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Just off the top of my head, here's some setting assumptions D&D makes thats not even universal to high fantasy, let alone dark/low fantasy, historical settings, urban fantasy, or scifi;

Magic is something anyone can access with proper education and time

There is a pantheon of very real deities who each have different purviews and distribute magic

Combat is generally slow and grindy, and your average player character or enemy can take multiple strikes from a sword and keep fighting.

Characters will get physically stronger and more martially competent as they continue to adventure, to the point of being able to fight enemies like dragons and giant demons.

Magic takes the form of a specific list of flashy and powerful effects, most of which can be performed in the span of seconds and are oriented around combat.

There is an afterlife and people can be revived

Generally speaking a character is going to have to choose between martial prowess, magical capability, and a sort of "everything else" bucket. In particular, a character specialized for combat is going to have little to do outside of it.

Some of these assumptions (leveling up, grindy combat, characters specializing in combat/magic/noncombat) are both very restrictive in the kinds of stories you can tell, and fundamental to how Dungeons and Dragons works to the point that you lose the benefit of familiarity if you try to remove it. (Good luck selling "We're playing 5e but we're not leveling up" or creating an entirely different suite of classes)

I saw someone compare D&D to Star Wars, which is more or less the most popular "scifi with magic" media; Jedi just don't fit into D&D classes; they're the biggest source of player-side magic, and their powers are a small toolkit of subtle, new-age-mysticism tricks; pretty far from wizards, clerics, and warlocks.

I know 5e-Only types will mostly not care but for the sake of my sanity I need this written down.

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platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

edit: @saffronlesbian made a video description for this post!!

[vd: a screen recording of a tweet from the 20th of April 2024 with 2.5 million views, from Ruhi @/ruhi_hi. the caption reads, "This video of this little Palestinian angel celebrating his bday in a refugee camp" followed by three emoji of a smiling face with teary eyes. the video clip is 11 seconds long and shows a one-year-old baby seated on the sandy ground, smiling hugely and clapping his hands while people sing to him from offscreen and a large cake is placed in front of him. stuck into the top of the cake is a decoration that reads "happy birthday" in english. the video has the tiktok handle @/ibrahim.jamal99 visible in it. /end vd.]

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List of Palestinian Evacuation Fundraisers

Last Update: 05/06/2024

All fundraisers have been looked into by me or vetted by others. If anyone notices issues in validity with any of the fundraisers listed please let me know. Funding updates daily!

Fadi Al-Sharif and family ($10,439/$62,500 goal)

Hayam Taha and family (€8,718/€30,000 goal)

Deyaa and family (€7,764/€20,000 goal)

Fatima Alshanti (kr5,085 SEK/kr150,000 goal)

Shahed Ghazi and family ($6,776 CAD/$94,838 goal)

Little Yusuf and family (€5,960/€85,000 goal)

Sara & Huda Hajjaj and family ($240/$15,000 goal)

Mohammed JH Shamia's family (kr20,168 SEK/kr250,000 goal)

Maram Ahmed and family (€1,032/€30,000 goal)

Hamza Almofty and family ($3,772/$35,000 goal)

Mahmoud Jomaa (€400/€10,000 goal)

Dr. Mohammed Shara ($445/$20,000 goal)

Abdulrahman Alshanti and family (kr137,402 SEK/kr350,000 goal)

Besan Almabhouh's family (€5,767/€25,000 goal)

Said Tanani and brothers (€30,935/€50,000 goal)

Donia Tanani and family (€67,538/€100,000 goal)

Hussein Shamiya, his pregnant wife, and son ($8,042/$40,000 goal)

Mohammed Shamia and family ($15,020/$35,000 goal)

Amro Bakr & kids Bakir and Tala (€1,772/€15,000 goal)

Almadhoun family ($18,365/$80,000 goal)

Child Mohammed (€6,420/€10,000 goal)

Sana'a and family (£19,668/£50,000 goal)

Noha Ayyad and family ($23,050/$95,160 goal)

Nazmi Mwafi and family ($5,151/65,000 goal)

Ibrahim Almofty and family ($535/$40,000)

Hamdi Hejazi and family ($10,236/$25,000)

Mohammed and family ($7,620/$25,000)

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Hello everyone

I’m Malk I’m 14 years old but I am feeling that am 70 years😔

My parents took great care of us, giving us everything they had, and my childhood was wonderful to some extent.

I lived through four wars, the latest being in 2021, during which we lost everything: our warm home and my mom's office where she worked in digital marketing.

My dad is one of the owners of the Jewel Tower, but my family decided to leave Gaza for Turkey in 2022 because the tower hadn't been built yet, and to provide a better life for us.

My dad couldn't leave Gaza, so he returned before the war because my grandfather is sick and needs care. I wish I were with my dad because I fear losing him.

The past few months have been the hardest for us and our family.

I hope you can help me by sharing the link and donating so I can get my family from Gaza🙏🏻🙏🏻

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After losing everything, I started to feel happy to receive a food carton ..

Today I walked for two hours to get it to provide food for my parents 🥲

Please help me cover the travel costs for me and my family. War life is very tiring especially for my parents who is suffering everyday because lack of food, medicine and hospitals 😢

Please keep sharing and donatind as much as you can, every 5$ can help us to escape to a safe place and start a new life 🙏

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An old woman sells strawberries in ‎Gaza‬ . 2 February 2015

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haneen’s IG

abeer’s IG

haneen’s GFM

abeer’s GFM

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Hi everyone! Posting this on my art account because I have the largest reach here. My friends Abeer and Haneen are young women trying to support their family and survive genocide. They are in the north, and their family includes a baby and her mother.

All my thanks if you take the time to:

- Donate directly to Abeer & Haneen

- Reblog this post

- Share this poster

- PRINT this poster and hang it up or pass it out

- Send this post or poster to someone who can donate, share, or print it out

Donation incentives below the cut. THANK YOU FOR DONATING, THANK YOU FOR SHARING!

I would also like to offer incentive gifts for donations of $50 or more, or $100 or more.

If you donate $50 or more and would like an incentive gift, I can offer you a portrait or bust drawing of the subject of your choosing.

If you donate $100 or more and would like an incentive gift, I can offer a full body drawing of a subject of your choosing.

I am also offering TTRPG writing, organization, and assistance as well, for any donation amount.

To learn more or ask any questions, please DM me.

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GF Here,

I make'a da sauce

Made my first lasagna !! (veggie) with gf ⏲️ Plus bok choy salad and garlic bread. %# classic

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i like to imagine that youre grayfruit (from twitch/youtube) girlfriend bc her name is bella, but you probably would pick a better guy than that. if you are that bella, sorry i said your boyfriend is mid, i still watch him anyway so its my L too

Idk who that is

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Where should my mom go😭💔?

Our house in Gaza was bombed, we escaped to #Rafah, and now Rafah is being evacuated, and my mother lives on the sand without shelter, not even a tent 😭😭

As you can see, her hand injury is getting worse due to the lack of food and medicine, causing her to have spasms in her extremities 💔💔

Please, my mother is in danger, help her get out to a safe area before it is too late🙏

Please share and donate, believe me every single dollar will make a difference and save my family life😔🙏

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Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for Israel in 1948.

Over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced that day. This did not start on October 7th.

Know their history, fight for their future. 🍉

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Salam dear supporters

i hope you are well and in good health along with your loved ones.

we still have a long way to reach our goal but with your generous support we reached 25% of our goal so far!

together we can make In Sha'a Allah!

many thanks!

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i honestly think the "oc dont steal" brand of humor died as hard as it did because literally nothing will be as funny as Σario

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giving myself exposure therapy to men

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So, I have a new website. I've been using WordPress to house my writing online, but now I've made the move over to NeoCities. I'll probably still use wordpress until I can figure out if I want to use a sideblog here or my NeoCities site to host more and more of my writing. I think the NeoCities page should be for more abstract writing, stuff with weird formatting that can take the most advantage of HTML, while the sideblog would be where I would put big blocks of text and poetry and such things, maybe? Idk. It's so hard to organize your writing while publishing on the internet, much less start to build an audience. I'm not even thinking about building an audience, I just want the stuff I make to be out there in the world and to exist on its own. So yeah, please check out the neocities and what I have up on there, if you'd like. My WordPress is pretty dead but I got a link to that and my YouTube channel there. I'm really just trying to be that much more serious about writing, if that makes any sense.

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