Nekromanti Applicera WW II på RPG setting!

[Krille]

Visst. Smak och färg. Käpparna i hjulet är olivgröna och har "Keep calm and carry on" skrivet på dem.

Men på vilket sätt skiljer det sig, rent praktiskt rollspelsmordgåtelösande, från vilken annan miljö som helst?

 

[!Paxen]

(eller det kanske dom inte gör, englands armé var väl frivillig?)

Jovisst var det frivilligt.

But, vet inte om det var första eller andra världskriget (kanske både) när det fanns en kvinnlig förening som hette något i stil med Patriotiska kvinnor. Dom ville få så många män som möjligt att delta i kriget, vilket betydde att dom delade ut fjädrar till alla män som såg krigsdugliga ut. Kort sagt så betydde det att man var en fegis som inte gjorde sin plikt. Det kanske gör det lite mindre frivilligt.

 

[Arfert]

Engelska armén använde både frivilliga och inkallade under världskrigen.

 

[!Paxen]

Jo, du har rätt, det var både frivilligt och inkallelse.

 

[Vidugavia]

Tolkien ger en rätt bra beskrivning, i förordet till andra utgåvan, av hur LotR skulle slutat om det varit en allegori för WWII. En beskrivning som till fullo visar hans rätt bistra syn på sin samtid:

"The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-dur would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor the missing links in his own researches into Ring-lore, and before long he would have made a Great Ring of his own with which to challenge the self-styled Ruler of Middle-earth. In that conflict both sides would have held hobbits in hatred and contempt: they would not long have survived even as slaves."

 

[Arfert]

Tolkien ger en rätt bra beskrivning, i förordet till andra utgåvan, av hur LotR skulle slutat om det varit en allegori för WWII. En beskrivning som till fullo visar hans rätt bistra syn på sin samtid:

"The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-dur would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor the missing links in his own researches into Ring-lore, and before long he would have made a Great Ring of his own with which to challenge the self-styled Ruler of Middle-earth. In that conflict both sides would have held hobbits in hatred and contempt: they would not long have survived even as slaves."

Den boken hade jag velat läsa!!!