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[–] 127 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The king is a puppet of a dictatorial deity. The solution is to overthrow god.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It seems like any sufficiently rich person, like a monarch, could essentially have someone on staff - maybe multiple people - whose entire job is to periodically cast True Resurrection, naming the rich individual. If they aren't dead, the spell fails; if they are, they come back to life, and can name their assassin.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    "Nanomachines Invulnerability, son."

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think they are referring to the No Kings protest going on in the US right now.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/us/politics/no-kings-protests-trump.html

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    NANOBLESSINGS, SON!

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This really gets into the foundational expectations of the setting.

    In a reality structured to allow for Heroes, a leader must be one, or else be replaced by the next one to stroll through.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Hero might be the wrong word except in the traditional sense of demigod. There's an implicit positive moral judgement in the term that being a monarch has very little to do with.

    I'd also argue that it's more that monarchy by its own self justification is based on the idea that the king protects, and therefore effectively owns, his subjects. A king might do that by effective governance however. If they can't do it personally they'd need the loyalty of a champion, for example.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Nobody would rule by birthright in a D&D world. Any leader of a country would have access to Clone, and would have no need for inheritance.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Funny thing, there was a 2e setting called Birthright, which pretty much made the game about developing land as a lord, rather than dungeon delving

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Oh. I just learned about this. I have no involvement in this channel but this video was neat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsGk9M-4dq4

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I thought this was going to be spam. I recommend saying what you're posting a link to. Or at least something that makes it clear you're replying to a specific comment instead of posting that at random.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I responded to his comment about the Birthright setting with a video on the Birthright setting. I suppose I could have been more clear, but I definitely did respond to someone and did not post at random.

    Funny thing, there was a 2e setting called Birthright, which pretty much made the game about developing land as a lord, rather than dungeon delving

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Lord British be like

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Bravo on that headline OP! ;)

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