A family emergency delayed this one getting out at the right time, but we didn’t want to lose this gold.
Sometimes it really is about the question. It’s about the freedom and space to ask questions about how things happened, why it works that way, or whether or not the way we see things are valid. In this episode we talk about Ierusalem: Anno Domini and the D&D movie Honor Among Thieves to talk about questions we were encouraged to ask about aspects like historicity, rules lawyering, and whether any of this is any good in the first place. Come with us as we figure out why we love these things.
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Almost 20 years ago my pastor, at that time, asked if I would be the assistant treasurer for the church. When the church voted on this the pastor said the New Testament had qualifications for pastors, elders, and deacons, but the only example of a treasurer is Judas. I guess we are voting for an assistant Judas.
“System matters.” 🙂
I think it’s fair to be thrown by bards and druids not casting spells in a D&D movie. It also makes perfect sense for a movie to do that because as you said, you want it to be clear whose cool thing is whose. Plenty of niche protection to keep things clear and dramatic over the course of a couple of hours, especially for people who aren’t deep into D&D.
But D&D is very specific, even though people treat it like it is general. It’s just also widespread, and has been around for a long time, but there are a ton of D&D assumptions that are goofy and ideosyncratic, we’re just used to them.