Phoebe&J

The j stands for “Gideon” like how it is in GIF

[knowmadstravelagency]

Knowmads Core Book 1.0

Basic rules and premise, made to be printable (flip on short edge). Full text version for reading accessibility is in the works!

[at-twilight-at-sea]

You are twenty steps away from the exit of the dungeon, the light seeping through the cracks. The gash in your side leaves you pale, paler than you already were. Ghost, you are bleeding out. Do you recognize where this body is from? What it has seen? fifteen steps. These dungeons are haunted with steps. twelve steps.

There's a list of corpses everywhere. Dead worms in dead humans in dead structures in dead worlds. Drop.

You are eighty thousand, one hundred and twenty six steps away from the exit of the dungeon.

whalefall by left in cobwebs

Leave Your Bones

My game

[theisekaitruck]

Cooper’s Hawks are predators, apex hunters made to hunt and kill the most difficult prey - other, highly mobile birds. Despite this, they are also tiny, making them fucking adorable. The disparity in their size against their murderous habits is an example of the natural phenomenon known as “Gap Moe”. In this essay,

[recents]

idk i think what is interesting about astarion to me is the fact that you have a guy who started out an asshole (normal type) and then spent two hundred years in a very carefully and specifically crafted (by the writers of the game) Become A Terrible Person Or Die nexus. like it wasn’t just a Torment Nexus, he wasn’t just in hell, i feel like this is very important not to forget, he was in hell but it was specifically a hell designed to, over time, kill the empathy of anyone trapped in it, kill their brain’s ability to prioritize other peoples’ survival, to numb one’s conscience.

and then he gets yanked directly out of that nexus and despite that the fact that he spent, again, two hundred years in a situation that was sort of a rock tumbler for the human soul, there’s still a pebble left in there. and it’s a pebble that can be grown if placed in the right environment and provided with a support network.

so i think it becomes interesting because it really does i think force you to start thinking about the limits of free will even on as basic a level as the human personality. i think the fact that he becomes such a different character based on player choice, that his end morality is so hugely dependent on player choice, is uhhh. a big part of what the devs were going for probably.

it makes a lot of people really uncomfortable to acknowledge some bad people would be good people if literally nothing changed except they had a good support network and different circumstances. especially because it means the opposite is also true. which is even more uncomfortable.

you know that part in the beginning of fellowship of the ring where gandalf is talking about how gollum is ultimately only like that because of the ring and gandalf thinks his story is sad? astarion is kinda like if they sexualized gollum.

[nikomedes]

[theisekaitruck]

[thepringlesofblood]

a venn diagram of brennan lee mulligan d20 PCs

aw beans i thought this was transparent. c’est la vie

(i know he has other PCs on other shows i’ve just only seen his dimension 20 stuff)

lmk if you can think of any other fun additions!

[image id: a 3 way venn diagram (3 circles overlapping at different places): one circle says “Raphaniel Charlock”, one circle says “Evan Kelmp”, one circle says “KP Hob”. each circle is empty, except for where it overlaps with another circle.

the overlap b/w “Evan Kelmp” and “Raphaniel Charlock” has these phrases in it:

“struggled with Dark Powers their entire lives that make them feel alienated from even other magic users”

“mid-high int&wis”

“flat ass”

“know exactly how corrupt and cruel institutions can be”

the overlap b/w “Evan Kelmp” and “KP Hob” has these phrases in it:

“Autism Vibes™”

“actually good and kind people“

“happy ending w enby PC love interest”

“charisma dump stat”

“physically strong and could beat the shit out of you no magic required”

“think they’re only worth something as long as they’re useful”

the overlap b/w “Raphaniel Charlock” and “KP Hob” has these phrases in it:

“gets fully naked at some point in the campaign”

“DND 5e”

“An Adult”

“spent decades serving organizations that only saw them as a pawn”

“multiclass rogue”

“held some sort of office in said organization but denounced their place and title in the finale”

“fully not human”

the overlap of all three circles reads: “outsiders yearning deeply for a belonging and acceptance they’ve never felt”

/end id]

[animentality]

[theisekaitruck]

I’m tired of Sub discourse but I never tire of new SCPs

[theisekaitruck]

"It appears that you've been cut in half."

"What‽"

"Yes, right in half," The doctor leaned back in his chair, fingers steepled, then falling open like a book "top to your bottom, right down the middle. Must have happened six to eight years ago."

"but... But that... How? In half‽"

"Are you a samurai perhaps? Be honest, there's no judgement here."

"... I... I dabbled after highschool... but not anymore!"

"Did you ever experience a TFE in that time?" The doctor sighed at the blank expression and took to laboriously shining his spectacles as he explained, "A Traumatic Finisher Event? A moment where you, another combatant, or both are suddenly already posed just past each other? Symptoms including things like sheathing without visibly drawing or flashes of light and flower petals."

"A few, but I've always been careful! I stretched my monologue before every fight and I always used plot armour!"

"Well, sometimes plot armour doesn't always work. Did any of your partners ever mention having developed protagonism before or even after you crossed swords?"

"No! Never."

The doctor waited.

"Well..."

"Yes?"

"Well there was one, but... But there was no way, he was just some mysterious transfer student with a dark past and a named sword..."

"Would this be perhaps... Six to eight years ago...?"

"... So Doc, how long do I have?"

"It's hard to say without doing more tests, but most people who experience a TFE split into two gorey slices within the first ten steps, so the fact you've survived this far is a good sign. As long as you minimize your exposure to comic relief and dramatic irony and you won't have to worry about being a late season gag."

"but doctor, I am Pagliacchi!"

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

Have you ever wondered how Dimension 20’s Intrepid Heroes (+Aabria) would react to being told “I’d die for you”? Because my brain would not allow me to rest until I shared my thoughts on the subject.

[all-things-breathing]

a scooby doo series set in community college where the gang is in a criminology class and end up in a huge debate on the first day of class that leads to them starting a podcast talking about local urban legends, only to realize things aren’t quite adding up and they go to investigate for ~journalistic authenticity~ and end up solving a real-life crime disguised as supernatural occurrences. this happens every week and they’re frequently featured on the school newspaper. they only have twenty listeners

[tenorgender]

bitches hate me for my earnest whimsy and my pathological degree of avoidant behavior

[stainlessteelwaterbottle]

youre telling me a ham fisted this metaphor??

[broomsick]

To my polytheist followers, which deities do you follow?

[z0mborb]

some of you may've heard about that fancy "bionic reading" typefont thats supposed to be easier for neurodivergent people to read (if you're unfamiliar, it bolds the first few letters of each word to make it easier to follow)

well guess what, its locked behind a $500 a month API to write in because fuck you!

introducing, Not Bionic Reading! it is literally just the bionic reading typefont but for free. god bless neocities

Tech bros are on another world just make a framework like the rest of us.

anyone who can, pls reblog!