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[aetherixs]

listening to NADDPOD as an avid D20 fan is wild because every time a paladin casts 'detect good and evil' i expect the classic brennan response of "you don't detect good or evil, but rather an absence of energy that seems to disturb the environment around you. it's impossible to describe because you've never felt this sensation before... a mysterious aura pulses around you at a frequency that sounds like both the ending and beginning of all things" and murph will be like "yo that sword is straight up EVIL dude that is 100% a cursed sword"

[somestarstuff]

every young old derf chronicles episode is a top tier episode for me and im so sad they're only planning a limited number of episodes and that it takes them so long to come out with a new one but also so worth it

ahh now I gotta relisten to mtz again

[lazarus-lazuli]

i have no comment this is just the funniest fucking thing i’ve seen all day

[vincenzonova]

What's his alignment? Who the hell cares, my boy Wealwell majored in Reposed Standing

[saintofwhimsy]

the bad kids all have to take a mandatory sex ed class together and they somehow end up having to take care of a fake baby for a week and they have never been more stressed

[ecopunkhoneybee]

would LOVE a fantasy high plot line where some of Gorgug's shitty racist relatives visit to sorta "give him a chance" and as soon as Gorgug is aware they're there, he is on his absolute worst behavior. swearing, blasting vulgar music from his room, dressing more punk, hiding his (very good) report cards. of course he gets his friends in on it. he gets Fig and Ragh to hang around as much as possible, even trying to get Ragh to wear a leather jacket or something. he shows up with a new piercing. he gets Fabian to come over in full pirate gear. Riz comes over and pretends to steal from the tree. Adaine comes over and mentions she killed her dad. the plan eventually falls through when Kristen shows up wearing a fake pregnancy belly claiming it's his and neither of them can keep a straight face about it

[istralius]

i like men in pretty dresses giggles

i had to draw it i saw that dress here

and I instantly knew what i had to do nods

[stone-stars]

Typed up the character descriptions!

Slug Slapdash (Emily) - Orc, Path of the Experiment Barbarian - Slug Slapdash could not be more different than that droid. Slug is an adrenaline junkie, a speed freak. She's ripped to the tits, juiced to the gills. She's a cybernetically enhanced orc, a.... cyb-orc, if you like puns. And if you don't like 'em, you can kick rocks! I'm wearing roller blades, I got a fanny pack of loose syringes, I got a goalie mask with the cage up, I got a deviated septum from a broken nose that didn't heal right, and I'm blowin bubble gum through the tooth I'm missin'

Atom Rom (Caldwell) - Robot, Spellslinger (Gunslinger subclass from Valda's Spire of Secrets) - Hello, my name is Atom Rom, I am a small boxy robot made from an ATM machine and several salvaged gnomish automaton parts. My life began as a simple coin exchange machine, but then my creator Elmer upgraded me so that I could better defend myself against thieves and vandals. Due to my appearance, I serve as the Killscreen scout and spy, since I am able to easily hide amongst other robots and appliances. My face is not very expressive, but I make up for that by wearing extremely loud hawaiian shirts. My favorite is one featuring tigers riding in sports cars and smoking big cigarettes. I run the prize counter at Killscreen Arcade. My most prominent item that I have secured for the arcade is a glass AK-47 filled with bubblegum.

Aux O'Connor (Jake) - Fox, Battlesmith Artificer* - The first thing you're gonna notice is that he's a fox. He's an actual fox. So he stands on two feet, he's tall and angular, with orange fur, and a white patch around his mouth. He's got pointy fox ears with black fur at the edges, and he wears kind of like this tech jumpsuit that's hand made but close fitting, almost like a formula 1 car all around his body. As a battlesmith I also have a steel defender which I named Rova, basically looks like a Yeti with two tank treads. And as I'm watching this I put down a telescoping helm with just a thin black slit in front of the eyes, I pound on the side, and digital eyes blink and open up as I'm watching.

*Jake said he was planning on taking a level of fighter too.

[careydraws]

Less than four months left!! I'm SUPER excited to talk about the two exclusive editions available at BAM & B&N-- I think we'll get to reveal them within a week-ish! But in the meantime:

Preorders are open at theadventurezonecomic.com !!

Here's a version that's a direct crop of the actual page:

and a tumblr exclusive: here's the bottom of that big splash panel without a ton of giant text over it! @mcelroyfamilystaff

[starlitmyre]

NEED him (to lose my entire life savings at roulette)

[junietuesday]

listening to four millenial, white, (75%) cishet comedians stumble upon the concept of a queerplatonic relationship because there is simply no other way to describe hardwon and moonshine’s feelings abt each other is a beautiful thing…….. “i dont think it’s like moonshine and hardwon get married!, i think its like, they go out looking for girls together and come back together at the end of the night to share one big bed” “sometimes it would be more platonic, sometimes it would be more romantic”……… the ship of all time lowkey………

[avatheoak]

My Bad Kids 🫶

Started rewatching Freshman Year and god I’ve missed them so much, they were just little babies and they had no idea what adventures awaited them 😭🤍

[raspberrydrewthese]

Welcome to Febubarry World

[notatzimisce]

You know, one of the most shameful consequences of scifi/game authors not knowing shit is cyberpsychosis, or Essence, or whatever in-universe asspull for a mechanical limiter on how much cyberware you can cram into a character sheet.

There is an easy excuse in real life! You may not be able to get both a pacemaker and a DBS device because they're both pieces of sensitive equipment that could theoretically interfere with each other, and nobody engineered them not to. Trivially you can extrapolate this to all cybernetics. If your various augs weren't Specifically designed not to mess with each other (and of course the various megacorps might take things a step further, making their shit actively hostile to mix-and-matching), you might have problems; and obviously, the more pieces of hardware you've patchworked yourself with, the worse things get. You'd have to be one real crazy motherfucker to tell a back-alley doctor to load you up with whatever they've got.

It's more grounded and more realistic and less shitty and it actively enhances the atmosphere of cyberpunk in a way that "losing your humanity" does not. we are missing out on much because none of these writers know anything about how medtech works

[by-ilmater]

YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! YOU CAN CRAFT A COMPLETE SENTENCE! YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! YOU USE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF COMMAS! YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! YOUR PROSE IS GOOD AND RIGHT! YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS YOUR VISION!

[wizard-loving-wizard]

[thatoneacecryptid]

For the record, I happen to think 20 Make It Stick: Toss the Sauce was pretty good