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Boba Pearl posted:Sorry, couldn't resist the lussy. That lichy nut
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christmas boots posted:I figured they were demi liches because there's less lich This is correct. They're supposed to be basically senescent liches that have just lost a lot of everything, but particularly due to the soul-draining mechanic and the popularity of Acererak they turned into "liches, but more powerful." e: and this isn't a new thing, it goes back to at least 2e (so D&D as played in the 90s basically)
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moonmazed posted:yeah it takes them ages to find a phylactery No this is just my tantric lich, a former manticore bard named Sting
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Scratch Monkey posted:Who hosed the lich?! Buddy,
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Proving why veterans are a protected class
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Agents are GO! posted:Buddy, The dude from Elf? Fair play, that is a sequel I did not see coming.
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Henchman of Santa posted:https://twitter.com/jonallen93_/status/1491333769886040064?t=smgD9XPLi5bMsY-0m8zylQ&s=19 Military genius lmao.
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OwlFancier posted:Military genius lmao. A land invasion of Russia is going to work this time, I swear
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OwlFancier posted:Military genius lmao. Ahh yeah, that genius of a military move of invading Russia in the Winter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LUUk6wVNrY
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I'm not sure there is any military decision hitler made that didn't make things worse for germany, and the more of them he made and the more directly he got involved, the worse his decisions became. Like, maybe in isolation the invasion of Poland, but if you view that as the inevitable result of the same mindset that led him to try and invade everywhere else, it's still in the long run a bad decision for him.
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Pththya-lyi posted:A land invasion of Russia is going to work this time, I swear 
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SiKboy posted:The dude from Elf? Fair play, that is a sequel I did not see coming. Bye, Buddy! Hope you gently caress that lich!
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moonmazed posted:yeah it takes them ages to find a phylactery soul cage phylacteries are irl Jewish prayer garb, D&D is finally catching up to how it was never cool to use that word for imaginary creepy magic stuff
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AlbieQuirky posted:soul cage Holy poo poo, I didn't know that.
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Henchman of Santa posted:https://twitter.com/jonallen93_/status/1491333769886040064?t=smgD9XPLi5bMsY-0m8zylQ&s=19 Already gone.
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The history is a little squishy on that one. It's a Greek word meaning protectant that was used to describe the Jewish prayer garb, but was later used to describe other kinds of spiritual or religiously important holders, including Christian reliquaries. In Hebrew the prayer boxes are called teffilin, so it's stealing a word that someone else used to describe teffilin among other things. It's still probably best to change it, but I do think using weird Greek words gives it kind of an ancient vibe even if that's a loaded word.
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Scratch Monkey posted:Who hosed the lich?! Think there was a whole prestige class about it too, idk where my copy of the Book of Vile Darkness is tho
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Baron von Eevl posted:The history is a little squishy on that one. It's a Greek word meaning protectant that was used to describe the Jewish prayer garb, but was later used to describe other kinds of spiritual or religiously important holders, including Christian reliquaries. In Hebrew the prayer boxes are called teffilin, so it's stealing a word that someone else used to describe teffilin among other things. It's still probably best to change it, but I do think using weird Greek words gives it kind of an ancient vibe even if that's a loaded word. I was going to ask what the actual thing it's describing is because I assumed it would be in greek whatever it was.
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Skwirl posted:Holy poo poo, I didn't know that. It’s not quite true. Phylactery can mean a holy Christian relic (for example it was very common to carry the “bones of a saint” around as a good luck charm) as well as Jewish tefilim. Both of these uses are legitimate and go back centuries. The problem is that Gary Gygax conflated the two pretty hard in the use in D&D, so the meaning and the ideas are pretty tainted. The origin idea of a lich is from Koschei the Deathless in Russian myth, and the naming of a “phylactery” comes much later (in the 1e MM I think from the last time Trad Games fought about this, which is after the lich’s introduction in I think Supplement 1: Greyhawk and after Len Lakofka solidified a bunch of lich stuff in a Dragon magazine article). So the idea of a “lich has a place where their soul is stored” as a phylactery in and of itself isn’t bad or wrong. However, in the same edition Gygax defines a phylactery in both forms (there’s a list of fantasy word definitions in the DMG) and then the Jewish meaning of phylactery as a carried holy text is used as a magic item (specifically the phylactery of faithfulness). When you get to 3e (so the 2000s edition of D&D) this gets rewritten onto the lich’s phylactery itself, which is also listed as being the form/meaning as a Jewish tefilim. In other words, it’s something that tabletop RPGs are moving away from using (soul cage is what Pathfinder/Paizo is going to) because it’s so inextricably messed up, but someone just saying “the lich’s phylactery” may not be invoking Jewish holy symbols intentionally, and may have no idea of that meaning because there is a clear through line and definition that doesn’t have anything to do with Judaism.
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"soul cage" seems so mundane for what's supposed to be some kind of ancient and obscure magic. Change it sure, but find something cooler.
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Borrovan posted:It happens. Lichloved is a prerequisite for Thrall of Orcus, the prestige class in the same book about dedicating yourself to Orcus, the demon lord of undeath. Arivia has a new favorite as of 21:34 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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christmas boots posted:"soul cage" seems so mundane for what's supposed to be some kind of ancient and obscure magic. Change it sure, but find something cooler. You could just nick some more greek and call it a necrolekythos or something.
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According to https://palliative.stanford.edu/home-hospice-home-care-of-the-dying-patient/where-do-americans-die/ 60% of Americans die in hospitals. Therefore, we should ban all hospitals.
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ultrafilter posted:Already gone. It was up for 10 hours before getting traction! It’s a player for what are now known as the Washington Commanders saying if he could have dinner with three people he’d choose his grandpa, Michael Jackson and Hitler “because he was a military genius” and he wants to understand why he did what he did.
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Scratch Monkey posted:Bye, Buddy! Hope you gently caress that lich!  I appreciated this.
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Nebrilos posted:According to https://palliative.stanford.edu/home-hospice-home-care-of-the-dying-patient/where-do-americans-die/ 60% of Americans die in hospitals. Therefore, we should ban all hospitals.
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OwlFancier posted:You could just nick some more greek and call it a necrolekythos or something. yeah, now we're getting somewhere
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Borrovan posted:It happens.
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five seconds on google translate: soul cage -> klouvipsychis hire me wizards
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As part of an ad campaign for their new sports bras, adidas posted an image of a bunch of bare-chested women who aren't models and large parts of the internet are just losing their poo poo. Link here ( obviously).
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ultrafilter posted:As part of an ad campaign for their new sports bras, adidas posted an image of a bunch of bare-chested women who aren't models and large parts of the internet are just losing their poo poo. Link here ( wrong link Though Zuck is pretty 
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Like... people who aren't normally hired for modelling work or people who did not consent to be models for the advert..?
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OwlFancier posted:Like... people who aren't normally hired for modelling work or people who did not consent to be models for the advert..? I googled and it's the former. According to some news website people were criticizing it for being exploitative/'sex sells' or because they weren't doing the same campaign with jock straps so it's misandrist, or whatever. I did not go to Twitter and see the probably far more depressing reasons people are actually losing their poo poo.
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Pththya-lyi posted:wrong link Fixed. Weldon Pemberton posted:I googled and it's the former. According to some news website people were criticizing it for being exploitative/'sex sells' or because they weren't doing the same campaign with jock straps so it's misandrist, or whatever. Yeah, not typical models. If a major company had posted topless photos of women who didn't consent to be posted my description would've been pretty different. Both of those are reasons why people are upset but there's also a very vocal contingent who hate being forced to look at women they don't find attractive.
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If we have medicare for all, then literally 100% of people that die This is the future dems want??
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That's just a bog-standard "all boobs are beautiful" ad. who the gently caress is on the internet and has never seen one of those before?
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