"Edward is born a healthy lad"

everyone at board game night is mad at me because I keep forgetting if my guy is supposed to think catholicism is good or bad

"You're playing John Calvin!"
"Yeah, and he fucking sucks, that doesn't narrow anything down."

The fucking pope faction keeps sending all their Papal Debaters at me while the Hapsburgs have the printing press basically uncontested. This always happens.

mom says it's my turn to have the book of common prayer

the other players get mad at me because they catch me googling "protestantism" on my phone again

every time the papists get a new guy, i cross-reference with the list of sexually active popes to determine if they fuck

@kat I do think it'd honestly be fun to roleplay being Martin Luther or whatever and a laugh about how I'm getting a Book Of Common Prayer combo or talking about wife die roll modifiers

@BestGirlGrace @kat "Not so fast, Kaiba! I counter with my 95 Theses!"

@BestGirlGrace @kat "Papal Bull" is a fun phrase

@BestGirlGrace @kat i think crusader kings literally has both of those things, except that I’m playing it genderswapped so I’m martina luther and I’ve got husband die roll modifiers. At least until I finish capturing Rome so I can depose the pope and reform catholicism to let me marry women

@witchfynder_finder Oh, absolutely.

I think it'd be a lot of fun to be the protestants and invite France into the other room to hatch a scheme, y'know?

@BestGirlGrace he created calvinism, and was one of the heads of the protestant reformation.

i think he hates catholicism.

@magicalmilly well, calvinism was a bad idea, but at least he was right about the catholic church

@BestGirlGrace the board game grace is playing: chutes and ladders

@BestGirlGrace Alas, this era occurred a bit after the 'era of antipopes' otherwise I'd be requesting what the meta is for antipopes in this game.

@lyskar it'd be really funny if you could recreate the time like three guys declared themselves pope and all tried to excommunicate each other

@BestGirlGrace Yeah, you also would have the possibility for the antipopes to nominate antikings, which would make things even more bizarrely complicated.

@BestGirlGrace @lyskar I love the fact the term for that is antipope. It's so... Dramatic?

@BestGirlGrace that list has always confused me. I thought celibacy was a requirement for the Catholic priesthood; when did that start?

Note: the ancient Jewish priesthood was always hereditary

@WizardOfDocs
I could be wrong, but I believe celibacy became required for Catholic priests around 800. Before, it was recommended (by St. Paul, for instance) and common, but not mandatory. Catholic deacons have always been allowed to marry.

@BestGirlGrace

@mpjgregoire @WizardOfDocs Fortunately, the list is nicely broken up into "Popes who were married and had kids", "Popes who had children before they became priests", "Popes who had children after becoming priests", and "Popes who had sex while being pope", and they seem to sit on both sides of the 1139 "You have to be celibate now" date.

@BestGirlGrace did I miss an entire meme

@BestGirlGrace oh my god Grace

@rockario happy to help!

@BestGirlGrace Excommunication cubes, that was it!

@ItsMorgan i'm in a hurry to do some poping, i can't be saying every syllable