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Gravehound Medium undead, neutral evil Armor Class 14 (natural armor) Hit Points 60 (8d8 + 24) Speed 40 ft. Str 17, Dex 14, Con 17, Int 4, Wis 17, Cha 11 Damage Immunities necrotic, poison Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, stunned Senses darkvision 60 ft. passive Perception 13 Languages - Challenge 2 (450 XP) Consumption. If the gravehound spends 1 minute feeding on the corpse of a creature that it or another gravehound has killed, it regains 10 hit points. Keen Smell. The gravehound has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell. Turning Defiance. The gravehound has advantage on saving throws against effects that turn undead. Actions Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) piercing damage and 7 (2d6) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn.

Gravehounds rise from the bodies of wild dogs who fed on improperly-buried humanoids in life. They are commonly found near mass graves, ancient battlefields, or any place where corpses can be found. Even in death, they find sustenance from rotted flesh, killing and feeding tirelessly whenever prey wanders near. The snap of its rotting jaws can stun foes, leaving them open to its fellows to finish off their prey.

Originally from the Miniatures Handbook. If there is a monster from 3.5 or Pathfinder that you want to see converted to 5e, feel free to send me a message or submit a monster request on the submit page.

bookhobbit

why is “olde vampires in high school” the big thing and not “olde vampires in college”

everyone in college is eccentric. everyone

you wanna wear full on Victorian suit? the girl in pajamas who clearly hasn’t slept in three days supports you

everyone is too preoccupied to care as long as you’re polite and follow class etiquette

multiple high school diplomas? eh. same stuff. multiple BAs? Enjoy learning chemistry AND art history! All in detail!

wandering around campus at 3am? that’s just the lifestyle tm

no matter how old or young you look it’s not really that weird, there’s sixteen year olds and sixty year olds doing BAs somewhere

big schools are very anonymous so nobody’s gonna bother to hassle you

poebodysnerfect

I don’t mean to eavesdrop, but did you say your parents got a divorce? Yeah, and that kind of thing really changes a person. I mean, that trauma It can explain away a lot of behaviour. Oh, of course. Your parents are still together, I guess.

The Good Place rewatch [92/-]

Chapter 9: … Someone Like Me As A Member

ghibli-collector

The Secret World of Arrietty - Studio Ghibli - Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi (2010) Art Direction Noboru Yoshida & Yôji Takeshige

Please have a look at my new twitter - https://twitter.com/Ghiblicollector

laerugo

older sibling privilege is finding this bit of the special hilarious while your younger sibling watches it without cracking a smile once

eroscestlavie

i mean he’s not wrong though so

theamericanparlor

Americans today pronounce some words more like Shakespeare than Brits do… but it’s in 18th-Century England where they’d really feel at home.

In North America, many people pronounce the letter ‘a’ in words like ‘path’ more like early colonists than like today’s British population

According to linguist John Algeo in his essay <<Language Myths>>, (Penguin Press, 1999), he points out that many American forms of pronunciation are older than British ones. For example, standard American English has retained the pronunciation of the final “r” in words like “father” and “mother,” while British has lost it. Americans have maintained the “flat a” sound of cat in words like “path” and “class” whereas the British have replaced this sound with the “broad a” of “father.” Americans also fully pronounce all syllables of words like “library” and “dictionary,” but the British shorten them to “libr'ry” and “diction'ry.” Algeo shows us that in all of these examples and many more, the American variation is closer to the original sixteenth century version than the British one. Modern English really starts with Chaucer, who marks a break between earlier English (with strong Saxon, Angle, and Norse roots) and the language of the Home Counties (which borrowed heavily from Norman French, both in vocabulary and grammar). American English has evolved much less than British English since the Founding Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock; so it retains many elements of Early Modern English (Fall for Autumn, Gotten as a past participle, Digged in many American dialects). So American English is closer to early forms of Early Modern English (the language of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Chaucer). Much of American English is older than British English. In fact, some words such as ‘pavement (In the American sense),’ and 'fall (to mean the season),’ which are generally regarded as American terms, are simply holdovers from Middle English. As well, in most cases where Americans “dropped” the U, the American spelling predates the British one. 'Favor’ is centuries older than 'favour,’ for instance. Is it in fact British English which has diverged from that of our ancestors and does American English bear the greater weight of antiquity?

theamericanparlor

Wrestling with Shakespeare is good for the brain. Scientists have shown that reading the Bard and other classical writers has beneficial effects on the mind.

Works from Shakespeare, Chaucer, Wordsworth and D H Lawrence challenge readers because of their unusual words, tricky sentence structure and the repetition of phrases.

English professors at Liverpool University who teamed up with neuroscientists armed with brain-imaging equipment found that this challenge causes the brain to light up with electrical activity. Professor Philip Davis, who led the study at the university’s department of English, said: “The brain appears to become baffled by something unexpected in the text that jolts it into a higher level of thinking.

They were also able to identify that the Shakespeare sparked activity across a far wider area of the brain than "plain” text, with the greatest concentration in a key area associated with language in the temporal lobe known as the Sylvian Fissure.

The researchers claim that techniques such as unusual sentence structure can also stimulate the brain. In the poem Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer uses parenthesis to throw the reader off. He says: “Men say - not I - that she gave him his heart.”

davids-harbour

The Holy Quadrinity

thewritershandbook

ghibli-collector

Studio Ghibli 天空の城ラピュタ Laputa Castle in the Sky - Dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1986)

theambassadorposts

So important to talk mental health and challenge stigma - conversations and showing compassion and warmth without judgment

susuwatori

andantegrazioso-deactivated2018

Rainbow library | tamsynmorgans

tami-taylors-hair

I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money.

“A scam” people are fucking wild.

dragginage

This happened to me, too. A woman had used WIC for the majority of her stuff (which I say from personal experience is such a long and embarrassing process) and to buy the remainder of her groceries, which included diapers and wipes, she used a card, and it got declined. I bought the other $30 of her groceries because hey, I’ve been there, and now I’m not. She was extremely emotional and began to cry and even hugged me. My mom called me on the drive home and could tell I had been crying myself, asked what was wrong, and when I told her what happened, she berated me for being “duped.” I couldn’t believe she could be so disappointed in one of her children for doing something- nice? Is that the hill you want to die on? Getting mad about people needing groceries?

systlin

I once paid for a woman’s bill at the vet…it wasn’t a big one, but she was trying to pay for some medication for her dog, and her card was declined. And her lip started trembling, and she says “I don’t get paid until Tuesday, would he be ok until then?”

So I just told them to add the $20 something onto my bill, and I thought she was going to break down crying right there.

And I don’t care if it was a scam or not. Just do nice things for people sometimes.

flurrin

Do good recklessly.

solarpunk-gnome

I think “Do good recklessly” would be fantastic word art to hang on one’s wall. Artistic people, go!

7faerielights

So this has happened to me but from the other side. Several years ago when my oldest was around three or so, I had my debit card decline at Walmart. It wasn’t a scam or a mistake, I was genuinely broke. Out of money. I checked my bank and discovered I had something like 7 dollars left to my name and a hungry kid and nothing to eat at home. So I sat there trying to come up with the best way to stretch that tiny amount of money to feed my kid. Not even to feed me. I can live on popcorn or something if I have to but my kid was three and he had to eat. So there I am trying really hard not to cry while I slowly take things out of my basket to get it down to under 7 bucks, when a lady tapped me on the shoulder. I looked up and she smiled at me and started putting the things back in my cart. I opened my mouth to tell her that I didn’t have the money for them but she stopped me right away and said “Don’t worry about it. It’s gonna be fine.” Then she handed the cashier her credit card and said “Ring up all of it.” My kid got to eat because of her. I got to eat because of her. I had laundry soap and deodorant because of her. She could’ve just ignored me silently struggling in that line. She could’ve decided I was a scam and gone home feeling good about avoiding being duped. But instead she chose to help me and she saved us. So maybe the person struggling in front of you is trying to put one over on you or maybe they are just sad and broke and trying to figure out what to do. You get to decide which you want to believe and what you want to do. But I’ll tell y’all, no one has ever been more beautiful to me than that lady in that line who saved me and my baby. Be like her. Be beautiful.