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Im always so curious about why people think you cant do stuff like political mystery in dnd when so many actualplays have shown how you can pretty much do anything with the base rules. A court of fey and flowers, mice and murder, a crown of candy, calamity etc. And most of those are just d20. If you look farther afield you can find almost anything. And yes acofaf uses other game mechanics in dnd but i think theres a reason that they chose to add those to dnd instead of using that system entirely.

I like the skill system of dnd and imo you can use it for anything. Maybe your game has no combat, now its super fun to create characters who excel outside of combat and there's so many ways to do that.

Ive played and learned other systems but often times the rules and moves are too specific for me. I like deception, investigation, perception, etc. Those things are so general that it gives so much freedom with what you do with them. As a dm it means i almost never have to look at a rule book.

I'm not knocking other systems, they can be great I'm sure. But i am tired of the takes that dnd cant be used for all kinds of games. Because it already is and its incredibly fun and isnt that the point?

(Also when the ogl debacle happened and i was talking about it with my groups, many people said they could not afford/didnt have any time to learn a new system. So let people use what they have and know to make anything. Its about creativity and joy.)

THINGS I AM UNREASONABLY ANNOYED ABOUT BY GAME SYSTEM

D&D: Please put a disclaimer that you are not a universal system. Every time I see someone try to do a political mystery game in D&D, I take 3d10 psychic damage and have to make a death saving throw.

Pathfinder: Look. If i wanted to play a game about fighting Cthulhu there is an extremely famous game specifically designed around doing that. Literally no-one is ever going to say "Wow, I want to play a Cthulhu themed game! Time to stat up a musical halfling from a magical fantasy land!".

Chronicles Of Darkness: Just admit no-one uses any of your rules. You have Social Door Rules and Integrity Conditions and Corruption Levels and I bet at most 50% of COD players could tell me which of those I made up. Just admit people aren't dressing up as Alucard The Bringer Of Shadows because they want to sit down and do calculus.

World Of Darkness: You know that old guy who's still doing his job even though he is way too old to do it any more, but he's now an institution so you can't get rid of him? Like that. The 90s called and they want literally everything about this back.

Call Of Cthulhu: I appreciate the commitment to authenticity, but maybe stop hiring actual disgraced mental asylum directors from the 1920s to design your sanity system?

GURPS: Look. Look. Listen. We both know that you just want to write history textbooks. These are history textbooks with a few stat blocks begrudgingly put in. If you just give me a book on early Chinese history I will read it and go "ah, very interesting!". You don't need to put in a list of character choices. We're all nerds. We'll read them. Live your best life.

Powered By The Apocalypse: I actually can't think of anything wrong with PBTA. That's not a bit, this is literally the perfect system. Take notes everyone else.

Mutants and Masterminds/Heroes System: Your systems have probably the most customizable character creation in the world and you both just make reskins of the Justice League over and over again. Maybe we only need one "thinly veiled copyrighted characters" setting? You can fight over it once you decipher your combat mechanics.

FATE: Ok I won't lie, I have no idea how the fuck FATE works. I have read the rules repeatedly and played three games and I still have no idea what invoking an aspect means. I don't know why. I grasped the rules of fucking Nobilis but this one just psychologically eludes me. This is more a problem with me I guess, but I'm still annoyed.

Warhammer 40k: Have you considered spending less on avocado toast? Then you might be able to afford to charge less for things?

Exalted: Apart from the lore, the setting, the mechanics, the metaplot, the character creation and the dodgy narrative implications, I can't think of anything to improve here.

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i am indifferent towards your shoelaces

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me 🤝 siobhan

firmly believing that stacks will save them all

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King Prilbus: "You will submit to coming"

Zac:

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Camina Drummer, Queen of the Universe™, from The Expanse. *heart eyes* Just wanted to do a study of her. I used this screencap:

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i have no problem with this stuff being spelled out in an article bc it’s important history people esp north americans should be aware of but like how did u not think about this until now. how did u think stede bonnet a white man got so rich in the fucking caribbean. how do u think anyone in history got rich. how are u only just realizing this

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When I was a kid, I thought those pillars went down to the sea floor.

In reality, they usually go down to some large submerged floats.

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“Can you believe that you, too, are someone’s altar? You are someone’s wildest dream.”

— Desireé Dallagiacomo, from Sink (via buttonpoetry)

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a recent cartoon for New Scientist

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I’m not letting go. I can’t. I love you too damn much.

THE MATRIX RELOADED (2003)

Dir. Lilly and Lana Wachowski

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Siobhan Thompson Icons

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I wrote a 15 page paper about the construction of identity in fantasy high and the importance of ayda's autistic representation and I need other people to know that, thanks

edit: if you're coming across this now, I have posted it in the reblogs

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"our flag means death what we do in the shadows and good omens should be the new superwholock" WRONG our flag means death black sails and pirates of the caribbean should be the new superwholock except now they're all pirate media with canonically queer people in them. like I cannot BELIEVE how soon you people forgot that jack sparrow is literally canonically gay divorced

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𝕺𝖚𝖗 𝕱𝖑𝖆𝖌 𝕸𝖊𝖆𝖓𝖘 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 | Lucius Spriggs + Lucius/Black Pete icons

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Credit is not necessary but appreciated ♡

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sway ♥

until we get S2 i will be pretending that nothing bad happened to them ever and that stede is teaching ed to waltz 

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Big news for fans of ND Stevenson, as the creator of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power announced today that they will finally get to see Nimona, the animated fantasy film based on their beloved graphic novel, come to fruition.

The movie was initially set up at Fox and Blue Sky Studios, but after Disney acquired them in 2020, the Mouse House shut down the animated studio and scrapped the film. Today, Netflix confirms it is saving the movie and will release it in 2023.

Nimona already started production again early last year with DNEG Animation, and we have a first-look image. The streamer released a peek at character renderings for the titular heroine, voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz, and Ballister Boldheart, voiced by Riz Ahmed. Eugene Lee Yang has also been cast as Ambrosius Goldenloin.

"Nimona's always been a spunky little story that just wouldn't stop," Stevenson tweeted. "She's a fighter…but she's also got some really awesome people fighting for her."