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Trump racism poisons all his decisions. Trump can never acknowledge black excellence.
What’s his name and what’d he do? I wanna look him up
Rodney Robinson's mom grew up during segregation and wasn't able to graduate from high school due to poverty. Still, she taught him to value
I’m glad you asked! Read more about Rodney Robinson here! This man is a treasure.
Be a good friend. When your friend leaves an abusive relationship, delete/unfollow/unfriend their abuser. Don’t give them anymore activity. When they leave, leave with them. Be their support system. You cannot be neutral when someone was abused.
“neutrality” will always and absolutely be in favour of abusers. It supports them and lets them do what they do.
If you remain neutral, you are saying either that you don’t believe your friend or you don’t think what happened to them wasn’t “that bad”. If you are okay with someone treating your friend like that, you are no friend.
telling ppl attracted to men that there are no good men out there or that men can’t love only normalizes poor treatment from men & doesn’t do anything helpful
#the idea that all men are naturally garbage is super unhelpful#because it absolves awful men of the responsibility to be better
#it also discourages men who do want to improve their behaviour but don’t know how
#by convincing them that they’ll be reviled no matter what they do
#learning how to change involves leaving confort zones
#and making yourself vulnerable by approaching other people’s spaces for advice
Also also it perpetuates internalized hatred and low self-esteem in men who are genuinely good and it leads to poor mental health and the sense that as a result of being the gender they are they are automatically to be reviled.
It can also make trans men feel bad or guilty about being men.
4. If the car pulls up to you run in the opposite direction.
5. Walk with your keys in your hands and keep a key between each finger
6. If they put you in the trunk kick out the headlights
7. If you get lost find a woman with a child. Never ask a man for help (this one was drilled)
That scream fire piece of advice is literally life saving
8. Watch your shadows and reflections, especially if someone is walking behind you. A split second notice is better than none and will help you.
Yes this last one really saves lives y'all I do it all the time
9.bite and scratch
10.Make yourself go heavy,never let them pick you up
the funniest hp lovecraft story is the one where some guy’s family offended an evil wizard who then cursed his entire family saying that all the men would die before they hit like 30. the protagonist is going crazy trying to find a spell to break the curse and then the big reveal was that the wizard was literally just breaking into their house and killing them himself.
Tips to learn a new language
The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences
(Source: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)
This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.
We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that Derek Roger suggested! :)
EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)
‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.
Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?
Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.
Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.
Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.
NOUNS (about 120 words)
Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.
People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.
Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.
Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.
Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.
Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.
PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)
General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.
Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.
Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.
Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.
DETERMINERS (about 80 words)
Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.
Demonstrative: this, that.
Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.
Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.
ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)
Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.
Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.
General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.
Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.
VERBS (about 100 words)
arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.
PRONOUNS (about 40 words)
Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
Demonstrative: this, that.
Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.
Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.
Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.
ADVERBS (about 60 words)
Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.
Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.
Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.
Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.
CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)
Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.
Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.
Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.
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Do you have any suggestions on how to make Dungeon Crawls more.. exciting or have a better atmosphere? Rather than just "The hallway extends 20ft and turns left.." I love dungeons, but as a DM it feels like my delivery is.. bland.
Lots of DMs struggle with this, and for good reason.
Dungeons are the most mechanically straightforward aspect of the game besides combat, and the immediate shape and contents of them is more pressing to players than the atmosphere.
But, there are some simple ways to make your dungeons more atmospheric. Here’s my proposed solutions, both a long thinky one and a fast random one:
I think that dungeons should thought about as ‘once functional spaces’. Every place in the world has a purpose for which it was built, even if it’s a weirdo crazy one. Dungeon rooms should almost always be more than just treasure, traps, and monsters.
For example, temples have cloisters, treasuries, storage rooms, waiting rooms, choirs, sanctuaries, apse, washing rooms, etc. Each of these rooms has specific objects and furniture inside them, as well as different acoustics. They get decorated with frescoes and murals or hanging art or sculptures. They’re cultural places. Think about them as physical spaces that people would use.
Now imagine something happened in them, long ago. Why is this place a ‘dungeon’ and not still used? What event caused it to be abandoned? A battle? Plague? Was the place cursed? Come up with that and you can seed the rooms with small historical details: evidence of fights, skeletal remains, treasures hidden so they could be reclaimed later (but never were).
Now add the effects of time and nature. Fabric rots, metal rusts, stone erodes and crumbles. Plants and roots push stone tiles aside, and water seeps in and floods deep places. The passage of ages scours away history and purpose. Now, your once functional rooms don’t appear so functional, but their purpose can still be intuited.
Now add some new tenants. Monsters are always the first to reclaim abandoned civilized spaces: goblins make shantytowns out of old human ruins, beasts make warrens in sepulchral tombs, small dragons and basilisks favour places with statuaries and abandoned treasures. No matter the space or its original purpose, monsters move in and call it home. Sometimes multiple species of monsters…and then they fight or argue over sharing space.
So now your dungeon has a vivid look and feel. The important bit now is to think about how that imagined space sounds and smells.
With every room and hallway, imagine how its history smells. Is it acrid or pungent? Smokey or mouldy? Does it smell surprisingly pleasant? If so, that’s often a worrisome sign, because it means something sentient might already be there.
Audio can clue players into a space faster than any other description. Wind whistling indicates access to the surface…or a much deeper cave. Dripping denotes water (you hope). Creaking could mean doors…or ghosts. Large spaces echo, and sounds warp and distort the further away they are. There’s even different kinds of silence. There’s an empty, lonely silence that comes with long dead spaces, or the claustrophobic close silence of small spaces.
Appeal to your players senses besides sight. Describe what rooms smell, sound, and even taste or feel like. This is a surefire way to make your dungeon rooms stand out. For example:
“You enter a 20 by 20 foot square room. It’s a stuffy old parlour. Pushing the door open you immediately smell something caustic and sour, but you don’t see an immediate source. All the furniture is rotted, but some of it looks smashed. You can hear the faintest scraping of something against the wall in the adjacent room”.
If that seems like a lot to write, try something like this: Reveal each bullet point as the players inquire about them, or when they make Perception checks:
Parlour, 20 ft square room.
The room feels uncomfortably thick and stuffy.
All the furniture is rotted out. Some of it is smashed. Evidence of a fight.
Smells caustic and sour. The smell comes from under a tattered rug. It’s beholder puke. 50gp if collected and sold to the right buyer.
Scraping sounds from the cloaker in the next room.
So maybe you already have a pretty basic dungeon and you need to make each room (or block of rooms) less boring. Here’s my handy set of sense tables:
Random Room Sensations:
For each room you want to enhance, roll four dice (a d12, a d10, a d8, and a d6). Your rolls will determine what’s up with this room. Every time you roll a result, cross it out and replace it with a new one you come up with.
Smells (1d12):
Sickly sweet, like rotting fruit or wilting flowers.
Musty, like old people and expired cologne.
Tangy, like body odour and grime.
Dusty, the choking scent of age and ghosts.
Foul, like waste and death; something unholy.
Crisp, like freshly cut grass or unchecked plant life.
Soggy, the lingering smell of still water and flooding.
Pungent, like rot and decay.
Spicy, like herbs and dried ingredients, aged.
Electric, a faint aroma of ozone and metals.
Earthy, like fresh dirt and clay, mixed in with the copper of blood.
Roll again twice, both smells clash together.
Sounds (1d10):
Claustrophobic silence.
Deep, echoing silence.
Low moaning or groaning.
Creaking of wood in the distance.
Faint, maddeningly indistinct whispering.
Faint, maddeningly indistinct whispering in a language you don’t know.
Metal scraping against metal, rhythmically.
Dripping of some kind of liquid onto stone.
Dripping of some kind of liquid into more liquid.
Roll again twice, both sounds are present.
Touch Sensations (1d8):
Dryness on the skin, chapped lips and dry eyes.
Cold dampness, water beads on metal items.
Humidity, clothes become hot and heavy, metal feels colder.
Dry heat, throats become parched, skin itches.
Pressure change, ears pop and noises distort.
Static tingling, hair stands up on end, goosebumps.
Unholy chill, shivers, goosebumps, a sense of unease.
The feeling of being watched, an uncomfortable presence.
Kinds of Darkness, if applicable (1d6):
Grey, distant darkness that yields to lantern light.
Cloying, smothering darkness that seems to draw close to you.
Eerie still darkness that feels like it holds endless monsters.
Calm, still darkness that invites restfulness.
Flickering, shifting darkness where the room seems to be moving.
Impenetrable darkness that makes darkvision endowed races feel at uneasy.
I hope all this helps make your dungeons a little less boring. The dungeon tables in the back of the 5e Dungeon Master’s Guide from @dndwizards is also helpful in this regard.
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There’s a special method of Dungeon design that makes them very fun as well. Basically this method makes the Dungeon fun for ANY player, be it story focused, loot focused, or whatever else you got.
The way it works is it breaks down all of Dungeon crawling into four elements: lore, traps, treasure, & encounters.
This idea states that every room of your dungeon should have 3 of these four. That way every player has something to do.
Example:
You enter a simple rectangular chamber. The cold air washes over your skin sending goosebumps down your spine, no less than the sight of the eerie statue of a woman in the center of the room does. Her lifeless eyes stare down at a brazier in her hands, inside of which is a shining pile of gold. As you slowly approach to get a closer you look, you also spy two things. First, several crates in the back of the room, stacked in the corner. Second, the sound of scratching on stone, near yet muffled. What will you do?
In this example I have three elements present that the players don’t know but get a hint of.
I have treasure clearly in display for those who like loot.
The scratching sound implies combat. The fighters are ready and on edge waiting for something to jump them.
The smart players know that the statue isn’t gonna give away the gold for free. Especially after I called it “eerie.” So those who love a good puzzle or trap are now gonna go nuts looking for a trap on that statue.
As for what the trap is, it matters little. The gold could be covering a pressure plate and when removed it would open secret doors behind which would stand some horrid beast. To find it PCs would need some sort of a Investigation check or what not. The point is this situation provides 3 of 4 elements and entertains 3 out of 4 types of players.
And if you’re wondering what was up with the crates, those contain some minor loot. A potion or two, some gold. That’s for the players to not feel cheated out completely of their reward. Or you can make them mimics. PCs love mimics.
What do you guys think?
Some of the new items from my fave D&D NPC’s refurbished Slightly-Cursed Items Shop, in which she sells my players items ranging from effectively useless to legitimately deadly – but always entertaining. Feel free to use these tragedies!
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Our DM’s Guide to D&D Classes
This may be the greatest writing on D&D of our lifetimes. I know it looks like a lot, but please read it, you will be so happy and you will either begin to understand D&D or else recognize this rightness in your SOUL.
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This is so, so accurate!
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D&D Class Guide: Druid
Role in the party: utility, but in a different way than bards or rogues. Your skills are healing, tanking, and crowd control. You also have a lot of buffer spells and if you have a DM who requires lots of nature or survival skill checks/adheres strictly to food and foraging rules, you’re next on deck after the ranger to manage that.
Features: wild shape, by far. Otherwise, your spell list is pretty great and primarily nature-oriented. You don’t have too many targeted attacks, but you have a whole lot of area-of-effect attacks.
RP: a little more controlled; druids are explicitly a nature-magics class. But you have a lot of freedom with your stats.
Stats: you cast from wisdom, so make that high. Beyond that, wild shape offers a lot of options. Because wild shape lets you use the physical stats of another creature, while you should have either decent strength or dex in case you’re out of wild shapes and need to make a physical attack, it’s up to you which one is better. If there’s a good chance you’ll have to tank a lot (no fighters, barbarians, or paladins in the group) you may want to ensure your constitution is well above average. Like clerics, you can dump intelligence or charisma for RP reasons.
Examples: Keyleth and Nila on Critical Role
Notable NPCs: any of the Ashari on Critical Role
Ease of use: hard. You have to prepare your spells each day plus you have wild shape. It’s considered one of the hardest classes along with wizard.
Choose if: you want a challenge, you want to play as various animals, you want to have a pretty impressive array of powers, you want to help dispatch armies while the rest of the party handles the single big boss.
*Group of drunken half-orcs attempting to recruit a member of the party for an arm wresting tournament*
Orcs: “Which one of you is the toughest son of a bitch?”
7ft tall Earth Genasi Paladin: “I killed a doppelgänger by smiting it with my blessed sword!” Persuasion roll: 15
7’4 Goliath fighter: “I threw a boulder on top of a group of quicklings!” Persuasion roll: 17
5’6 succubus bard: “I convinced a man to stab himself and slit his own throat” Persuasion roll: 13
5’2, half-dryad Druid with pink flowers in her hair and a bird that lives on her head: “I threw a rock at a giant spider and it died” Persuasion roll: natural 19 + 5 resulting in a 24
The Druid was selected to join team half-orc and ended up going against a halfling monk in the first round. She proceeded to roll 2 natural 20’s, and an 17 against her and won. Team half-orc wins the tournament and come to find out miss Druid has a -1 to her strength modifier. The half-orcs now buy her a drink whenever she goes into the local tavern.
Helioprobata
“Beast Sheep” © deviantArt user papillonstudio, accessed at their gallery here
[Commissioned by @justicegundam82. Sheep with golden fleece are common in Greek and Roman mythology, but their appearance in the “Cupid and Psyche” portion of The Golden Ass is notable for making them flesh-eating and venomous. The commissioner suggested I give them a rage ability triggered by sunlight, but I went the opposite direction. Rather than having them buffed by light, I have them weakened by darkness.]
Helioprobata This giant ram is the size of a horse, with shimmering golden wool. Its mouth is oversized and filled with dripping fangs, and its horns curve menacingly.
Also known as sun sheep or solar sheep, the helioprobata are sacred creatures of the sun that are violent predators by day and calm herbivores by night. When in the area of any light, their instincts are dominated by aggression, and they roam abroad hunting and killing smaller organisms, including humanoids. As the sun sets, however, they become docile and passive creatures, although they still will defend themselves if attacked first. Helioprobata are migratory by nature, and if left to their own devices will travel great distances over the course of a year, following other herding animals to prey upon.
Some brave and powerful entities keep helioprobata, for the fine quality of their gold fleece. They do not require protection by day, and most herdsmen only tend to them at night, to avoid falling prey to their more belligerent natures. Fey creatures and giants are the most likely to tend helioprobata herds, and some nastier fey are especially fond of using them as “pranks”—encouraging their targets to pet or shear the “sheep” during the day, when they are most savage.
A helioprobata’s fleece is tinged with flecks of real gold. A creature completely shearing a helioprobata (whether it be alive or dead) can harvest gold worth the incidental treasure value for the helioprobata’s CR. If alive, the helioprobata grows enough wool to shear again in six months. With a successful DC 20 Craft (weaving) check, the fleece can be made into fine golden garments worth the creature’s standard treasure value.
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Things they don’t tell you about top surgery
- Talk to the surgeon about the size you want your new areolas/nipples (don’t be afraid to ask)
- Numbness. No one talks about this for guys who are about to have surgery. You’re going to be numb all in your chest area, especially where the incisions were. They cut nerves as they pass along your chest, and it can take up to a year to regenerate those nerves. Still, feels super foreign for the first two weeks
- Make your bed into a pillow chair, body pillow, two on each side, and two for your head.
- Sleep alone. I tried to sleep with my girlfriend and it was miserable. You really do need the entire bed for yourself
- Go on Groupon, & get yourself a 10 foot lightning cable iPhone charger, BEST THING EVER, can reach from wherever you are
- Don’t take a week off from work, take two. You will regret the one week, and love the extra time
- When they say “don’t move too much, even after the first week”. LISTEN. I moved way too much and got so sore super quickly.
- Drink lots of water & eat if your taking the pain medication, otherwise your stomach feels super funky.
- Get stool softeners, & don’t be afraid to take those babies. Don’t wait a week to poop. you’ll surely regret it.
- The drains are scary & they may hurt while draining or rewrapping your dressings, but once they come out, the second they do, its no more pain, its crazy.
i hope this helps someone, because i wish i knew all of this when i was having mine a month ago. Looking back its like everyone forgets all the real negatives, its a great experience, & i healed very well & quick compared to most, but the first few days are crazy. They hurt, suck but it gets better.
To the few guys I know having surgery this week!
-the headache you get a couple days after the surgery because the anesthesia is leaving your body hurts 200 times more than the surgery itself. And even that isn’t too bad.
-after a week or, you ITCH. It’s awful. Try not to touch your stitches too much. An ice pack will help.
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A lot of similar rules I followed with my c section lol
8th lv spell scars just to clear up any misconceptions, the scars are for the person who is hit by the spell unless ive written ‘extended use’ next to the spell
(Cantrip scars)
(1st level spell scars)
(2nd level spell scars)
(3rd level spell scars)
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>8th level spell scars
You don’t fuck with the tray master
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This is what the Exotic Weapon Proficiency feat looks like in real life.
