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“As a Star of David, he is Hershl Bloom… as a player for over twenty years in the Negro Leagues, he is Henry Bell.” He’s the team’s best player: when he’s not cracking balls out of the park, he’s cleaning up from first base.Īfter a particularly exciting game, a man named Victor Paige from the Big Inning Promotional Agency introduces himself to the team’s manager (and third baseman) with a business proposal.
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In fact, the team plays up this mystique: while the majority of the team is Jewish, their “clean-up batter” is a large, lumbering black man from Chicago who has essentially been given a stage name.
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“I’m not here for the baseball,” she scoffs, “but to see the Jews … thank you very much.” Despite this casual discrimination, The Stars of David have built up quite a following and manage to repeatedly sell out their games. “Well I’ll be, Hetty Douglass in a ballpark…” one fan remarks upon seeing an uppity woman sitting in the stands dressed in her Sunday best. Their exoticism provides viewers with not just a well-needed depression-era distraction but the means for an unfortunate turn towards xenophobia, revealing how thin the line is between curiosity and prejudice. This short graphic novella follows a ragtag Jewish baseball team called the Stars of David as they tour America in the 1920s. Senses: A soulless gains darkvision 60 ft.Īrmor Class: A soulless has a +2 natural armor bonus or the base creature’s natural armor bonus, whichever is better.ĭefensive Abilities: A soulless possesses no connection to the divine and also lacks the vulnerabilities of other corporeal creatures.Originally published in 2001, James Sturm’s The Golem’s Mighty Swing is a masterful but fleeting confluence of comics and American history, beautifully drawn in clean inky lines and paced with cinematic control.
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A soulless retains all the base creature’s statistics and special abilities except as noted here.Ĭhallenge Rating: Same as the base creature +1. “Soulless” is an acquired template that can be added to any living corporeal humanoid, magical beast, or monstrous humanoid (referred to hereafter as the base creature), provided it possesses a soul separate from its physical body. The stripped soul ends up in an Abyssal prison where Orcus can subject it to further experiments or employ it in some other hideous plan. The absence of an animating spark means a soulless lacks the natural fears and desires of normal humanoids and some of their vulnerabilities, but they also have no final energy to cling to when the body is severely damaged. Though a soulless shares some characteristics with the undead, they remain alive and fully sentient creatures. The soulless creature takes no pleasure in this behavior, they are disturbingly without expression or emotion, but engage in it as an automaton. Flensed of all distinctions of alignment, the soulless embrace true amorality, characterized by acts of depravity and destruction. He learned that by stripping the soul of a humanoid while leaving the body alive and intact, he could create a soulless creature beholden only to him and outside the influence of the divine.Ī soulless creature becomes a being without connection to the divine or living creatures. In his eternal war against the gods, Orcus, the Prince of Demons, discovered a way to sever the connection between living beings and their divine creators.