tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post3031274955661233782..comments2024-02-27T01:17:39.925-08:00Comments on The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: The Void Around St. CuthbertTalysmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02162328521343832412noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-75298855676814467202013-02-12T08:12:53.389-08:002013-02-12T08:12:53.389-08:00I thought it was kind of weird that Gary Gygax, wh...I thought it was kind of weird that Gary Gygax, when asked, said that the fictional D&D St. Cuthbert was inspired in no way, shape or form by the historic St. Cuthbert. If I interpreted his comments correctly, he said that he didn't even take the name. After we played 'Hommlet' in middle school, over-zealous priests of St. Cuthbert (who would try to 'beat sense into the heads of unbelievers') became quite a fixture in our games... partially because at the time I attended Catholic school and some of our teachers (whe were also clergy) could be a bit, ahem, enthusiastic in their methods.<br />We had a lot of fun with Cuthbert as 'Lawful Asshole' whose priests and nuns would ceremonially slap the knuckles of children with a ruler, etc., and ten tell them that suffering was for their own good. It was the perfect antidote to those teachers we had at the time who were excessively invested in reminding the pupils who was in charge. SO I didn't get it when Gygax pretty much disavowed any connection between the two, even to just admit, "Yeah, I thought the name 'St. Cuthbert' was interesting but I made up a Greyhawk deity that had more in common with 'Sister Mary Elephant' from Cheech and Chong than the historical Cuthbert."<br />And, more to the point, I didn't believe him. No way that naming a Greyhawk deity 'Cuthbert' was just a coincidence.<br />In memory of my early gaming group, there will always be monks and priests of St. Cuthbert in any game that I run... and they will whacking the heads of the unbelievers with sticks, screaming, "Do you accept the teachings of Holy Cuthbert now? No? (WHACK!) How about now?"Stefan Poaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192911890556534923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-79304050898744068032013-02-11T18:31:46.593-08:002013-02-11T18:31:46.593-08:00Poor Cuthbert never gets any love, he was left out...Poor Cuthbert never gets any love, he was left out of <a href="http://alesmiter.blogspot.com/2013/02/dieties-demigods-now-then.html" rel="nofollow"><i>both</i></a> 1st Editions of the DDG.Rod Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12824146866756155345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-37829904193688078972013-02-11T15:46:06.556-08:002013-02-11T15:46:06.556-08:00Children of the Pregnant Void ... that's one o...Children of the Pregnant Void ... that's one of Raggi's modules isn't it?Spawn of Endrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10431848914619887998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-15723702668071703412013-02-11T14:20:28.997-08:002013-02-11T14:20:28.997-08:00That was pretty much the approach of World of Grey...That was pretty much the approach of World of Greyhawk, at least for its first five years as a published setting. The accretion came later, but started with Gary's supplemental articles in the Dragon, which seem to have gone beyond the material generated organically through play.Roger G-Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594440701279968693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-63591091952328442952013-02-11T13:22:37.317-08:002013-02-11T13:22:37.317-08:00I was thinking about Saint Cuthbert the other day ...I was thinking about Saint Cuthbert the other day and his odd nature. Especially as his Mace was spirited away to modern-day (well, 1980s) London to hide it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10678503778316350427noreply@blogger.com