D&D 5E Clickbait we didn't fall for: "Wizards is copying Critical Role"

[Zardnaar]

ABBA is still fun to listen to.

How about Venga Boys?

 

[Charlaquin]

And yet why include a non-typical cleric is your otherwise focus-grouped, sanitized, made-by-commitee CW party? Because they have an agenda.

I’ve always found this a weird accusation. Like, what’s the alternative to having an agenda? Doing stuff at random? If there’s a specific agenda you object to, then specify it.

 

[Charlaquin]

In real world, priests are usually tied to a religious tradition rather than a specific deity. Points again for the stupidity of the way D&D polytheism is modelled.

Yes, although priests in ancient polytheistic religions did typically specialize in the cult of a particular god. Necessarily so, due to the size of pantheons and specificity of ritual practices. Everybody venerated all of the gods, but no individual could reasonably be expected to remember the proper ways to do so for each god. Gotta have experts to preserve that specialized knowledge!

 

[Charlaquin]

Timeless is just what we aging nerds call the stuff we like to convince ourselves our tastes aren’t outdated.

 

[Staffan]

How about Venga Boys?

They are indeed back in town.

 

[Zardnaar]

They are indeed back in town.

I like to party.

 

[Zardnaar]

Timeless is just what we aging nerds call the stuff we like to convince ourselves our tastes aren’t outdated.

ENworlds not remote representative of D&D lol.

Forums in general figured that out 2002.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Yes, although priests in ancient polytheistic religions did typically specialize in the cult of a particular god. Necessarily so, due to the size of pantheons and specificity of ritual practices. Everybody venerated all of the gods, but no individual could reasonably be expected to remember the proper ways to do so for each god. Gotta have experts to preserve that specialized knowledge!

Polytheism was traditionally about rituals, which ones worked, how they were meant to be done, which I've never seen D&D even attempt to do. It runs all polytheisms as if they were 19th/20th century Christian priests.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Polytheism was traditionally about rituals, which ones worked, how they were meant to be done, which I've never seen D&D even attempt to do. It runs all polytheisms as if they were 19th/20th century Christian priests.

This goes back to the roots of the game. The "cleric" is basically Christian with the numbers filed off. Understandable - that's the religion D&D's original creators were familiar with.

 

[Zardnaar]

Not running a Greek themed campaign or playing Assassins Creed Odyssey or read Cybele wiki today.