[txttletale]

i hate the term homebrew. that's game design you're doing amiguita

[txttletale]

i meant this in realtion to tabeltop roleplaying games but yknow what sure. your homemade meads and ciders are also game design

[pussyronin-deactivated20260120]

a new type of elf has been discovered that drives a john deere tractor and wears overalls with no bra

[emiko-matsui]

if you wanna listen to naddpod you should know this about the hosts: brian murphy is a straightman to his inner most core and he's the funniest person alive, these things exist simultaneously and would not exist without the other. emily axford is clinically insane to a point where it's easier to not try to follow her logic when she says things. jake hurwitz is a certified cool guy but he's the biggest loser in a room of nerds playing dungeons and dragons. caldwell tanner can only be described as exactly what a 1930's cartoon describes as a rascal. three of them are a throuple and the fourth is their boss.

[asparrowdraws]

Gaming Dice.

I learned a lot about edges and light and color relationships here.

[vicshush]

[ID: A digital painting of a set of seven colorful gaming dice on a warm medium-gray, reflective surface. Most of the realistically-detailed dice are multicolored by way of swirls through the resin (apart from the sold red 8-sided die and the solid blue 10-sided die), showing blues, purples, pink, gray, and a sandy orange. Most of the dice also have their highest number face pointed up, except for the 10-sided die, which shows 4, and the 20-sided die, which shows 18. The wan refections of the dice are the only indicators of the muted mirrored surface, which stretches past all the edges of the scene. /end ID]

[louisegluckpdf]

dnd campaign where everyone plays a different murderous narrator of a decemberists song

[louisegluckpdf]

gang not everyone can be the titular mariner of the mariner's revenge song. expand your horizons. what about the evil milf forest queen? the deluded singer of we both go down together who commits murder-suicide with his "lover"? the shankill butchers? the guy who resented his kids so much he killed all of them? the rusalka? whatever's going on with the guy in the culling of the fold? don't limit yourselves

[campaignskyjacks]

I will hear from our lawyers 😤

[bird-goofle]

I’m back on my silly art bullshit with more skyjacks things :)

This time with unmounted linocut prints :)

[bird-goofle]

For the person who asked for the episode 45 quote:

[thetasteofsunshineonyourtongue]

ID: 5 poorly made valentine meme cards. The first is the official art of orimar vale saying "would you like to kneel before me, valentine?" The second is the official art of Gable saying "Do you want to uhhh um you know uh uhmmmmm... Uh." The third is fanart of Margaret saying "you're a broken thing, valentine." The fourth is a stick figure drawing with an arrow pointing to him that says Douglas Kessler. The text says "Dilf." The fifth is the official art of Travis Matagot saying "Oh hey valentine, you've got a nice watch there." End ID.

I was originally gonna make these really nice but then life got in the way so have this instead

[castle-ravenloft]

as a player you should really internalize the intent/task sentence structure. “i wanna open this door by prying it open with a crowbar,” “i wanna set fire to the hay bale with my firebolt,” “i wanna haggle this price by commenting on some minor scratches.”

very often i see players only stating one of these. either “i wanna open the door” or “i cast firebolt on the hay bale.”

what the intent/task structure does is properly communicate to your GM what a success/failure state looks like, and what kind of challenge they propose. sometimes players have a very specific outcome in mind, but when they just state the task, even a successful attempt will be disappointing because the GM does not know what you want to achieve. and vice versa, just stating your intent puts weight on the GM to not only come up with the consequences to the actions, but what even causes them to begin with.

[chrono-meter-r]

Grendan/Grenda/G-ma/Grandma of Drawtectives is genuinely the best and only example I know of of a trans character figuring out their gender on screen. Cuz like... drawtectives is an improv show, Grendan was literally just A Guy, and then he met a really cool woman and was like "yes" and then he met a really shitty woman and was like "Yes" and then Grendan Highforge became genderfluid over the course of like 8 hours and her two friends which she also met 8 hours ago were like "oh hell yeah girl we're doing this now?? Thats so cool" and now they use Any/All and have 4 different names and thats just them!!!

[most-certainly-not-lennard]

a grenda in some complimentary colours since i've been feeling silly recently!!! her <3

id in alt! rbs>likes

[dumpster-fire-sapphic-failgirl]

I love that Dropout is so pro-union that they just stopped production without checking to see if their contracts were stuck

I mean i also love that they are able to keep making content now but just the solidarity of “NOBODY CROSSES THE PICKET LINES FIRST AND WE FIGURE OUT WHERE WE ARE SECOND”

[temprarytattoos]

[bisexualshakespeare]

[Video description: Brennan Lee Mulligan, outside on the concrete, speaking into a microphone, surrounded by people and picket signs. Caption: Brennan Lee Mulligan DMing on the universal picket line.

"-if I told you this was not the first time I've played D&D on curb next to a parking lot!

Long you have journeyed through the mythic realms, through forests deep, caverns old, to arrive at the Valley of the Sun! (people laugh) LOL, big LOL. |It is in the dead of night, dawn has not yet come, and from an ancient sarcophagus lines with runes, you see rising from the mist, the vampiric form of John Strahd! (people laugh) CEO of Ravenloft Studios. (people boo)

He arises, (gasps), and you see behind him the vast collected treasures, artifacts, and magical items, all taken from the fine hands of your fellow wizards, bards, artificers. A massive horn like that of an ancient dragon!

He stands, "Ahh, adventurers brave. Defeating you will be a cruel, but necessary evil!" (everyone boos)

/end]

[mikkeneko]

#at the end of the session after winning people apparently started chanting for loot#and brennan stood on a chair and yelled IT'S NOT LOOTING IF IT WAS YOUR FUCKING MONEY TO START WITH

[viciousmollymaukery]

you should watch escape from the bloodkeep btw.

[nightshadetq]

dnd spells that could be mountain goats song titles:

black tentacles (soul crushingly sad, quality jazz influences)

cloud of daggers (uptempo lofi era banger, a la all hail west texas)

protection from evil and good (sonically would have fit on all eternals deck)

flesh to stone (one of those hard hitting songs that makes you feel like you can survive anything)

insect plague (boombox recording from the late 90s)

bones of the earth (2006 inside voice piano ballad played only at 3 live shows)

mountain goats song titles that could be dnd spells:

foreign object (3rd level evocation targeting the opponent's eyes)

shadow song (practically useless illusion cantrip)

birth of serpents (2nd level transmutation with niche but entertaining application)

bleed out (controversial 8th level necromancy)

orange ball of love (4th level abjuration with great utility)

orange ball of hate (4th level enchantment with even BETTER utility)

autoclave (9th level transmutation with a wall of text description)

[podcastwizard]

dnd jokes that will always be funny no matter what your dm tells you

"jesus christ" "who's that"

"this is just like (tv show/movie)" "that's my favorite play"

referring to famous musicians or actors from the real world as "bards"

adding the word "fantasy" in front of modern things (i pull out my Fantasy iPhone and open Fantasy Tinder)

"how hurt are you" "on a scale of one to twenty-eight i'd say i'm at about a nine."

feel free to add more

[prokopetz]

when will wizards give in and release d&d 6th edition.. the children yearn for necromancy

It's not going to happen without a major change in marketing strategy on Hasbro's part. Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition was created with a couple of very specific mandates from Hasbro corporate:

Create an "evergreen" version of Dungeons & Dragons which will draw in new players while also appealing equally to fans of every previous iteration of D&D.

Cultivate homogenised expectations of what playing Dungeons & Dragons entails in such a way that every group becomes a potential purchaser of every first-party sourcebook.

Anything that would create a perceived split in the game's player base is counter to both of those goals, and a new edition – or, at least, admitting that any given revision constitutes a new edition – is pretty high on that list.

(Did you ever wonder why 5E's designers talked such a big game about modularity, then proceeded to produce one of the least modular iterations of D&D ever published, why licensed material for every first-party campaign setting that isn't The Forgotten Realms has basically dropped off the face of the planet, and why topical sourcebooks are being displaced by big, messy guides-to-everything with no clear organising principle? See above!)

[prokopetz]

I feel like I should point out for the benefit of the folks who are scrambling to "agree" with me that 5E's rules suck that I didn't say a word about the mechanics of 5E. Like, let's understand the criticism that's being articulated before we get aboard the hate train – this is about capitalism, not game design. Never forget that, regardless of what the game's front-line designers think they're doing, D&D is ultimately owned by the same global media megacorp that owns Monopoly and My Little Pony; the direction it's going can only really be understood with that context firmly in mind.

[ottororin]

pride flags color-picked from your faves <3

[raffnag]

[stone-stars]

[ID: Images of the drawtectives characters next to pride flags color picked from them, as follows: York and the aromantic flag, Rosé and the bisexual flag, Grendan and the trans flag (with the caption: trans flag for people whose glasses have been caked in dirt and mud), Jancy and the French flag, and Eugene and the nonbinary flag.]