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If you’re European, in a couple of weeks you will be denied any and all access to fandom contents on Tumblr and everywhere else on the internet. Here’s why.

On June, 20th the JURI of European Parliament approved of the articles 11 and 13 of the new Copyright Law. These articles are also known as the “Link Tax” and the “Censorship Machines” articles.

Articles 13 in particular forces every internet platform to filter all the contents we upload online, ending once and for all the fandom culture. Which means you won’t be able to upload any type of fandom works like fan arts, fan fictions, gif sets from your favourite films and series, edits, because it’s all copyrighted material. And you won’t also be able to share, enjoy or download other’s contents, because the use of links will be completely restricted.

But not everything’s lost yet. There’s another round of voting scheduled for the early days of July.

What you can do now to save our internet, is to share these informations with all of your family members and friends, and to ask to your MEP (the members of the European Parliament from your country) to vote NO at the next round, to vote against articles 11 and 13.

Here you can find more news and all the details to contact your MEP:

https://saveyourinternet.eu

Also, sign and share this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet?recruiter=50668942&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial

We have just a couple of weeks to stop this complete madness, don’t let them dictating the way we enjoy our internet.

#SaveYourInternet now!

theconqueeror

It’s funny how y'all will reblog any and all US things but when whole Europe might lose access to internet then everything is quiet.

huttslut

Wheel of Time:: One Chapter, One Photoset

The Eye of the World (Chapter Four: The Gleeman)

“The balls now danced between Thom’s hands in two intertwining circles. His voice was almost a chant, and he turned slowly as he spoke, as if surveying the onlookers to gauge his effect. ‘I will tell you of the end of the Age of Legends, of the Dragon, and his attempt to free the Dark One into the world of men. I will tell of the Time of Madness, when Aes Sedai shattered the world; of the Trolloc Wars, when men battled Trollocs for rule of the earth; of the War of the Hundred Years, when men battled men and the nations of our day were wrought. I will tell the adventures of men and women, rich and poor, great and small, proud and humble. The Siege of the Pillars of the Sky. “How Goodwife Karil Cured Her Husband of Snoring.” King Darith and the Fall of the House of–’

Abruptly the flow of words and juggling alike stopped. Thom simply snatched the balls from the air and stopped talking. Unnoticed by Rand, Moiraine had joined the listeners.“

[Ian McKellen as Thom Merrilin

and Charlie Murphy as Moiraine]

lavellanpls

》Heroes of Thedas

[example page] [example post] [link to dollmaker] [non-reblog template]

↠THE (WARDEN, CHAMPION, INQUISITOR):

INTRODUCTION

Name: -

Nickname: -

Motto: - (Words they live by. Can be anything; but for help/ideas: [list of famous mottos] [latin proverbs] [latin phrases] )

BASICS

Race: -

Class: -

Ability Focus: (Their favored skill tree. [Abilities (Inquisition)] [Talents / Spells (DA2)] [Talents / Spells (Origins)]

Specialization: -

DETAILS

Alignment: [D&D Alignments] [Alignment test]

Personality Type: [list of MBTI types] [MBTI test]

Archetype: (Their character type; their role in the story; one word summary. Help & examples here.)

Tarot: (The basis for their character tarot cards. [card meanings 01] [02] )

Symbol: (A symbol that represents them. For a list of heraldic symbols & meanings: [01] [02] [03] )

RELATIONSHIPS

Romanced: -

Closest To: (Character(s) they got the most/fastest approval from.)

Clashed Most With: (Character(s) they got the least/slowest approval from. **Not necessarily their enemy; counts for which character took longest to gain friendship/approval from.)

TACTICS

Ideal Party: (Your go-to in-game party combo.)

Weapon of Choice: (Their favorite weapon and/or the name they gave it, if any.)

Favorite Ability: (Their favorite ability/talent/skill/etc.)

dicebound

D&D 5e Character Creation Flow Charts: Backgrounds and Classes This only includes the backgrounds included in the Player’s Handbook Mind you, so no SCAG options. Class one doesn’t assume archetype obviously. A fun little project I made after work today, I thought it might be helpful for players newer to the system in choosing their character’s options, or just a fun little tool.

dalecooper-official

This is neat

mylae-the-dm

i was literally searching for something like this a couple of days ago. i WILL be using this when i have newbies to run through a game!

percyderclo

the mighty nein + scottish tweets

platcont

Oh my god. This is just, the best.

vcxahlia

The new Critical Role Party as represented by the Guide to Troubled Birds

Caleb:

Nott:

Jester:

Beau:

Fjord:

Molly:

Yasha:

Frumpkin:

basalt-dnd

A few joking D&D achievements.

( All images used are No-Attribution Required stock images. )

basalt-dnd

Forgot these two.

basalt-dnd

More fake achievements.

basalt-dnd

Yet more fake achievements.

brewerssupplies

Print these out and sell them to the PCs each time they meet the requirements.

probablyweirdrpgideas

MAKE MORE

mangonetics

why are moms so afraid of Doom turning their kids into devil-worshippers. like, Doom has a pretty strong anti-demon message to it

762nukem

One of the devs of the original 1993 game is a mormon with that exact position.

kazucrash-deactivated20191209

That would be Sandy Petersen.

viesti3

Nice

nomadactual-deactivated20171012

“You kill demons to save the World.”

“That’s devil worship.”

“Lady….you cut in half demons with a chainsaw. It’s not worshipping anything but the chainsaws frankly.”

inkspot-fox

The First Contact War

@fleshofthefallenangel

So because discussion of meta is going on @admiraloblivious decided to look up a thing and found some shit out that neither of us knew because neither of us read the codex entries and THIS SHIT IS HILARIOUS

The First Contact War. I had been under the impression that the First Contact War with the Turians was this big epic huge thing that took like 2 years or something. And because we play the game from a human’s perspective, it sounded like this big huge deal and we were defending our entire race and planet from literal extinction and death.

It lasted 3 months.

Here’s what actually happened.

Humans discover the Mars Prothean beacon and our technology gets FTL’d 10,000 years into the future. We are so not ready for this shit, but we are enthused as BALLS. So with our new and shiny tech we go and find this Mass Relay! It is inactive.

It’s inactive because it’s not supposed to be used, per Council law, because there are essentially primitives living there (us).

We activate it and zoom through.

Pan to the Turians, who are basically the galactic POLICE. They look at this and go “what the fuckety shit? that’s not supposed to happen” *cracks knuckles* “let’s go fix it”

And the turians find humans and go “who the shit are you stop breaking the law asswipes”

And the humans go “WE’RE HUMANITY WE’LL FIGHT YOU, YOU CAN’T TELL US WHAT TO DO”

And the turians take exception to that. Because they’re the POLICE enforcing GALACTIC LAW and who do these squishy punks think they are anyway?

So the Turians spend three months ATTEMPTING TO ARREST US FOR BREAKING THE LAW. Three months that the humans, because we’re humans and have NO IDEA what’s going on, believe is a fight for their lives and planet and entire existence as a sentient species.

After three months, the Council gets wind of this. They look at the situation and are like “WHAT are you DOING???”

The turians respond logically that they are upholding the law.

“ARE YOU NUTS THESE PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY DON’T KNOW WHAT THE LAW IS”

“but they broke it. We’re fixing it”

“NO STOP IT. What are you doing. You are going to stop and you are going to make reparations RIGHT NOW to this tiny emergent species while the rest of us sit them down and inform them of the existence of the laws and also the galactic community, you melodramatic shits”

And the turians grumbled and whined and kicked their heels but finally paid reparations.

And that is why humanity has the impression they do of aliens, and why the First Contact War is nowhere nearly as big a deal to the turians as it is to the humans. Humans thought it was a war. The Turians were trying to give us a speeding ticket.

bethadastra

“What the fuckety shit?!” I accept this, word for word, as canon.

spacetravels

So you want to make an OC?: A Masterpost of Ways to Create, Develop, and Make Good OCs!

i made this masterpost in hopes that it helps you in making your own OCs ah;; it can also apply to developing RP characters i suppose! if you’d like to add more resources then go for it sugar pea (´ヮ`)!

How to Write Better OCs:

basic tips on how to make your oc even better

tragic backstory? learn how to write one/make yours great

writing specific characters

a wordier, great guide on how to develop your character

kick out those vague descriptions and make them AWESOME

Character Development:

how to actually make an OC

Q&A (to develop characters)

more Q&As

giving your character a backstory

how to write an attractive character

Diversity

adding more racial diversity

avoiding tokenism, AKA, how to add diversity to your cast not just because you “need” it

writing sexuality and gender expression (doesnt include non binary, if you have a good ref to that, please add on!)

masterpost on writing more diversity into your story

cultures of the world

guides to drawing different ethnicities (not just a great art reference, but also really helpful in appearance descriptions!)

Mary Sue/Gary Stu

Test to see if your character is a Sue

Explains subdivisions of Sues/Stus

Powerful Characters Don’t Have to Be Sues

Villains

villain generator

need an evil sounding name for your evil character? bam

villain archetypes

what’s your villain’s motive for being a villain?

Relationships

character perceptions (What your character thinks of themselves and what others think of them)

how to write strong relationships between two characters

8 ways to write better characters and develop their relationships with others

OCxLove Interest Handbook

develop your couple with good ol’ Q&A!

how to write realistic relationships

how to write relatives for your characters (this is more OC related to a canon character, but will help in writing family members in general)

ARCHETYPES

12 common archetypes

8 archetypes for male/female characters

female archetypes (goes pretty indepth from two main categories)

a list of archetypes

NAMES

how to name your character

random name generator

most common surnames

surnames by ethnicity

APPEARANCE

tips for better design

basic appearance generator

pinterest board for character design (includes NSFW and images of skeletons/exposed muscle (?) so tread carefully!)

clothing ref masterpost

DETAILS

give your character better powers

a list of professions

proactive vs reactive characters

positive and negative traits

interest generator

skills generator

motivation generator

123 ideas for character flaws

list of phobias

again, this is to help inspire you or help establish your OCs! i hope you get a lot of info and help from this ahh ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

turnabout4what

CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW AMAZING THIS REF IS? PLEASE LOOK AT THIS PLEASE

querty

rebloging this because I didn’t know at least 12 of these options

oc-and-otp-ideas

hey guys, i know this isn’t a normal imagine your ocs post, but here’s some really good reference !!

tag-ur-oc

This has nothing to do with tagging your oc’s but this is really helpful!

diceprophet

Costs of a Failed Skill Check

Game Master Tip: Failed skill checks must affect and/or advance something. Otherwise, it’s just meaningless, time-wasting, and pace-breaking padding.

Have you ever had a tabletop experience akin to the following exaggerated strawman example?

PC: “I want to look for tracks.” GM: “Roll for Survival/Nature/whatever.” PC: *Fails to meet the DC* GM: “You don’t find anything.” Party: “Alrighty. We go home, then.

QUEST FAILED, everybody goes to sleep in the game world and IRL

My own personal rule of thumb is: a failed skill check doesn’t always outright fail a quest. Instead, these unfortunate events costs the party in-game resources. Resources include, but are not limited to, money, time, hit points, supplies, etc. Essentially, a failure streak results in depleted resources over time, as opposed to abrupt anticlimactic mission failure. If there is no mechanical effect for a mandated skill check other than “for the rollz,” just get on with it and move the players to where/who they need to be/meet.

Please keep in mind that I’m not stating that parties should be allowed to proceed if they keep failing. I’ll leave it up to individual GM preference, but after enough consecutive failures you gotta drop the axe or move on.

Here is an example of each of the three main aforementioned costs, to get the think-tank bubbling. I usually come up with at least two for all applicable skills, perhaps more if the check is likely be invoked multiple times in a game (Perception, Nature, and Survival come to mind the most).

Money

The usually silver-tongued bard failed to charm a guard (Diplomacy) into letting the party into a quarantined part of the city. The watchman instead offers to grant you passage and his silence in exchange for double his current rate.

Time

[To clarify, I am talking about in-game time, not IRL time. You and your players have places to be, after all.]

The ranger follows the wrong set of tracks (Survival) for several hours, and the party is forced to double back in order to find the enemy encampment. When they finally arrive, the orcs had taken the extra time to fortify their defenses and place scouts along the perimeter. The sky has also become noticeably darker, which would give the enemy’s inherent darkvision a keen advantage in the fight to come.

Health

The druid, in an attempt to regain her bearings, focuses too much on the surrounding foliage and fails to notice (Perception) the wandering mother bear escorting her two cubs. True to its matriarchal and overprotective nature, the bear charges forward, teeth and claws bared.

[Optionally, I’d force a hard DC follow-up check for the entire group to avoid taking damage, just to be fair. Details about who gets hurt and how badly, how the conflict is resolved, etc. is entirely up to GM’s discretion and player’s actions. The point of this is to be a quick hazard, not a prolonged encounter. Quickly resolve it and move on with the quest.]

venussieambassador

I'd like to say I'm a Dungeon Master and I have no idea what I'm doing.

snake-oill-deactivated20201221

Ever wanted to get into Dungeons and Dragons but didn’t know how or felt intimidated by game shops? Joined a group only to be made to feel bad for being a newbie or were made uncomfortable by rude men at the table? Just wanna chill and talk D&D with a group of super rad women and NB folks? There’s a discord channel for that! We’re only a week old but we’ve already surpassed 100 members and they’re all lovely, inclusive as heck and welcoming. We do weekly events (like movie screenings!) and have already gotten 3 games started via our “looking for a group” sub channel. We also boast a really robust resources sub channel that acts as a comprehensive tabletop RPG library. If you’d like an invite shoot me a message and I’ll hook ya up! If it’s not for you but you’re still hype about it, reblog so lots of folks can see this rad community! Thanks!! 💖💕

shotbyhazelg

The most valuable chart…

deductionfreak

micaxiii

yes thanks for colouring it I had a hard time reading that

radicalkind-deactivated20140712

// I’m going to reblog this to help all RPers when it comes to descriptions

// Even if you’re a great RPer you still need this.

// To describe

// y’know

// the things

l20music-deactivated20151007

Im not a writer but im sure i have some followers that are so here yall go!

cucumber-s-deactivated20170716

taa daa share this with your friends, @charlesoberonn

charlesoberonn

I shall. It’s a great ref.

mightyneinmusicfestival

Aunt Keyleth

After Vax is gone, Keyleth visits Whitestone more often. She still leads her people competently and wisely, but whenever she needs a moment of rest, a time without the weight of her world on her shoulders, she visits the castle. At first it’s to visit Percy and Vex, and then Vex, Percy, and the kids, later still it’s just Vex and the Kids. Keyleth becomes Aunt Keyleth as the kids grow up, and Great Aunt Keyleth after that.

When Percival V follows his grandfather into the natural sciences, studying engineering in Emon, Keyleth shows him around the city, shows him the Vox Machina fountain, his grandfather’s statue facing north-east, towards Whitestone, Vex at his side. Percival V asks if the one with the antlers is her.

Yes and No.

When he comes back to Whitestone with a plan to build a bridge from Tal’dore to Wynadir, Keyleth helps him to move the stone into place, taming the waters as the piles are driven deep in the ocean floor. The bridge stands for much of her life, a monument to engineering and magic. To the power that trust can bring to bear in overcoming separation.

When the tradition of naming the children Percival has long since ended, Keyleth helps Freddie to expand the bridge, to make it strong enough to support the weight of the new iron carriages, they aren’t teleportation, but they’re affordable, and they’re moving people in larger numbers than ever.

Emon grows into a city of history and industry, Whitestone shines as a beacon of ingenuity and hope, Westrun grows into a center of scholarship and craft, Vassellheim remains its conceited, pious self. And the Ashari, led by Zephrah return to the world stage, never forsaking their duty in guarding the places between the planes.

Throughout it all, throughout the rest of her Millennia and a half long life, Keyleth never forgets, never withdraws for long. She never forgets that Percy lives as long as Whitestone lives, and when things are at their darkest: at another funeral for her child (they’re all her children now and they’re all children to her now.) after the next big catastrophe leaves her reeling, still sensitive to the pain of others after all these years, she takes that phrase as her own. She will live as long as Whitestone lives, if Percy can make it through all these years then so can she.

And when she leaves the Material Plane for the last time, arm and arm with the man with raven’s wings, Whitestone remembers her- Aunt Keyleth, the woman who the city kept alive just as much as she kept it alive. When she and her friends, reunited after a thousand years, look back across the Astral sea, to check on the places that they loved she sees something that she never expected in her long, long life. For a thousand years beyond hers there is almost always a keyleth in Whitestone Castle. A Legacy in a Name.

platcont

...aaaand now I'm weeping.