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Crystal Dragon Jesus - I recognized the phenomenon, now I can name it.
Brainwriting - A technique for getting ideas out of the quieter people at the table.
Mince Pie Fest 2024: Waitrose No 1
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Huh. I posted some stuff on brainwriting and gaming a few months ago.
ReplyDeleteI like the term "crystal dragon jesus" as a playful belaboring of the obvious, but to be a useful term for me I'd have to broaden it [the definition, not the term] to include the entire practice of unapologetically mirroring the trappings of real-world religions for fantasy ones.
ReplyDeleteWhat I mean is, it would undo the value of a handy term if I have to tediously divide my bogus faiths into "crystal dragon jesus" faiths and "crystal dragon shinto" faiths and "crystal dragon scientology" and so on [and so on], and or break them down into blended categories ;)
To give one obvious example: the repeated use of the Ankh as the symbol of holiness in the Ultima/Britannia setting doesn't make the Ultima church any _less_ Crystal Dragon Jesus than a comparable fantasy church that uses the Cross.
szilard - I was wondering where I got that link from!
ReplyDeleteMy repeated attempts to use your blog as a substitute for a discussion forum just aren't working out :)
ReplyDeleteHa! For what its worth, I totally agree with you on Ultima. For all the noise made about the humanism and/or paganism of the setting, there sure seems to be a lot of crystal dragon jesus all over.
ReplyDeleteStill, good games. Nice maps. And I still have the ankh I got with U4.
A shiny pile of crystal dragon jesus is often the very best (and least hostile) way to express humanistic notions ;) I mean, it's no accident that I commissioned Denis Loubet for a piece in Uresia 2. No ankhs, though ...
ReplyDeleteHi Jeff,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link!
I've long been a fan of your blog. Love it!
I've been linked to you for ages.
Thanks again for liking my 6mm-Minis blog.
Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.