#OSR #TTRPG #Supernatural #dungeonsanddragons #DnD #oldschoolrpg #oldschool #roleplayinggames #mythology Drawing from real ancient beliefs for our campaigns will only improve them.
My favorite thing to throw into my game is the physical presence of the supernatural. Like my players just had a brush with the faewild last week and i made sure to describe it using their senses "its brighter, more vibrant, the air feels warmer and more pleasant, it smells like nostalgia" and then I made sure to describe their return as feeling like they had the worst hangover ever because the fae realm was blasting their dopamine/serotonin receptors like crazy to give them that previous impression
At some point between the writing of the Torah and the New Testament, a practice arose of throwing the scapegoat (which had the sin of Israel placed on it) off a cliff instead of setting it free in a forest. That's a lot of sin to keep dumping in the same place over and over. In a fantasy setting that sort of thing could have some pretty catastrophic consequences... Btw, I highly recommend looking into Lord of Spirits if you haven't already.
@@AndyReichert0 I come from non denominational protestantism. So dealing with Sola Scriptura was indeed something I've wrestled with over the past year till about June this year.
@@TheBasicExpert Sola Scriptura seems in line with Jesus' emphasis on scripture over tradition, but I try not to take it further than Luther (who himself affirmed extrabiblical mariology) intended. extrabiblical traditions *could* be valid. I just don't see them as irrefutable/essential if they're not explicit in scripture. Calculus seems true, even if not derived from scripture.
@@TheBasicExpert yes, there's definitely a chicken-or-the-egg problem for Sola Scriptura that doesn't exist without it. The classic: if the church isn't authorative on the Bible, why do you trust the Bible that the church decided on? It *would* be a head-scratcher if the way the Bible was organized was by the church getting together and all agreeing what to keep and what to ditch, but the history seems to be that the canonizing was just the final result of a an organic process of more people copying the useful books of known origin and not bothering to copy sketchy books of unknown origin. once the churches all had approximately the same books anyway, they just agreed that those were the ones that they all acknowledged as the legit ones. I don't think any top-down canon enforcement was ever used to force out illegitimate books.
@@cyntogia I know what he was trying to say. I'm not an apologetics channel. I'm a layman. But I get what he's trying to say in the context of the game.
we gotta get Jonathan Pageau to explain gold=xp to story gamers / materialist dungeon players who can't grasp a world that inherently presents a tangible conflict between symbolic good and evil / order and chaos.
