Spaceships! Aliens! All Kinds of ADVENTURE!

Sci-fi sure is fun! feel free to send in asks! Basically inactive with intermittent posts. Asks are responded to promptly though.

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[probablyscifirpgideas]

I quite like space orcs because scifi is always making a point of how delicate humans are compared to other species so it's a funky role reversal. I don't think I'd want it to become a super popular trope tho. I think also, we have no idea what conditions aliens would evolve under, so they would not necessarily be optimised for the same things we are. Maybe we are all Orcs

An interesting take! I agree with you. It's nice to have settings where humans aren't really super weak. Really my only issue is when one species ends up being really super powerful for no good reason.

[meltycure-deactivated20210804]

we owe literally no one more on this planet than the woman behind fantasy name generator

[meltycure-deactivated20210804]

her name is emily and and she runs it all by herself

[butchrozanovs]

everyone say thanks emily!!!

[octodaddi]

[probablybard]

I would die for you, emily

[doctorslippery]

127551 views and 2809 votes on Imgur

So this is a cheat-sheet I’ve made for personal use to just have an overview over all the basic D&D rules. The first page covers most of the text rules. The color divides the sections more or less from one another.

The second page covers most of the important tables and stats, that you’ll probably need through the game. Hope you like it and find some use for this! Cheers.

[bardicknowledgeblogger]

SUPER handy! I might use this for the kiddos in my beginner d&d camp this summer!

[monstrous-ideas]

I should print those out for players

[probablyscifirpgideas]

Random question, but what's your feelings on the whole "humans are space orcs" thing going around this hellsite? I personally hate them. (had to send this twice sorry)

Wow Tumblr is being extra weird tonight. It seems to have eaten my answer.

I don’t remember anything about this specifically, so I don’t have an opinion, but if you can tell me what’s up or point me to some posts I give you my opinion.

[probablyscifirpgideas]

Ok, thanks for the context @deffinitelynobody. I agree that it's kinda weird and not great. Any reasonable world will have varied natural phenomina, so most species should be somewhat adaptable. Being successful in a way that leads to a roughly human like society that most alien species have in sci-fi requires being able to adapt to different environments and being able to work together. Therefore, there is no way we would be the most badass species in the whole Galaxy.

I can see how humans might appear to be somewhat more chaotic to the galactic society, but it seems weird that humans would be regarded as dangerous.

Overall, I'm not a fan of the idea myself. It seems like people wanting to do something different with their sci-fi (which is good), but picking a weird direction to go with.

[probablyscifirpgideas]

Random question, but what's your feelings on the whole "humans are space orcs" thing going around this hellsite? I personally hate them. (had to send this twice sorry)

Wow Tumblr is being extra weird tonight. It seems to have eaten my answer.

I don't remember anything about this specifically, so I don't have an opinion, but if you can tell me what's up or point me to some posts I give you my opinion.

[probablyscifirpgideas]

Run a campaign about a first contact scenario, except the players are all alien ambassadors who are assigned to the federations newest member, the humans.

[probablyscifirpgideas]

A planet where gravity changes it's direction of pull slightly throughout the day

[probablyweirdrpgideas]

Hey I have a semi deep question anyone got some potential wisdom?

[possiblypedanticrpgideas]

Hit me.

[probablyweirdrpgideas]

Sweet. Please answer my question.

Which is more powerful? The man who can kill a God, or the man who can slap a God and get away with it?

[probablyscifirpgideas]

Id say the one that can slap a good and get away with it. If you slap a god, you have to dodge their anger for the rest of your life (and maybe beyond), but if you kill a god they can't bother you at all.

[dungeonsanddecafcoffee]

One for my favorite class

[kama-ta]

EVERYONE MUST SEE THIS, I JUST MADE ONE

[bizarre-bait]

Not sure what the hell is going on 100% but sharing this just in case~

(tbh I always was hoping to make a patreon one day I guess this day is going to be today lol)

[ladylaguna]

Basically they’re moving to a subscription model so you will have to pay to get the same benefits people get for free now. If you join now, you’ll be grandfathered in and won’t have to pay up.

Unfortunately there aren’t any good alternatives to Patreon at the moment, so you might as well put your foot in the door while you can.

[probablyscifirpgideas]

An alien virus that is nearly undetectable infects the crew. It's only symptom is an inability to look at computer screens without getting a horrible migraine.

[microsff]

Tweetstory

The demon appeared in the summoning circle. “Cool!” one of the astronauts said. “We have summoned you,” the other said, “to carry a message to Earth.” The demon glared at them. “Where. Am. I.” “In orbit. Tell Ground Control we are okay, but the solar storm killed our radios.”

— Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF) April 24, 2019

via MicroSFF on Twitter https://twitter.com/MicroSFF April 24, 2019 at 01:52PM

[shredsandpatches]

For reference: colors produced using dyes available in the Middle Ages. [source]

[english-history-trip]

A reminder that the clothing of the Middle Ages was less brown (and the people were more brown) than often depicted.

[filibusterfrog]

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[brynwrites]

Something to repeat to yourself in the shower:

My stories are not for everyone. 

My stories will bore some readers. Some readers will hate them. Some won’t understand, won’t connect the dots, won’t relate to the characters. Some won’t because they can’t, some won’t because they don’t want to, but most won’t simple because my stories just aren’t for them.

My stories aren’t for everyone.

My stories are for me.

And they’re for the readers who will love them. They’re for the reader who have already loved them. For the readers who will see what I see in them and feel the characters and the world the way I do. They’re for the readers who wanted these stories before they even knew they existed. They’re for the readers they’ll make smile, the readers they’ll stick with, and the readers they’ll save.

And just because my stories aren’t for everyone doesn’t make them worth any less to the people they are for. 

Not everyone likes butterflies. Not everyone likes spiders. But the people who love those creatures more than anything else would lose a part of themselves if they didn’t exist. 

So no, my stories are not for everyone. But that doesn’t matter. 

Because they’re for someone, and to that someone, they’re irreplaceable.

[filibusterfrog]

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