The World is Wide and the Water is Deep

M. 29. Tired, Bi, and about to cry.

[twoshortswords]

Wizard lovers✨️🧡

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This gown was made by DKNY and was likely pulled off the rack by the costume designer for Ellen Muth to wear as Georgia “George” Lass in the 2003 promotional shoot for 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑴𝒆.   In 2005, the dress was spotted on Summer Glau as River in the film 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚.   With more modern costumes like these, it’s difficult to know if the dress is the exact same one or if they were both pulled off the rack. They are more likely to be different dresses, but they are certainly the same DKNY piece.   Interested in keeping up with us? Please give us a follow! Bit.ly/PostEd002  

[maximumzombiecreator]

It's often remarked how D&D 5e's play culture has this sort of disinterest bordering on contempt for actually knowing the rules, often even extending to the DM themselves. I've seen a lot of different ideas for why this is, but one reason I rarely see discussed is that actually, a lot of 5e's rules are not meant to be used.

Encumbrance is a great example of this. 5e contains granular weights for all the items that you might have in your inventory, and rules for how much you can carry based on your strength score, and they've set these carry capacities high enough that you should never actually need to think about them. And that's deliberate, the designers have explicitly said that they've set carrying capacity high enough that it shouldn't come up in normal play. So for a starting DM, you see all these weights, you see all the rules for how much people can carry or drag, and you've played Fallout, you know how this works. And then if you try to actually enforce that, you find that it's insanely tedious, and it basically never actually matters, so you drop it.

Foraging is the example of this that bothers me most. There's a whole system for this! A table of foraging DCs, and math for how much food you can find, and how long you can go without food, etc. But the math is set up so that a person with no survival proficiency and a +0 to WIS, in a hostile environment, will still forage enough food to be fine, and the starvation rules are so generous that even a run of bad luck is unlikely to matter. So a DM who actually tries to use these rules will quickly find that they add nothing but bookkeeping. You're rolling a bunch of checks every day of travel for something that is purpose built not to matter. And that's before you add in all the ways to trivialize or circumvent this.

These rules don't exist to be used, that is not their purpose. These rules exist because the designers were scared of the backlash to 4e, and wanted to make sure that the game had all the rules that D&D "should" have. But they didn't actually want these mechanics. They didn't want the bookkeeping, they didn't care about that style of play, but they couldn't just say, "this game isn't about that" for fear of angering traditionalists. And unfortunately the way they handled this was by putting in rules that are bad, that actively fight anyone who wants to use that style of play and act as a trap to people who take the rules in good faith.

And this means that knowing what rules are not supposed to be used is an actual skill 5e DMs develop. Part of being a good 5e DM is being able to tell the real rules that will improve your game from the fake rules that are there to placate angry forum posters. And that's just an awful position to put DMs in (especially new DMs), but it's pretty unsurprising that it creates a certain contempt for knowing the rules as written.

You should have contempt for some of the rules as written. The designers did.

[calli0pea]

unfortunately, Sky High was only (1) 1hr 30 min Disney film and not the 6 season so-bad-it’s-good CW series it could’ve been

[theladyeowyn]

COMMUNITY - S06E01, “Ladders”

[gaytanic-panic]

[gala-xyzz]

[mousidy]

it's not natural for candy to be $3.49. candy is supposed to be one dollar

[deerwithamullet]

candy should cost a nickel and we should all wear little propeller hats when we eat it

[helpimsotired]

Justin McElroy talking about accessibility in live theatre (June 9, 2019)

[formichi]

[quasi-normalcy]

“Art is happening everywhere all of the time” but an awful lot of it seems to only ever happen in New York and London, doesn’t it?

[puppygirllaika]

a frustrating number of people believe that “New York and London” constitutes “everywhere”

[creepymutelilbugger]

[sighinastorm]

uh, source?

[frowningfox]

Source:

[calvinandhobbescomic]

[under-the-arch]

No, Calvin was right

[distributing-direwolves]

Calvin was 100% right.

[depsidase]

[so-bloody-overzealous]

Guy: "Hey man, can I borrow your charger?"

Knight: "I'm afraid that may be unwise. He's a bit fractious with strangers..."

Guy: "What? No, for my battery..."

Knight: "What does my steed have to do with artillery??"

[anxeious]

bathe in your own sunlight !!!!!!

[journeysfable]

@aromanticofficial

[aromanticofficial]

don't wait for someone else to make you feel important! you're already important by being here!

[sophsun1]

Singin' in the Rain (1952) dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is the thistledown velvet ant (Dasymutilla gloriosa)!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Also known as the glorious velvet ant, this tiny ambling squeaker has confused scientists with her fashion choices. At first it was believed that she was mimicking the fruits of the creosote bush (Larrea tridentata), which are also common around her stomping grounds. Turns out that she's been wearing white millions years before the plant arrived on its landmass. Now it is believed that her white fuzz simply helps her keep cool— which isn't as exciting of an answer but still an interesting look into how organisms adapt to living in the desert.

[waspdaily]

*skitters past you*

[allsadnshit]

For the next beauty trend let's bring back just your normal eyebrows and your hair air dried and we can call it messy girl normal woman Sunday core

[catbritta]

i love listening to song on repeat!!!!! reblog if you love listening to song on repeat!!!!!!!!!