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Avoraciopoctules wrote:To be fair, surviving long enough to get Dark Maraudered is itself kind of impressive. Nice game.

Longes wrote:And I have next to 0 in most of those skills, and not enough time to raise them. Is there any way to win a naval battle against those gits?

Socialism:You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbor.
Communism:You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk.
Fascism:You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk.
Nazism:You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and shoots you.
Bureaucratism:You have 2 cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away..
Traditional Capitalism:You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull. You herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
An American Corporation:You have 2 cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow dropped dead.
A French Corporation:You have 2 cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
Japanese Corporation:You have 2 cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and market them Worldwide.
An Italian Corporation:You have 2 cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
A Swiss Corporation:You have 5000 cows. None of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.
Chinese Corporation:You have 2 cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.
An Iraqi Corporation:Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No one believes you and they bomb your arse. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy.......
Counter Culture:'Wow, dig it, like there's these 2 cows, man, grazing in the hemp field. You gotta have some of this milk!'
Surrealism:You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
Apathyologism:You have 2 cows. You do not care.
Fatalist:You have 2 doomed cows...
Atheism:You have 2 cows. There is no God.
A West-Country Corporation:You have 2 cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.
A Brazilian Corporation:You have 2 cows. You pay taxes for 6 cows. You have to sell one cow in order to pay the taxes. Your remaining cow gets sick and dies while waiting for availability in the public vet hospital.
Russia:You have two cows. Since they are both female, if you happen to keep them in the same stable you will pay a 5,000 rouble fine for homosexual propaganda.
PETA:You have two cows. You kill them both. You then use naked women to convince other people that killing cows is wrong.
Moffat:You have two cows. Both of them are your daughters time traveling from the past where they had a brief love affair with Da Vinci making you the rightful Queen of England. As you assume the throne, you throw them off a building.
Hussie:You have 2 cows. You ask for another one. Instead of getting just 1 cow, you get 2,485,506 cows.
Romney:You have 2 cows. You are not the president of the united states.
Once-ler:You have 1 cow. Everyone decides to make 5 different versions of that cow.
Old Spice:You have 2 cows. The cows are now diamonds. I'm on a horse.
An Irish Corporation:You have a million cows because they're everywhere
Tumblr:You have 2 cows. You ship them together and make GIF posts screaming about how much you love your cows, but they should stop existing because they are so perfect.
Also Tumblr:I give you a hamburger.
Night Vale:You do NOT have two cows. Cows do not exist. What's a cow? Show me a cow! That's not a cow! Who let you in here?
Cows:The shit you go through.
This post:Started off as a post that explained different goverments but then everything changed when the fire nation attacked

Maxus wrote:There was an urban fantasy in which the dragon princesses are, in fact, the female members of the species. They look human, but the internal anatomy is way different and they're fireproof.

Prak_Anima wrote:I kind of want there to be a prestige class for this idea now.

Longes wrote:

Maxus wrote:There was an urban fantasy in which the dragon princesses are, in fact, the female members of the species. They look human, but the internal anatomy is way different and they're fireproof.

Was it a fantasy spin-off of "The Puppet Masters"? That would be pretty awesome.

Longes wrote: Dammit, Poland! That's not how you Christmas!

Longes wrote:

Dammit, Poland! That's not how you Christmas!

Prak_Anima wrote:I seem to recall something about that and your take on kytons, but I can't quite recall. Remind me, if you'd be so kind Avor?

Avoraciopoctules wrote:

Prak_Anima wrote:I seem to recall something about that and your take on kytons, but I can't quite recall. Remind me, if you'd be so kind Avor?

Sure, I'll dig up a couple of my old posts.

Flagellant's Morality: The Good in "Essentials"

The idea is that Good is appreciating life. Suffering and the denial of what are normally considered rights actually serve the cause of Good because they make you appreciate things like air to breathe and the absence of pain. Empathy for others is important because it lets you appreciate what they have. Taking something away from someone is Good if they are able to better appreciate regaining something like it.

So I'm doing some Planescapey stuff, and I was thinking about how to show different takes on Flagellant's Morality. There's an adventure that's going to involve both the Shadow Plane and Bytopia. PCs will encounter celestial gnomes and Kyton chain devils. Both of these groups have a common thread in their philosophies in that they believe it is important to appreciate what one has.

Kytons believe that people should be "enlightened" by having suffering imposed on them, and that someone who has lots of stuff they don't appreciate deserves punishment. Kytons love creating fear because it makes others appreciate their lives while simultaneously reminding the Kytons of their power. Kytons don't go out of their way to harm people if they seem perfectly content and happy with what they have.

Bytopians feel it is important that civilization faces some threat for people to prove themselves against, and that one should be able to sally forth into the wild to face greater dangers for a chance at reward. There is an eternal frontier, and (though desirable) honest harmony means little if it doesn't get tested by the monsters and storms the frontier spawns to attack it. Bytopians think survival should never be guaranteed, because that would ruin heroism, but that people should have the freedom to choose peace over constant trial.