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Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56) by Ambrosius Gemlich, Arms and Armor

Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Steel, gold, wood (cherry), staghorn

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22387

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100 Magic Items for 5e (44-65)

A continuation of the 100 Magic Items for my first 100 followers. Today, Magic Weapons! 

44) Screaming Scimitar

Keep reading

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Pulinagam ratchabanthanam (tiger claw necklace) 

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Oh good golly I'd love to roll!

You have been assigned the class of:

Carcinogen Merchant

The three sections of your skill tree are:

Official Smokesperson

Nuclear and Improved

Active Radio Marketing

Enjoy your new life of HOLDING TUMOR FOR THE PRICE OF ONE SALES

#barrel of laughs

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Here’s a little trick I’ve used in D&D games where the premise of your campaign calls for the party to have access to lots of Stuff, but you don’t want to do a whole bunch of bookkeeping: the Wagon.

In a nutshell, the party has a horse-drawn wagon that they use to get around between – and often during – adventures. This doesn’t come out of any individual player character’s starting budget; it’s just provided as part of the campaign premise.

Before setting out from a town or other place of rest, the party has to decide how many gold pieces they want to spend on supplies. These funds aren’t spent on anything in particular, and form a running total that represents how much Stuff is in the wagon.

Any time a player character needs something in the way of supplies during a journey or adventure, one of two things can happen:

1. If it’s something that any fool would have packed for the trip and it’s something that could reasonably have been obtained at one of the party’s recent stopovers (e.g., rations, spare clothing, fifty feet of rope, etc.), then the wagon contains as much of it as they reasonably need. Just deduct the Player’s Handbook list price for the item(s) in question from the wagon’s total.

2. If it’s something where having packed it would take some explaining, or if it’s something that’s unlikely to have been available for purchase at any of the party’s recent stopovers (e.g., a telescope, a barrel of fine wine, a book of dwarven erotic poetry, etc.), the player in need makes a retroactive Intelligence or Wisdom check, versus a DC set by the GM, to see if they somehow anticipated the need for the item(s) in question. Proficiency may apply to this check, depending on what’s needed. The results are read as follows:

Success: You find what you’re looking for, more or less. If the group is amenable, you can narrate a brief flashback explaining the circumstances of its acquisition. Deduct its list price (or a price set by the GM, if it’s not on the list) from the wagon’s total.

Failure by 5 points or less: You find something sort of close to what you’re looking for. The GM decides exactly what; it won’t ever be useless for the purpose at hand, but depending on her current level of whimsy, it may simply be a lesser version of what you were looking for, or it may be something creatively off the mark. Deduct and optionally flash back as above.

Failure by more than 5 points: You come up empty-handed, and can’t try again for that item or anything closely resembling it until after your next stopover.

As an incidental benefit, all the junk the wagon is carrying acts as a sort of ablative armour. If the wagon or its horses would ever take damage, instead subtract a number of gold pieces from its total equal to the number of hit points of damage it would have suffered. The GM is encouraged to describe what’s been destroyed in lurid detail.

#not mercantile #but still useful! #trading post

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“Cup and Cover in the form of a Partridge” Nuremberg, 1598-1602 CE [876x1500]

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people need to chill out on tom nook.

he’s not a slum lord or a bloodthirsty debtor or a slave laborer.

he allows you to purchase a house with no money, lets you work off the basic payments with a half-hour of quick chores, and then leaves you to take as much time as you need to get the rest of the payments to him whenever you can with no deadline, interest, or repercussions for putting it off.

he’s basically just a cool friend who lets you borrow money and says “yeah no worries pay it back when you can” except he also gives you a house.

what a great dude.

#this is a tom nook apologist blog

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Scythian gold smoking pipe

“Archaeologists have discovered a pair of “bongs“ made of pure gold that date back to 2,400 years ago and were used by Aryan kings. The discovery was kept secret to prevent looting and first came to light in the summer of 2013 when Stavropol-based archaeologist Andrei Belinski began excavating the kurgan, called Sengileevskoe-2, to clear the way for power-line project in Russia. Speaking of the discovery, Andrei Belinski added: “It was definitely a surprise for us. We weren’t expecting to find anything like this.“ Archaeologists also found other items made of gold, such as three gold cups, a heavy gold finger ring, two neck rings, and a gold bracelet, weighing almost seven pounds (3 kg). The items had been buried in a rectangular stone chamber before being concealed by a thick layer of clay. Anton Gass, an archaeologist at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, described the artifacts as “among the finest objects we know from the region.“

2,400-year-old “bongs” made of pure gold and other items made of gold such as three gold cups, a heavy gold finger ring, two neck rings, and a gold bracelet, weighing almost seven pounds. source

The scientists made another important discovery when they had criminologists test the black residue inside the bucket-shaped containers. The results showed traces of marijuana and opium, proving that these containers are indeed ancient bongs of sorts. Further testing suggested that the vessels were used to brew and drink a strong opium drink while burning cannabis nearby:. “That both drugs being used simultaneously is beyond doubt,“ Gass said.

These bongs are the oldest known to exist. The archaeologists believe the pair of treasures belonged to the Scythians, a nomadic warrior race who ruled over a vast area from Eastern Europe to Central Asia from the 19th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D. The Scythians were a group of nomads who migrated from Central Asia to Southern Russia and Eastern Europe and founded a powerful empire in the are now known as Crimea. The Scythians did not put au and cities or settlements, only huge grave mounds that are called “kurgans“ that can be found in areas from Mongolia to the Black Sea.

Historians say the Scythians would smoke opium and cannabis before going into battle to achieve an altered state of mind. Herodotus, a famous Greek historian who died in 425 B.C., wrote: “Scythians used a plant to produce smoke that no Grecian vapour-bath surpass which made them shout aloud.“ This latest discovery seems to confirm his theory.Mr Gass believes the scene of the old man slaying the young warriors could represent the “Bastard Wars” Herodotus told of. Photo: Andrei Belinsky, National Geographic)The ornate bongs each tell a story. Gass believes the remarkable imagery on the gold bongs appears to confirm more of Herodotus’s reports of the tribe’s so-called Bastard Wars, which saw warriors returning from battle with Persia to find their lonely wives had borne children to their slaves. The slaughter of these interlopers os believed to have been engraved upon one of the bongs. The other displays further violence in the form of griffons tearing apart a horse and a stag.All the artifacts have been collected, cleaned and put on display at a Russian museum. Archaeologists suspect other artefacts might still be hidden in the ground and so plan to return to the area.”

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trying to talk to a video game shopkeeper and accidentally stealing an item in front of them

#video #barrel of laughs

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A little Medieval humour.

Abbey of Sainte Foy, Conques, c1050.

#corners of the earth

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Polyhedral dial 

by Nicolaus Kratzer 

London 

c.1525

The dial is unsigned but was made for Cardinal Wolsey (bearing his arms, the arms of York Minster and two representations of a cardinal’s hat), almost certainly by Nicholaus Kratzer. He was lecturing at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in the 1520s, under Wolsey’s patronage, on elementary astronomy, the construction of the astrolabe and Ptolemy’s geography.

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What’s this? A special bonus Saturday post?! Clearly this has absolutely nothing to do with any upcoming stat blocks. Why would you even ask something crazy like that?

#trading post

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Me when a customer asks me to help them find something that’s literally right next to them:

#barrel of laughs

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▪Tankard.

Date: 1800-1896

Place of origin: London

Medium: Rock crystal, enamel, silver

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How To Appeal A Post When You Don’t Have The Appeal Button

Since the 17th about 12 of my posts where flagged as adult content and when I went to try and appeal it there was no appeal button. I went through their help and read the whole article. I even contacted support who then copied and pasted their help page not even trying to assist me.  All I know is that there was supposed to be a button for the original creator to click and allow up to appeal but there wasn’t.

On my computer:

On the app:

See no button for appeal.

It has taken me days to figure out this work around and I thought some other people out there might be having this issue.

Now here is how you appeal your post when you don’t have the appeal button

Now go through your blog and find all your pages with censored posts clicking on them to take you to the original post.

Take a look at the url.

See that number there? Copy it!

Open up a new page and type in this:

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/your url/

At the end paste that number.

When you hit enter you will get this:

The appeal button is finally there! Click it!

You’ll get this message and then you’ll click appeal again.

Your post is now being appealed.

You can check that it was fixed just by refreshing your blogs page.

And that’s it! I know it is stupid and ridiculous to do such a ridiculous back method but unfortunately it’s the only solution I’ve come up with.

Also no you can’t just use the weird sidebar dashboard to find it as any flagged posts don’t actually show up at all in it.

Anyways I hope this helps you guys.

#not merchantile #this is......................incredibly annoying

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Arm guard (kanemachi), Mughal empire of India, 17th century: probably from the era of the 5th emperor, Shah Jahan

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#music boxes