billd91
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It's not like the blatant anti-Semitism of references to blood magic or controlling the media/Hollywood that you got from Nazis or from modern anti-Semites in the US. It's really more of a micro-aggression when you realize that phylactery is a synonym for teffilin that probably entered the lexicon through Biblical translation. And since its use in D&D is largely for an unholy device... well, you get the picture. Almost certainly never intended to be anti-Semitic, it's a pretty Judaism-specific term used for something of dubious in-game morality. Being a Greek word rather than Hebrew doesn't really change that.I fail to understand the claim of anti-Semitic in the use phylactery. I can understand (barely) wanting to separate the word phylactery of a Lich from an item in a RW religion, but to claim anti-Semitism feels like a stretch.
Are we really suggesting there is portion of players who are anti-Semitic that are using the word phylactery in D&D to act out their anti-Semitism? Why wouldn't they use the word tefillin if they are so anti-Semitic?
I'll probably be using the term soul cage or reliquary when the party starts looking for Dragotha's soul in my Age of Worms campaign.