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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #980 on: February 17, 2014, 12:21:10 PM »

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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #983 on: February 17, 2014, 04:12:28 PM »
I know I shouldn't laugh since it's a police officer...  But it would seem he definitely doesn't have ranks in Spot.


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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #984 on: February 17, 2014, 04:32:49 PM »
Or Listen!
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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #985 on: February 17, 2014, 04:55:45 PM »
Looks like a good way to get shot...
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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #986 on: February 17, 2014, 05:43:08 PM »
An explanation of the Pathfinder Campaign Setting:


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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #987 on: February 17, 2014, 08:53:46 PM »
Is it really that bad  :twitch

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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #988 on: February 17, 2014, 09:06:52 PM »
It's exaggerated for humor, but the explanations are rather accurate.

Basically just about every country has a theme of sorts.  This makes the setting diverse, but it feels slapdashed a lot.

This Let's Read on rpg.net does a good rundown of the various countries.

Or you can ask me about any of the nations on the map in another thread, and I'll do my best to explain them.  Ooooh, I smell another Pathfinder thread coming up on Min-Max...
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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #989 on: February 17, 2014, 09:55:18 PM »
How accurate, exactly?  :twitch
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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #990 on: February 17, 2014, 10:54:44 PM »
Pathfinder's setting isn't that bad, but some of the descriptions hit really close to the above map.  I'll cover them here:



Nazi Land is Cheliax, one of the most powerful nations in the setting.  The humans had a great and awesome empire ruled by Aroden (God of Humans), but after his death a dark age came and stuff.

Cheliax's most powerful noble family turned to Asmodeus and the devils to save their kingdom, and ever since they've been a totalitarian, expansionist society.  The "more Nazis" is Nidal, one of their formerly occupied territories, and they have colonies in the southern continent (Garund) as well.

They even have a swastika flag:




Freedom, Nobility, and Fluffy Bunnies is Andoran, or Fantasy USA.  When Cheliax started getting all tyrannical, a bunch of people got pissed.  So there were these philosophers and an eladrin who wrote a bunch of articles on government and liberty and democracy.  A bunch of people rebelled and overthrew the Cheliaxian nobles in their region, setting up a democracy.  In addition to being founded upon the principles of democracy and various freedoms, they also love free mercantilism (capitalism), and their country is very idealistic and does not have many flaws.  Andorans are intensely anti-slavery and regularly bust up the flesh trade in other nearby countries, and their soldiers dress up as late 1700s Americans, tri-corner hats and all.

Vive La Revolution is the aftermath of the French Revolution, the country of Galt.  They broke off from Cheliax as well, and read the same articles on government, but things went to shit as the Revolutionary Council started killing anyone not radical enough.  This has been going on for 40 years, and whatever rabble-rouser can direct the angry mobs the best is effectively the head of government for a few years before they too get killed and replaced.

Dumb Atheists is the nation of Rahadoum, the only nation to completely ban the worship of deities.  They used to have a bunch of religious fundamentalists warring among each other, and eventually people got fed up and exterminated them.  Anyone caught worshiping a deity is executed.  They're called atheists in the setting, despite actually believing in the existence of deities (the proper term is anti-theism, where one believes in deities but views them all as assholes).  Due to lack of divine spellcasters they can't really deal with plagues easily, and many believe that the deities are responsible (although there's no proof).


Bunga Bunga Land is the Mwangi Expanse, part of the southern continent Garund (which is the setting's fantasy counterpart Africa).  Mwangi draws inspiration not from authentic African fantasy, but from 1930s pulp serials of dangerous ruins in the jungle and sapient gorillas who hate all humans.  It's caught a bit of flack on rpg.net for being a stereotypical departure from their otherwise nuanced and progressive handling of non-European fantasy aspects.

Green Is Da Best is the Hold of Belkzen, a country ruled entirely by orcs.  It's as brutal and warlike as you can imagine.

Demons n' Shit is the Worldwound, a gigantic extraplanar rift which leads into the Abyss.  Demon Princes and their forces are pouring into the region and pretty much destroyed the barbarian empire which used to be there.  It takes the concerted effort of all the bordering nations to hold them back.


Weirdoes is the island nation of Hermea, which is ruled by a golden dragon named Mengkare who set up the country as part of a social experiment to perfect humanity.  The government begins and ends pretty much with the dragon, and every citizen signs a social contract, and it's a self-sufficient utopia which strictly guards its borders.  There is no private property and everything's communal, where citizens are encouraged to give and take according to their needs; this sounds like some weird Communist utopia, but it isn't because there's one guy in charge making all the decisions as opposed to the community (which is how Marx's Communism is supposed to work).  The dragon also practices eugenics, using planned breeding to ensure the next generation of humans are as smart and healthy as can be; lots of people, including most major religions, find this practice disgusting.

Eh, the major message I get from this "ideal society" is that everything will work out if you put a dragon in charge and let him make all of the major decisions for you.
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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #991 on: February 18, 2014, 12:22:35 PM »
Well dragons are pretty damn smart... :P
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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #992 on: February 18, 2014, 12:46:53 PM »

Freedom, Nobility, and Fluffy Bunnies is Andoran, or Fantasy USA... Andorans are intensely anti-slavery and regularly bust up the flesh trade in other nearby countries, and their soldiers dress up as late 1700s Americans, tri-corner hats and all.

That's kinda of an hilarious representation when you consider that the real world USA was not only some decades late in abolishing slavery when compared to other countries, but also that around half their population then went ahead and started a civil war because they wanted to keep slavery around.

Heck, Mexico abolished slavery before the USA, then the USA went ahead and conquered a part of Mexico and enforced slavery again on it! Freedom fuck yeah!


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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #993 on: February 18, 2014, 01:14:50 PM »
Pah, 'decades'.

Brazil was a century late after pretty much everyone else. We almost entered the 21st century as slavers.
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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #994 on: February 18, 2014, 01:21:08 PM »
We almost entered the 21st century as slavers.

Technically, Florida is.
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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #995 on: February 18, 2014, 01:23:58 PM »
Well dragons are pretty damn smart... :P

And they are likely to eat you if you don't toe the line.

Be honest, if law enforcement could come out of nowhere and eat you whole if you broke the law, would you?
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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #996 on: February 18, 2014, 01:38:34 PM »
Interestingly enough, there seems like there was a catholic pope  banning enslavement on pain of excommunication way back in 1435!

Well dragons are pretty damn smart... :P

And they are likely to eat you if you don't toe the line.

Be honest, if law enforcement could come out of nowhere and eat you whole if you broke the law, would you?

Reminds me of one fantasy book I readed where dragons exist and are smart and exist side by side with people in ancient China (the emperor and his family are actually dragons, altough they let humies do most of the boring bureaucracy work on their own as long as they're getting plenty of treasure and food). The punishment for trying to trick/cheat a dragon? They get to eat you. :p

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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #997 on: February 18, 2014, 02:13:50 PM »
Interestingly enough, there seems like there was a catholic pope  banning enslavement on pain of excommunication way back in 1435!

Well, to be fair the US didn't take too kindly to Catholicism, and our first Catholic president faced a lot of hardship getting the vote.  So being excommunicated from a church almost no one in the US wasn't a part of isn't exactly a big punishment  :P
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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #998 on: February 18, 2014, 03:01:50 PM »
Interestingly enough, there seems like there was a catholic pope  banning enslavement on pain of excommunication way back in 1435!

Well, to be fair the US didn't take too kindly to Catholicism, and our first Catholic president faced a lot of hardship getting the vote.  So being excommunicated from a church almost no one in the US wasn't a part of isn't exactly a big punishment  :P

That's pretty freaking interesting. I wonder how the other popes dealt with this Papal encyclic later down the road. Aren't those supposed to be the be-all end-all's of Catholic doctrine/Canonic Law? Can a Pope even refute another Pope's encyclic later down the road? I mean, they ARE the envoys of GOD on earth and what they speak is God's law on earth, basically, or i'm somewhat wrong here?
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Re: Things that make you LoL! (part 2)
« Reply #999 on: February 18, 2014, 03:10:09 PM »
Note that it is only technically outlawing the slavery of that one particular group, and only the baptized members thereof.
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