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Don't besmirch XRA like this, please.
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I've started putting ideas down on paper for a game I wanna write. There but for the grace of God or just forgetting about it go I.
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Sep 24, 2018 03:00
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Helical Nightmares posted:This was a great effort post and I hope you post more about your campaign in the future. I think they're eager to go back to Saxon hordes and politics after the madness and savagery of Ireland. Gau posted:tokenbrownguy, I would basically read as many words as you are willing to write about your GPC. It's always been a dream of mine, I just need the correct players and format.
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Sep 24, 2018 04:15
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Pollyanna posted:Today I realized the name of an ancient god I gave to my players is a real country in Africa.
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Sep 24, 2018 07:38
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My Lovely Horse posted:I google every nonstandard name I come up with to see if it's a thing, ever since I had a dragonborn cleric bad guy named Azul. He was copper coloured, and thankfully none of my players speak Spanish. I play EUIV and CK2 and write down every cool name I see because I know none of my players will ever know.
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Sep 24, 2018 07:47
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I just trawl wikipedia for names and ideas. I don't expect the players to get them. They never ask.
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Sep 24, 2018 07:52
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I've been doing the "google your made-up names" thing since the early 2000s when I saw someone accidentally (genuinely accidentally) call a character what they believed was just a slight re-spelling of "Shiny", having never heard that particular slur for jewish people. Because while I feel like that's not a mistake I would make, stuff like this comes up fairly frequently: My Lovely Horse posted:I had a dragonborn cleric bad guy named Azul. He was copper coloured, and thankfully none of my players speak Spanish. But at the risk of sounding like a complete loving idiot, does "azul" not just mean "blue" in Spanish? Like if you wanted to say "blue water" you'd say "agua azul"? e: Oh wait, poo poo, it's gonna be the same as in Irish where saying someone is "blue" is like a somewhat-to-fairly rude way of saying dark-skinned, right? Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Sep 24, 2018 |
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Sep 24, 2018 07:54
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AlphaDog posted:I've been doing the "google your made-up names" thing since the early 2000s when I saw someone accidentally (genuinely accidentally) call a character what they believed was just a slight re-spelling of "Shiny", having never heard that particular slur for jewish people. I'd never heard that one either, had to look it up before your edit there.
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Sep 24, 2018 07:57
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AlphaDog posted:But at the risk of sounding like a complete loving idiot, does "azul" not just mean "blue" in Spanish? Like if you wanted to say "blue water" you'd say "agua azul"?
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Sep 24, 2018 08:00
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AlphaDog posted:I've been doing the "google your made-up names" thing since the early 2000s when I saw someone accidentally (genuinely accidentally) call a character what they believed was just a slight re-spelling of "Shiny", having never heard that particular slur for jewish people. Splicer fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Sep 24, 2018 |
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Sep 24, 2018 08:01
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My Lovely Horse posted:As far as I know, yeah. It's no big thing or hidden meaning or anything, just there would have been comments on how name and colour don't match. Plus a slight concern the bard might break out the Eiffel 65 for Vicious Mockery. If anything that's some good joke fodder. Maybe he's named after a relative.
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Sep 24, 2018 08:06
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I'd never heard that one either, had to look it up before your edit there. Splicer posted:I had to trawl Wikipedia to find out what the hell you were talking about and I think English might be running out of words that aren't obscure ethnic slurs. That's exactly why I google, but it's not that obscure. It got a mention in Clerks 2 and I've heard it a fair bit IRL, admittedly not so much since I cut a particular group of people out of my life.
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Sep 24, 2018 08:07
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I get the feeling it's where we get Lapis Lazuli from, though I could be wrong.
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Sep 24, 2018 08:17
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AlphaDog posted:e: Oh wait, poo poo, it's gonna be the same as in Irish where saying someone is "blue" is like a somewhat-to-fairly rude way of saying dark-skinned, right?
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Sep 24, 2018 08:22
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"azul" is blue It doesn't have any deeper connotation besides the mismatch of a copper-colored dragon being named "blue"
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Sep 24, 2018 08:27
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Splicer posted:I... What? I'm Irish and I don't think there's any implied negative connotations to "fear gorm". The impression I got from the person who told me this was that to say, in Irish, "a blue person" (equivalent to "a black person" in english, according to them) was regarded as less polite / more old-fashioned / maybe you should phrase it differently. That person isn't Irish though, so if they're wrong then I'm wrong and I'm fine with being wrong about this and probably shouldn't have made the guess in the first place as is being demonstrated right now by everyone going "dude no".
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Sep 24, 2018 08:31
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Once upon a time, I read a Dragonlance short story about a dragon-slayer that fought and defeated a White Dragon, only to later realize that what he had really slain was an albino Silver. There's an adventure seed somewhere in the tale of a copper dragon that's turned green over the years.
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Sep 24, 2018 08:37
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AlphaDog posted:The impression I got from the person who told me this was that to say, in Irish, "a blue person" (equivalent to "a black person" in english, according to them) was regarded as less polite / more old-fashioned / maybe you should phrase it differently. I remember something like 'Blue' could refer to a bad or melancholic temper. At least that traditionally in Scots, 'Black' as a nickname or epithet meant having an extremely bad temper. (Black Donald McDuck comes to mind, the inventor of golf who also got it banned, and invented several other sports through violent tantrums) gradenko_2000 posted:Once upon a time, I read a Dragonlance short story about a dragon-slayer that fought and defeated a White Dragon, only to later realize that what he had really slain was an albino Silver. I loosely remember it being canon that copper dragons start turning green over the centuries. Some dragon lore also plays with that, like that the result of interbreeding between different coloured dragons might display some odd quirks, like having the colouration of one parent but the abilities of the other. Mercury Dragons still might be my favourite. They're basically wacky draconic T-1000s whose hoards are more like collections, complete with being willing to trade away doubles.
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Sep 24, 2018 09:03
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gradenko_2000 posted:Once upon a time, I read a Dragonlance short story about a dragon-slayer that fought and defeated a White Dragon, only to later realize that what he had really slain was an albino Silver. This has to be something that a GM sprung on one of his players.
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Kai Tave posted:This has to be something that a GM sprung on one of his players.  oh my god I can absolutely see some shitdick DM doing this to a Paladin to get them to fall
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Sep 24, 2018 09:08
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In an old WotC module there was a 'white dragon of the tower' which turned out to be a 'wight dragon of the tower', which screwed over more than one party. (Prep for cold attacks, die to energy drain.) And in the D&D Rules Cyclopedia (which is BECMI? I think?) there are suggestions for alternative monster encounters, one of which is a black pudding in the shape of a black dragon, which spits green slime. Which is another TPK waiting to happen, although I suppose at least black dragons and black puddings are both known for acid damage.
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Sep 24, 2018 09:25
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gradenko_2000 posted:It doesn't have any deeper connotation besides the mismatch of a copper-colored dragon being named "blue" Happily, there's no mismatch. Lots of copper compounds are very blue.
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Sep 24, 2018 09:26
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Ratoslov posted:Happily, there's no mismatch. Lots of copper compounds are very blue. i mean maybe his mom or dad just had a very specific type of dragonborn colorblindness you insensitive jerks
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Sep 24, 2018 09:46
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Different topic, but are there any games where you are a created thing is the main theme? I'm thinking like '50s and '60s AI-striving-to-be-human type scifi shorts, or even Asimov's R Daneel Olivaw stories, but I'd be interested in anything that deals with the idea that you are definitely a made thing, your maker is/was real, is potentially present, and has probably given you a set of rules (possibly including one or more rules that you are incapable of violating). e: Doesn't have to be scifi/AI/robots, if a wizard did it that's fine, if it's a literal godlike creator that's fine too. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Sep 24, 2018 |
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Sep 24, 2018 09:48
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AlphaDog posted:Different topic, but are there any games where you are a created thing is the main theme? http://projects.inklesspen.com/fatal-and-friends/gradenko2000/the-book-of-iron-might/#3
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Sep 24, 2018 09:54
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AlphaDog posted:I've been doing the "google your made-up names" thing since the early 2000s when I saw someone accidentally (genuinely accidentally) call a character what they believed was just a slight re-spelling of "Shiny", having never heard that particular slur for jewish people. Wait it is. gently caress, thats the name for star wars clone troopers who are fresh off the line.
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Sep 24, 2018 09:59
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AlphaDog posted:Different topic, but are there any games where you are a created thing is the main theme? Promethean: The Created, Engine Hearts...
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gradenko_2000 posted:http://projects.inklesspen.com/fatal-and-friends/gradenko2000/the-book-of-iron-might/#3 Thanks, but not really what I'm looking for. More after a game themed that way rather than a D&Dish game including a nod toward that themes. Ghost Leviathan posted:Promethean: The Created, Engine Hearts... Cool, I'll check them out. Engine Heart looks particularly appealing. (e: oh neat, free on DTRPG!) kingcom posted:Wait it is. gently caress, thats the name for star wars clone troopers who are fresh off the line. Yeah maybe I was unclear through an unwillingness to type the actual name but gently caress it I'm just gonna type it out, this is ridiculous. The player in question had called their shiny-haired, sparkly-clothed character "Sheenie", which while maybe not in super common every day usage is absolutely, definitely, a racial slur. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Sep 24, 2018 |
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AlphaDog posted:Different topic, but are there any games where you are a created thing is the main theme? As mentioned, this is literally Promethean. Most WoD games touch on this in some way as well, if you're willing to stretch your definition of "created thing" to vampires (Vampire, obviously  ) or malfunctioning sapient computer programs (nWoD Demon).
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Lemon-Lime posted:As mentioned, this is literally Promethean. Most WoD games touch on this in some way as well, if you're willing to stretch your definition of "created thing" to vampires (Vampire, obviously Reading Engine Heart now, the short piece of fiction at the front about the library bot rescuing the books from a fire long after all humanity is gone is pretty much the vibe I was looking for, but I'll check out the world of darkness stuff too. Never was a fan except for Mage and Changeling, but I guess I'll see. "Malfunctioning Sentient Computer Programs" kinda brings HAL to mind, which is also something I'd be interested in exploring.
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kingcom posted:I play EUIV and CK2 and write down every cool name I see because I know none of my players will ever know. The mysterious danger of the Dungeon of Qara Qoyunlu
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I get the feeling it's where we get Lapis Lazuli from, though I could be wrong. It's the other way around. (https://www.etymonline.com/word/azure#etymonline_v_19038)
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some loving LIAR posted:It's the other way around. I figured there was a relation in any case. Learn something new every day. It's not like humans have names that make much sense if you take them literally.
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Sep 24, 2018 14:58
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AlphaDog posted:Different topic, but are there any games where you are a created thing is the main theme?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Promethean: The Created, Engine Hearts...
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Ghost Leviathan posted:
A copper dragonborn named Azul would make perfect sense if he was Australian. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bluey
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ianvincible posted:A copper dragonborn named Azul would make perfect sense if he was Australian. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bluey We do love our ironic nicknames.
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Yeah but then the players would be obligated to tell Azul, You’re my boy!
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ianvincible posted:A copper dragonborn named Azul would make perfect sense if he was Australian. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bluey
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Kai Tave posted:This has to be something that a GM sprung on one of his players. It's more common for it to be an albino red dragon, players gear up for a relatively weak white dragon and load up on fire-based attacks and cold resistance only to be dumped into a harder fight with a fireproof opponent.
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