&. heart time.

jana. 31. libra. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me.

[userfish]

hey you 🫵 have you washed your water bottle lately? 🫵 it’s getting hot and mold is going to grow 🫵 wash it 🫵

[effervescent-fool]

ive never been able to take "climb him like a tree" as a sexual innuendo seriously because i picture climbing a tree in my mind and then i picture a tall man in my mind and when i put those two things together im not seeing anything sexual. im seeing like. circus tricks.

[mookybear12404]

I feel like the first class you played in DND tells a lot about you

Reblog and put in the tags what your first class was

[neat-deadandlive-things]

What is "walking distance" to you? (provided that the weather is okay)

Less than 5 minutes.

Less than 15 minutes.

Less than 30 minutes.

Less than 1 hour.

Depends on... add a tag.

other/I'm not canadian and don't measure distance in time.

Voting ended onJul 15

[asofteredge]

hey everyone, just curious:

what is everyone's criteria for blocking people?

[miggylol]

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Voting ended onJul 14

(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)

[bdvolkarin]

Schrödinger’s poll

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

No

NO!!!!!!!

Voting ended onJul 21

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[revvethasmythh]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Essek and Veth dynamic potential, especially since I've had similar thoughts 👀

i think i've said this before at some point, but i just think veth is the kind of person who could have a functional relationship with him and be friends with him and even like him a lot, but also still harbor genuine hatred for him and his role in the kidnapping and torture of her husband, which i just think gives the relationship an edge people seem to shy away from. both because she's angry at him for what he did and also because she does like him and there's guilt attached to that because of what he did. like, i guess the way a lot of people seem to approach the dynamic is mostly through essek's eyes, and through the lens of essek's relationships and essek's problems, and i think it's difficult to get a real look at what's going on there if you're not giving at least equal focus to veth's perspective, and her relationships and her problems etc., because she is. you know. a victim of his actions. her whole family is. i think she probably has really complicated feelings about him, and she has textually shown that she can support him one minute and turn on him the next. she is conflicted, with good reason to be, and i think maybe there's a tendency to brush over the effects essek's actions have had on her life or say that she just forgives it, but she's not a super forgiving person, you know? i think she also likes to lie about things that genuinely hurt her and would be more comfortable acting like things are fine even when they're not, and that's a lot of nuance that disappears if you're not really digging into her perspective on the relationship. basically i think a lot what i feel is missing in what i see about them together is a genuine discussion of the fact that he wronged her and hurt her family and how she has to navigate that in order to have any kind of relationship with him at all (and that she does seem to like him and how she can square the harm he's done to her family with her own affection for him).

[penandinkprincess]

"Why must we Madonna/whore the vegetables?" is a phrase I just felt super glue itself in my lexicon immediately

[cataclysmictide]

in my head you're alive and we sit down for dinner and talk it all out

[wordfather]

your honor i was just furthering the plot

[trailertrashgrog]

i was thinking about the speculation around travis's next character (speculation that, to be fair 🎶 is inherently silly) and like. what are the odds any one person is gonna be right about what he picks? So uh...math!

there are 13 playable classes and (using specifically the cosmology of aramán rather than the PHB) there are 10* playable races:

the 7 races of the shapers (human, orc, dwarf, halfling, gnome, elf, beastfolk*)

demons [mechanically tieflings]

fairykind*

half-orcs

* fae and beastfolk are a broad heading for several different possible species, but we do not know what they all are, so we'll count them each as one for this.

(there are no half-elves and possibly no dragonborn, goliaths or genasi in aramán)

10 x 13 leaves us with roughly 130 possible combinations for Travis's next character.

however, if you took the standard 5.5e subclasses of the 13 classes, removing only the ones already being used by a PC (alive or dead), you'd get 59 subclasses, which actually leaves you with 590 distinct possibilities across race and class/subclass.

however! we can also remove classes and races that are already well represented in campaign 4 and/or that travis has already played in a long-term campaign setting before. so, broadly: barbarians, fighters, sorcerers, rogues, warlocks, wizards, half-orcs, orcs, gnomes, humans. we can also remove halflings as travis tends to play small races in comic relief ways and it isn't really a tone match for how he's approaching the campaign, but I'll leave in dwarves since they're not small in the same way. i also won't remove classes just based on "Travis doesn't generally play full casters" vibes due to table balance leaning towards a healing class being needed and Travis being a very balance and utility forward player

ultimately that takes playable races down to ~5 and classes (counting subclasses) down to ~29, which gives us 145 possible race/class combos.

those three data sets give you a 1/130, 1/145 or 1/590 chance of being right when you make called shots about what the next travis PC may be depending on how specific you want to be in your guess. so you have somewhere between a .76% chance and a .16% chance of accurately guessing

(and that is with the full acknowledgement that there are subclasses and playable races that i left out in order to make the data set more manageable, so the REAL percentage is probably even smaller than .76%. basically there's a chance someone has thrown out the correct combo but there's also a chance literally no one can guess what's coming other than those people stalking the trademark office to see if he registers a character name)

[trailertrashgrog]

drop a prediction in the replies or tags and win a prize

[ahastycrblog]

It was a small moment, but for all his bluster about how Thimble was making her own choices, and he didn't care, and everything else he said, Julien was the one who kept watch for Thimble by the door the entire time the party was at Hal's waiting for her.

[apolladay]

What category is your last name?

Son of some guy ("Johnson", "O'Brien", etc)

Job ("Smith", "Miller", etc)

Place/town ("Hill", "del Valle", etc)

Nickname/attribute ("Short", "Goodman", etc)

Hyphenated/multiple of the above

Other (describe in the tags!)

Unsure/results

Voting ended onJul 6

[ginawankenobi]

You're allowed to dislike Wicander Halovar. You're allowed to believe what he did was fucked up. You're allowed to feel things about it, but before you write him off completely or post that rant, I would ask you to consider a few things:

The one primarily at fault is Primus Tachonis (and the dice). He is the one who put Wick in that position to begin with, and it was an impossible choice. Yes, Wick could have been extra noble and sacrificed himself to save that random NPC, but would that have served the overall story? Would that have been a satisfying end to his character arc? As a player, I completely understand why Sam would not want to lose his character that way, especially since he was so backed into a corner after a series of unfortunate rolls. Story-wise, it would have majorly messed things up for the rest of the party, and we had literally just had three major deaths. The choice makes sense.

Let's also not pretend Primus wouldn't have killed the NPC anyway if Wick had declined to. There was no saving that NPC, but Wick had a chance to save himself.

It also makes for more interesting character development, in my opinion. Wick now has to live with what he did, and we have already seen that it's broken him in a way. He spent the whole time afterward crying about it, and he was visibly distraught and out of sorts. I think that's far more interesting to delve into than just "he got murdered trying to protect a random character we know nothing about."

Wick and the party are trying to play the long game, and in order to do that, some or all of them are going to have to do things they don't want to do. Being in the position he is, Wick is unfortunately more susceptible to being pushed toward those things.

Anyway, I will defend Wicander Halovar in this scenario, especially because it involves more opportunity for us all to hate on Primus Tachonis's bitch ass.

[philosophicalpug]

as julien so eloquently put it "there is no honor when facing primus tachonis"

[redjennies]

ngl I'm mostly irritated by the idea of a several week hiatus because god knows how many episodes it will take for the Seekers reach the Golden Orchard and I really need to know exactly what sort of unique massive personality defect Alba Davinos has.