01-15-2019, 07:03 PM | #241 | |
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01-15-2019, 07:12 PM | #242 | |
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Re: bending stereotypes
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But Canada has plenty of colorful stuff to be nationalistic about. Most people just don't pay attention. If nothing else you can break a chalkboard over our head and yell,"Carrots!"
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01-16-2019, 02:46 AM | #243 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
The tower of silence, I think.
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01-16-2019, 12:59 PM | #244 |
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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Re: bending stereotypes
Yes, my bad. I could have looked that up and should have known they would not have called it a fire tower if they considered cremation an insult to Mazda.
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01-16-2019, 02:00 PM | #245 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
Just to be clear, by "to a lesser extent" I was referring to its significance as a source of influence on Christian Europe, not the level of negativity each of those two religions held toward cremation.
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Another interesting point to note for those of us that like RPG plot material is that the Romans - almost universally a cremating culture - followed on directly in many areas from Etruscans who where great buriers with extensive use of elaborate tombs and grave goods. For fantasy purposes, you might wonder what it was about the preceding culture that made the one that came after so eager to burn their dead to ashes... Quote:
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01-25-2019, 07:04 AM | #247 | |
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Still haven't done any real research into the whys and wherefores of that.
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01-25-2019, 08:37 AM | #248 | |
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What the deviation in favour of burials said about the Corneli may be anything or nothing. Also, the I think the Pythagoreans preferred burial. |
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03-06-2019, 07:20 AM | #249 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
A survivalist group that, after the collapse for which they've been preparing for, try to bring back order.
Now what brand of order varies, it could be a theocracy from a pre-collapse religion, martial law, or they could even be the good guys of the settings, diverse people from before the war who just happened to have prepared and try to bring back a flawed, but functional pre-collapse form of order because they want their luxuries back, and it could only happen if civilization came back. Whatever the case may be, they're proactive in bringing back their form of order out of ideolgical motivation rather than the self-obsessed nihilists who just fortify their home base and kill everyone on sight that survivalists are often portrayed as. Most survivalists are normal people who prepare for the worst, and like most normal people, they have ideologies that guide their actions, and it's human nature to try to push our ideologies on others, peacefully through debate or violently through threats and violence. Why would survivalists be any different? |
03-06-2019, 07:58 AM | #250 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
A major stereotype of post apoc settings is that "the real enemy is man". Nearly everyone is a self destructive bundle of selfish idiocy.
How about one where most people are normal, scared and of varying degrees of competence, but otherwise normal? I think most players would get a bit paranoid searching for the twit hiding their zombie bite, spy from Umbrella corp., secret monster, etc.
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