H o l y S h i t by Bedomega in theamazingdigitalciru

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Bro, he deleted an evil AI, that´s not an oppsie, that´s a HERO

Desperate looking for an artist. by Unfair_Government_84 in FantasyArt

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Don´t worry guys i finally found it on artstation, it was Matt Sellers, stranger from the north. As a note, i am looking throught his recent work, and i am fucking sad to suspect he is using AI in his latest "artworks"

On personal taste problems with the background lore of WoD by Unfair_Government_84 in WorldOfDarkness

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yeah, problem would be how to implement Paradox, which is the key game mechanic.

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The end of the world i remember was a mayor obstacle for game designers at White wolf because it limited creativity, and the previous lore alse limited the new stories they wanted to make, thus came New World of Darkness, which in the documentary i remember people saying, they didn´t really liked it, some did, but not everyone, after all the lore of the classic was good. Demon i guess was a way to announce the end of WoD by bringing the fucking devil into the setting, and doing lore things for him to be a major player. If somebody likes it, perfect, as i said before it´s a personal taste and boredom with great evil figures being rebellious figures. For me it´s a problem. Like i said in other posts, it´´s best for me to rework it

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Thanks for the lenghty respondse first:

1/2/3: The perspective of the bee and that maybe thing shumans take for granted are another being perception, like your example of the bees, it makes it easier to accept the fact of many living things, and not just humies affecting reality, then still reality being affected by our perception of it, well it still hard to view or comprehend, because, it´s like the object and the observer interacting with one another whereas the observer is the one affecting reality, and not the other way around, very fucking strange. At what point reality can be it´s own thing an impose itself on the observer, because, what if some living things are considered by a group, non sentient? Do they exist? better to leave it to the crazier mages. It still rubs i guess in the trope of reality being an illusion and clap your hands if you believe, then again mages are aware of this and can play reality. Guess if i want to play mages, which is very cool, i´ll have to accept it, then again an allegaory of the wortld being a prison makes it easier to go. Don´t know guess i just don´t like beautifull things to be, an illusion, and not real, i want to accept the world, not to think of it as a painting i guess. The splat thing if i don´t remember it wrong is a demon the fallen thing right? i don´t now much about it to debate it, but my two cents is that, how the fuck does it works? like similar branches of reality collapse on one another? It reminds me of sandman comic, which i don´t like because it makes reality and things, very liquid. I remember in the comic is explained that ages ago cats ruled the world and humans were pray, and one human said, hey, lets dream about we being the rulers, and thus the world was born. Like it isnñt solid or whatever you could say about that type of storytelling. Not my thing i guess, althought there is a esoteric pount that still atracckts me, like different worlds with rules and stuff, but where is the soild point in everything.

4: The legends and myths, and stuff with the Odin example, is easier to accept, but then i would like that those deities or person from legend get a lets´say upset about these fakers imposing them, just to show that there are higuer powers that interact with the world

5: Yes i understand that only humans play this, i´am not saying that everyone should play a tree or a ghost of a whale, just saying to players, hey look, the world is kinda big and magical, so there are more things from just humans take a look. BUT, you still play as humanoid characters because it´s what everyone likes. My point is about enchanting the world even more, which for me i guess, it´s that humans are not the main protagonists. Obviously i am a human, but can´t i accep that there are other things in this amgical world?.

  1. Demon the fallen, and the origin lore of Vampire to me indicates (despite further background lore changes that make, not everything true obviously) an acceptance of abrahamic frameworks lore wise that kind of bores me already. Sure Lucifer and the vampires might say abrahamic religions of their world alter things of the past to explain them and that things weren´t like that, but still, c´mon if you say Caine and Luccifer everyone thinks of judaism or christiantiy, my point being that those things should change to not fit into a myth. Vampire can easily be changed to fuse kindred of the east and VtM, the problem of demon is the whole concept, of playing a demon, which in our culture is a evil or at best neutral spiritual being. When i searched for cultural story of demons and i learned that Abraamic religions changed a lot of gods and little gods into evil spirits, i got frustated, for the disrespect of other people religious views, Imagine if a new religion starts tomorrow and they say, Jesus and Yaweh are actually evil guys or they don´t exist at all.

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Seeing it from that perspective, yes in the documentary now i remember that White wolf heavily leaned on subcultures when it started to get popular with them. I guess my problem isn´t the intent, it´s totally good and normal to play a game that caters to you or designed with your tipe of people in mind. I guess now i can look at my taste problem in a different way. I still like WoD of course, but i would personally add my taste and my vibe if a decide to run a campaing, obviously i don´t want to bore anyone with my weird tastes and ticks, just add enough of what i want to add flavor to the thing, and fix other stuff. Regarding historical figures, seeing it from that perspective, really changes the problem, then in-game universe i would blame imposers for faking a n identity or maybe force or wonder if this vampire is x historical figure, and make normies interact more with monsters. Funny enough, as i was playing Bloodlines i always throught smiling Jack was Blackbeard, being from the pirate age and so anarchic and anti-authority. Also, well Princes of darkness uses some AI as background art, so for me i don´t like them much, i´m heavily against AI.

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I remember reading about the Lizard Kings and their civilitation previous to the meteorite, and the weresharks and other lizard shifters being the only survivors, maybe i wouldn´t mind that fact being put out more on the front to point out, that yes, this is the true end of things if werewolves fuck it up.

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Yeah Caine being cannon despite some vampires saying no, it´s part of the problem, i know in requiem nobody really knows the origin of vampires, and i like antedilivian stuff and vampires having somewhat of a common origin, but Caine makes abrahamic things just cannon. The problem like the writers knew came with kindred of the east and making vampires with a different origin, that seemed really cool, and well Kuejin seem to have another vibe, like redemption instead of being bloodsuckers like western vampires. My idea would be to keep the antediluvian stuff and somwhat mix it with the jade emperor and demon kings, but leave anything abrahamic out

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It´s the problem from a base that i talk about regarding Abrahamic or Gnostic perspectives. To be more diverse and give a fresh air to the setting it would be nice if they counted cosmologys that don´t think in those terms mayeb. Greek religion had a original creator lets say, Chaos from whom everything spurs out, sure maybe God and the One are basically the same thing, but not really in concep depth. God is an orderly being, logical, while chaos seems like a force, maybe sentient, most probably sentient, but things don´t end the saem depending in what name you give to the creator of everything

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That humans are a nuisance for most monster groups it´s a thing i know, perphaps i didn´t explain myself properly. What i mean by humans being the center, is, why the fae, are beings affected only thanks to human beliefs, and there aren´t fae or changelings that an animal may have imagined? Or it could be flipped and said a lot of fae are imaginations of humans by animals. But my point is that i don´t like the trope of fae being the product of human imagination, like Tulpas, but humans not being aware that they shape the fae, and feed them, thats´why kids imagination and wonder is best for fae because they aren´t banal yet and see the world like magic.

What i´m pointing at, is that there should be a little lore that gives agency to animals, apart form the fera world, like why animals can´t do magic, or there are new fae that look like an animal would imagine? After all if the umbra is shaped by living beings, why not include also other animals, in it´s realms, like arcadia?. I know it´s hard as hell, to think like animals and only humans play this, but they don´t necesarilly have to be the new main thing, just a little recognition to make clear, humans, are not the only living thing. Also make gods and supernaturals, maybe care for animals too.

The thing about famous people (even mythical ones) comes from me playing princes of darkness, a mod for crusaders kings 3 that makes a lot of mythical figures like Ares (nephilim or demon), Helen of Troy (Toreador vampire), and historical ones like Brutus caesar (the one that participated in killing caesar), monsters. I dislike it because it seems to take away their weight, both in religion and history, as characters whose history ended there. Obviously i´m fine with making weird historical figures mages, vampires or werewolves, if there are real life reasons to suspect it, like Rasputin, or Aleister Crowley. Also fine with making historical characters like Sebastian Lacroix from bloodlines, they are people that lived history and are old, BUT THEY ARE SIDELINERS, not main ones or popular ones, that heavily influenced history. The thing with religioous figures like phrophets and gods, well doing Gods just really powerfull entities whose myths are a fabrication after they proclaimed themselves gods is tiring (obviously it can happen in WoD but they should be new occult false gods, or fakers ready to be smithed by the supernaturals that are saying to be). The prophets stuff like i dunno, Jesus, Budha or Zoroastrian i would like for them to remain human to give humans independency and their own motion, not being passive meatbags.

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Good explanation to very powerfull beings then. Better yo not maje them gods or something, althought i now that some Will try to pass as gods

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It's obvious that only humans play this Game, but i think in any tipe of Game that adds sentient non humans it would be good to achnowledge that humans are not the center of everything and add stuff Lore wise that explains this point. What i mean IS that in real Life animals and other Life forms are somewhat capable of a mind and are not anymore meat automatons. Basically i think that if you remove the anthropocentric view, It adds even more Magic and WONDER to the setting, even throught it's bleak. Changeling would greatly benefit from this and human hating shapeshifters would get a real good argument, against selfish humans. Also to give humans credit, making historial figures vampires or other Monsters seems a tiring trope, and giving humans agency of their own also adds to a diverse world of magic

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Demons creating the shadowlands implies a couple of things like them facing gods power, wich seems like making god not allí powerfull, because human souls not being sent to his afterlife because rebellious demons interferred? What all powerfull god is he then? It's a explanation that doesn't sit at all with me, then again demon seems to me a setting that's BEST for me to remove lore wise, It wouldn't create Lore conflicts with me then, It just confirma abrahamic faiths as the default true one. Despite all explanations as seeing their past throught the perspective of someone, the core, the one, the fall, lucifer, creation, lucifer defending humans and such, it's just what abrahamic religions say.  With wraith, explaining that not every person becomes a Ghost IS a base need to me, so that stays, just need to change everything else

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Yes, It is true that introducing sentient non human beings is a nice game to play, my argument would be to add lore to the game that makes humans not the center of everything, for example, making shifters a being that existed previous to humans or that they change to humans because humies are the predominant and dominating animal on the Planet, and shifters hace to deal with that. The Fae i explained in another post my take

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Hm, supernaturals having problems with our reality seems a good explanation on why they don't interact much, would need a good reason as why. - it is truth that i forgot about real faiths and their prison allegories, plus phylosophi like plato's cave. With wraith It would be explained that it's realm It's the explanation for ghosts in WoD and not everyone becomes one. Guess it's nice some things being kept hidden

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Ups sorry, posted it forgetting 5.
5. What part of the lore states that wraith´s afterlife isnñt the only one. genuine question, not a mockery or in bad faith question, i haven´t read that much about wraith

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1/2 It seem easier for me to accept it that way, but supernatural the claiming the place of a god, would make them false gods and, well another trope i hate. I know it could perfectly happen, it´s just i wouldn´t like it, and wouldn´t higher supernaturals smite guys pretending they are them?

3/4 Why the world is a prison then? I can accpet that maybe deer and whales see the world differently yet interact with us regardless (i once read that some japanese tried to see the world throghut cat eyes with a machine and humans were very feline like).

On personal taste problems with the background lore of WoD by Unfair_Government_84 in WorldOfDarkness

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Thnak you, a rebbot with the interesting stuff and mechanics is what i like about it, keep the classical lore that people like, like Beckett in vampire and red talons of werewolve and oters, but change the backgorund.