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@arcana-checks
elf sex: 3 to 12 effeminate twinks coo and giggle in a sensual pile in the woods. sometimes the elf queen joins and pretends they’re her baby birds
dwarf sex: a pair of strong able bodied warriors tacitly agree to mate as equals under a binding contract of tomelike thickness, with consent from the council
gnome sex: married couple of 200 years finally gives in to temptation and call upon the stork to deliver their child, then sleep in separate beds completely satisfied
guy who wants "gritty and realistic" D&D absolutely enraged when his character, a grizzled human fighter, is asked to show his travel permit upon attempting to leave the village, gets in a fight about it, and then dies of sepsis from a small cut after four days of travel through wetlands with no roads
his first mistake was insisting on D&D instead of playing a system built from the ground up to accommodate dying of sepsis
Some rough things
Leviathan, or rather its tail
"𝓘'𝓶 𝓪𝓼𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓸 𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓸𝓼"🧁✨💕
why do ducklings travel in such an obviously chain-lightning-able formation? are they stupid?
Other way around, Chain Lightning was designed to counter formations of ducklings.
Make a d100 table of nouns and a d100 table of verbs. Every magic item in your campaign is a randomly-generated [noun] of [verb]ing.
this one slaps
figure commission of a minotaur OC for a client 🌿
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character for a pathfinder game i played her name is iroko
The gang is all here
original critical role cast ➡ the first line that comes to my mind for that player
Trent Ikithon is a Bad Researcher
No no, I think I am going to talk about it because it pisses me off personally
I’m a research technician and let me tell you the whole “research” scene in tm9a killed me. (Not because I think it was bad writing or done poorly. I think it absolutely served the narrative purpose of characterizing Trent, Essek, Astrid, and Eadwulf as well as giving us more plot information about the Beacon)
But like…Essek was right. You just killed a guy for nothing!! You’re not taking any notes! You have two perfectly capable research assistants right there and no one is writing anything down! Instead, they’re just clean up crew and subject transport. There are no qualitative notes being taken and no quantitative data being measured either! Do you have any demographic information for your subject? Would the relationship between a subject and a divine source influence the outcome of the experiment? Are you controlling for the way that you kill them? Does killing them with a magical weapon vs a non-magical weapon have an effect? Are you taking into account exhaustion from the researcher opening the beacon? Are you just trying to replicate the first experiment or are you going to change something to actually experiment instead of doing the DEFINITION OF INSANITY?! Are you even making sure that any of this is replicable? Where are your control trials? Or are you comparing what’s happening here to previous consecuted deaths? (Which I doubt there’s any actual research on)
“I am going to create an experiment that is so unethical” Yeah, to do so, you would have had to CREATE AN EXPERIMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
Anyways, the funniest interpretation of this scene is that Essek was only horrified by Trent’s lack of well structured research protocols.
Trent would have failed by Research Methods course even without taking his human subjects research ethics violations into account.
And the old religion Humming in your veins Some animal instinct starting up again And I am wound so tightly I hardly even breathe
Really enjoying a detail Brennan and Aabria put into the worldbuilding of Aramán. Namely that Taisha and the Lloy family, despite being druids, are also smiths.
The rules for vanilla D&D druids with their prohibition against wearing metal armor is a bit strange when you consider that, throughout much of history (at least in Europe), both iron and the art of smithing itself was believed to be Old magic. It's the reason that horseshoes are considered lucky today and there are so many legends about supernatural creatures like fae being repelled by iron. It's not just the metal itself, it's that a person was able to take raw iron from the earth and shape it into something else.
There are old superstitions, particularly in Ireland, where a smith can curse someone if they turn the horn of their anvil eastward. There are even stories about communities gathering around a blacksmith's anvil to prevent a family from being evicted by trying to collectively curse the landlord.
So that detail of Taisha not just being able to speak to animals and plants like a traditional D&D druid, but can also speak to metal aligns so well with old-world beliefs. Why would druids not like metal? What is more natural that something that comes from the very earth? Imagine how terrifyingly amazing smiths the Lloy family must be, if they can talk to the metal while they shape it. How they can do it without even needing fire. It's no wonder they were the ones that made the weapon that killed their divine tyrant.
After all, what's a more unnatural thing than a god?
Essek and Caleb at Jester and Fjord's wedding party, k-i-s-s-i-n-g
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Bolaire, the character you are...🎭❤️
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