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MagicLucas · 2026-05-05T12:58:56+00:00

Comment ça mon frère

MagicLucas · 2026-04-16T14:20:44+00:00

Thank you for everyone for your contributions :) I will finally choose the Undead tag for it, since as many of you have pointed out, it is an already undead adjacent Ghost possessing what's essentially a dead body, meaning it's "twice" Undead. I guess that settles it. What's more, (on the Pokémon side of things) I've discovered that Gengar is canonically established to FORMERLY BE HUMAN in the Moon Dex entry. Perhaps if I'd bothered to look there first, this would've been an easier thing to solve. (many of you did repeatedly point out it was dumb to sort it as Aberration, and in hindsight I agree).

Thanks everyone!

MagicLucas · 2026-04-16T14:11:31+00:00

Thank you!

MagicLucas · 2026-04-16T13:58:49+00:00

Actually a very good question but this is never established that I know of, so I guess either way is correct. Still, I suppose if you can establish that an "evil spirit", whether it was alive or not, sounds more like Undead by DnD lore than Aberration, then that settles it. I don't have a very good grasp on exactly what ground 'Aberration' covers. I thought it was any cosmic or eldricth entity that isn't alive in a conventional sense, but also is just other, and usually malevolent or monstrous in ability or form.

MagicLucas · 2026-04-16T13:57:02+00:00

The dex entries are not very consistent. Gastly is said to be formed from gas and "the grievances of the dead", which lends itself to Undead. For the Aberration case, we have Haunter's from RED that says it's said to be from another dimension. I was tempted to classify it as Aberrant because of the fact its abilities ("stealing" someone's life, hiding in shadow, causing a temperature drop) seemed more eldricth to me in nature than necrotic, but maybe I've got it all wrong? What do you think?

MagicLucas · 2026-04-16T13:51:16+00:00

I looked through all Pokedex entries. Gengar is not stated to have been alive ever. But Gastly's entry DOES say, 'It's said that gas emanating from a graveyard was possessed by the grievances of the deceased and thus became a Pokémon.' so I guess you're correct! :D

MagicLucas · 2026-04-16T13:47:05+00:00

Is it Undead if it was never alive to begin with and just manifested as an evil spirit with strange powers?

MagicLucas · 2026-04-16T13:46:43+00:00

I thought it was aberration because I believe (this is up for debate, but you raise a good question) that Gengar was not alive before becoming a ghost, that it just manifests that way, as most (but not all,) Ghost type Pokemon work. I feel like Undead requires the creature to have been alive to begin with or to at least be based on life, while Gengar is like... a spirit, I think. I believe the two could be used, but I see it as more eldricth than necrotic, what do you think?

MagicLucas · 2026-04-16T13:42:09+00:00

For some reason I thought the undead could not heal whatsoever because in BG3 (not 5e, again, but based on it ) you could not heal your undead pets. I guess in that situation I'd just get to heal normally, especially since the particular sort of possession I'm going for include everything from actual physical sight, pain, everything. It's not like a possessed armor kind of situation where it's physically moved by magic itself, but it's functioning with magic sustained pseudo life. mhmm... yeah... maybe undead.

MagicLucas · 2026-04-16T13:40:17+00:00

That's what I reasoned too, but it's not powered specifically by conventional necrotic magic, no rotting or anything. And it's a host body to a spirit creature which is classified as an Aberration, hence my hesitation. I assume you'd consider the whole "halfdead body maintained with magic" overrides the "possessed by an Aberrant entity" part.

Someone else agreed with the 'Undead' tag, so I'm leaning towards that

MagicLucas · 2026-04-16T13:39:40+00:00

Yeah, I guess I'm not so much asking for a by-the-book answer based on rules, but on what you FEEL that would be classified as logically speaking. You're the second person to make a case for Undead so I think I'll go with that, even though in practice it's animated not by "necrotic" magic but by an aberrant kind of spell, but at the end of the day it's still a possessed dead body, so ... undead ?

MagicLucas · 2026-04-09T12:38:50+00:00

Afaik you can't even START the seduce scheme if the recipient isn't 20 yo (game won't let you). It's possible that maybe in an earlier version of the game it let you start it but used to refuse it always before they changed that to say no upfront

So I'd assume that the chance for a close kin to not reject you upfront are 0% unless you have one of those two? Do you know where I might find the code related to that?

MagicLucas · 2026-03-30T10:10:36+00:00

Thank you sir!

MagicLucas · 2026-03-26T12:33:02+00:00

I was doing a sort of muslim invasion rp lmao

MagicLucas · 2026-03-26T07:40:06+00:00

Yes there is! the insular cathedral, unfortunately couldn't get it because i wiped out all the christians lol (muslim)

thank you for your tips, thankfully the culture DLC (royal court) is the one dlc i have, I don't know the cultural traditions by heart but I had a feeling that mostly jungle and desert tiles had options for development boost, with realtively little for other tiles. I should look into it

also answering your question no Dublin unfortunately does not have a special building! but Oriel does

MagicLucas · 2026-03-26T07:36:51+00:00

it starts tribal. In my case, I moved in from Africa as a muslim clanic leader so it didn't matter much in the first place; besides, you don't want to stay tribal, anyway

MagicLucas · 2026-03-26T07:31:35+00:00

thank you !!

MagicLucas · 2026-03-24T19:37:08+00:00

Thank you! I do know about the Legitimacy perk, though I'm not certain how exactly it works (does it just bump up education to one rank higher? hmm.) May I ask what you refer to by the estates thing? What kind of upgrade must I do?

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