot, so to speak) a certain literary motif often used in fantasy. And in many ways it's a less offensive take on said motif than, say, John Tyne's Power Kill.

 

[Krypter]

As I said, I don't agree entirely with the movie - some might call me a Yin - but it certainly sums up concisely (in the vulgar argot, so to speak) a certain literary motif often used in fantasy. And in many ways it's a less offensive take on said motif than, say, John Tyne's Let's Kill.

Hehe...yes, those [NPCs] sure are pretty close to [evil]. But when you get [Adventurers] and [NPCs] together, they make beautiful [combat].

What is John Tyne's Let's Kill?

 

[Particle_Man]

Paladins are the [yang]. After all, they are the ones with the long swords!

 

[davidschwartznz]

What is John Tyne's Let's Kill?

Oops, I mean Power Kill: http://www.hogshead.demon.co.uk/

It's a meta-game that can be applied to any other RPG, where in you play a schizophrenic who believes he's living in the fantasy world portrayed in the base-RPG and must come to terms with the fact that killing people and taking their stuff is, in fact, socially unnacaptable, not to mention criminal.