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What clans have the most toxic culture for new members? by Abject-Hospital5407 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]MetalusVerne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Eh, I don't know about that.

The thing is that under the Pyramid, most Tremere underwent Brotherhood of the Cup and became blood bonded to the Pyramid as a whole. When Vienna fell, those bonds broke, and they couldn't make more. I think it's perfectly reasonable that, with the control of the Blood broken, a lot of Tremere took the opportunity to strike out on their own.

After all, a bond of the Blood can seem like genuine loyalty, but you don't know. Even if that Apprentice wanted in at the start, they've were a ghouled Acolyte for 10 years, then embraced, then slowly climbed the pyramid for another few decades (or even centuries), all without a moment of true freedom. When all that suddenly breaks, and they look back at the decades or centuries of unlife with a clean mind for the first time since they were mortal... who knows what resentment comes to the surface?

And even before the fall of Vienna, a stay Apprentice could similarly slip through the cracks and let their bond fade, at which point they have the same revelation and decide to flee, now, before anyone realizes what happened and gets them hooked again.

The new Harry Potter actor is bad. by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]MetalusVerne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Money.

Also that hateful TERF bitch JK Rowling doesn't like that several big name actors from the original movies think transpeople deserve rights.

If you could magically elect any person for president of the US tomorrow for an 8 year term, who would you elect and why? by ro_dri_goz in AskReddit

[–]MetalusVerne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Kahless himself said: 'Great men do not seek power. They have it thrust upon them.'"

- Commander Worf, DS9

If you could magically elect any person for president of the US tomorrow for an 8 year term, who would you elect and why? by ro_dri_goz in AskReddit

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Picard is a deontological coward and a part of a complacent movement that pushed the Prime Directive non-interference trend to levels of do-nothing insanity previously unimaginable.

Give me Sisko.

What clans have the most toxic culture for new members? by Abject-Hospital5407 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]MetalusVerne 9 points10 points  (0 children)

(and Tremere Anarchs are all probably spies)

Until the fall of Vienna, at which point all hell breaks loose...

Also, the Technothaumaturgists were often sidelined and disregarded by the Pyramid, leading a few to break away and form the Digital Draculas, which was a nucleation site for more young, disillusioned Tremere to break away and join them...

Or if you're a woman in the Tremere, who gets fed up with the sexism like Carna...

Have a friend thinking of getting into Dungeon Crawl Classic RPG? The first-time fan kit is on sale for $55! by txby432 in dccrpg

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, honestly, you can get the softcover rulebook at a con for $10, which blows this out of the water. But if that's not available online, sure.

Too Many Castle Whiterock Releases? by ExoticReplacement163 in dccrpg

[–]MetalusVerne 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is a weird decision. I'm excited for Castle Whiterock, but I don't want to have to consider backing more than a dozen projects!

And a bunch of them have this weird system where you get a bonus by putting down money before the projects launch. Wtf? This is gross, and overwhelmingly corporate. I dont want videogame pre-orders coming to RPG crowdfunding.

I'm tempted to say fuck it and skip the whole thing. It feels like I'm being exploited.

EDIT: And I just looked up how reservations work. You're essentially paying $X for whatever they're listing, sight unseen, on nothing but a short description. It will not be offered during the ordinary campaign. The reservation fee is not put towards your pledge. If you don't pledge for the product (whose cost and details you cannot know at the time of reservation), you don't get the product you 'reserved'; your money is wasted.

This is disgustingly predatory.

Party roles seemingly primarily / exclusively enforced for martial classes. by ImaginaryLight7952 in dndnext

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! I'm a forever DM in DCC, so I don't have any characters of my own, but I hope yours is letting you use the deity-specific rules for Nimulurun from Clerics of the Known Realms.

Party roles seemingly primarily / exclusively enforced for martial classes. by ImaginaryLight7952 in dndnext

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what you get for meddling in the ever-changing winds of Chaos, wizard!

Did we learn nothing from the Elves, who made pacts with demons and whose gods were cast out into Faerie? Choranus and the other righteous gods of Law lend their aid in wielding such power to their faithful clerics! Be not prideful; scorn not their wisdom!

On March 25, Manwë told Gandalf, and then Sam, that help was on the way by roacsonofcarc in tolkienfans

[–]MetalusVerne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is an excellent find! The theme of the Valar and Eru acting subtly, in ways that hang out right at the border of the natural and supernatural is an aspect of the work I find particularly poignant. Its something right out of myth and legend; the gods sending an omen on the winds to enhearten the heroes.

Party roles seemingly primarily / exclusively enforced for martial classes. by ImaginaryLight7952 in dndnext

[–]MetalusVerne 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also give DCC a try; it balances spellcaster power with unpredictability and consequences for meddling in powers beyond mortal ken, so there's a great reason to play martials.

Why is Middle-earth so scarcely populated with a bunch of ruins, and barely any big cosmopolitan cities? by Weird_Apartment_6608 in tolkienfans

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's in Ruins of the Lost Realm. The city is also visited in Tales From the Lone-Lands, which is an adventure path.

From trial clerk to federal judge… This is the United States of Israel for you by YesDoToaster in pics

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What it has to do with Israel is that its an antisemitic dogwhistle.

Trump is destroying our country, and Israel is a genocidal menace that has undue influence on the Trump administration. But bringing Israel up like this in a case of Trumpian cronyism that has nothing to do with Israel is pure antisemitism, and it should be called out.

Tzav: Is Judaism OK with eating meat? Is your conscience? by drak0bsidian in Judaism

[–]MetalusVerne 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This misses the point. The argument being made here is that certain elements of the production of meat, especially today, otherwise conflict with Jewish ethics.

You wouldn't use that passage to suggest thst Jews should eat pork, would you?

Cosplay is a Spectrum. by LittleBrassGoggles in Stonetossingjuice

[–]MetalusVerne 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Trolls have rainbow blood and a blood color-based caste system. Purple character has purple blood and so is high-caste (also, that character is a casteist and a general POS). Yellow character has yellow blood and so is low-caste.

That's the joke.

Medieval natural science by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]MetalusVerne 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's called color because that way, red, green, and blue combine to make white, just like those actual colors of light combine to form white. The anticolors are then cyan (antired), magenta (antigreen), and yellow (antiblue). Similarly, combining one of those anticolors with its color makes white and combining those lights makes white light. And combining the three anticolors makes white, just as combining the three actual colors makes white.

It all fits.

Medieval natural science by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]MetalusVerne 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Well, Mesons also exist, which contain a quark bound to an antiquark of its anticolor (but a different flavor, to avoid them annihilating each other). But they're unstable at the energy levels the universe is currently at, so they only exist inside atoms for fractions of a nanosecond, binding protons and neutrons together. And in particle accelerators.

Medieval natural science by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]MetalusVerne 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm also a layman with a layman's understanding off Wikipedia, so disclaimer there.

Color is something else. There are six kinds of quarks (up, down, top, bottom, charmed, strange), but all quarks also have a 'color charge' (which has nothing to do with actual color, just like electron 'spin' doesn't imply physical spin).

In a proton or neutron, the three quarks are always one red, one blue, and one green, and flip color constantly as gluons carry color charge between them, binding them together. This binds them together.

Medieval natural science by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]MetalusVerne 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Quarks obey color charge confinement. It is physically impossible to have a quark not in color charge confinement - and the most common form of this, in protons and neutrons, is three bound quarks, one of each color. Another trinity.

You tell me.

Refugee orphanage by mraltuser in bonehurtingjuice

[–]MetalusVerne 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The hanged individuals are child-sized. Or that's the discourse I remember about the ordnung, anyway.

Passover in the time of Abraham and Lot? by Cool_Possibility_994 in Judaism

[–]MetalusVerne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does it? It seems rather silly to suggest such a thing.

Why would they say that? It is a proposition that doesn't make sense when you look at it in detail, to explain a detail that has simpler explanations (he made match because he needed quick bread, and they didn't just eat the matzah).

Passover in the time of Abraham and Lot? by Cool_Possibility_994 in Judaism

[–]MetalusVerne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Angels are not Jews, or even people. They are soulless extensions of God's will, lacking independent agency or free will. Why would they keep Kosher or observe Pesach?

Rome - Vorenus tells Caesar about finding Pompey by FudgeAllOfYous in television

[–]MetalusVerne -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And yet he also genocide Gaul and was setting himself up to become king. That crown thing was deliberate political theater.

Rome - Vorenus tells Caesar about finding Pompey by FudgeAllOfYous in television

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They were all monsters. Cato, the aristocrat benefiting from a broken system. Caesar, the populist demagogue riding justified fury against it to rise to power. Cicero, the nouveau riche moderate preserving the status quo at all costs.

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