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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) | sometimes i pick up a pencil | @KenkuArchive on Twitter | art suggestions in asks

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[avatarofthetimelords]

mourning the fact i’ll never receive an overly aggressive bucky barnes hug

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i dont nearly see enough happy logan art on this godforsaken platform so here we go

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i dont nearly see enough happy logan art on this godforsaken platform so here we go

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Marking the end of my time off with some poolverine art 😌

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It's been so much fun to dive back into drawing again 💕

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Marking the end of my time off with some poolverine art 😌

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These are the same character, I don't make the rules 😌

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art ✨️

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you wouldn't disturb a dragon guarding her hoard of dice, would you?

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[strixludica-deactivated20250427]

Problem is, the fact that the trauma is my lore and not just a noodle incident is precisely the issue.

Why do I have to be a Dark Souls NPC instead of one of those gacha thirst traps whose incredibly fucked up history doesn't prevent them from being peppy and marketable?

Even if it's just masking, being haunted by my past would be so much more bearable if I was cartoonishly sexy.

For legal reasons this is what Deadpool would say.

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wolverine in that "puppy wants a fucking break from it all" meme you posted looks kinda like the guy from the loss meme

oh no... i see it too

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

as a GM myself, one of the most relatable moments was quadruple disadvantage and five damage, brennan is done with their bullshit

[lair-master]

I thought I was so clever.

Elves live for centuries, unfettered by our primitive notions of gender.

So, what better name for my elf PC than that of Virginia Woolf’s immortal, transgender poet?

My DM: Dude…

Me: (smug) I know. Deep cut, right?

DM: You named your elf after Orlando BLOOM?!

[lair-master]

when you remember Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf but forget about Legolas himself Orlando Bloom

[prokopetz]

What They Tell Us: Tabletop RPG dice don’t have the greatest quality control, and often have large air bubbles or pockets of unfused plastic powder inside them. Additionally, most commercially made dice have their casting sprues removed by tumbling them in a modified rock polisher rather than filing them off by hand, which can render the dice imperceptibly lopsided. These two factors taken together mean that many – perhaps most – tabletop RPG dice are unintentonally “loaded”, and that’s why certain dice seem to favour certain numbers more than ideal probability would suggest.

What We Know: Those dice are rat bastards, is what they are.

[null-is-sparing-you]

So dice superstition is founded?

[prokopetz]

Yes and no. It’s based on real observations, but the cause of the issue is an intrinsic, physical flaw in the dice, and cannot be corrected by punishing them.

Well, except for the microwave thing, oddly enough. Depending on the composition of the offending die, microwaving it may cause the plastic to deform slightly and effectively re-load it toward a different number. I strongly suspect that whoever “invented” the idea of punishing misbehaving dice by microwaving them was well aware of this fact!

(Also: do not microwave your dice to punish them. Not only can they potentially emit toxic fumes, but if the misbehaving die is loaded because of a hidden air bubble rather than an uneven shape, microwaving it may cause it to explode.)

[gamma-dealer]

Who has the most balanced dice, if you happen to know?

[prokopetz]

If you’re truly concerned about randomness, your best bet is to play with a system that exclusively uses d6s and get your hands on some “retired” casino dice. Any dice that have seen actual use in a casino will have been rigorously tested for fairness, and any irregularities caused by wear and tear or being marked as retired – typically with a stamp or small drilled hole – will be insignificant for RPG purposes.

Beyond that, none of the major tabletop RPG dice manufacturers particularly have a better track record than the others. Just buy translucent dice (i.e., so that it’s easy to visually inspect them for interior flaws), and if you’re really keen, buy them unpolished and hand-polish them yourself. Most RPG dice that are sold as “precision” dice fall into this category; marketing claims aside, they’re typically 100% identical to the non-”precision” dice sold by the same manufacturer, the only difference being that the tumble-polishing step has been omitted.

[thedicepaladin]

When the Party is under Level 3:

[retrogamingblog2]

Legend of Zelda Dice Sets made by HardlightForge