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probablybadrpgideas

Sequel? Sequel

You reach the city, but where were you meant to go again?

The riverside

The market

The palace

The dyers and tanners quarter

The wealthy neighbourhood

The old town

The priory

The guildhall

The gaol

Voting ended onOct 28, 2025

probablybadrpgideas

To the market! What did you need?

fruit and veg

meat

medicine

candles

jewllery

weapons and armour

bread

cheese

live animals

perfume

spices

fabric

Voting ended onOct 29, 2025

(remade because I forgot bread and dairy products even though I'm eating welsh rarebit rn)

probablybadrpgideas

Cheese! But the cheesemonger is nowhere to be found!

Go home

Buy something else instead

Check his house

Ask other stallholders

Ask the guard

Ask other shoppers

Steal cheese

Voting ended onOct 30, 2025

probablybadrpgideas

They haven't seen him all day.

Rob the stall

Take over the stall

Go check his house

Go check the pub

Go check his dairy

Voting ended onNov 2, 2025

probablybadrpgideas

Oh no, it's been ransacked!

Ransack it further

Look for anything left behind

See if anything's obviously been taken

Arson, for funsies

Leave

Voting ended onNov 4, 2025

probablybadrpgideas

A wall safe has been broken open! Inside is a note saying "come and get it", with an address!

Steal something

Give up and leave

Go to the address

Get back up

Voting ended onNov 7, 2025

probablybadrpgideas

You reach an old broken-down building that smells strongly of hot milk. The door is bolted

Smash through

Look for another way in

Arson!

Voting ended onNov 23, 2025

probablybadrpgideas

Around the side you see a high-up window which looks to be ajar (the smell is stronger here). How are you getting to it?

Flight magic

Steal a ladder from somewhere

Shimmy up a drainpipe

Turn into a bird

Voting ended onNov 25, 2025

probablybadrpgideas

You shimmy up, and look down through the window. Within, a small group of people are pasteurising milk while the cheesemonger is tied up, a halfling pulling his fingernails and demanding he "explain the cipher"

What do?

Swing down on a chain

Shout and tell the halfling to stop

Get the hell out of there

Sneakily climb down

Drop something on the halflings

Drop something on the milk guys

Drop something on the cheesemonger

Voting ended onDec 2, 2025

probablybadrpgideas

You look around and see a wasp nest up in the rafters. You aim your pocket knife, and throw. (I rolled a D20 for you). With an 8, you manage to knock it loose, but it lands on the cheesemonger! The wasps are not happy with him

Oops!

Shout down an apology

Swing down on a chain

Give the quest up as a lost cause

Try to find something in your bag to distract the wasps

Shout a warning

Cross your fingers for a second nest

Voting ended onJan 3

probablybadrpgideas

Leftover jam sandwiches from your travels! You drop them on the ground and the wasps fly over to taste the delicious sugar

The cheesemonger is still tied up being tortured for his cipher

Give up

Swing down

Climb down

Try to drop onto the halfling

Try to drop onto the milk guys

See what else is in your bag

Voting ended onJan 4

probablybadrpgideas

This is just like a real D&D game

The cheesemonger is now unconscious and something is being added to the hot milk

Throw in caterpillars that must have escaped while helping the goblin

Climb down on a rope

Pour out your waterskin on the halfling

Throw coins onto the floor

Throw pocket soup into the milk

Start a fire with your tinderbox

Leave

Shout something intimidating

Voting ended onJan 5

(nb. pocket soup is kind of like a boullion cube but more nutritious)

probablybadrpgideas

You have been spotted! The halfling's assistants are starting to climb up toward you

What now, smart-arse?

Climb down to fight them

Run away

Try to leap down onto the halfling

Pour water on them

Throw caterpillars at them

Shout something intimidating

Voting ended onJan 6

probablybadrpgideas

You rolled a 15! The caterpillars freak out the climbers and they fall. It is...unpleasant

Shout something threatening

Leap down on the halfling

Job well done, run away

Voting ended onJan 7

probablybadrpgideas

With an 18, you leap down directly onto the halfling, who will no longer be a threat. You free the cheesemonger and help him come back to consciousness. He thanks you for saving him, and explains that his rivals were trying to get his secret recipes. And now only one more question remains

Make the soup-flavoured milk into cheese?

Yes

Voting ended onJan 10

probablybadrpgideas

You wash your hands and help the cheesemonger with his new product - soup cheese. The oniony savouriness makes it a popular choice for cheese on toast, and his renown spreads

magicmooshka

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

skribblegurl

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

heywriters

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

bumblewyn

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

breelandwalker

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

myfairkatiecat

LIFE SAVED

REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE

sirowsky

I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!

The US is crazy bc like so many people have intense conspiracy theories about the government like "I think there's a secret elite group of people who control everything" and you can tell them "actually you're not completely wrong, it's just not a secret group of people, it's a bunch of rich people and lobbyists who are doing it all out in the open" and they'll be like "hmmn I don't think it's THOSE people though. I prefer my racist & antisemitic theories"

tittyinfinity

They'll be like "I heard there's a powerful ring of pedophiles who are influencing the country" and you'll tell them "I mean yeah that's what the Epstein files are about" and they'll say "no I'm pretty sure this has to do with The Queers actually"

neovid

Conspiracy theory no one will ever accept: What if the people secretly controlling the world are the same people obviously controlling the world?

daughter-of-sapph0

softlyfiercely

i love how weird kids are. they make up the most bizarre stuff when left to their own devices and it's never what an adult would naively predict a kid would do in their imaginative play

my friend's 5 year old recently got a toy veterinary medicine set - it's super cool, like one of those mini play kitchens a lot of kids have, but it's set up to pretend to be a vet (it's this thing) - it has stuffed animals and things to weigh them, give them medicine, take x-rays, write on their charts, etc.

so this kid, who is five and to my knowledge has no experience in the administrative bureaucracy of modern healthcare, puts a stuffed pig named Piggy on the exam table. she pretends to draw blood from Piggy using a fake syringe, and the blood goes into a toy test tube vial that she calls "the resulter"

i'm playing with her, right, so i'm like, awesome, what are the results of Piggy's blood test? and she says "we have to send it to the scientists." so we send the vial to the scientists (put it in her bedroom) and when we get back to the vet playset i'm like awesome what did the scientists say? and she says they have not gotten back to us yet

so she rolls her eyes, exasperated, and says we have to call the scientists. she pretends to call them. apparently, they tell her that Piggy's blood test is "at the bottom of the list" and "we have to WAIT." she frowns. we wait a bit longer and call them back. they tell us it will be a while! she says we should go ask the scientists in person so we go back to her bedroom and she inquires at this imaginary lab, at which point the scientists yell at her and tell her now they will make us wait even longer!

keep in mind she is 100% directing this play. she is making all this up. she is fully in control of this game, and she has decided that what we are going to pretend is that we are dealing with this exhausting nonsense, not actually treating Piggy.

finally the blood tests come back. they are inconclusive. the scientists do not know what is wrong with Piggy. the little girl walks back to the stuffed pig on the exam table, sighs deeply, and says in a very serious voice "we can never help you."

i'm obsessed with this kid. when given complete control over a make believe scenario, instead of becoming the heroic rescuer administering effective cures, she is instead a beleaguered vet making multiple calls to an overworked lab only to be left unable to help her patient.

10/10 no notes. kids are amazing

mstrcpp

As someone whose visit to the doctor involved going to multiple doctors for multiple tests in multiple rooms across the whole hospital building that my niece and nephews decided our basement was, I can confirm that kids are amazing.

funnytwittertweets

makaeru

Related: at a neuroscience conference I was at once there was a talk on how the "microslippages" against your fingertip when you lightly pinch something are generally enough for you to work out exactly how much force to grip it with to lift it without crushing it or dropping it.

trasno-personal

[ID/A tweet by Cliff 🦖 [dinosaur emoji] Jerrison (@ pervocracy) saying "one of the most amazing things a human brain can do is when you shake an opaque bottle and get an idea of how full it is by how the weight shifts. there's got to be incredible math going on under the hood there" /End ID]

broken-horn-of-equius

What about tosses? What about catching? THATS some serious math right there too

un-interactive-introvert

Theres a post somewhere about how the human brain is just constantly doing advanced calculus, even if we dont understand the math, we are still very good at consepsualizing it

kaviiinsky

LOVING PHYSICS HOURS!!!

the-composite-doll

So storytime from retail

So a common sale was Arizona Iced Teas in cans, 2 for a dollar. People would buy literal *cases* of their favorite flavor.

Once I was ringing up the cans for someone, who had like six. The cans were green.

I was a bit distracted ringing and putting cans in bags, engaging properly.

Grabbed a similarly sized and colored can of pringles. Brain did not register. Hand just went high up because Pringles weigh nothing compared to Arizona can

We all laughed but science tumblr what math error happened??? What was the error message in the brain?

horreurscopes

starting a collection for my anthropology class can you guys send me more posts like these

horreurscopes

theonion

As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University admitted Thursday they had assumed the shooter was just an ordinary gunman on campus. “When that first shot rang out, we all figured it was going to be a run-of-the-mill mass shooting” said UVU junior Michael Tompkins, who explained that when students spotted a man clad in black and carrying a rifle on a roof overlooking the crowd, they had no reason to suspect anything unusual.

Full Story

sandmandaddy69

get-thee-to-a-shrubbery

cleanedupcorporationprogress

boothyghost

all-save-challenge

I love this post especially the rat part

going on me feed

trolleybusaberrations

what do you mean there are exactly zero rats i. this post

bingle-official

primordialsoupvendor

why-animals-do-the-thing

You may have heard that giraffe and their closest cousins, the okapi, can lick their own eyeballs.

Both species have got super long tongues and this makes sense in theory but... sometimes you have to see it how it actually works to believe it's a real behavior.

There's no grace involved. It's nothing like the ethereal, fae-like aesthetic these guys have most of the time. They just yeet their tongue backwards out of their mouth and bounce it off their face, repeatedly. It cracks me up every time I see it.

This is Sekele, at the Denver Zoo. Enjoy.

carbomcoco

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

carbomcoco

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

docgold13

Old and quite difficult bottlecap rebus puzzles I found on the tiktok. How many can you figure out?

answers are at the end

answers:

'May I Have This Dance'

'I've Had It Up To Here'

'Can You Imagine That'

'Back Seat Driver'

'Asleep At The Switch'

'Strike While The Iron Is Hot'

'Quick On Your Feet'

'Don't Flip Your Lid.'

'Hang On To Your Hats'

'Stop Wasting Time'

'Waist Not, Want Not'

'You Could Hear A Pin Drop'

Charbroiled Steak'

'Two Against One Is Not Fair'

'Who Buys This Round'

sirfrogsworth

Josh Hawley is a putz. I want a new senator.

thefrogman

The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) is a right-wing advocacy group promoting "conservative Christian values." They released this study to exaggerate the risks of mifepristone. The study is not peer-reviewed and was rejected by medical journals for failing to meet publication standards.

They classified expected effects like vaginal bleeding and follow-up appointments as serious adverse events. They included mental health symptoms without evidence. They counted cases where the drug was taken without doctor supervision and often without the needed follow-up meds (misoprostol).

The study tracked symptoms for 45 days after taking mifepristone and included many unrelated health issues.

If I take a Flintstones vitamin and 30 days later my ass starts bleeding, I'm not necessarily going to blame Barney fucking Rubble.

Do you want to know what is causing adverse effects like sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, and death?

Abortion bans.

Sepsis rates among pregnant women in Texas have risen 50%.

saccharinescorpion

talking about Rosie The Riveter, fun fact: while the We Can Do It picture has become the most-well known depiction of her in modern times, it wasn’t really a famous image when it was made–in fact, it wasn’t even intended to be her

the most famous depiction of Rosie The Riveter during WWII was probably Norman Rockwell’s painting

note what she’s resting her foot on

septemberequinox

i fully support anti-fascist/anti-nazi butch lesbian rosie the riveter

writingmaz

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

✧

➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”