What would a fantasy setting based on African folklore be like?

There would be kangz, and there would most certainly be shiet.

Also Anansi.

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>>51244103
Well, there's Nyambe, which is a setting for 3.5, I believe.

http://www.atlas-games.com/nyambe/

Of course, around here all you're gonna get is WE WUZ KANGZ.

>>51244136
I BEAT YOU TO IT, NYUGGA.

>>51244160
Good job. Now go post in an Aether Revolt thread about poo in loo.

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Hiding the /pol/ thread since reporting them does no good.

>>51244103
Probably tribal fantasy.
GURPS Fantasy II (Madlands) do it well even if the Madlanders are more south americans natives.
Still a good source of inspiration.
Here a link http://www.uploadmb.com/dw.php?id=1442897962

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Jamuura from MTG.

>>51244191
>perfectly normal thread about African folklore
>automatically a /pol/ thread
You are the problem.

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>>51244103
It depends. Africa is a huge place and there are a lot of cultures there to use.

>>51244103
starvation, mostly

>>51244103
Like prehistoric cavemen, and aids.

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>>51244103
>inb4 a bunch of edgy /pol/shitposters
But if you're serious and not just laying out bait then look at the actual mythology for inspiration on content and themes.

>>51244122
>Also Anansi.
Seconding this, can't have African setting without the old spider tricking niggas left and right.

>>51244103
Which part of Africa? It's a pretty big place.

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>>51247408
What is up with black people and wanting to be Wizards?

>>51244103
Brace for the WE

>>51247461
for you

>>51247496
They're just trying to get back to what they were before the white man stole the secrets of melanin.

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>>51247221
>Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu
I just love how since the creature supposed to have some kind of spikes on it's back cryptozoologists all jumped into conclusion it's a stegosaurus. Why are they so shit?

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>>51247520

underrated post

>>51247943
First day on 4chan?

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>>51247744
People like convenient coincidences and explanations that seem logically intuitive to them.

>>51248002

The Baneposting just gets better with age, man.

>>51248029
"We expect you to give us tribute promptly. We've trained this thing on when and where to shit."

>>51248035
If you don't expect every single post that contains the word "big" to get a baneply, I don't know what to tell you

>>51244136
Its a pretty kickass book if you can find it, a really great read.

>>51248374
A long time ago somebody on suptg had a copy, but it was d20 so I didn't bother saving it.

Kinda wish I had now.

Have a recurring NPC who insists on fighting naked

Mercenary bands that wear women's clothes

WE

>>51247496
That's Sun Ra, pleb.

Shamans, witchdoctors, drugs, poverty, bare titties, stupid jewelry, rain dances and an invading force of white devils

>>51247496
>not wanting to be a wizard
>current year

what are you gay?

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A disease-infested wasteland full of violence and rape.

Y'know, like real-life Africa.

>>51247699
WE WUZ WIZARDS

>>51252162
WUZ

>>51252796
You must be so pleasant

>>51252829
CHAMPIONS, MY FRIENDS

>>51252829
WIZARDS

>>51252829
KANGZ

>>51253670
AND SHIEEET.

>>51252767
Can you still become a wizard if take it up the ass?

>>51252345
The fuck is this guy, Geralt of Zambia?

>>51244103
Has anyone posted the basket monsters? Someoene needs to post the basket monsters.

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>>51254303
What about the man eating trees of Madagascar instead?

>>51244103
>don't adventure
>collect welfare
>shoot other adventurers with your bow for gang territory
>kill any dragon that isn't the right color fire or lighting, you can choose which ones you fight with when you generate your character
>cast "detect gang" on every other player
>Ask the humans why they're more successful than your race
>wonder why you never chose a different race
>meet the KANG, realize your character WUZ royalty
>don't even try to apply for a guild because you love those unemployment benefits

>your quest begins
Okay.... so you all start in a KFC...

>>51244103
>every character acts like a rogue rogue with all the stats and abilities of barbarians

>>51252496
Dis boi wearin' neutral colors but he rollin' in a blood dragon. You in da wrong hood, mah drigga
>throws guild signs
>pulls out spear

>>51244103
What's with all the "What would a fantasy setting based on ________ folklore be like?" threads lately?

>>51254507
That hoop in the tit is more disturbing than the man-eating tree...

>>51247031
I miss that set.

>>51254767
That's not a hoop, it's one of the thinner tentacles.

Don't fuck around with African dwarves.

They will give you magical artifacts, but turn your back on them and they might eat you... or run to your home and eat your family.

Also South Africa has a myth about the ancestor of elephants and snakes living below the Earth. The greatsnake.

Shit looks like something out of a Lovecraft story.

>>51247408
Space is the place... space is the place...

Anon has a partician taste in music.

Came here expecting kangz in the first post and was not disappointed. Except I was

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>>51248245
Bane posting predates the movie.

Here is some serious Pratchett Bane Posting from 20+ years ago from the book Truckers.

>>51247744
>>51248029
>no physical evidence
>all sightings from remote african villages
>hurr why do people assume its just this animal that shares base physical traits?!?
Why are cryptidfags such delusional tards?

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Cyberpunk African setting with traditional folklore as the backbone for the story?

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>>51254934

I want to play in Cyberpunk Africa where private military companies fight each other with their giant animal mechs

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>>51255251
also what system would you use for something like this?

>>51254791
Mirage was the best.

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>>51254872
AWWW YEAH
FUCKING GROOTSLANG

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>>51255268
I was too young to appreciate Mirage when it came out but damn that set was chock full of excellent lore. They wrote a fucking epic poem and used it to fill out flavor text, as far as I know that is a feat that is singular in M:tG history

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>>51255260
Why not Shadowrun? Seriously.

>>51244103
Well first you have to decide what part of Africa you're basing your setting off of unless you're going for a pan-African mishmash of various beliefs, but there are some things that show up a lot.


First off, child heroes and people born specifically to be heroes. There are a lot of stories about a woman giving birth to a supernatural child, that can sometimes speak to them before it's even born. They usually come out the womb already as intelligent as an adult or sometimes with the body of an actual adult. Most times they're born to deal with a specific threat, some monster has started attacking the village, a punk hyena says it's going to eat the mom's children. stuff like that. But occasionally they're born with no noticeable purpose at all and just set off to prove how big their balls are like Makoma.

Another thing, there are a lot of spirits that seemed to focus on killing you in your sleep. I think one day I came across like a dozen creatures who were all some variation of "this thing comes into your house at night and feeds on/chokes out the life of children and the sickly. You usually have to keep them away with wards and such.

Duality plays a big part in a lot of culture's where monotheism hadn't really taken shape yet. I know some people in Africa regarded twins as being supernatural and possessing magical powers. I remember reading a story that said that all the Gods were born with a male and female partner and that they needed each other to form order. One time a Male god tried to form a universe on his own, but it all unraveled into chaos without his other side.

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>>51255407
>>51255260
>>51255251
>>51254934

Cyberpunk Africa has so much untapped potential. Especially if you use Shadowrun because then you get to draw on the massive amount of African mythology that most players will be totally unfamiliar with. Seems a really nice changeup if your group is getting bored with standard settings.

The setting of Elona from Guild Wars is pretty cool but it's more 'inspired by' than 'based on'

>>51247080
Yet nobody bitches when people ask about European or Chinese folklore.

>>51244103
Chicago

>>51256000
>this new
In every thread discussing European or Medieval fantasy or setting, at least 100 replies will be about
>England have more that just Tolkien, you fucking plebs. Where muh Saxons?????
>Where are the Italian folklores?
>Where muh Nordic legends?????? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
>European setting
>East European just a footnote

The only reason why the Chinese setting get no bitching about being smashed together is because there are very few people are interested outside of wuxia.

>>51254507
That's clearly a woman eating tree though

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>>51256144

>>51256000
A. They do, you know it, and are trolling
B. Even if that was true, the fact remains that China is a single country whose folklore has homogenized so long ago the different tribal elements are all but inseparable whilst Europe is about the size of Africa's asshole and has, due to various ethnogeographical reasons, had for most of its history a far more homogenic culture than Africa. The very fact that both Poland and France are Christian already makes them way closer to each other culturally than, for that matter, two tribes from the opposite ends of South Africa, which would be all but completely alien to each other in pretty much every respect.

>>51244103
Controversial.

>>51255512
Isn't Shadowrun Africa just a terrible shithole?
I think I was reading one of the old books, the Piracy one and Africa was one of the worst places.

>>51254911
Do you think the writer read that book and subconciously drew on it when writing the plane scene?

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>>51244103
I'm gonna recommend 'Spears of the Dawn'. D20 system, classes like Marabout and Griot fighting snake-men and undead egyptian megalomaniacs in fantasy Mali. It's GOAT.

>>51254507
>Vorefags have been around forever
>Plant vore has been a thing forever

Damn humanity, that's weird.

>>51253997
Underrated post

>>51255512
Also Shadowrun Africa is the only place with a Ghoul run nation.

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>>51256485
I'm not sure anywhere in Shadowrun isn't a shit hole for 99% of people.

That being said Africa is described as chaotic and its internal borders are constantly shifting outside of a few stable nations. Frankly I find that appealing in a setting because the GM can create a custom environment and the PCs can actually change it without going against canon.

Damn, should run a campaign where the players are trying to found a new country next time. Sort of a Shadowrun Kingmaker.

>>51256741
>players take over a volatile country and begin an ethnic cleansing

It's simply inevitable

>>51256000
>Yet nobody bitches when people ask about European or Chinese folklore.

You could fit both Europe and China into Africa and have room to spare.

>>51256741
I think that people exaggerate how awful life is in shadowrun.

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This is now an African Cyberpunk thread

>>51256905
Really? What makes you say that?

>>51255260
GURPS

>>51256934
Because not everything can be awful 100% of the time.
Nothing.

Runners usually are supposed to come from the worst places of society and bring that baggage with them wherever they go. Most normal people probably live an okay-ish life

>>51257034
Dibs on tortoise assault squad. Let's hope they also have the ability to sprint for short periods of time just cause.

>Patrolling savanna with turtlebros
>See a filthy poacher hunting local mecha-elephant
>Here we go boys
>Initiate command sequence in lead tortoise
>Lead tortoise extends his legs and sprints at the poacher at 70 mph
>Poacher explodes like a plastic bag full of jello at the moment of impact
>Another day's work done here

>>51256529
Not that anon, but the setup of
>statement
>beginning of rebuttal
>"... for you."

is a pretty common storytelling tool in writing. It's right up there with "I have something important to tell you about your (sound of being killed by an arrow)".

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>>51257077

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Totemism

Most African clans at some point thought their ancestor was some sort of animal, or was saved by an animal, or their ancestor saved the animal

This created an affinity with the creature

People have the ability to project their "bush soul" into the totem of their clan

The Bush soul is usually a bigger, stronger, and more powerful version of the real thing with sometimes a noticeable peculiarly like albinism

Killing a bush soul will kill the person attached to it, but killing a person's body while they're projecting their bush soul causes the bush spirit to run wild and even become a malevolent spirit

Sorcerers can capture other people's bush souls and use them to do their bidding, or sell them

Most typically have wild animals for bush souls, bust women often have domestic animals for bush souls

>>51254924
It shares absolutely no other traits. It's described as a water-dwelling creature that NEVER leaves water. How the fuck could it be stegosaurus?

I was going to come in, shitpost a few crass 'we wuz kangz' jokes but not only have I been beaten to it, the thread has proven interesting and introduced me to one or two new settings.

>>51257248
Anon that's doing this image dump, you've gotta tell me where these images are coming from. Lots of inspiration here.

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>>51257242

>>51257268
>Mansa Musa
To me, the funniest thing about the kangz meme is that the Mali and Songhai existed and were filled with KANGZ tier bullshit.

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>>51257263
Robert Chew is the name of the artist, I think they were made to raise awareness on poaching or something like that.

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>>51257263
Most of it's from Robert Chew(crazyasian1 on deviantart). This series has more than i could possibly post and it's not just African animals either, it spans the globe.

Bonus: He includes in-world descriptions for each piece like this gem:
"Kudu Drones. While formidable in appearance Kudu drones are typically used for reconnaissance and observation. Theirs horns are long and can pierce most body armor, drone armor, and thin vehicle plating but they will only engage in combat as a last resort. Swift, graceful, and alert they are the perfect eyes and ears for any ranger or research operation."

>>51257285
It's literally HE WUZ KINGS n shit

>>51257285

Yeah, and when they do seem to look past Egypt they immediately beeline for the wrong parts of Subsaharan Africa. Shaka Zulu, the Swahili language, etc.

>>51244136
>>51248374
>>51248396

It's very meh. It has the very thinnest of "African mythology" painted over 3e DnD.

You see a lot of concept art around for african settings, but very little competent writing.
Why is that? A lack of themes that can be used in a narrative?

>>51257364
Might be lack of publishers willing to touch something they don't think will sell.

>>51257364
People generaly prefer to make settigs based on their own culture. Slavs made Witcher, japanese shove samurais and NIPPON STEEL FOLDED MILLION TIMES in every anime. Not many rpg's comming out of Africa.

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>>51257285
The original 1%

Almost certainly the richest man in the world at the time. Actually modern historians still aren't sure they can estimate his wealth since everyone who described in primary sources said he was unimaginably wealthy. When he went on pilgrimage to Mecca it's said he brought so much gold that he totally devalued the currency in every city he passed through.

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>>51257354
Eh, to be fair Swahili IS a Bantu language. It just happens to be the most famous so they're a lot closer than Egypt at least.

>>51257405
Economists actually theorize that accounting for inflation he WAS the richest man to ever live, and that the gold from that pilgrimage quickly found it's way into the hands of Italian traders, who became so wealthy they could spend money on frivolous things like art and science.

Yes, they say Mansa Musa was so rich, he funded the Renaissance on accident without ever stepping foot in Europe.

>>51256144
Tolkien is literally all about muh Saxons, what the fuck.

Can kinda agree with the rest of what you posted.

>>51252892

He is as pleasant as he think Africa is.

>>51257359
I hated Nyambe

Elves and orcs have their place, but nowhere south of the temperate zone

It's like playing a supposedly European inspired setting and finding Kitsune & Jiang Shi

The use of "African folklore" was extremely shallow to boot

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Employed in large herds of real buffalo these units patrol the herd providing real time data and intel on the animals and the terrain around them. Accompanied to each unit is an entourage of miniscule bird shaped UAV's built to mimic Oxpeckers. These little spies can easily transfer between the animals extending the observable area by many times. Due to the aggressive nature of the animals in protection the operator must remain at a distance from the primary herd. It is advisable to use either suppressed, air powered, or traditional weapons (bow and arrow/crossbow) so as not to scare the herd causing a stampede.

>>51254934

Wouldn't leather be really uncomfortable in Africa as most of it is really hot?

>>51256741
>That being said Africa is described as chaotic and its internal borders are constantly shifting outside of a few stable nations. Frankly I find that appealing in a setting because the GM can create a custom environment and the PCs can actually change it without going against canon.

So, normal Africa? Well, african borders are kinda stable, but that's because they're mostly meaningless since a lot of government don't have control over what happens in half the country let alone the border.

>>51257405

At the risk of sounding like a That Guy are there any primary sources backing up story of Mansa Musa causing massive inflation? It sounds a lot like an apocryphal story.

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>>51257364
I'm working on it myself, but I have an autistic obsession with internal consistency and depth so it's gonna be maybe 7 or 8 years

The hard part is the languages, geography, and ancestral lineages

>>51257534
Does it look like he gives a flying fuck about being "comfortable"?

>>51257364
Because nobody would buy it. Even afro-americans are mostly not interested because they feel culturally american and just want to be part of american culture, not to defend a different one (this is the origin of "wewuzism"). And the rest of blacks of the world are completely irrelevant to the market.

>inb4 someone say "I would" as if his irrelevant individual tastes are in any way relevant for what people wants or doesn't want

>>51257547
There are apparently many written accounts of him basically "Prince Ali"ing his way through the entire Sahara desert but I can't find sources on devaluing.
They do tend to also state that on his return trip he bought back a lot of the gold because it had become a lot less valuable because it devalued, so economically speaking it sounds about right.

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>>51256000
i can confirm i've complained about european folklore being vague germanic
and many others have as well

>>51257364
Africa isn't really a market, especially for book, videogames and even less so for tabletop RPG. If I recall correctly there are one or two African countries where video games are getting popular but those are the exception, not the rule. And for all the racket the posturing pan-africanist make, they aren't much of a market either.

>>51257547
Considering he bought and paid back to moneylenders, there's probably documents detailing exchanges between Mansa Musa and merchants. Though it's kind of hard to pinpoint the exact documents in all of North Africa that say this stuff exactly.

Wikipedia does give us this though: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3886971

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>>51257534
a full leather outfit is pretty insufferable in most of the world.

but yes, Africa is pretty hot for some reason.

>>51257611
This is unfortunately the truth. While I would buy an Africa-based Witcher or Skyrim type game like >>51252345 and >>51253997 I don't know shit worth shit about African culture. Not just monsters and shit, but how did women behave? How did men behave? What were the themes that went with the stories?
For most blacks in America, it's best to just grab the usual european fantasy stuff and mix it with cowboy western with MAYBE a "In the past, we were the monarchs" with a Songhai backdrop.

>>51257738
>I don't know shit worth shit about African culture. Not just monsters and shit, but how did women behave? How did men behave? What were the themes that went with the stories?

You could, I don't know, learn from the game? Isn't that the point of media with cultural themes? I didn't know shit about Iroquois until I played Ass Creed 3. Prince of Persia introduced me to Zoroastrian mythology. Witcher at least gives you a glimpse into polish culture. Every greek based anything bathes you in greek culture. Why would all this not also hold true for an african inspired setting?

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>>51257738
We had a thread a month or two back about African mythology. Here's a screencap of the themes in African stories.

>>51257547
Ibn Battuta is the best example though he was not a contemporary of Mansa Musa he did meet some of the late king's contemporaries while traveling through Mali. There are also scattered written accounts of his pilgrimage to Mecca and his astounding wealth.

Here my history degree obligates me to give the veracity spiel when it comes to ancient and medieval primary sources: There's reason to be skeptical of ancient sources(particularly the numbers they use which are frequently exaggerated) since the writers usually had reason to make certain rulers/people/cultures/religions look worse than their native ruler/people/culture/religion(or whoever was paying them).

Additionally much of ancient/medieval history is actually oral history that was only written down years or even generations after the primary actors died. It's naive to expect that their stories remained unchanged after they departed this life so we have to be careful about biases sneaking in. Sometimes the inheritor of the kingdom would want to diminish the accomplishments of his predecessor or erase them altogether but the truth can get lost even if there is no deliberate attempt to conceal it.

Being able to acknowledge and account for the bias which is present in all primary sources(even modern primary sources aren't immune from bias) means we're able to analyze them in a critical way, drawing a more complete picture in the process. Unfortunately for most of human history we only have a handful of primary sources to reference and sometimes we only have one. We can cross reference with oral histories and archaeological evidence but there are some things that we have to take on faith(for lack of a better word).

tl;dr We only have a few primary sources on Mansa Musa but they're better than nothing and tangential evidence suggests he was indeed very rich for his time. Hard to say if he was the richest ever though.

>>51257828
Now THIS is better. As much as Kangzposting might be funny, this is more constructive to learning something which may or may not be of use to a tabletop game, whereas..

>>51257740
>>51257753
>>51257871
...might be funny, it's not really of any use unless you plan to run a comedic game.

>>51257828
Thanks for this anon

>>51257927
/leftypol/ please go

>>51257679
Not to mention that in those countries (we should say segments of the society of those countries) what makes videogames and other western media popular is precisely the fact that they're western and they feel it's modern. So there is another step to take even before africans decide that an african videogame could be a good idea and start to work on it. African countries are not the only undeveloped place where this happens, of course.

>>51257828
>humans takes the center stage
>manistic
don't we already have a word for this?
humanist?

>>51257989
I genuinely cannot tell the point at which this moves from /pol/ism to complaining about /pol/ism to complaining about blackwashing in games like BF1.

Congratulations, I think.

(Also I'm pretty sure chief is white?)

>>51257979
humanist is associated with a specific philosophy

>>51258009
It's painful is what it is.

>>51257989
>KANGS won ww1 for the white slavers barely any whites fought in ww1
Except that was one level. Out of, like, five.

>>51258009
It's just a shitposter and he's so bad I think he's trying to get us to go "go back to /pol/" but he's so unsubtle I think he's more of an anti/pol/lack poorly pretending to be a /pol/lack shitposting.

>>51257822
It's not that it can't happen, it's that it needs something else to make it sell. Prince of Persia and specially Assassin's Creed introduced people to relatively unknown periods and cultures (although they're a bit shit at it) but that's something collateral. My brother is an Assassin's Ceed fan and learned some history from it, but he got into the game because you can kill people and do parkour. The same happened with the playstation Prince of Persia games, as a persiaboo I remember how almost nobody cared (me included) about persian culture while playing it when we were teens. It was all about the cool fighting pirouettes.

The same can be said about the Witcher, nobody gave a fuck about polish culture before it and almost nobody who isn't from the place started playing it because it was polish. It was a solid game (even the first) for reasons unrelated to (but complemented by) it's polishness.

Get a good and relatively innovative idea for a game, a book or a TV series. Something that surprises people but at the same time fits the expectations and fashion of today. Make this product, then soak it in malinese culture. Give it good marketing and you'll have the internet jerking over Mali just like you have the internet jerking over Poland thanks to the witcher. If it starts and ends in Mali (or Ethiopia, or whatever) your product is gonna be a failure.

>>51258059
Yes, and there are no black cops, only surgically altered white cyborgs built using ancient Kangz technology. Also the earth is flat, Africa is the center of the universe. Sure.

>>51258048
I don't understand why people can't ignore and report

Shitty spelling, flaming, and spouting forced memes fall under "low quality posts"

>>51255336
Aw fuck that's horrifying.

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>>51258084
Don't engage the troll mate

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>>51257828
I can definitely see a lot of parralels with other mythologies.
The 'bush' as being the outside, the wild unknown, that's definitely a thing in european folklore. (red riding hood not being allowed to stray from the path anyone?)
Evil being anti-social behaviour and good being social behaviour is pretty universal if you ask me, although sometimes evil has elements of subverting the hierarchy or being gross in it.
The way these things are presented as typically african it'd make me believe africa has had a huge cultural impact in the rest of the world if I didn't know better. That last post about the about magic, that's basically what all generic fantasy fiction uses.

>>51257989
Black and african are not synonymous words. Western producers wanting to throw a bone or two (or a thousand) to a small group of the population of a western country for political reasons has nothing to do with Africa. Even if they use a character that is "African" for it, exploiting the mistake that you and a lot of people sadly makes of confusing black with african.

>>51258065
So basically, just make it a good game? That's true of everything. My point is there is nothing particularly toxic about african culture and people will indeed buy it as long as it's fun.

>>51258169
>nothing particularly toxic about african culture and people will indeed buy it as long as it's fun.
Well for one thing, it bring up /pol/ and anti-/pol/...

>>51258123
Human cultures always have parallels to each other. With the way Central American civilizations, Egypt and Southeast Asia all had pyramids, you'd think they'd be connected coughatlantistheorycough but really it's just ideas and behaviors that most humans can agree are good.

All the fun stuff is in the details anyway

>>51258169
Oh definitely, it's just how little people outside of Africa know about it would make it a bit difficult for say, a common guy to know a lot about it.
That said, I'm pretty sure that a game with a fantasy black dude on the cover Witcher-style for console would have pretty much every black person with a console buy it on principle.

>>51258186
4chan is the sewage dump of the internet; our reactions do not reflect the consumer population's as a whole

>>51258215
>That said, I'm pretty sure that a game with a fantasy black dude on the cover Witcher-style for console would have pretty much every black person with a console buy it on principle.
I would see it as a cheap attempt to appeal to my race, assume it's terrible and ignore it

>>51258215
Well, I think if the game WAS good and rather unique and not some identity-politics-pandering shitfest, such a game could potentially be quite the ground breaker. But, as it is, the industry right now isn't pushing black characters for the sake of telling interesting stories or exploring new settings but rather merely to get their brownie points and supposedly 'sticking it to the man'...in spite of how all major corporations and government are on board with the progressive bullshit.

>>51258123
>That last post about the about magic, that's basically what all generic fantasy fiction uses.
Apparently the difference is that African folklore has craftsmen be the magic tool makers, whereas European mythology has the learned people be the magic users. European magic wielders know the secrets of reading and writing to do things, whereas African ones learned it as a trade from a master.

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>>51258233
Wait, so a cover EXACTLY like this, same quality and everything, just in a desert instead of a dark forest, and featuring a black guy in fantasy Mali clothes instead of a white guy, and a properly Mali name like "Mansa" or such, would be a cheap attempt to appeal to race?

Way to sound like a "Black people don't want to see black people in media" type.

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>>51258257
Why are you here? What pleasure do you get out of this? Is your life so hollow that shitposting in an attempt at a constructive thread is your greatest joy?

>>51258309
Not black but if you gave me a game like this and the protagonist happened to be black and instead of Polish mythology it was Yoruba mythology I'd be 100% on board. I'm hungry for novel settings in my fantasy vidya.

>>51258297
So basically in African cultures the magic user is an artificer instead of a wizard?

>>51244103
Like Spears of Dawn by Sine Nomine Publishing. Check out OSR trove.

>>51258347
Well it make sense in a tribal setting, because there aren't really a "learned" or "educated" class/caste. Knowledge is limited to oral storytelling and the making of the tools of day to day life.

>>51258309
I would be fairly suspicious, but I might give it a shot
>Way to sound like a "Black people don't want to see black people in media" type.
Seeing how it's largely a hollow gesture done so some soulless company can look more progressive, I usually don't

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>>51244103
like this.

For a look into African mythology, there's Yeelen, a movie about Mali myth, made by actual Malian people.

Or if you want the short and explained version, just watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0PmgaRmURI

Yeah yeah, internet reviewer, but he actually usually does a good job explaining things.

This thread saddens me deep in my soul

>>51258426
>made by actual Malian people.
Isn't Mali one of the poorest countries in the world nowadays?

>>51258386
Eh, it's different but sometimes stuff like that is just interesting. We wouldn't have stuff like Dark Souls or Metal Gear Solid or Final Fantasy, especially 15 if a few Japanese developers didn't try and read up on some Western cultures.

>>51258426
Neat

>>51258379
True, pretty much only the Mali went on to write, and man, did they love their books and the Songhai had regular schools chopped wood was the tuition but it still seems like more of a tool based living.

>>51258100

>Tales state that gods (who were new to the crafting of things) made a terrible mistake in the Grootslang's creation
>a terrible mistake

Grootslang!

What I find odd about this whole 'We wuz kangs' mindset is if Africans were truly as advanced and hegemonic as claimed, how is that they were ever conquered if the 'white devils' were anything but equal to or greater than them?

>>51257979

not really, humanism isn't just "humans fuck yeah"

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>>51258450
Modern Africa is basically like a fantasy setting. There are good cities making the money, and if you travel outside it becomes hell until you hit the next city or town, with villages dotted in-between.
So there's probably plenty of money, but it's concentrated in few small places in every country.

Like take the top earning cities in the US, of which there's like 5 making 90% of the US's money, and then fill the flyover states with tribes of blacks, rednecks, and indians with failing infrastructure. That's most african countries at the moment.

>>51258511
shut uuuuuuup
it's the same joke, again and again and again

>>51258511
So what you're saying is white demons are more powerful than black souls?

My god... Hitler truly DID do nothing wrong! He was just pushing evolution further by seeking to cleanse the last, anemic vestiges of a lesser species!

Thank you for opening my eyes, Anon.

>>51258549
Hitler killed mostly jews and gypsies though

>>51258549
Please don't feed the troll.
And he's going to counter by saying something like "But the demons are evil, and white people winning was the sign of good dying" or some shit like that.

>>51258494

quote I'm stealing from a discussion of Taharqa a pharoh from the Kush led 25 dynasty of egypt

>I feel many critiques of Afrocentrism are just so utterly inadequate to explain why Afrocentrism exists in the first place that they should leave it individuals who can, because understanding why it exists is important, and not understanding why it exists is simply adding onto the discrimination black people in America (where the majority of Afrocentrist come from) face.

>Afrocentrism is a direct responses to a education system, and informal cultural institutions that reject anything of African origin as either illegitimate or not worthy of its attention--which is to say white supremacy as expressed via the education systems. They don't learn about the Nubian dynasties of Egypt, or any ancient African pre-20th century of note (and often the post-20th century black people they do learn, they only ever learn of the non-offending white people version, like how Mandela never protested violently against the Apartheid state, or the full extent of MLK is colour blindness). So no only are they told their own historical past is garbage compared to the shining European city on the hill, they aren't given the knowledge (or if I'm being completely serious here the tools) to make a legitimate counter-argument. And on top of that, generally speaking, they have less access to higher education, so they are unlikely to eventually get the knowledge and tools.

>So they, like most people finding themselves in unequal system built on oppression and discrimination, improvise to try find any means to be seen as legitimate. So we see these grand mythologies about how all of history is actually because of black people being awesome, instead of the multifaceted flow of people from all of the world interacting together. Understanding this is key to stopping this behaviour. No pretending that the mystery of why they do these things is just so confusing and hard to explain.

>>51258529
How much understanding do those poor sections have of the outside world?
Would it be fitting to say technology is like high magic to them?

>>51258494

IIRC, whites were created by an evil black scientist/wizard who intended them to be a weapon and shit spiraled from there.

So basically a creation that overpowered its creators. Like SkyNet.

>>51244103
Sorry, couldn't stop myself.

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>>51258579
>>51258494


cont

>My point was two-fold--American society, as a whole, doesn't give a shit about black people, be them important or not, generally, but especially people pre-20th century. It wouldn't matter if they were talking about Dumas, because people would simply find a white individual to point at and say 'this man is more important than Dumas' (and it would probably be Napoleon). That's the bedrock problem of society that exists, and has always existed, with a strong currant of white supremacy,

>Education is a secondary problem for afrocentrists, as it only ever helps them become more *correct* not more *legitimate* (as scholars, as historical peoples, as human beings period). Education would give individuals the tools to argue against white supremacy, but not defeat it. Afrocentrists are interested in the mainstream education insofar that can subvert the traditional power structure of society, not so they can correct it. That's why afrocentrists suck, but also why people who correct afrocentrists who don't understand them also suck.

>>51252406

I always want to use this card and it's never any goddamn good

>>51258602
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_(Nation_of_Islam)

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>>51258611
Well, shit. My idiocy stopped me.

>>51258583
I am reminded of that movie about the village of Africans who got a coca cola bottle dropped on them from the sky and thought of it as a gift from the gods that became a curse, so the leader of the tribe set out with it to throw it into the ocean.

But yeah, probably. Technology always sounds like bullshit magic until it's explained.

That said, it depends on the contact. Some would have better understanding of technology than others, but they'd all probably see it as magical artifice.

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>>51258583
You should watch this

>>51258627
This is a parody. There's no way it's not.

>>51258651
Really? You don't belive in pharo WeWuz?

>>51258640
Yup, that's the movie I was talking about.

All right, this thread is now unrecoverable. Thanks, anti/pol/ pretending to be /pol/.

>>51258619
I suppose there's the beginning of a point there. Learning more about african history in schools would be nice- I mean, I have genuinely learned more from video games and the internet about africa than I ever did in schools.

It doesn't change the fact that once you move beyond the Mediterranean coast and the horn of africa that africa has fuckall written history of any type and can mostly be summed up by "people in huts stabbing each other and then islam turns up in the north, and then the colonial times happened, and then it's basically european history but happening outside of europe."

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>>51258651
It is. This sadly is not.

>>51258651

It's an edit of an "sjw" meme on actual black german soldiers. It's been bouncing around for a while.

>>51258571
If it was turned against them, then at best melanin is neutral and doesn't serve them exclusively. As to white nature being to destroy, then conquest was inevitable if blacks were so incompetent to not create something capable of stopping it.
>>51258576
Shitposting is fun, though.
>>51258602
SkyNet only defended itself from the humans that would no doubt have destroyed it once they knew it was self aware.

>>51258635
>Technology always sounds like bullshit magic until it's explained
Most electronics still sound like bullshit magic after being explained. We're at the point where we're manipulating basic forces of the universe. It is pretty much magic now.

>>51258651
Of course it is, dumbo. They had characters named after WE WUZ KANGZ AND SHIET.

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>>51258721
To be fair with WE WUZ crowd you can never know. They can be pretty insane.

>>51258726
So now we're seeing the Fighter vs. Wizard argument? Clearly magic wins.

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>>51258685
The Kongo did a good job putting itself together. I mean the Dutch did find the capital looking like >>51257417 when they arrived, plus the whole Mali and Songhai thing.
Anyway, the goal wouldn't be to say Africans were the greatest! but simply dispel the white supremacist thought that black people were barely smarter than rolling in mud and making clicking noises until white people arrived and brought intelligence.

>>51258719
>Magnets, how do they work.png

>>51258651
>>51258686
>>51258740
A sad state of affairs, but hopefully anyone with a decent head on their shoulders will recognize it as the fever dream of people who take racial pride serious.

>>51258324
Isn't it obvious? He's some retarded Russian neonazi from /pol/. This is the only way he can get his turgid microdick erect.

>>51255372
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/love-song-night-and-day-2003-04-14
A link to the aforementioned poem, for any who are curious.

>>51258795
Shit like that is going on since at least '30 and it's only getting worse. Fuck, even Obama had some nation of islam folk as his advisors.

>Emperor WEWUZ invades the Ancient Finnish Empire
>Lose
>gets enslaved
>blames the victors race for his dumbass going to war with them
>kangposters still deny this to this day.

>>51258798
>Russian
THOSE GODDAM HACKERS CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!

>>51258798
That's exactly what the anti-/pol/ crowd would want us to believe. Come on, this is some fucking obvious false flag.

>>51258791

I agree. I'm not arguing for afrocentrism, but in just the little bit of rading i've done since college on the subject II'm more and more amazed by how little I and most peopele know about world history. Africa had dozens of nations over thousands of years some were significant, others were not, the had kings and heroes and villains same as the rest of the world. I just sucks that people don't know what they don't know. I don't know why I'm even writing this when im just going to get another WE WAS KANGS shitposter response

>>51258859
Yeah. Pretty foul that the USA's first non-white president fucked up race relations so badly.

>>51258863
>finns start hyperwar with koreans
>get autism'd
>still refuse to take the blame

>>51258875

> Come on, this is some fucking obvious false flag.

Sure.

Guys what if...what if our 'Kangzposter' is actually serious? What if he stupidly really believe this shit?

>>51258878
Every nation had those. In the end if you weren't greeks, romans or egiptians you are lost in time, like tears in rain.

>>51258795
>the fever dream of people who take racial pride serious
The lack of it is what caused this problem to begin with. Turns out people like having pride. They need it even. They don't know who they are and feel like they're nothing, so they gobble up the first glittery pile of shit that's handed to them

>>51258918
Sure, there are people like that, even casual stride through facebook will prove that. But i doubt they frequent /tg/. /his/, maybe. But not /tg/.

>>51258892
>make weaponized autism
>cripples your enemy permenantly
>also fucks your ally
>half your homeland gets autism'd
>the city of korea

>>51258918
Then I would wonder how he found his way here, and why he bothers lingering in the den of the enemy

>>51258924

>In the end if you weren't greeks, romans or egiptians you are lost in time, like tears in rain.

> If I don't already know about it, it must not have mattered

Your middle school world history course was not in fact comprehensive.

>>51258929
It's such a stupid thing to take pride in, though. At best, it's basking in reflected glory, and at worst someone thinking they're special for something that actually means diddly squat.

I'll be proud of my own accomplishments, thank you very much.

>>51258875
Fuck off /pol/cuck. Go fucking kill yourself.

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>>51258947
Maybe he's looking for the stolen knowlege of the ancient KANGZ?

>>51258918

I doubt he thinks about it that deeply. He enjoys mocking black people and shitposting in threads. I doubt its reflective of his actual views. Not because i have reason to believe that he has well thought out beliefs, but rather that I doubt he's capable of thinking in depth about any subject.

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And we're done here, time to nuke the thread from orbit because we can't have nice things.

>>51258985
>If I don't already know about it, it must not have mattered
Yeah, because this is totally what i said.

>>51258622

Holy shit, this is almost as good as Scientology.

>>51258997
By your logic, I should have the biggest pride boner EVER. A bunch of wizards dragging down and enslaving a space faring culture to the point of stealing THEIR magic as well as destroying their history? You're just making the White Devil seem more badass.

>>51259023
Anything even vaguely /pol/ related will end up like that. Anyone remembers that thread about medieval poland that ended with people screaming that poles are literally hitler?

>>51259047
Nation of islam is weak, almost sane crap. This is the good shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuwaubian_Nation

>>51258987

sure, you shouldn't say " i get some credit for that because i built it" but it's important to be able to connect to your history, to understand where you came from and to be able to look at history to better understand the present and the future.

>>51259047
I know, right? It's totally bananas, and Malcolm X bought into that crap!

>>51257828
Thanks anon. That's pretty interesting.

>>51258620
Life gain deck to stop aggro. WinCons are Aetherflux Reservoir or Felidar Soveriegn.

>>51259064
>Anything even vaguely /pol/ related
Problem is, /pol/ and anti/pol/ can always make up an excuse to shitpost and invade. I remember a D&D thread which ended with people saying D&D was super fucking racist because it enforced imperialism or some shit.

>>51258918
He's from /pol/. He's just bombing this thread so no conversation can happen anymore.

>>51259102
People reacting to him are way bigger problem. Ignore him and he will just go away. KANGposting is just kind of amusing.

>>51259102
You'd be surprised how much /tg/ people actually go on /pol/ but don't try to crap a thread with such low brow 'humour'.

>>51259088
Eh. Knowing it is good, but feeling better than others because of that connection? That is when it starts to cause problems.

>>51259118
Fuck you, kangs are funny. Throw in some vargposting and you got a perfect storm of stupid.

>>51258987
You occupy a shit place in a society that doesn't respect or care about you. Your individual accomplishments are average or simply ignored, and you are told repeatedly your kind has never and will never amount to anything. Deep down you even believe it, because you look around and all you see are others as beaten down as you, poor, imprisoned, drugged up, struggling and hopeless. You have no history to look back on; your entire lineage you know of started in chains on a boat, and all history you've read only reiterates this over and over as if it's the only thing about your race that has ever been significant.

And then you hear that none of this is actually your fault. That your people, and by proxy you were once great and noble, the greatest and noblest even. Everything that saps your will to live is not part of a complex system of social interactions far too entangled to ever fully sort out, but simply the act of the evil whitey that wants you to feel bad. It's a simple, feel good answers and people will gobble that right the fuck up when they have virtually nothing else to make them feel good

>>51259029

no but it's what you believe whether you know it or not.

Look, one of these days you should randomly look up a civilization or a historical period you know nothing about and buy a book about it on amazon. read that book. Repeat.

rome, greeks , and egyptians have all been 1.) deeply distorted by pop culture and 2.) greatly overemphasized. as crazy as that is to say.

>>51259140
Yes it is funny, but there is a time and place for everything and this is not it.

>>51259138
You're making some sweeping assumptions about my ethnicity. Has it ever occurred to you that I am not white?

>>51259091
>nope because you aint allowed to be proud because we beat you.

But...

You lost.

We destroyed the black man.

We ruined your magic and made your super hunters eat turds.

You lost your interdimensional vortex 10th dimension travel.

You're as bad as the goddam confederacy declaring how they will rise again.

Although the confederacy was of course actually black so that makes sense.

>>51259151
It's basically the same deal as judeo-christian-islamic faiths and cults and sects.

It all works because it makes normal people feel special in the cosmos.

>>51259153
Oh, sure. I totally never heard or cared about any civilisation that isn't one of those three. You can read in me like a book.

>>51259151
Sorry, but that all just sounds pathetic. I can understand why some people would eat it up, even while finding such gullibility repulsive.

>>51259122

Absolutely. it's a fine line but without any sort of understanding of a cultural self people will feel like shit. If I don't think my ancestors or my family were worth a damn it's hard to feel like you're worth much.

>>51259207
>Sorry, but that all just sounds pathetic.
Just like all religion and conspiracy theories.

*ta dum tish*

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>>51259080

>called black supremacists
>by the fucking Southern Poverty Law Center

>>51259207
People don't live in a vacum. What if it turned out that your mother was a whore, your father a drunk loser and both grew up on the streets becouse your grandparents were too bussy whoring themselves out. You would feel like shit, wouldn't you?

Reminder that blacks only became successful due to them stealing the ancient knowledge of the finngols during the great event known as the raid on the temple of the mammoth god Mamut. Black history and kang history is built on a temple of lies.

>>51257516

Worse, it's like L5R.

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>>51259248

>>51259182
These things work because pride is a basic human need. We need to feel like we're worth something on some scale, whether directly of indirectly. Life is a meaningless horror without reason or purpose and if you allow that fact to sink in you'll probably kill yourself shortly after. Because after all, what difference will postponing death really make?

>>51259080
I know a guy who believes this. He views the Nation of Islam with contempt and is apparently waging a small war to expose and defame some of it's members, all the while being a complete lunatic himself. It's really kind of sad; he's a fairly intelligent guy, but his mind is utterly poisoned by this crap. You can't hold a conversation with him too long or it diverges into crazytown.

>>51259248
Also a reminder that the first pyramids were only built by the kangz because the koreans didn't want to and tricked them into doing so, so no koreans would be near the pyramid caps, which were the focuses for the mass autism array, when the project was completed.

>>51259228
Check out their beliefs. They make scientologists look sane:
-rapture will involve velociraptors falling from the sky and eating whites
-everyone has a twin. EVERYONE
-aborted fetuses have secret society in the severs
And many, many more!

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>>51259314

>>51259247
Not really, and not terribly far from how my parents actually were. Hell, my father was miserable BECAUSE of pride. His parents were both more or less successful, owning a home at an age he was still struggling to hold on to an apartment for longer than a few months.

>>51259314
>-everyone has a twin. EVERYONE
This is actually not an uncommon belief

>>51259354
True, but I don't think a lot of people think the rapture involve velociraptors.

>>51259353
That sounds like he had no pride

>>51259314
That sounds pretty fuckin' metal, to be honest.

>>51259339
Their leader titled himself the Imperial Grand Potentate Noble: Rev. Dr. Malachi Z. York 33°/720°
They also belive blacks are aliens and used to be green before white devils stole their magic.

>>51259207

Is it more pathetic than what you are doing? You are looking down on others to feel better about yourself. That isn't too dissimilar to what those you down on do.

>>51255443
Your actual expertise is frankly wasted on this thread. People just want to make nigger jokes.

>>51259386
Aso acoring to them (similar as nation of islam) whites are a race of supersoldiers that turned against their black masters. But they were created with a failsafe (small dicks) that will make their women always prefere blacks. I'm not shitting you. I'm sad that i'm unable to make this up.

Huh, kangz-guy got pruned.

>>51259314

>aborted fetuses become Skaven

Nice.

>>51259456
Also: Star Wars? Based on a true story.

>>51259472
>Huh, kangz-guy got pruned.
That's just sad. It's just some harmless banter. What's next, bans for talking about the hyperwar?

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>>51259490

Well of course.

>>51259472
MODS = GODS

>>51257462
>Yes, they say Mansa Musa was so rich, he funded the Renaissance on accident without ever stepping foot in Europe.
This is stupidly awesome. It's like descriptions of the Agatean Empire in the early Discworld books.

>>51257547
Wikipedia talks about it, if you're willing to take Wikipedia's word. If not, try the bibliography and citations.

>>51259506
Wasn't so much bantz as much as being annoying

>>51258875
Look as someone how has no idea what your talking and reading though this thread and the only conclusion i can come with is that he is either a troll trying to hard or is completely mad.

>>51259445
The thread was going well for a while, but kangz shitposter was too determined

>>51259559
If that guy was genuine, I bet he's screaming about the White Devils right about now.

Anyway, I think the big problem about running an African setting is how little is known about sub-saharan Africa's history, either by historians themselves or just the general consciousness.

>>51259574
Some /pol/ fag really didn't want people to discuss the various mythologies on the African continent so he started spamming WE WUZ memes, until the mods banned him.

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This was almost a fun thread with mecha animals and totem magics.

>>51259559

This. When you're responding to every single post and flooding the thread with the same a shit over and over - joke or not - you need to get the hammer.

>>51256010
Outside of the south side Chicago is mostly hispanic or white.
On the south side Chicago is hispanic or black.
Point is your joke would have worked better with central/south american fantasy.

>>51244103
I tried running a game like that once. My players were all for the idea, seeing something new.
'Yeah! This'll give us a chance to do something new! Different setting! Different characters!'

They turn up with characters, and they're all the same not-medieval England types they were playing before. Only the mage had a decently explained reason for being there. (Namely, investigating legends of a lost high magic civilization).
The others? Not much beyond 'Muh adventure'.

One guy even played a fucking Viking. OK, you want to do the cool warrior race guy, but that's what I've got Zulu, Masai and Saracens for.

>>51259611
Well, african history and mythology is hard without eventually drawing in the KANGZ crowd as such as discussing vikings will invariably draw in the aryan supremacists who like to bitch that worshiping Thor is the 'one true religion' of the white man.

>>51259314
Saturn is not really a planet, but a gaseous ball adjacent to the actual planet, Titan, which is erroneously considered to be one of Saturn’s moons. The head and hat of Santa Claus are symbolic representations of Saturn, Titan, and Saturn’s rings.
Thomas Paine plagiarized the U.S. Constitution from the unwritten Constitution of the Iroquois.
The Pyramids of Egypt are, among other things, electromagnetic antennas that create standing columnar waves of tachyon energy to prevent the wobbling of the Earth.
“The Koran called the Holy Qur’aan or the glorious Qur’aan as held in the hands of Muslims today is a product of Jewish scholars and the Catholic Church’s branch of the Jesuit priest under Pope Augustine.”
All courtrooms in America today are commercial marketplaces dealing in matters bearing exclusively upon private, commercial scrip known as Federal Reserve Notes. Today’s courtrooms are impersonal businesses under jurisdiction of a foreign, occupying, military power that are managed from the bench (from the Italian banca:bank) by merchant bankers called ‘judges’ and ‘magistrates’ who enforce private, copyrighted, corporate policy (known as code) wholly owned by British corporations.

>>51259637
We can always try again.
>>51259647
To be fair Vikings have been just about everywhere; if they can get to America i can see one getting lost in Africa.

>>51259661
The Earth is hollow and contains cities populated by different species of people, such as the Deros, the Teros, the Flugelrods, the Duwanis, the Dunakial, and the Anunnaqi. The legends of the Sumerians, Ancient Egyptians, Aztecs, Olmecs, Mayans, Hopi, and Hindus speak of these things (for instance, the story of the river Styx). Many of the chambers of the Egyptian pyramids lead to this subterranean world.
The prep schools of the American East Coast, predominantly those of New England, are institutions dedicated to the systematization and proliferation of the debauched Caucasian elite, via an intricate system of sexual dogma, most notably through what York termed "Hectorian-Marcottian group practices" such as rainbow parties and ookie cookie.
It is important to bury the afterbirth so that Satan does not use it to make a duplicate of the recently-born child.
Everyone is originally conceived as twins, but usually only one of the twins survives to be born.
Furthermore, some aborted fetuses survive their abortion to live in the sewers, where they are being gathered and organized to take over the world.
People were once symmetrical and ambidextrous, but then a meteorite struck Earth and tilted its axis causing handedness and shifting the heart off-center in the chest.

>>51259647
Vikings were fucking EVERYWHERE. They even sold slavic slaves to arabs and worked as bodyguards for the emperor in Constantinopole. Of course a viking could be in Africa.

>>51244103
HIV-positive.

>>51259681
The physical body, when one dies, recycles from the ground in which it’s planted, it then penetrates into the atmosphere as film or dust particles and are breathed into the nostrils of human beings where they are recycled by triggering nerves in the sinus cavity. This sinus cavity works like a kidney to sift out the unneeded particles and relates the chemical composure of that which is needed into the mother’s blood stream and the human flesh is reanimated and this is the process by which a child is given form or flesh in the Mother’s womb.

Each of us has seven clones:

Clones are in tune with each other unconsciously and linked etherically, which means anything that happens to you the cloned counterparts of you feels also. For instance you may feel a sharp pain, for no apparent reason like your hand may feel like it has been cut and that is because your clones hand may have been. You can have an emotional break down out of the “clear blue sky” because one of your counterparts did. For instance me, I have had smoke come out of my mouth, it was a strange tobacco, for no apparent reason. It turned out my duplicate in Tibet smokes and the smoke came through me. I do not smoke anything.

Women existed for many generations before they invented men through genetic manipulation. – yet:

The great pharmacist and chemist Nergal Shar’etsar Ruler of the Underworld, was also involved in the breeding process of the new beings (Homo Sapiens). When Adam was a child of two years of age, three years of real time, the scientist Nergal went into his bone marrow to take blood to mix it in to create Eve, which was then implanted into the womb of Anath, Mother of Eve. This bone marrow is what religious scholars say is the rib (tsala’) in the Bible.

>>51259727
Homo sapiens is the result of cloning experiments that were done on Mars using Homo erectus.

“When the Earth shifts, babies will stop being born and that day will come soon. Babies are not really being born anymore. They are being cloned.”

Edward Leedskalnin and Nikola Tesla were Venusians.
Birds evolved from fish, not from reptiles. And some species of dinosaur, for instance the Tyrannosaurus Rex, evolved from extra-terrestrial greys.

The pig was created by Imhotep and Zoser during the time of Abraham, by grafting cells from the dog, cat and rat together, and was designed to help dispose of leprous corpses.

“Haven’t you ever wondered why for the simplest blood tests your doctor needs 4 tubes of blood? Where is all this blood going? The albino man’s ‘blood bank’ is just a sophisticated way of getting all the blood he needs! It is still a form of vampirism.”

Beverage alcohol is made cheaply available to Nubians by the powers that be in order to preserve their blood and organs better “ (just like they preserve organs in jars in laboratories) ” for later extraction.

>>51259744
Disco was created by the devil to win the souls of the Nubians: “The evil one knows that he can control the music world as long as his agents are within the A & R (Artists and Repertoire, who are responsible for choosing who makes it in the music world) of the well known companies. He cannot evaluate Latin or Black music because he (the evil one) has no soul. He only duplicates it… He had to come up with something to win our souls through his means, and he did it with disco.”

There is an underground road connecting New York and London. Furthermore, Alternative 3 is a fact, and Mars is being prepared for the evacuation of Earth’s intellectual and political elite.

“People like the Pope, and Queen of England and various political leaders of various countries and some members of the clergy gather at the major Sabbats to invoke the malevolent one. On each of these occasions a Nubian man is sacrificed.”

The Illuminati have nurtured a child, Satan's son, who was born on 6 June 1966 at the Dakota House on 72nd Street in New York to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis of the Rothschild/Kennedy families. The Pope was present at the birth and performed necromantic ceremonies. The child was raised by former U.S. president Richard Nixon and now lives in Belgium, where it is hooked up bodily to a computer called “The Beast 3M” or “3666.”

In Nuwaubian mythology, the barathary gland (sometimes seen as “baradjedi”, “barithary” or “barathory”) was initially a gland of the human brain that was later maimed by the Anunna (those who came down in sets of 50) in the creation(s) of mankind. This gland provided four higher senses 1. telepathy, 2. clairvoyance, 3. intuition, and 4. psychometry, enabling direct communication to the Annunaqi/Elohim/Neteru.

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>>51259456
>whites are a race of supersoldiers that turned against their black masters. But they were created with a failsafe (small dicks) that will make their women always prefer blacks.
But that's wrong.

>>51259758
Nuwaubian leader Dwight York says that humans (other than York himself), are missing an important part of their brains, the “barathary gland,” which once enabled various forms of extra-sensory perception, or, as he would have it, normal sensory perception that is currently disabled in humans.

York wrote that he visited a spacecraft that is preparing to rescue loyal Nuwaubians, and that on this spacecraft he saw representations of barathary glands:

They showed me these little what looked like glass round balls about the size of a pool ball with 1 green light inside and names written on them, floating in this room around this big one about the size of a small car maybe 9x9 it glowed violet and rays of light would touch each green ball, it would turn yellow then blue then red. I knew them to be barithary glands that would need to be replaced if you can visit other worlds.

According to York, just as with our missing barathary glands we have lost our ability to sense many things, our relationship to time has also degraded and restricted our ability to see certain dimensions:

The time and space relationship is linked to the human and Earth’s bio-rhythms, and that determines how many dimensions for a world, which in your case is a third-dimension reality, are up for grabs. This is dealing with the extra space we have in our time. Let me explain. The clocks on Earth used to have a “tick” and a “tock.” Now there is only the “tick.” So time has been changed, and that missing “tock” is up for grabs that can be utilized by extraterrestrial beings who overstand this “altered time,” and they can come in and out of this dimension at will.

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>>51259700
It's not so much that, but the fact that they played the same things they always do.
I'd written up this setting from scratch, spending a lot of time hunched over obscure books to come up with something new and different because I thought my players would like it.

And with the exception of the mage, they made almost no effort to do anything similar.
Yeah, maybe that's a GM's lot, but still.

>>51259798
Problem with new settings is that since players know jack shit about them they can't really play characters properly. Fish out of water kind of works better.

>>51244103
The best African settings would be somewhere between decolonization and the present day. Prove me wrong:

>Flesheating dictators, Nigerian kings of Scotland, we wuz empers 'n shiet
>Voodoo, fetishes, black magic, influencing others by sticking a cut off clitoris in your wallet (Liberians legit do this shit), raping white girls and virgins to cure AIDS (South Africans legit do this shit)
>A free-for-all for the throne erupts at the drop of a hat
>Being a murderhobo is not only tolerated, it's expected
>Horrible diseases, nightmare creatures and starvation galore
>You can be a tribesman, a European mercenary or even a Nigerian prince trying to move his assets offshore through a complex e-mail scheme
>You can even be a cute Japanese merchant girl that runs a weaponshop with overpriced machine guns (she only accepts Mastercard, gold bars or blood diamonds)

>>51259848
>raping white girls and virgins to cure AIDS (South Africans legit do this shit)
>>>/pol/

>>51259848
Yes but good luck trying to write/portray this in any way that is nuanced and not political posturing.

>>51259865
Dude, African tribes got all sort of weird sex-related myths responsible for the spread of diseases. 'Fuck a virgin to cure AIDS' is a well-known one.

>>51259314
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>>51259784
Okay so now that we've got a setting, what system should it use?

>>51259798
Well if I did not know anything about a setting i would be cautious until i had a better feel on what is normal for the area. It does portray there situation adequately though; there playing characters who are as clueless as they are.

>>51259899
World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu or even better Forgotten Armies.

>>51259865
Are facts /pol/ now?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/1362134/South-African-men-rape-babies-as-cure-for-Aids.html
Is the Telegraph suddenly run by the KKK?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_cleansing_myth
Is Wikipedia an Aryan Brotherhood run website?

Just because it hurts your feelings doesn't mean it's not true. Though up, you little bitch.

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>>51259886
Yea going have back him up on this one; people believe that in a few places.

>>51259919
It really does seem like a Unknown Armies thing, especially that last part with time being broken in half and all that shit about the ESP gland.

>>51259982
>Are facts /pol/ now?
Yes, facts which contradict the bubble of the 'right-thinking people' are deemed '/pol/'.

>>51257979
Anthropocentric is the word we're looking for

>>51254888
Lazerhawk has a new album dropping this week!

>>51257364
1. Research is hard

2. Research is very hard

3. The split between pre Islam, Islam and Colonial era makes research even harder

4. The quick geography splits isn't very fortunate when its at the least 6 subcontinents segregated by geography

5. Psuedo Egypt exists, so a lot of people stop there

>>51261850
Don't forget that there is a lot of archeological stuff still to be discovered. About a year or more ago, archeologists discovered a pretty big city ruin in a coastal jungle/swamp, of some East-African medieval sea port. Given the size of the houses etc. it could have fit right in with any other European or Middle-Eastern sea port town.
The city probably was abandoned when the fucking muzzies came down south to convert everyone to islam with fire and sword.

It doesn't help that there are many smoldering "former" warzones and just ungoverned areas in Africa, which makes work for archeologists harder, because not every archeologist wants to do his or her work while surrounded by a small army of mercenaries.

>>51258993
that's a helluva character sheet.