• huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            the reason is spelled out in the bible:

            And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

            god is just a typical king, jelously guarding his unearned privileges. god, the original anticommunist.

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    lmao I’d love to watch a campaign like that. The party consistently doing the right thing while the DM just seethes more and more.

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      It might be fun to watch but in my experience if the players and the DM are that out of sync its gonna be a bad experience for everyone playing cause at some point the DM is gonna be forced to railroad you back on track if only cause they don’t have any material in the direction you want to go. The best games and DMs I have are basically more complicated versions of “Yes And”.

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        The best games and DMs I have are basically more complicated versions of “Yes And”.

        DnD with no character sheets is my favorite way to get kids into TTRPG’s. Make it all up as you go along. Roll with whatever stupid bullshit they come up with, and throw something even stupider back at them. Write it all down. THEN we make the character sheets, after a couple sessions.

        e: Anyway, this is why one of my son’s friends mains a wizard with tons of air magic. Because he’s a fart wizard.

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    I can picture it now

    He was probably like wojak-nooo You have to enforce the status quo, they're feeble savages!

    And the players were like soviet-chad No, we will shatter their chains and free them from the yoke of tyranny

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    i had a DM boot me from a campaign for ‘being manipulative’ and ‘murder hoboing’ after i kept killing blatantly racist nazi characters that our multicultural nation was fighting to survive genocide against. said that i didnt ever give the DM time to roleplay things (because i would gat the nazis in the head with a critfish build). maybe make less cartoonishly evil characters? why would i ever talk to a guy that kills babies

    i also unknowingly joined a campaign where the dm admitted that all the goblins the players were killing were jews after i pressed him on his monologue about goblin bankers

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      said that i didnt ever give the DM time to roleplay things (because i would gat the nazis in the head with a critfish build). maybe make less cartoonishly evil characters? why would i ever talk to a guy that kills babies

      Or if you have cartoonishly evil characters they need to be in an environment where the player can not get away with killing them. There’s a reason all the nobility live in a walled quarter of the city with its own defences.

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        tbf we did a guerilla raid on the walled quarter and created an inferno centered on the guy’s mansion after slaughtering a veritable army of nazi minions (which were overleveled, but we persevered through hit and run tactics, lmao)

        we were just too cool for the dm i guess

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      I read a criticism of ‘come and see’ that I’d never considered, that it was quite liberal. They pointed out how (in the movie) the partisans struggled internally with flat out killing the nazis, and how Flyora while shooting at a picture (hallucination?) of Hitler kept seeing him get younger and younger until he was staring at Baby Hitler and he couldn’t pull the trigger.

      The poster was saying that it’s okay to just flat out kill literal nazis and it shouldn’t be causing any internal struggle as they’re literally wiping you out, and picturing Hitler as a baby is stupid as you can’t time travel and he’s not a baby while he’s conducting a genocide.

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        With that first paragraph, at least, I get where they’re coming from but I feel like it’s likely that they’ve never actually killed somebody. Yes, it’s morally acceptable and good to kill Nazis, and also taking a life is a thing that sticks with you in ways you don’t expect (from what I’ve heard; I’ve never killed anybody either). I just feel like that’s a weird thing to criticize the film for. I really doubt anybody goes away from Come And See believing that killing Nazis is wrong or bad, just that war is hell.

        I could be totally off-base here; I haven’t see the film in a long time. But that criticism just strikes me as not really warranted

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    It’s also funny, because said DMs set themselves up to make the anti-semitism allegations as unconvincing as possible, because the players had no idea who the groups were based on.

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    DM: “You see a music festival outside the concentration camp.”

    Player: “I roll for initiative.”

    DM: “Against the enemies in the concentration camp right?”

    Players: “…”

    DM: “Against the unarmed goblins inside the concentration camp… Right?”

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    my first time playing a ttrpg was a very odd pathfinder campaign about escaping a slave plantation. this was in kentucky so the vibes were off. whole thing ended up sideways when the dm that cooked that up couldn’t stop getting too hammered for us to make progress.

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    It would be funny if the DM thought the problem was that they didn’t make it obvious enough the Israel analogy was meant to be Israel, so they try to make it more obvious, but then the players think the DM is a neo-nazi doing a Jewish conspiracy allegory.