What are the best ways to physically show an angel in your game? As a human with wings? As weirdo things in the Bible?
Spike players drinks with LSD and show them the rorschach test.
>>97552010The "biblically accurate angels" meme is nonsense. Angels are only ever depicted in the bible as appearing to be normal-ass-lookin dudes. So often that it's a recurring theme that people only find out later "hey by the way? that was an angel." Cherubim from Ezekiel are never once called angels in the bible. Seraphim from Isaiah are never once called angels in the bible. Those are all much later, medieval categorizations.Biblically accurate angels? Perfectly normal-looking human beings.
>>97552010>weirdo things in the Bible?guaranteed replies
>>97552352Well, there are a couple times god literally appears as a blazingly-bright creature of boiling metal whose face is so radiant that you'll melt if you look at him. And some translations DO refer to those as "angels" because later traditions changed the text. But in the text itself, just fyi, those were originally depictions of god, rather than angels.
>>97552361I guess that's what's happens you make a thread about a topic people are interested in discussing?
>>97552010Depends heavily on the game and setting. I've had proper NGE angels with serial numbers filed off in Bliss Stage and riffed on dnd couatls
>>97552010A mix of all them, of course. Megaten style.
I like eldritch angels, but calling them "biblically accurate" irks me.Which is probably OP's goal as >>97552361 noticed.
I'm partial to the Cherubim, myself.
>>97552010The eye wheel creatures only accompanied angels, they weren't the actual angels who are always described as winged humans
>>97552010>>97552352I don't know about the accuracy with holy texts, but I do enjoy the so called 'biblically accurate' look, because I like the idea of demons and evil creatures being smug as shit and rejoicing in their terrifying nature right up until these celestial beings of light show up and they start shitting their pants. And while you can totally have this happen with humanoid angels, be they beatific or unremarkable, visually speaking I think it's much easier to sell the idea when the angel's appearance is a mindfuck to the audience themselves. Same logic why demons themselves are generally depicted as scary looking monsters.
>>97552010Like this
>>97552010If the angel is just some agent of the celestial bureucracy (or whatever else you have in your setting), then it should be some humanoid.If the angel in question is some sort of big-name celestial being, go the 'biblically accurate' meme route.
>>97552010What role do they perform?
>>97552010>physicallyYou could use minis or prop-up bases with paperboard. Or show the players a character sheet with a drawing, or a print-out.There are quite a few other ways I didn't mention, too.
>>97552352>The "biblically accurate angels" meme is nonsense.No, it fucking isn't. Just because reddit is right about something doesn't mean that you idiots have to be wrong to spite them, dumbass.>Angels are only ever depicted in the bible as appearing to be normal-ass-lookin dudes.When they're appearing incognito and are not recognized as angels.>So often that it's a recurring theme that people only find out later "hey by the way? that was an angel."BECAUSE THEY WERE DISGUISED.>Cherubim from Ezekiel are never once called angels in the bible. Seraphim from Isaiah are never once called angels in the bible. Oh really? And tell us Mr. Biblical scholar, what words are used?>>97552503>actual angels who are always described as winged humansApart from seraphim whose entire bodies are obscured by three pairs of eyeball covered, flaming wings there is not 1 (one) single description in the bible of angels as "winged humans".
>>97552352Reminder that the bible is a fanfiction sub-culture that persisted and grew through historical accident. It's literally like if furries became a religion. They pull from the pop culture entertainment and beliefs of the age which spawned them. Disney's Robin Hood and Star Fox and Star Wolf form a holy trinity. The Thundercats become spiritual servitors (angels).That's what happened with the bible. The local religions and myths of the time period were all mashed together and revised through retcons and remakes exactly the way Netflix shows do it to popular novel series like the Wheel Of Time or the Witcher or Song Of Ice And Fire. It's literally that process. Some asshole storyteller thinks they can do a better job than the original poet, so this character is introduced later or omitted entirely. That event occurs in this spot instead of later on. No actually that's his sister, and she's really the other guy's mother which explains why those characters are developing romance with characters they didn't in the source books... Etc.Cherubim and seraphim were like that. They were mythological monsters and creatures who originate in previous legends. As those originating culture got consumed and integrated, their beliefs and myth cycles mutated and were incorporated.Guess how many mythological demigods were said to have had a virgin birth of some kind. God on. Guess. Guess, I dare you. I'm sure you've heard of how horny Zeus was. You think even he was the first god to have stories told about him raping mortals? Come on. Seriously. Read a fucking book, please. All of you. I would recommend starting with Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World".
>>97554059>Read this pop scientist who is not a historian if you want to be REALLY informed!Mithras, Horus, Attis etc. were not "virgin births" either btw.
>>97554059>Reminder that the bible is a fanfiction sub-culture that persisted and grew through historical accidentThat's literally every mythology in history
>>97554059>buy muh bookbuy an ad, Carl
>>97552010The main religion is 99% right about everything they preach, but they actually do get angels wrong. They're not white-skinned beings with wings who serve the creator. They're golden-skinned beings who wear white armour, fly winged vehicles (though only one wing), and serve infinity (reality). They couldn't give a toss about the creator, as he doesn't technically exist (even though, for all intents and purposes aside from categorization autism, he does).
>>97554768Those must be powerful drugs
>>97554885I wouldn't know, hardest shit I've done is anasthetic.
I like the polar opposite of """"biblically accurate"""" angels. Just do a cupid-style cherub.A naked baby with wings in the middle of a battlefield. Maybe have him speak and say some shit that let's you know he's an eldritch entity in disguise.
>>97554987NTA, but if there are drugs that make you see things like what they described, keep it that way. I wonder if all religion got started that way...
>>97552010>physically show X in your game... do you have any idea how those games are being played and what the hobby is even about?
>>97558851I doubt drugs started the practice of telling stories to make sense of reality, but they definitely didn't help. Druids getting high off their own supply and whatnot.
>>97553985Cute kot!
>>97554059>If I describe things like a cunt, then everything is horrible!You *choose* to see the bible through the lens of pop culture slop because it's all YOU know. It's no different than how retards of the past think the universe is a simulation just because they're familiar with coding, or people who say the world runs on humorism and liquids because they're familiar with alchemy, or thinking that everything is a machine because they're an engineer.The reason YOU think God is Spongebob is because you worship Spongebob. Externalizing that to other people is completely retarded beyond the commentary that religion used to be popular culture. Yes, religion used to be popular culture.Now it fucking isn't. That doesn't mean our new popular culture is the same as religion is. Huh? That's fucking stupid and you'd have seen that if you weren't addicted the stench of your anus.
>>97559992>The reason YOU think God is Spongebob is because you worship SpongebobWell, I'M convinced.
>>97560880I wasn't speaking literally.What I was trying to get across is that you think spirituality is comparable to pop culture because, to you, pop culture is spirituality. Since your argument is predicated on not being able to tell the difference, I think that's a fairly obvious thing to point out.I don't see the logic in listening to a Spongebob worshiper lecture me about life's meaning or its morals. That would be like taking advice from a homeless bum about the stock market.
>>97552010To depict an Abrahamic angel, I'd put them in a sort of quantum state of wingless human male and terrifying depending on the viewer's moral countenance: the faithful see a fellow servant of God; the skeptic sees a form so holy that its mere presence threatens to erase their soul along with their sins; the unbeliever in their spiritual blindness sees nothing. The more powerful types are more majestic in all aspects: the humanoid is of softer countenance; the kaleidoscope is borderline fractal and takes on an intensity that's physically painful; and the invisible actor's presence is an inexplicable sensation of dread or safety.If the point of the encounter is to be a messenger, they always and intentionally appear as a normal humanoid to all, because the message is more important than the appearance. A person's rejection of a message delivered by letter or slave is more true than their acceptance of a message delivered by a force of spiritual might that can fell cities and kingdoms. Similarly, in the humanoid form may "shed" part of their visage (similar to the Transfiguration of Jesus) to reveal part of their power to act, such as how the angels blinded the men of Sodom while appearing as men themselves.
Extremely beautiful, white humans with blonde hair and blue eyes, wings, and very well endowed/stacked
>>97552010Meant to ask this on Valentine’s Day but I forgot, what’s the best way to depict an Angel of Love that’s not just a redress of Cupid?
>>97560938NTA. Don't you think that's a bit rich, coming from someone who cuts the hearts out of goats for Bielzebub? That's what you do, right? That's an okay conclusion to jump to, seeing as we're jumping to wild conclusions about what people worship, and then taking that strawman and butchering him like you butcher your goats?
>>97562339You're the one ranting about how the Thundercats are angels, retard.
>>97562441>goatkillerOpinion discarded. Also lurk more unto you understand what NTA is.
>>97562645No, you're the same guy because you're gibbering about Bielzebub the same way the other post was shrieking about Thundercats being angels. What, you want to believe a second, unaffiliated schizophrenic with your exact personality is just coming to your defense?Shut the fuck up. Being a schizo is one thing, being a lying little cocksucker is another matter entirely. You're pathetic and I don't believe you for a second.
>>97552032immersive AF way of doing itReminds me of a game where the drunk status effect had players actually drink beer to get drunk, It was a fucking mess but pretty funny.
>>97562694What did exactly happen when they got attacked by, say, a ghoul?
>>97562709slapped
>>97562714Not impressed anon, you had to AT LEAST bite them.
>>97553985>Oh really? And tell us Mr. Biblical scholar, what words are used?Go read it and you'll find out, anon
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>>97562800You haven't read it in the original languages either and the burden of proof is on you anyway, fag. Or it would be if you weren't full of shit.
