If you ditch the orgasm bit it’s kinda like sharks? Like it’d just be edgy instead of some weird vore-fetish thing
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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.
Including the question mark.
YES
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Edging*
Lolth is an edgelord that makes all the other gods cringe.
Oh, it gets worse.
Don't look up what blessing Gruumsh's wife gave to the orcs.
Tried looking that up but can't really find anything, what is the controversy there?
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.
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.
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.
If your first-level halfling is wearing plate mail, you may be playing Red Box D&D.
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Early DND sounds a lot like pulp comics.
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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Could not really find anything but that Luthic is a fertility goddess of sorts. Which seems rather normal.
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.
Oh so Señor Chang in the D&D episode of Community.
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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Wait, is this real? Surely this is parody, right?
There are a number of really weird things with old D&D lore.
“Wouldn’t it be cool if…”
"Some incredibly unhinged shit..."
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.
They were just keeping with the strong tradition established by the Greeks and Romans of gods that rape everyone and everything.
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.
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Are you talking about Atropus? Or some other unborn God?
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.
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.
Once I accepted that I am cringe, I was free to be my true self. I am cringe, but I am free.
That’s some amazing lore!
Did they remove it or something?
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