How to become God… or a Lich August 26, 2019Zoltar <strong>THIS IS A AN AUTOMATIC CAPTION TEXT from YouTube, so it’s written as spoken language from the video.<br /> My advice is to use it just to help people like me, that are not english speaking, to understand the video. </strong><br /> how does one become a demigod if there</p> <p>was clear path I feel like a look I’m</p> <p>gonna make God do these three things</p> <p>yeah you’d have a lot of people doing it</p> <p>the trick is no one is really sure how</p> <p>like there are those who morning came</p> <p>would tell you that’s just it’s you know</p> <p>the balance is thrown off sometimes</p> <p>maybe someone is elevated demigod them</p> <p>to help you know keep it in line I mean</p> <p>that’s how I became so powerful the</p> <p>universe looked to me and found a</p> <p>champion elevated me every hue Milot e</p> <p>is not the stakes are so high right the</p> <p>but that’s what is what makes a tricky</p> <p>you know because there are I mean that</p> <p>how many adventures have spent how much</p> <p>how many hundreds of thousands millions</p> <p>ago pieces trying to find this answer</p> <p>right it’s not just simple as now a</p> <p>mobile 20 and I’ll just fight some more</p> <p>monsters and get the little 21 now my</p> <p>demigod it’s not that simple the it is</p> <p>it is not just a matter of desire and</p> <p>power and ambition but time and place</p> <p>and the situation of the cosmos and</p> <p>you’re standing within it so demigods</p> <p>obviously those who they have risen for</p> <p>mortals you know this has happened and</p> <p>the history of being the rock deity</p> <p>cosmos but there is no reliable path is</p> <p>it possible like you can reach a demigod</p> <p>stats from just being around for so long</p> <p>potentially and being involved in so</p> <p>many events that something just got the</p> <p>weave does get wrapped up in you</p> <p>attention certain extent yeah and won’t</p> <p>let you go yeah I’m kind of very</p> <p>fascinated by that concept of a</p> <p>low-level demigod like a demigod who</p> <p>just can’t die its core a core concept</p> <p>I’ve always enjoyed like someone who can</p> <p>never be truly powerful but they didn’t</p> <p>I mean someone like you know asked him</p> <p>to supplant this you know the chronicler</p> <p>of Krim right I mean he doesn’t show</p> <p>much overt power and crackling things</p> <p>but he is he knows everything he writes</p> <p>the entire story you know so there’s a</p> <p>there’s an example of a character who</p> <p>has come afforded themselves yeah a</p> <p>power because he he’s so focused yeah</p> <p>almost like a philosophy clarity exactly</p> <p>like your your so you so much are you</p> <p>bought in to such a degree right that</p> <p>you are now part of the value this is</p> <p>your role this is what you do and there</p> <p>are some people say he’s an aspect of</p> <p>Gillian right you know the god</p> <p>neutrality yeah knowledge and more</p> <p>right from my Dragonlance lore but the</p> <p>but again and I love characters like</p> <p>that in D&D or in theory you can visit</p> <p>plant this and visit this person you</p> <p>know and braceland famous you know in</p> <p>those the dragon chronicles does well my</p> <p>absolute favorite characters of all time</p> <p>very interesting character right you</p> <p>know the character yeah I think it</p> <p>resonates with especially with young</p> <p>people right the but again a character</p> <p>who also aspired to become a w on right</p> <p>and not I’m not gonna spoil the story</p> <p>cuz it’s great story</p> <p>it’s alright story yeah you should read</p> <p>those books yeah those two trilogies</p> <p>they’re fantastic and it was such a</p> <p>personal story yeah that’s what was made</p> <p>it good that’d be the best D&D stories</p> <p>of the personal stories yeah you can</p> <p>talk about I mean spend a lot of time</p> <p>talking about these worldly of these</p> <p>godlike figures the end of the day D and</p> <p>E is other people right you know and the</p> <p>choices they make and so that is that</p> <p>that’s an important thing when it comes</p> <p>to maybe role-playing gods yeah Timmy</p> <p>gods</p> <p>yes showing the the personal side like</p> <p>our conversation about s Modi is there</p> <p>was a time he wasn’t great at it that I</p> <p>find interesting like I find like the</p> <p>maybe he got to this point where he knew</p> <p>every trick that was going to be pulled</p> <p>on him because maybe he did get fooled</p> <p>we learn more from our failures and our</p> <p>successes success often blinds us to</p> <p>growth right our failure forces it out</p> <p>you can ignore failure do so in peril</p> <p>right but some people you know but if</p> <p>your can fail with open eyes you learn</p> <p>more about you know about yourself and</p> <p>about the world but Iowa’s I always</p> <p>found my sleeve all ways found Dedes who</p> <p>are more like people far more</p> <p>interesting to play with than just the</p> <p>gods this trip oh it’s a god the god of</p> <p>you know making arrows right okay like</p> <p>what’s their story right to me</p> <p>characters are more fun when you have</p> <p>someone like Saint Cuthbert who has like</p> <p>a clear point of view and you can</p> <p>imagine them making mistakes right you</p> <p>can imagine some of these these figures</p> <p>you know like the dead three or you know</p> <p>they’re very human in a way they’re</p> <p>still driven by their emotion I kind of</p> <p>think of the more powerful gods as being</p> <p>more remote less human they’ve</p> <p>essentially sublimated to another level</p> <p>of existence you know they speak more in</p> <p>omens and vague premonitions rather than</p> <p>coming</p> <p>to you because they just can’t relate</p> <p>anymore you know alright they become</p> <p>also a lame</p> <p>whereas yeah like you said the dead</p> <p>three are demigods at this point yeah</p> <p>they were adventurers Justine in terms</p> <p>of cosmic history very recently their</p> <p>adventures seeking to become gods and if</p> <p>you’re a demigod or a god that doesn’t</p> <p>mean that you necessarily have divine</p> <p>power in the sense of being like a</p> <p>cleric and you can heal people you you</p> <p>can be just a fighter who is just yeah</p> <p>you could just be yeah I’m really badass</p> <p>fighter the Kalinin the sword of the</p> <p>lord of swords from Grayhawk was just</p> <p>such an amazing swordsman that</p> <p>eventually transcended mortal limits</p> <p>became a demigod the master bowl blades</p> <p>I find this stuff incredibly fascinating</p> <p>what I found interesting is when you</p> <p>take a fantasy setting and you take</p> <p>these mythological concepts and again</p> <p>connect them back to a human level what</p> <p>would it be like to me to God and some</p> <p>gods are remote what does it mean to</p> <p>worship a god of the gods infallible</p> <p>right and there are people it meet a lot</p> <p>of them encircle who would tell you know</p> <p>the gods the gods don’t give you magic</p> <p>the gods are teaching you how to use</p> <p>magic</p> <p>the magic they use which we have</p> <p>mistakenly called the vine magic called</p> <p>by magic we get it from the gods but the</p> <p>gods aren’t actually the ones giving it</p> <p>to us they’re teaching us how to use it</p> <p>but doesn’t actually come from the gods</p> <p>because invariably someone will point</p> <p>out clearly if you were to think of a</p> <p>deity like torn right yeah it was a good</p> <p>god Walt’s Hormuz clerics well you are</p> <p>all the terms clerics infallibly good no</p> <p>they make mistakes isn’t it possible for</p> <p>a cleric of torm to turn to evil yes it</p> <p>is well when then how was their power</p> <p>still right where’s their can be</p> <p>actually somehow good Tiamat clerics</p> <p>there’s been examples of that um that’s</p> <p>interesting because yet because you do</p> <p>write in the players handbook I believe</p> <p>you’ve released the dungeon master sky</p> <p>that you can have philosophy clerics</p> <p>yeah okay it’s belief you can just be so</p> <p>obsessed obsessed with trickery that it</p> <p>just is in your bones just like llamosa</p> <p>Steiners yeah believe it’s you know how</p> <p>much of it is just mysteries of us like</p> <p>you know secrets that are shared as you</p> <p>advance a level you get insight in the</p> <p>build building blocks reality like so</p> <p>it’s a that’s what I think is fun when</p> <p>you add that ambiguity that we think the</p> <p>sound works but we might be wrong and</p> <p>that’s when faith comes in so I think if</p> <p>you’re gonna talk about religion you</p> <p>have to talk about faith right like the</p> <p>happy</p> <p>part of it right it’s just always true</p> <p>and clear and become then it become</p> <p>science fiction now we’re talking about</p> <p>laws right science fiction is about laws</p> <p>this is what happens no one can change</p> <p>it fantasy is about truth which truth is</p> <p>relative right right because you know</p> <p>it’s embedded in emotion it’s been an</p> <p>experience so it just kind of depends on</p> <p>where you’re sitting and how your angle</p> <p>you’re looking at something and that’s</p> <p>your truth but it varies what what is</p> <p>then so often the plug of well not often</p> <p>but certainly a lot someone’s trying to</p> <p>become a depakote someone’s trying to</p> <p>become a bitch like lit stub I think</p> <p>it’s very hard for to everything I I</p> <p>don’t know if I’ve ever played a wizard</p> <p>who didn’t inevitably want to become a</p> <p>legend</p> <p>well that’s what being a lich it’s why</p> <p>it’s so appealing because it is a path</p> <p>right you can find the right books and</p> <p>find the right rituals and it has been</p> <p>like wizards are the most scientifically</p> <p>minded characters we have in Randy</p> <p>because Wizards want to find the rules</p> <p>to find them understand them and then</p> <p>live by them and use them to manipulate</p> <p>magic so Lich them is such a it’s</p> <p>Michael knows wizardly thing imaginable</p> <p>here is a path to immortality do this I</p> <p>mean it’s incredibly hard</p> <p>of course wizard love to do things that</p> <p>are hard couldn’t like its show off and</p> <p>show it but that is very much you know</p> <p>and that’s why sorcerers and wizards</p> <p>don’t maybe necessarily get along</p> <p>because sorcerers do what Wizards do</p> <p>without going to school right and you</p> <p>very purposely don’t show people how to</p> <p>become leeches no because again it’s</p> <p>something which not every you know it’s</p> <p>not just written in the pamphlet you can</p> <p>go by your gonna water deep and find in</p> <p>the bookshop because it’s very dangerous</p> <p>knowledge right you know someone like</p> <p>black staff would just not want that</p> <p>getting out cuz you’re just asking for</p> <p>trouble right I mean the problem isn’t</p> <p>there’s so many people who could</p> <p>actually do this the problem is all the</p> <p>diaw who’s who don’t have the magical</p> <p>skill but they’re gonna try to sacrifice</p> <p>a thousand people right like roger steps</p> <p>are to make that happen because they</p> <p>think well of course cuz can’t we go</p> <p>back to chaotic evil versus lawful evil</p> <p>the chaotic evil person would just I’ll</p> <p>just try it maybe I’ll become a Lynch of</p> <p>course I’ll become a Lich because I’m me</p> <p>and I’m I’m you know party maybe a</p> <p>little bit narcissistic that’s probably</p> <p>other aspect of chaotic evil is</p> <p>narcissism right like I am the only one</p> <p>who matters I will happily sacrifice pee</p> <p>we’ll do all these awful things just as</p> <p>this manuscript says buy new these steps</p> <p>I’ll become a lich except I forgot the</p> <p>part where I should be like a 20th level</p> <p>wizard or so you know the hard parts no</p> <p>I’ll get to those eventually but I</p> <p>killed all the people credits so clearly</p> <p>it’s the rituals fall it’s not my fault</p> <p>I didn’t make any mistakes that’s that’s</p> <p>caddy cable which if I can now loop</p> <p>around maybe I brought you back to</p> <p>myself the point of you that maybe</p> <p>Asmodeus isn’t the most evil person</p> <p>right because it’s kind of horrifying to</p> <p>think of a cab but now the lawful person</p> <p>would institutionally make it happen</p> <p>which is probably even worse because if</p> <p>you stop them there might still be</p> <p>they’ve built something awful that will</p> <p>endure that keeps trying to replicate</p> <p>these this ritual to create village do</p> <p>you find that very hard is a creative</p> <p>because sometimes I just want to know</p> <p>the answer and I think you’ve seen that</p> <p>interview sometimes I just want to know</p> <p>what’s going on like I wanna know why a</p> <p>met and the get the inky have any kind</p> <p>of deal but the the magic of anything is</p> <p>not knowing like sometimes the answer is</p> <p>the worst thing you can do to anything</p> <p>yeah as we’ve seen with like movies with</p> <p>prequels like I don’t need to know I</p> <p>didn’t need to know how this character</p> <p>got there I don’t want to know</p> <p>necessarily completely how magic Alex</p> <p>how’s it gods makes it that’s science</p> <p>fiction again right you’ve explained</p> <p>everything if we’re if we were building</p> <p>a science fiction game we probably have</p> <p>a different view right right if we</p> <p>didn’t know something our goal might be</p> <p>to figure it out where fantasy is</p> <p>different than it seems much more it’s</p> <p>driven personally in fights by my</p> <p>personal sort of you know desires and</p> <p>understanding am I am I I’m seeking</p> <p>truth not necessarily fact right and so</p> <p>I think that’s why I naturally always</p> <p>gravitate into fantasy and I like</p> <p>working in fantasy cuz I’m not for me</p> <p>it’s less important to say to know the</p> <p>facts of let’s say Asmodeus is more to</p> <p>life as to understand who is he as a</p> <p>person that I find interesting I don’t</p> <p>necessarily need to know his full</p> <p>backstory to understand what his</p> <p>personality is like because you can kind</p> <p>of figure it out once you know the</p> <p>personality could you know maybe</p> <p>something about the past you can see the</p> <p>echoes you can see how they’re and once</p> <p>you pour any concept like that into</p> <p>concrete then you you don’t allow the DM</p> <p>or the players to like play with those</p> <p>like you know because that’s the thing</p> <p>is he always on to leave space for the</p> <p>Dungeon Master to make</p> <p>right it’s like I imagined back in the</p> <p>you know way back in the day right the</p> <p>Greek bards going around telling stories</p> <p>I’m sure all of them put their own spin</p> <p>on it oh absolutely yeah you know your</p> <p>audience like your arm and Crete then</p> <p>this I know the King and I’m here at Sky</p> <p>Dome want to that’s part my kind of</p> <p>anger room it’s gonna remind him of me</p> <p>something went sideways last month so</p> <p>I’m gonna edit that out of it</p> <p>I’m good Bard of course we’ll do that</p> <p>because a good bar doesn’t want end up</p> <p>as a dead bard or in prison bars or II</p> <p>running out of town in front of an angry</p> <p>mob bard so you’ve got to change the</p> <p>story a bit but maybe if you’re a very</p> <p>good bar deal think the King doesn’t</p> <p>want to hear this but he needs to so let</p> <p>me find a way to get the message in his</p> <p>mind without him knowing it right</p> <p>fantasy</p> <p> Share this:TweetWhatsAppTelegramEmail
