Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[Overly Serious]

I was once told Dark Eldar are the result of Eldar having an orgy so big and depraved a dark god was formed. No idea how true that it.

A dark god(dess) was created from the accumulated psychic backwash from the Eldar's increasing, species-wide depravity this is correct. However, there weren't "Dark" Eldar back then per se. The Dark Eldar or "Druchari" are simply the survivors of the collapse of the old Eldar society. They created Slaanesh, not Slaanesh created them. Of the remaining Eldar after the catastrophic fall of their species there are the following:

• Dark Eldar (Druchari). They were dwelling or visiting outside of Real Space in a sort of hyperspace network called the Webway at the time of the fall and therefore survived the psychic birth of the god(dess) which fried the minds and consumed the souls of nearly all other Eldar. Did they decide to mend their ways when they saw how pretty much pure chance had spared them? No, they decided to find a loophole so they could continue living a life of utter depravity. That loophole, btw, is to create psychic agony in other species by means of pain, torture, etc. as a kind of substitute for their own souls being consumed.
• Craftworld Eldar. These were Eldar that saw what was happening to their society and went full No Fap, leaving in giant vessels called Craftworlds with their fellow No Fap eldar and created a very strict life plan called The Path which they stick to rigidly less they begin fapping again.
• Exodites. Similarly to the Craftworld Eldar these were eldar that saw what was coming or just didn't like being depraved degenerates but rather than the self-imposed restraint approach of the craftworlds decided to remove temptation by means of adopting a really hard life. They went semi-primitive and live on wild planets and hunt and such, lots of physical labour and survivalism, etc. Think of the Craftwold Eldar as those saying "I will not look at porn" and the Exodites as those saying: "I threw out my computer and cancelled my Internet". The Exodite solution is pretty effective, really. You don't have time to become a degenerate when your days are filled with finding food on a planet filled with dangerous carnivours.
• Harlequinns. A very minor faction in numbers. Essentially the followers of a different Eldar god (one of the few surviving ones) who in theory have their souls join that god when they die rather than be consumed by Slaanesh. Whether or not that works I'm not sure is canon.
• Pirates/Corsairs/Outcasts. Not a single faction and Outcasts and Corsairs are not the same thing either but these raggedy outsiders all tend to blur together. They're not exclusive of the other factions per se. An Outcast / Wander is still following a Craftworld Path just a very dangerous and iffy one. A Druchari might be a Corsair alongiside a Craftworld eldar (though Druchari tend to have slightly constrained ability to endure Real Space). Really the two big factions are Dark Eldar and Craftworld Eldar.

If you're curious why the Eldar have to go to such lengths to prevent themselves going down this route it's because as a species they were designed to have dazzlingly complex and focused minds. Think of them as a species of dazzlingly brilliant high-functioning autists. If the Old Ones created orks to be their brutally effective soldiers, the Eldar were intended to be the genius strategists, assassins, planners and psychics. Unfortunately once the War in Heaven was won (if you want to call it "won"), they're just drifting around in a post-scarcity society with no rivals and bored out of their minds. Hence their culture started to seek out ever greater stimulation and distraction. Slaanesh is often described as the god(dess) of depravity but a better characterisation would be obession and excess. That can be sexual but actually often isn't.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Like, how? How? If you told me it's the same guy, I would never believe it.

What he was commissioned to paint. In the same way someone might be commissioned to illustrate a super hero comic one day, and a political cartoon for a local newspaper the next.

Off topic, but one of my personal bits of autism is who draws cereal box mascots and children's yogurt pots. Clearly someone has to draw the cartoon wolf or floating jems or whatever.

he was always kind of a twat tho. I think another aspect to the "not as shit in the past" is that they had tardwranglers forcing them to be less retarded. there's even examples for it with that dude from ubisoft (who later got canceled of course) enforcing white male protags for sales, or that exec from microsoft preventing fable 2 from having a black women on the cover.

This.

Another aspect is simply age. Look at how many edgy creators have gotten a huge case of trolls remorse and are walking back their old designs and work.

 

[The Ugly One]

Did they decide to mend their ways when they saw how pretty much pure chance had spared them? No, they decided to find a loophole so they could continue living a life of utter depravity. That loophole, btw, is to create psychic agony in other species by means of pain, torture, etc. as a kind of substitute for their own souls being consumed.

So the Dark Eldar are trannies, got it.

 

[Overly Serious]

So the Dark Eldar are trannies, got it.

I mean, the vast majority of them are born from artificial wombs rather than actual females, so... pretty much endgame for troondom, yes.

 

[ZMOT]

Another aspect is simply age. Look at how many edgy creators have gotten a huge case of trolls remorse and are walking back their old designs and work.

ah man completely forgot about another thing: what is it with fathers becoming fucking pussies. more often than not someone I know became really weird once creating an offspring or two, and I mean reddit-tier retarded when he was literally the opposite before.
happened way too often that I can consider it mere coincidence...

 

[robobobo]

Studies have found that fathers dump testosterone faster than other men of similar age without kids, I'd imagine the mechanism is there to make them less likely to roid rage on a baby and kill it. So there is actual scientific support for what you've witnessed.

 

[The Ugly One]

ah man completely forgot about another thing: what is it with fathers becoming fucking pussies. more often than not someone I now became really weird once creating an offspring or two, and I man reddit-tier retarded when he was literally the opposite before.
happened way too often now that I can consider mere coincidence...

"Nobody's gonna tell MY little girl no!"

 

[Corn Flakes]

Studies have found that fathers dump testosterone faster than other men of similar age without kids, I'd imagine the mechanism is there to make them less likely to roid rage on a baby and kill it. So there is actual scientific support for what you've witnessed.

They become less aggressive because of the lower testosterone, but I'll bet you the issue is less their hormones and more their spouses filling their heads with whatever they read on reddit.

 

[ZMOT]

They become less aggressive because of the lower testosterone, but I'll bet you the issue is less their hormones and more their spouses filling their heads with whatever they read on reddit.

happened long before reddit was a thing, and even then it should immediately once they get into the relationship or soon after - not years down the line.

it's really weird. maybe it explains the soy-mentality when they attach themselves to consumerism instead of kids or something...

 

[JJLiautaud]

I'd imagine the mechanism is there to make them less likely to roid rage on a baby and kill it.

Except that testosterone doesn't increase aggression, it increases competitiveness , which is then socially mediated, ie if youre in a bar and a guy slaps your girl's ass yeah a guy with more testosterone is more likely to throw hands, but you're in a job and working for a promotion you're going to put in longer and harder hours ect.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

Returning to .st I noticed there was a post about DCC I wanted to make but forgot to finish before some more site fuckery happened and now I forgot what I was going to post.

So I'll just say that DCC is gay and for fagz.

 

[Kirtto]

They are made to please ideological commissars in the game industry, including the game media. Making a woman look good is problematic. Who's supposed to be looking at her, chud? Are you saying you made a woman exist solely to please men? Ugh. This is why women can't get ahead in society!

Just so people know how pozzed the current industry is, this is from the Pathfinder book "Gods of the Inner Sea" released in 2020:


Also the overall writing is laughable, like how apperently Shelyn and and Pharasma have "long philosophical debates, which always end when Pharasma points out that beautiful things like flowers grow from dead things" because for some reason Shelyn has no argument against this which is just mind blowingly retarded.

 

[2LtMashengo]

Shelyn has no argument against this which is just mind blowingly retarded.

Shelyn's following is primarily composed of fruity buck broken negroids, so this tracks.

 

[Alabama Gamer]

Harlequinns. A very minor faction in numbers. Essentially the followers of a different Eldar god (one of the few surviving ones) who in theory have their souls join that god when they die rather than be consumed by Slaanesh. Whether or not that works I'm not sure is canon.

From what I can remember, Cegorach does protect the Harlequins. The only exception is the Solitaires, who are basically Eldar Blanks (Blanks are humans born with a Warp-bullshit-repelling antisoul, for those of you following along at home). Slaanesh gets those for some reason, although the Honking God challenges xim/xer for them and sometimes wins.

 

[Overly Serious]

Studies have found that fathers dump testosterone faster than other men of similar age without kids, I'd imagine the mechanism is there to make them less likely to roid rage on a baby and kill it. So there is actual scientific support for what you've witnessed.

Lack of sleep. Sleep deprived men produce less testosterone, I bet. Or else it's indirect via weight gain due to same factors.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Whether or not that works I'm not sure is canon.

One thing I remember from fairly old canon is that in Harlequin troupes there was some poor sap who had to play the role of Slaanesh when that was needed. They were all but guaranteed after death to go directly to that particular deity's maw.

Got to admire commitment to a role when taking it up includes the caveat that your soul will almost certainly be devoured.

 

[Kirtto]

Shelyn's following is primarily composed of fruity buck broken negroids, so this tracks.

The polyamory lesbian relationship is the worst part tbh

 

[Tactical Wizard]

The polyamory lesbian relationship is the worst part tbh

The sad thing is that you could make that work like it has in actual, RL mythology if you don't put everything in cringy, modern terminology.

But that's asking a lot from these peoplr.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

If you don't mind baby boomer humor and like AD&D, I recommend diversity & dragons. He not great. But he okay for D&D YouTube standards. He pokes fun at 5E e-celebs being stabbed in the back by Hasbro/WOTC and getting eaten alive by the woke mobs they support. Outside of that his offers good game mastering advice and talks about gaming like a baby boomer Spoony.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

If you don't mind baby boomer humor and like AD&D, I recommend diversity & dragons. He not great. But he okay for D&D YouTube standards. He pokes fun at 5E e-celebs being stabbed in the back by Hasbro/WOTC and getting eaten alive by the woke mobs they support. Outside of that his offers good game mastering advice and talks about gaming like a baby boomer Spoony.

He also has his own list of companies that are woke and companies that are not, similar to the one on The RPG Site, here.