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In Italy the joke is about the Molise region.TheArcaneWeirdo wrote: Tue May 05, 2026 7:10 am That Chateaufaux doesn't exist.
Why?
1) Have you ever been to Chateaufaux?
2) Do you know anyone from Chateaufaux?
3) Do you know anyone who had been to Chateaufaux?
No, right?
Yes? You must be part of the conspiracy!
It's not a serious belief for the most part. More like a joke about the town's cultural irrelevance in the public view.
It's a nod to the Bielefeld conspiracy
(A satirical conspiracy theory that a peripherial or stereotypically boring city simply doesn't exist. The original is the city of Bielefeld in Germany, but the joke has different versions in almost every country - for example, Petah Tikva in Isreal, or the state of Wyoming in the US.), as well as to the 5e version of Dementlieu, where Chateaufaux really is merely an illusion.
See? Every country has one of those.Mistmaster wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 11:22 amIn Italy the joke is about the Molise region.TheArcaneWeirdo wrote: Tue May 05, 2026 7:10 am That Chateaufaux doesn't exist.
Why?
1) Have you ever been to Chateaufaux?
2) Do you know anyone from Chateaufaux?
3) Do you know anyone who had been to Chateaufaux?
No, right?
Yes? You must be part of the conspiracy!
It's not a serious belief for the most part. More like a joke about the town's cultural irrelevance in the public view.
It's a nod to the Bielefeld conspiracy
(A satirical conspiracy theory that a peripherial or stereotypically boring city simply doesn't exist. The original is the city of Bielefeld in Germany, but the joke has different versions in almost every country - for example, Petah Tikva in Isreal, or the state of Wyoming in the US.), as well as to the 5e version of Dementlieu, where Chateaufaux really is merely an illusion.
This one's brilliant. It makes so much sense.hidajiremi wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 9:19 am In one of my games, an NPC mentioned the "Mordenheim Authorship Theory" to the PCs. Basically, the idea is that there is no "Dr. Mordenheim"--it's just a pen name that various scientists have used over a period of many decades in order to put forward their own crackpot theories that would get them laughed out of serious academia or to publish the results of experiments that would get them arrested if they put them out under their own names. After all, there's no way that one scientist would be able to publish so many ethically bankrupt papers across so many diverse fields of study for a period of well over a century.
That's fantastic.hidajiremi wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 9:19 am In one of my games, an NPC mentioned the "Mordenheim Authorship Theory" to the PCs. Basically, the idea is that there is no "Dr. Mordenheim"--it's just a pen name that various scientists have used over a period of many decades in order to put forward their own crackpot theories that would get them laughed out of serious academia or to publish the results of experiments that would get them arrested if they put them out under their own names. After all, there's no way that one scientist would be able to publish so many ethically bankrupt papers across so many diverse fields of study for a period of well over a century.