1. Not true. There are real, brave female warriors recored in history. In games, where the PCs are usually exceptional characters, it's even more plausible.
I don't even know where to start to argue against this laughable bs so let's just see what the D2 manual says:
Yeah, yeah, I expected some nerd to come up with this horrible cliché.
So, since there is oviously no way the skeleton could make a move on its own, or even hold together without any ligaments etc., what you basically need to do is to animate its every single move with your magical powers, right? Which has nothing to do with necromancy - reviving the dead capable of some basic control of their own body via the rests of brain and muscle system, controled by the will of the summoner or a spirit bound to the remains - that's just pure telekinesis. So instead of just making the weapons levitate or creating an astral weapon or whatever concievable magical effect much easier to achieve, you're going to waste your powers to animate pointless skeletons cuz you're a badass skeleton master nerd and need some pals down in the catacombs for you necrophilic pleasures. Skeletal liches become even more absurd in this regard.
I don't even know where to start to argue against this laughable bs so let's just see what the D2 manual says:
Yeah, yeah, I expected some nerd to come up with this horrible cliché.
So, since there is oviously no way the skeleton could make a move on its own, or even hold together without any ligaments etc., what you basically need to do is to animate its every single move with your magical powers, right? Which has nothing to do with necromancy - reviving the dead capable of some basic control of their own body via the rests of brain and muscle system, controled by the will of the summoner or a spirit bound to the remains - that's just pure telekinesis. So instead of just making the weapons levitate or creating an astral weapon or whatever concievable magical effect much easier to achieve, you're going to waste your powers to animate pointless skeletons cuz you're a badass skeleton master nerd and need some pals down in the catacombs for you necrophilic pleasures. Skeletal liches become even more absurd in this regard.
How does the spell "work" ?
Sure, but magic focused on physicality is a refreshing concept.
Just pure logic, bro.
So you're only able to understand anything if someone else kindly provides you with an explanation? I guess the reason why useless garbage like superhero comics and low-grade fantasy and sci-fi is still around is the fact that their retarded fans are more than happy with this tH4t's H0w !t w0Rks, ScRub and fall for such atrocities. But they wouldn't be undemanding garbage lovers otherwise, right? Skeletons are arguably the most annoying low-grade fantasy cliché ever.
We don't need to know "how", only "what" it does. Magic users in many magical settings don't "know" either. At least in the sense that we understand scientific knowledge. They have practical knowledge how to do magic but not how it works.
In real life there are generalities that make processes happen the way they do whether you understand them or not. There are varying extents of understanding these generalities, anyway this does not necessarily mean that certain things exist only to the extent that people understand them. This is totally different from how you have to overlook so many contradicting factors to accept why a thing works the way it does in a video game. What might make raising an army of skeletons seem fleetingly plausible is ignoring or not thinking about other presumed and existing aspects of the game that conflict with it.
Yet another horrible fantasy cliché. We are some of the smartest, most eductaed scholars in the world but we don't really get anything and can only hoard old books and scrolls omg.
The question is if that healing magic is actually supposed to be so abundant in the game world. In my reasoning such magic or it's wielder would be too expensive for most people or only obtainable under specific conditions and it's power is not absolute either. By similar logic you could find extremely powerful modern medicine and the fact that people still die of even the most common infections conflicting, but it's not at all. Also this is something that is closely related to the very gameplay - easily accessible healing potions or magic are enforced by the gameplay and consistency reasoning in such case is not what I'm talking about. But you're right, even if not everything can have a plausible justification in the given universe, major, obvious inconsistencies can be avoided and they should be.
The idea is to not have "conflicting" issues in the first place or at the very least not more than are absolutely needed. To create consistent or at least not completely inconsistent gameworlds. At least in games that aim to be something more than simple murder-hobo simulators in a fantasy theme park. Not that the latter can't be fun, mind you. However others like Darklands, without the attempt to be consistent wouldn't be the same game.
I have been and continue to be talking about how raising skeletons in Diablo and such video games doesn't make sense. No one so far has addressed the points raised by Pentium on this.
Pick any of the most brilliant minds of their times living before 20th century. They knew little or nothing about many things that children in 20th-21th century are supposed to learn. What a terrible fantasy cliche... no wait... historical ... no wait again. Not a cliche at all just reality. There are cultures that stagnated for centuries making minimal changes or scientific advancement. In fact most of them, before scientific revolution. I always say that history is best source for fantasy unless you a are a giant imagination and writing. Assumption that something (like magic in a fantasy world) is unknowable - completely or in given circumstances - is not a cliche. No matter how smart one is, there are limits for human (or, I assume, Elf or Dwarf) mind.
There are women who defended their homes as a last resort.
No conflict of interest there. No sir. What channel ran the popular Vikings TV series anyways?
He can wail on you all he likes but if he ever wants to do real damage he's going to have to half-sword into grappling which puts him well into range of the hammer or mace which will have the advantage at that point. The video you posted is good for demonstrating what the finest plate made of the finest steel when shot at the most fortified area can resist. Top shelf, but most soldiers on the field aren't going to have top shelf armor. Grandpa's old mild-steel kettle hat may stop a sword, but not a hammer. Either way, we know that for whatever reason, some still chose hammers and maces over the convenience and versatility of swords, and it wasn't an issue of costs.
all wommyn warriors should wear chainmail bikinis. fuck your "realism" shit, nigger.
This happens in Pathfinder: Kingmaker and it's absolutely bonkers when you consider how easy the portraits are to create in the sense that you just need to commission an artist and that it requires very little oversight. Zero excuse to not have unique portraits for all NPCs.
