Do you guys know any good sources to understand the lore of Golarion without actually having to read multiple books? I'm very interested in the changes made during 2E, specifically.
Hey. Autistic guy (33, lv.1, diagnosed last year) here.
I tried to write this post like 2-3 times before. I even posted once, but it was so bad I deleted it. Every time I try to go straight to the point and... yeah, I fail. It turns into the most incoherent ramble ever. So, sorry for making you read this crap if you actually make it to the end (and thank you)!
Here we go.
I both hate autistic incel men, and I genuinely think these poor guys need some kind of help. I feel unable to help in any way, and it makes me incredibly sad.
They are both attackers and victims. Their discourse is obviously harmful, but they are essentially disabled people tricked by conmen into fueling all of their insecurities into women like they're some kind of all-powerful monsters that only exist to torment men. This is just so stupid and so incredibly sad, it makes me terribly frustrated.
Like many of you (especially the women, I'd say), I also roll my eyes when they say the most deranged things in the universe, and I get why women shut them down every time there's even a sniff of incelness in a post, but it feels like we are failing so badly as a community.
However, it's impossible to offer any kind of help to the most insufferable people in the universe. If I talk to an incel for like 10 minutes, I would probably like to punch them in the face.
But... here's the thing where it gets tricky for me (and I totally understand if others don't feel the same). I just feel like I could have been one of these guys. I was also raised in a very misogynistic society, and resented women for all kinds of stupid bullshit when I was young. I was kinda like that until my early 20s, I guess (it peaked when I was like 15, and these feelings got weaker and weaker over time).
For some reason, society told me to fear women, but that they were kind of mine to take at the same time. I had good friends. I am a guy who really tries to be cool with people, and eventually I grew out of it.
In the end, it wasn't women, OBVIOUSLY. I was just a disabled person who had difficulties with communication. I feel like that I got my shit together and stopped the bullshit, but at the same time, I feel so bad to see SO MANY autistic men falling for these same traps.
I wish I could say something like "this community should help these men!!!!" but it invariably does not work. I mean, if I'm a man who once believed AT LEAST SLIGHTLY in this crap and I hate these guys, I don't see how women want to spend even a second near them. They are a bunch of creeps, after all. Making a sub that was like "autistic men" would invariably be doomed to fail, as it would be taken over by the biggest assholes QUICKLY.
So here is my question. My pain. My fucking sadness. What to do? Can we even do something? Should we, I even do something? Are these people beyond saving? I wasn't. But they just seem so far deep down the hole that it seems like such a pointless attempt.
I don't know what to do. I'm not even sure how I feel about this. But every time an incel appears here seemingly asking "innocent" questions that later turn into a big part of the community accusing them, I feel like we're failing. I like that we would all fail the past me.
And here we are, huh? This STILL looks like a shit post, and I don't really like it. Give me your opinions. Fight me, call me an asshole. Cuddle me like a little baby and just give me the slight validation that this whole thought MAKES SENSE. I don't know. At least I tried.
Edit: thank you all for answering! I tried my best to respond to everybody, but I'm starting to get tired, and some folks in the thread are getting very tiring, too, so I'll probably won't respond to many comments anymore. In any case, thank you for reading this.
If someone were running an open-ended sandbox campaign, what modules would complement Swamp Fever from The Melsonian Arts Council well?
I'm thinking about setting up a sandbox, but I think my players would get tired of being in the swamp all the time. What are 3-5 adventures that could form an open-world experience well with this one? I don't need exactly similar themes (and don't want more swamps unless the content is really good and small), but it would be good to put them near each other without too much effort. Stuff from levels 1-6 is welcome.