#flossingh

[justalittlebluetiefling]

1) I looked up what 80 degrees is and it is an adorable temperature, I love different climates and finding out what temperatures are completely inhospitable to humans (today was 46F; I'm in physical pain & at my wits end from the cold, feel free to laugh at this) 2) Spray bottle by your bed. Mist yourself on any and all bare skin to achieve max coolness. Give yourself goosebumps even in +100F weather. Works best with access to a breeze, but breeze absolutely not required. Thinking ice thoughts!

Lol! It's always been so funny to me how we all have different tolerances for heat/cold. I'm usually pretty comfortable in 80F weather, but we live on the top floor in a northeast facing unit, which means we get direct sun for 2/3 of the day and it gets... hot. I can deal with it until it's time for bed, but then I can't sleep!!! But when it gets hotter (like next week when we're potentially averaging 90F all week), I will definitely be sitting in front of a fan with a spray bottle. It's the only way I can survive the summer in this apartment unless I lock myself in the bedroom with the a/c 😂

I'm also miserable when it's that cold out, so I sympathize! Anything colder than 60F and I start to complain.

[utilitycaster]

flossingh replied to your post “souridealist reblogged your post and added: ...”

I always think the more tightly everything is connected, the smaller the world feels. I think Matt strikes a good balance that way.

That’s a good way to put it!

I’ve only DM-ed for one-shots and for beginners, and I’m a pretty beginner DM, so I haven’t had to pull together elaborate backstories or anything but it seems like Everything Is Tightly Connected is also kind of lazy DM-ing, unless that’s the point of your campaign, that there’s a singular powerful being messing with literally everyone’s fate (which could be a really cool campaign)!

So I agree - having the hag be a shared point for Beau and Nott is cool, but then linking her to the Traveler, and in some theories I saw, having her also be the woman who cured Caleb and who killed Molly’s previous form - unless the goal is to make this world entirely about one person who drastically changed the course of everyone’s life, it serves to just shrink things down. I mean, the PCs have already found themselves crossing paths, you don’t need to keep tying them together over and over. It can make for a fun AU - if someone writes this as fanfic, more power to them - but it wouldn’t be as fun a D&D campaign. Which is another thing I think about a lot; DMs need to set up the bones of a story but they’re ultimately not the storyteller as much as the world creator, and some tropes that work in written or scripted fiction, like everything being connected, don’t work in a medium where no single person has total control over the outcome.

Coincidence is good in D&D when it gives the party a lead on a mystery or shared emotional stakes but that’s not too hard to do - the “spell-slinger from the capital” wouldn’t even have had to be Astrid (for example) but just any Vollstrecker to get Caleb’s backstory involved, and having an interesting tangential connection (kind of like Beau’s father to the hag rather than Beau herself) opens up the story in a cool way as well, because it gives the tangentially connected character a choice - do they reveal this information and help out at their own risk? Do they reopen some old wounds, as Beau did? Or do they keep quiet?

[luckthebard]

flossingh replied to your post: I feel like we need to talk more about the fact...

I have been thinking about this for a long time and the only conclusion I can come to is that the more superstitious you are, the worse your rolls. Travis is more dice superstitious with Fjord than he was with Grog. What are the ratios for Travis-as-Grog vs. Travis-as-Fjord?

This is a very good question and an important hypothesis to test.

Fjord is currently at 55 Nat20s, 40 Nat1s

Grog ended campaign 1 with 86 Nat20s and 58 Nat1s.

So on that alone, Fjord does appear to be rolling slightly worse. But I think we’d need to get the full CritRoleStats roll percentages to scientifically map this phenomenon. The key missing statistic here is the total number of rolls by both Fjord and Grog.

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Fjord and Jester take Marion out for a walk on the beach. It is a beautiful sunny day. The rest of the gang + Yeza and Luc tag along. Veth teaches Luc to snipe seagulls with his wee crossbow. Nugget bamfs to and fro. Fjord is protected from the harsh sun by his new hat. He shares its shade with everyone. Its brim is 10 feet wide.

Marion commissioning a hat like that because she knows he’ll wear it to impress her daughter. Yes. There’s a reason Jester was silly enough to catch Artagan’s attention in the first place and it is those genetics.

I can just imagine the look on Yeza’s face while Veth teaches Luc to shoot at those seagulls, too.

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Conspiracy theory: Fjord pretended that he was winded after his and Jester's run to the Marquis' demesne to get Marion because he wanted to walk back slowly and thereby get more time alone with Jester.

Okay, but how can it be a conspiracy theory when IT’S SO OBVIOUSLY THE TRUTH. They’ve been around the Nein for such a long time and there are almost no chances for alone time, so why wouldn’t he jump at the opportunity??

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Remember when Fjord scrambled up an entire Moorbounder just to kiss Jester on the cheek? Why is Fjord so dramatic about Jester at all times???

He really is SO DRAMATIC. It’s so hilarious to me that Jester was trying to project a storybook romance onto Fjord and he’s like... following through with that by mistake?! 

He climbs up an entire Moorbounder just to kiss her on the cheek. He kills a jellyfish without looking to impress her. She falls off a tree? He jumps off the tree into a straight dive after her. A blue dragon is staring her down? He Eldritch Blasts it right in the face. He runs through the streets with her in formalwear and a ridiculously large hat to go get her mother. She’s being pulled away by a god? He uses relentless hex to teleport himself up onto her back.

A storybook romance is literally unfolding in front of Jester’s eyes, but she thought the boy she liked didn’t like her back, so she’s respectfully NOT looking at it.

[justalittlebluetiefling]

"#i'm taking this and making it about jester and i don't know if it was intended that way" it is literally always intended that way, even when jester isn't there it's always about jester and your tags are excellent, I appreciate you so much.

agshgdtrsgeafrsg thank you ❤️! I appreciate you, too!

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Top 5 The 100 moments?

Hi!!

In no particular order, except #1, because it’s always the first thing I think of.

5. 3x11. Alie!Raven is one of my favorites. Lindsey Morgan knocked it out of the park in all of those scenes. When she says “You always want to save everyone, but what you don’t realize is that you’re the one we need saving from.” to Clarke??? That whole scene?? Bone. Chilling.

4. 4x04. When Jasper “floats” Jaha. It added some much-needed levity to an incredibly stressful show.

3. 5x04. I’m allowing myself one Bellarke moment on this list and this is it. “And now you’re home.” Oh, my heart. Bellamy ran across that room and scooped her up into his arms so fast. He had to feel that she was still alive. I’m never going to be over the sheer relief of this moment.

2. 6x09. Josephine giving Clarke control over herself again was so so so good. I love that Josephine knew that Clarke was their only hope of getting out of there alive.The moment she opens her eyes and you can see that it’s Clarke again! It was perfect.

1. 2x11. Clarke’s decision to release Emerson and send him back to Mount Weather with a message. The way she walks up to Abby and says, “You may be the chancellor, but I’m in charge.” It never fails to give me chills.

let’s hang out!!