Weird timing.
Is it? Why? :o
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
Ahh I see, I thought there’d been some kind of new attempt on somebody’s life 😂 Living under a rock these days, sorry!
To be fair, I’m not american, and the first thing I thought was “has there been another attempt at Trump’s life?” lol
The king is a puppet of a dictatorial deity. The solution is to overthrow god.
JRPG style
Reach heaven through violence
I tried that. The paladin Divine Smite’d me :(
Secular Smite them back, easy.
The king is a puppet of a dictatorial clergy, the solution is to burn the church down with the clergy and monarchy inside.
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.
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.
Bravo on that headline OP! ;)
Why what did I do? I phoned it the fuck in
I think it’s lovely
NANOBLESSINGS, SON!
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.
Or they could just have some Clones.
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.
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
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
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.
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
I know. It’s just that I only know because I clicked the link.
Fair enough. I will keep it in mind. :)
Lord British be like
“
NanomachinesInvulnerability, son.”
