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"When you believe in a cause, I don't know that there is much of a difference between the things you have to do and the things you choose to so. Maybe that's what peace is, is when your heart unites the things you choose to do and the things that you have to do so that duty becomes a choice and one that you are glad for." - Steel

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WELL i doodled most of the player characters from cr1 2 & 3 lol heres vox machina

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Sundry Sidney and Aurora Nebbins! View the process video here

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Orym's argument against Ludinus Da'leth and the Ruby Vanguard is essentially "The purpose of a system is what it does."

This is a systems theory coined by Stafford Beer around 2001. He posited there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do." It does not matter what someone tells you a system does if it does not reliably do that. The things it does consistently do are the actual purpose of the system.

Ludinus (and Liliana) claim the purpose of the Ruby Vanguard's violence is to free Exandria of oppression from the gods. Orym's point is that they have not consistently protected anyone from oppression. They consistently murder innocent people, indoctrinate vulnerable people into doing terrible violence (including children), support a ruling class that dominates the population through mind control and eugenics, and seek to release a predator so terrifying that the warring alien gods and native primordials worked together to seal it away as a threat to both of them.

So the logical conclusion is that the purpose of Ludinus' system is not to free anyone from tyranny, it's to install himself as the tyrant. And it does not matter what Ludinus says it's for or even what he believes it's for. The purpose of a system is what it does. And Orym has been personally and repeatedly victimized by what it does. Why wouldn't he keep reminding them of that?

Add onto that, the Ruby Vanguard is a death cult. They lure people in with believable lies. They use propaganda to control how people view them and to convince people to support them. Liliana has been groomed into a true believer who genuinely thinks what she has been told is true and that Ludinus' system does what he says it will. She has been convincing other people of this for years. Not because she's an inherently bad person but because everyone generally tries to convince others that what we believe is true. It is actually dangerous to let a cultist try to talk you into the cult's perspective. That's why Orym shuts it down.

Orym was already on edge but it's fully in a breakdown after FCG's sacrifice. One more iteration of Ludinus' system consistently murdering the people he loves. But he still told Imogen he wants her to have a good relationship with her mom again. He wants Liliana to make it through the other side of this. But that has to involve consistently stating the reality of what's happening against what she believes.

Ludinus believes in the rapture of the revolution. Burn everything to the ground on a fundamental level and a new perfect society will grow, with him to guide it. The reality is that kind of power vacuum consistently leads to horrific violence and conditions often get much, much worse. Especially for vulnerable people, who often do not survive. A lot about the gods' relationships to mortals probably needs to change, but this an incredibly dangerous gamble to fix it.

The purpose of a system is what it does. Any suggestion otherwise is cold comfort to Orym's family in the ground.

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I got to work with some of my favourite webcomic artists on my new D&D pins campaign and I'm so excited for you to check them out!

Thanks so much to @shencomix, Megan McKay, @swordscomic, @mrlovenstein, and @awoocomic/@yourdndstories for their incredible work on these guest designs!

The project runs for 3 weeks on BackerKit, but you can get up to 5 free bonus pins for pledging early and hitting other incentive goals! You can pledge right here!

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M9 as textposts 3/???

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PRINCE ANDHERA and BINX CHOPPLEY in D20’S “A COURT OF FEY AND FLOWERS”: CHAPTER 7 — “THE MASQUERADE BALL”

bonus brennan:

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anything 4 my queen

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I’ve had a life. I think a lot of us here have had a life. And I can count the really good days practically on two hands.

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Lately, I've been drafting a lot of reblogs instead of, yknow, posting them. So I just went through and queued about 200 posts. If anything is mistagged, please let me know!

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i think this is how the party is divided

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Space pirate sailor fjord. Gun…… OH HIS GUN SHOOTS GREEN BLASTER FIRE LIKE ELDRITCH BLASTS OOOH that literally just occurred to me cool.

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From Critical Role C3EP91

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literally woke up in a cold sweat to make this

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everyone's favorite wizards commissioned by @that-wee-munchkin! they requested Caleb and Essek finally getting outside and enjoying some whisky hot chocolate at a campfire 🔥 a cozy early autumn night spent sharing stories and petting Frumpkins 🐱

thank you so much for commissioning me and giving me the sweetest prompt imaginable!