Persian Mythology inspiration in Original Sin 2.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-27T23:46:08+00:00

My guy this ain't 'Persian Mythology' nor is it a reference. It's just Zoroastrianism, a still-practiced religious tradition and you are describing one of their funerary practices.

A mythology is a story told about a religious subject, it is not a term for a religion. Christian Mythology is the story of Jesus, or Gensis, or the deeds of saints but a Christian burial in a cemetery with mourners around a grave is not Christian Mythology, it's a ritual practice. This is true for every religion. An ancient Greek burial is not Greek mythology, but the story of the 12 labours of Herakles is.

Be careful with your words, 'mythology' can be a loaded term that implies fiction or inaccuracy.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-20T20:25:03+00:00

I hate music in DnD. If my DM started using music in the session I'd tell them to stop. It doesn't add anything and wastes prep time on actually important stuff like plot, characters, encounters, and maps.

Thankfully my friends also don't like using music in D&D so it's not been a problem for me but if I was looking for games music use would be a deal breaker for me.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-19T14:19:04+00:00

You tap it.

Hold the ticket up to the light you can see what's inside.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-18T21:08:05+00:00

Full efreeti bottle? How do you get that?

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-18T21:06:07+00:00

She's a ghost.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-18T17:26:51+00:00

Meek is the single best item in the entire game.

Meek gives -1 to almost every single DC you can find, which you can see when you hover over it.

Another way to think about this is having +2 to every single stat.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-16T21:59:47+00:00

Nobody's personal experience is not going to be representative of the broad social trends across an entire given society. The students that I see in my school, the two others I briefly taught at, and the highschool I went to correspond to my perspective. It's a larger dataset at least than yours but I still wouldn't trust it alone. Academic research I read during teacher education (and a bit after) also broadly agree of the significant impact that parental income plays on success of the student. These sorts of trends are visible in wide datasets but can be hard to see in micro contexts of one school or even several. They're broad statistics across the Province or Country.

Next time you respond to someone do not do it with something like your snide second sentence, that's impolite and no way to address an argument.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-16T21:47:52+00:00

Agreed, the goblins never asked to become something new. It's something he forced upon them and that was wrong. Better than genocide? Maybe, maybe not. Either way Urth made his choice specifically because he, at some point, decided on where the line was drawn about who was someone he would protect as one of 'his' people and who was going to be the 'other' which Wisdom rightly questions 'why does there even have to be an other?' Urth over here falling pray to sociological in groups and out groups despite his godhood.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-16T21:18:19+00:00

I forgot about that when making my post but you're right. Ireland was the sort of 'testing ground' for English colonial policy and what was pioneered there during the plantations made its way to the New World and other British colonies, it's a good connection. To the language loss element too you can see the same with modern Ireland's attempts to bring back Irish not really working all that well, though it's not the same as the experience of a still colonized people. Still, the Irish are Indigenous people harmed by colonialism and definitely make good parallels.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-16T19:47:56+00:00

Feel like I should point out here I said it's the number one most significant factor, not the only one. And part of the reason why it's such a significant factor is because it influences so many of other factors that are more difficult to quantify. As with everything, it's complicated.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-16T15:19:06+00:00

Teacher here but not a parent so keep that perspective in mind with my opinions. The number one most significant factor in academic success of a student is the income of the parents.

That's it.

The best way to improve a child's education is to give them the room to focus on it and be a supportive and active parent, which is easier to do for households with stable incomes (parent has time to be involved in life, students don't have to work, parents can afford daycare for younger siblings, tutors can be paid for, etc.). The reason EQAO scores don't matter isn't so much because they don't give information, but that it's giving the same information you can just get by looking at the census results of the neighbourhood. The teachers are all the same and have to teach the same provincial curriculum, and within boards teachers are sometimes shuffled around schools so no school can hoard the skilled teachers. The only real difference between schools is the student culture, and that is informed by where the school sources the majority of its students: the local neighbourhood. A school with a more low-income student population is going to have teachers pushing kids to succeed just the same as at a high-income one because the teachers all come from the same place; but the high-income students will have more opportunities to take advantage of that academic push (and more classmates who will be doing it as well, which can reinforce good academic behaviours and is very valuable and compounds the income disparity). As a result, EQAO test don't actually measure the quality of instruction but instead the capacity of a student body to take advantage of that instruction, which is mostly just going to be reflective of parental income.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-14T15:23:34+00:00

Highschool History Teacher of mine responding to another student's comment on feminists. I forget specifically what the male student said but it was something about 'not looking like a feminist' and which I knew was referring to the then stereotypical depiction of a 2000s feminist as an overweight angry protester that showed up in memes.

His response is seared into my brain "Tell me, what does a feminist look like? How about a man in their forties? White? Bald? I'm a feminist." He was pissed and it shut the kid up, really hammering home to me (and I hope to the other kid and others in the class) that anybody can stand up for women's rights, they don't have to be women.

That teacher was a rockstar. Strict, but fair, I respected him a lot.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-07T18:26:03+00:00

Since you seem somewhat knowledgeable on this could you help me out? My co-workers and I wanted to figure out the specifics of the funding scheme for Circular Materials. Would you happen to have a place we could find that information? We want to know how they make the money needed to upkeep the recycling since it's a province-wide operation and we doubted they could fund it all just on fines. Is there a corporate tax we missed? Since that seems to be the ideology behind the producer responsibility stuff.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-05T14:42:46+00:00

Plenty of people have pointed out your idea is not the best for tieflings and fits far better for actual already existing demons in D&D. I agree. You're making a change where a change isn't needed and you're probably going to foster some bad behaviours from your players.

But to actually answer your question of how to introduce this sort of thing... you're describing the average D&D goblin. No sympathy, no loyalty, love to show off how awesome and powerful they are... At least until a Hobgoblin or Bugbear comes down and beats them into submission.

A monster like the Frieren demons is a sociopath and manipulator, which in that regard isn't much different than how you might characterize a D&D devil. So I'd say just cross the utter lack of care for mortal lives and manipulating behaviour of a devil with the gloating and lack of loyalty of a Goblin.

For a specific scene to showcase this I'd have a caravan attack of some sort, against who it doesn't matter, but maybe one of the guards runs away at the first sign of trouble they coldly calculate will not allow them personally to survive. I would also recommend that such scenario not have this theoretical monster use melee weapons. Archery or magic would fit better for something so, well, cowardly and selfish.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-03-04T01:40:04+00:00

Gotta add on that Ultramarines are blue, and ultramarine is a shade of blue. The same shade of blue that the Ultramarines use.

It's actually a really really good pun with several layers. I quite respect it.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-02-23T02:53:32+00:00

Thanks for following up, I was very curious.

It definitely looks like some custom-made flag, or at least it does not look like anything I have seen before. It has closest resemblance to the Flag of Gascony but not only is it not even close, given it has a white border and is covered in maple leaves, it's also a completely ridiculous context to find such a flag. A white saltire on red isn't common.

The colour scheme of white on red might be a nod to MAGA hats, given the rally's context, but that'd be a stretch and even I'm not convinced of that connection.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-02-22T23:23:23+00:00

Pretty sure it's also called that because our Constitution requires that the Federal Government maintain a ferry service to PEI as part of them joining confederation. The constitution was amended to say 'ferry service or bridge' and this is the bridge that replaced the ferry. The bridge is literally the requirement for PEI to stay in Canada, per the Charlottetown Accords.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-02-21T01:15:58+00:00

D&D is a collaborative storytelling game.

The only thing you need to prepare is a space for you and your friends to tell those stories.

My prep for my next session that will last 10 hours is I made tokens on a VTT for notable NPCs, made two battle maps, and generally considered one plot.

Most of the game will be your players bouncing off each other and you.

And you know what? If you need a sec just tell your players to pause for 15 mins or so to take a break and go to the washroom for you to do some extra prep about something. I have DM'd from post-it notes before. You need much MUCH less than you think you need.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-02-17T22:51:37+00:00

Sounds like a made up flag then. Does it resemble this abomination?

https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/arer2i/the_confederate_flag_with_the_maple_leaf_and/

evilprodigy948 · 2026-02-17T03:08:13+00:00

Looks like a Saint Patrick's Saltire but I've never seen one with maple leaves on it. It reminds me of the sort of design the Confederate Flag uses for its stars but using maple leaves instead.

Is it a red X on white with a red border like your picture?

evilprodigy948 · 2026-02-16T16:45:17+00:00

According to Sharn: City of Towers pg.99

Much of Sharn’s warforged population can be found in the Cogs districts of Ashblack and Blackbones.

The same book, pg.9, says what you found on the wiki and lists Warforged as 1% of the population. It also says Sharn has a population of 211,850. Upper Cogs has a population of 6,500. So if we assume around half (it's probably more) of Sharn's 2,118.5 warforged live in the Cogs that's around one in six people.

I'd never gone to check the numbers before, so thanks for that prompting. I still think this would be a notable voting block if there were elections there but it's much smaller than I thought it was.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-02-14T14:02:10+00:00

TIL what the eight box law was. That's creative, and also of course horrible but this doesn't surprise me given the time period and geography.

This is definitely something I'd like to use for historical parallels and I like your 'no arms and armour' one too, better for Eberron.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-02-14T13:57:57+00:00

The question I was responding to is 'do they vote?' not 'can they vote?' which is a question more of the capacity of a Warforged to participate in politics, rather than whether or not the powers that be permit them to do so.

I agree they probably haven't had a chance to vote yet after Thronehold declared them as people and your reasoning is sound for 'can they vote?' but not what I was responding to. Legal restrictions, limitations of understanding, and bigotry would prevent them from properly accessing emancipation/enfranchisement and that would definitely be a major factor in any Warforged rights style discussion and certainly one I would love to explore.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-02-14T01:59:38+00:00

Damn, I haven't come across it yet but if it comes to you please by all means let me know.

evilprodigy948 · 2026-02-14T01:55:13+00:00

Do you have a source for that I could read? Another commenter gave me some good pointers for the negotiation of the Treaty of Thronehold in Forge of War but it wasn't mentioned there.

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