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The "Church" of D&D

Started by cranebump, June 08, 2016, 09:21:35 AM

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JesterRaiin

#45
June 09, 2016, 11:13:06 AM
Quote from: dragoner;902763As long as it isn't me being called Satan. I never was into Vampire, my gaming group tried 2300, wanted to like it more than we did, then settled into a T2K game for a while. Played in another group where we played Deadlands, CoC, and then Rifts. Then back war games for a while. Funny thing about D&D, my sister introduced me to it, and in the beginning, me and my friends considered it a "girl game" in the late 70's.

Well, hmmm... You certainly have a taste. Are you also a man of wealth, have you been around for a long, long year?
BTW, you wouldn't stole many a man's soul and faith? :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7muCRio2nQ
"If it\'s not appearing, it\'s not a real message." ~ Brett

dragoner

#46
June 09, 2016, 11:51:02 AM
Quote from: JesterRaiin;902773Well, hmmm... You certainly have a taste. Are you also a man of wealth, have you been around for a long, long year?
BTW, you wouldn't stole many a man's soul and faith? :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7muCRio2nQ

Good video, my Oma was born in Laibach. ;)

Except, let me introduce you to hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pATX-lV0VFk

Taste yes, wealth no, middle class. Stole non existent things? Ha! I guess faith is trust but still I put no stock in that.
The most beautiful peonies I ever saw ... were grown in almost pure cat excrement.
-Vonnegut

HMWHC

#47
June 09, 2016, 05:42:08 PM
Quote from: Premier;902608The gradual development of RPGs through actual play - Jesus' teachings.
OD&D - Coptic Christianity.
Basic / Classic / etc. - Various flavours of early Christianity after it's already been consolidated into a discrete religion. Nestorianism, Monophysitism, Monothelema, etc..
1st ed. AD&D - Catholicism. The massive, rather codified thing with Organised Play and whatnot.
2nd ed. AD&D - The Antipopes. It's the same thing as the other one with minor differences, created because of some political power struggle.
"3rd / 3.5th edition" - Protestantism. For some, it's a backlash against the (real or imagined) faults of Catholicism; for most it's an intellectually lazy licence to feel and act intolerably smug. "Oh, you've accepted our version of the Saviour / use Challenge Ratings and Wealth by Level guidelines? Congratulations, that means you're predestined to be saved / have a superior game!"
4th edition - Mormonism. They say they're Christians, but come on...
OSR - Quakers. (Well, the more liberal sorts of Quakers, who don't really make a big deal out of whether or not it's a subset of Protestantism.)

This is the most bang on yet (IMO of course)
"YOU KNOW WHO ELSE CLOSED THREADS THAT "BORED" HIM?!? HITLER!!!"
~ -E.

HMWHC

#48
June 09, 2016, 05:45:00 PM
Quote from: dragoner;902590Traveller is Buddhism: It's all meaningless, and then you die.

You're almost correct on this, you just need to add "during character creation" to the end of your sentence.
"YOU KNOW WHO ELSE CLOSED THREADS THAT "BORED" HIM?!? HITLER!!!"
~ -E.

dragoner

#49
June 09, 2016, 08:52:55 PM
Quote from: Gwarh;902834You're almost correct on this, you just need to add "during character creation" to the end of your sentence.

The beauty of it is I didn't need to. I think they even sell t-shirts with that on it, part of the magic.

The most beautiful peonies I ever saw ... were grown in almost pure cat excrement.
-Vonnegut

Old One Eye

#50
June 09, 2016, 10:30:33 PM
Quote from: dragoner;902578More importantly, who is Satan, and the pagans?

Lorraine Williams?

Madprofessor

#51
June 10, 2016, 03:56:08 PM
Arduin = The Dead Sea Scrolls. I mean, its cool and all, but wtf does it mean?

Judges Guild = the guy at the back of the Sermon responding to "blessed are the cheese makers" by saying, "It's not meant to be taken literally.  It applies to all manufacturers of dairy products."

camazotz

#52
June 10, 2016, 04:13:43 PM
Quote from: dragoner;902578More importantly, who is Satan, and the pagans?

The pagans are clearly the indie devs, headed by FATE and Evil Hat.

Madprofessor

#53
June 10, 2016, 04:38:25 PM
Quote from: camazotz;902977The pagans are clearly the indie devs, headed by FATE and Evil Hat.

We should crush them with our Gygaxian boot and force them to use dice with numbers on them.

JesterRaiin

#54
June 10, 2016, 04:57:47 PM
Quote from: Madprofessor;902980We should crush them with our Gygaxian boot and force them to use dice with numbers on them.

The suggestion to use standard 1d6 in place of FUDGE dice is pretty common in FATE based games. ;)
"If it\'s not appearing, it\'s not a real message." ~ Brett

Saurondor

#55
June 10, 2016, 05:04:16 PM
Quote from: cranebump;902554What represents orthodoxy?

3rd edition.

Quote from: cranebump;902554Was 0e the "Catholic Church?"

No that would be 3rd. Orthodoxy is pathfinder.

0e was the early teachings
1st and 2nd are early Christendom and heresies (80 AD to 300 AD)
3rd is the Catholic Church
Pathfinder is orthodoxy
4th is Anglicanism
5th is Lutheranism
OSR is Islam
Storygaming is new-age

(yes, flame bait!)

Quote from: cranebump;902554Is there a Holy Trinity, and, if so, what is it's nature?

Yes, the players handbook, the DMG and the monster manual
emes u cuch a ppic a pixan

Madprofessor

#56
June 10, 2016, 05:26:19 PM
Quote from: JesterRaiin;902983The suggestion to use standard 1d6 in place of FUDGE dice is pretty common in FATE based games. ;)

Don't try to protect the infidels with your regular d6s proxy, lest we suspect you of possessing a baggy of funky symbol dice used for star wars miniatures and wharhammer 3e!  True believers use gamescience polyhedrals! Preferably ugly ones (though any precision edged gem dice will do in a pinch).

...er - If we're going to play the church of D&D, can I be an inquisitor? Clerics are the best class.

JesterRaiin

#57
June 10, 2016, 05:33:55 PM
Quote from: Madprofessor;902991wharhammer 3e!  

Watch 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!
"If it\'s not appearing, it\'s not a real message." ~ Brett

JesterRaiin

#58
June 10, 2016, 05:35:09 PM
Quote from: Madprofessor;902991wharhammer 3e!  

Watch 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!
"If it\'s not appearing, it\'s not a real message." ~ Brett

Catelf

#59
June 11, 2016, 10:27:29 AM
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!
Oh, And you just had to blow it, didn't you?
I mean, One, What say he meant Fantasy Roleplay?
He could have meant Fantasy Battle .....
And two, Inquisitors in D&D?
Are they really anything against the ones in Warhammer?
(Not to mention those in 40K. :) )

EDIT:
...Your Attachment seem invalid?
Is that a bug?
I may not dislike D&D any longer, but I still dislike the Chaos-Lawful/Evil-Good alignment system, as well as the level system.
;)
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