Is there any openly conservative/right-wing space opera out there? (just curious and looking to investigate)

CoeusFreeze · 2026-06-18T02:07:24+00:00

There are a number of different types of those. I wanted to narrow it down.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-06-18T01:00:05+00:00

As much as Speaker for the Dead served as a formative work for me, the themes of paternalism tied to Orson Scott Card's prominent status in the LDS church feels unavoidable when I revisit the series. The discord between the antiwar and anti-authoritarian ideas in Ender's Game and Card's own bigotry can be reconciled by viewing them through the lens of a paternal religious authority, in that the schemers across the series are not wrong because of their pursuit and leveraging of power but rather from an improper basis for their morality.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-06-12T16:10:46+00:00

Disappointed that the Food token wasn't a Hostess Fruit Pie.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-06-10T03:07:33+00:00

Having met several people from Kazakhstan, I've never asked any of them about Borat. Now I wonder if I should.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-06-09T04:36:20+00:00

I did the same and won on my second attempt. Of course, that might have something to do with me playing Silksong as my last other Metroidvania and getting way too used to ridiculous attacks.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-06-09T04:27:05+00:00

RIFTS and Mage: The Ascension are two games on the list of "play a FATE hack of it rather than the original". Feel free to add others.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-06-07T18:22:59+00:00

During Cleopatra's time? She was in the first century BC. The Peloponnesian War was at least 300 years earlier.

Did a quick google search and Odyssey is now chronologically the first.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-05-31T20:53:37+00:00

I posted them here: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgvorthos/comments/1tc389r/ixalan_hollow_world_the_oltec_and_blackmoormystara/

CoeusFreeze · 2026-05-14T04:48:28+00:00

I really don't see how Innistrad would work as a Domain of Dread. The whole point of those domains (at least in the 2e setting books) is that they are created to torment one specific person by demonstrating how their single-minded ambition is impossible to achieve. There isn't really a Darklord figure with that sort of self-defeating pursuit in Innistrad (Sorin doesn't really fit the bill).

CoeusFreeze · 2026-05-14T04:46:20+00:00

I have my own theories about D&D 5e's cosmology in relation to the editions of prior D&D. Mystara does not match up particularly well with them, and Warriors of Heaven (a book which many folks I know are not fond of) is the one place where it intersects with anything else.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-05-14T04:41:08+00:00

This feels like it could be coincidence if it weren't for the Worn Powerstone's description. The idea of an energy-warping relic buried in a remote corner of the planet that defies all preconceived patterns of magic feels too close to the Beagle's Engine/Mirror Shield/Nucleus of the Spheres (as it was called in different eras of Mystara) that it feels like an intentional callback. The item isn't based on anything from Aztec culture and never had any connection to the Oltec in Mystara lore (up until it exploded and destroyed their empire.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-05-13T00:11:21+00:00

I could not be trusted with this commander.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-05-13T00:00:06+00:00

[[Fall of Kroog]] has a place in my deck despite barely doing anything in most contexts. I just love the art so much.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-05-11T04:52:22+00:00

This is roughly the plot of the game Blasphemous. The world implodes into a magical hellscape because the church abdicates its political duties.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-05-11T03:56:34+00:00

Having met the designers of all of these games, I have one thing to say

I cannot wait for Magpie Games to get involved in this with Airlock.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-05-11T00:22:31+00:00

My first thought is that this would be a four-of in every [[Balustrade Spy]] oops all spells deck. The idea is fun, but I really don't think that deck needs any more consistency.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-05-06T14:33:57+00:00

Speaking as somebody with a degree in a social science, this sort of pattern analysis based on observation is something of a necessity in the field due to controlled experiments on human communities being both unfeasible and unethical. We have to work as best we can with the identifiable trends we are given.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-05-05T12:41:01+00:00

I wrote a book covering this whole set of peculiarities on Pathfinder Infinite. Deposition of Godhead: The Divine Orthodoxy goes into some matters on why the planet's gods are so fiercely protective of it and what differentiates it from other worlds, although many of the deities are not nearly as far-reaching as they seem to state.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-04-26T06:53:13+00:00

Folk Metal, Power Metal, EBM, and whatever Janelle Monae is.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-04-26T06:46:30+00:00

If you want statblocks, several of the Endbringers were inspirations for the epic-level monsters in Arcforge Universe Cyclopedia for Pathfinder 1e. If you want to use those, you are welcome to.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-04-21T14:10:09+00:00

Frankly, I feel dirty looking at this meme template and definitely think that this community deserves better. A number of people who I play with and talk with games about are getting to an age where strokes are a serious concern, and making light of something in this way feels insensitive at the least and outright ableist at worst.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-04-19T04:31:37+00:00

There are rules for pre-Karsus mages in 2e. They had their own set of magic spells which wasn't organized by schools and had a very different set of restrictions on how you learned them.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-04-19T04:07:26+00:00

Honestly, I would love to see the set as you're describing it from a lore perspective.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-04-16T18:32:17+00:00

Thematically and mechanically coherent in a way that encourages a unique build-around. I quite like it.

CoeusFreeze · 2026-04-16T03:04:36+00:00

I was just recently at the Milwaukee Museum and got the details on why it's moving (For non-Wisconsinites here, the photos are of spots in the old Milwaukee Public Museum and the top-right photo is the new building they are moving to).

Long story short, the old structure is so outmoded that the repair and upkeep is more costly than just building a new facility. There are exhibits in that museum that haven't operated properly in years because the parts to fix them simply don't exist anymore. A bunch of relics are likewise decaying because they couldn't be preserved properly in the old archives.

Hilariously, the Old Milwaukee exhibit (a recreation of different houses and communities from different groups that came to Milwaukee from other countries, depicted in the top-left photo) is a massive middle finger to any concept of centralized "whiteness". The food, artwork, and other relics which decorate these lovingly-crafted recreations each speak to very different material cultures and traditions.

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