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if you’re in high school right now you gotta start writing poetry trust me on this, it’s cringe, poetry kids are pretentious, you’ll look back on it and be embarrassed, and it is literally the best thing you could be doing right now. The world is in dire need of more crappy teenage poetry
the thing about writing crappy poetry is that one day you write a poem and it’s not crappy anymore and you’ll feel like you just defeated some dark god
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Who tf called hc s8 a filler season
I based a set of D&D villains around the six main stats called Virtues. (think Full Metal Alchemist sins, except Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, etc..) My favorite of the bunch was Charm. Her conceit was she could persuade, lie, cheat, change appearance, and manipulate the players pretty much however she wanted, but the second someone attacked her she would go down. I introduced her relatively early into the campaign, and I was a bit nervous because I was pretty upfront about her introduction. I didn't say it explicitly, but it was pretty obvious Charm was a Virtue from the offset. I thought "well, I like this character a lot, maybe I'll cheat it a little if I have to." Surprisingly, I never did.
In retrospect, I think the context of the Charm encounters was a huge boon. The party really only confronted her twice: the first time at a dinner party and the second at a war council, where leaders from various factions met to discuss retaking the main city for the finale of the campaign. Neither were explicitly combat scenarios, and both times it would have looked pretty bad for the party if they just up and killed Charm for apparently no reason. The end result was I had villain with only eight hit points to her name run around and torment my level 16 party unpunished for several sessions. Let me tell you, as a DM, that felt amazing.
To add onto this as a player perspective, Charm was immediately positioned in such a way that, in the social and emotional dynamics of the roleplay, she was untouchable.
Charms first introduction was as the foreign dignitary of a far off nation who we knew had secret ties to the Church. We were at a mansion dinner party held partially in our honor - we were in part invited directly by the King, who we were favored by and wanted favor from. Charms plus 1 at the party was our party leaders sister - they were good friends. This was all true the second time she appeared at the war council, which was not only an expressly political appearance but also one where she represented the nation from which we were trying to secure military aid from.
It didn't matter at any point that we could have rolled a few dice for an attack roll and destroyed her. To destroy Charm of the six virtues, we had to murder, in cold blood, someone who was well liked, well connected, and well loved by some of the npcs closest to the party.
The only way we defeated her was because when we threatened her, subtly, she tipped her hand. Charm openly threatened the party leader's sister, who from then on no longer believed in her. We came to the bargaining table with her and convinced her (with no deception!) she could leave the battle march and be done with us. And when she got on her boat to leave, as it left port, our Bard (independently of anyone) snuck onto the ship, snuck into her room, and killed her in her sleep. The only kill that character ever got in the entire three year campaign.
It was an extremely well executed factor of the game because it was essentially a social encounter Boss fight. We had to construct and push and change the context of the situation until we could kill her without everything else crumbling around us - personal relationships as well as political ones.
I should add, Bard character *chose* not to kill anyone. She would willingly torment enemies and assist the party in combat, but never did any killing herself. She only killed Charm after everything had been resolved and Charm had effectively exited the campaign. She would have gotten away scot-free if Bard hadn't decided to take action. It was a great moment, and as a DM I couldn't have asked for a better character death
Here's what the fight with Tenacity (Constitution) looked like:
That little red bar at the top is her health. I don't show specific numbers, but I like having the health bar available for players to see so they have a general sense of how wounded the enemy is. I believe for this fight I started Tenacity at 999 HP out of a possible 20,000.
I greatly enjoyed watching my players realize what they were in for after they hit for 50+ damage on their first attack and saw the health bar get one pixel smaller.
Ferocity (Strength) was the most conventional of the Virtues, but context was everything. The players hadn't fought a Virtue yet, and were debating whether to defend some potential allies or lay low, only for the Paladin to slip away and confront Ferocity by himself. I was personally prepared to save the fight for later, but when a Paladin does something heroic and foolish you gotta let them have it.
I did not skimp on Ferocity's stat block either. She had a greatsword fashioned out of a massive hunk of stone that dealt bludgeoning damage and was much too heavy for anyone else to even lift. She could grab players and throw them across the map, resulting in fall damage from the distance thrown. She could chuck her sword at someone and leap to where it landed from a standing position. Paladin stood no chance by himself. The result was a mad dash to the join the fray while Paladin tried to hold out for as long as possible, with new party members arriving round after round to help. It was a very close fight, and my favorite combat of the whole campaign.
Incredibly, Monk found a way to disarm Ferocity after she threw her greatsword at him. He couldn't lift it of course, but he could use his new magic item to teleport away with it and hide it in a nearby river. Ferocity spent the rest of the combat leaping around the map to find it, allowing Barbarian to finish her off. Really ingenious play.
(Pictured above, Ferocity and Paladin.)
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Which team leaves their escape room first? Assume a Battle Royale situation.
Keyleth, Beau, Laudna
Vex, Jester, Imogen
Vax, Caleb, Orym
Grog, Fjord, Bertrand, Chetney
Pike, Yasha, Fearne
Scanlan, Taryon, Veth, FCG
Percy, Molly, Caduceus, Ashton
Allura, Gilmore, Essek, Eshteross
That clip where Gem said Joel's friendship with Etho was parasocial
also for those who didn't hear: hermitcraft has officially broken the record for the most money raised in a single event for gamer's outreach. $763,012. 3/4 of a million. what a community.
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just your normal drawing challenge!
I am so afraid of lactose intolerant cheese lovers. every single one I've met still eats copious amounts of cheese and they're always willing to tank the consequences after like a champ. truly built different
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this goes so fcking crazy
cleo reacts to joel’s new glow ink store (VOD)
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(A clip from Zombiecleo's livestream on Hermitcraft 10: Cleo is flying around and spots Joel's ink shop. She is the only person who speaks in the video.)
This is new. It's pretty. ...Is this Joel? This feels like Joel.
(They land and read the shop sign)
(Reading sign) "Glow with the flow" This is Joel!
(She walks up to the shop and looks through the glass at an armor stand glow squid)
(Incredulous silence)
Joel, you're my favorite person. You're absolutely, a hundred percent my favorite person. Joel, Joel, Joel.. (Clapping excitedly) Joel! You're wonderful and beautiful, and, um, I'm—
(They step back and open the shop barrel)
How can I not buy his ink? Like.. (They run away from the shop) I need to buy it, I'm— Mm!!!! People are using the book! (In a singsong voice) They're using the book!
(Cut to Cleo with the ink barrel open)
So, if I just take the top stack... (She takes all 9 stacks of glow squid ink from the top row of the barrel) and go.. bwooop! (They leave 18 diamonds in the barrel, then close it)
I'm so proud of you, Joel. Like, this j— y— You made my heart happy, like... (Looking at the armor stand squid) this is— s— ahh!!! Armor stand buddies!
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