with all my parts i hate and love

ress | adult | ukrainian and living in ukraine multifandom but critical role is all i think about these days (i tag spoilers until next thursday)

[mushbeast]

My Child

[soymoss]

emo heron in boots

[aerionpilled]

we need to talk about how funny it is that isharnai actually planned the wedding. like yes she attacked them but she also genuinely fulfilled all the responsibilities of a wedding planner. the flowers were there the food was there the guests were there the lighthouse was set up. she sent the invitations she dealt with the vendors she picked the shades of pink she installed the pillars.

[artsdel]

I hope that someone was waiting for the full version of the drawing from the last post 🙏🏻

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

things to ask yourself when designing a female character:

how much blood is she covered in

are her eyes filled with madness

can she rip things to shreds with her fingernails

[mortuary9]

gn

[motherwife]

i wont hatepost but sometimes it does feel like this to scroll fandom tags

[lethallana]

one (1) jessie doodle per sometimes to feel alive

[bloodybitessquare]

opital

[utilitycaster]

Something that really impresses me with Travis's characters is that he really just...grasps the structure of D&D. Grog notwithstanding (Grog is great but he was created for a one-shot and ended up being his character for 5 years, and I think his limitations as a character either led Travis to figure out what D&D is about, or merely gave him time to analyze it while the other characters were talking strategy and Grog was off eating mayonnaise) his longform characters and many of his miniseries characters have all recently had something significantly shake up their routines and lives. They enter into the game as people who have a good reason to be adventuring - they don't have a place to go back to and that includes their past self - and they have a new problem to discover. Fjord believes himself to be the sole survivor of a shipwreck and has unexplained new powers; Chetney was kicked out of Uthodurn and recently became a werewolf; and Teor's mercenary group is disbanding and his brother is missing.

The key to making a pretty good D&D character is having someone who not only has a reason to leave whatever their life was behind, but also has something they are working towards. However, there are a couple of nuances that bring this from good to great:

understanding the follow-through of what made you leave. It should be something that you are prepared to deal with in the story - eg, if you were kicked out of town, you are going to have to deal with that should you need to go back to your hometown.

if you get what you were working towards, why do you stay? like yeah, found family, but that's not actually that interesting on its own and really runs a risk of making your D&D character feel like an appendage to someone else's character. You need to be prepared to find new purposes. Travis is an incredible generator of plot; he tends to make characters for whom the journey itself is very important anyway (ie, even after Fjord gets a new patron the idea of self-worth and identity is an ongoing process) but he also focuses on other things that would interest this character, rather than being single-minded. (This incidentally is why he gets dinged by the unenlightened for having too many hanging plot threads; it's because he makes sure to have more plot potential than the campaign requires, as it is an improvised work.)

This incidentally is why I tend to be less enamored with higher concept characters, and why I think they often fail: yes, you're ~weird~, but do you have a worldview? Do you have a mission? Are you flexible enough to keep going if that mission changes? A lot of high concept D&D characters ultimately would make for a great character in a book, but not a very good D&D character for this very reason; they need to have a delicate balance of internal motivations and external flexibility and typically they lack the latter, whereas Travis nails it every time.

[395nm]

Fuck Meyer-Briggs whatever typology. This INTFP shit is only for redditors up their own asses to substitute for a personality. Use my new typology instead!

Your ideal environment is:

Hot/Cold

Wet/Dry

Bright/Dark

Loud/Quiet

[bedupolker]

HWBL - beach boy

HWBQ - tropical fish

HWDL - dingy club bathroom hookup

HWDQ - the swamp woman

HDBL - CoachellaBurningmanSouthbysouthwestACL attendee

HDBQ - Lizard

HDDL - Vegas babeyyyy

HDDQ - Trapped in a slot canyon

CWBL - Rowdy Lobsterman Crew

CWBQ - penguin living

CWDL - port angeles basement show

CWDQ - bruminating amphibian/hypothermic mammal

CDBL - ski resort

CDBQ - Christmas in Nebraska

CDDL - mcmurdo station rave

CDDQ - corpse

[combeauferre]

the mighty nein + text post memes 14/?

[razielim]

that's it that's the nutshell genai is in

[mortuary9]

quick sketch

[joyandchaos]

Never forget that when handed a manor, the first thing that Alleged Voice of Reason Caduceus Clay did was fill a tower with dirt and grow a SIXTY FOOT TREE on top of it. While everyone else was picking rooms Talesin was asking about digging out the yard. The only reason Caduceus ever seems sane is because interacting with the rest of the party is so much like being hit with a flashbang that the quiet, friendly guy looks normal while you're still rubbing your eyes. Caduceus is a madman and a legend and I love him.

[darkspaceboytoy]

Incredibly violent take of mine but I actually don’t think you need to relate to a story in any way to enjoy it. You can enjoy a story even if you can’t point at a character and insert some aspect of your personality or identity into them. In fact I would argue the need for a character like that to be present in every single story you experience is a sign of stunted growth.

[sentientsky]

repeating this to myself forever and ever