🎮Galileo156🌻

If you wanna see what I make; check out my art over on my sideblog! "galimation" or use the tag #galimations art This side of the sunflower field I share my thoughts about Video- and Tabletop-Roleplaying-Games, Series and Movies, and other topics I care about. 💚

[crees-a]

I really love dnd and I'm very excited about next big campaign I'm going to take part in but I have this issue-- I can't roleplay. At all :') Which is weird because I used to rp A LOT with my friends as a kid. But now I'm struggling and last game it even led to some problems which caused other players to point out my lack of socializing with pcs and npcs. Soo any tips from fellow dnd players? 👉👈

[galileo156]

If it helps, don't consider yourself as not roleplaying.

Interacting/talking with NPCs and PCs is only a part of roleplaying; the social and conversational one. Roleplaying itself is done by considering what makes sense in character and acting according to that, even if it may not be strategically the best option. (at least that is one way to describe it 😅)

Wether a character decides to sneakily take someone out or to just punch their lights out — that's roleplaying! A character with low charisma deciding to avoid facing a difficult conversation could be perfectly reasonable, if that is the character you wanna play =)

As for tips in regards to socialising in character:

remind yourself, that you are not your character and your character is not you (They might say something awful, but that doesn't reflect on you)

ask one player — or more, if they would be alright to roleplay a conversation between your characters outside the session as practice (before, after, or even on a different day)

If the actual speaking in character is an issue, you can narrate what your character generally says

I hope any of this will be helpful for you <3 (Maybe you guys have some ideas? @sirobvious @disgruntledexplainer @thepressbetwixt )

[crees-a]

Thank you! These seem useful :)

I think my main issue is that I'm subconsciously trying to play dnd as if it's a video game with quests (probably related to the fact that my first dnd-ish experience was baldur's gate 3). Going from point A to point B without sidetracking. I just simply don't know what to pay attention to in a location or a conversation, don't know what to talk about with pcs and npcs if it's not related to the task. It's not that I don't want to (I really do), I just can't come up with anything fun

[galileo156]

Being used to only focusing on the main mission and struggling with "side content"; I can see how that makes things more difficult, yeah.

One or two more ideas then could be:

agreeing on a connection from before the game starts between your character and minimum one other player character — maybe old friends, lovers, disbanded party members (one string to pull for interactions outside of the main mission, more focused on characters and their relationships)

choosing to focus on one type of detail for every location/conversation? Even if it's not related to the mission, you could decide to keep note of any Names/Colours/Outfits/Locations being mentioned in character or by the GM (similar to games children play on a car ride; "how many yellow cars are passing us?" Might help keeping the interest?)

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As an aside; I believe you don't have to come up with anything fun. Only to be open to engage with what is going on at the table at that moment. (And maybe request other players to invite you/your character into conversations/situations in session before it begins. Helps to not have to carry the conversation alone <3)

[greater-than-the-sword]

Went to mcdonalds for a small frappe. Manager took one look at me and decided i needed a medium

[explosionshark]

this is genuinely breathtaking lmao

[explosionshark]

Yeah look the weird smut comments are totally out of pocket but I really can't get over "im more into dr.seus or self help books lol"

[professorsparklepants]

#do you think he's actually read dr. seuss or did he just hear "doctor" before an author's name and decide it sounded smart? (Via @shellys-apprentice)

Oh my god

[box-dwelling]

Found the orginal thread and lost it at this

[crees-a]

I really love dnd and I'm very excited about next big campaign I'm going to take part in but I have this issue-- I can't roleplay. At all :') Which is weird because I used to rp A LOT with my friends as a kid. But now I'm struggling and last game it even led to some problems which caused other players to point out my lack of socializing with pcs and npcs. Soo any tips from fellow dnd players? 👉👈

[galileo156]

If it helps, don't consider yourself as not roleplaying.

Interacting/talking with NPCs and PCs is only a part of roleplaying; the social and conversational one. Roleplaying itself is done by considering what makes sense in character and acting according to that, even if it may not be strategically the best option. (at least that is one way to describe it 😅)

Wether a character decides to sneakily take someone out or to just punch their lights out — that's roleplaying! A character with low charisma deciding to avoid facing a difficult conversation could be perfectly reasonable, if that is the character you wanna play =)

As for tips in regards to socialising in character:

remind yourself, that you are not your character and your character is not you (They might say something awful, but that doesn't reflect on you)

ask one player — or more, if they would be alright to roleplay a conversation between your characters outside the session as practice (before, after, or even on a different day)

If the actual speaking in character is an issue, you can narrate what your character generally says

I hope any of this will be helpful for you <3 (Maybe you guys have some ideas? @sirobvious @disgruntledexplainer @thepressbetwixt )

[pens-swords-stuff]

There's a tumblr post floating around somewhere that says "We think that if we get better at writing, it will someday stop sounding like we wrote it" or something along those lines.

Does anyone happen to have a link handy? I want to reference it in an advice post.

[pigtailsmccully]

Was it this one? 🤗

[pens-swords-stuff]

Yes, thank you so much!!!!!

[800-grader]

[ID: a tweet by elicia donze that reads "People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art. /end ID]

[alteredpanel]

journals

[melancholygirls]

I passed a flower shop next to a tattoo shop and at first I laughed because I thought it was ironic and then i freaked because IMAGINE YOUR OTP IN A FLORIST/TATTOO ARTIST AU

[stillalittlekid]

OMG I COULD TOTALLY IMAGINE THEM LIKE THAT IT WOULD BE SO PERFECT

[christ-with-a-why]

[melancholygirls]

I cannot BELIEVE a post I made when I was 13 is circulating! And also apparently started this trope? I thought somebody had the idea separately and it blew up that way😭

[yuumei-art]

For this Witch Hat Monday I drew Coco in a Starry Night Dress! It's a continuation of the Starry Night Hat I painted a while back :)

Time lapse below, the full hours long art videos, PSD file and HD image will be DMed on Patreon the 5th of each month :)

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

[coldswarkids]

ok so when my vball team found out that i cant play next league bc i'm pregnant, one of the guys made some offhand comment like "lol well it's just a clump of cells right now" and what i said out loud was "haha it looks like a lima bean" and what i was thinking in my head was "AND SO ARE YOU BUT JUST A LITTLE BIGGER, ZACKARY"

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[andywarnercomics]

In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

[true-me-snafu]

Emmitt and the Columbarium.

[apilgrimpassingby]

"This world is a shadow of Heaven" not in a "this world doesn't really matter and we just need to go to Heaven" way but in a "the world is our trial run for Heaven and so contempt towards the world and the people in it is contempt for Heaven and the Saints" way.

[lhoandbehold]

The full saga of Margie and the Nuns (so far). Realised I never compiled these in one place.! Also, bonus Margies!

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

[disgruntledexplainer]

imo abandoning a true friend in their hour of need is a form of treachery. It is deeply dishonorable and should be mocked.

[astriiformes]

The polar opposite of corporate accounts trying to come across as hip and super friendly are the ones for libraries, aquariums, parks systems and the like, that are basically just trying to get people excited about learning and the wonder of history/science by posting things like this:

[mangopatch]

[demonladytakkuri]

You know how much I would lose my mind if I was at an aquarium and turned a corner to see a wild ass heron staring at a fish tank

[queerspacepunk]

not to be all "these two words will change your life" or whatever, but I promise you, programming in "good catch!" as your response to people correcting you/pointing out errors or whatever removes so much friction from interactions, and comes with a delightful happy meal toy of "not hating yourself so much for making mistakes"

[madgastronomer]

I use "I stand corrected" a lot. The mild silliness of the outdated language makes it work for me.

[knitmeapony]

I had a high school science teacher who would say "if you admit you're wrong and change your mind..." and the whole class would respond back "... you aren't wrong anymore!"

And when a kid would assert something incorrect In class, he wouldn't tell them they were wrong, he would help lead them to the right answer and then when they admitted/ accepted the new information, he'd say "now we're both right! Nice work!"

For a bunch of gifted kids whose identity and reputation often was staked on knowing more than most people, it was a great safety valve. No shame in making a mistake, because if you accept it you have learned! Now you are smarter! It always made me feel better.