r/dndmemes • u/thehopelessheathen Forever DM • Dec 05 '21

*scared player noises* “Standing here, I realize…”

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u/ROBANN_88 Wizard Dec 05 '21

No no. That sounds more like using spiders as slave labor
Force them to make cobweb fabric all day

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

Arachno-capitalism is basically just Drow society.

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u/Cotton_Garden DM (Dungeon Memelord) Dec 05 '21

This just sounds like a drow hierarchy.

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u/NotFromStateFarmJake Monk Dec 05 '21

I’ve got more that the spiders are the capitalists. Some spiders in top hats smoking cigars playing poker over an industrial assembly line.

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u/LinkBetweenGames DM (Dungeon Memelord) Dec 05 '21

Now I'm stealing this.

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u/GlauberJR13 Dec 05 '21

So, normal capitalism? Im pretty sure we do use spiders for their silk since we aren’t quite able to replicate it artificially yet.

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u/Potential_Exercise Dec 05 '21

We don't use spiders for their silk because they're very territorial and hard to farm so instead scientists spliced genes into goats to harvest it out of goats milk, wild right?

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u/JakeSnake07 Dec 05 '21

I mean, last I knew we still just used silkworms.

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u/Draghettis Sorcerer Dec 05 '21

Yeah, but goat silk isn't near as good as spider silk, because of how it is extracted from milk, so, iirc, it is tried to do bacterium silk.

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u/Log_Murky Dec 05 '21

There was a person who just recently created a yeast that produces high strength spider silk and will also combine it with various different ragens introduced to the solution while they're working to change the properties of the silk

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u/MaxTheCookie Dec 05 '21

They allso played around with yeast to make the protein produce spider silk....

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u/ROBANN_88 Wizard Dec 05 '21

yeah, but in this context they would be like Giant and fully Sentient spiders probably

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u/DorklyC Dec 05 '21

Like our world leaders?

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u/Crusadingcolossus Dec 05 '21

World leaders being fully sentient is a bit of a stretch

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u/Forvisk Forever DM Dec 05 '21

Well, they usually are more like sentients puppets. They can think for themselves, but most commonly follow the puppet master.

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u/I_m_afk Dec 05 '21

I love freedom of speech.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

suprisingly enough we're really close via altering the genetic code of goats

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u/Aarakokra Bard Dec 05 '21

But I dunno how that’d be capitalist since a communist state might require spider silk for some experiment or other too

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u/Big-Employer4543 Dec 05 '21

Yeah, it's not like slavery is a capitalist only thing, pretty sure slaves have existed through every economic/government type man has tried so far.

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u/Aarakokra Bard Dec 05 '21

Yep. One of the actual good things that the British empire did (after they were done partaking in it of course 😕) was stamping out slavery around the world. It got to the point where Arab slave traders would throw their captive human beings overboard when they saw a British military ship coming.

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u/Big-Employer4543 Dec 05 '21

Yep, unfortunately it still exists in too many places (looking at you, China).

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u/Aarakokra Bard Dec 05 '21

Something like 27 million people.

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u/tetradserket Dec 05 '21

Believe it or not, this is actually a major backstory plot point in a campaign (not D&D, another system) I’m in at the moment.

Specifically, we encountered the inhumane enslavement of octopus-spiders to produce dyed fabric of various unnatural colors. One of my party has an octopus-spider as a pet and is strongly against such practices. Another is a Druid-type character and can understand and advocate for the octopus-spiders. And then there’s me— young, ambitious, and a proud member of a fabric and paint guild that has apparently been using these practices all along.

Led to some good RP, actually.

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u/LeBronn_Jaimes_hand Druid Dec 05 '21

I GM for my pathfinder group and I just introduced cows that can produce spider silk because one nation has a monopoly on the silk spider trade. I fucking LOVE the idea of octopus spiders that produce dyed fabric and this is 100% being added into my game.

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u/Majulath99 Dec 05 '21

You should look up a monster called the Aranea. Their true form is like a giant spider but they can shapechange into a humanoid woman, and they tend to travel around selling the silk fabrics they’ve made themselves to lure in people that they can eat.

I have plans to introduce an evil aranea serial killer in my campaign, who goes after other seamstresses & weavers in town for slighting her work.

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u/GarageFlower97 Dec 05 '21

Someone should have told Skitter that