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Werewolf in Landsknecht(-ish) Clothing (Coloured)

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I've remarked in the past that one of the problems with Dungeons & Dragons under Hasbro is that they want to downplay a lot of the uncomfortably horny elements which have historically characterised the game's implicit milieu, but certain key parts of the game's brand identity are tied up with those horny bits, and they're not willing to give that brand identity up, so they end up doing daft shit like keeping dragon-blooded sorcerers as a core class while acting like "one of your parents fucked a dragon" is the least likely explanation for how you got to be that way, resulting in a text with a strangely coy tone.

The 2024 Player's Handbook carries this policy – and the resulting tonal incoherence – forward. This is how it describes draconic sorcery:

As we can see, it even walks back the 2014 Player's Handbook's oft-mocked discussion of "bargaining" with dragons for power, in favour of proposing scenarios involving accidental exposure to draconic magic – as though a draconic sorcerer is some sort of dragon-themed Spider-Man – while grudgingly acknowledging the possibility of actual dragon-fucking almost as an afterthought.

And then it uses this image to illustrate the Draconic Sorcery subclass:

"Might".

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Can you tell this dub was recorded in South Carolina, and in 1995?

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Listen. I LOVE BEST FRIEND RELATIONSHIPS. GIMME MORE. I NEED MORE FRIENDS BEING DORKS, BEING SIBLINGS, BEING FAMILY. I NEED MORE BESTIES WHO WILL SLEEP IN THE SAME BED, SNUGGLE WHEN THEY'RE COLD AND BITCH ABOUT EACH OTHERS ENDGAME LOVERS BECAUSE THEY'RE BEING STUPID OR EDGY OR DRAMATIC. I NEED MORE BEST FRIENDS WHO WILL GO TO THE END OF THE WORLD TOGETHER, FIGHT TOGETHER, CRY TOGETHER.

And I want them to be in love. But not romantically. I want more familial love. More found family. More "hey, if the fates had been different, maybe you'd have been born my sibling."

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some general hanza sketches but primarily a lot of of angoulême, and thinking about some of her dynamics with the rest of the group :,)

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Werewolf in Landsknecht(-ish) Clothing

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A compilation of 2023's transformations

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Will someone please answer the phone

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Kitty stomp

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literally cannot stop laughing at this

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I gotta piss hard. See you in a sec

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my local mcdonalds online prices have me doing cookie math

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He is browsing the shops for christmas goods