#old d&d

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Happy Birthday to my lovely friend, @sushi-dog

This is her d&d character Adalee

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I made a mediocre picture of my friend @ohbelladonna 's d&d character for their birthday. I'm still getting used to my tablet, so it's shakier than what is ideal, but they like it, which is all that matters.

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We stan (1) pastel punk monk. Adalee belongs to @sushi-dog

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Some drawings and sketches of some of my friends'/player's various characters I've played with. (The Salty Pup is a headcanon I have, where Scylla & Ike run a bar when they can't go on adventures anymore)

@bootyprince999 @sushi-dog @mollymuak @sea-pearls & @qwaford

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I'm going to just post the inked version of these since I'm never going to finish the colors versions. Anyways, here's my old Anniversary art for my d&d group.

@tapioca-tea @bootyprince999 @sushi-dog @valkryyrie @mollymuak

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Here’s the Rules Cyclopedia write up of the Avenger “subclass.” It paints a very odd picture of the world (the default setting of Mystara, in this case), and it’s far more nuanced and interesting than most later attempts at the “anti-paladin.”

In the 6th point, there is mention of “alignment tongue,” which is another eccentric Gygaxism; the idea was that Lawful people knew the Lawful Tongue, and Chaotic people knew the Chaotic Tongue. Gygax, when asked to explain this oddity, said he based it on liturgical languages, as Catholics have Latin, Jews have Hebrew, ect., and guild codes and cants and other sociolects. Which could have made sense, if you restricted it to clerics and paladins/avengers and such, and thought of it in terms of Celestial and Infernal/Abyssal, but there’s too many niggling details. It appeared to be inherent to people based not on a culture and upbringing but a character tendency, it could not be learned by outsiders, and if your alignment shifted, so did your language, which destroys any correspondence with real world linguistics: imagine the absurdity of a Jewish man converting to Catholicism and having the Hebrew (which he would have apparently not have learned, but been born with) expunged from his brain and immediately replaced with Latin. It’s an indefensible concept, from an immersion standpoint, even in a highly magical world where alignment is a concrete metaphysical phenomenon.

Only the similar but far more plausible Druidic and Thieves’ Cant survive. Though there’s still the irritating remnant of the “inherent language,” with all half-orcs, even ones raised in human society, knowing orcish, and Tieflings somehow knowing Infernal even though I can’t imagine how they all learn a language from another, universally hostile plane of existence, since Tieflings aren’t really known (apart from 4th edition’s) for forming large, stable societies, clinging to tradition, or, and this is important for minority cultures trying to maintain a secondary language, liking their heritage.