#late night goatpoasting

[goatfactsofficial]

got inspired and decided to crack open an RPG design document to jot down some notes about a magic class that deals with Sheydim by offering them songs as payment, and I remembered an old conversation where I tried to convince someone that the best way to play a Rabbi in D&D 5e would be as a Lore Bard who could give you a thesis-level breakdown of a dozen different topics (and also the ability to talk the ear off anyone with a WIS save low enough) And they just could. Not. Let go of the idea that Rabbi=Priest=Cleric and kept trying to shove different homebrews or Pathfinder subclass material for Clerics at me. At the time it was kind of annoying, but man, looking back its really chilling just how deep this misunderstanding of Jews goes. And the insistence that we are not the arbiters of our own culture is so incredibly infuriating. I know its nothing new, and plenty of other people have said it more eloquently than I can. It just hurts to have this hobby that is so close to my heart and my life to have such a terrible track record of representing us well, and for other people in that hobby do absolutely nothing to grapple with that unpleasant history.