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When PC-ness of a setting runs mad...

Started by RPGPundit, January 06, 2010, 07:57:24 PM

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Edsan

#15
January 06, 2010, 10:14:50 PM
Man, this thread is fun! :rotfl:

I don't think having catholic priestesses in a RPG has anything to do with political correctness.

Now, as an excuse to increase boob density per adventuring party and let the female players run catholic versions of their Xena Warrior Princess PC templates...maybe.
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#16
January 06, 2010, 10:32:24 PM
Quote from: boulet;353659Never tried the Eucharist thing huh? The sacramental bread is terribly dry and tends to stick to the pharynx.
There's a reason why they call it the "bread of affliction".

Hey, there's an idea for a holy weapon:  the Eucharist Railgun.  Eucharist wafers are accelerated along an electrostatic rail to high velocity, whizzing forth like holy discs of affliction upon their targets.

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Cranewings

#17
January 06, 2010, 10:56:58 PM
Quote from: Ian Absentia;353676There's a reason why they call it the "bread of affliction".

Hey, there's an idea for a holy weapon:  the Eucharist Railgun.  Eucharist wafers are accelerated along an electrostatic rail to high velocity, whizzing forth like holy discs of affliction upon their targets.

!i!

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Hairfoot

#18
January 06, 2010, 11:11:12 PM
It's obviously an adventuring altar boy.

StormBringer

#19
January 06, 2010, 11:30:45 PM
Quote from: ticopelp;353666Seriously, this is beyond the pale. It's almost as if roleplaying games take place in some kind of make-believe universe where things don't work the way they do in the real world. That's bullshit!
Ticopelp wins the thread.
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J Arcane

#20
January 07, 2010, 12:16:03 AM
I think it's a hilariously stupid cover for the reasons Pundit stated and many more beside, and wish that someone else had posted it, so we'd all be pointing and laughing instead of dogpiling on Pundit for having said it.
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#21
January 07, 2010, 12:17:52 AM
While I find the idea of a Catholic Priestess in the Vatican to be really stupid, I'd have more fun if we were bashing on Blue Rose, again.
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#22
January 07, 2010, 12:48:34 AM
Quote from: J Arcane;353706I think it's a hilariously stupid cover for the reasons Pundit stated and many more beside, and wish that someone else had posted it, so we'd all be pointing and laughing instead of dogpiling on Pundit for having said it.

It is a stupid cover. Doesn't mean that it's also representative of some insidious political correctness conspiracy. If Pundit hadn't posted it in that context I doubt it would have merited much comment. It lacks the verve of  Conjurer and Cameltoe or even the old d20 porn trace.

Premier

#23
January 07, 2010, 06:05:50 AM
Quote from: Ronin;353660Which is why you wash it down with the blood of Christ.

Yes, but do you do that metaphorically or literally?
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flyingmice

#24
January 07, 2010, 08:51:18 AM
Quote from: J Arcane;353706I think it's a hilariously stupid cover for the reasons Pundit stated and many more beside, and wish that someone else had posted it, so we'd all be pointing and laughing instead of dogpiling on Pundit for having said it.

The illo is faulty enough technique wise - the light is all wrong, first of all - that the existence of a female elf priest is the least of it's worries. I didn't even notice the second priest until I reread the OP. Thing is, I don't think the reason is PC-ness. I think it's - as others have stated - wish fulfillment. The crowning piece of evidence for this is the katana the woman priest is raising - awkwardly - behind her head. If you see a katana in any illo not about medieval Japan, you are in adolescent wish fulfillment territory.

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camazotz

#25
January 07, 2010, 10:31:35 AM
Quote from: flyingmice;353725The illo is faulty enough technique wise - the light is all wrong, first of all - that the existence of a female elf priest is the least of it's worries. I didn't even notice the second priest until I reread the OP. Thing is, I don't think the reason is PC-ness. I think it's - as others have stated - wish fulfillment. The crowning piece of evidence for this is the katana the woman priest is raising - awkwardly - behind her head. If you see a katana in any illo not about medieval Japan, you are in adolescent wish fulfillment territory.

-clash

Yes, my gues is this illustration (and probably the game) spawned from a long night of binging on cheetos and pizza while watching back to back DVDs of Underworld, Van Helsing and just the scene of the elf chick from LotR spliced in with some sort of seemy elf porn cosplay youtube special.

With katanas.

Thanlis

#26
January 07, 2010, 10:42:10 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;353621I've never played this game, I've never seen anything of it other than the cover and the description based in a thread on another forum...

No shit, you haven't. She's Episcopalian.

flyingmice

#27
January 07, 2010, 11:08:23 AM
Quote from: Thanlis;353733No shit, you haven't. She's Episcopalian.

I doubt that - they are supposed to be working for the Vatican. Here's a bit on clerical collars.

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#28
January 07, 2010, 11:09:00 AM
Quote from: camazotz;353729Yes, my gues is this illustration (and probably the game) spawned from a long night of binging on cheetos and pizza while watching back to back DVDs of Underworld, Van Helsing and just the scene of the elf chick from LotR spliced in with some sort of seemy elf porn cosplay youtube special.

With katanas.

My thoughts exactly! :D

-clash
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Ian Absentia

#29
January 07, 2010, 11:20:54 AM
Quote from: flyingmice;353738I doubt that - they are supposed to be working for the Vatican.
Episcopalians working for the Vatican?  What kind of crackpot conspiracist are you?

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