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Not sure if this one's been done yet, but after doing a bit of digging, I found an original, full-size version of Angus Mcbride's art of Saruman and his orb, aka "Pondering My Orb" meme. (Yes, this is actually Saruman.) Unfortunately, I could not find the original title, if there ever was one.
After comparing a couple others, this was the best version I could find in high quality.
Now you, too, can ponder Saruman's orb in full, high-quality wizardry.
Enjoy!
Also on the subject of feline-themed DC characters in DC X Sonic: Metal Legion issue #2 I of course have to highlight how Adam drew the Wonder Woman adversary Cheetah as a full-on furry woman who's ripped as fuck with huge, gnarly fangs. She's awesome. God, he's killing it with these crossovers
I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing
it's called a ball python because it is a python(🐍) that ball(🟠)
nothing in the rules says a python can't play basketball
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it's called a ball python because it is a python(🐍) that ball(🟠)
nothing in the rules says a python can't play basketball
Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things
Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things
please god watch this right now
The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.
When did you first think about making silver bordered cards eternal legal?
When the D&D set put dice rolling into Standard.
Faux Middle Eastern RPG Settings: SAND SAND SAND SAND SAND SAND SAND SAND oh and I guess there’s towers or something but did I mention that there’s also lots and lots of sand
@gojirahkiin replied:
I get that there are probably harmful stereotypes somewhere in there given the other things prokopetz posts sometimes, but this feels like calling out space games for having too much vacuum.
It ain’t just the geography – there’s this whole preoccupation with sand on top of it. The people constantly talk about the sand. The slang and idioms all mention sand. There are social institutions with the word “sand” in their names. The folklore is about sand. There are prophecies about sand. There’s magic sand. The monsters are made of sand. Sometimes there’s even a made-up religion that somehow revolves around sand. Did we mention there’s sand?
The Dragon swears they aren't that bad! The big and scary part is true though!
Why weren't TTRPGs popularized centuries before video games? Large scale printing for complex rulebooks needed the printing press, but even then, it wouldn't justify taking off as late as the second half of the 20th century
A lot of it boils down to dumb luck. Hobbies resembling modern tabletop RPGs have come and gone before, but none of the ones that came before Dungeons & Dragons ever managed to blow up into a broader cultural phenomenon.
For example, tabletop American baseball simulators that use rules tech very similar to that of modern indie tabletop RPGs – complete with d66 rolls and Big Stupid Tables full of increasingly improbable random events – have been around since the 1880s, and by the mid 20th Century, dedicated players were using them to simulate entire virtual leagues in a way that would be instantly recognisable to modern indie RPG fans as a form of solo journalling RPG. Robert Coover's 1968 novel, The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop., dramatises the hobby in a way that strikingly pre-figures the later Satanic Panic's fearmongering about D&D players becoming so immersed in the game that they lose touch with reality – pre-dating D&D itself by over five years.
It never went anywhere from there. Such games still exist, but the hobby remains insular to this day; it just never stumbled into the right combination of time and place to grow beyond its roots. And it's not even the first time a niche hobby had approached something like modern tabletop RPGs and just never taken that final step. We can speculate about the whys and wherefores, but ultimately, a lot of it – ironically, given the subject matter – boils down to a cosmic roll of the dice.
(One of my favourite counterfactuals is speculating what the modern tabletop roleplaying hobby would look like in a world where it kicked off half a century early by growing out of tabletop American baseball simulators in the 1920s rather than historical wargames in the 1970s. Imagine!)
as an aficionado of the US Naval War College, their version is that they encouraged the 1970s version out of spite when their support apparatus in Rhode Island was shut down for, ironically, military minmaxing efficiency. Handing the general public technology that let you predict nation state developments had previously been kept under wraps
they will, obviously, deny it if you actually go to Newport and ask them, but this is old news to the town itself
I'm not saying I find any of this in any way credible, but "tabletop roleplaying games became a wider cultural phenomenon at the time and in the place that they did because the global military-industrial complex had been deliberately suppressing tabletop RPG 'technology', until the US Navy deliberately let the cat out of the bag in the 1970s due to an inter-departmental pissing contest" is a fascinating conspiracy theory.
I think I'm just going to stop being a fan of things because fans are fucking toxic.
I'm sick of people getting level five nuclear apocalypse mad over things that are maybe a level two "not my thing" criticism.
enough about the horrors. let's hear it for the wonders outside of human comprehension
Only reblogging this for @tgirl-tamag0tchi
This reblog is strictly to share it
With the utmost sincerity: What is it that you love about Borderlands?
The problem is that I must always describe what Borderlands is like at its peak, when it truly lives up to all that it's supposed to be. This is, unfortunately, not always, and for long periods it's been "not often."
There is nothing quite like Borderlands. For all that Borderlands sometimes fails to live up to its own promise, nobody has ever gotten close to Borderlands. Rage 2 tried to copy it whole hog and was dogshit. Destiny 2 has slowly but surely vanished up its own ass. Overwatch and its ten dozen knockoffs have made half-hearted attempts at its style but never gotten close to the series' charm.
At its best, the appeal of Borderlands is this: serious, meaningful stories that just so happen to take place in a fundamentally unserious world.
The world of Borderlands is stupid. The world of Borderlands is very, very stupid. It's absurd. It's asinine. It's an absolute clownshow. It's Cowboy Bebop as written by the Onion. Everything is either run by corporations or abandoned by them, which leads to the juxtaposition of bright, shining iPod Futurism with Mad Max scavenger world chaos. Everyone has become the most extreme and unhinged version of themselves.
And when it is at its best, Borderlands has the courage to say: okay, so this world might be a truly absurd and farcical place, but what if you actually had to live there? What then? What if we were to extend to this world some suspension of disbelief? What if we were to look at this world we've created and treat it as a place that could exist? What stories could we tell in such a place? How do the unique aspects of our worldbuilding allow us to tell unique stories?
This is what allows moments like the time in Borderlands 2 where Handsome Jack uses Eridium slag to mutate Bloodwing and make you fight her, then when you win, blows her head off with a bomb collar, and treats this as a genuinely horrifying act and a genuine loss of a character who someone truly loved. Then Jack fucks around trying to find a violin, can't find it for like ten minutes and then gets mad when his cruel joke doesn't land, and it's genuinely hilarious, because this is the exact kind of petty, malicious, insecure douchebag he is.
When it works - and trust me, as a fan of the series, I know it often doesn't - there is nothing quite like Borderlands. There is nothing that can quite match the simultaneous absurdity and sincerity of Borderlands when Borderlands believes in itself. I just wish it did so more often.
