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[-] green_square@yiffit.net 126 points 8 months ago

If you ditch the orgasm bit it’s kinda like sharks? Like it’d just be edgy instead of some weird vore-fetish thing

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 73 points 8 months ago

if you ditch the orgasm bit it's kind of like sharks?

This part, and this part alone, is my new guiding principal in life.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 months ago

Including the question mark.

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[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

FYI it's only some sharks. There are a goodly amout of sharks that lay eggs.

[-] M137@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago
[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 63 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Lolth is an edgelord that makes all the other gods cringe.

[-] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 62 points 8 months ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 27 points 8 months ago

Oh, it gets worse.

Don't look up what blessing Gruumsh's wife gave to the orcs.

[-] FrozenCorgi@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

Tried looking that up but can't really find anything, what is the controversy there?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 47 points 8 months ago

I guess you do need some background information, especially because Wizards sure doesn't like spelling it out anymore.

In older editions it was assumed nearly all half-orcs were the offspring of rape, and "the blessing of Luthic" was given to make orcs fertile with nearly every other race.

The implications were clear, even more once you start diving into things like orcish society being a rigid patriarchy with a slave economy and one of Luthic's domains being not just servitude, but specifically female servitude.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 74 points 8 months ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 76 points 8 months ago

In early DnD's defense, monster races were objectively, comically evil, and players were pretty heavily incentivised to pick humans (and assumed to be played by extremely nerdy guys), so it wasn't supposed to come up that much.

The fantasy was in killing the cannibal rape monsters, freeing their slaves, and not having to ask yourself "Are we the baddies doing an imperialism?" for burning down the orc village.

[-] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 39 points 8 months ago

My dad used to play red box D&D (which I believe was the first edition ever released). Still has some manuals, which I got the chance to read.

Not only it was encouraged to play humans, it was assumed! You didn't get to pick a race, only a class. And while the classes of "elf" (think like 5e's ranger) and "dwarf" (5e's barbarian, sort of) were a thing, all of the other classes assumed for the player to be a human. You couldn't play an elf wizard: you either are an elf OR a wizard. Wild stuff, compared to some of the crazy stuff we get to do in modern D&D.

[-] Spot@startrek.website 10 points 8 months ago

Like these?

[-] timgrant@ttrpg.network 5 points 8 months ago

If your first-level halfling is wearing plate mail, you may be playing Red Box D&D.

[-] s12@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 months ago
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[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 18 points 8 months ago

Early DND sounds a lot like pulp comics.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 8 months ago

so, the evil version of big booba goblins?

[-] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 4 points 8 months ago
[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 8 months ago

you're asking if horny people had the idea to give massive honkers to the small green people and make their whole schtick to bonk everyone they see?

if that's a question that needs to be asked you should treasure your innocence

[-] timgrant@ttrpg.network 4 points 8 months ago

I can't seem to find the reference, but I think an echo of this made it into 5e, where the offspring of orcs and other races were always half-orcs.

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[-] prof@infosec.pub 6 points 8 months ago

Could not really find anything but that Luthic is a fertility goddess of sorts. Which seems rather normal.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 55 points 8 months ago

Umm, what? Anything that has gestation similar to a human is probably incapable of this. Could you imagine these fucking alien beans duckin' and dodgin' in utero to slaughter each other with nubby hands and fingers? Lmao this is some Morrowind concept art shit

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 34 points 8 months ago

More like The Binding of Isaac. Only game in which aborting yourself can result in a positive outcome.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

The ascension endings were rough in that game.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 8 months ago

"Aww, he's got his dad's knife" - never a phrase you want to hear in the delivery room.

(I assume this is how drow genetics work)

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 months ago
[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Well, drow men generally do the physical fighting.

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 20 points 8 months ago

I'm sorry, but this is mild compared to the insanity that is Kirkbride's Morrowind lore. Gods... how I wish Bethesda hired him for TES 6

[-] sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 9 points 8 months ago

It's not unheard of for one (human) twin to absorb the other in the womb. It's more along the lines of a cellular mixup, though, rather than a battle. And of course the mother even being aware much less sensitive to it is nonsense.

[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 55 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My favourite bit on drow related lore is from 2E. Non-drow followers of Eilistraee would do black face and travel the world as part of an effort to show drow could be peaceful. There is something hilarious to me about how well intentioned the author seems to be but completely oblivious to what it looks like.

[-] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago

Oh so Señor Chang in the D&D episode of Community.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 13 points 8 months ago

I mean, Chang is trying to be offensive, because he is a racist, this is very well established by the show and it's weird how few people understood that.

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[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 8 months ago

Wait, is this real? Surely this is parody, right?

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 50 points 8 months ago

There are a number of really weird things with old D&D lore.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

“Wouldn’t it be cool if…”

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

"Some incredibly unhinged shit..."

[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago

No this was the lore.

Hell one of 3.5 edition's strongest monsters, from the the published books, was the undead, aborted, fetus, that was the product of the rape of another god, or celestial/hell/abyssal creature, by a god of opposing alignment, like an angel raped by an evil god.

[-] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 54 points 8 months ago

They were just keeping with the strong tradition established by the Greeks and Romans of gods that rape everyone and everything.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not really sure what the hubub is. It's lore for a dark thing in a fantasy world. It's like an unpopular opinion on c/unpopularopinion . You don't like it, persay, but it's effective content.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 17 points 8 months ago
[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

I literally spoke at my phone, call Dr. Googl

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[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 6 points 8 months ago

Are you talking about Atropus? Or some other unborn God?

[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

They are called atropals but are not kin to Atropus. Atropus is an actual god and is the size of a moon. Atropals are abominations and large size category, they also lack divine rank.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 7 points 8 months ago

Oh wow. I knew about them but I guess the FR wiki excised all the gross lore.

Atropals were a race of unfinished immortals modeled after the gods, stillborn godlings, who spontaneously rose as undead[3] abominations

Maybe I won't put those in my game. I was considering it because they seemed similar to Atropus, who is my ultimate big bad.

[-] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 16 points 8 months ago

Folks could get away with so much edgy bulshit back then...

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[-] LockeZ@ttrpg.network 10 points 8 months ago

Once I accepted that I am cringe, I was free to be my true self. I am cringe, but I am free.

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