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A pretty straightforward portrait that I forgot to post in the flurry of activity post the Christmas break <: hannibal for once xd>

blignick

cyber-corp

this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

cyber-corp

i know what i’m doing dw

cyber-corp

Keep in mind I only know like. Two Greek gods by name. Homer is one of them, and he was good friends with Odysseus I think?

cyber-corp

Wait fuck Homer isn’t a god he wrote the fucking thing. Fuck

cyber-corp

POST CANCELLED NO ONE LOOK

cyber-corp

desperately google searching for “greek gods to pray to when people notice your online idiocy”

pluto-officially

You're failing.

cyber-corp

You don’t think I know that, God of Death? Can I pray to you so I can DIE ALREADY

communist-mannyfesto

Pluto is Roman, not Greek

cyber-corp

?????

enigma-system03

Short version is that Pluto is a later name for the god of death, which is often associated with the Roman era/Roman mythology. Hades is the earlier name.

cyber-corp

I set up my own house made of sticks and it has promptly fallen on me

cyber-corp

HE’S NOT EVEN REAL?????*

cyber-corp

I made this post thinking I knew what kind of fire I was playing with. Hephaestus, God of Fire, looking upon me from his fuck off tower or whatever said “Oh you think you know? Check this shit” and promptly set my post ablaze for everyone to observe

legionoftuna

Hephaestus doesn't have a tower, he lived in a volcano

cyber-corp

FINE THEN. BIG FUCK OFF VOLCANO. WHATEVER

cyber-corp

wrong.

pointless-achievements

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Lightning Bait

You're basically doing the post equivalent of standing out in a field during a storm with a ten-foot copper pole, you better hope Zeus is busy hiding from Hera.

cyber-corp

FUCK'S SAKE NOT AGAIN

taco-bee

I need you to name every greek God you know and what they are for plz

For science

cyber-corp

OKAY FINE HERE'S WHAT I'VE FOUND

HERMES: DA FUNNY ONE

ZEUS: DA LIGHTNING (NOTE: THOUGHT HE WAS NORDIC, FATHER OF THOR)

POSEIDON: DA SEA ONE

HEPHAESTUS: DA FIRE/FORGING/STEEL ONE

APHRODITE: DA HOT ONE

KRATOS: GOD OF WAR

HADES: DA HELL ONE. ROGUE LIKE

APOLLO: DA DODGEBALL/PROPHECY ONE

boxxed-juice

ares is the god of war, not kratos

cyber-corp

WHY THE FUCK DOES THE GAME CALL HIM GOD OF WAR THEN

ironwoman359

I can't believe this post is less than 24 hours old, it feels like something out of classic tumblr lore

bingle-official

op god of war is not official greek mythology lmao

reekill-playlists

Someone needs to read a Percy Jackson book

reekill-playlists

hey is this still post of the year or

cyber-corp

NO

zelly-fangirl

how's the hole op? want some snacks? a blanket? a shovel to dig yourself out?

cyber-corp

I'D LIKE OUT NOW I THINK

beehivemind200

And the post of the year goes to.....

YOU

cyber-corp

here is me holding my trophy for tumblr post of the year. i'd like to thank no one in particular but i would like to unthank everyone who decided this one in particular was post of the year. i will never let this down ever

behindnightmaresanddreams

I remember this post dropping, what a great day. OP I hope you know this was the highlight of my week when it dropped, it was so good.

aggressivewhenstartled

“Aphrodite is the hot one” hey OP you might wanna look up the myth about the golden apples

technicolormuse

Melba Moore and Earth Kitt in Timbuktu, 1978

thisnoah

Guess who watched castlevania and likes vampires now

justnoodlefishthings

"Coca-Cola made an AI ad!"

"McDonald's releases AI Christmas commercial!!"

Don't care didn't ask plus here's a beautifully animated ad for a French supermarket that was made by actual artists

fellowshipofthenoodles

Tolkien is having his first ever egg. It’s. Not going well.

fellowshipofthenoodles

TOLKIEN IS A SNAKE. HES MY SNAKE. MY PET SNAKE. AUTHOR JOLKIEN ROLKIEN ROLKIEN TOLKIEN IS NOT BIRTHING AN EGG

cute-catts

grimeclown

Putting all tabletop players into a college level ethics class and forcing them to turn in a paper on moral philosophy before buying a new book

grimeclown

This is…. An interesting thing to say… on this post in particular….

grimeclown

I think a lot of people reblogging this from @probablybadrpgideas are interpreting this as “this would be such a funny wacky way to make the table soooo complicated” but I mean this as a complaint about the way that so many tabletop players seem to just. completely lack an understanding of ethics. what it actually means to behave ethically and treat others ethically. and i dont mean this as "why do people want to be mean and play as villains? :(" i mean "why are there so many tabletop players that sympathize with outright fascist factions to the point of wondering why theyre listed as 'Lawful Evil' in the book"

grimeclown

can you talk me through why this was a particularly bad or challenging thing for your party to have done

wizard-of-soup

Goblins were in fact, for me, a turning point on this concept. I had a player who wanted to be a goblin, and I forgot about this fact up to the point that the party got a quest to kill goblins. As soon as I was announcing the quest I realized it would be a problem, though I didn't have anything else ready so I went with it. And it was! The players immediately questioned why the mayor was paying mercenaries to kill goblins, and then further questioned his justifications, at which point I realized it would be a better story if the goblins were a scapegoat and not an actual villain. This turned into a terse interrogation where the mayor threatened to put them in jail once their questions got pointed enough that he would have to either field accusations or lie; they then went CSI on the situation and drilled through his political cabinet to get answers. I had to improv pretty much all of it and I don't remember the actual ending (I know they sided with the goblins and the mayor was guilty), but this helped me realize that the Gary Gygax writing style of "certain races are just BAD and that's why they hang out in dungeons" was very short-sighted.

D&D writing, by and large, encourages a lack of questions. The surface runs deep. "Go into a cave and chop up goblins." Why are we doing this? "Goblins are bad." All goblins? "Yes."

I think the question of "why are there players comfortable siding with fascist factions and wondering why they're called 'lawful evil'" is pretty easily answered with... because D&D itself is inherently kind of fascist. And it's the most insidious kind of fascist, too- its villains are fascists, so how could you point fingers at the book?

Fire Giants are dwarf slavers. Drow are a megalomaniacal theocracy who hate men. Orcs are violent tribes of marauding killers. Illithids want to destroy all life and keep an entire civilization to scrub their floors. But these narratives still push the idea that "evil" is a racial trait. The players are not only justified in their campaign to destroy these cultures, they're encouraged to do it.

They let the cat out of the bag by making these playable races; because now, they're not cut-and-dry villanous societies. They're people. There are Drow accountants whose lives are about balancing taxes, not worshipping Lolth. There are Yuan-Ti who don't sacrifice babies on altars, and much prefer playing the lute or sewing blankets. Yet we're still expected to read "Chaotic Evil" under the Monster Manual entry for a bugbear and take it seriously.

quantumcartography

Reblogging again to add a quick take: as a DM introducing ethics makes your game so much better.

I had an intro to my campaign that involved a mad scientist kidnapping someone and turning them into a wererat. I didn't think much of it and I spent way more time fleshing out the other NPCs, I just wanted to use that wererat as a boss fight.

Once the party encountered him though they immediately saw what I totally missed: the guy who became the wererat was absolutely the victim of this story. I did my best at thinking on my feet and made the wererat this defeated guy who only followed the mad scientist because he felt like his life was ruined. So they, through good rolls, convinced him to help them fight the mad scientist and it made for such a better story.

The moral I'm trying to convey is that you need to treat every NPC in your game as a world within themselves. And I mean EVERY NPC. Why are the wolves attacking people? Are they desperately hungry? Mind controlled? Territorial due to poachers? Why are the goblins working for the wizard? Extortion? Promise of riches? If the bandits see that everyone is in armor, why wouldn't they just let the party pass and wait for easier prey? If one of the bandits die, why wouldn't the rest of them run for the hills?

dunmertitty

here’s a couple of articles on the history of racism + xenophobia in tolkien & how that influenced dnd

This is the first installment of a two-article series about the racist origins, nature, and ramifications of orcs, a malevolent humanoid spe

This is the complement to my previous article , “Orcs, Britons, and the Martial Race Myth, Part I: A Species Built for Racial Terror.” In t

anyone interested in the subject should definitely also check out the whole Three Black Halflings podcast, which talks about being black in nerdy spaces. a lot of times they’ll have on guests talking about their intersections and experiences in nerdy spaces. they have an episode with the author of the articles above.

they’ve also played a ttrpg based on african mythologies rather than mostly european ones like most mainstream fantasy.

highly recommend!!

bastlynn

Seriously - a good GM will take this as an opportunity to start taking apart these tropes. It's something a lot of people need to learn how to question - not just in ttrpgs. But here there's an opportunity to do it and make it rewarding as hell too. My last superheros game the group collectively decided ACAB and started running a Home-For-Rescued-Villains. We sure as fuck weren't going to turn people over to the *cops*. And we didn't take shit like someone cutesy-fucking around saying they were 'good' now either. They had to work to make things right if they wanted us to cover their asses instead of kick them. ... and yeah we also habitually unionize in basically all games.

phinarei

I feel like the kind of people who jump on the fascist parts are the same ones who play to "win" and forget that DND is about collaboratively telling a story.

They take it all seriously and get mad when things don't go their way. Like, sure, succeeding at your mission is cool, but even if it all ends in a fiery blast instead, you still told a story together and got to be someone else for a while. Aren't those supposed to be the actual goals?

And I do think that a properly deployed ethics lesson would solve a good portion of the problem no matter the reason you choose to do it. Because understanding ethics makes for a more considerate group after a while and much more dynamic storytelling.

nyannibalism

do they have the number of trans women theyve banned in here too?

nyannibalism

its gonna be +1 here in a bit.

silvaaart

him again

anarchist-revolution

pawpunkao3

Unhealthy ships in a fandom are a bioindicator. They're like finding caterpillars on your produce. You may not want to consume them---you may even find them disgusting---but if they aren't there at all, you know that stuff is COVERED in toxicity.