Results 601 to 605 of 605
-
2020-09-11, 01:16 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Mar 2007
- Location
- Oregon, USA
Re: OOTS #1213 - The Discussion Thread
FeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
The Index of the Giant's Comments VI―Making Dogma from Zapped Bananas
-
2020-09-11, 03:55 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Mar 2009
- Location
- New England
- Gender
Re: OOTS #1213 - The Discussion Thread
Well there are a few different things that *could* be the nature of the Stick-verse.
One is gods as analog for game developers, creating goblins as "easy" XP fodder, as Redcloak says.
Another is that the non-goblin races do have a strong general prejudice, and Roy and O-Chul are the exceptions, not the rule.
Another is that the general population is somewhat apathetic toward the goblin races, but the leadership pushes it (and adventuring murder hobos are more than happy to go along with it; Haley mentionsin On The Origin of PCs), or the Sapphire Guard attacks on the goblins. Meanwhile, there's goblins likeSpoilerhow much faster she levels up as an adventurer after quitting the Thieves' Guildin Good Deeds Gone Unpunished - showing this might cut both ways.SpoilerTingtok saying he only "vaguely" or "passively" hated the humans when his leaders blamed their problems on them
It does seem like it would matter a lot if what Redcloak says about TDO's insight is actually true or not -- if the goblins were set up to be fodder and the Good gods directly instructed their clerics that attacking the Evil races was OK, I'll put most of that blame of the gods, but if non-goblins came to that conclusion on their own, that's the fault of the population for their own prejudices. We do have direct confirmation from Thor that crayon drawing strips are NOT always fully accurate, or are at the very least misleading; Shojo's secret lore said that this is the second world created by the gods, which we now know not to be true (unless Snarl+Rift World have something to do with this in some sort of infinite regression or something, but that seems far-fetched).SpoilerI Am A: Chaotic Neutral Human Sorcerer (5th Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength - 11
Dexterity - 16
Constitution - 11
Intelligence - 15
Wisdom - 12
Charisma - 11
-
2020-09-11, 10:40 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Feb 2013
Re: OOTS #1213 - The Discussion Thread
You do realize you are essentially saying the author lied about his work? The goblin backstory is truth. They were literally created to be XP for PC races to slaughter at will so they could level up. It is a design decision Rich finds deeply offensive, almost as much as the gamers who gleefully use it to justify genocide attempts.
-
2020-09-12, 12:45 AM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Feb 2007
-
2020-10-22, 04:04 AM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Feb 2019
Re: OOTS #1213 - The Discussion Thread
Sorry to be so late to the party, but I would like to point out that "violence" constitutes any form of severe irreparable harm willfully inflicted upon somebody, not merely the variety in which the victim's body is damaged. For example, inflicting psychological damage upon somebody to the point where they will never again be lucid is just as great an injury to them as is damaging their body to the point where they would be in a coma for the rest of their lives.
Also, indirect-but-intentional harm can be considered violence--who would claim that forcing someone to walk the plank does not constitute homicide even if it's the drowning that kills rather than a weapon held by the ones forcing them off the plank?
Because there are ways of violence other than wrecking up somebody's body, this implies that oppressors can indeed violently oppress through means other than bloodshed and beatings--fear of being robbed of vital resources such as access to food and medical care, for example.