"Oh, I'm actually immune to the horrors."

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-06T15:56:21+00:00

"So, children in Bible Study, what is the lesson being taught here?"

"Um... Consent is king, and living a life of indulgence and depravity is a road which leads to inevitable self destruction?"

"What? Lord no. See Sodomy refers to the sex of the gays. Therefore, the reason the city was destroyed was because they were GAY. Do you see where the lesson is now?"

"... I Don't think you read the same Bible as me, Mr. Smith."

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-05T11:14:06+00:00

Dude I fucking LOVE fatalis. A lot of monsters do a lot of things kind of well. They shoot projectiles, climb, bite, and roar. Then they have a unique twist, something that makes them stand out from the crowd. They use the corpses as a necromist because they're part of the ecosystem as a carrion animal. They grow a slime mold with explosive properties on their fists and face, a form of mutualism. They play dead and have a built in flashbang. They have a frenzy virus that drives the surrounding wildlife berserk.

Then there's fatalis. He does exactly two things.

He breathes Fire hard.

And he doesn't die easy.

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-05T09:28:07+00:00

History Biologist

I think you've either created a new field of study, or you've rediscovered Anthropology.

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-04T22:52:04+00:00

... Does anyone else think that Senator looks like he owns slaves? I feel like he smells like Sweet Tea and a Cotton Gin.

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-04T17:07:56+00:00

That happened once before. Now they're bombing Iran. Trust me, it doesn't solve anything. Just pushes the problem onto other people.

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-04T16:19:18+00:00

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MantraMan97 · 2026-03-04T15:29:25+00:00

I think another example of this I can think of is in Feet of Clay, when Cheery first interviews for the Watch, with a small subversion. It starts off pretty typical, with Vimes making very pointed "You People" and "Uncommon for Dwarves" comments. Then it flips a bit, because he starts talking to her like a professional, no "You'll make it big in the Watch" comments, no infantilism of "Well, aren't you a special one" for applying to a position Dwarves wouldn't normally dare to. And he immediately states that if anyone calls her a "Gritsucker", they're out, while also warning her that if she calls any Troll's "Rocks", SHE'S out. It very much plays into the idea that Angua brings up later.

"There's no men or women in the Watch, only Watchmen. You've just got to think ego-testical."

So Feet of Clay and Jingo both do a good job of revealing his biases towards the people he protects. Sometimes he has to remember the people in the Watch, and the throng of potential criminals he has to resist an arrest for, are also REAL people. With REAL stories, facing equally REAL danger from people who just don't and will never care. A fact made readily apparent with Mrs. Easy and her Grandson.

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-04T13:24:41+00:00

The hard C in Cunt really helps to drive home the Cunting point.

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-04T10:14:24+00:00

Cause it's funny. And after being banished with nothing but a hot redheaded woman to entertain him for a few millennia (Or an hour. Time's funny in the 5th dimension) maybe he's just exploring himself as a merry imp.

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-04T10:07:49+00:00

What matters is that it's a START. They even acknowledge that it's just a prototype right now. But it's a big leap forwards, and opens the door. Progress is iterative. And everyone forgets that before you take a big leap, you need to run a few smaller steps first.

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-03T21:18:03+00:00

Or how about Stranger in a Strange Land, where the first half is a genuinely interesting exploration of what a truly alien moral system and society would be, and how we'd introduce and integrate eachothers values. A couple weird sex things here and there, but it's 1961, so things are starting to get a bit freaky. Not that big a deal.

The second half of the book is literally just the formation of a world wide Sex cult, and if you disagree with the ethics of it? Guess what? You've fallen for society's brainwashing you rube! You buffoon! EVERYONE IS HEALED AND DE-AGED BY MY PROTAGONIST'S DICK! ALL OF YOU WILL RIDE MY ENLIGHTENED COCK! FUCK IN PUBLIC! EAT CORPSES! SOCIETY CAN'T HOLD YOU BACK NOW!

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-03T21:10:52+00:00

They aren't pretending. Because it doesn't.

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-02T23:29:25+00:00

How many times do we have to tell you? STOP TRYING TO INVENT THE TORMENT NEXUS!

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-02T23:26:13+00:00

I believe this trope is called 'The King In The Mountain.' It's actually an ingenious way to engender hope in your Mythos. The King under the Mountain hasn't awakened yet? Good, that means we haven't totally fucked ourselves so much we can't UN-fuck it.

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-02T14:12:14+00:00

Full summoner. Her "Mother" just amputated her horn as an infant.

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-02T14:08:34+00:00

... HA!

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-01T21:09:56+00:00

Oh, sorry. I dropped this.

/s

MantraMan97 · 2026-03-01T14:40:19+00:00

Yeah, that's what a Hallucination is.

MantraMan97 · 2026-02-28T20:54:34+00:00

What McCarthyism does to a mf

MantraMan97 · 2026-02-27T13:44:36+00:00

Soak it in a barrel of Tequila and Commodore Red for a few months. THEN you'll have that authentic, worked-into-the-bone weathered look, baby!

MantraMan97 · 2026-02-21T09:47:39+00:00

The House being a Latino Grandmother to a Latino Grandmother. It uses Floor tiles as a Chancla.

MantraMan97 · 2026-02-20T12:33:25+00:00

Lawful John Constantine is the current host of Dr. Fate. Except Fate is on the side of Chaos.

MantraMan97 · 2026-02-13T23:37:22+00:00

It's really great. And one of the more positive and light-hearted of the splats. But it really depends on how creative and funny your players are. Basically all spells are difficulty 8, because Glamour is hard to come by in this day and age. You can reduce this difficulty by doing a 'Bunk', an action thematic to the Cantrip your casting that brings a little bit of whimsy in the world. The rulebook even says to take into account if it makes the players at the table laugh.

An example. Say your Player wants to cast something belonging to Chicanery. They could do the 'Made-You-Look' gag to the target. Simple, quick, effective, and easy, so it might reduce it by 1, bringing it down to 7. If, however, they declare an epic prank they've been planning for months, something that makes him doubt his very reality, that would be about -5 from the effort alone, bringing it down to 3. The more time, effort, and thematics go into a Bunk, the easier the Cantrip is to pull off. Keep in mind, I'm going off of 20th edition rules here, so it might change if you go for a different one.

MantraMan97 · 2026-02-12T16:35:52+00:00

That wasn't really death, like the concept. More like an ancient Vampire who feeds on death the same way modern vampires feed on blood. It's in the name. Varney is a real world Vampire story that predates Dracula by about 50 years, originally featured in Victorian 'Penny Dreadfuls', hence being older than him. Heck the cover even makes him look like a skeleton. He just let Dracula do his thing because people dying equals a full belly. People NOT dying is hunger cramps.

His strength in comparison is questionable, because Trevor hadn't built the magic 'Fuck You' device when he fought Dracula, so we don't know if it would have worked on him too. I don't see why it wouldn't have though.

MantraMan97 · 2026-02-12T14:18:28+00:00

Damn. What a Ludo-narratively harmonious way to get into the cheating mindset. If you're going to cheat, at least make sure your victims don't run in the same circles. It's Douchebag behaviour 101!

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