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cryptotheism

I just felt someone Z-target me

search-queery

[clearly circle-strafing you] don't be ridiculous

silvermun

they’re working on it!!

spellweavr

itsame-a-mio

Happy Pride Month to everyone who gets this joke, laughed at it, or isn’t a homophobic or transphobic etc asshole.

Happy Pride Everyone.

Stay Gay.

anarchistmemedistro

owa-tagoo-siam

winged-void

There is no joy in her song. She sings it like a dirge. This is her death march. The sauce is her blood. It won't be long now...

storybookprincess

so back when my little brother was in high school, my mom went as a chaperone for their senior year field trip to an amusement park. which, you know, brave move to volunteer to supervise a bunch of high school seniors let loose in a wonderland of rollercoasters and sugar

my brother and his friends in this field trip group were truly great kids. but they were not above run of the mill teenage boy shenanigans. it’s the end of senior year, you and all your buddies are at the amusement park, you’re naturally going to want to act like a complete moron

there was one kid in the group who was especially prone to goofing around. committed to the bit, some may say. my mom knew that if nonsense was going to break out, he’d likely be at the center of it

so she goes up to this kid at the very start of the trip and says “hey, i’m kinda worried about this chaperoning thing. this might be a lot to ask, but can you help me keep an eye on everyone? you wouldn’t have to do anything big, just be an extra set of eyes for me.”

friends, this kid proceeded to run their field trip group like the fucking us marines. everyone is at the meet up spots at the designated time. everyone waits in line for the rides like a bunch of boy scouts. the second the horseplay gets too out of hand, this kid is getting it back under control

it’s incredible how differently people act based on the expectations you set. instead of going to this kid and saying “hey, i know you’re trouble, so i’ve got my eye on you,” my mom went “hey, i know you have influence in your peer group, so i think you can help me.”

treat someone like a problem, they’ll act like a problem. but give people a chance to help, make them feel important, and they usually rise far above the occasion. it was a stroke of genius that i’m honestly still in awe of

chryza

also shoutout to my really tired old white guy gynecologist who when i said "i want a hysterectomy" did not push back at all and instead sighed, and without looking up at me from his tablet went "We'll have to do a bunch of stuff for insurance because it's a scam and otherwise they won't approve it" and then after laying out the plan walked me out and i dont know if we made eye contact once after shaking hands, which is exactly the kind of medical care i want in this day and age.

soapydoll

I’m turning into a cartoon wolf and making train whistle noises

submissivestarlight

boccher

icantthinkofacoolblofname-deact

Every day I wake up and consider deleting my account on here

tamamita

we don't give a shit

icantthinkofacoolblofname-deact

THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU COMMENT, YOU STUPID CUNT??? YOU COULDVE JUST BLOCKED ME AND WENT ON WITH YOUR DAY!!!! LITERALLY NO ONE ASKED YOU FOR YOUR FUCKING INPUT!!!! I DONT KNOW YOU AND YOU DONT KNOW ME! LEARN TO MIND YOUR OWN BUISNESS, YOU INBRED RAT FUCK SHITLICKER!!! FUCK YOU, FUCK YOUR FAMILY, FUCK YOUR FRIENDS, FUCK YOUR WHOLE LIFE!!!

mittenfoot

you ok buddy? maybe take a break and eat a snack. you seem waaay too upset

faggotfungus

Actually, I think deleting your account may be good for you.

tamamita

Well, at least they took your advice to heart

daftpatience

slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

daftpatience

ohhh this one resonated didnt it

cat-mermaid

Ok so gonna share some peak info with yous alls, keep yer voice down

So nintendy is tryin to cover its ass on account of it givin all yous freaks ab-see-lute freedom to make DICK CITY a reality? yous wannas be able to upload your screenshots from your switch? Yous need to get one of these bad boys:

then you take the microSD card outta the switch and do one of these

den yous go like so

den i think yous can handle da rest ;)

anyways if anyone asks, you were never here

*slinks away into the darkness*

*slinks back from the darkness*

okays okays, i hear yous der in the back, yeah theres the...

(ominous pause)

other way

(distant rumble of thunder, wind starts whistling)

looks like we gotta spit some about the "usb-c to usb-a" cable maneuver

so if you know a guy who knows a guy who can put one of these in yer hot lil hands-

den ya gotta do the ol "one two skeedoo-it" if you know watta i mean

then you do like so

then you give 'em the ol applesauce

don't say i never did nothin for y-

WHAT DA

DAMMIT YOUS WAS FOLLOWED!

SHIT ITS THE BIG MAN!

RUN FER IT, HE'S THE MEANIST SONAVA BITCH THIS SIDE OF-

oh, wait. He just wants yous to buy his official cable if yous gonna do all dis? Big Man just wants to get paid? Fella yous got some weird priorities

totalspiffage

what this fandom needs

more f/f

totalspiffage

What fandom, you ask? All of them. There’s not enough in any fandom.

trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter

🎶Women loving women! Needs more content!🎵

tuna-core

grimeclown

Putting all tabletop players into a college level ethics class and forcing them to turn in a paper on moral philosophy before buying a new book

grimeclown

This is…. An interesting thing to say… on this post in particular….

grimeclown

I think a lot of people reblogging this from @probablybadrpgideas are interpreting this as “this would be such a funny wacky way to make the table soooo complicated” but I mean this as a complaint about the way that so many tabletop players seem to just. completely lack an understanding of ethics. what it actually means to behave ethically and treat others ethically. and i dont mean this as "why do people want to be mean and play as villains? :(" i mean "why are there so many tabletop players that sympathize with outright fascist factions to the point of wondering why theyre listed as 'Lawful Evil' in the book"

grimeclown

can you talk me through why this was a particularly bad or challenging thing for your party to have done

wizard-of-soup

Goblins were in fact, for me, a turning point on this concept. I had a player who wanted to be a goblin, and I forgot about this fact up to the point that the party got a quest to kill goblins. As soon as I was announcing the quest I realized it would be a problem, though I didn't have anything else ready so I went with it. And it was! The players immediately questioned why the mayor was paying mercenaries to kill goblins, and then further questioned his justifications, at which point I realized it would be a better story if the goblins were a scapegoat and not an actual villain. This turned into a terse interrogation where the mayor threatened to put them in jail once their questions got pointed enough that he would have to either field accusations or lie; they then went CSI on the situation and drilled through his political cabinet to get answers. I had to improv pretty much all of it and I don't remember the actual ending (I know they sided with the goblins and the mayor was guilty), but this helped me realize that the Gary Gygax writing style of "certain races are just BAD and that's why they hang out in dungeons" was very short-sighted.

D&D writing, by and large, encourages a lack of questions. The surface runs deep. "Go into a cave and chop up goblins." Why are we doing this? "Goblins are bad." All goblins? "Yes."

I think the question of "why are there players comfortable siding with fascist factions and wondering why they're called 'lawful evil'" is pretty easily answered with... because D&D itself is inherently kind of fascist. And it's the most insidious kind of fascist, too- its villains are fascists, so how could you point fingers at the book?

Fire Giants are dwarf slavers. Drow are a megalomaniacal theocracy who hate men. Orcs are violent tribes of marauding killers. Illithids want to destroy all life and keep an entire civilization to scrub their floors. But these narratives still push the idea that "evil" is a racial trait. The players are not only justified in their campaign to destroy these cultures, they're encouraged to do it.

They let the cat out of the bag by making these playable races; because now, they're not cut-and-dry villanous societies. They're people. There are Drow accountants whose lives are about balancing taxes, not worshipping Lolth. There are Yuan-Ti who don't sacrifice babies on altars, and much prefer playing the lute or sewing blankets. Yet we're still expected to read "Chaotic Evil" under the Monster Manual entry for a bugbear and take it seriously.

quantumcartography

Reblogging again to add a quick take: as a DM introducing ethics makes your game so much better.

I had an intro to my campaign that involved a mad scientist kidnapping someone and turning them into a wererat. I didn't think much of it and I spent way more time fleshing out the other NPCs, I just wanted to use that wererat as a boss fight.

Once the party encountered him though they immediately saw what I totally missed: the guy who became the wererat was absolutely the victim of this story. I did my best at thinking on my feet and made the wererat this defeated guy who only followed the mad scientist because he felt like his life was ruined. So they, through good rolls, convinced him to help them fight the mad scientist and it made for such a better story.

The moral I'm trying to convey is that you need to treat every NPC in your game as a world within themselves. And I mean EVERY NPC. Why are the wolves attacking people? Are they desperately hungry? Mind controlled? Territorial due to poachers? Why are the goblins working for the wizard? Extortion? Promise of riches? If the bandits see that everyone is in armor, why wouldn't they just let the party pass and wait for easier prey? If one of the bandits die, why wouldn't the rest of them run for the hills?

dunmertitty

here’s a couple of articles on the history of racism + xenophobia in tolkien & how that influenced dnd

This is the first installment of a two-article series about the racist origins, nature, and ramifications of orcs, a malevolent humanoid spe

This is the complement to my previous article , “Orcs, Britons, and the Martial Race Myth, Part I: A Species Built for Racial Terror.” In t

anyone interested in the subject should definitely also check out the whole Three Black Halflings podcast, which talks about being black in nerdy spaces. a lot of times they’ll have on guests talking about their intersections and experiences in nerdy spaces. they have an episode with the author of the articles above.

they’ve also played a ttrpg based on african mythologies rather than mostly european ones like most mainstream fantasy.

highly recommend!!