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do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. not unless you are using MLA formatting

#sounds like suvi to me... #suvirin kedberiket #the wizard sky #suvi the wizard #twtwatwo #wwwo #wbn wwwo

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What does Taliesin Jaffe do while making his characters that makes me love them so much? Every character he plays is constantly my absolute favorite no questions asked.

Also they are all peak gender to me. I want what they have.

#genuinely #taliesin jaffe #he is everything i wish i could be

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So tomorrow afternoon, we're gonna have a whole new crop of people terrified, distraught, and yet sliiightly aroused once the VOD drops.

#slightly??? #i mean yeah. terrified and distraught. definitely... #candela obscura

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Orym's deal with Nana is off. If he survives it all he can go back to Zephrah, serve the Tempest, travel with Fearne, work in The Slayer's Cake bakery, teach swordsmanship to young fighters like Derrig taught him, reunite with Dorian, let himself love again. He is off the hook, he can have a life. And another person dear to him is dead. Otohan Thull killed someone right before his very eyes again and he couldn't stop it, he was too weak to lift his sword and swing it at her more times, so tired, standing up for his friends and for the memory of his family, swaying on his feet. Another bright soul, because of course Letters had a soul, Orym never doubted it, gone, sacrificed so he could live. When it was Orym who planned to sacrifice HIS future for the Bells. Always the survivor. Savior Blade of the Tempest who couldn't save his friend. Orym may be free from his fey deal. Will HE let himself be free and live after all of this is the real question though.

#it's that last sentence for sure... #orym of the air ashari

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[sits up suddenly in a cold sweat] what if my corpse doesn't rot

#sounds like a nightmare cad would havw #cadeuces clay

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A group of friends and I did a one shot recently in 5e. The catch is that they play something called “Dude Squad” where the only play “dudes” (not exclusively male people, just dude mentality) and they hate all magic and magic users. They think true strength is muscles and only muscles, and have in the past encountered magic users who they then convince to give up magic.

We got told to build a level 17 character for this one shot, most of the other folks had previous Dude Squad characters to resurrect. But I didn’t really want to play a straight martial class. In my heart, spellcasters are my true class, and I didn’t really have a strong idea of what kind of character to make.

So I approached the DM and said, “Hey, I have this idea to play a character that pretends to be a martial class but is actually a magic caster?” My girlfriends character is an aasimar who thinks he’s Thor and my backstory was that after meeting him and falling for him she decided to invest heavily in deceptive magic so as not to alienate him.

And my DM. Loved it. So he helped me build an extremely custom character. Two levels in Hexblade warlock gave her a good weapon and the ability to cast disguise self pretty much nonstop to appear buffer than she actually was.

Then there was four levels in Stone sorcerer in order to get 4 sorcery points, the ability to use those points to cast using Subtle Spell and no one could tell she’s casting, and to buff her AC.

Finally there was 11 Bladesong wizard levels in order to get some attack bonuses, even more AC, extra attacks, and the ability to burn spells to take less damage.

So the whole time I was burning spell slots to recharge my sorcery points every time I cast things like Haste and Spider Climb and use my Bladesong powers. We busted through walls and smashed our way through puzzles. We lied and said my character was a Barbarian/Monk so they didn’t bat and eye when she ran on walls with spider climb, but no one noticed when even after dashing she “held onto the stone wall” without any kind of check.

The final battle: the goblin wizard boss we were fighting had cast invulnerability on himself and had our friend mind controlled. So I’m trying to cover for not attacking as I try to dispel his invulnerability. I can no longer run on walls, or make the jumps my party is making on floating platforms over a spike pit so I try to use my actions on other helpful things like tying ropes for friends in the pit. I manage to dispel the magic on our friend but I burned almost all my spells trying to secretly dispel the boss’ spell and finally we just ended up grappling and suffocating him then pummeling him to death.

But at the last moment as we’re running out of this horrible goblin mansion I’m running down a wall and my friends are climbing down. The building says there’s 6 seconds left and my very injured love interest is not gonna make it so my character shouted “Fuckfuckfuck!” Ran over and cast dimension door to bring them both to safety. (Two people got left in the blast but both survived cause Dude Power). Then I critically failed my deception about how I had used magic and came clean and everyone lost their shit when they heard what we’d done. Her final confession, after dropping her buff disguise self, was, “When I met Kathor I really liked him and he freakin’ hates magic so I just kinda figured out how to hide that I was castin’ magic cause I though we might go to pound town.”

Kathor then declared, “I’ve never had someone try so hard to get in my pants!” And swept her up and they messily made out. It was deeply satisfying the wonders that DnD can create, like making a whole class based on the lie that you’re not spellcasting.

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anyway laerryn would've released predathos by now

#aabria iyengar #laerryn coramar seelie #predathos

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C3 E92 spoiler (I also posted just the image, no text/sound in a separate post) - This is my first time playing with adding sound and text. I considered animating it but I didn't have time (and I have other images I want to work on).

Critical Message

Image by LYuenger (me) - voice of Liam O'Brien on Critical Role

Orym after battle, sitting knees to his chest with his arms wrapped around them. In one hand is a glowing sending stone, in the left he's holding the right shoulder (with the double moon tattoo). He's looking up to the sky with a tear running down his cheek. Shield laying on the ground behind him, and both his swords strapped to his back..

#i'm cry #orym of the air ashari #art

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Thinking always of Caleb being Kingsley's first love--

#makes my heart instantly melt into a puddle #just... them. so... soft. #kingsley tealeaf #caleb widogast #widomauk

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my mind has been consumed by Nott (brain rott)

anyways. I like the lineart of the first drawing better but whatever. I painted the pen doodles from earlier though and I adore them

#nott!!! #nott the brave #art

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ah, yes, *checks the smuged writing on my palm* uuh. Um. Larissa Coriander-Silly and her ex, Bodacious Silly

#laerryn coramar seelie #loquatious seelie #loquaerryn #exu calamity

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god i just. i need to rewatch campaign 2. that takes so much energy though. but also. i need it. i miss them so much i am actually going insane ohmgyod

#i finished re-re-listening to it the other day #and it has taken every ounce of willpower i have in me to not immediately start it over #i managed to get myself to re-listen to exu prime first #but it's very likely i'll go back to c2 as soon as i finish #they're 1000% my comfort characters and i don't think i'll ever get tired of them #c2 #i miss the mighty nein #m9

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Tumblr Top Ships Bracket - Round 1 Side 1

This poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

Shadowgast art by Lap Pun Cheung

#SHADOWGAST SWEEP as it should be #my lovely boys #shadowgast #polls

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while i love Matt's DMing and his storytelling, how he allows his players to create truly wonderful and emotional moments, i have to say i love how @quiddie also creates those moments as well, how she constructs the skeleton and structure of them and how she puts the players into them, says feel this, hear it, this is happening, and then sits back and watches gleefully.

#this (along with finishing my re-re-listen of tm9) inspired me to start listening to exu prime again #she brings so much life into the spaces she creates for her players but leaves so many fuzzy boundaries they can explore if they want #and i loooove that cr has opened up to so many different styles of play through new dms and players!! #and seeing matt as a pc while aabria dms exandria is just sooooo wholesome and lovely #matthew mercer #aabria iyengar

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Orym is struggling. ❤️‍🩹

#hey hi this shattered my heart again #i thought i had recovered. but i have been proved wrong. #orym of the air ashari #just a sad lil' guy #art

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#orym of the air ashari

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in regards to orym only admitting how badly he's struggling to dorian/always reaching for the sending stone instead of his current party members, I suspect it's because dorian's not with the team right now, and therefore he's not someone orym feels he needs to be strong for. orym has been told he's the moral center of his party numerous times (ashton has even admitted to him that this isn't fair! but it's still how he's perceived) in addition to being a keep-a-stiff-upper-lip-and-support-your-friends kind of guy. if he cracks, he's got to be afraid that's going to have a ripple effect on the stability of the group. so of course he's going to reach out to the one party member he doesn't feel he has to support, where it won't effect the larger dynamics of the group, who also happens to be someone who is removed from/untouched by the kind of trauma and heartbreak the party has been dealing with and feels more connected to a past that was kinder. dorian is the ideal candidate for orym to open up to emotionally, well beyond any shipping lenses

#this is a huge part of why i think i relate so deeply to him especially recently #he's just a lil guy who needs more support than the rest of the hells can currently give #i just need a dorym reunion. i think it would fix a little part of my soul. #orym of the air ashari #dorian storm #dorym #<- sorta