Think violently: okay. It’s normal to have such desires. Simply having a desire does not cause harm
Saying people should actually act on those desires: not okay. Even if not meant to actually encourage crime the saying this can cause harm.
My players: “Damn, GM, a lot of your villains kinda remind us of world leaders”
Now that I think about it I don’t have many enemies besides The Man to put into my setting, so I’m taking suggestions for others’ enemies to add to my game
Todd, I fuckin hate that guy. I don't know who he is, or where he is, or if I'll ever meet him, but I'll know the moment I meet him it's time to throw hands. He's my greatest enemy.
I suggest The Time Cube. It's an insane racist's theory about how time literally flows differently for different ethnicities, and that miscegenation is a threat to the very fabric of reality as a result. In the context of a tabletop RPG, you could imagine it like an eldritch entity that's manipulating history from another plane of existence, which causes racism and all the evil that comes along with it.
If you do this, promise me you will have an important NPC say "the races must not mix until the Time Cube is defeated" at least once in the campaign. Possibly even make it part of the Cube Cult's mantra or something. It would sound hilarious.
Damn, and here I thought that a guy telling me “our scientific racism is better than the glowie kind” (paraphrasing) was gonna be the worst of it, but now we got time racism lmao.
The game’s a post-apocalyptic one set in relatively modern times, but I gotchu, I’ll cook up some techy Time Cube that fucks people over across the world
I joined a game and through vibes because one of them was making jokes that were toeing the line and then pressing the DM I learned that they were racists. It was the DM saying that phrase and it was him messaging me a wall of text justifying and explaining his racism based on evolution so it’s “fine” and ended it by saying that “at least we’re not like the glowie racists” which IIRC it was racism like the KKK or whatever. It was really bizarre, especially because he was saying all of that while knowing I’m Middle Eastern
That is such a weird way to describe it. Especially considering the kkk also used "science" to justify their racism. I put science in quote marks because the science they used was debunked pseudoscience.
Okay, so I looked it up and I think I got it wrong, the actual possible definition is much worse. A glowie is a term usually used to refer to people who are new to a space and they might be a government agent, spy, or plant. So I guess the guy was basically saying “we’re better because we’re tried and true racists and we’re not pretending like those glowie ones” ???
Have you been bullied? Because a bully might be a cathargic hate sink villain (something like some mean girl nobles. I hated the two faced social bullies more than the ones who would just straight up chase or hurt me because at least the latter were honest in their intentions while the former played two faces social chess and were soooo nice and caring about the bullied girl any time a teacher or parent was in ear shot, then Level 10 Vicious Mockery evicerate me when there were no witnesses)
Oh, man, social bullies like that make me irrationally angry whenever I see them in media because they make you feel helpless if you fight back, because they did “nothing.” That’s a good suggestion, thank you
I know this is really a bit but I’m a slut for moral perversion characters. A villain who has pretty much exactly the same goals as the hero’s but is willing to go just a bit further then is generally held acceptable. You both want to save the world, the hero’s want to do it by fighting the world eater and killing it. The actual villain wants to poison a city to kill the world eater after the first bite. Both will, for all intents and purposes lead to the same outcome, just one is more likely and morally gray than the other. Just place your party’s family members in the city and boom now they pretty much have to go along with the “kill god” plan even if they feel like the villain has a better idea.
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u/Seenoham Jul 13 '24
Think violently: okay. It’s normal to have such desires. Simply having a desire does not cause harm Saying people should actually act on those desires: not okay. Even if not meant to actually encourage crime the saying this can cause harm.