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Arthil posted:I'm almost terrified to wonder what some of ya'll's opinions on Polyamory are. Most of my friends are poly so it varies! Some of them clearly have gone a bit too far and have rendered themselves inaccessible for all free time is taken up by maintenance dates. Others you'd just never notice.
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I think trying to compare Ed Greenwood's gross masturbation fantasies to actual polyamorous relationships does a major disservice to the poly community. Polyamorous relationships can definitely be featured and explored within the lore of a fantasy tabletop game in a reasonable and mature way. Ed Greenwood does not write about them in a reasonable and mature way... quote:Every male eye below turned toward her. The lady was daring indeed, to come as an outlawed, evil being, wearing little more than a pair of gleaming black buttock-high boots, with silver heel spikes, and elbow-length gloves of the same material. Her breasts and loins were covered by little more than crisscrossing leather straps hung with spindle-shaped rock crystal stones, and a black ribbon encircled her throat. Her hair reached to the backs of her knees in a magnificent, raven-dark sweep that was bound in a cage of silver chain ending in two delicate chains, little larger than glittering threads, that hung in loops attached to the spurs of her boots. Two tiny bells hung from pointed silver medallions glued to her nipples, and she wore a calm, crooked smile that broadened as the man known as Dauntless swept up to her and proffered his arm. As she turned to display herself to him, the two gaping cousins saw that a walnut-sized diamond bulged glitteringly from her navel, and that a tiny sculpted dagger hung point downward from the cluster of diamonds and silver scrollwork at her loins.
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Apr 16, 2021 19:46
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TG As An Industry: Hoho! SO many mysteries, waved before you!
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Apr 16, 2021 19:52
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you could literally put out several eyes at once with that getup.
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Apr 16, 2021 19:52
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That must take her so long to get dressed every morning, mad respect for her dedication. Not sure why the hell you'd chain your hair to your boots though. Also seems like being one of the multiple servants it would likely require to get into that outfit would be hella awkward.
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Apr 16, 2021 19:56
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If that lady bends over suddenly she's going to be filled with regrets.
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Apr 16, 2021 19:58
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::bulges glitteringly::
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Apr 16, 2021 19:59
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Only two "loins" in one paragraph? Come on, Ed, you can get a few more in there!
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Apr 16, 2021 20:04
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What am I looking at here? Does she have a dagger (a dagger-shaped medallion?) bouncing around on her puss? Is that dangerous?
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Apr 16, 2021 20:08
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Arivia's excellent posts never disappoint. I feel like what Arivia posted was positively tame compared to what people post about her regularly on these forums. I understand giving out a probation to stop what is obviously a very pointless argument from escalating, but it feels really lovely to see posts like this after that probation.
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Apr 16, 2021 20:14
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some primo "breasted boobily" prose
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Apr 16, 2021 20:14
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So either she's forced to take tiny steps, unable to bend over or sit down, or she has chain in her hair and boots that drag along the floor? Neither option actually seem that good. This really comes off as someone trying for maximum sexualization rather than actually sexy.
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Apr 16, 2021 20:21
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Temple of the Frog God, 1986. Dave Arnessen.quote:You are piling your loot on the table, speculating about who your victims were when a voice from the doorway intones, "Actually, I think I can answer your questions." When you turn towards the speaker, you find youself looking at a blonde, blue eyed female. Beneath a silver grey elven cloak, she wears a fine shirt of gleaming chainmail. At her side hangs a heavy looking sword of archaic pattern That's block text. Ruda Malefor's acting out a shampoo ad as part of her pitch to send the PCs time traveling to... look, I'm not sure. But she was a reoccurring character, and she always acted like that. DMs were expected to act this lunatic out for the players.
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Apr 16, 2021 20:26
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quote:When you turn towards the speaker, you find youself looking at a blonde, blue eyed female. Man, is there any more blatant indication someone has bad takes on women than using the words "female" and "woman" interchangeably?
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Apr 16, 2021 20:33
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Mystic Mongol posted:Temple of the Frog God, 1986. Dave Arnessen. I think the chainmail lady needs a napkin.
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Apr 16, 2021 22:09
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Nessus posted:I could see this character working as a kind of comical try-hard super-goffick doomslayer whose PAIN you do not UNDERSTAND, but this was written in 1986 - I don't think that archetype had been invented yet. This seems serious. That kind of does make me want to see a modern table run through some of these old adventures and instead of being awestruck by the awesome obviously super powerful sexy quest-giver instead just be vaguely sorry for her. Stretch their roleplaying muscles to see what fremdschämen looks like on an elf.
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Apr 16, 2021 22:46
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KingKalamari posted:Man, is there any more blatant indication someone has bad takes on women than using the words "female" and "woman" interchangeably?  We even have an emoticon dedicated to it: 
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Apr 16, 2021 23:50
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Don't we have more appropriate threads for dwelling on contextless lovely neckbeard trash from the 80s?
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Apr 17, 2021 00:03
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My takeaway from that text is that this woman says something specifically to get the PCs' attention, then completely ignores them in order to messily eat a pomegranate.
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Apr 17, 2021 00:12
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Toshimo posted:Don't we have more appropriate threads for dwelling on contextless lovely neckbeard trash from the 80s? You're in luck, there's a whole thread just for Dungeons and Dragons!
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Apr 17, 2021 00:15
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Rhandhali posted:More board games, but Shaun Varsos, the shipping manager for Van Ryder Games and wife beater, murdered his ex wife and her mother. He got shot by one of them in the process, then proceeded to drive away and eat his own gun. Jesus loving God.
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Apr 17, 2021 00:38
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potatocubed posted:My takeaway from that text is that this woman says something specifically to get the PCs' attention, then completely ignores them in order to messily eat a pomegranate. I would be pretty okay with "your stern, portentous quest-giver is struggling with the local food" becoming a canned-module trope, tbh. "Okay, you arrive at the Royal Banquet and track down the Elvish ambassador. He's, uh -- actually, Fez, you remember hearing in wizard school that Elfland isn't big on cutlery. The Ambassador's got his fork clutched in his fist and he's trying desperately to impale his parsley without making a scene. He's sweating. How do you introduce yourselves?"
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Apr 17, 2021 02:26
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vibrating feverishly as i try to cancel ed loving greenwood
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Apr 17, 2021 02:48
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Antivehicular posted:I would be pretty okay with "your stern, portentous quest-giver is struggling with the local food" becoming a canned-module trope, tbh. I tell him the sheep's eyeballs are a local delicacy and to make sure he tries them before he leaves.
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Apr 17, 2021 03:12
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Antivehicular posted:I would be pretty okay with "your stern, portentous quest-giver is struggling with the local food" becoming a canned-module trope, tbh. Human at a halfling table loaded for three meals at once, with a firm grasp of what he believes the etiquette rules to be (constructed after a few hours of watching whatever halfling take whatever they wanted) about to have the entire social house of cards collapse when a ten-year-old sneaks something from the chocolate plate. Halfling at a dwarf spread about to make the common and almost certainly regrettable mistake of pouring out the firesalt like it was rustgrain (a much milder "pouring spice" cut with coarse-grain flour). Dwarf in Elfland just gonna eat half the centerpiece. It's pretty tasty! And hardly a threat to a dwarven constitution, but it's the centerpiece.
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Apr 17, 2021 04:12
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Orc at human table wishing she'd eaten before showing up, as horrified realisation dawns that what she assumed was a chicken is in fact the chicken and will therefore be divided before being served out (which does explain the lack of proper cutlery...)
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Apr 17, 2021 04:45
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A dryad noble, struggling to appear composed and regal while his his feet drink nourishment from the soup.
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Apr 17, 2021 04:56
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A Shardmind only realizes as the spoonful of soup they just tried to eat dribbles down their chin that they don't actually have a mouth...
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Apr 17, 2021 05:03
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Generically: <Visiting background person> suddenly experiencing deathly silence and icy stares realises they've hosed up beyond recovery and that <host background people> don't actually do, as a cultural thing, whatever (in retrospect, blindingly obviously not ok) thing that <visiting background person> always heard that they did, and has just proudly done with a big self-congratulatory smile on their rapidly-reddening face.moths posted:A dryad noble, struggling to appear composed and regal while his his feet drink nourishment from the soup. 
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Apr 17, 2021 05:14
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Notahippie posted:That kind of does make me want to see a modern table run through some of these old adventures and instead of being awestruck by the awesome obviously super powerful sexy quest-giver instead just be vaguely sorry for her. Stretch their roleplaying muscles to see what fremdschämen looks like on an elf. I did run this at a modern table, because we were running 80s prepackaged adventures in 13th age as a bit, and my players just pointedly ignored her by talking over all the block text when I was just trying to get through the drat stuff. Just all gossiping about in character happenings and musing about what various NPCs are up to while she's trying to eat a pomegranate sexilly enough to make them travel twelve thousand years into the past.
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Apr 17, 2021 05:57
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Pomegranate’s gotta be one of the harder fruits to eat sexily.
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Apr 17, 2021 07:54
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admanb posted:Pomegranate’s gotta be one of the harder fruits to eat sexily. Or threatingly. Dreadlord Thazghoul haughtily gaze down at your party from his throne, as his henchmen throws you down to the ground in chains. The basalt floor scrapes your knees as you fall into a pile, exhausted from the quick march from your prison cells in the dungeon. "Silly thieves", he snorts as he takes a pomegrenate from the tray by his side. His harem guard kneels before him with an elaborate wooden bowl, and a slave pours water into it with a golden carafe. "Did you think you could sneak in and take my new favourite prize?" He pulls out a small knife and starts to carefully cut the pomegranate into smaller pieces that he submerges into the water. "Your precious princess will be.. wait a minute.. gently caress" Small clusters of seeds falls out of the bowl as the Dreadlord spills water on his robes. The seeds scatter across the throneroom floor. "She will.. wait.. she... DAMMIT, Lorgutz, do you have a smaller spoon?"
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Apr 17, 2021 09:23
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I can see it working, you just have to get creative with it. If someone stared me square in the eye and just took a big bite out of a pomegranate like it was an apple, I would at the very least be somewhat unnerved.
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Apr 17, 2021 09:53
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Kai Tave posted:I can see it working, you just have to get creative with it. If someone stared me square in the eye and just took a big bite out of a pomegranate like it was an apple, I would at the very least be somewhat unnerved. It seems to work for Zagreus. 
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Apr 17, 2021 09:54
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Kai Tave posted:I can see it working, you just have to get creative with it. If someone stared me square in the eye and just took a big bite out of a pomegranate like it was an apple, I would at the very least be somewhat unnerved. Ah yes the Tony Abbott Gambit
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Apr 17, 2021 09:57
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Apr 17, 2021 11:51
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JohnLovely posted:vibrating feverishly as i try to cancel ed loving greenwood He went to bat for Beamdog over the Mizneha controversy which was pretty good
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Apr 18, 2021 06:21
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I mean, as the one who posted all those gross Ed Greenwood quotes I will hand it to the guy that he's been notably not lovely about LGBTQ+ in tabletop gaming.
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Apr 18, 2021 06:43
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tbh the fact that Greenwood has not been MeToo'ed yet makes me think that while he's definitely a fuckin' weirdo that puts way too much of his Magical Realm in everything he writes he's probably not a predator.
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admanb posted:tbh the fact that Greenwood has not been MeToo'ed yet makes me think that while he's definitely a fuckin' weirdo that puts way too much of his Magical Realm in everything he writes he's probably not a predator. Eastmabl posted:Problem is that he's a big fish in that pond, so he's gets a "knock it off" at best.
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