#boginki

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Valerius playlist for you :) I'm pretty sure this is my longest playlist.

THE TYRANT OF DREZEN

Laurence, the First Vicar - Tsukasa Saitoh

The Beast of Beauclair - Marcin Przybyłowicz

Love Remembered - Wojciech Killar

Mohg, Lord of Blood - Shoi Miyazawa

Village of Shadows - Marcin Przybyłowicz

Send me a 📻 and I’ll give you an up to 5 song selection from one of my playlists.

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Hey guys, check out my mythical creature doll! She’s a Boginki- a Polish water spirit. Hope you like her!

[camelliagwerm-archive]

skill and playtest for the player questions and homebrew for the dm questions

Playtest: What class (or subclass) do you want to try out?

This is going to sound like the most 5E DM thing ever, but honestly? Battle Master Fighter. However, I think because of how Fighter is in terms of utility, the likelihood of me ever playing it is slim because a lot of the 5e games I've been in have more of an emphasis on RP overall. They'd probably be my go to if I was to play in a dungeon crawl game though.

I'd also love to give Shadow Sorcerer a proper try and Necromancer Wizard a chance. I don't usually play pure spellcasters unless it's Divine Soul Sorcerer because I like being able to take a hit, so even if I do play a spellcaster, I'm usually playing a martial one.

Skill: Do you prefer RP, combat, or something else? Is there a part of the game you consider yourself best at?

I personally enjoy a mix, just because of how I tend to design my characters and what sort of role I usually end up occupying. Nine times out of ten, I'm usually playing a tank of some kind - no matter what system it is (e.g. a blood hunter in Curse of Strahd whose tankiness lied in his hp, a tempest domain cleric in Icewind Dale, a dex-based investigator in my 2e game, a hilariously tanky decay domain cleric in a Fistful of Flowers, a Tzimisce in my V5 game), so by default I enjoy the combat encounters.

However I do think I'm a fairly solid RPer. I'm an ex-theatre kid, I'll commit to the bit no problem. I'm the sort of RPer who will step up when necessary, but I want to give other players - especially newer players - the opportunity to shine.

Homebrew: Do you have any house rules or homebrews you use? What are they?

I have a few specific house rules as a 5E DM:

First is in regard to keeping players comfortable: if there is something in the game that is making them uncomfortable, the player can DM me privately, and I'll end the scene, no questions asked. I've pretty much exclusively DM'd Ravenloft games, so this is important to me.

The second house rule I have is relating to the Guidance cantrip. I didn't have this implemented before, but I had a player once who abused the fuck out of it and it was not fun for the table. You can use guidance, but consider how it looks to an NPC you're trying to persuade, or how it'd feel if you're using it for stealth as it has a verbal component as well as a somatic. That might not make the check easier, but harder for yourself. It encourages a more...tactical use of it, rather than something that can be spammed. I hate that I had to do it because of one bad egg, but it was unfortunately necessary for the table's sanity.

Rule of Cool - if something isn't what'd be classified as 'strictly legal' (e.g. by the book), I'm willing to throw the rulebook out of the window in favour of 'rule of cool' for that action. I like encouraging creative thinking and want to reward that where I can. I like to offer up the potential of one free inspiration die per player per session as an encouragement for this or rp.

This is an exclusive-to-Ravenloft house rule: I implemented a system that was suggested in Van Richten's Guide for the current Ravenloft game I'm running called Seeds of Fear. I'm fairly sure it runs a little like Call of Cthulhu's fear system. In short, fail a Wisdom saving throw (DC dependent on player's level), and I get to roll a D12 - they get a Seed of Fear. With that in mind, if they come across something that might trigger that fear, they have to roll another Wisdom saving throw. Fail that and they're frightened until the end of their next turn. This ties into the "one earnable inspiration die per player and session" rule - as if the player rps the fear appropriately

D&D Asks

[czarownicaesmeralda]

Kim są demony i boginki?? - [Wtorek - 25.01.2022 r.]

Kochani, zapewne wielu z Was zastanawia się nad tym: “kim są demony i boginki??”.

Cóż.. To byli kiedyś nasi przodkowie, sąsiedzi, mieszkańcy tych samych miast czy wsi.. To byli ludzie tacy, jak my..

Musicie zrozumieć, że demony i boginki nigdy nie powstają ze szczęśliwych ludzi, którzy umierają w naturalny sposób!!

Według wszelakich legend, bogowie przygarniają do siebie dusze: topielców, samobójców, wisielców, porońców, kobiet zmarłych w połogu lub tuż przed ślubem.

Mówiąc krótko: wszystkich tych, którzy zmarli gwałtowną śmiercią.

[calistozom]

Slavic mythology art challenge (part 4/6)

...And explonation:

16. Богинки (Boginki) - night creatures, they hunt in packs and mostly attack only pregnant womens (and sometimes steal their children) or lonely travelers. They able to imitate the human's singing and control human's mind. Characteristic: long hair, tall, thin and pale. Habitat: around ponds, in underwater pits, in swamps, in holes, caves, ravines.

17. Жар-Птица (The Firebird) —  it has bright golden (sometimes with overflow in red) feathers. The Firebird cannot be taken with bare hands because it's feathers burn. Most of their life these birds spend in golden cages, sing songs all day long, and at night they are released to feed. Their favorite food - fruit and golden apples.

18. Дева Снегов (The Woman Of The Snows) — the embodiment of winter; the personification of blizzards and snow storms.

19. Морской Царь (The King Of The Sea) - «the owner of the sea, the Lord of all waters, the Lord on underwater creatures, the owner of countless treasures». His palace is made of crystal, silver, gold and precious stones and placed in the sea (or somewhere in the Ilmen-lake). When he is dancing and having fun — storm and tempest are rising in the sea.

20. Фараонки (Faraonki) — a rather peculiar type of mermaids inspired by biblical stories. They are descended from the egyptian's warriors which pursued Moses and drowned in the Black sea. Unlike traditional Slavic mermaids (drowned womens), faraonki is the closest to the western- european "tailed" mermaids. Images of this halfwoman-halffish in ancient slavic's carvings called   "faraonki".

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Slavic mythology from Poland [part 4/?] » BOGINKI

On the picture: artwork by Paulina Izabela Śliwa / hivesotto.

Boginki [singular form: boginka] were female personifications of the wild forces of the nature in the old-Slavic Polish mythology. They were seen as demons either neutral or hostile to people, often attacking women during childbirth, replacing the newborns with “odmieńce” (changelings), startling the horses and cattle or destroying the fishing nests. Appearing in many forms and subtypes, they could’ve been living in swamps, lakes, rivers, forests, bushwoods or mountains. 

In some of the folk beliefs (depending on the region of Poland), a woman who died in childbirth, commited suicide or murdered a child was suffering by becoming a boginka after the death; the kids stolen from cradles could also be turning into boginki or other types of demons. People believed also that witches are able to summon and pray to boginki in order to get help (for example to get a child that boginka was stealing from the inattentive mothers). In other regional beliefs, boginka could also sneak into a woman’s bed to whimper under the bedclothes, appear during a wedding party to treat the guests with poisoned vodka, or lure thier old lovers into dangerous swamps or deep waters. They were sometime believed to have husbands, demons called boginiarze, and give birth to their own children - then they’d capture young human mothers for breastfeeding.

The term boginki is often referred to as the oldest general name for such spirits, one of the oldest traces to the old-Slavic female aspects of the untamed, primeval nature (translated literally as a diminutive form of the word bogini - goddess). That concept had evolved over the time and could’ve gained some of the negative superstitions during the process of Christianization and times of the witch hunt. Over the centuries, boginki gained many new names, some only local, for example the boginki living in rivers and lakes started to be called by the popular name of rusałki, term borrowed from the East Slavic mythology, and the boginki that were specifically stealing children from the cradles gained the name mamuny.

To ensure a protection from boginki, Polish women were preparing special compositions of herbs and flowers, blessed during the Kupala Night (Slavic summer solstice celebrations) or during the feast of the Holy Mother of the Herbs (celebrated on the day of the Assumption of Mary), and putting red caps on the heads or red ribbons around the wrists of their children (red was seen as the most protective color in the old-Slavic beliefs, bringing general safety, beauty and prosperity, strenghtening the powers of the home spirits, and representing the good, warming fire).

My general list of sources / book recommendations [in Polish only].

Check also: ogniki / płanetnicy / zmory / latawce / biesy / południce / strzygi.

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Messy sketch of a Boginki*; a child-finching fairy from Slavic mythology.

*** PLEASE NOTE Boginki is actually the plural form, it SHOULD be written boginka :) my bad