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I think I’m going to start going by They/It pronouns.

Tabletop RPG character who, when encountering any sort of systemic injustice, piously declares that in their homeland such things do not happen; eventually it's revealed that they're the sole survivor of a very localised apocalypse, and the reason their homeland does not have such things is because everybody's dead.

#lmao #ttrpgs

jorgeburgos8

In the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, as an ice storm strikes, animals seek shelter among the trees; armored titans look for a good place to rest while a shadow watches from afar.

#dinosaurs #dinosaur art

writerscourt

Books to find in a Fantasy Library

Beastkin & Biology: An Illustrated Bestiary of the Realms' Species (3rd edition)

Between Gowns and Armor: The Evolution of Fashion at Elvish Court

Cartography of the Inbetween: Maps of Hidden Realms and How to Navigate them

Codex of Runic Engineering: Building in the Age of Machinery and Magical Arts

Escaping the Fae Realm: Legal Advice for those Trapped in Magical Contracts

Fantastical Tales and Illustrations of all Realms

First Contact: A Recollection of First Cross-Species Meetings

Forgotten in the Deep: Mining, Forgebinding, and the Sacrifice of Dwarvish Workers

From Fae to Goblin: An Interspecies Guide to Navigating Contrasting Cultural and Societal Norms

Help, I'm in a Hoard! A Dragon Mate’s Memoir

Magical Contracts — How legally binding are they?

MagicTec: How Witches and Gnomes Changed Everything

Mankind and Dragons: A Series of Misunderstandings between Intelligent Species

Mutual Midnight Magic: Shared Religious Practices of the Night-Bound Realms

Myth and Mirror: Human Tales Recontextualized by a Magical Historian

Sigils of Power: A Comprehensive Foundation of Rune Magic

Swords, Bows, and Shields: A Historic Guide to Cross-Realm Weaponry

The Forgotten Realm: The Destruction of Thriving Lands and the Politics of Systemic Portal Blocking

The Lost Packs: Where did the Werwolves of the North go?

Vampiric Cuisine: Ethical Alternatives to Predatory Hunting in an Interspecies Society

Visiting the Fae Realm: A Travelers Guide

#ttrpgs #rpg inspiration

enki2

#lmao

prokopetz

Historically, one of the most reliable sources of widespread banditry was rulers ramping up military recruitment for major wars, then cutting their soldiers loose afterwards without pay, leaving a bunch of heavily armed men with military experience floating around broke and homeless.

Knowing this, whenever someone jokingly refers to raccoons as "trash bandits", I get a vivid mental image of, like, a raccoon succession crisis leading to a raccoon civil war, the aftermath of which forced the former soldiers of the losing side (who are all raccoons) to take up the life of the raccoon outlaw.

#lmao #rpg inspiration

koifee

So a wizard and an ancient construct walk into a tavern.

#i watch phm with my d&d group #this seems fitting #rpg inspiration

fossillad123

Oviraptor philoceratops

A late cretaceous dinosaur with a history of being portrayed as an egg thief instead of a good parent. A relatively small theropod with a crest and an interesting beak shape. Recent studies suggest a frugivore diet with a helping of small critters on the side. Like many coelurosaurs, they would've had a feathery coat.

These dinosaurs constructed mounds to incubate their eggs in a way not found in the modern day. A Citipati fossil preserves a parent(?) on top of the clutch showcasing their protective nature.

Many birds protect their clutches fiercely, so it would make sense if this behavior was found in non-avian theropods as well.

#dinosaurs #dinosaur art

vixensdungeon

You know what's a form of roleplaying that's kinda fallen out fo favour a bit, or at least doesn't appear as part of the discourse in my corner of the hobby space? The Campaign.

A lot of games are designed for one shots or at most episodic adventures, and many of these are not a good fit for running the Campaign, and even the ones that are seem to rarely be used for it.

"Hang on," chimes in the D&D player, "we just finished a three-year campaign and are starting a new one next week!"

Yeah, okay. Why did you finish your campaign? Because you finished the plot? Well that's not the Campaign, then. The Campaign doesn't have a story, at least not how you understand it. And it certainly has no plot.

No, the essence of the Campaign is not a story, but a persistent world. It has a beginning, which is the time when the first players gather to play it, but it has no ending other than the last players just kind of… stopping. And it can still be picked up after that end. And why do I call it the Campaign? Because it's what the group primarily plays, at least using a specific system. You don't go "hey how about we start a new campaign where we do X?" No, you do X in the Campaign. It's a space where you do stuff, and a good one will accomodate quite a lot.

It's late and I'm rambling. But maybe give the Campaign a try. I'll expand on this if anyone has any questions.

#ttrpgs

prokopetz

The reason you can't be the next J R R Tolkien isn't because you don't have the talent, but because you're not the right kind of unwell. Tolkien wasn't bent for fantasy worldbuilding; he was bent for constructed languages, and got into fantasy worldbuilding in order to provide a material context in which to ground the notional evolution of the languages he invented. If you want to be the next Tolkien, you can't start with the worldbuilding; you've gotta find something extremely specific to fixate on, and develop it in such depth that inventing a world to contain it is genuinely the most logical next step.

prokopetz

#the best route is clearly to get really into a specific kink scenario and invent a world to justify it (via @salix03)

That's not even a joke. Developing a kink scenario so elaborate and so excruciatingly particular that it can only properly be contemplated in the frame of a world created specifically to contain it is genuinely closer to Tolkien's actual creative process than 99% of the stuff that plays at being heir to his legacy.

#ttrpgs #lmao

erikag59

#i have never done meth nor have I ever willingly touched AI

herpsandbirds

Bornean Falconet aka White-fronted Falconet (Microhierax latifrons), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, endemic to Borneo

photos: Akshat K, Kenneth Cheong, Andrew Hunt

#birds

awritersbro

if you see a Jabberwocky in an American National Park i cannot stress this enough you HAVE to report them to the nearest Park ranger. I know, I know, they fill human hearts with terror and whimsy in equal measure, but they are an aggressively invasive species in the Americas. Jackalopes are at risk of becoming extinct because during shedding season they have no natural defences against jaws that bite and claws that catch.

You don't have to worry about them killing it, they're actually endangered in England due to Victorian Era overhunting, so the British government's provided the National Park service with Vorpal Tranquilizer Darts so they can safely transport them to their native British Countryside where they can feast on borogroves and jubjub birds to their hearts' content.

edgar-allan-possum

Jabberwocks are starting to really intrude on the territory of the Snallygaster and crowd them out. Please report when you see them and help preserve our American monsters!

tlaquetzqui

Biologists prefer the term “fearsome critters”, just FYI. They resemble monsters but only due to convergent evolution.

#lmao #rpg inspiration

kcggggg

I collaborated with the Human Artistry Project to make this strip alongside other web cartoonists to make the point that “Stealing isn’t Innovation” when it comes to A.I. usage. It seems to be doing numbers on instagram and elsewhere, so you may also read it here, tumblr.

May the discourse that ensues be long and unhelpful.