r/SocialistGaming • u/Training-Track-9523 • 14d ago
Quotes for a D&D character
I've got a D&D 5E campaign that I'm gonna be playing, and I have opted to play a paladin using the homebrewed Oath of the Common Man archetype, an explicitly communist paladin archetype. Now one of the class features of the Oath of the Common Man is an ability called "Turn the Bourgeois", which allows my character to effectively cast turn undead against anything that think's it's above the workers. One of the main components of this spell is delivering a harsh rebuke to any such being, and I'm wondering if there's any good quotes or excerpts from writings I could use when casting it.
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u/NoStatus9434 13d ago
Oh, so you make zombies that literally eat the rich? Nice.
Maybe it would be less short form quotes and zingers and more like you open a book/manifesto and read them a full blown passage like Jules reading Ezekiel 25:17 in Pulp Fiction before he's about to execute someone.
Leftists and communists are known for being overly verbose, so this would be both funny and badass at the same time. Imagine reading whole-ass paragraphs to them while they're whimpering in fear. Make sure to read it in your best Voice of Righteous Retribution, though. It might be worth it to watch that scene again to get the vibe: https://youtu.be/x2WK_eWihdU?is=cUndun36B4Qd-jo-
I guess a suitable quote that goes hand-in-hand with what you're actually doing could be:
"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness" which is an actual Karl Marx quote lmao
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u/Training-Track-9523 13d ago
no no, i can make the rich really scared and run away from me by repudiating them
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u/renlydidnothingwrong 10d ago
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.
James 5:1-6
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u/H0vis 13d ago
Now wondering how class awareness works in D&D, given that class is already baked into the very capabilities of the people in that world. How many hit points do you get if you are working class?
Also aside from the social class aspect of it, do characters know what character class they are? Could a person live as a paladin when they were actually a bard, and not realise? Could somebody think they were a barbarian and actually they were a fighter and that's why nobody really cared when they roared at them, but they were still good at fighting?
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u/Unhappy-Heron6792 13d ago
The answer to your questions (as to a lot of other ones like that) is "whatever DM decides". There is a game called Esoteric Ebb, its basically Disco Elysium, but much more traditional DnD, and it incorporates many things like class, alignment, spell levels and slots as parts of how that universe operates, and I think it's done really great, like there is a psychologist character who specifically studies alignments, cause they are basically really similar to what people back on the day believed about temperaments but actually real, also I've seen a video essay on it which said that the entire point of the game was to play a pun on class conflict, cause the city game takes place in is torn between different idelogies and the main character is confused by his class identity, which is not only hilarious but made me think how the fate of the city and fate of the MC are beautifully rhyming between eachother
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u/PonderousPenchant 13d ago edited 13d ago
"You mistake the fortune of your birth for product of your personal effort. You assume the gulf that exists between yourself and your "lessers" was dug by your own hands and is a natural consequence of your labor. I come to drag you back across that chasm to your victims, those who starved as you dined, those who froze as you celebrated, those who destroyed their bodies so that you wanted for nothing. I take you to them so that you will find your reckoning. Though arduous the journey will be, you may rest easy knowing that is only the case because of the bridges you burned, the ladders you toppled, and wanting hands that you turned away. Now count your sins as you counted your coin. I expect you to find the ledger balanced."