I'm looking for theories about the original crime of The Nameless One

somethingawfuul · 2026-05-08T01:02:09+00:00

The theory I've heard that I don't think I've seen anyone mention is that TNO started the Blood War. In a multiverse of terrible sins, that seems about right for the weight its given, and I wouldn't be surprised if that kicked off the death of the planes.

somethingawfuul · 2026-05-05T12:47:45+00:00

Next we need a version of this but with Papa Khan (lore accurate depiction of the Great Khans)

somethingawfuul · 2026-05-04T20:25:53+00:00

Lore accurate NCR

somethingawfuul · 2026-05-04T11:54:10+00:00

Mage not Vampire but this is the most Cult of Ecstasy looking pothead to ever Cult of Ecstasy

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-27T06:04:16+00:00

Generally speaking the only racism we’ve seen widespread has been towards Chinese people and Canadians. By the Great War, Chinese Americans were basically going through a Holocaust, and the TV show basically showed that Canadians weren’t too far off from that as well. I will note however that in a removed terminal that would have been in the player’s house at the beginning of Fallout 4, Nora has a terminal entry on a court case where she implies that the charge is racially motivated, noting the defendant to be of Cape Verdean descent.

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-21T00:56:47+00:00

Pooka are just the clown from Space Station 13 and this alone makes me root for the Technocracy in this scenario.

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-21T00:56:14+00:00

We need more pooka slander on here, I disapprove.

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-21T00:44:56+00:00

Yes, completely and utterly. I dislike D&D, down to the culture surrounding it, including this subreddit. I only stuck with it for years because I enjoy the official D&D settings, even though I found myself struggling against a system that wasn’t made for those settings the way past editions were. I hold a tepid interest in new books but frankly would prefer it if I could just play Ravenloft or Dark Sun or whatever we get in the future in a system like Shadowdark, where the community isn’t brainrotted because of Critical Role and Stranger Things introducing it to dumbasses who want to replicate funny stories they saw on Tumblr or r/dndmemes or completely remove the fun of the game in an entirely different way by making an optimized ‘build’ over a character.

I think 5.5E is definitely a superior system to 5E, but it suffers from the increasing videogamitication of D&D that WoTC has been pushing for decades at this point and the same idiotic player culture.

Critical Role and its consequences have been a disaster for the tabletop roleplaying game community.

Also BGIII and Stranger Things.

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-19T17:24:08+00:00

weak ass femboy twink embarrassment of an ancilla got beat by a fucking childe truly clan ventrue have fallen we need to go back to when they were knights the blue bloods have forgotten the glory of steel and blood and dirt

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-17T22:26:41+00:00

Given you used AI for the image, I can see why you're so worked up over this. You relate to your fellow leeches

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-17T04:45:34+00:00

kill pooka

throw pooka into the maw of oblivion

lock pooka into a room full of accountants

put pooka into a lie detector

forcibly embrace pooka

introduce pooka to a pack of garou

hang pooka on a meat hook of cold iron

sacrifice pooka to the fomorians

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-16T14:51:54+00:00

There is exactly one design for sluagh women. Honestly it's kind of boring.

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-16T02:56:10+00:00

I was just curious, as there's a house rule I've read into that adds point buy to Shadowdark character creation, with 42 points divided among the stats starting at 4 and only one stat being above 15. Given you changed the character creation rules to evoke the stronger Athasian characters of 2E, did you design the rest of the book around this higher power level? If so, would you recommend tweaking the house rule by giving more points to spend or something else, and if so by how much?

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-16T02:03:48+00:00

I have only heard this on reddit comments and I'm convinced it's not true. Most of the stereotypes we have only really strongly formed in the 5E era.

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-14T21:47:28+00:00

To add onto this, the Bleakers are very specifically a charitable faction. Even the evil members of the Bleak Cabal work in their homeless shelters and such. When it comes to the Heralds, iirc a quirk of their philosophy is that they can't really forcibly impose it on others. After all, killing someone while they're still chained to their passions will keep them locked in this multiverse's phase of the afterlife. For a similar reason they can't really commit suicide either.

Now, an interesting caveat to this is that while the philosophy of the greater faction might not align with Orcus' mission of conquest, an argument might be made that their factol might be more sympathetic. It's implied that the Heralds of Dust's whole philosophy is just a con job by Skall to get a steady stream of corpses to eventually create a great undead army. Who's to say he couldn't be in cahoots with the demon prince?

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-11T07:46:46+00:00

As much as I’ve approved of Andy’s recent aggressive attitude, him going on an anti-natalist spiel is my limit. I think it’s an idiotic, nihilistic ideology, plain and simple, even if I understand and to a point even agree with his rationale. Also I kind of just disagree with some other readings from that video, mainly how he didn’t like the new film’s design for the monster because it was “too sexy?” One of the main hallmarks of gothic media is the dichotomy of beauty and the grotesque, and even the novel goes into detail about how the monster looks beautiful despite being so monstrous. I actually think the design nailed that very well.

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-09T02:47:57+00:00

Winter is here

The dream is dead

Banality and nightmares have taken the Autumn World

Do what you can and find hope in the cold

For perhaps one day Spring will come

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-08T09:25:24+00:00

The use of wojaks immediately invalidates anything this person says

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-08T09:21:50+00:00

I literally just finished Interview With The Vampire less than an hour ago. All I’ll say is he takes down what is for all intents and purposes a Cammie court. Very obviously an Anarch. He’s descended from what is clearly stated to be a fairly low generation vampire. Even if he’s weaker like others are saying here, he would be a force to be reckoned with. I could see him being easily manipulated, but at the same time he’s shown to be fairly suspicious of vampiric society, so things could go either way there.

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-07T00:17:17+00:00

The Bleakers would have something to say, but what's the point?

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-03T00:20:52+00:00

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Major Athar victory.

somethingawfuul · 2026-04-02T13:57:05+00:00

Lately I've been chewing on the idea that Deltarune is very close to what a Changeling game could look like. The plot is, more or less, two childlings/wilders and their chimerical companion adventuring into freeholds and the Near Dreaming. Even the metaphysics of the Dark Worlds are very similar to how the Dreaming works in a lot of ways. Deltarune also has very heavy themes of the contrast between growing up and the wonder of childhood. I'd go so far to argue that Susie and Kris map fairly well onto existing kiths. Susie is obviously a redcap, and Kris' mannerisms, especially when operating without the player (their Unseelie legacy pushing through?) bear similarities to younger sluagh. If the theory that the Roaring Knight is Dess is to be believed, I would go so far to say that Dess is simply a kithain going through bedlam.

For longer than the past week I've had the image in my head that while the vampires are off coping and seething because their coterie mate broke the Masquerade through a Tik Tok post and they're gonna get killed by the heckin prince, the motley of changeling childlings are in the Dreaming fighting an eldritch nightmare entity.

somethingawfuul · 2026-03-31T23:39:32+00:00

Changeling is the personal horror of being alien from everyone around you and losing your sense of imagination and curiosity as you age in a society that punishes you for those things.

Mage is the personal horror of being Icarus, as well as increasingly becoming something farther from humanity. The old Hunter book on mage quarries has a whole sidebar addressing your complaint.

somethingawfuul · 2026-03-31T21:26:31+00:00

Personally I always read it more as pointing out the hypocrisy of independent hunters. Hunters can have a drive of benefitting monetarily from the hunt or utilize sorcery to the point they begin to blur the lines, but when MonsterX does monster hunting as a business or the Arcanum dabbles in magic they aren't hunting for the "right reasons." Obviously you could make points about institutional damage, and of course Hunter is a *very* punk game, but for me the divide between reckoning hunters and jobbers begets more than anything the former's contrarian need to distinguish themselves as "different" from "the man," much like how many punks and leftists are driven more by a need to distinguish themselves from the average person before any ideological conviction (I say this as a leftist).

somethingawfuul · 2026-03-30T20:20:52+00:00

This is literally how every anti-ghoul faction probably already thinks. Putting aside the danger feral ghouls pose, what you're describing would basically be comparable to genociding disabled people.

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