Quote from: JesterRaiin;902997Watch it brah, watch it... I become highly unpredictable around people who claim there were more than 2 official editions of WHFRP.

...I'm not saying bodies are gonna pile up, but they are gonna pile up.

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HAIL SIGMAR!

"'Round these parts, laddy, Sigmar's just a pimple on Ulrich's frostbitten arse" - from the Teutogen People's Front.

I'm going to disagree and argue that Satan is other, non-gaming pursuits.  I was tempted to say girls.  As one of my store owning friends warned me when I opened my shop, "girlfriends are the enemy of my business."

No, "non-gaming pursuits" are just a rather sad and pathetic version of Atheism.

Quote from: David Johansen;903088I'm going to disagree and argue that Satan is other, non-gaming pursuits.  I was tempted to say girls.  As one of my store owning friends warned me when I opened my shop, "girlfriends are the enemy of my business."

Get 'em to paint minis and show 'em skirmish wargames.

You know, there is such a thing as stretching a metaphor too far.

Quote from: JesterRaiin;902574With all those rules, the only choice for GURPS-like religion is Judaism, bruh.

Ever heard Buddhist monks debate philosophy?

Quote from: Skarg;903874Ever heard Buddhist monks debate philosophy?

I refuse to answer that without the presence of my lawyer (last known location: prisoner/drug smuggling, Bangkok prison, block C)!

Who are the Hermeticists/Gnostics?

Quote from: mightyuncle;903889Who are the Hermeticists/Gnostics?

Gnostics? Tekumel. ;}

Perfect

Quote from: JesterRaiin;902736Ok, I'll bite.

Satan is Mark Rein.Hagen.

- He infected the hobby with women (long and slow: womeeeeeeeeeeen)
- He remade vampires from feral beasts into skinny goth homos
- He [plenty of stuff]...
- ...and then he took backers' money and convinced everyone he doesn't exist

Satan.

For me, Satan would be either Justin Achilli or Martin Ericsson.

Here's my take on the subject, since it's all tongue-in-cheek anyway...


Kriegspiel: Stone Age Shamanism
H.G. Wells' Little Wars: Historical Paganism
Miniature Wargaming: Old-Testament Judaism
Chainmail: Second Temple Judaism
OD&D: Early Christianity as depicted in the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and Paul's Letters
Basic D&D: Coptic Christianity and other pre-Nicene forms of Christianity
AD&D 1e: Catholic Church after Nicaea but before the East-West split
AD&D 2e: Eastern Orthodox Church
D&D 3e/3.5: Protestant Reformation
D&D 4e: Mormonism
D&D 5e: Modern Catholicism
Pathfinder: American Evangelical Protestantism
OSR: Seventh Day Adventists and Armstrong Churches

And the others....

GURPS: Islam
Early White Wolf: Polytheistic Reconstructionist Neopaganism
Achilli-era/Revised Edition White Wolf: LaVeyan Satanism
Chronicles of Darkness: New Age/Wicca Neopaganism
Martin Ericsson's "One World of Darkness": The Satanic Cult from Bible Black (it's horrific, difficult to watch, and full of dicks)
Cyberpunk 2020: Atheism and Agnosticism
Japanese RPG's: Shinto
Big Eyes Small Mouth: Serenitism (a fringe internet religion based on Sailor Moon)

Quote from: JesterRaiin;903899Gnostics? Tekumel. ;}

Why, thank you! I rather like that, myself!

Quote from: chirine ba kal;904114Why, thank you! I rather like that, myself!

Thank you, sir. I have my moments.

Quote from: Doc Sammy;903910For me, Satan would be either Justin Achilli or Martin Ericsson.

Some context?

Quote from: mightyuncle;903889Who are the Hermeticists/Gnostics?

  Oh, this has to be the Old School Renaissance--possessors of the "secret knowledge" of what the founders 'really' intended but only handed down to a few handpicked disciples, rather than to the unworthy masses.

Quote from: JesterRaiin;904134Some context?

  Achilli was in charge of much of the later oWoD; Ericsson appears to be the one in charge of the current revision/revival plans.

  My only knowledge of Achilli's work is his pseudonymous editing of Ravenloft 3E, where he didn't seem to do much more than force a D&D setting that was heavy on reserving information for the DM into the WoD "player-friendly main book, tiny screenbook with secrets for the DM" publication model, as well as mandate the Witch-Hunter prestige class as part of the latter.

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;904165Achilli was in charge of much of the later oWoD; Ericsson appears to be the one in charge of the current revision/revival plans.

My only knowledge of Achilli's work is his pseudonymous editing of Ravenloft 3E, where he didn't seem to do much more than force a D&D setting that was heavy on reserving information for the DM into the WoD "player-friendly main book, tiny screenbook with secrets for the DM" publication model, as well as mandate the Witch-Hunter prestige class as part of the latter.

I see.

I thought there was some piece of RPG history I missed, but this? I wouldn't call that very Satanish.