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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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we're not kids anymore.
cherry valley forever
Product Placement
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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@great-old-one
“You know what? I think I’ve got you figured out.”
“Oh?” They raised their eyebrows.
“Yeah, people think you’re this mysterious something-or-other that is cold as ice but I know exactly what you are.”
“And what is that?”
“A little shit.”
Oh hey, look, it’s Daga and Noxio
Sailor Moon redraw by Kohei Ashiya.
harry potter is a series filled with racism and antisemitism written by a transphobe.
Yeah, JK Rowling is potentially one of the worst people alive right now (not because she’s worse than everyone else, but because unlike most of the other nutjobs she has a community through which she can spread her bullshit). Not that this crap is ever acceptable, even if it happens behind closed doors.
But as much as I hate her and her political ideologies (and her narcissism and her apparent loss of the ability to write anymore), I’ve resolved myself a long time ago to draw a line between the author and the work. For example I’m a big fan of HP Lovecraft and I’m sure I don’t have to explain why he was a terrible person. But if I dismissed any other work of fiction because the author is a massive arsehole, then that would be an unfair double standard.
As for the racist undertones, I actually think that part is handled alright. Not handled well or handled badly, just alright. The most obvious example, the distinction between pure blooded and muggle blooded wizards, is very clearly villainised and also clearly bogus, as Hermione is probably the most powerful witch of the new generation.
And about the other examples with the elves and goblins? Well, they are both addressed, so that already makes it a dozen times better than plenty of other series where it is implied and then swept under the rug. It’s not even remotely resolved of course, which is bad, even though I understand why that is.
I think the worst of HP only came to be over the course of JK Rowling’s descent into Twitter and the American Wizarding World stuff, which is all just bad in ways it didn’t have to be.
In conclusion I believe Harry Potter is a decent series with a terrible author that I was more into two years ago than I am now.
Done
Incredible!
This part gets me everytime.
The World-Building Trap
DNDSPEAK is a website dedicated to providing you with extra material for your tabletop games. This site offers custom fantasy music, DM inspiration, and our specialty: d100 lists. Each list is in the form of a d100 list, meaning there are 100 different options for each category (some lists may contain more). These lists are created by the D100 Reddit Community. If you would like to request a category, please submit your request there.
Only just had the time to look through this website today and, props to ‘em, it’s a fantastic tabletop gaming resource! It has good content for inspiration, and it sources ideas from the community, giving credit where it’s due.
I love it!
Even if you just use their random lists. Here are some examples that they offer: Roll a d10 if you wanna choose one at random!
100+ Cave Skill Challenges
100 Secrets A Hamlet Or Village Conceals From Outsiders
100 Things You Can Find In A Haunted House
100 Bard Songs
100 Halfling Traits
100 Interesting Dungeon Encounters
100 Cyberpunk Corporations
100 Warm Up Roleplaying Questions for Players
100 NPC Jobs
100 Useless People You Find On A Failed “Gather Information” Check
They have generators too. For example, a random potion and book generator.
If you want to contribute to a list or see what lists are currently in the works, check out their reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/d100/
I’d encourage any tabletop gamer to have a look at the site, and while you’re at it check out Tabletop Gaming Resources for more art, tips, and tools for your game!
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B2 size graphic posters which will be available for sale at the 2020 Ripples of Adventure exhibits.
Every god damn time
“Why is she avoiding me?! She is my wife!”
“Are-are you kidding me?!” She slammed her fist down on the table. “You wave your lover out in the open, in her face, and ask me that?! You differ to your lover before her in matters of state! You give bits of favor to your lover! You dote on your lover! You have done nothing but mock her since she got here! Of course she avoids you!”
me: *just trying to work on my goddamn story*
@givethispromptatry: *posts a new prompt*
my brain: Oh, oh, i have an idea, i have an idea!
me: does it fit in with the story I’m currently writing?
my brain: no, not at all. in fact it’s all new characters, setting and completely different themes.
me: what? why?
my brain: you also have writer’s block now.
me: ●_●
my brain: d(●◡●)
So, way back in the day Skeleton was a template that you could put on any monster. I was wondering, could you create an equivalent template for 5th edition? I would appreciate it.
I haven’t done a lot of templates. I feel that they don’t fit into 5e quite as well due to the nature of monster creation being streamlined and many aspects of it dissociated from each other. Examples being: hit die type based on creature type, and the like. Also due to CR being based on creature statistics, a CR adjustment would also be difficult. It also may be difficult to find proper correlations between the skeletal and nonskeletal versions of monsters that can yield a consistent template that produces both versions. For example, a template for skeletons that produces the minotaur skeleton from a minotaur when applied. Likewise for the zombie.
That said, I have wanted to create such a thing for a while, and creating the zombies individually based on what 3.5 saw fit to include in its monster manual seems like an excuse to be lazy. So I will take the harder path and do my best to create a skeleton template worthy of official use.
Yes, please!!! Zombie and Skeleton templates are something we desperately need for 5e! Especially us Necromancers.
me @ everyone who is writing right now
Does anyone have any non-romantic, fantasy book recs?
Well, they’re not entirely devoid of romance, but The Stormlight Archive, the Peter Grant series (the first few books anyway) and the Elric of Melnibone series are fantasies without much of a focus on romance. And as someone else suggested, there’s also the Earthsea series, which is entirely non-romantic (as far as I can remember)
Some of my recommendations may be more YA-Juvenile fantasies, because that is what i mostly read, but these are some books you might find enjoyable that either don’t have or have very little amounts of romance:
John Twelve Hawks the Fourth Realm Books are really interesting, very slight romantic undertones
Megan Whalen Turner- “The Thief”. Not my favorite book, but it was super fascinating to read as it is full of legends and created myths
Brandon Sanderson’s works are usually romance free or have slight undertones or insinuated. “Mistborn” “Elantris” “The Way of Kings”
Sanderson has a juvenile series “Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians” which is a super fun read
Jennifer A Nielsen- “The Ascendance Trilogy”-a little juvenile, but a great series
Diana Wynne Jones--she has a lot of books, all creative and different with subverted tropes that make her books really fun to read
The Wheel of Time Books
Kendare Blake “Three Dark Crowns”
Nancy Farmer “The House of the Scorpion”--a bit more of a dystopian book
“Etiquette and Espionage” Gail Carrier --another that is a little juvenile. Steampunk based, but a fun book
Niel Shusterman
Great additions!
Whenever someone asks me what my plans for a particular character of mine are.
Well, I finally finished the whole M9 in Art/Pastiche series. I thought you might be interested in seeing the side to side with some of my inspirations. A quick rundown-
Caleb- Van Gogh Beau- Roy Lichtenstein Molly- Byzantine Mosaics Jester- Klimt Matt- Hans Holbein Yasha- 15th Century Illuminated Manuscripts/Gerard Horenbout Fjord- Adventure Pulp Covers Nott- Playing Card Design Caduceus- Mucha
In case anyone was curious- Caleb was the easiest, Jester was the hardest, I’m most pleased with Matt, I’m least pleased with Nott, and Molly took the longest.
Thanks for all your interest! Please feel free to shoot me any questions or comments or suggestions or cheesy jokes anytime you feel like it.
Looking for writblrs
I’m still fairly new to the writblr community and I would love to connect more with other writblrs. I’m really interested to see what everyone else is working on.
Reblog if you:
Have original content
Have really cool OCs
Enjoy poetry
Enjoy fantasy
Enjoy angst
Enjoy any genre really
Want to share your WIPs
Are willing to make new writblr friends
Any sort of writblr is welcome and it would be really neat to spread out among the community. Feel free to share this with anyone. I would really enjoy to make new friends :)
I follow from my main blog @humblesavant
Imma be honest: it feels kind of disingenuous reblogging this, since I haven’t actually posted any of my writing in like 3 months now and being a writblr is more of a fantasy of mine than anything else.
But I did make some pretty neat short stories (I hope) and I am always looking for other writblrs to follow, so...
(I have been thinking of actually creating a side blog to collect my writing on directly so it isn’t swallowed up by all the other random stuff on here. Another thing I have to take care of some day...)
