NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 6547329" data-attributes="member: 3887">OK. So my group has done this in our various homebrew settings. But under a very specific context - to critique & take the piss out of racism in fantasy fiction and, also, general society. Our particular (and peculiar) gaming style leans heavily on both satire and parody. So our 3e campaign setting featured the Germanic/Hawaiian "Polynietzschians" (or "Polyneecheeans") who were actually more like Polynesian Vikings. They worshiped "Tiki-Ishii" a volcano god which was also their home island (which exploded). They venerated "Nee Chee", a philosopher-king who espoused a sort of brown ubermensch ideal and led them in the early years of their diaspora. The Polys sailed the high seas in catamarans raiding ports & stealing blonde women. They're based on, well, me. I'd never encountered an unflattering fantasy analogue of my specific heritage, so I made one! In the long history of awful puns in our games, this is the best/worst. (okay, so the Polynietzschians are a culture and not a race, but I'm still proud/amused by them)Sometime during our 4e campaign, it was decided that Tieflings, were, in fact, Jewish. Or, rather, we made Tieflings a parody of antisemitic stereotypes a la Sascha Baron Cohen's Borat. Yes, the person responsible for all this was Jewish. He also deserves credit --or blame-- for the Infernal God of Money, Source of All Evil, the G-LD. As well as credit/blame for using Hebrew to represent Infernal, and all the Tielfing names which were all common Hebrew words.</blockquote>

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