It's offensive after almost 50 years now. Paizo is trying to curb the wokies at the gate. Lol!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/comicbook.com/gaming/amp/news/pathfinder-paizo-phylactery-lich-soul-cages/

Phylacteries were also magic items, usable only by Clerics, that benefitted the wearer in 1e D&D.
Does Paizo have anything like that, as opposed to the Lich version?

Oh my God who the hell cares, Paizo? Excuse me, Baizuo. :U

I'd had at least been understanding if they changed it to "Soul Gem" or something because "Phylactery" is usually inaccurate as most liches don't use a box filled with papers. I don't think I've actually heard of a lich who used the default phylactery.

What's next? Changing "Demilich" because it's offensive to Demisexuals? Or removing it entirely because it's offensive to physically handicapped people to refer to have less of your bodymass intact as "leaser"?

Calling it now!

Quote from: PsyXypher on October 30, 2021, 12:59:26 PM
Oh my God who the hell cares, Paizo? Excuse me, Baizuo. :U

I'd had at least been understanding if they changed it to "Soul Gem" or something because "Phylactery" is usually inaccurate as most liches don't use a box filled with papers. I don't think I've actually heard of a lich who used the default phylactery.

What's next? Changing "Demilich" because it's offensive to Demisexuals? Or removing it entirely because it's offensive to physically handicapped people to refer to have less of your bodymass intact as "leaser"?

Calling it now!

Heh. Demilich becomes offensive because "Demisexuals"? Possible. And offensive to whatever sexuality Demi Lovato declared to be (as a distraction.) as soon as she got called out for being a shitty person.
Nothing is too stupid to become reality in Clownworld.


BTW:
When's the last time you heard of Elves, Dwarves and Halflings referred to,  collectively, as "Demihumans"?

Lich? Call it 'Evil Undead Sorcerer' wouldn't want it to be a offensive innacurate portrayal of lichyards.

I feel bad for how doomed paizo is. This is very much complaining about the paintjob when the house is on fire.

Quote from: PsyXypher on October 30, 2021, 12:59:26 PM
What's next? Changing "Demilich" because it's offensive to Demisexuals? Or removing it entirely because it's offensive to physically handicapped people to refer to have less of your bodymass intact as "leaser"?

Calling it now!

Easy call. The goal is to make everything offensive and destroy our ability to communicate.

Quote from: DM_Curt on October 30, 2021, 01:09:38 PM

BTW:
When's the last time you heard of Elves, Dwarves and Halflings referred to,  collectively, as "Demihumans"?

I haven't heard Elves, Dwarves and the like referred to as "Demihumans" but oddly enough anime usually uses Demihuman to refer to kemonomimi races. So stuff like catgirls, wolf girls, et cetera.

Quote from: sunsteel on October 30, 2021, 12:40:01 PM
It's offensive after almost 50 years now. Paizo is trying to curb the wokies at the gate. Lol!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/comicbook.com/gaming/amp/news/pathfinder-paizo-phylactery-lich-soul-cages/

By itself, this change is a nothingburger.

In context, this is today's" Fuck You If You Aren't Woke, Hate-you-die-already!!!, Baizuo."

I wasn't gonna buy their wokeshit before, not gonna buy it now.

Quote from: DM_Curt on October 30, 2021, 01:09:38 PM
BTW:
When's the last time you heard of Elves, Dwarves and Halflings referred to,  collectively, as "Demihumans"?

   1999. The humans/demihumans/humanoids distinction went away with 3E, lumping everything into 'humanoid.'

  The change in and of itself doesn't bother me--phylactery has always been a misnomer for the main item in question. (The clerical magical items seem closer to the actual meaning.) Call me when they get Limbo right.

They didn't call them horcruxes? I'm sad now. Rowling coined a new word without pre-existing baggage and they don't use it?

Anyway, I'm going to write a short story about a voldemort whose horcrux is a tefillin. Because I'm a grammar nazi and damn proud of it.

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on October 30, 2021, 03:18:46 PM
They didn't call them horcruxes? I'm sad now. Rowling coined a new word without pre-existing baggage and they don't use it?

Anyway, I'm going to write a short story about a voldemort whose horcrux is a tefillin. Because I'm a grammar nazi and damn proud of it.

I think that'd run afoul of Copyright law. I dunno if Horcrux is copyrighted, but using a term from a (technically) more successful property might raise legal concerns.

Quote from: DM_Curt on October 30, 2021, 12:51:56 PM
Phylacteries were also magic items, usable only by Clerics, that benefitted the wearer in 1e D&D.
Does Paizo have anything like that, as opposed to the Lich version?

Yes.  Those are normally little boxes holding sacred texts you wear to help your relationship with your god, like actual phylacteries.  The lich version is just whatever bit of bling an evil death wizard uses as a save point to shove it's spiritual bits in.

"Soul cage" sounds like a lazy attempt to try too hard to sound villainous, though.  I'd probably just call it a reliquary, as a general term for a place you keep important things from the past.  Nothing in a lich's past is more important than its own mortality, so they need someplace to keep it safe and secure.

If a lich had a phylactery, it would probably be a page with a cypher for where they left their save point in case it was ever needed again and didn't want to have the fantasy immortal version of forgetting their password.

"'What was my scholomanse's mascot?  Fuck, that was 500 years ago, what the hell did I mean by that?"

Quote from: PsyXypher on October 30, 2021, 03:21:29 PM

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on October 30, 2021, 03:18:46 PM
They didn't call them horcruxes? I'm sad now. Rowling coined a new word without pre-existing baggage and they don't use it?

Anyway, I'm going to write a short story about a voldemort whose horcrux is a tefillin. Because I'm a grammar nazi and damn proud of it.

I think that'd run afoul of Copyright law. I dunno if Horcrux is copyrighted, but using a term from a (technically) more successful property might raise legal concerns.

you can't copyright a word
https://www.marksgray.com/i-invented-a-word-how-do-i-trademark-or-copyright-it/

I've seen it used in shows and books since

Greetings!

"Baizuo has noted that there are some that have considered the use of the term "Phylactery" in the game as being "problematic"."

It would be nice if some of these owners, developers, writers, management, etc, would just tell people that believe something is "problematic" to fuck it in their ass and shut the fuck up.

How about no one fucking cares if you feel something is "problematic". Cry, sobbing bitch. Welcome to the real world. The real world doesn't care what hurts your feelings, or whatever you feel is "problematic". And you know what else? There's lots of places where anyone crying about things like this would just get curb-stomped to death, right there on the spot. How's that sound for being "problematic"?

Fucking snot-nosed, crybaby bitches. The world is full of offensive, insulting things. I get insulted and offended and believe lots of things are "problematic"--but that doesn't mean the world gives a fuck about what I feel though, isn't that right? Well, why doesn't the world run and gibber and bow the fuck down to whatever *I* think is "problematic"? That's right. Only special individuals have that power and status, evidently.

Our whole society is being run through with a mental an ideological Marxist virus. It's no wonder people are just going off and start fucking killing people randomly, enraged.

Baizuo is a fucking cucked company, and their days are fucking numbered now that they have kneeled down to the fucking troglodyte employees demaning a union.

Who gives a fuck about Baizuo, or what they do with Pathfinder? Baizuo is becoming more an more irrelevant with each passing day.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

What Paizo said to me when I read that statement:

https://imgur.com/a/L4xnFSk