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I told the witch doctor I was in love with you
I told the witch doctor I was in love with you
And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do
He said that
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang
I told the witch doctor you didn't love me true
I told the witch doctor you didn't love me nice
And then the witch doctor, he gave me this advice
He said that
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to say
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to do
I know that you'll be mine when I say this to you
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to say
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to do
I know that you'll be mine when I say this to you, oh, baby
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang
I told the witch doctor I was in love with you
I told the witch doctor I was in love with you
And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do
He said thatOoo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang
I told the witch doctor you didn't love me true
I told the witch doctor you didn't love me nice
And then the witch doctor, he gave me this advice
He said thatOoo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to say
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to do
I know that you'll be mine when I say this to youOoo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to say
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to do
I know that you'll be mine when I say this to you, oh, babyOoo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang
Hmm, needs something... FIXED
Walla Walla Bing Bang?
I take it that the name is some sort of classic film reference/homage, because it seems inexplicable how it could have ended up on a non-gnome otherwise. :-kEdit:
Ah, Google informs me that it isn't a film but a classic song reference.
Image file names are pretty much never an accurate way to determine clues about what that image is actually of. Sometimes they're named funny things by artists. Sometimes they're renamed by the web team. Sometimes they don't have names at all. Since image names don't show up in print, and since the actual images we use in files are not those we put online (the actual images are MUCH higher resolution)... it's basically just a place where certain folks goof off and/or have fun with names. The editors sometimes do the same with the word file names.
Hm... rated V for voodoo content.
While we're at it, can we have some sex and violence, too, please?
I mean, it wouldn't be D&D('s successor) with the good old violence, and the game has gone too long without its jungle nymphs!
Yes. Something I miss from the 3.5 era APs is that random, unexpected excess of malice and wickedness that makes the players reel in shock at the game table.
It's the difference between "monsters" and "dangerous creatures".I'm not asking for a Kreeg tribe/Foxglove Manor/Carrion King each and every issue (that would be way too much).
Just something that says "this is a dangerous place, and your enemies are monsters in essence first and foremost, and in appearance only as an occurrance".
W. John Hare
(Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules, Battles Case Subscriber)
+1!Chicken arise! Arise chicken! Arise!"You raised our dinner from the dead!"
Took me a minute to remember what that was! That chicken was crazy.
Also, does anyone else think that the half-orc zombie looks like Indiana Jones? He has the hat and the whip.
Also, I love that style of hat on a half-orc. It makes him look friendly in a "braaaaaiinnnssss!" sort of way.
Also, does anyone else think that the half-orc zombie looks like Indiana Jones? He has the hat and the whip.
Also, I love that style of hat on a half-orc. It makes him look friendly in a "braaaaaiinnnssss!" sort of way.
Hehe I admit that was my intention... :)
I read the description and with the word explorer came this certain Mr. Jones into my mind...So I made him look that way. :DFlorian
Kvantum
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber)
Wow. Political correctness gone mad. Now we actually have someone almost apologizing for making an adventure involving voodoo...
No, it's just a preemptive "cover our butts on the off chance someone gets pissed over it" type of thing. It's become a sadly necessary thing in the age of everyone being lawyered up to the Nth degree and using them for the slightest thing ever.
Wow. Political correctness gone mad. Now we actually have someone almost apologizing for making an adventure involving voodoo...No, it's just a preemptive "cover our butts on the off chance someone gets pissed over it" type of thing. It's become a sadly necessary thing in the age of everyone being lawyered up to the Nth degree and using them for the slightest thing ever.
Sadly, very true.
Wow. Political correctness gone mad. Now we actually have someone almost apologizing for making an adventure involving voodoo...
"We've kept away from this topic—one I've personally wanted to cover since back in the Dragon magazine days—for several reasons, the primary one being that vodou is a living religion practiced and respected in several parts of the world, and no one here knows enough about it to judge what might be offensive."
It's not "political correctness gone mad". He's simply indicating that the voodoo elements in the adventure are inspired almost entirely by the appearances of voodoo in pulp fiction. I don't think he's trying to avoid legal action or anything - I think he just wants to be clear that the voodoo appearing in Pathfinder will have as much to do with real-world religion as the Pathfinder monk has to do with real-world Buddhism. Because, you know, religion is a sensitive thing, a little bit of respect goes a long way.
No, it's just a preemptive "cover our butts on the off chance someone gets pissed over it" type of thing. It's become a sadly necessary thing in the age of everyone being lawyered up to the Nth degree and using them for the slightest thing ever.
Actually it's not even that. It's just a statement describing how they've always been wary about trying to handle a real-life, legitimate religion that actual people with feelings actually practice, because they don't know enough about the religion to handle it with the necessary sensitivity. Followed by a statement about how they've figured out a way to side-step the issue and deal with it in a way that hopefully won't tread on anyone's toes.
I imagine it had far less to do with the miniscule chance that some random vodouisant would notice and decide to sue, and more to do with the fact that Paizo are just nice people who don't want to be perceived as trivializing someone's religion.
I imagine it had far less to do with the miniscule chance that some random vodouisant would notice and decide to sue, and more to do with the fact that Paizo are just nice people who don't want to be perceived as trivializing someone's religion.
Tell that to wiccans, demonologists or neo-druids too, if you're that afraid that Pathfinder material might offend. Ron Gilbert of Monkey Island fame never had to walk on tiptoes just because his stories had voodoo, nor did Gabriel Knight's Jane Jensen, nor did pretty much anybody who wrote fiction based loosely on real-life non-major religious groups. So, unless you actually assign Baron Samedi's CR and have the PCs whoop his derriere in the adventure path's climax, it does sound like too much effort on the PCness side.
But yeah, I'll just shut up now. Religion, hot water, slippery slope, no one'll ever be right, agree to disagree and all that.
Tell that to wiccans, demonologists or neo-druids too, if you're that afraid that Pathfinder material might offend.
I think you're not reading my post carefully enough. I'm not afraid Pathfinder material might offend. I think it highly unlikely in the extreme that a practicing vodouisant would even notice, much less possess the combination of resources, desire, and gall to take Paizo to court. What I suspect is that Paizo is primarily concerned with being polite.
There's a difference between cultural sensitivity and adhering to strict PC-ness out of a fear of reprisal. Notably, one of those attitudes assumes that members of the culture in question are people with legitimate feelings, and the other just assumes they're over-litigious dicks.
I also suspect that you would actually find very little in common with wicca or paganism as practiced by serious people today, and the magic rules of D&D. Which is the whole point, really.
By 'you're' I didn't mean you personally, but the people at Pathfinder. Regardless, trivializing, as you previously put it, tends to offend, so my point stands. You would also find very little in common with vodoun and the pulp voodoo that tends to be portrayed in popular culture, so the same line of reasoning can be applied.
To wit, this blog entry is symptomatic of an over-sensitiveness that permeates the mainstream western psyche nowadays, and that annoys me. Wes Schneider might as well apologize in advance for offending people who could possibly take umbrage to such a tiptoeing approach, while we're at it...
