Christian Humans

>Christian Humans
>Islamic Elves
>Hindu Dwarves
>Buddhist Orcs
>Chinese folk religion Goblins

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>orcs
>not shinto

>Christian Humans
>Islamic Beastfolk
>Atheist Elves
>Satanist Dwarves
>Shinto Orcs

Nah, man. Jew dwarves.

>Islamic Humans
>Christian Orcs

>Pointless spam Thread

That's overplayed man.
You got to go with Jew Griffins. You got to.

>Fantasy world
>Religions don't exist

The mark of a bad DM

Cmon, try to be creative

>Pointless spam Elves

>not medieval catholic italians
>literally Florence, Venice, Genoa, Milan and Rome
>grudges become century long cycles of vendetta punctuated by outside invasions
>dwarf banks are cutthroat organisations whose retribution is feared by all, with tendrils spread all the way to the distant east

barneyfag pls

>hey Veeky Forums let's discuss the barely-defined and author-dependent concept of elves, because...
>you can theoretically use discussion of elves in various media as ~worldbuilding inspiration~ for a setting if you want to, which...
>can be part of some TRADITIONAL GAMES so it's on topic!!!

Why do you hate fun user? XD Cancerous offtopic shitposting is so much fun!

>Chinese folk religion Goblins

>has done literally no research into the customs of our future overlords

This is why they always shoot at us in the movies.

>not jewish dwarves

>Pointless spam Elves
>Shitposting Goblins
>Serious Discussion Dwarves
>Dank Meme Orcs
>/pol/ derail humans.

The world would be well depressing if all humans were Muslims

It would essentiall be the same, all religions big enough just fall apart in doctrinal quibbling.

It's Jew Orcs, you fool!

Except discussing elves is worldbuilding, not "worldbuilding inspiration." Any discussion of fantasy races from fantasy games is secondary by nature

Gnomes are the Jews.

>orcs are evil Veeky Forums Pepes that reproduce memetically
>just fighting them off exposes you to a mind virus that must be suppressed afterward
Truly the most grimdark of settings.

>races from fantasy games
Do you really think elves in general ORIGINATED from a game?

Shouldn't you be somewhere else fucking a horse?

I don't get the reference.

Hippogriffs?

Islam would fit better with orcs.
Nothing is cooler than green men in desert gear.

>Orcs are actually misunderstood. While Humans and Dwarves consider them uncouth barbarians, their rich oral tradition of baneposting reveals a refined if untamed, artistic culture.

>elves force their women to cover up so as to not tempt human males
Makes sense.

Honestly, kinda fits.

So now its not just a religious crusade, but a genocide? Excellent.

IT JUST GETS BETTER AND BETTER YOU KNOW?

Sihk Kobolds.

Ancestor worshipping tribal Goblins who actually pull it off because the ghosts of goblins literally refuse to pass to the Outer Planes in favor of hanging around to advise their families/friends/descendants. Many tribes are directly ruled by councils of dead leaders.

Only if you incorporate cool stuff like the Kabbalah or Key of Solomon instead of just "dude jew dwarfs! jewwwww doorrrfffs"

Must be embarassing to not be able to wrap your head around an idea even /v/ grasps. According to that inforgraph, this thread is on-topic by being Secondary.

I can hear your heavy, weasy breathing

Griffins are Jews in my little pony

>Islamic Elves
So you have to deal with ISIS tier Drow, and have Persian High Elves?

So it's secondary.
>World building
>Traditional games

>Traditional games aren't set in fantasy worlds that require worldbuilding
GURPS is literally worldbuilding the system, even D&D has always had advice for building homebrew settings.

Wood elves are Balkans muslims, plagued by an influx of drow cultists trying to turn them into screaming drwahabbis

Roman Pantheon Humans
Zoroastrian Elves
Carthaginian Dwarves
Totemist Orcs

Well then it's primary then. So is still full of shit.

>Wood elves are Balkans muslims, plagued by an influx of drow cultists trying to turn them into screaming drwahabbis
Moon Elves are Suffi Mystics?

>>Islamic Elves

Islamic/arabian folklore is actually really dreamy and contrived, a perfect fit for elves if you ask me.

I think orthodox orcs would be a good fit. Orcs most resemble humans after all. So they would be too different from Christianity.

>setting takes place in that brief beautiful moment in time that Islam was more progressive than Christianity and Europe actually had to get its shit together.

The party would be made out of merchants an mercanaries that travel all over the (known) world and try to foil a desert spirits evil plan to make a world spanning desert.

Then orc crusaders ruin everything

I would play it.

>Read thread
>No norse dwarves
wat

>orc crusaders
>ruining anything

I bet there is a goblin behind this post.

>serious discussion dwarves

butthurt turkroach detected

>Three wise men were travelling across the country, going from town to town to teach wisdom. At one town in particular, they were welcomed warmly by the townspeople, and offered gifts of the town's produce. One of the gifts was a large pot of vinegar. The first of the wise men dipped his finger into the vinegar, tasted it, and a sour expression came across his face. "This vinegar is too sour," he said, "take it away." The second of the wise men dipped his finger into the vinegar, tasted it, and a scowl came across his face. "This vinegar tastes terrible. It is far too bitter, take it away." Then the third man dipped his finger into the vinegar, tasted it, and smiled. "Mmm!" The other two looked at him confused. "Now this tastes like vinegar!"

>In the Chinese tradition, the three vinegar tasters are Confucius, Buddha and Loazi, and each one's reaction is representative of their respective religion's attitude on life. Confucius sees the vinegar as soured wine, and sees it in need of correction, just as society should be maintained through strict rules. Buddha recoils at the taste of the vinegar, and sees it as being too extreme for the body and an example of the suffering of life. Laozi, on the other hand, recognises that vinegar is what it is, and our perception of it is biased by our judgement of what it "should be"

Confucian Dwarves
Buddhist Elves
Taoist Humans

How is this thread primary? It doesn't mention games in the OP. It mentions elves, which did not originate in a traditional game. Discussion of elves as a concept is not necessarily discussion of a traditional game.

>Crusader-fags
Reminder that you guys lost all but the first crusade.
Well, except for the fourth where you couldn't be bothered to half-ass it and robbed your allies blind.

>brief
You mean around a millenia? Geological speaking it's brief, tho.

Reminder that there were multiple crusades, like shit in Spain/Portugal
Also fuck Constantinople, they deserved to be sacked.

>Buddhist Orcs
That would be kind of awesome.

>fear is nothing
>hate is nothing
>death is nothing

Thus go an do what must be done and win this battle.

>We failed to pay the men who won our civil war for us
>We slaughtered the famlies of the men who hired them out to us less than ten years ago
>Why would these barbarians hate us so ;-;

That's Dragon Age.
Minus Orcs.

>Islamic Elves
That explains the "all elf women are sluts" stereotype. Any elf not constantly covered head-to-toe and not constantly under male supervision would pump out a trillion half-humans.

>Juding crusaders by their victory and not by their character
Saint Louis did LITERALLY nothing wrong.

and the Northern Crusades

>By their character
>Rich second borns who had no inheritance pay lip service to the church to go on a rape and pillage spree across the middle east in hopes of looting enough shit to live a rich and comfy life.
>And then FAIL at that or loot their allies.

>looting
Islam shitter go home

>Firstborn who had inherited the most powerful country in Europe (Heretical Germanic Confederates need not apply)
>Was loyal to the Church to the point where even his contemporaries considered him radical
>Ignored the Levant in favor of Egypt because he considered fighting in the Levant the equivalent of fighting a lion by grabbing his tail
>His moral character, kindness and dignity in captivity even inspired the Egyptian Sultan, who had every reason in the world to hate him
>Returned to France to reform the entire legal system to become more fair and just

I reiterate once more: Saint Louis did LITERALLY, LI-TE-RAL-LY NOTHING wrong.

Basically this.

Every now and again, an elf woman escapes from her homeland and fornicates with as many people as she can. A squad of elite Elvish assassins is usually dispatched for obvious reasons.

True, but not all crusaders were Saint Louis. There's a reason he's a saint and the crusades were embarrassing defeats

What else would you call what the cursaders did to Constantinople other than your standard Rape, pillage, and burn?

>pay lip service to the church to go on a rape and pillage spree across the middle east in hopes of looting enough shit to live a rich and comfy life.

The Muslims literally did the exact same thing to every non-Islamic country they bordered.

Easy, payback for massacring the Latins.

Not him, but
>tu quoque

>Payback
Bruh, it was just the Venetians being scummy Jews. You don't just fucking invade the Roman Empire like some savage German or barbaric Muslim (though to be honest, the difference between the two becomes less clear with every passing day).

The Roman Empire died in Rome. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

>tu quoque

Only relevant when I'm trying to disprove the statement I was responding to.

I was not, I was pointing out the Muslims happily did the exact same thing and any future or past attempts at painting them as the victims is hypocritical.

So the West Roman Empire, being based in Lugdunum and Ravenna for most of its existence, wasn't Roman either? Good to know.

By the end of the century, China will be a Christian nation.

>supporting Eastern Heresy that protect itself from pagans
Fuck em, they deserved it.

this tbqh

Not saying the muslims didn't. I'm saying there's no reason to paint the crusaders as any more holy and vigilant than that. They were no better, nor worse than the other.
Except one side repeatedly kicked the other's ass back into Europe.

No, the crusaders literally dindu nuffin and anyone that doesn't support them hates God.

>Except one side repeatedly kicked the other's ass back into Europe.

And that one side is nowadays painted as a gleaming beacon of progressive ideology and hyper-advanced humanism that Europe simply can't fathom to compete against, and was in fact such an exceptional period of human history that it's still used today as an example of how Islam was, and still is, a tolerant religion of peace and love.

Why do godless atheists/pagans try to pretend that islam is good?

Now let's not get ahead of ourselves. I'm just saying the crusades were an absolute defeat for Europe.
That said, the middle east would have been much less shit if the mongols didn't come fuck everything up for them and everyone they touched.

Italian/Swiss Humans worshiping Almighty Gygax
Mesopotamian/Egyptian Dwarves with mountain-top cities that stargaze
Arabic Elves that wander space and are totally not C'Thulhu worshipers
Roman Hobgoblins with ancestor worship
Celtic Hobbits that are generic Shamanfolk from the Isle.
Polynesian Spirit-seeker Dragonborn

>Nearly 2000 years ago some backwards horse archers fucked shit up and left
>That's why the Middle East is shit today

>I'm just saying the crusades were an absolute defeat for Europe.
>Islam is out of France and Spain
>More national unity for fighting off roaches
no

>the middle east would have been much less shit if the mongols didn't come fuck everything up for them and everyone they touched.

Plenty of places got booty bothered by the Mongolians, most of those places are doing pretty well for themselves today.

Maybe the bigger issue that caused the Middle East to become a filthy backwater was the mapping of trade routes across the tip of Africa and the discovery of the New World, two events that shifted international trade from the Middle East to new places. As the Middle East lost their easy silk road income and the Ottoman Empire became a decadent mess, people became radicalized.

Islam was pushed out of France and Spain long before the Crusades.

600 years ago, and actually yeah, most of the middle east took a pretty hard nosedive after the mongols were done with it. Though the western half, namely the Mali, Songhai, and friends did pretty well. until the late 1500s
Then happened. I suppose the better way to say it was the mongols were the boot that set off a good shitstorm that ruined the middle east.

>More national unity for fighting off roaches
And the nations of Europe go to turbo-hating each other afterwards, the crusades were a temporary unifying bandaid that got ripped off the second they stopped.
>Islam is out of France and Spain
Those were due to Inquisitions, not the crusades.
>inb4 someone tries to claim they're the same thing.
>Meanwhile no crusade ever really reclaimed the holy land.

Out of France yes.
Out of Spain no.

>Islam is out of France and Spain
Sadly that statement isn't as accurate as it would've been 100 years ago.

>Those were due to Inquisitions
>buying into the inquisition meme
Shut up reddit.

Norse Dwarves are just shorter, underground elves. Or more correctly alfs. Black alfs.

Too much risk of off-topic posting on Melmacheim race relations.

>Shut up reddit.
Shut up tumblr.

>I suppose the better way to say it was the mongols were the boot that set off a good shitstorm that ruined the middle east.

A culture that could only afford kindness and justice when times are really good could hardly be called an exceptional culture at all.

Which is what happened with the Middle East; things went to shit the moment the money stopped coming in, and when it stopped coming in they were all-too-eager to get in ships and literally rape, pillage and depopulate entire European settlements to sell as white slaves in the markets of Marrakesh and Istanbul.

That's like saying Ted down the road is a pretty swell guy, but since he got fired from his comfy office job he started stealing your lawn equipment and tries to sell marijuana to your wife's son.

>Buying into the Inquisition meme
>Says the Crusader-fag

Only fags go on tumblr.
>doesn't understand what conquering the moor part of Spain means

>Catholic humans
>Amish elves
>Orthodox dwarves
>Hussite orcs
>Protestant Goblins

>Those were due to Inquisitions, not the crusades.

Mother of God, educate yourself.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista

>biting the bait

just ignore them

jesus christ, i left Veeky Forums for this exact reason

Oh, my bad.
Not that the Reconquista was a crusade except under a very, VERY loose definition

>Pope says it's a Crusade
Are you saying the Pope is wrong

>Started in 710
>First crusade wasn't until 300 years later.
Pretty much. More specifically, it started long before the crusades even started and the pope tried to throw a fancy name on someone else's war and claim "We were all fighting"
It's like if the US claimed it fought in ALL of WW2 from start to finish, when everyone knows that's just not the case.