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Goodbye, Lynn. Thank you for your constant support and encouragement since the day I started these comics. It has meant the world to me, and I wish I could have told you. We will remember you forever.

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Republicans are garbage.

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You can only reblog this today.

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Every accusation is a confession.

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*throws ibuprofen on the ground and watches the aging tumblr populous peck at them like chickens*

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It’s wonderful seeing the community come together to protect our hobby and creators’ contributions. If D&D becomes a closed system, I will not be moving forward onto OneD&D/6e, but looking at alternatives embracing this new license.

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D&D Community, we are needed!!!

The new OGL that WotC and Hasbro are trying to implement is damaging to all content creators. Many platforms of TTRPGs, your favorite D&D podcasts, and homebrew creators will all suffer because of their greed. Below is a link to an open letter asking them to not go through with it.

We, the community, have brought success to D&D. Not the other way around. Please, click the link and sign it. Reblog and like this post to spread awareness of this open letter and pray things work out. We deserve better.

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As a fellow tabletop gamer, what is your take on WotC's new OGL?

What I've seen disgusts me. It's a corporate power and money grab that insults and degrades the creative efforts of people who believed WotC when they released the OGL. 4e was such total fucking garbage, if not for the OGL and the people who used it to develop a system that was fun to play, the brand would have likely suffered. We'd be talking about Pathfinder or something, instead of D&D.

5e is incredible and I just love everything about it. It will likely be the canonical RPG for years to come. And it only exists because people took all the parts of 3.0 and 3.5 (remember, 3.5 was planned from the beginning. It was a deliberate money grab to sell 3.0, knowing it needed work that eventually became 3.5) that were good and kept players engaged during WotC's ill-advised WOW On Paper that was 4e. They did that with the OGL, and I guess it cost WotC some small amount of money. So, of course, WotC is like "Let's fuck the players and the creators right in the face, even though they've been instrumental to our success, because we are leaving literally ones of dollars on the table!"

There are very good, brilliant, creative people who work at WotC. Amazing designers and the like. People I know and respect. They have made so many contributions to our hobby, and I love them. But there seem to be some business people over there who really suck.

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This is literally the most wholesome thing I’ve seen all year.

Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care

Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck

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Running of the Gnomes, year 9, Oct 13th!

The “Small” run will be held once again on October 13th, on Scarlet Crusade US at 7pm EST (That’s 4pm PST, 11pm GMT, 8am KST respectively.)

7pm is race start time, so show up early, get a guild invite to one of our many guilds, hang out with community for a good cause, and meet your fellow Gnomies! Be sure to bring your S.E.L.F.I.E camera!

Running of the Gnomes will benefit The Cleveland Clinic’s Tuohy Vaccine, a vaccine that can prevent Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, which is often hereditary and the most deadly form of breast cancer. The drug is currently only in stage 1 of clinical trials. Dr. Tuohy is working on other breast cancers, as well as a vaccine for ovarian cancer. The event is meant both to spread love to those suffering from or affected by Breast Cancer, and to remind everyone, regardless of gender, to take preventative breast health seriously.

Where can I donate?

http://ccf.convio.net/goto/GnomeRun2k18

What is this? Is it just the in game micro-holiday?

Running of the Gnomes is an event where the whole of the Warcraft community gathers on one singular server, Scarlet Crusade, and travels from the Gnome starting zone to Booty Bay to help raise awareness and funds for Breast Cancer.

The yearly migration was so popular with players and the community that Blizzard honored the event with a Micro-Holiday called the Great Gnomeregan Race that occurs yearly on the same date worldwide. The micro holiday provides players with a race course, and NPCs to cheer them on.

While the Micro-Holiday occurs everywhere, the community and gathering of players is still held on only on Scarlet Crusade-US.

The community event benefits a charity we love, and gathers together people worldwide. At the start of the event in 2017, there were over 7,000 players online and $16,600+ raised.

How to participate:

Simply log in on the specificid day on Scarlet Crusade, before the run start time and join us for the run, we’ll have the invites, and you just need to bring yourself! Because the Gnome Run is very popular, I suggest showing up not 10 minutes before the run if you can help it, or joining our discord for days that we are pre-inviting people to guilds to snag an invite early.

There will be absolutely no Cross Realm invites for this.You must be on Scarlet Crusade or it’s connected realm Feathermoon. I’m unable to facilitate people who are off realm. Simply roll a new character on the specified server and join in the fun that way!

If you do not play World of Warcraft, or play in the EU/Asia regions, you can download and use a US trial account. If your account is currently not active, you can also do the same! Trial accounts cannot join guilds, but you can run along with us, and we do have some ways to count you all. You can also join our discord still!

Discord?

https://discord.gg/kK8vKJu

Is there a Hashtag again?

#GnomeRun2k18

A note about Racing Guilds:

We ask that even while it’s hectic, or there’s multiple guilds, we ask that you only join the guilds we’ve confirmed for a variety of reasons:

We use the guilds to give out directions during the run, we don’t want people to have unexpectedly negative experiences in a random guild, or be scammed with a false donation link, we do use them to have some idea of how many people are at the event.

So far we can confirm:

1.Gnomes Race for a Cure

2 Gnomes Race Too

3. Gnome Three Racers

4. Gnomes Race Four Us All

5. Gnome Run Strikes Back

6. Gnome and the Furious Six

7. All Gnomes go to Seven

8. The Last Gnome Run

9. War for the Gnome Run

10. Gnome with the Pink Run

11. Gnomes to Eleven

More guilds will be announced on our social media and discords.

Whispering those of us spamming chat with instructions to do so the exact word INVITE will auto trigger our addon (thanks to Ellypse for making it!) to get you a guild invite unless you have a trial account.

Why Gnomes?

Gnomes are one of the few races with pink hair, making it easy for everyone to coordinate. They also fit the idea of something “Small” together adding up to something big when together.

What about Tabards?

Tabards were made BoP in Legion. You can buy them in Ironforge for less than 1g or you can mail yourself an Heirloom tabard from your other characters.

After Party?

Yes! We always head to Orgrimmar afterwards to give out kisses and licks to current the head of the capitol! 

…We’ve licked a lot of Horde leaders over the last 9 years to be honest.

Why Breast Cancer, isn’t there a ton of attention for this already?

October is breast cancer awareness month. We understand we’re sugar coating something devastating for people with cute gnomes to open up a conversation, but for a good reason. Everyone’s been affected by cancer of some form. Plus, we really realize that breast cancer isn’t just a woman’s issue. It affects our moms, our sisters, but also our dads, our brothers, our friends, guildies, coworkers, and many other people in our lives. It’s affected people that we really love in our community.

We feel even if the pink hair and cute outfits or all these Gnomes remind just one single person to check themselves to get a mammogram or encourage that family member who hears to go in to the doctor who’s been putting it off we’ve done our job for the year.

Plus it’s really hard to miss thousands of Gnomes doing anything, let alone thousands of Gnomes with the same colored hair stampeding through half a continent. Even out of game it gets people talking for a day or two.

I want to help with the run!

Tell your friends! Reshare our information on various social media platforms, turn your guild’s tabards pink and tell people why. Force your friends to come with you.

Feel free to send a donation of the materials for a Pink Mageweave shirt to help clothe a brand new Gnome in need to Meiousei on Scarlet Crusade.

If you have another idea you can tweet at me @Dravvie, or leave me a message here. I’m open to ideas, as long as it doesn’t lead to complete chaos!

FAQ’s 

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