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A staged propaganda photo of Italy's facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat, 1938 (slrpnk.net)
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[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You weren't kidding! Here's an excerpt..

Its chief officer was the Grand Cyclops, who appointed two Nighthawks, a Grand Turk, a Grand Sentinel, Grand Magi and a Grand Ensign in addition to his Grand Scribe. The Grand Cyclops, Grand Exchequer, Grand Magi (second officer) and Grand Monk (third officer) were elected by the body politic of the dens, identified as Ghouls.

What the actual fuck?

[–] beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a game of Dungeons and White Dudes.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

They sound like the titles a group of fifth graders would come up with for their secret treehouse club.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah this makes me afraid that I'm going to homebrew some NPCs that accidentally follow this naming scheme too closely

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

They got perilously close to the Grand Nagus in Star Trek.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Check out the Behind the Bastards podcast. Robert did a couple on the origins of the KKK and, yeah, they started out basically as a "retvrn to tradition" D&D group who got rebooted into racist terrorists. Bunch of pathetic nerds seeking power and finding it in violent terror.