Magical realm

2018-05-24T22:47:56Z

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[[File:Magical realm.png|200px|thumb|left|Well, do you?]]
[[File:The Whizzard.png|200px|thumb|right|The original comic.]]
An individual's '''Magical Realm''' is the domain of their sexual fetishes, especially in relation to [[roleplaying game]]s. When a game starts developing or introducing elements of the player or [[GM]]'s fetishes (either deliberately or accidentally), it could be said to be entering that individual's magical realm (or that the players/party are doing so). The original context it derives from is that of a GM (or [[/d/M]]) specifically creating or introducing elements to the game to satisfy their more... ''esoteric'' sexual fantasies - for instance, a GM with urolagnia (a urine fetish) describing a strange realm of piss trees or introducing [[NPC]]s that demand to be pissed on or try to piss upon player characters.

When the players identify and refuse to go along with this obvious fetish fulfillment, they can be said to be refusing to enter the GM's magical realm, and so forth. When the phrase "Magical Realm" is used to describe a work (say, a setting or pre-made adventure), the implication is that the author either let their fetishes bleed into the work sufficiently to make it ''very'' obvious what gets them off, or, more rarely, apparently created the work entirely for the purposes of fapping or schlicking.

In contrast, it is possible for a player to try and force their magical realm onto a setting by acting upon their fetishes or having particular reactions to something as mundane like [[lizardfolk]]. A more basic version is simply [[Golarion|hitting on every tavern wench from Mendev to Absalom]] in an attempt to get laid in a way that they player cannot in real life. This is disliked because it puts the gratification of their fetish before the fun of the rest of the group, making them one of the worst versions of [[That Guy]] out there.

The origin of the phrase is a Gunshow comic by KC Green called "[http://gunshowcomic.com/471 Piss World]", where the players of a tabletop RPG react violently to their GM continually trying to get them to play to his piss fetish, and specifically a panel where an [[NPC]] (or possibly a [[DMPC]], depending on how you look at it), the "Whizzard", asks "Dare you enter my magical realm?"

==See Also==
* [[Forgotten Realms]] the original "magical realm" of [[Ed Greenwood]]
* [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]], for an example of a setting that both qualifies, and isn't mindbogglingly awful.
* [[FATAL]], for an example of a game system that both qualifies, and '''''is''''' mindbogglingly awful.
* [[Book of Erotic Fantasy]], for an example of a work that doesn't probably quite qualify as a "magical realm", for reasons of being too openly and explicitly about sex.
* [[Maid RPG]], for an example of a work that probably qualifies as a "magical realm", but at least has the excuse that to the extent it is, it's being true to the genre it's attempting to adapt.
* [[Wraeththu RPG]], for an example of a work that qualifies as a "magical realm" twice over, being one reader's Magical Realm RPG version of an already existing Magical Realm series of (non-RPG) works, and an excellent example of what happens when you go two Magical Realms deep (i.e., sheer horror).
* [[Magical Realm CYOA]], a popular CYOA that can be overlapped with the /tg/ meaning of "Magical Realm", but also can just be taken in a non-sexualised direction.
* [[FAPP]] furry tabletop game designed for players who enjoy raping their way through magic realms

==Gallery==
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File:The Whizzard Indulged.jpg|What a [[DM]]s goal is when introducing the Magical Realm.
File:DemonicFortress.png|[[Rogal Dorn]] dared. But then again, he's a [[Imperial Fists|masochist]] like that.
File:Sorcerers and Spermlords The mundane reality.jpg|A Magical Realm in action.
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Dragonlance

2018-05-24T20:41:40Z

2600:1700:19C0:2760:F9EF:D3A1:B19C:D769: Half of that honestly sounds like a personal problem, m8. Like, it's not /pol/ invading /tg/ levels of irrelevant but it's annoyingly close.

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Knights, [[dragon|dragons]], [[draconian]]s, [[kender]], [[gully dwarf|gully dwarves]], and a shitload of books that a huge amount of nerds have read. It's mostly the result of reading too much Tolkien in the 70s and an unhealthy obsession with dragons. The hook for Dragonlance is that dragons have a much larger presence in the material than in other D&D settings.

Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, with their friends, created the setting after a long session of Dungeons and Dragons, eventually splitting the party when people moved away, going as far as finishing their game and making it into a book. The setting in itself is pretty much dark, as evidenced by the first books: Even the kindest gods are egotistical assholes who are perfectly content to make the world suffer for one man's hubris, stooping to mortal levels of pettiness in a manner that would make the fucking Greek Pantheon wince (more on that below and in the Setting Section).

Also, it's low magic as fuck, at least when in comes to divine magic: a famous dude is called "Twice-Born" simply because he got offed and was revived via magic. The reason is that the gods abandoned the world after the aforementioned Cataclysm, when they dropped a mountain on the city of Istar because the Kingpriest demanded that they elevate him to their level after turning Istar into a police state out of George Orwell's nightmares in the name of "good." The gods of arcane magic remained in contact with the world in their own inscrutable way to keep it going.

Arcane magic, called High Sorcery, is heavily regulated. Everybody who displays magical talent is required to report to a Tower of High Sorcery for instruction and indoctrination. In order to advance, every wizard has to take a highly-personalized Test. Those who take the Test often have to sacrifice something inherent to themselves to pass. A full wizard then has to choose a color-coded Order: White, Red, or Black, corresponding to good, neutral, and evil. The choice is supposed to represent how you'll use your magic and all wizards are brothers within the Towers, but outside those walls, nothing stops a Black Robe from knifing his White Robe "brothers" in the back or blowing up their cottages with fireballs.

It's balanced by [[Raistlin Majere]]'s presence, so it can't be all bad.

The Dungeons and Dragons movie ''Dragons of Autumn Twilight'' took place in the Dragonlance setting. It was an adaptation of the first novel in the Dragonlance canon and had the animation quality of an early 80's Saturday morning cartoon (most of the budget went to the voice actors).

Dragonlance is mostly known for its books than anything. There's literally hundreds of novels in this setting, in all kinds of eras, to the extent a lot of people don't even know that the first trilogy was made to promote one of TSR's newest D&D settings or that there was even a 3rd edition release of the setting. Even amongst those who are aware, Dragonlance tends to suffer similarly to the [[Forgotten Realms]]; everybody feels there's no point RPGing there because all of the "fun stuff" has already been done by the authors.

==Setting==
The setting is fairly interesting, in its own way, with a lot of positive traits. For example, it's one of the few settings to focus on giving lots of variety to demihumans as well as humans - [[dwarves]], for example, come in at least three major typings (Hill, Mountain and Dark), with each typing being made of multiple ethnicities, or clans.

On the other hand, there's also a lot of [[derp]] or even outright [[fail]] involved. This ''is'' the setting that gave rise to the infamous race known and loathed as the [[kender]], after all.

The setting began with a trilogy, focusing on a band of adventurers, and their quest to stop the world being conquered by armies of dragonriders, goblins and [[draconian]]s in league with [[Takhisis]], Goddess of Evil. The reason why all this happened? Well, that's a long story...

In short, centuries ago, the King-Priest of [[Paladine]], resident God of Good, went totally mad with power. Using an artifact-tier magical crown to basically let him mindrape people into obeying him, he set up a totaliarian police state in which all evil was punished, with his definition of evil growing increasingly broader - probably not helped by the fact he had particularly racist elves who considered themselves the perfect, Paladine-created race with all others being inferior in some fairly important positions. He even went to the trouble of using clerical agents to mind-probe random people to seek out thought-crimes.

As you might guess, this kind of upset the whole "balance between good and evil" thing, which is kind of important to the setting. However, the setting claims that the "upsetting" this did was by [[Stupid Neutral|''making Good stronger than Evil'']]. If this rings at all hollow to you, then congratulations, you're putting more thought into this than the original authors did. Or at least your brain hasn't been fried by your particular flavor of faith -- they ''were'' both pretty devout Mormons, after all.

So, anyway, the gods get pissed and start sending omens. Heatwaves, unseasonal storms, turning the sky funky colors... you know, just enough mystical crap to make people scared that something bad is going down, but absolutely nowhere near a straight answer as to why they're ticked. The real reason? The King-Priest wants to demand the Gods make ''him'' a god too, so he can "wipe out all evil forever".

The day before the big ceremony, the gods snatch up all their clerics and spirit them away to their homes in the planes. Those who refuse to come, they leave behind, but strip them of all their clerical powers.

And then the big day comes. The King-Priest demands the gods elevate him to their ranks, and the gods respond like any sane, rational all-powerful beings would - by grabbing a huge-ass meteor and [[Exterminatus|smacking him right in the face with it]], literally reshaping the whole continent in the process - the kingdom of Ishtar becomes an inland sea, coasts change, famine and fire and pestilence runs rampant, and there's nobody around who can use any divine magic to try and reduce the nastiness.

After things quiet down, the gods wait for the mortals to apologize for the hubris of the King-Priest. Instead, the mortals demand to know what the hell the gods were thinking doing all this to them over one man and his wrongheadedness. In a huff, the gods declare the mortals will no longer benefit from their powers and they stop allowing any divine magic to be used at all.

Cue the present day, in which people sadly realize they turned their back on the gods, and believe none of them will answer their prayers anymore.

Eventually, Takhisis realises that while the other gods are busy ignoring the world, she can wriggle back into it and conquer it. She wakes up her armies of evil dragons, steals the eggs of the good dragons, starts converting the stolen eggs into her monster minions (whilst lying to the good dragons that their eggs will be safe if they just let her minions do what they want), and gets to work. And ancient "good" dragons are somehow tricked into this - or else they were simply apathetic, child neglecting, corrupt assholes who simply nodded along. Iunno, you tell us.

And that's when the first trilogy starts, ending with Takhisis beaten back, the other gods returning, and divine magic being restored. Until the next big setting-changing upheaval, anyway.

==External Links==
*[http://dragonlancenexus.com Dragonlance Nexus] - Fan site and materials.
*[http://dragonlancenexus.com/lexicon/index.php?title=Main_Page Dragonlance Lexicon] - A wiki in need of love, like this page.

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