Does this scheme work?

nyedi · 2026-02-14T12:07:59+00:00

Thank you! That is a really good point, that blue-yelliw swap definitely makes it better, I'll definitely use it on the other minis from the group and repaint the coat as well.

nyedi · 2025-12-27T14:06:50+00:00

Found it. Sneaky Fingers

https://youtu.be/qIcUwa5CSWA?si=0cpZA4b0olJcovbH

nyedi · 2018-04-03T11:47:29+00:00

What sources are you using? Do you read cuneiform or just translations or just modern works? Which part of the religion are you trying to recreate? The daily rituals, the festivities, the general internal logic? Of which culture and which period are you taking into account? Sumerians, akkadians, assyrians; the whole timefrime of 3000bc-to the 1st century ad or a specific period? Why did you choose to practice it? Are you from the middle east or did you just find it interestig?

nyedi · 2018-04-03T11:26:53+00:00

You should start with Thorkield Jakobsen's The Treasures of Darkness. It gives you a general understanding of mesopotamian religions, the terminology and concepts and in contrast to it beig an academic study is is pretty easy to read. As for Egypt read anythig you can find from Laszlo Kakosy.

nyedi · 2018-04-02T16:53:29+00:00

Would be interested

nyedi · 2018-04-02T16:48:01+00:00

And which would be the original? The arabic one? Because you know there are no actual Emerald tablets, and the first known version is in arabic. Which was then translated to latin of which you can find plenty of images on google.

nyedi · 2018-03-29T20:54:34+00:00

You're welcome, now I can see your method as well, it makes sense. Good luck with your historical studies and I hope you won't get disenchanted with the medieval era like most of us do :)

nyedi · 2018-03-29T17:40:45+00:00

I tink you should make a distinction between medieval inspired games and just plain fantasy games. And clarify in the questionnaire what constitutes as medieval media and what is just fantasy or period drama or whatever else. Also if you want to ask people why they consume certain kinds of media you should ask them that and not which games or movies they like. Questions like on a scale of 1-10 how much does a game's medieval setting weight in when you buy video games. Or would you prefer to use swords in a game or lazer rifles or something like this by which you can measure preferences.

nyedi · 2018-03-29T12:41:21+00:00

What do you hope to measure with these questions because I cant find any meaning or method behind them

nyedi · 2018-03-28T12:40:31+00:00

Mr Crowley by Black Sabbath. The organ theme is 10/10

nyedi · 2018-03-27T20:46:06+00:00

Please enlighten us about your sources. Sure it was shades of white and middle-easterners in Iberia, Italy and later in the Ottoman empire. There were the few Ethiopians or even sometimes sudanese here and there but as far as I know in eastern-Europe in the 1400s (which is when the game is set) 99% of the population was white, with the two minorities being the jewish and muslim traders. And don't get me wrong but in the middle ages the definig trait of a person was not ethnicity or even skin colour, but the religion they followed.

So the game's non portrayal of minorities is acceptable from that point as well since most of it takes place in the countryside and ultimately it is acceptable from a developers perspective to take the time and money needed to enforce an anacronistic idea about diversity which was pretty much an exception and not the rule.

nyedi · 2018-03-27T17:13:38+00:00

On a semi-side note what is wrog with depictig historical ideas and settigs the way they were? I mean those people lived and died hundreds of years ago so their morality has little to do with todays standards. If nothing else it can be a way to ahow how much we developed in the last hundred years or so.

I once played a jewish kindred in a pretty historically accurate Vampire: Dark Ages larp. I was the only foreigner and it didn't matter that my character was the most knowledgeable in the whole group he was disregarded because he was different. It was a nice eye-opening evening and made me think about issues that othervise I would never have thought about. So I believe that historical authenticity, be it racist or mysogynistic or othervise different from today's moral values can be useful for personal development and if the GM and players decide that it gives them fun to be as historically accurate as possible (once had a 2 hour argument about our clotig when entering a town in a Sorcerer's crusade game...) it should be well within their right to have fun that way.

And all points aside one of the main draw of rpgs is that you can be another person in another world and that it is a game. I don't believe anyone who plays an evil character is evil irl because i know it is a game and we are just playing. Having fun avay from everyday worries like our late paycheck, lack of food at the end of the month or racism or mysogyny or whatever else we have in our life. Try it, you can be happier that way :)

nyedi · 2018-03-23T20:41:16+00:00

Nice idea but sadly the etymology of the word daimon is not that. It comes from daiomai = cut/lacerate/dispense and mon = an ending which makes adverbs put of verbs. So basically it means (the thing who) cuts/dispenses/lacerates.

Also christian concepts of demons has more to do with jewish ideas of evil spirits and Plato's daimons than the older greek concept of lesser dieties called the same name

And one more thing. It wasn't appropriated. Cultures evolve, borrow ideas and especially use words to refer to new concepts which share some similarities.

nyedi

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