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25, mtf (she/her), weird gay, TTRPG and FFXIV nut

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[spectral-mycoblin]

I was inspired by the sheer range of emotion displayed by the osprey and the smug little interloper

[brucebocchi]

PLEASE watch mayonaka punch, especially if you happen to like lesbian disaster vampires

[prokopetz]

This is one of my favourite magic items from the era of Dungeons & Dragons before they figured out how to do keywording, partly for the list of modifiers as long as your arm, but mostly because, okay, +2 versus regenerators and +4 versus undead make some thematic sense, but then right in the middle it's randomly +3 against birds?

[flipchild]

best part about silksong is that some redditor got so furious at people suggesting they reset their mental, take a breather, etc, that they felt compelled to draw this in what I can only assume was a state of blinding rage

[leonaquitaine]

How-To: Budget Studio Mk.III

We've all been there: 50M gil burning white hot in your pocket when a set of Fallen Angel Wings pop in the market board, its siren's call luring you. Now you're utterly fashionable, but regrettably with barely half a mil Gil to your name. What to do?

Well, do not give to despair, my glamorous friend! You can actually build a perfect black background studio to show off your feathery acquisition.

You'll need:

1 x FC Room, or an Apartment

3 x White Screens

1-2 x platforms of your choice

4-5 Soot Black dyes

1 - Setup

Place your White Screens in parallel, in order to completely cover a wall. (This will give you some leeway with angles and point light placement.)

Make sure you leave a considerable gap, of maybe half the length of the base of a White Screen. This is important, as you'll see very soon.

Place the objects you'll use as platforms in front and center of the white panel line, making sure it overlaps with the middle panel. This is where you'll stand: In the example below I floated two Combed Wool Rugs, but any contiguous platform will do (think tables, half-partitions, etc.)

Dye all the objects with Soot Black. No need for the expensive stuff.

Now let's reduce the ambient light, setting it to zero; we'll use only GPose lighting for shots.

2 - What's the catch?

Well, you see - most partitions, like the Blank Riviera partition, have a collision box set around them. If a camera touches it, its path is altered so it doesn't go behind the partition.

White Screens, however, do NOT have a collision box - so you can move your camera behind the partitions, and place your light sources there.

Here's how it looks in gpose - notice how the camera just goes through the partition:

Amazing, right? So the trick is to place light sources behind the panels, in the gap between the back of the panels and the wall; this way, the light won't hit the front surfaces.

The final result is a shot with a perfect pitch-black background, where rim lights can be applied with very intense results:

You can also place Type-1 light points in front, so they offer a very gentle illumination while not hitting the background panels:

Another possible setup: move the character away from the background, and place the light sources around it.

That'll result in shots like this one:

You can also place a point light between the character and the background, to create a halo effect:

The opportunities for dramatic lighting are endless.

Go on, give it a try!

[casket2-deactivated20251011]

What kind of question is this

[niceinchnails]

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

[general-toes]

[prokopetz]

Some have characterised it as a poor business decision when George Lucas started handing out copies of the West End Games Star Wars tabletop RPG to authors of licensed Star Wars media because he didn't feel like writing the setting bible they kept asking for, then proceeded to simply rubber stamp every supplement West End Games put out with minimal review because he couldn't be bothered to read them, thereby creating a situation where, between 1987 and 1998, the canon of the largest transmedia franchise on the planet was essentially being dictated by an unsupervised pack of tabletop RPG nerds from Pennsylvania, but to this I counter: it was also extremely funny.

[girlnephew]

[questionablepastries]

[nickerino]

[pitbolshevik]

i love how jigsaw just fucking hates depressed people

[pitbolshevik]

hello john. i have noticed that you're depressed. that's fucking stupid. you will notice that your penis is in a mousetrap.

[mc-cookies]

Silk & Dagger: A Sensible Drow RPG casts Drow (as they're portrayed in a lot of Forgotten Realms media) as a society of fucked up, comically over the top warrior women with deeply repressed insecurities and extreme superiority complexes. It is very good at portraying these types of women! One media example of this genre of woman is Queen, from Deltarune, and as an exercise to test the robustness of S&D's character creation, I tried to recreate her. It took me all of 15 minutes to create a very accurate and mechanically supported version of her, and most of that time was just me thinking about how to transplant her into S&D's setting.

In particular, the character creation process means that this Drow would be very likely to lounge around on her throne, laugh at people condescendingly, hang around with other people who she shows off to, unpredictably succeed or fail at certain tasks, and do silly bullshit that makes real-world audiences laugh. Any fan of Deltarune will tell you that that is a reasonably good description of how Queen acts throughout most of Chapter 2, and it was effortless to put together in S&D.

Character creation in this game is very easy, and on the Drow mistress side of things, it's very good at creating weird, domineering, hilariously over the top women. Check out the Traits I gave her (listed below the cut) to get a sense of what this game does!

Authoritative Idleness: This Drow gains a +1 Contextual Bonus to any Interpersonal Roll (besides Social Cues) if the Skill check is made while they are the only one in the chamber who is sitting or otherwise lounging casually, such as with her legs crossed, or laying on her side propped up at the hip. She gains an additional +1 Contextual bonus if she is on her throne, and/or an additional +1 bonus if whoever she is speaking to is at a lower elevation.

Laughtracker: This character gains 1 Favor Point every time their actions or dialogue result in at least one player laughing out loud,[1] to a maximum of 1 time per Scene. [1. Sidebar] Meaning players in the real world, not any of the characters in the game world. If any spectators who are not directly participating laugh, that counts too. [Favor, in Silk & Dagger, is a metacurrency that can be exchanged for Boons, which grant advantages on future rolls.]

Noblewoman's Laugh: Up to once per Scene, when this Drow gets a haughty laugh in,[1] partially covering her mouth with her hand, she gains a +1 Contextual bonus to all Interpersonal rolls until the next time she loses Reputation or the end of the Scene. [1. Sidebar] This has to be a situation where it makes any sense for her to be doing a haughty laugh. [Reputation, in Silk & Dagger, is a stat representing how much a Drow is respected, loved, and/or feared by her peers. A PC's Reputation reaching 0 is the main fail state of the game.]

Showboater: This Drow thrives on showing off. Add a +1 Contextual bonus to any Skill roll this Drow makes as long as two or more people are watching her. However, she takes a -1 penalty to all rolls when nobody is watching.

Unpredictable: All rolls for this Drow must be made with a 1D12 instead of the usual 2D6. If using a Boon, add an extra D12 instead of an extra D6 and only count the highest die. [If you're unfamiliar with how probability works with multiple dice, this essentially makes extreme results more likely. With 2d6, the range of roll values is from 2 to 12, but values closer to 6 and 7 are most likely, which in S&D means that Partial Successes are more common. Using 1d12 means that every value from 1 to 12 is equally likely, so the character is more likely to get unexpected full successes or failures.]

[bloodied-wolf]

[fenris-returns]

Black coffee enjoyers fighting the longest war known to man

[girlpatches-deactivated20250530]

hooly fuck you called argonians farmtools that is so funny did it get you a lot of upvotes

[wormgirlmagee]

It's annoying because in the actual lore, argonians are probably the coolest species in the entire series.

[oldschoolfrp]

Lewis Pulsipher’s rules for playing a pack of blink dogs as a single player character in AD&D (from “My Life as a Werebear:  D&D Monster Character Classes”, White Dwarf 17, Feb/Mar 1980; with Tom Wham’s illustration)  The same article covered werebear, lammasu, and stone giant PCs.

[notallmensheviks]

it’s fucking bullshit that a pack of teleporting dogs can’t be a lord

[oldschoolfrp]

They are a decentralized self-regulating pack of dogs whose individual members share equal status.  They are the purest form of autonomous collective.

[somarysueme]

If anyone ever wonders where the idea for my fic “What if Nona Was Dogs?” came from. It’s actually this post. It has always been this post.

[oldschoolfrp]

This post and its notes are crossing my dash again like a gift to myself from the past. I had missed this before — I need to go look up a fic.

[chryza]

Dear video essay creators. A video analysis is when you analyze a piece of media. No no look at me. A summary, no matter how thorough, is not an analysis. An analysis requires you to draw conclusions about the media such as authorial intent, real-world parallels, discussion about themes/worldbuilding/character motivation, and so much more. You have to stop summarizing something and saying that’s analysis. The Gaylors are doing more critical analysis than you. Is that who you want to lose to? The gaylors?

[speed-bi-demon]

I remember clicking on a video that was called something like “How Emerson Lake & Palmer influenced video game music” and I was sooooo eager to watch it because there are truly references of their music in so many games…

It was a summary of their album Brain Salad Surgery (which anyone who would click on the video would probably already know) sprinkled with some boomer remarks on today’s music and then the guy just mentioned a couple of songs from the FF series and the Tarkus summon from Dark Souls 1. That’s it. I never click the dislike button on a video and I had to do it on one about one of my favourite band. Sigh

[lorkhanagendaposting]

"A society that separates its lore masters from its horny posters will have its headcanons written by prudes and its erotic fanfic by fools."