#did not expect the dnd options tho

[devilsrecreation]

Outlander drawing prompts I got from Wannadraw

- Jasiri gardening

or as Deadpool

or as a model

- Madoa as a warlock

or as a popstar

or steampunk

- Janja drawing a picture of himself

or chibi style

or as a popstar

- Chungu as an evil queen (king)

or wearing an outfit made of flowers

or as an artificer

- Cheezi made of cheese (hehe…CHEESE-i)

or playing with fireworks

or skydiving

- Nne riding a dragon into combat (a komodo dragon lol)

as a demon

or as a puppet

- Tano adopting 50+ cats (bonus if they’re all disney cats)

or dancing in a music video

or as a bard

- Mzingo chibi style

or as a cowboy

or if he was one of the mean girls

- Mwoga as a lego character

or going to prom

or as a ranger

- Reirei as a bard

or rocking a ballgown

or at the Olympics

- Goigoi going to highschool (new au??)

or on Valentine’s Day

or traveling the desert

- Dogo if he was a disney prince

or sporting a giant anime sword

or as a superhero (SUPER JACKAL)

- Kiburi wearing 50’s clothing

or dressed like Nicki Minaj (WHEEZE)

or gardening

- Tamka as a model

or drawn in hayao miyazaki’s style

or on Valentine’s Day

- Nduli as a barbarian

or flying on a magic carpet

or as a Mortal Combat character

- Neema as a rogue

or running from a bear

or surfing

- Shupavu as a llama

or as a druid

or as a character from your fav video game

- Njano as a plant person

or as a wizard

or stranded on an island

- Kenge as a druid

or as a pirate (PIRATE AU?????)

or made of cheese

- Sumu going to a Ren faire

or stranded on an island

or as a ballerina

- Ushari climbing a tree

or drop dead gorgeous

or wearing a bikini (ig as a human-)

Bonus: Vitani’s guard

- Vitani falling in love with an ice cream

- Shabaha as a warlock

- Kasi cooking

- Imara in Lady Gaga’s clothes (bonus if she wears her meat dress)

- Tazama as a character from your favorite video game

Double bonus: Makuu and Hodari

- Makuu if he was two inches tall

or in a Halloween costume

or as an angel

- Hodari at comicon

or as a paladin

or wearing an outfit made of flowers

#the bolded ones are ones that i’d do if i could draw #i find it funny how nne gets cool prompts and meanwhile tano’s there with a cat army #kiburi would rock 50’s clothing but him dressed as nicki minaj 😭😭😭😭😭 #i’d love to draw the outlanders in the chibi style omg #but mzingo as a cowboy could be interesting #who gave dogo a sword that’s what i wanna know #OH BUT REIREI WOULD TOTALLY ROCK A BALLGOWN #i wonder what goigoi would do for reirei on v-day awww #tamka would make a great model and nduli would be the cutest barbarian #but nduli on a magic carpet would be hilarious #cheezi made of cheese is too perfect but him playing with fireworks is so in character #neema visited the tree of life and fucked up #the rogue thing is cool tho #did not expect the dnd options tho #BUT HOW TF WOULD SHUPAVU LOOK AS A LLAMA?!?!! HFHFHGGHFFF #best make her a shapeshifter #kenge would be an awesome pirate but he’s love to be a druid so he can turn into a dragon #njano would make the cutest wizard tho #also sumu’s on the island of madagascar he’s gonna move it move it #uahari has the most normal ones but honestly he deserves it #except the bikini one lmao #though ig the drop dead gorgeous option would have to be him in a human au #drawing prompts #if anyone wants to draw any of these go ahead #the lion guard

[lucrezianoin]

Should I play this Rogue Trader game I don't know a thing about it or warhammer but I'm uhh love stories with characters in them

I love owlcat games! Have you played the two pathfinders too?

Rogue Trader is a LOT of fun if you like isometric rpgs. I think if you have not played the two pathfinder games, this is my recommendaton list!

Pathfinder kingmaker: Best romance options in my opinion (tho I have not played the Rogue Trader romance yet) with my fav being the polyamory with Octavia and Regongar, easiest story and lore as it is sort of DnD adjacent, amazing companions, the kingdom management is a bit tricky but can be made easier with some mods. The downside is that the story is a bit too easy, maybe, as in there is no particular bit plot twist and it is quite linear. The combat sucks.

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous: Amazing story. My favorite, it has some great surprises. The companions are all great, but I did not enjoy the romance options that much. Incredible level of personalization for your character (mythic paths on top of the usual one). The story tho is a bit too complex, I found myself scratching my head at some of the lore. The combat is the same as Kingmaker so meh, and I was not a fan of this version of the "kingdom management".

Rogue Trader: for now I can say the story is very interesting and the lore is amazing, quite well descrived and much less confusing than Wrath, in my opinion. The companions are all great but do not expect... good ones. Everyone makes me want to lock them up in cells. Romance option I still have not met a companion that I want to romance, but my option will appear in chapter 3. The combat is so much better, it is turn based a la Baldur's Gate 3 or Shadowrun, it is much more fun than the other two games.

#rogue trader #pathfinder kingmaker #pathfinder wrath of the righteous

[tau1tvec]

Hey! I see loads of people posting BG3 recently and I have to say I’m extremely tempted. I’ve never played a game style like it however, and I’m worried I’ll find it too challenging? How do you find the play style, and do you think it’s easy to grasp? Thanks!

Compared to the previous installments, it’s way more beginner friendly. There’s an option to choose difficulty at the start of a new save if you’re the type who’s more interested in experiencing a story, as opposed to challenging combat.

Now as for being “easy to grasp”, it’s based off of DnD, so if you’ve got some idea of what that entails, it will be, if not, it might feel a bit awkward at first, but the beginner friendliness of BG3 ties into this as well. There will be a lotta reading involved, but much of it is there for you in the UI, all the races, classes and skills have explanations, it’s just up to you whether you wanna take the time to utilize it. Which tbf, I find it all incredibly fascinating, fluid and well done, to the point where I’ll purposefully spend a good chunk of my game time reading anything and everything, interacting with objects on the map, and getting as much lore out of the story and characters as possible.

The combat is great too once you get the hang of it, but just like the tabletop, this game excels in its social aspects, by interacting with the NPC’s, and the world around them.

Only real issues I’ve experienced so far with the game, is some minor glitches, mostly in cutscenes. The character creator is also quite weak compared to others I’ve tried, but only really in the looks category, but if you’ve got the patience to learn how to install them, mods help. Everything else, like choosing your background and class, is pretty detailed tho.

These are all just my personal opinions however, but if you’re interested, I highly recommend hitting up YouTube, as I did b4 buying it ( or any game for that matter ), and just watching some playthroughs to see the game in action, bc it’s hard to explain it all in words, and just bc a lotta other ppl are enjoying it, doesn’t mean you will too, and that’s okay, it really comes down to what you yourself personally expect out of a game, a $60 one at that.

#asks #anon

[cynicaldesire]

Since I’m having trouble writing, I’ll just make an update post. Maybe that’ll help me feel better, get some things off my chest.

Not much to get off my chest tho. My husband had a like 2week break and we sat around mostly playing Monster Hunter Rise for the duration.

Shortly before his break, though, I was having chest pain and a toothache. My teeth have looked pretty gnarly and my gums have been receding for a while but language barrier so we’ve been too scared to go to a dentist. But we have to now because I started have Chest Pain.

My husband’s father died from heart failure. So I kept expecting my chest pain to go away so I wouldn’t have to scare him with it. But after like day 4, when the pain hadn’t gone away, I finally broke down and told him about it. He had like 3 days of work, so we agreed that I would be super careful and we lost a lot of sleep, but I checked my heart rate using my phone and tried to take it easy until my husband’s break started. We headed to the big hospital like a block away from the clinic we usually go to just in case my chest pain was serious. We struggle our way through language barriers and I explain my symptoms to the doctor. It was mostly some burning pain at the time. Doctor has me get an ECG and some bloodwork. He tells me the ECG is normal so my actual heart muscle is fine, but the bloodwork says my liver is inflamed in response to something, but it’s not an infection, so he’s gonna prescribe me some NSAIDs and tells me to come back in a week. My husband says that I also have been having some tooth pain. The doctor freezes with a thinky face and says to get my teeth checked and to come back in a week. We ask if he has any suggestions on dentists. He says NOPE! and leaves. We head to checkout and while waiting for them to process my stuff, the doctor stops by checkout also and I’m like Hey. He nods and heads out. We spent a total of like... 4 hours there. Total. For the ECG, the bloodwork, etc.

Go home, take the meds, try to take care of my teeth, get Listerine. Sit around and try to take it easy for a week. We go back, the burning is gone and my teeth have overcome their problem. Doc asks if I’m okay now, I say yeah, seem to be, but now I have random pinchy pains. He says I should come back in a month. Husband and I can’t so the doctor is like Okay well, you’re fine, but if it gets bad again... Come back.

Due to my being broke, uninsured, and having a chronic illness, I do a lot of armchair doctoring on myself. There’s a limit to it, of course, but I try to research my own health issues or treatments after visiting a doctor. I found so much more information on PCOS on sites like fucking Reddit than by going to a doctor for years. So after the doctor told me I was okay, I looked up why I might have chest pain if it wasn’t related to a heart attack or something. And one of the options was a pulled muscle.

I thought back to the week before the chest pain started. Other than the toothache and swollen gums, I had been doing a bunch of exercise. I did a bunch of Ringfit and hip lifts and situps and stuff. And I was like Hm. Did I injure my chest muscle overdoing the Ringfit?

I, of course, informed the parents of all of this. My husband’s mother was informed and I was worried she would be deeply upset because she lost her husband to heart problems. But then both parents were like “You went to the doctor? You have medications? Well you seem to have it under control, so let’s bitch about my problems.” Meanwhile, I’m over here having trouble sleeping because I’m worried I won’t wake up. But okay. When my husband went back to work, I Skype’d with my mother and she seemed more irritated that I had interrupted her evening than happy to talk to me or worried about my Chest Pain. Also my dad has to get up at like 3am, so when I called her, she was worried her getting loud and animated as we do was going to wake him up.

(husband’s mental health doctor struggles and a story about library card nonsense under the cut)

Husband has also been seeking professional help because he believes he has ADHD. He’s been having a lot of problems, mostly mentally and emotionally, and he traced all the issues he’s having to ADHD. So he went to an English-speaking psychiatrist for medication. The shrink said he wanted to treat the anxiety before the ADHD in case anxiety is the only issue. My husband, due to his job, is very good at asking questions, so he asked the doctor how many people he prescribes this medication to. And he said 100% of his patients. Well, the medication didn’t seem to help, so on the followup appointment, the doctor said Oh, you’re just taking too much. My husband was like It’s supposed to reduce my anxiety, but instead it’s making my anxiety worse, it’s giving me mood swings, and generally making me very angry. And also sex is more difficult. Doc said I’m gonna reduce the dosage because I can’t treat your ADHD without getting rid of the anxiety. Husband came out of the appointment angry and defeated. But now he’s taking less (and it might be helping?)

Soooo yeah. I try to brush my teeth at least once a day (up from the like once every 20 years I did it before) and I use the No alcohol Listerine in place of brushing sometimes because you can. I skimmed an article about how to take good care of your teeth and it said to not actually rinse when you brush and mouthwash in place of brushing sometimes. I drink almost exclusively soda so I try not to drink any for at least 30minutes after brushing or mouthwash.

We hung out with the friends a couple weeks ago and they said we should start up a new DnD campaign because one of our friends has a roommate in his small apartment and can’t rejoin the old one. The roommate is a friend displaced by a breakup, but he seems to have a new apartment and the moveout date keeps moving. Our DM is getting tired of it and one of our other friends wants in because he’s lonely and DnD is great, so he said we should start up a new campaign so he can join. So we’re setting up for that, just in case.

In order to work on my writing, I’ve skimmed a lot of tips articles after watching a bunch of YouTube lectures and videos. I kinda hate reading and I feel like a huge fraud because if I want to write, I should like to read. But I don’t want to risk buying books I don’t like and having piles of books on my Kindle that just rot. And also, you know, I’m broke. Why spend money on something I won’t get any enjoyment out of? Just a waste at that point. Coulda bought some McDonald’s with that money. Or something. So I thought about the library. I don’t have an active library card, but I knew my Dad had one, so I asked to use his to check out ebooks. He obliged and I started getting books that everybody recommends, like The Name of the Wind and Tales of Earthsea and all this other stuff. I also got Mistborn: The Final Empire and some other Sanderson books, and the Witcher series. But not every book was available at my library. I found an app that let me look at other libraries’ catalogs and I found the missing books at the library where my husband’s family and friends are. I asked our friends if they had a card among them, and the one guy that works at the library has one but his card is always maxed out for checkouts. As an employee, he can check out like  a max of 99 things. And it’s always maxed out. He offered me something I wasn’t comfortable with, so I declined. So I asked my husband to make a card. He declined. So I asked him to ask his mom to make one. She said she doesn’t live in the city, so she can’t. She sent us an email with my husband’s sister’s name for a library that I didn’t ask for and didn’t have the books I was looking for available. Because it uses a different service than the one I was looking at apparently so I could use that one but they didn’t send actual login information.

My husband, because of the way he communicates with his family, asked his mother for help with this library endeavor very cavalierly. He was just loosey-goosey with it. Something about it rubbed me the wrong way, but I figured they would handle it. His family intimidates me, has rarely made me feel welcome, and so I usually leave myself out of conversations with them. But after they just stopped worrying about the library thing, because I felt like I was right and all they had to do was make an effort, I took it upon myself to email his mom directly. Due to childhood trauma or other paranoia, I’m always worried about being misconstrued or misunderstood, so I end up being very verbose. See above. So I made a long email explaining why I wanted the library card, why I was asking for their help specifically, and included links to the places I saw you could make a library card and how they didn’t have to leave the house to verify it because of COVID. Then, to make sure it wasn’t demanding, that it was friendly, I added some stuff at the bottom about how I wished them well and I was proud of my sister-in-laws’s weight loss journey and how my chest was doing and blah blah. I sent this email right before bed. I assumed that his family would work together to figure it out and if they didn’t wanna deal with it, they would say they weren’t interested. The worst they can do is say no and I’ll have lost nothing except time.

Woke up to an email from his mother saying, in that malicious compliance/corporate politeness way, that she couldn’t make a library card because she didn’t live in the city and she’d be happy to make one for one of the cities that did work. Also, she hoped I was feeling better.

I had had a bad day prior. The day before, waking up had been near impossible, my husband ordered McDonald’s delivery for breakfast and I wasn’t hungry so we sat and watched an anime I didn’t want to watch while food sat getting cold in front of me. I ended up not being hungry for 8hrs. We were talking to the group about DnD, but also needed to shower, so while my husband got in the shower, I said some things to the group and then hopped in the shower. Upon telling my husband what I said, he had this look on his face like he was planning how to damage control what I had said, despite not even knowing what it was. My exhaustion had left me vulnerable, so I couldn’t deal with it and cried. He apologized and we talked about it. Bolstered by this conversation, I went on to boldly converse with other people, which is what allowed me to send that email to his mother in the first place. So upon her declaration that she couldn’t help me, I decided to help myself.

So I went through the process of making an account using my husband’s name for the library I wanted and it worked, I think. It’s not verified or maybe it’s not in the city, so I couldn’t check out an ebook. So I was back to square one. Not only back to square one, now I was doubly wrong. I had pursued this process in righteous indignation, after having directly contacted his mother, and been proven wrong. So now, not only was I dumb and wrong, I had put myself out there. I was wrong on stage.

My husband, wanting to help, went and acquired the one book I was using as my litmus for me. There are probably others I could look up, but at least I have that one and it’s sequel.

But yeah, that’s what’s going on with me.

#update #about me

[nerdarchy-blog]

Hello again. I sometimes feel most of the articles I write seem to be reviewing products but I am certain I do more than that. Today however, as I am certain you can see from the title, it is another review. This time I am diving into the Pathfinder Battles series of WizKids miniatures and looking at Jungle of Despair. It is a great set and you can see the full set listed here.

What lurks in the Jungle of Despair?

There are a lot of great WizKids miniatures in this collection. Not being a Pathfinder player myself some of the minis were unknown to me. As a resourceful Game Master I can however stat anything I really need to on the fly. It might not be the final thing if I ever decide to use it again so I consider getting new minis a challenge of how am I going to use them in my game.

There are some really great plant monsters in this set. With a name like Jungle of Despair how could it not. We see murder vines, shamblers, and creeper vines.  With these three you could certainly set up a nice jungle encounter with some weak monsters, but they are the bait and the plants are going to be the real challenge. Maybe the plants use the weaker monsters to lure in prey, maybe they are an illusion? Lots of ideas go through my head looking at this collection.

The monsters I was not familiar with, but was excited to get were called qlippoth. They come in several varieties and to me they seemed cool enough to use as a type of demon. Since my current game is very demon-focused I thought it appropriate to let them see table play quite quickly.

I was very pleased with this set over all and some of my favorite minis that came in the boxes I received were the winged chupacabra, river drake, and as previously stated the qlippoths. I am most likely to do some research in the future to fine out more about those guys.

Detachable hydra heads for the win! Longtime Nerdarchy fans know you should always keep a scroll of Flesh to Stone handy for hydra attacks.

I would be remiss in writing about this Pathfinder Battles set if I did not go on to cover the hydra. I love minis. The options to be able to pull whatever you need off the shelf, out of the bag or box, or however you store them. But this is one that I feel deserves an award.  Out of the box it is a hydra with 5 necks that you can place the heads in so that you can make a 5 headed hydra. Awesome!  Right out of the book. If your players are new to the hobby and are not used to all the Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder monster rules, or mythology in general, and happen to face one of these you can make them quite upset.

You can have them cut off one of the heads and as you do so you can literally remove the head.  The players will gawk in awe as you do so. They will then reel in horror as you replace the single head with a double head. Their 5 headed hydra just became a 6 headed hydra — maybe not what they were expecting. This figure comes with 5 single heads and 5 double heads allowing you to go from 5 to 10 terrifying heads. It is not necessary to do so but in silver marker I labeled the heads and the slots I would want them in so that 1 replaces 1, 2 replaces 2 and so on when they cut off the head or I am resetting back to all single heads.

All-in-all as stated I really like this set of WizKids miniatures and got just about everything I wanted from a single Jungle of Despair booster brick, a couple of individual purchases and of course the hydra.  If you would like to help support the channel or just pick up some of these great minis you can find this Pathfinder Battles series and more on Amazon.

Thanks for reading and until next time, stay nerdy!

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  One minute you're taking a leisurely stroll through the Jungle of Despair then BAM! Qlippoth attack. #ithappens that hydra mini with detachable heads tho... #RPG #DnD #Pathfinder #minis Hello again. I sometimes feel most of the articles I write seem to be reviewing products but I am certain I do more than that.