BiscuitCultist

All that glitters isn't Gold, but fuck authenticity! I'm here for the Glitter. Obsessed with D&D character creation. I work in a haunted hotel! M. 30s. Bi.

[biscuitcultist]

So I see lots of people on this site making homebrew or taking art commissions for people's D&D characters but I don't see anyone offering help with character creation.

I intend to fill this niche if I can. I love building characters and writing backstories for them and will happily offer my assistance to anyone interested in it. Just shoot me a message with a general idea you want the character to be like race, base class, if multiclassing is ok, etc...

For backstory please give me general information about the world you'll be playing in and if you have anything you definitely want included.

[wilwheaton]

“What Vance underlined this morning, however, was how thin his arguments really are and how little he cares about the people affected by the policies he co-signs. He brings up problems with an “anti-family” country while seated in the White House, in prime position to change that. He dishonestly misquotes Donald Trump to make him sound more normal. He refuses to back even his own previous position — which was a good position — on the Epstein files, because his boss didn’t wholeheartedly agree. He is too brittle and too angry to be able to pull off a good-natured back-and-forth with a group of women who are sympathetic enough to him that they’re promoting his book and handing him a printed onesie for his new baby, simply because they asked him a couple of difficult questions. Every criticism against him is actually proof that he’s a victim; every female concern is a silly woman who doesn’t know what she’s talking about. He is, quite clearly, spending way too much time inside an echo chamber. If you wanted a masterclass in how to give women the ick, you’d just have to air this hour-long horror show. But the smile on Vance’s face as the final credits rolled showed he thought he’d achieved a job well done. And that’s a massive part of the problem.”

— JD Vance went on the view and got absolutely torn to shreds by middle-aged women

[michaxl]

she wears short shorts i wear pant pants

[falcoknight]

[pokemonheritageposts]

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[axleheart]

what the fuck happened to this man between gen 5 and 7

[pokemonheritageposts]

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[nidoqueen]

WHY?????

[cungadero]

she got deflowered

[nidoqueen]

[pokemonheritageposts]

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[pokemonheritageposts]

on multiple occasions i have seen people on socials excited for palworld 1.0 and it has taken me a moment to realize they aren't doing a bit and are genuinely excited

[pokemonheritageposts]

[a-mysterious-man]

Do you know nothing about capitalism. This is coming from an avid anti-estabishment. More competition is good for us. This is a marathon, not a fucking sprint. Read a book.

[pokemonheritageposts]

hi! thank you for commenting. i know more than you. the point of this post is that Palworld is not competition.

[a-mysterious-man]

People like you are the reason why Nintendo has a monopoly on monster catch game and why they're trying to cement that monopoly with its patent bullshit. Maybe if you gave smaller games a goddamn chance we wouldn't be having this conversation.

[pokemonheritageposts]

The reason Nintendo has a monopoly on monster catching games is because the global network of capital enables, encourages, and rewards corporations for all the steps that make that make monopolistic market domination possible. Pokemon's dominance of this genre was set in stone decades ago. Personal consumer choices cannot fix a systemic problem.

[a-mysterious-man]

Yes. I agree with you. On this we are friends. However, by your logic, nobody should ever try anything ever because "what could an individual do to fix things?" If we, as a community, shame Nintendo for what they're doing, and also uplift Pocket Pair for shaking up the formula and bringing something new and fun to the table, maybe we could have a chance to make things less ass in the short term, and focus on overthrowing capitialism in the long term. All shaming people for being "stupid sluts" and having hope does is split us down the middle and sow discorse.

[pokemonheritageposts]

You'll notice I didn't say "individuals have no power and cannot do anything". I said "personal consumer choices cannot fix systemic problems". you can and should shame Nintendo for their legal strongarming habits. Uplifting Pocket Pair for the specific purpose of trying to counter The Pokemon Company's market dominance, and acting as though this is a consumer duty that we are required to do to make capitalism work properly, is obviously not going to accomplish anything - setting aside the question of whether or not they are "shaking up the formula and bringing something new to the table" or whether they are actually making a soulless, derivative, low quality product.

tl;dr, you are not going to fix capitalism on its own terms

[pokemonheritageposts]

on multiple occasions i have seen people on socials excited for palworld 1.0 and it has taken me a moment to realize they aren't doing a bit and are genuinely excited

[pokemonheritageposts]

[a-mysterious-man]

Do you know nothing about capitalism. This is coming from an avid anti-estabishment. More competition is good for us. This is a marathon, not a fucking sprint. Read a book.

[pokemonheritageposts]

hi! thank you for commenting. i know more than you. the point of this post is that Palworld is not competition.

[pokemonheritageposts]

see, here's the thing: it is absolutely possible to create a monster capturing game that could compete with Pokemon. It wouldn't win, it wouldn't even come close, the sheer market dominance of Nintendo and The Pokemon Company is too overpowering for any competitor to have a reasonable chance of doing that.

The problem is that nobody is going to do that because every attempt to do so is an attempt to compete with the superficial elements of what Pokemon is now, rather than following the how and why that led to Pokemon to become what it is. The objective they are chasing is how to compete with Pokemon, which is no objective at all. The only way to create a true competitor is to build the equivalent to Pokemon again from first principles.

There are plenty of other good monster catching games (as people have mentioned in the notes) and if anything we could do with more of them - it's an underexplored genre IMO. But Palworld isn't that. Palworld is Pokemon as imagined by a modern gamer who believes Pokemon should have completely altered its gameplay style to match modern trends. It's the sandbox gameplay loop soup idea of what Pokemon should be. It's slop. It's the gaming equivalent of a protest vote.

[pokemonheritageposts]

The thing is, I would not have beef with Palworld if it weren't for blatantly ripping off Pokemon for its monster designs. I wouldn't like it, but that's for the same reasons that I don't like most contemporary AAA action RPG games. But incorporating a more modern combat style into a monster collecting game is an idea that genuinely has legs.

The problem is that it's not trying to be a monster collecting game with guns, it's trying to be Pokemon with guns. If it had actually built up a unique set of monsters specifically to fit the tone, setting, and style of the gameplay ideas they were building off of, they could have made something really interesting. What they actually did by stealing Pokemon designs was communicate that the monsters in this game don't actually matter and could have been replaced by anything.

This is the difference between Palworld and previous monster catching games like Youkai Watch and Cassette Beasts. Those games actually care about their designs. The monsters were made as part of the games they were for, whereas in Palworld they're a box to tick.

[pokemonheritageposts]

Hmm, I wonder why someone would have similar designs to pokemon, could it be they like the art style and were inspired by it? no, it must be a purposeful knockoff. You're tiring.

with all due respect, which isn't any, come on

come the fuck on. you are not a serious person

[pokemonheritageposts]

on multiple occasions i have seen people on socials excited for palworld 1.0 and it has taken me a moment to realize they aren't doing a bit and are genuinely excited

[morkitten]

Gamer here! This phenomenon can be explained from Palworld being what is considered a "good game" (任天堂以外のゲームをプレイしてください), which can be a concept that is difficult for fans of "Pocket Monsters" from the last decade or so to conceptualize. For futher reading, I suggest "On the Genealogy of Morals" by Friedrich Nietzsche and "Open Veins of Latin America" by Eduardo Galeano, hope this clarifies things!

[pokemonheritageposts]

@mx-t4t0 fascinated by the decision to frame this as a "meltdown" before proceeding to make up a guy to get mad at. i can promise you not one person in this entire chain is defending nintendo's unethical business practices inc. what they did to gary bowser

[mx-t4t0]

[pokemonheritageposts]

objectively true but that's just a quirk of how people perceive the internet. you're on my post. i don't care how big this blog is, if you say insane shit on my post i'm going to want to respond to it

frankly i should be mad and it's weird that i'm not. i don't think most people would handle hundreds of responses with varying levels of unearned hostility over shit they didn't actually say this well. i'm not sure why i'm not. maybe it's the customer service experience.

[theindigospectrum]

Wouldnt a better use of ur time be to like.. i dont know. Um. Anytbing else?

[pokemonheritageposts]

you're on tumblr. none of us are using our time well.

[theindigospectrum]

Well thats just rude. Im on tumblr because its ten pm, i genuinely have nothing to do, im not quite tired enough to go to sleep, im on a break from the only other social platform i use (discord) and i need something to distract myself because if i dont my brain is going to rip itself to shreds. At least im not arguing with people over palworld.

How can you argue w so many people abt this and say ur not mad abt it be fr

[pokemonheritageposts]

arguing is fun sometimes

[pokemonheritageposts]

Snom snom snom snom snom snom

desperately need to get some actual pokemon back on this blog and hey you know what we haven't done in forever? a TCG ranking. Let's Snom it the fuck up in here

FULL TCG RANKING MASTERPOST

10. Frosmoth (illus. miki kudo, Mega Evolutions 43/132)

9. Snom (illus. Tika Matsuno, Sword & Shield - Shining Fates 29/72)

8. Snom (illus. Mina Nakai, Sword & Shield 63/202)

7. Snom (illus. Izucch, Mega Evolutions - Ascended Heroes 52/217)

6. Frosmoth (illus. cochi8i, Mega Evolutions - Ascended Heroes 53/217)

5. Snom (illus. Shinya Komatsu, TCG Pocket - Paradox Drive 75/74)

4. Frosmoth (illus. aoki, Sword & Shield - Astral Radiance TG04/TG30)

3. Snom (illus. Orca, Scarlet & Violet - Temporal Forces 45/162)

2. Snom (illus. Yuka Morii, Sword & Shield - Fusion Strike 84/264)

1. Snom (illus. N-DESIGN Inc., Scarlet & Violet - Temporal Forces 168/162)

[biscuitcultist]

I love this adorable snow bug

[minart-was-taken]

So I have this headcanon about Larry...

[pokemonheritageposts]

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[nostalgebraist]

If Pikachu were real, it would not be a very pleasant animal. An enormous mouse that shocks you like an electric eel. I would run from these beasts

[transmortifried]

[pokemonheritageposts]

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[pokemonheritageposts]

not to revive the palworld discourse from earlier in the week but it's insane how much people are blatantly caught up in a broader online argument about this game and bringing that shit to posts that aren't about that. there's been more than a few people mad at me who are clearly just using me as a standin for the broader pokemon fandom.

i get a lot of you disagree with me and that's fine but it's not a big ask for you to engage with the actual post you're replying to and remember that i'm an actual person who hasn't done shit to you

[franciium]

? :)

[jzq]

the council will decide your fate

[pokemonheritageposts]

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[eeveebabe]

Me: *sneaking into Area 51* FBI agent: you can’t be here rn this is an off limits area Me: nice try, I know deoxys is here

[pokemonheritageposts]

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[wilwheaton]

“But it gets worse, because that same executive order about mail-in voting also directs the Department of Homeland Security to build its own state-by-state lists of who’s eligible to vote, exactly the kind of national database you’d assemble if your real plan was to pressure states into purging their rolls. If that sounds like paranoia, it’s only because we’ve already forgotten that we lived through it. In 2000, Jeb Bush’s secretary of state, Katherine Harris, who also happened to be co-chair of his brother George’s Florida campaign, hired a private firm to scrub the voter rolls using a list of supposed felons that included eight thousand names shipped in from Texas. The matching was deliberately loose, flagging anyone whose last name was an 80 percent match to a felon’s, and the Brennan Center later found that at least 12,000 eligible voters were wrongly purged, 22 times George W. Bush’s 537-vote margin. Black Floridians were 11 percent of the electorate and 41 percent of the people thrown off the rolls. Bush took the presidency by that sliver, and the Florida Supreme Court-ordered recount that would have caught the theft was shut down by a Supreme Court whose deciding majority included a justice his own father had put on the bench, Clarence Thomas, whose wife was at that very moment collecting résumés for a Bush administration, and Antonin Scalia, whose sons worked for firms representing Bush, neither of whom saw any reason to step aside. That’s the voter merge-and-purge playbook, and they’re dusting it off on a national scale for this November with new, borrowed-from-Putin tweaks. Or at least they’re trying their hardest to.”

— This confession proves Trump’s terrified cronies know what’s coming for them

[senso1954]

this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.

[deseretgear]

Tiktok marvel fans really will be out here like "movie fan SHOCKED because i'd rather watch superhero movie #54 in blue and not a sensual 1987 french horror film about a man discovering his wife may not exist set in what is gradually revealed to be a space station" as if you're supposed to agree that superhero movie #54 is the clear winner in this comparison

[kirbymongerr]

Love the idea of a story about a complex issue that's told from the perspective of something that cannot comprehend or care about the issue. The way the story would be sliced up and moments that a human would consider pointless would be focused on because the pigeon happened to be there would be hype as fuck

[beardedmrbean]

[silken-scarves]

Ok FINE I made the movie poster of it

Mališa, otherwise known as Little One, is a pet pigeon owned by a conservative butler of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. She is loved, and she is pampered— until her owner is murdered in cold blood, and she is left to fend for herself in Sarajevo.

In the wilds of the city, she feeds from the poor, working nationalist radicals, and the vieux riches alike.

To Mališa, there are no ethical concerns. No politics. No burgeoning nationalism.

There are only hands that feed her, and hands that do not.

[headspace-hotel]

This is compelling. Consider me fucking compelled.

[anarchautistic]

Final shot is the bird hearing, but not seeing, the sound of a .32 ACP pistol, and flying away in shock

[lilmaneater]

"From the studio that brought you Goncharov...."

[worldheritagepostorganization]

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