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averyterrible

apparently, chinese goths have figured out how to do qing era costuming. jiangshi time.

averyterrible

@post-brahminism check it

imasithduh

I need to make sure @gothiccharmschool sees this.

gothiccharmschool

This is AMAZING.

eroscestlavie

This just pissed me off so baaaad 😂

utopians

Passed the White Pharaoh on the freeway

laikathestar

patronsaintofweepingmothers

2009

cryptotheism

The Greco Egyptian Magical Fragments are so fun

cryptotheism

If I was drinking with the girls and someone threw a dog-bitten rock near me, I would ask the caster what's up. Why we throwing dog rocks?

dortie

talenlee

my pride month article on 4th Edition D&D is about Corellon Larethian, the Anti-Grungler, chucking a baby down a well

thydungeongal

Great sentence, Talen

talenlee

I offer an extremely specific, extremely niche service

The article concludes with 'you can only grungle from a place of love and respect.'

apricops

that post about “you get bandits when you cut soldiers loose without pay” reminds me of the Thirty Years War, because one could say that beneath all the religious schisms and diplomatic jockeying, the heart of the thirty years war was “what happens when you have a state with just enough capacity to raise massive armies but without enough financial capacity to actually pay those armies” and the answer is that the line between professional armies and roving gangs of bandits disappears and every time you try to raise an army it just becomes another independently acting wildfire devouring the countryside. No matter how bad things get, every day I wake up and thank my lucky stars that I do not live in 17th century Europe. Or 17th century China. Or the 17th century Americas. Or basically anywhere in the 17th century.

victusinveritas

"Portrait of a Young Tiefling", from the great Tony DiTerlizzi.

prokopetz

Something that puzzles me about DnD spaces which you might know about:

Why are there so many third party supplements coming out right now that advertise themselves as having extensive crafting rules?

Hasbro promised in 5.5E's pre-release promotion that it would have expanded and improved crafting rules, then when it was published it turned out that all they actually did was add a thing to the bottom of each crafting kit proficiency's description listing which specific items on the Player's Handbook equipment list can be crafted using that kit.

smorgasbork

Wild that this kinda spawned a bit of a cottage industry for that specific thing O_o

prokopetz

This one's actually kind of tame. Third-party publishers gambling that they can capitalise on plugging a specific gap in D&D's gameplay loop has spawned much weirder trends.

rampagingpoet

NSFW example under the cut:

This chart is from the Book of Erotic Fantasy, which among other things noticed that D&D has a lot of race-science-like rules for specific cross-breeds but no rules for conception and pregnancy. An oversight perfect for third-party developers to step in!

The rest of the book is about character classes powered by having a lot of sex and the like, plus some troubling things like "using charm person to get people to sleep with you is totally fine" and "wiping someone's memory of what sex even is is Lawful Good."

(I think the sex rules meant that some of the sex spellcasters could literally exhaust their partner to death in the process of preparing spells? But I'd have to check the details to be sure)

ladeviant

Artem Rohovyi - Symphony of Branches gouache on paper

unteriors

Route 30, Sudbury, Vermont.

ishowdespair-deactivated2026012

cryptotheism

Ghosts are not real. If you want to believe in ghosts, you should contemplate why. It is important to understand how history moves through you, because history is very real.

cryptotheism

Belief in ghosts has always been particularly interesting to me, because its often very weak. There have been multiple instances where I've questioned someone about their belief in ghosts, only for it to be packed up and put away like a box of legos. This is interesting.

Belief in ghosts is a low risk, low investment belief. It takes up almost no money or time, and generally doesn't come up all that often. So, like a night light forgotten in some out-of-the-way wall socket, it can sit unmolested in an adult worldview for a surprising amount of time.

cryptotheism

The funniest thing you can add to any piece of media is a boy detective. Breaking Bad needed a 13 year old child who goes around looking for clues to the caper and whatnot.