#dm blogging

[likesincest]

sorry every time i remember that falin kept her feathers after she was un-chimera-d i feel like i black out for a few seconds. laois has the fucking nerve to be moping around sulky about how monsters are repelled from him forever when he's rearranging falin's chicken giblets eight times a day. un fucking grateful. spoiled!!!

[corneliushickey]

as i am always saying, laois touden is a man incapable of understanding or internalizing basic social norms and ettiquette, and both his personal and professional life suffer greatly because of his inability to do so. he is also a genuine, kind hearted, empathetic person who tries as hard as he can to do what he believes is right and to be there for his friends, business partners, and acquaintances. he is frustrated by his own inability to intuit the social graces that seem so obvious to others. he has a rigid and inflexible perspective at times, but is willing and eager to learn from others and to change his mind based on new information. he would also buy a whole rotisserie chicken from the grocery store and fuck it before eating it. and he would not understand why this story that he would tell casually and off handedly was grossing you out. he would insist on explaining to you why it was fine.

[chronurgy]

The bracket for the battle of the bands! All band names (with the exception of the party's band, Fuck the Taxman) are vaguely dnd themed puns on actual band names

[flockofdoves]

dungeon meshi is one of the first things in a while i've been into for years before it got a huge upsurge in popularity

and its been a really fascinating experience seeing it go from just something i see a small group of trusted mutuals post about without much external larger fandom influence to something thats big enough where regardless of what each individual mutual is most invested in about it, i'm still going to witness larger fandom trends through their sheer saturation bleeding into whatever people like enough to reblog

like a lot of times coming into an already popular fandom its like. ignoring the more blatant instances it does feel like the focus of what people talk about is sometimes a bit inevitable like 'oh these characters are interesting of course people are talking a lot about them'

but seeing how much of the proportion of focus used to be on female characters vs now is kind of crazy. like its not like i think any of the people i follow are latent misogynists or even that there's not a significant amount of focus on the women and girls anymore. if i was coming into things now i'd probably think there was a relatively normal amount of focus on female characters. but having seen how the general trends have shifted makes it so so transparent how much wider patterns of misogyny shape fandom spaces that its kind of crazy to sit with

[lichposting]

Props to my players for seeing a bunch of freaky skeletons get conjured and immediately going in the opposite direction

[odinspattern]

I was DM today at Adventure Leauge today! I was dropped right into it, so I wasn’t prepared but I had a lot of fun!

Highlights: Two Red Plumes were named Johnny.

The party adopted the two npcs whose voice I hated.

There was supposed to be a running chase but the players got off their horses.

Robin the awesomesauce rouge was down for three rounds.

A dwarf named Carol and a half-elf and half tiefling. I didn’t name her but I love her.

Thia the warlock ate chips in the middle of the battle.

Jeremy spoke to a quasit named Lisa.

I had loads of fun! And got good reception on being a DM.

So yeah!

[citadelofswords]

i love how immediately ride-or-die some parties become for each other

like none of my PCs have had an actual extended RP session together but in the last like three battles (of three lmao) ellis has stepped in front of his smaller party members at least three times, nola has given ellis TWO SEPARATE pep talks, and hagen dragged ellis out of a pit that one time?

i find it very interesting in contrast with wizard cops, where the party traveled together but never particularly liked each other all that much, leaving the final episode’s goodbyes EXTREMELY awkward for whatever reason