#kinghthood

[ivovynckier]

Can this man pass a metal detector?

[la-pheacienne]

Picture this, you try to prevent an evil act once and everybody hates you for it and your reputation is destroyed so you're like fuck it I'm gonna become an enabler instead. You're deeply immoral for years, and you thrive. And suddenly you're like what if I choose to do good for a change what if I stop enabling evil for once, just because, just for the fuck of it because I don't want to do that anymore. And BAM you lose a hand for it. And BAM you decide to go back and do it again because you left something at Harrenhal and you know it's stupid and you even say so but you don't care about consequences anymore because now that you're no longer worthy of kinghthood and you are no longer a swordsman all you're left with is who you truly are at the core when all these things are gone. And you want to go get her and you want her to call you Jaime

[coolmaycroft]

Well... if the fantasy is set in medieval Europe then It makes sense in-universe the crusades would be good, right? At the time people thought they were getting back the Holy land and all that.

And part of the probelmatic subtext is that the crusades were a big parts in the development of the miyth of kinghthood (I'm talking out of my ass here, don't quote me on that).

Writers really like the romantic idea of a group of badasses marching to an unkown land ruled by the evil empire™. And from our modern perspective of deconstruction the only way to add crusades is to show the real imperalist and thecoratic motivations behind the movement.

So... people gonna assign meaning to things outside of their historical context. Maybe we're all too dumb and can't be trusted with history

kind of concerning how married the fantasy genre is to "crusades as a basically good thing"

[otaku-discover]

I got my side quest done ✅

[hell-heron]

Favorite Really Serious Asoiaf Analysis parallels:

- literally any situation involving suffering and social outcasting/a different situation involving suffering and social outcasting

- both these characters had some type of belief at some point, and became more cynical at some later point

- both these characters have parents. Also siblings. They feel some type of relatively intense way about at least one of these people

- thinking about this absolutely bog standard social institution for the setting such as the night's watch, kinghthood, or the concept of being a noblewoman in general is actually thinking about one character specifically, as we know that asoiaf has such tight and limited worldbuilding it would never be brought up unless essential

- GRRM forgot he had already used this outfit description/food symbolism/turn of phrase/basic mention of body language and we're all about to pay for it

[shirnaomi]

My DnD Campaign

If you're Lapis, Quen, Anisha or deril, DO NOT READ THIS.

So I started DMing because I'm a worldbuilder. Since I can remember, I would always make up kingdoms and cities inside my head, and once introduced to DnD I realized it's the perfect medium to build my worlds.

My current one is named Afriard (afri-ard), and it has four continents (one is an island continent and one is secret).

I have several pantheons, two of them are open, and one is monotheistic.

I have kingdoms and empires and federations and tribes and oligarchies. I have a magic association and several kinghthoods, most of them are employed by the government.

I have magical and natural phenomena that shape the surface and geography of my world.

The one thing I don't have, and it's not because I can't think of one, is a BBEG.

I just don't understand the concept of one bad guy. My world has several people or organizations that could be classified as BBEGs, but non of them are the center of the campaign.

So what do I have instead?

My PCs.

My style of DMing is PC focused. I create a world, my players create their characters, and their arcs and desires become world-turning events.

For example, two of my players have characters that got disconnected from their siblings. So the answer to finding one of them is to find the other. (Spoiler: one of them is part of a secret organization that erases people's memories, and the other is in a secret organization that opposes corrupt organizations, and it trageted the mind erasing one).

The BBEGs of my campaign are the people or organizations that serve as a barrier between the party and the resolution of some character's arc.

[patrickrennie]

Well, a kinghthood is an official recognition, so there might be a problem.

i wish america had a knighthood system so it could be bestowed upon tony hawk