Practicing with my new tablet. Drawing up some Gary Batu (my boi).
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Mushrooms and fungi as a recurring theme in NADDPOD is so perfect it actually kills me
Fungi are decomposers. They break down the dead and transforms it into new life. When something dies, you think that’s the end of the story. You think it’s time is finished. But then the fungus creeps in, breaking down the dead and using it to create new life.
And NADDPOD is the campaign after the campaign. The adventures and conflicts the heroes have to overcome only exist because of the campaigns that came before. Campaigns that everyone thought they were finished. Everyone thought those stories were over. Dead, done, and buried.
But those campaign weren’t truly over. They weren’t left untouched in history. Over time, the remnants of those conflicts changed the world in ways that created new challenges for new heroes. The dead campaigns broke down to create the foundations for new ones.
Then heroes of those campaigns that could only exist because the things before them ended are drawn time and time again to the organism that create new life from death. I just can’t….
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Particular shoutout to last week's Great Flood campaign session in which the party demonstrates that we are a well-oiled machine, competent and intelligent, maybe a bit rough around the edges but with hearts of gold and nerves of steel, the kind of unpolished gems that can be trusted to build and defend the future of Luiren.
So our first big quest was looting--WITH PERMISSION--the primary temple of the biggest nearby city, in order to steal a sacred cornucopia that we hoped to use to feed the growing refugee camp near my fighter/druid Sedge Burdock's hometown of Merryfaire, one of the very few settlements left intact after the titular great flood. As part of the deal, the high priestess let us keep everything else of value.
One of the magical items we looted was an enchanted cavalier's saddle. None of us have a mount and Sedge's opinion of it was "kinky" and nothing else, but we kept it and are petulantly refusing to sell it on the reasoning of "just in case" crossed with "fuck off we stole this fair and square".
Anyway. Our next quest sent us on an overland route, so despite extended complaining, Sedge wildshaped into a riding horse (think something of a cross between a mustang and an exmoor pony) so that Korel, the sahuagin totally normal wood elf sorcerer and only member of the party she likes, could ride her there using the saddle and also so she wouldn't have to talk to anybody.
Korel, who lives in the ocean and has literally never seen a horse before this moment, rolled a natural 2 on his attempt to figure out how to ride one.
This sparked an hour-long (in-universe) series of absolute slapstick bullshit in which Korel tried and failed to get onto the horse, random local halflings kept trying to help but were significantly too small to get on the horse--
Our newly-minted and deeply insufferable warlock just gave up on us entirely and spent an hour performing their once-per-day ritual of creating a potion of healing Summon Mineral Water.
So they triumphantly finish summoning their mineral water, Korel finally manages to climb into the saddle and triumphantly punches the air in celebration of having Mastered The Art Of Horsemanship--
At which exact moment, because Sedge only actually has two levels in Druid, the Wildshape times out and she turns back into a halfling with a sahuagin on her back.
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Openly ranting to your friends in the middle of a crowded diner on a Saturday afternoon about how madly in love you are with all of the intrepid heroes + Brennan is something everyone should experience at least once I highly recommend
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Ridley Scott: I made a film about two rival officers constantly duelling throughout and in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and now I've actually done a film about Napoleon!
Me: Great! Could you also do a film about Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, a vital innovator in European battlefield surgery and triage, often considered the first military surgeon; who pioneered the ambulance volantes ("Flying ambulances") to quickly transport wounded men from the battlefield, effectively creating a forerunner of the modern MASH units; co-led the team that performed one of the first accurately recorded pre-anaesthetic mastectomies in Western medicine; was spotted helping wounded men while under heavy fire during the Battle of Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington who purposefully ordered for his soldiers not to fire in Larrey's direction; and when captured by the Prussians after the battle was about to be executed on the spot when he was recognised by one of the German surgeons, who pled for his life because he had saved the life of Field Marshall Blücher's son some years earlier?
Ridley Scott:
Ridley Scott: Um.
Me: Yeah. Didn't think so.
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btw every time i want to know if cellbit's played a game i either check his twitchtracker games page and/or search up the game + cellbit on youtube and because he's played every game ever usually you can find at bare minimum an unofficial vod or the vod still up on twitch & twitchtracker shows you how long and when in the vod he played it
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Episode 12 of fhsy is actually my fav shit ever. Gilear being stuck in the wheel for a whole day and his subsequent makeover. Ally's fucking dental dam bit. The Ayda/Fig scene (and Lou and Ally's reactions). Emily's "can I get a help action from the hot tub jets" and Murph and Zac's immediate reactions. Crachos. All the seafood party jokes happening in the background. This cast is gonna kill me
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