The Harbinger of Ferocity

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@Dynamo Frokane

I could quote some pages back where essentially you named me a sympathizer and or supporter of these groups, as has happened in the past when I have advocated for or against various ideals here, but we are both well aware that is going to make absolutely no difference in the end result. Said end result is that as it has been before and it is a matter of implied or actual application of guilt by association. It would very much be a different story if any of us, though note I speak only for myself as I do not follow others' posts frequently or to any extent, adhered to these beliefs, but the cornerstone of the argument still stands; you might elaborate here and now specifically what you mean and why you mean, but not too long ago that was a different story.

Granted I can understand your call to arms against what you perceive is racist, but for some of us that is becoming an increasingly sweeping argument, even here. Come to think of it, I do not know of a time where anyone said James Allsup wasn't probably or actually a racist, or that Generation Identity and its brother organizations probably do include racists, a number of whom unquestionably are radicals or do act on it, but there has been a strong undercurrent that simply because we are posing the contrary investigation on it stains our hands somehow as well. So far, given they haven't done anything notably harmful, that is a bit out of place; I certainly wouldn't be, and still haven't even had the moment of thought, to defend collectives as Stormfront or organizations as the Ku Klux Klan just as I would not Antifa, Black Lives Matter, or any Wahhabist Muslims as in the now obliterated Islamic State, as they have long since lost any guise of protection owing to their violence and discrimination. I do not believe in pursuing "thought crimes", to put it frankly, or "speech crimes" for that matter.

Looking For Players and their Input on a 5e DnD Campaign

The letter more or less, based on historical guilds of reality, might well be a writ of craftsmanship that denotes the individual as a master or a certain occupation, @rush99999. As far as roleplaying goes, might be a bit easy to say, convince a local blacksmith to help you in turn for teaching them some techniques of your shared trade - trade secrets - essentially. How would he be so convinced of this? Proof you are who you say you are and what you show them. Sort of akin to a scroll of pedigree, just on a smaller scale and presumably with the obvious benefit that if we do meet your craftsman's guild, they will probably aid us; historically so long as someone vouched for allies of a guild, usually the guild would help them, barring the obvious.

I have no doubts there are other creative uses of it, such as providing it to the governor as proof you aren't just some wandering vagabond who needs be tossed behind bars for their vagrancy, or that you can attempt to use it to get work into a place you wish to infiltrate among others.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@Dynamo Frokane

But don't expect me to nod along happily when you defend them. I have to draw the line somewhere.

Now that I can respect, that you take personal issue with them and have drawn your own line. I certainly do not expect you to nod along, that was never a concern or issue, rather that I would not be somehow lumped into them for simply stating they are not all one in the same. So long as we can recognize the issue wasn't advocacy versus accuracy; I might not agree with these organizations, but political and character assassination is even worse when they have debatably done very little. They were made guilty by association, which I take issue with for myself.

That laid out in full, I would disagree one really "is" what they say or think they are without practicing what they preach, even if only to themselves in their own mind, but I would dare say that isn't so much a political discussion anymore.

D&D 5e -- The Lost Children

I had a window of opportunity that lasted just long enough, @Guardian Angel Haruki. All for the better as it were, to which I am certainly not disappointed with.

Looking For Players and their Input on a 5e DnD Campaign

Personally I would prefer not to have a devil conjurer in the group, @Cu Chulainn, not just from a social dynamics angle, but that is probably going to be reliably difficult to convince anyone to trust them, assuming this is an uncommon thing. If this passes for normal, I imagine it a non-issue.

Thank you, @rush99999. I needed that information sooner than later before I transferred everything I had from Myth-Weavers to Dicecloud.

D&D 5e -- The Lost Children

"Jared?"

The woman dodged back, just out of the sweep of the sword's edge as the large, black, pantherine cat took another mauling swipe at the bandit and making him cry out. She shook her head and reared back, splaying her hand whilst keeping the flat of the she bore in the other, its cold and sleek steel to her pale, now bloodied skin. The red scent was heavy on the air, elves and animals alike probably could smell it with ease, but that wasn't what was distracting her.

"I don't know Jared or why you are avenging him!" She replied, retorting not just with words but slashing the supernaturally bestowed claws at him. A green glimmer trailed behind the swipe of her more animal fingers, but she continued with a yell, "And he's a jaguar, not a house cat!"

She hesitated for a moment, curious what she was to do now, having been a bit lost and confused as to all what just transpired, but she didn't wait too much longer. If the man dropped, she would be off and call the feline ally with her to the next foe, one not far from her company. If the man didn't, the young druidess hoped with all her heart she could have Jamil of Azalorn finish him off. Things were going... well? Sort of? Maybe? The woods were dark and beyond a ways, even her keen sight couldn't see clearly through them, but the fighting sounded like it was still well alive. She had to do something, after all she wrangled one bandit and she still hadn't seen the girl that was spoken about or even the newcomers to the wood. Had the Barnaby Brothers got the better of them?

Effects

Shaedra Galandoel retains her concentration on the Entangle spell. She casts the Primal Savagery cantrip with an attack roll of 14, 22 if the roll would benefit from advantage. Assuming the attack hits, as it might with the lower roll, she deals 8 points of acid damage. If the attack would hit and deal damage, she does not attempt to knock the target unconscious if it is reduced to 0 or less hit points; her intent is to kill as she gave the bandit plenty of opportunity to try to escape.

If she reduces the target to 0 or less, she will run to the next closest enemy nearest the party - ignoring the ensnared one - by 35ft and attempt to flank them. If she is able to do this, she will call Jamil of Azalorn to join her in her attack and reducing the enemy's number. If she fails to fell the foe, she will remain with Jamil of Azalorn and keep fighting until the target falls.

In either case, if an opponent provokes an opportunity attack, she will lash out with her scimitar at them.

@Guardian Angel Haruki@JBRam2002@rush99999@ihinka@Cu Chulainn@0 Azzy 0

D&D 5e -- The Lost Children

I will have something up this evening for you all!

Looking For Players and their Input on a 5e DnD Campaign

@rush99999, given you intend to play a dwarven fighter, do you intend to play offensively or defensively? If the former I will retain my paladin concept, if the latter I might do a ranger, for the sake of something similar and to keep a strong frontline between that and the monk.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@Dynamo Frokane

A majority of the time I never bother posing questions in reverse, so perhaps now is the best time to start doing so. Let us start this from the top then, shall we? Why is your definition of racism so broad? I mean this in the sense that it is, perhaps with utterly no jest in it when I say this, almost every conversation you seem to lead in politics exclusively about race and how everything is in some way racist? You needn't actually answer this question as I only wish to bring attention to it; the fact you are still hung up on someone as James Allsup months later is sufficient testimony for this to me in conjunction with everything we have spoken to before.

Continued, I do not see an issue with a predominantly white continent, as Europe, advocating for preserving its ethnic, cultural, or racial qualities. Why? Well, in large because it will legitimately never happen, but too because there is destruction of many of those things. You might see enclaves of "traditional Europe" survive, but with the social dynamics it has brought on itself and rather the world abroad, this is not going to matter, utterly ignoring the fact they indeed have loaded in an absolutely maddening amount of people who have a general hatred and disdain for European culture, zero interest in integrating, and are continually pushing for their own cultural, ethnic, and racial groups inside already established territories, to say nothing of how many are comfortable with radicalized religion or outright agree with it.

Yet again you continue to keep mentioning James Allsup as if I care about his opinion; I do not, just as I admittedly do not for anyone else's opinion be that the man down the street, the college student one-hundred-twenty-three miles away, the house wife in California, a regional office manager in Zimbabwe, or yours. What I care about is, is there a larger, more prominent, actually successful or dangerous movement that they represent? No, there really isn't, especially not with the example we received with Generation Identity. If anything my assessment and argument was completely glossed over. Let me restate it clearly for you, "They are fair-weather friends and allies, it is no surprise that groups with similar interests, even if the motives behind them differ, will ally together for a common cause. No less, it further stands that because of their belief and the allies they do even at distance keep, especially in the United States, they are not going to find success."

I note this is an utterly pointless exercise as you are not going to accept any other answer than your own; this isn't the first time you have made such a demand and my opinion is not about to change. I do not really care if the person's opinion is "racist" so much as I care if they actually do something racist. Do they refuse to hold the door for black people? Do they spit on Latinos and call them names? Do they try to avoid hiring Asians? Are they attempting to a white employee over a better qualified Native American? Or... are they just going to say things both equally stupid and mean spirited? But I digress, whip yourself into a frenzy over it if it so pleases you, but as before stop labeling people - myself included - because we do not match your opinion on something.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@Dynamo Frokane

Thus far you have shown me a handful of things on people I do not follow and do not care about, and know even less about, James Allsup being your personal favorite. Continued, what I have to go on is some posts on the internet by him, which I have acknowledged are probably valid and probably do infer he is a racist. No less his apparent association with an organization that cultural, ethnic, and racial interests lends to this, even if they do not advocate one culture, ethnicity, or race as one superior to another. Congratulations, we might well have found one. Tremendous and all that... now what?

Unless you have a stronger case and more evidence to say outright that someone is an out and out racist, why should I care again, and even if you did? Rather, why are you seeming to think that bothers me? You still seem to be under he false impression that I care about any of these people and organizations, let alone the deeply misguided and hysterical media. Yes, they do spin everything, and these people who they are targeting are made far more an issue than they really are or ever would be. At the end of the day we still have one nobody with no power who has ideological backing that goes against the interest and opinions of his own nation by and large. Oh no. He might say something mean though! Let his agenda dig its own grave is my opinion.

However, do excuse me for not leaping to your beck and call at your personal crusade; I referenced crying wolf before and I will do so again. When everything and everyone is called racist, know me to be skeptical, especially​when it involves any of the media.