*has an actual magical setting that is innovate and makes sense instead of another copy-pasted dndslop clone*If you seethe at this you unironically have no soul.
>>98599305>Is innovateLol. At both the misspelling, and the idea that you think that trash is innovative.
>>98599329Found a soulless one.
>>98599330Found a retard
>>98599305are you trying to bait the wizards are retard anon or are you the wizards are retard anon.
>>98599343Seethe, entity without soul.>>98599348None I'm just saying HP is good.
10/10 setting.5/10 plot.
The best part is how JK made the troonies seethe.
Read A Wizard of Earthsea.Or listen to the Harlan Ellison Audiobook.
I think it's really cool that just about all of the worldbuilding in Harry Potter makes zero sense and carries zero effort toward even pretending to be internally consistent. At first I thought it was frustrating but now i'm so jaded that I don't even care anymore. It's funny. How are there poor wizards. Explain the wizard economy to me. Elves. Kill goblins. I can't believe ranrok makes me do this. Why does slytherin exist. Do you feel like a wizard yet
>>98600309she did some of this intentionally as a joke. like she KNOWS the Quidditch rules don't add up (in a world where everything else does...?)she wrote it that way to rule up blokes who obsessed over sports and rules.
>>98600320she can have the quidditch as a joke at sportsball people, that's fine. It's fun, even. It doesn't change that the wizarding world isn't a functional society and calling it a joke only takes you so far. I'm not going to litigate jowling kowling rowling over worldbuilding stuff she obviously (hopefully) didn't care about, but I am going to be passive aggressive about it. She's a woman, she gets it.
It's a story for pre-teens that then had to try and transition to be a story for actual teenagers but it still had all the setting baggage of the story for pre-teens so it didn't work out great.Also the fact that you can't find someone in an invisibility cloak is a major plot element for the first like five books, culminating in it being one of the big artifacts in the underlying morality tale with its specific effect being a major element of said tale, then suddenly towards the end of the series, there's a spell that reveals it automatically when cast and everyone knows it.
>>98599305Harry Potter btfos worldbuildingcels, and that's good.
>>98599305Glad to see you're still shitposting.
>>98600475I like the part where wizards went around shitting themselves until about the 20th century.
>>98599542thishidden wizard world living parallel to the mundane has endless potentialbut jk rowling limited it by confining it to england and the extent of her experiences, which isn't horrible since it's such a fun reflection of british culture through a fantasy settingbut then there's the very obvious next questionwhats the wizardry like all over the rest of the world?and the best we get is a bestiary of fun but barely used fantastic beasts
Another one? I really hope this isn't just the one anon trying to shit up the board.
I love Harry Potter as an RPG setting because it filters out the most of the gamers in my area who are annoying, disgusting, stinking, ugly, freakish, child molesters, retarded, or some combination of those things.
>>98599305I sure do love consuming whatever slop the money men want to eat up next
>>98599305>*has an actual magical settingYou sure about that? It didn't even convey magic consistently.
>>98600320Why don't quidditch rules add up...? Sorry I'm not really familiar with the game. Isn't it just arbitrary points for different things and a snitch? What's wrong with that? Points in any game are arbitrary, it's just that real world games 'try' to be more balanced.
>>98600671the quidditch rules are generally nonsensical in order to emulate what sports looks like to people who know nothing about sports. If you don't know the rules to say, baseball, and don't care much to learn them, the game seems arbitrary and mildly stupid. Quidditch is arbitrary and mildly stupid.
>>98600704>Quidditch is arbitrary and mildly stupid.Yeah but...so are any other set of rules? What are quidditch's rules that make you think they're nonsensical?
DESIGNATED shitting hallways
>>98600713The snitch is a fairly ridiculous game element. It invalidates all other positions. It's also what ends games, but if you catch and your team is somehow down 160 points ooops you still lose. It's silly.>>98600728you ever had a wizza stare you dead in the eyes while shitting on the floorfucking wizards man
>>98599305Harry Potter is mid, OP
>>98600631I didn’t know you enjoyed playing nonexistent games with fat women children that smelled like cat piss, anon
>>98600778Hey Lilith, how's it going? You clear up that stubble yet dude?
>>98600787Sorry anon, I’m a man. Nice attempt to insinuate that only trannies could see Harry Potter as stuoid, though.
>>98600755>It invalidates all other positions.How? You either catch it or not. In most books the snitch is never cached and not every game is won by griffindor. You saw this shitty criticism in a youtube video or something?
>>98600801You don’t play sports, do you anon? There’s a reason they don’t put a game ending aspect on a single player’s back.
>>98600807This is not a sport you fucking retard, is a goddam wizard game and it reflects bizarre wizard rules. That's the point. You have a criticism you thought for yourself or is everything shit you saw on reddit?
>>98600801caught, not cached, not 'catched'. The game doesn't end until the snitch is caught. a game can go on for weeks. Oh, and it used to use a wild animal before they switched to byurds
>>98600807They outright call it a sport in the book, anon. Can’t get more open and shut than that.
>>98600824I don’t go to Reddit to know HP is mid.
>>98600839What? What point are you trying to refute with that statement?
>>98600852Well, >>98600824 claims it’s not a sport. The book says it’s a sport played by wizards. Therefore, it should be judged by those standards. Quidditch is a sport. A bad one.
>>98600755>The snitch is a fairly ridiculous game element....so? Ridiculous doesn't mean 'nonsense'.>It invalidates all other positions.All the other positions still contribute.
>>98600865are you being deliberately obtuseyou have to tell me otherwise it's entrapment
>>98600903I think he’s just retarded, anon. Or possibly underage and from Reddit.
>>98599305>innovate>makes senseYikes. Get some rope in here already.
>>98599305>has an actual magical setting that is innovate and makes senseare you a litteral todder? or do you have severe brain damage?
>>98600861Is not a sport. As in is not a sport from the real world, it doesn't need to follow the same rules as the NBA. No wonder you don't like HP, you're too stupid to understand a pre-teens book.
>>98601355>It’s not real, it doesn’t have to make senseLiteral idiot logic
>>98600903I've played more sports than you and I don't see what your issue is about Quidditch, you haven't explained what's actually wrong with it.
>>98600671>>98600801The more specific answer is that the game has no time limit or endstate besides the snitch. It'd be one thing if the snitch was just a weird bonus, and most games simply ended by just whichever team had scored more goals within an hour. But instead like >>98600825 pointed out a Quidditch game can last for weeks. The snitch being worth 15 goals is a lot, but wouldn't be unworkable in a game with a time limit.But because the snitch is the only way to end a game, it means that unless a team is so much better that they can maintain a 150+ point lead, the rest of the match barely matters. And as it stands, if both seekers get injured by a bludger and neither team has any substitute players, the game cannot end at all. Wizards need to eat, drink, and sleep. Therefore, for the rules to add up, the game would have a time limit in order to accommodate such concerns.
>>98602362nta, the other thing is that JK Rowling has admitted that the game’s setup is specifically set up to give Harry big spotlight “comeback from behind game winning” moments for the sake of her book. As an actual sport, the scoring system itself is superfluous and only there to build up the dramatic tension, it’d have the same effect if you cut out everyone but the seekers and optionally the blockers, with the seeker catching the snitch a single time as the winning game state and maybe had blockers to stall their progress.Granted, as pointed out, if there was a time limit, having a scoring system would make sense as a safer alternative method to winning. But with both victory and the end game state effectively contingent on the snitch being caught, you might as well strip all the other elements out. Quidditch is a retarded sport by design, it’s a game meant to make feel-good moments for Harry Potter have underdog victories. But you can’t have a sport specifically built around that. It’s emblematic of a lot of the issues of HP’s writing, the story and setting exist to cater to the demands of Harry Potter rather than him existing in it.
>>98602590It's the sort of thing where simply reducing the impact of it would probably be enough. If the snitch was only worth 30-50 points, then it's basically just a handful of goals. That's still enough where Harry can still score the match point, but it still requires that the rest of his team is only behind a little.Either way, adding a time limit just means that there's an straightforward answer for how games end otherwise. Even if Harry catches the snitch every game, that could just be used to reinforce that he's a great seeker, because other characters would highlight how less than half of all games even have the snitch caught.The setting catering to Harry is certainly a big problem, and part of why it's never struck me as particularly good for tabletop.
>>98600309I find it endearing as a world that can only really make sense in the mind of a child. It gives it a sense of innocence that makes it cozy to come back to every now and then. Problem is that's a double edged sword; the series trying to "grow up" in the later entries feels like it sort of lost the plot because of that.
>>98600807>mahjong
>>98599305I would love an official HP TTRPG that is at least 6/10. Not even cringe from obsessed Potterheads would stop me from running a campaign. And I am not even a big fan.
>>98599651How nice of you to like shit because it upsets people you don't like.
>>98599305Rowling is based
>>98599305OP is a fag.Harry Potter is a setting for children and adults that never grew up.It lacks internal consistency and makes no sense as a world.Above are three truths and no lies.
>>98602362>Wizards need to eat, drink, and sleepwrong, wrong, fucking WRONG
>>98603287It wasn't Potter, but you have just awakened a memory of a magazine article, I think it was, which was about playing in a classic British boarding school story; like Malory Towers, Molesworth or Jennings. Obviously mainly slice of life (as a teacher or pupil; troupe play like Ars Magica was intended), wouldn't hurt to find a similar-feeling RPG and add fireballs, I guess.
>>98605574Yeah? Wizards aren't literal gods.
>>98605658They can still bypass the material constraints of living with magic.Durrrrr.You'd be a BAD wizard, you unimaginative fuck.
>>98605725Wizards are still mortal organisms. They have to do all of those things. Even if they made spells or enchantments to satisfy those needs automatically, that means the needs still exist.
>>98605940prove it?
>>98599305>that is innovate>and makes senseZero for two
>>98603891Oh, don't get it twisted, anon: my only engagement with the Harry Potter franchise is that I once read an erotic fanfiction because it catered to my fetishes. I haven't read a single book, seen a single film, nor even played any licensed games. And you can Harry Potter shit all you want but you'll never be a woman.
>>98606135If they can just create money why do the (((goblins))) run the banks?
>>98606394>I once read an erotic fanfiction because it catered to my fetishesIt was Hermione rape.
>>98606394Not even Lego Harry Potter?
>>98606394That’s honestly a pretty pathetic admission, anon. Like, at least goon to stories about adult women and not minors.
>>98606433Dubcon.
>>98606481I've never played any of the Lego games.>>98606487They were all adults in this fanfiction, anon.
>>98606553Okay, at least you have standards.
>>98606546Listen man, I've got seventeen brain cells to spend on jacking off. I've got a choice of one syllable or more for the fetish, I'm picking the one. Any level of consent below enthusiastic is rape and it's better that way.
cringe millenials give harry potter a bad name.
>>98606553>I've never played any of the Lego games.WHAT?!
>>98606394Yes, we can see you will never be anything other than retarded faggot reeeing about the trannies living in your gay mind.
>>98606921I wouldn't even know Rowling was a TERF if leftoids and troons weren't seething about it so hard.
>>98606937You barely know anything other than the taste of cock, retard.
>>98606921>Yes, we can see you will never be anything other than retarded faggot reeeing about the trannies living in your gay mind.-xe says, without a hint of irony or self awareness, while posting in a thread for the works of a (real, biological) woman who lives rent free in xis gay mind.Sorry mate, it's not going away. Harry Potter is at least as relevant to /tg/ as Warcraft or Dark Souls, which both have regular threads.
>>98606946Coping and seething.
>>98606965No u and your gay face.
>>98606948>derp trannies derp derp durr. Harry Pooper would be relevant to /tg/ as Warcraft or Dark Souls if retards like you could talk about something other than trannies.
>>98606983That's a phobic, troonie.>>98606994You could just leave it alone. Nobody had to reply to me and crash out.
>>98607010You could be a retarded nogames somewhere else but here we are, faggot.
>>98607151You've already taken over women's washrooms and mass shootings, so I don't have a lot of choices left, troonie.
>>98606994>Harry Pooper would be relevant to /tg/ as Warcraft or Dark SoulsAnd, indeed, is, if not moreso! Unfortunately you and your sisters seem entirely unable to stop melting down over anybody enjoying this heckin' genocidal fascist hatecrime, so discussing it becomes rather difficult in between your tanties.
>>98607239Warcraft and Dark Souls have tabletop game adaptations. I don’t see one for Harry Plopper. You going to make one? No? Then it’s still off topic. Fuck off.>inb4 “wehhh muh troonies
>>98607212Nope the tranny boogeywoman has not taken over really anything other than your thoughts.>>98607239You would look far less retarded if you read all of the posts you are replying to. Talk about Harry Derpper or that fan tabletop game that someone made.
>>98605613Spent the time to track it down if anyone's bothered. https://archive.org/details/arcane-magazine/Arcane%2003/mode/1upIssue 3, p.22.
I find it amusing how Harry Potter is heavily implied to be the Antichrist in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ("Century" to be precise). Part of his a criticism of Harry Potter being derivative, borrow heavily from older, often superior literature, strip away the nuance, and package the result as something revolutionary. He also pointed out that Harry didn't actually "earn" any of his victories. He is created by mashing together pieces of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising sequence (Will Stanton), Aleister Crowley's occult writings (Moonchild), and various 20th-century boarding school stories. His chosen-one status, his magical tools, and his victories were all manufactured setups.
>>98607652Moore, the Boy Wizard isn't just an Antichrist to the fictional world; he represents the "Antichrist" of modern literature.Throughout Century, the characters observe how culture has degraded over 100 years. To Moore, mass-market corporate fiction prioritizes brand safety, endless sequels, and pre-packaged film rights over genuine artistic risk. Then he's defeated by God AK Mary Poppins
>>98599651Sadly that's the only good part of HP. JK world is trash and a joke. People want to act that it isn't held together badly with paper clips and shit. At best would say it's a simple kiddy ride. Fun for kids who don't know any better and maybe parents of said kids enjoying them having fun. (That and those who can't handle anything past that.)She took the little she knew of fantasy and threw it in there and people think it was a fresh take. She basically threw a tomato into a fruit salad cause she was told it was a fruit.
>>98607652Moore throwing a shitflinging tantrum about stuff like James Bond and Harry Potter being more popular than his own works, especially his super special OC donut steel lesbian Orlando, will never not be funny
>>98607673Also a whole section of Comic Book artists cheated by the comic book industry in his last work. He portrays publishers and editors as ruthless, mafia-adjacent con artists and sociopaths who drained working-class creators of their youth and genius in an industrialized meat grinder before tossing them aside. Moore details how the industry was tied up with shady mob distributors, CIA cold-war propaganda, and predatory contracts, stripping Golden and Silver Ages of comics out of its romanticism.
