I love the way you identified our great weakness, at the end.
> However, it’s clearly not so simple as ‘white man on top’ in the modern era. While white men are the only group with bonuses in all ability scores, they have a relative weakness in wisdom – lower than white women, East Asians, and Ashkenazis. In the D&D system wisdom is what protects your character from enchantments, particularly spells such as charm which bend your character’s will to another’s. A race disadvantaged in wisdom is vulnerable to being enthralled by dark witchcraft, used for ends not its own, even used against itself. Fortunately for white people, there’s no such thing as black magic, and they’ve certainly never been ensorcelled to work against their own interests.
Well, something else that is probably speaks to (maybe?, I don't know Grok) is that many of the +17 characters spent like ~500 years building and/or conquering the world to bring it to its incredibly sophisticated and abundant modern arrangement, but then spent the first fifty years of the 20th century killing each other in extraordinarily bloody and wasteful ways over who should rule it and how.
And so the second half of the 20th century has been a bunch of other characters collaborating across tenuous alliances to make sure the +17s don't have a lot of unchecked power or unchecked freedom.
People are really excited to throw off the post-war consensus that has become suffocating and deathly (esp. to some subset of +17s), but I don't think most are ready for what it looks like when the raging wheels of history start turning again.
These robots are preprogrammed by Jews* Often anarchistic..estranged ..gay totalitarian Jewdevils* however..their r lends. will correspond to their (preternatural) deeds..soon...watch....they will be destroyed from within*
Interestingly, the most common forms that have their roots in the West (by which I mean the lands extending to the Urals and the Middle East) are based on Hebrew letters and names. Make of that what you will.
It's also interesting how much effort is expended in popular culture to deboonk esoteric material, for something that supposedly is silly and has zero consequence.
Yeah I don't think the original game designers were thinking too deeply about actual patterns of variation across species. Game balance was obviously of greater concern - you don't want any one race to be OP, or it breaks the game.
Everyone's going to want to play as one of a few race/sex mixes...
One thing I didn't address was how to incorporatev fantasy races. There's two ways. One is to give them absurd modifiers, eg elves get +8 dex and -8 con. The other a bit more involved, is to do the math again but with inclusion of outlier abilities of fantasy races. That will change the means and standard deviations dramatically, thereby reducing the human racial modifiers.
One of the unforeseen effects of the progressive lust for multicultural societies is ethnic differences are now in our own backyard instead of across an ocean. It is one thing to decry observers as racists when they discuss group differences with exotic groups who live thousands of miles away, but quite a different story when you live among people who are strikingly different from yourself and you see consistent variations every day.
The anecdotal part of the above analysis alludes to this; we all sense the differences in educational ability, athleticism, drive, success and so on. Even a willingness to volunteer for charities or help others varies among groups. The more we live together the more we see these variations assert themselves. And if all the kids are going to the same schools, all speaking English, all getting a similar upbringing and we still see differences, well, what then for the blank slate? This was Charles Murray's problem and he was raked over the coals for even considering it.
Your analysis reinforces what observers have noticed for centuries. In every society we know of whites, Ashkenazi Jews and East Asians dominate; various types of brown locals occupy the middle, and blacks are always at the bottom. It doesn't matter if the groups have been there for centuries or just stepped off a boat, this is always the hierarchy that emerges over time.
In the US and Canada the top is occupied by Northern Europeans typically, Jews and increasingly a hodgepodge of Orientals, Chinese, Cantonese or Korean depending on locale. Indians, hispanics and other browns in the middle. At the bottom are the blacks.
In Chile it is Italians and Germans who dominate along with Japanese, although they have almost no Jews. Various strata of Aztec peasantry occupy the middle. At the bottom are blacks, regardless of origin, recent or ancient.
This pattern is repeated everywhere. It even includes artificial societies like the various British colonies in Africa. We ran the show, the imported Indians (occasionally Chinese) ran the economy, and the blacks were always at the bottom no matter what resources were brought to bear to drag them up. There were a handful of exceptions to this as other comments here suggest, but these were trivial numbers. The trend was repeated everywhere the Europeans went.
This is not a dig at any ethnic group. But it is a prediction. The only thing "multiculturalism" will do is make ethnic differences unquestionably obvious. In time this will be discussed openly. The philosophy of blank slate will inevitably die. But at that point formerly successful nations founded and ran by Europeans will have a thick layer of dependents who cannot support themselves but will assert themselves within our borders because the above hierarchy will always emerge. It will be all the more aggressive if they have been taught all group differences are a result of racism or hate for which whites must be punished. This is the dangerous game the progressives like to play even though they will be first against the wall when it all kicks off.
I suspect ethnic wars are in all our futures.
At the end you allude to the Great White Hopelessness; our tendency to embrace fantasy. Perhaps a bias towards left-hemisphere thinking and the madness it induces. I suspect that will be cured by the inevitable hardships created by multiracial societies and their downward trajectory. Hard times and all that. We are controlled by the fantasists because we allow it to happen. It stops when high-T, disagreeable men say no, enough is enough. I strongly suspect that time is coming.
Fantastic comment. I'd add only that a clear eyed acceptance of these realities is essential to mitigating their worst outcomes. If certain groups will inevitably rise to the top, then they have a certain obligation towards noblesse oblige regarding those they dominate, if for no other reason than to drain the venom from the inevitable resentment.
I agree. But the counterargument is we have tried that. Affirmative action in the US didn't make the target groups thank the white majority, quite the opposite. It often fueled the resentment.
The harsh reality is genuinely multicultural societies cannot really work if the constituent populations are radically different. That's why a few Orientals in white nations make little difference; they are a lot like us and do well anyway. Less so for others. The Japanese in Chile are a good example. Part of the woodwork. There are quite a few high functioning Indians in South Africa who are the same and strongly ally with whites etc.
It is difficult to see how this experiment will end well for anyone as at the end of the day communities do have to defend themselves.
Multiracial societies can work - see Rhodesia or Singapore. One must simply accept hierarchy, that some will be on top and others on the bottom, and treat those on the bottom well. Affirmative action isn't the way, that's elevating people above their station, which merely generates more resentment.
Essentially: a firm hand, clear boundaries, and a fair economic system that provides a good life even for the lowest.
As far as Blacks and disease resistance, I believe that depends on the diseases in question. While Blacks are more susceptible than Whites to diseases of temperate climates. Whites are much more susceptible to tropical diseases. Until the development of modern medicine the African tropics were infamously considered death traps for any Whites who ventured into the interior, largely due to the various tropical diseases.
There are two interesting points about within-group genetic diversity that you didn't mention, or not much.
Ashkenazi Jews are extremely inbred, to the point where they are all effectively 2nd or 3rd cousins to each other. 23andme had to modify its algorithms for this one group, because every Ashkenazi Jew on there is flooded with "relatives" he's never heard of.
Blacks however, have within-group genetic diversity which is much larger than the genetic difference between white and East Asian, because humanity had the longest time to sub-speciate in Africa. Averages obscure huge intra-black differences, so while the IQ level of Africa is quite low on average, the exceptional Igbo of Nigeria routinely excel academically in the West, and often remotely run financial scams which succeed against white people.
Distribution curves for the groups and characteristics you picked would be very interesting.
Inbreeding, of Ashkenazi and others, was accounted for in constitution, since it can lead to congenital diseases.
Regarding African genetic diversity: yes, absolutely! I mention this very briefly in Methodology as a major caveat to the results. Actually, that caveat applies across the board. There are substantial phenotypic differences between eg Scandinavians, Celts, Germanics, Mediterraneans, Slavs, etc.; an Inuit is very different from a North American native or a Mayan; the Japanese, Mongolian, Han, Filipino, and Thai populations are all quite different from one another. You could extend this analysis to an almost infinite level of granularity.
The odd thing about Jewish inbreeding is that it somehow does not decrease intelligence, as would normally happen. I've never seen a good explanation for that.
Good point. One theory is that 1000 years or more of the most successful Jewish merchants marrying off their daughters to the most accomplished scholars did select for intelligence. Or maybe it's simply that one has to be relatively smart to succeed as a merchant. So that's the selection part.
The apparent lack of harm from inbreeding may be due to actually eliminating defective genes over time. If you keep inbreeding for a very long time, you're left with a small gene pool, but the most harmful recessive mutations get wiped out because of the high probability of their harmful effects showing up and preventing reproduction.
OTOH, Jews are known to have a few mutations like Tay-Sachs which are fatal when homozygous but increase intelligence when heterozygous. So maybe the advantage of increased intelligence more than offsets the recurring tragedy of dead children.
Jewish inbreeding..Jewish pedophilua Jew race supremacy.talmuduc bolshevism..kabala..hermaphroditic. wef -blackrock totalitarian gay Jews...all of it is preternatural ..quintessential Synagogue of Satan inversion .the new kikeistocracy .the result is cyborg dystopia micromanaged by Jews..isreali or american..Jews ..read..jewdeviltry..**
Haha this might be simultaneously the dorkiest and most dangerous article you've ever written.
If it were me I think I'd squish those modifiers down to better reflect the game mechanics. Maybe to 2/3rds your listed values. I understand how you worked out the math but the results "feel off". Remember for example that a score of below 3 INT indicates nonverbal, animal level intelligence, and that scores above 20 STR are substantially superhuman. The desired modifier curve for those traits is narrower than a +/- 3SD spread from 1 to 18 would indicate. So the fact that it's probable that you can roll an aboriginal with weaker stats overall than a bullfrog, or a white male with better STR than a gorilla, indicates something is off about the math.
But the overall point that life isn't fair stands. Our RL traits are adapted to specific environments, moreso with greater isolation and genetic distance, and only some of us were selected for empire building in the wide open fertile spaces of the world island.
The high stat modifiers are an unavoidable consequence of taking the mapping of a 3d6 roll to a Gaussian at face value. However, it's probably worth mentioning that the inclusion of fantasy races changes the means and standard deviations, and probably does so dramatically. Halflings would be much weaker than any race of humans; elves far more nimble; dwarves significantly more robust. Recalculating the modifiers with the fantasy races included would reduce the magnitude of the human racial modifiers across the board, bringing them more in line with D&D norms. Except probably for intelligence, which is generally unmodified for demihumans.
Regarding absurdly low scores, obviously if a character ends up with INT < 3, they're very severely retarded. I actually played a half-orc with all three mental stats in that range. It was a hoot. "Wait no why are you doing that, that's retarded!" "Yes my character is retarded." *Dungeonmaster facepalm*
In practice of course you do need to limit abilities to minimum values, 3 being pretty reasonable.
I too have played a very dumb orc, and it was a blast. Worked up a whole broken internal logic for the decision making process that nobody ever managed to figure out.
RE: adding back in fantasy races, you might be able to re-balance it just by taking some other mechanical points of reference (e.g. stats of real animals). If you could find some metrics that could be compared to humans you might be able to work out what the real scale is. This would be an incredibly nerdy thing to do but you've already gone this far. I suppose the game was not designed in this way in the first place and the stats are arbitrary...
This was fascinating and amusing. I think that the old barriers of ideology and politeness (against interrogating racial IQ trends, or sex disparities, or the alleged historical connection between Jewish people and cultural ferment) have broken down completely. They were over-applied, and they became absurd, and now they’re almost gone. I think that I notice more brilliant people exploring these topics than ever before. I think it’s a positive development.
That sounds about right. We regard the progressive/managerial orthodoxies of the 20th century (Towers in the Park/Public housing, frontal lobotomies, penitentiaries, centrally-planned economies) as OBVIOUSLY incorrect and discredited ideas. Yet our own contemporary progressives proceed with the same blind confidence and love of power. Every generation has its battles to fight I guess.
Precisely so. Dogmas rarely stand the test of time, particularly those not grounded in reality, and which therefore have observably deleterious societal consequences. That said, they can endure long enough to do severe damage ... often great suffering is required before the necessary lessons are internalized.
In a generation..honest discussion of the JQ will also inexorably irrepressible.. resurface ..see also now ...The New American Jrustallnachr** Not everyone will submit to the Holodomor 2.0...not everyone will go quietly into the king dark road to absolute Genocide*..and. that s Not a basement video game ...".it's a resurgent Inexorable reality...*
Solid effort poast. Amusing to see the modern predicament of the western man wash out in the final paragraph from the premise of "D&D stats but real life".
FWIW 2014 5e wasn't so retarded, races had specific stat bumps (e.g. elves +2 dex+1 int, humans got +1 across the board, dwarves +2 con +1 wis). The new 2024 5e is the retarded homogenous do whatever you want version. No one I know has made the jump over.
Interesting. I can't help but notice that negative modifiers were removed. I suppose it must have been thought cruel to imply that elves are fragile, dwarves unfriendly, or halflings physically weak.
IIRC there was a monstrous races supplement early on (2016 maybe?) that had orcs as STR+2, CON+1, INT-2; half-orcs had just the positive bumps, but this was the exception. The design philosophy was certainly more positive/accessible to earlier editions, which was good for getting a consistent game with my mates going, but it also has made the hobby pretty woketarded.
Fortunately we can ignore it in our home games. My current game features a political tension suspiciously like 1800s Europe, with gnomes representing a certain banking folk from a certain country in the middle east. My players are starting to put two and two together lol.
The mechanical changes in "Next" are secondary really to the abhorrently woke presentation. You might argue that the removal of racial stats is a concession to how people play the game these days: everyone wants to be the "exception to the rule" character, which isn't *that* bizarre since heroic characters are already exceptions to every rule and the orc bard or dwarf wizard is just an extension of that archetype.
I think I would have had a more pleasant childhood if I discovered and embraced my inner geek early on. Sometime around the onset of puberty, I became convinced that the single object of the game of life was to accumulate coolness points. In the '90s, at least where I grew up, that meant getting into basketball and hip-hop, and eschewing Magic and D&D with great prejudice. I did pretty well with what I had, but as a not particularly athletic, not particularly good-looking, socially awkward, quarter-Jewish white dude who can't dance, I faced quite the uphill battle. My stats were suboptimal for the coolness competition, leading to great frustration. And to lack of success with girls, the ultimate prize in the coolness game.
Really only during COVID shutdowns, in my late 30s/early 40s, did I get into geekdom. And there's some great stuff to be found there. It's really been a blessing in the past several crazy years. I introduced my geeky nephews to D&D last summer and now they're totally hooked, despite my shortcomings as a newbie dungeon master. One nephew is also hooked on LOTR, while the other is hooked on conspiracy history. I see my role as their crazy right-wing conspiracy theorist uncle to provide for them an attractive path through the woke labyrinth in which they're being raised. For them anyway, geekdom has promise in this respect.
Unfortunately, by the time I got on the geek train, it turned into a ravaged wasteland, destroyed, like so much else, by the woke mind virus. So the traps are many. But at least we still have access to the oldies and goodies of geekdom. Which will be my nephews' Christmas presents for the foreseeable future... Anything to keep them from playing the woke progressive status game, the most personally and socially destructive game ever devised.
"But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer rendering, though models are easy to find. Much the same sort of talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong."
This, to me, describes uncomfortably well the speech of many a common man in the West. And if we remind ourselves that mannerisms and norms are much influenced by popular culture, and then we ask ourselves from whom much of our popular culture arises here-and-now...
I love the way you identified our great weakness, at the end.
> However, it’s clearly not so simple as ‘white man on top’ in the modern era. While white men are the only group with bonuses in all ability scores, they have a relative weakness in wisdom – lower than white women, East Asians, and Ashkenazis. In the D&D system wisdom is what protects your character from enchantments, particularly spells such as charm which bend your character’s will to another’s. A race disadvantaged in wisdom is vulnerable to being enthralled by dark witchcraft, used for ends not its own, even used against itself. Fortunately for white people, there’s no such thing as black magic, and they’ve certainly never been ensorcelled to work against their own interests.
The relatively low wisdom score that Grok assigned to whites was one of the more interesting results.
Well, something else that is probably speaks to (maybe?, I don't know Grok) is that many of the +17 characters spent like ~500 years building and/or conquering the world to bring it to its incredibly sophisticated and abundant modern arrangement, but then spent the first fifty years of the 20th century killing each other in extraordinarily bloody and wasteful ways over who should rule it and how.
And so the second half of the 20th century has been a bunch of other characters collaborating across tenuous alliances to make sure the +17s don't have a lot of unchecked power or unchecked freedom.
People are really excited to throw off the post-war consensus that has become suffocating and deathly (esp. to some subset of +17s), but I don't think most are ready for what it looks like when the raging wheels of history start turning again.
It could indeed become very exciting, for better or for worse. Something worth thinking about...
Our victimizers certainly took advantage of the "relatively low wisdom" exploit.
Studying our victimizers, they appear to make it their priority to find vulnerabilities and exploit them. Time for us to wise up.
Long past time...
These robots are preprogrammed by Jews* Often anarchistic..estranged ..gay totalitarian Jewdevils* however..their r lends. will correspond to their (preternatural) deeds..soon...watch....they will be destroyed from within*
Magic is definitely a thing, black or white.
Interestingly, the most common forms that have their roots in the West (by which I mean the lands extending to the Urals and the Middle East) are based on Hebrew letters and names. Make of that what you will.
It's also interesting how much effort is expended in popular culture to deboonk esoteric material, for something that supposedly is silly and has zero consequence.
What's that quote about the devil's greatest trick?
The devil's biggest lie is to convince you he doesn't exist ..**
Yeah I don't think the original game designers were thinking too deeply about actual patterns of variation across species. Game balance was obviously of greater concern - you don't want any one race to be OP, or it breaks the game.
Me and the boys using the new John Carter rules for a night of racist D&D! The new guy has to be the Cleric
Everyone's going to want to play as one of a few race/sex mixes...
One thing I didn't address was how to incorporatev fantasy races. There's two ways. One is to give them absurd modifiers, eg elves get +8 dex and -8 con. The other a bit more involved, is to do the math again but with inclusion of outlier abilities of fantasy races. That will change the means and standard deviations dramatically, thereby reducing the human racial modifiers.
Wow, some of that artwork really takes me back.
I won't lie. I spent hours looking at that art. And I enjoyed every moment of it.
Gorgeous highly appropriate artwork..*
Old D&D artwork goes incredibly hard. There something digital tools just can't mimic
The second edition art is some of the finest fantasy art that has ever been made.
A courageous post, although things are changing.
One of the unforeseen effects of the progressive lust for multicultural societies is ethnic differences are now in our own backyard instead of across an ocean. It is one thing to decry observers as racists when they discuss group differences with exotic groups who live thousands of miles away, but quite a different story when you live among people who are strikingly different from yourself and you see consistent variations every day.
The anecdotal part of the above analysis alludes to this; we all sense the differences in educational ability, athleticism, drive, success and so on. Even a willingness to volunteer for charities or help others varies among groups. The more we live together the more we see these variations assert themselves. And if all the kids are going to the same schools, all speaking English, all getting a similar upbringing and we still see differences, well, what then for the blank slate? This was Charles Murray's problem and he was raked over the coals for even considering it.
Your analysis reinforces what observers have noticed for centuries. In every society we know of whites, Ashkenazi Jews and East Asians dominate; various types of brown locals occupy the middle, and blacks are always at the bottom. It doesn't matter if the groups have been there for centuries or just stepped off a boat, this is always the hierarchy that emerges over time.
In the US and Canada the top is occupied by Northern Europeans typically, Jews and increasingly a hodgepodge of Orientals, Chinese, Cantonese or Korean depending on locale. Indians, hispanics and other browns in the middle. At the bottom are the blacks.
In Chile it is Italians and Germans who dominate along with Japanese, although they have almost no Jews. Various strata of Aztec peasantry occupy the middle. At the bottom are blacks, regardless of origin, recent or ancient.
This pattern is repeated everywhere. It even includes artificial societies like the various British colonies in Africa. We ran the show, the imported Indians (occasionally Chinese) ran the economy, and the blacks were always at the bottom no matter what resources were brought to bear to drag them up. There were a handful of exceptions to this as other comments here suggest, but these were trivial numbers. The trend was repeated everywhere the Europeans went.
This is not a dig at any ethnic group. But it is a prediction. The only thing "multiculturalism" will do is make ethnic differences unquestionably obvious. In time this will be discussed openly. The philosophy of blank slate will inevitably die. But at that point formerly successful nations founded and ran by Europeans will have a thick layer of dependents who cannot support themselves but will assert themselves within our borders because the above hierarchy will always emerge. It will be all the more aggressive if they have been taught all group differences are a result of racism or hate for which whites must be punished. This is the dangerous game the progressives like to play even though they will be first against the wall when it all kicks off.
I suspect ethnic wars are in all our futures.
At the end you allude to the Great White Hopelessness; our tendency to embrace fantasy. Perhaps a bias towards left-hemisphere thinking and the madness it induces. I suspect that will be cured by the inevitable hardships created by multiracial societies and their downward trajectory. Hard times and all that. We are controlled by the fantasists because we allow it to happen. It stops when high-T, disagreeable men say no, enough is enough. I strongly suspect that time is coming.
Fantastic comment. I'd add only that a clear eyed acceptance of these realities is essential to mitigating their worst outcomes. If certain groups will inevitably rise to the top, then they have a certain obligation towards noblesse oblige regarding those they dominate, if for no other reason than to drain the venom from the inevitable resentment.
I agree. But the counterargument is we have tried that. Affirmative action in the US didn't make the target groups thank the white majority, quite the opposite. It often fueled the resentment.
The harsh reality is genuinely multicultural societies cannot really work if the constituent populations are radically different. That's why a few Orientals in white nations make little difference; they are a lot like us and do well anyway. Less so for others. The Japanese in Chile are a good example. Part of the woodwork. There are quite a few high functioning Indians in South Africa who are the same and strongly ally with whites etc.
It is difficult to see how this experiment will end well for anyone as at the end of the day communities do have to defend themselves.
Multiracial societies can work - see Rhodesia or Singapore. One must simply accept hierarchy, that some will be on top and others on the bottom, and treat those on the bottom well. Affirmative action isn't the way, that's elevating people above their station, which merely generates more resentment.
Essentially: a firm hand, clear boundaries, and a fair economic system that provides a good life even for the lowest.
We seem far away from that kind of world. The liberal mind seems unable to accept hierarchy or innate differences.
The liberal mind is on its way out.
We can only hope so.
Strictly on the basis of LULZ, this is top kek indeed.
Extra lulz for the "Summoning Grok" rotoscope. One does wonder sometimes about egregores of that ilk... nice to see it confirmed.
That little joke may have been the realest thing in this article.
Never go full orc
Wise words, friend.
The Synagogue of Satan already did that for you...*
As far as Blacks and disease resistance, I believe that depends on the diseases in question. While Blacks are more susceptible than Whites to diseases of temperate climates. Whites are much more susceptible to tropical diseases. Until the development of modern medicine the African tropics were infamously considered death traps for any Whites who ventured into the interior, largely due to the various tropical diseases.
Yes, there's a huge amount of nuance in disease resistance, given the specificity of racial immunity or susceptibility to different illnesses.
There are two interesting points about within-group genetic diversity that you didn't mention, or not much.
Ashkenazi Jews are extremely inbred, to the point where they are all effectively 2nd or 3rd cousins to each other. 23andme had to modify its algorithms for this one group, because every Ashkenazi Jew on there is flooded with "relatives" he's never heard of.
Blacks however, have within-group genetic diversity which is much larger than the genetic difference between white and East Asian, because humanity had the longest time to sub-speciate in Africa. Averages obscure huge intra-black differences, so while the IQ level of Africa is quite low on average, the exceptional Igbo of Nigeria routinely excel academically in the West, and often remotely run financial scams which succeed against white people.
Distribution curves for the groups and characteristics you picked would be very interesting.
Inbreeding, of Ashkenazi and others, was accounted for in constitution, since it can lead to congenital diseases.
Regarding African genetic diversity: yes, absolutely! I mention this very briefly in Methodology as a major caveat to the results. Actually, that caveat applies across the board. There are substantial phenotypic differences between eg Scandinavians, Celts, Germanics, Mediterraneans, Slavs, etc.; an Inuit is very different from a North American native or a Mayan; the Japanese, Mongolian, Han, Filipino, and Thai populations are all quite different from one another. You could extend this analysis to an almost infinite level of granularity.
I remember your mentioning Pygmy vs Bantu.
The odd thing about Jewish inbreeding is that it somehow does not decrease intelligence, as would normally happen. I've never seen a good explanation for that.
That's actually a very interesting question.
It's the same question as "why doesn't inbreeding cows, selecting for milk production, reduce milk production?".
Good point. One theory is that 1000 years or more of the most successful Jewish merchants marrying off their daughters to the most accomplished scholars did select for intelligence. Or maybe it's simply that one has to be relatively smart to succeed as a merchant. So that's the selection part.
The apparent lack of harm from inbreeding may be due to actually eliminating defective genes over time. If you keep inbreeding for a very long time, you're left with a small gene pool, but the most harmful recessive mutations get wiped out because of the high probability of their harmful effects showing up and preventing reproduction.
OTOH, Jews are known to have a few mutations like Tay-Sachs which are fatal when homozygous but increase intelligence when heterozygous. So maybe the advantage of increased intelligence more than offsets the recurring tragedy of dead children.
Very similar to the sickle cell gene - one copy and you're immune to malaria, two and you're anemic.
Yes, exactly.
Jewish inbreeding..Jewish pedophilua Jew race supremacy.talmuduc bolshevism..kabala..hermaphroditic. wef -blackrock totalitarian gay Jews...all of it is preternatural ..quintessential Synagogue of Satan inversion .the new kikeistocracy .the result is cyborg dystopia micromanaged by Jews..isreali or american..Jews ..read..jewdeviltry..**
Haha this might be simultaneously the dorkiest and most dangerous article you've ever written.
If it were me I think I'd squish those modifiers down to better reflect the game mechanics. Maybe to 2/3rds your listed values. I understand how you worked out the math but the results "feel off". Remember for example that a score of below 3 INT indicates nonverbal, animal level intelligence, and that scores above 20 STR are substantially superhuman. The desired modifier curve for those traits is narrower than a +/- 3SD spread from 1 to 18 would indicate. So the fact that it's probable that you can roll an aboriginal with weaker stats overall than a bullfrog, or a white male with better STR than a gorilla, indicates something is off about the math.
But the overall point that life isn't fair stands. Our RL traits are adapted to specific environments, moreso with greater isolation and genetic distance, and only some of us were selected for empire building in the wide open fertile spaces of the world island.
The high stat modifiers are an unavoidable consequence of taking the mapping of a 3d6 roll to a Gaussian at face value. However, it's probably worth mentioning that the inclusion of fantasy races changes the means and standard deviations, and probably does so dramatically. Halflings would be much weaker than any race of humans; elves far more nimble; dwarves significantly more robust. Recalculating the modifiers with the fantasy races included would reduce the magnitude of the human racial modifiers across the board, bringing them more in line with D&D norms. Except probably for intelligence, which is generally unmodified for demihumans.
Regarding absurdly low scores, obviously if a character ends up with INT < 3, they're very severely retarded. I actually played a half-orc with all three mental stats in that range. It was a hoot. "Wait no why are you doing that, that's retarded!" "Yes my character is retarded." *Dungeonmaster facepalm*
In practice of course you do need to limit abilities to minimum values, 3 being pretty reasonable.
I too have played a very dumb orc, and it was a blast. Worked up a whole broken internal logic for the decision making process that nobody ever managed to figure out.
RE: adding back in fantasy races, you might be able to re-balance it just by taking some other mechanical points of reference (e.g. stats of real animals). If you could find some metrics that could be compared to humans you might be able to work out what the real scale is. This would be an incredibly nerdy thing to do but you've already gone this far. I suppose the game was not designed in this way in the first place and the stats are arbitrary...
This was fascinating and amusing. I think that the old barriers of ideology and politeness (against interrogating racial IQ trends, or sex disparities, or the alleged historical connection between Jewish people and cultural ferment) have broken down completely. They were over-applied, and they became absurd, and now they’re almost gone. I think that I notice more brilliant people exploring these topics than ever before. I think it’s a positive development.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/horizontal-information-flow
In a generation, maybe less, we're going to look back on the taboo surrounding HBD the way we look at Victorian sexual prudishness.
That sounds about right. We regard the progressive/managerial orthodoxies of the 20th century (Towers in the Park/Public housing, frontal lobotomies, penitentiaries, centrally-planned economies) as OBVIOUSLY incorrect and discredited ideas. Yet our own contemporary progressives proceed with the same blind confidence and love of power. Every generation has its battles to fight I guess.
Precisely so. Dogmas rarely stand the test of time, particularly those not grounded in reality, and which therefore have observably deleterious societal consequences. That said, they can endure long enough to do severe damage ... often great suffering is required before the necessary lessons are internalized.
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Solid effort poast. Amusing to see the modern predicament of the western man wash out in the final paragraph from the premise of "D&D stats but real life".
FWIW 2014 5e wasn't so retarded, races had specific stat bumps (e.g. elves +2 dex+1 int, humans got +1 across the board, dwarves +2 con +1 wis). The new 2024 5e is the retarded homogenous do whatever you want version. No one I know has made the jump over.
Interesting. I can't help but notice that negative modifiers were removed. I suppose it must have been thought cruel to imply that elves are fragile, dwarves unfriendly, or halflings physically weak.
IIRC there was a monstrous races supplement early on (2016 maybe?) that had orcs as STR+2, CON+1, INT-2; half-orcs had just the positive bumps, but this was the exception. The design philosophy was certainly more positive/accessible to earlier editions, which was good for getting a consistent game with my mates going, but it also has made the hobby pretty woketarded.
Fortunately we can ignore it in our home games. My current game features a political tension suspiciously like 1800s Europe, with gnomes representing a certain banking folk from a certain country in the middle east. My players are starting to put two and two together lol.
Brilliant.
I've often felt that the Painter's story arc would make for a very good fantasy epic...
The mechanical changes in "Next" are secondary really to the abhorrently woke presentation. You might argue that the removal of racial stats is a concession to how people play the game these days: everyone wants to be the "exception to the rule" character, which isn't *that* bizarre since heroic characters are already exceptions to every rule and the orc bard or dwarf wizard is just an extension of that archetype.
What I cannot stomach is... all the rest of it.
"I'm a dwarf, but I'm a really TALL dwarf!"
"So you're a human then?"
"No I identify as a dwarf!"
I think I would have had a more pleasant childhood if I discovered and embraced my inner geek early on. Sometime around the onset of puberty, I became convinced that the single object of the game of life was to accumulate coolness points. In the '90s, at least where I grew up, that meant getting into basketball and hip-hop, and eschewing Magic and D&D with great prejudice. I did pretty well with what I had, but as a not particularly athletic, not particularly good-looking, socially awkward, quarter-Jewish white dude who can't dance, I faced quite the uphill battle. My stats were suboptimal for the coolness competition, leading to great frustration. And to lack of success with girls, the ultimate prize in the coolness game.
Really only during COVID shutdowns, in my late 30s/early 40s, did I get into geekdom. And there's some great stuff to be found there. It's really been a blessing in the past several crazy years. I introduced my geeky nephews to D&D last summer and now they're totally hooked, despite my shortcomings as a newbie dungeon master. One nephew is also hooked on LOTR, while the other is hooked on conspiracy history. I see my role as their crazy right-wing conspiracy theorist uncle to provide for them an attractive path through the woke labyrinth in which they're being raised. For them anyway, geekdom has promise in this respect.
Unfortunately, by the time I got on the geek train, it turned into a ravaged wasteland, destroyed, like so much else, by the woke mind virus. So the traps are many. But at least we still have access to the oldies and goodies of geekdom. Which will be my nephews' Christmas presents for the foreseeable future... Anything to keep them from playing the woke progressive status game, the most personally and socially destructive game ever devised.
enlightened and amused.
Success!
Been waiting for this one to come out. Hilarious!
Glad you enjoyed it!
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote thus:
"But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer rendering, though models are easy to find. Much the same sort of talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong."
This, to me, describes uncomfortably well the speech of many a common man in the West. And if we remind ourselves that mannerisms and norms are much influenced by popular culture, and then we ask ourselves from whom much of our popular culture arises here-and-now...
Beautiful words are indeed in short supply in our time…