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I love characters who would die for each other but will not, under any circumstances, communicate a single honest feeling.

were--ralph

Mitch McConnell will die two weeks from today (8/31/23)

were--ralph

there is no need to charge or cast i just be Knowing

were--ralph

Like i said dont ever fucking doubt me again

were--ralph

zxid

collection

fishlung8877

dare-to-dm

How do you choose which PC your creatures target during combat? Do you roll a dice, target the highest damage dealer, go for the tank, or something else entirely? I want combat to be fair but challenging you know?

As much as possible, I try to apply the internal logic of the creatures to the situation. I decide what their tactical priorities are going to be at the beginning of each encounter. The way I see it, part of the challenge of combat is discovering the tactics your enemy is using and finding a way to counter them.

For example, if the creature is a hungry monster who wants to eat someone, they’re going to go after whoever looks the most vulnerable.

If the creature is an enraged beast, it’s probably going to go for the biggest or flashiest opponent on the field.

If the PCs are fighting a goup of intelligent and experienced combatants, they’re going to attack in whatever fashion gives them the best tactical advantages (utilizing flanks, terrain features, etc).

Enemies who are familiar with the dangers of magic might target the spellcasters first.

Some creatures will go after whoever has damaged them the most, or even whoever is the closest.

Some opponents have a specific beef with one of the PCs, so of course they’re going to target that specific person!

When a creature has multiple equally valid targets in my estimation, I roll a die to decide which PC they will attack.

crabussy

got told I didn't deserve to be gay because I thought lady gaga wrote money money money by abba. sorry men I am no longer attracted to you as of today. sorry abba sorry gaga sorry women sorry world

crabussy

bee boo ba ba.....

josilverdragon

"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

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art by @niochemblyat

ode-on-a-grecian-butt

I always know its getting toasty out in the world because girls start reblogging this post like crazy

sanguinifex

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

ashintheairlikesnow

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

swimmingblue

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

sweatermuppet

fat hairy dudes in lace underwear. now

sclappin

How convenient it is to attach small, useful objects to your clothes at waist level

animentality

alfgifu

this reads like it was submitted to a local newspaper in the early 1900s

oakleybillions

Recently reached master ball rank in pokemon TCGP with my jolteon deck! She reminds me of my cat who also loves chewing wires lol

petal-metal-blog

OMG MY NEW SHOES CAME :3 ignore my ugly house arrest ankle bracelet. haha

arroz

I’ve known this post longer than I’ve known most of my friends

libraford

Listen, I'm having fun playing with the ultra patriotic voice, but after a couple years in blue-collar landscaping jobs, you really do need to phrase things like that.

"I'm pretty sure that fella ain't here legally."

"Well, that ain't your business Chip, it's his."

They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like 'gender wage gap' they'll tell you you're brainwashed by the far left media.

"He's one of them transgenders."

"He got freedoms too, Jimmy."

weshallbekind

Also, please understand that SO often the real issue these people have is that they just want to say something inappropriate. They don't like being told they can't say "fag", so they'd say it for a reaction, just like a teenager would.

Shut down the conversation without reacting.

"His dick, not mine" will get you much further to shutting that guy down than "well it's really inappropriate to call someone a slur while I'm the job site".

And that's the point. To shut them up. To make them quit saying shit like that. The first one makes him seem kinda weird for caring about what that guy does with his dick. The second one gives him something to fight against and make a big deal about.