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Feminists pushed for women to be able to work because being totally financially dependent on and beholden to One Singular Man was extremely dangerous and quite literally killing women.

Capitalism gets worse but being able have and keep your own money is ideal over being totally financially dependent on One Man.

People who are anti capitalist (in a general sense of the term) rightfully say that the conditions under which we work totally suck (and should change).

Misogynists see that the working conditions are awful (and they see other things happening), but rather than using that fact to push for improvements in the work place for women and people of other gender minorities, they launch back to deeply sexist and dangerous rhetoric that, beyond glorifying a past for women that never existed, doesn't even understand the basics of child and home care that SAHMs have to go through.

So now we have women who thoroughly believe that a) working sucks (theyre right in some ways) and b) the "solution" to this is for women to be SAHMs or housewives because "all you have to do" is cook and clean. They glorify the man having to go out and make all the money--money which they presume will be handed over to them if they so much as ask. Money that they don't have real access to, money that they believe will be their compensation for fulfilling an archaic gender roles successfully. Meaning if they don't perform to the man's standards, they lose the money.

All day. Every day. It's very clear that the women who say this often do not, themselves, have to do all the cooking and cleaning for other people, and the fact that they think this is simple and easy work shows they devalue the real labor that goes into being a SAHM/housewife. I've done cooking and cleaning for a household of five people and I will tell you it's awful.

But these traditionalists and hypergamists and whatever else they wanna call themselves are leading people into believing that ultimately, it's men that should be in control of everything. Women not having to work is somehow a good thing.

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Put other adventuring parties in your game for your players to interact with. Either as friends, allies, or even enemies.

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Vapid Flattery

Heavenly Response

Boost Magic

Magic Miss

Anvil Drop

Two Way Connection

Spotlight

Summon Plane

Night Shadow

Burning A Very Specific Hut

Life Ward

I think you should be allowed to invert spells

For Example:

Vicious Mockery: Heal an ally by complimenting them

Hellish Rebuke: If someone heals you, you heal them back

Dispel Magic: Make someone else's spell more powerful

Magic Missile: Launch a series of deadly magic bolts that always miss.

Feathfall: Slam into the ground at terminal velocity from any height

Commune With Outer Plane: God calls you up and asks you questions about your life

Invisibility: Become extremely loud, garish looking and obnoxious until you attack someone

Plane Shift: Bring another plane of existence to where you are

Daylight: Put out the sun

Disguse Self: Writes your name on your head in sharpie

Leomund's Tiny Hut: Burn Leomund's house down, wherever he's living now

Death Ward: You cast it and just keel over on the spot.

See? The possibilities are endless

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you guys literally are all so brave. even through the screen i can tell. keep going

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I am obsessed with this idea

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draw some fat elves you cowards you tepid fools

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fool month day 3

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Extremely displeased to announce I just opened my writing doc to find the fic has not yet written itself. Will check back in tomorrow to see if it’s made any progress

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one of these days i’ll go back to making very normal D&D character concepts but until then

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yknow what i’m just going to give a quick bit of advice for any DnD or whatever tabletop players: if you’re trying to create a character and are stuck on their background, give them a job. Like a normal-ass job.

We have a witch in our party, but his greatest contribution to our campaign so far is that he’s also a fucking lawyer. The fact that in any given situation he can read the legality of our actions, the punishments for digression, the loopholes through it, it’s turned out to be absolutely vital to how we get through our dumbass shenanigans.

Our fighter, meanwhile, has a job as a professional dominatrix, and you’d be amazed how often it comes up? Her intimidation checks are through the roof she can just slam the butt of her spear against the floor and everyone shuts up and listens to her, it’s fantastic.

Like maybe this is an obvious thing to a lot of players, idk, but i have just been utterly charmed by how much you can get out of it–both in terms of utility and personality–if you have your character paying the bills not with dragon slaying, but with regular human professions.

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At the end of character creation, have every player roll a d100 for “plot reasons”. When the game begins, reveal that the result is how many miles in the air the characters start the campaign at.

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Me, the GM: “The valkyries are going to need a bucket and a mop to take you to Valhalla”.

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No pillow? No problem

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One time I was DMing a campaign where the players walked into that tavern every campaign has and one of the patrons was a Mindflayer wearing a very bad human disguise who insisted his name was Johnald Humanman. And they were just like "Oh, okay. Well, that's his business" and didn't interact with Johnald Humanman at all.

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My husband is playing DnD with some friends and told me to come look at the cat who is sitting in a chair like a person. My husband handed him a d20 and said “sir you have to roll a stealth check to convince the other party members you are a human” and the cat immediately batted the d20 and rolled a 14. The party cheered for him.