My Thoughts My Way

This is the main for my rp blogs, so it'll show up on follow-backs. Star Trek, feminism, suits. Every now and again my thoughts on space, on science, on religion. What have you. My thoughts my way

[shallwerp]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I don't know if anyone around here is still active (I literally haven't posted in this blog or any of my RP blogs that are left in almost a decade) but I'm here digging around in my Scotty backstory because I'm at least writing fanfiction again. If anyone sees this and wants to see what's up check out my AO3 or find me chilling on my main account - knickpnackattack, who knows how often I'll be on this Tumblr.

[kalianos]

Sandbox vs Railroad

Dming isn’t easy.  And here we see easy examples how to fall into accidentally railroading your players.   Using some vaguely familiar scenarios.

[shallwerp]

So apparently I’m learning how to dm okay. I’m running two campaigns (first first irl two sessions in and the second on roll20 where I just finished ses 1) and man is there a lot going on in my head. Session today was a bit of a mess but mostly because I’m not 100% on all the rules that were relevant today. Also why’d I make this such a NPC heavy campagin??? Not in a bad way, but the PCs are literally traveling with a merchant caravan across a great, deadly desert as guards. I’m bad at rping a bunch of people. Well shit I guess I’m gonna learn fast, but oh well it’ll be loads of fun :D

[shallwerp]

Adventures in Ahiri

So I’m a noob dm, 100% all out noob whose far over her head (I’m running my first campaign, soon to be two, after playing just one summer) but I’ve got a pretty basic homebrew I’m running with some coworkers. Basically sky islands and dying gods and stuffs. In my party I’ve got a human fighter, half-elf druid, dragonborn ranger, tiefling warlock, elf paladin, and a dwarf cleric (sooo much shit wtf). Don’t ask me why I said yes to six PCs but I did, at least it’s a hell of a blast.

First ses occurrences:

King Ziggy (the dwarf) fell down some stairs and dexed to avoid the helping hand another party member offered. He took 4 of his 9 hp from falling. We all expected him to nat 1 next time he went up and die.

Today!

Apparently King Ziggy is obsessed with goats????

The party was fighting a cult fanatic, Saria Turnic whose a Lolth worshiper, and a hoard of various creatures she was controlling. Of course instead of killing her they try to persuade her to give them information. The tiefling comes in, tall with two smokey black ravens he stole from her control on his shoulders, and convinced her he’s a Lolth (just general Goddess of Chaos) messenger so now he’s convinced her to go to town to cause chaos???

[infragalaxia]

@shallwerp said: You get skill proficiency from your race, class, and background so with the right combo it’s super easy to end up with a lot marked.

Ah! So if I have a mountain dwarf cleric with the acolyte background, my skills would be Insight, Religion and Medicine? 

(Sorry for the many silly questions, I’m completely new to the 5e and roleplaying in general.)

[shallwerp]

It’s all good! I’m happy to help out, I just started dming a campaign in 5e last week so I’m working on learning how all this works. Each of the three (mountain dwarf, cleric, and acolyte) would usually give a list of skills and tell you how many to pick proficiency in from that list. I’m pretty sure you get to pick two for being a cleric.

Okay, so looking at the three you don’t get a skill proficiency from being a dwarf. As a cleric you’d get to choose two skills from (history, insight, medicine, persuasion, and religion) and then the acolyte background would give you prof in insight and religion. Since you can’t be ‘double proficient’ I’d choose from (history, medicine, persuasion) for your ‘cleric’ proficiencies since you have the other two already from your background.

If you look at the player handbook these are all bolded as Skill Proficiency on the race/class/background pages.

[photography-cnl]

Blue Rivers of Bioluminescent Shrimp Are Placed Along Oceanside Rocks in Okayama, Japan

Creative duo Trevor Williams and Jonathan Galione of Tdub Photo capture the eerie blue light emitted by a native species off the coast of Okayama, Japan. 

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[shallwerp]

Spock: Jim made me feel things.

Sarek: What things?

Spock: Feelings.

Sarek: He made you feel feelings?

Spock: Yeah.

Sarek: What a bitch.

[shallwerp]

Friend: Why is Ash not in 4th grade?

Me: Because scientists would rather brainwash youth into doing their research then training the next generation of scientists.

[shallwerp]

I went backpacking three days last week with a friend of mine from Girl Scouts and apparently even when we do a not scout hike we can’t go easy on ourselves. I planned a totally absurd hike not expecting to get the permit to camp in the area and then we did (just wtf). So anyways, this is what we saw:

[offdensen]

Well, at least I won’t die alone.

[shallwerp]

I saw an article the other day about Star Trek Beyond where the title was something like "American actor Karl Urban discussed new Star Trek film". I'm sorry, he is not ours. He is a New Zealand actor and I am personally offended you took that away from him.

[thirstclasssoldier]

when jaylah graduates the academy, she joins the crew of the enterprise (engineering of course and scotty’s right hand woman). on her first day, each of the bridge crew take her on a little tour of the ship and to their favourite places - sulu takes her to see his plants in the botany lab, uhura takes her to the quietest part of the library where the coziest chairs are, and after scotty has shown her around his pride and joy, keenser takes her to his favourite place - every pipe and jefferie’s tube that’s out of scotty’s reach. within a week, he’s having to shout at both of them to get down from there. (jaylah makes the situation worse because of her long limbs, keenser can climb on her back and the two of them can climb even higher. scotty swears he’s resigning at least three times a week.)

[jazm00n]

i think people forget that leonard mccoy is a genius too??

like yeah they’re always talking about the genius and incredible intelligence of kirk and spock but bones is up there with them 

first of all he’s the cmo of starfleet’s flagship like he has more authority than the fucking captain so you know he’s a hella good doctor

he is a master surgeon and is an expert in biology, psychology, xenobiology, and god knows what else, not to mention he’s spock’s doctor–spock who is the literal first of his species, spock whose whole being is entirely unique–meaning that bones is making shit up while he goes when taking care of spock 

not to mention how inventive he is?? remember when they were sent to that faux old west place to act out the OK corral and he made a fucking tranquilizer out of some snake venom and other shit and put it in a sort of bomb thing?? like that isn’t crazy resourceful and ingenious?

mccoy is a fucking genius he has so much knowledge up in that head of his idk how he sorts through it all

[thatgeeklover]

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[shallwerp]

//Also Rhee is dating Dr. M'Benga, though I haven't talked to that anon in forever, so perhaps we can set it before they are dating. Also I am tweaking Rhee's illness, but since we want to keep things light, we can have this before she's diagnosed. I bet she came to the Medbay in our thread to look at Geoff but not stare XD

[YSSSS I AM SO DOWN FOR RHEE TO BE DATING MBENGA! Ys please give me that thread eventually. Omg that’s amazing. We can do it before if you want but yaaaas.

[shallwerp]

//Rhee's last year was the same as Jim & Bones' first year at the Academy. Rhee and Jim were classmates and fwb, though they fell out of contact after Rhee graduated and went on a long-term mission off-planet to do her joint Masters-Ph.D. program at a far-off colony. She came back to the planet just after ST:ID and joined the crew in time for the 5-year mission. Rhee joined the Enterprise bc one of her supervisors was emotionally/sexually abusing her, but she's told no one.

[Alright, cool. So a lot more backstory with Jim and some recent bad history with people. Nice that sounds awesome.

[think-progress]

Members of Congress are living off food stamps for a week to protest Republican cuts. It’s a challenge for them, but GOP cuts would hurt millions of everyday Americans. 

[wagrobanite]

Why does this not have more publicity. This needs it!

[apolymathpainintheass]

I want a reality tv show where politicians have to live in poverty for a month. They have to live in Government housing, shop with food stamps, and get only a limited amount of money for clothes. Because here, they still have all their trappings, lilke nice cars and thousand dollar suits. I want them in Walmart jeans trying to determine if they can afford a carton of milk. 

[skylorde]

If we had that, just watch how quickly things would change