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anyone please ask your crush out like this

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NICHOLAS TANZ is back????? Hype!

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EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO REBLOGS THIS WILL GET THE FOLLOWING IN THEIR INBOX.

A BRIEF ORIGIN STORY

A SUPERPOWER OR THREE, MAYBE FOUR DEPENDING

A SUPERHERO OR VILLAIN NAME

YOU MIGHT ALSO GET AN ARCHNEMESIS WHO HAS REBLOGGED THIS ALREADY

AND YES I MEAN EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO REBLOGS THIS.

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This is amazing and so freaking helpful. I found donjon and the bestiary a while back and they're a permanent staple. Being in the position where I'm actually in charge of running my schools D&D club, this is all very good to know. I'll be the main point of reference for 3-4 DMs all of varying skill levels.

I have a bunch of questions. First off tho, you're awesome and thank you for being a role model. Okay questions: how do you handle large groups, how do you DM large groups, and how do you prevent murderhoboism? There's an audio file from my most recent game that sums up murderhoboism well but I can't sent it in an ask :(. Thx!

Thank you so much, that means a lot to me that you think of us as role models. As for the questions.

Handling large groups can be freaking difficult. Not just because you have to have an access of monsters and something for all of them to do, but also because people are freaking loud. What you could do is limit the amount of people aloud in a group stop after the amount you can handle. People have asked to join our campaign and our dm will only allow guests now, because we have 7 people already. When people are loud you can always find a way to curse them in game with being silent for about an hour in game time or you can have an honest talk with them, because it sucks when players aren’t heard and the dm can’t get what they need to get done. But I want to answer the dm handling a bit more in depth so…

As a dm you have the hardest job and with a large group its harder. If you’re planning a large saga critical role type campaign finding a way for all the characters backstories to work together and be a part of the campaign can be hard. This is when you may have to help with character creation by introducing aspects of your already established world and combining or intertwining character arcs and backstories (I would give an example but their all next campaign related and the other party members would be hung up on it for awhile). However if you have a long campaign it would be more easy to keep them separate and find a way to get them to certain places on their journey. Monsters and stuff is also hard planning, but there are websites that help you come up with encounters and challenge ratings based on party sizes. Also the more different classes the characters have (don’t have two of the same type rogue or something) the easier it is for everyone to find a role in battle.

Murderhobos are freaking annoying. I made my character for this campaign partially with intent to combat murder hobos (her core belief is every being has good in them so why kill a good thing) However if you don’t have a character who is playing goody two shoes or set out too, but didn’t, in game consequences work beautifully. I would still first talk to your players and explain why that’s annoying, but sometimes that doesn’t work. Jailing characters who kill someone who’s innocent or supposedly so can be effective. Of course you’ll have to make the guards at a level where they could almost easily knock any player unconscious. I’m about to run an evil campaign so my incentive for keeping people alive is they get information and they don’t want to draw attention to themselves. If jailing them doesn’t work, what you gotta do is show them that they can’t just kill everything. Have someone be terribly strong, a kind of kill them quickly boss. Smart players don’t get tpks, so that will either happen or they’ll learn they have to retreat from the boss and that they can’t win every battle with just murder.

Sorry for the freaking long response. There’s actually a tiny bit more I wanted to say, but I think this should still help. 

-Mod L

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cbs, salvation

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Guys I can’t

If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times. Watch Salvation on CBS. My ship is sailing tonight, I’m on cloud 9, and I have no one to share it with!

Also, a quote from the co-creator on tonight’s shippy moment (ship redacted so as not to spoil):

“I think it was time because it had been building all season and last season, and I think that [redacted] and [redacted] in some ways are meant to be. But sometimes, when you’re meant to be, things get in the way, and it just felt like it was time to get everything out of the way.”

I’m living.

EDIT: Two of the actresses from the show just liked my tweets. I have died and ascended to heaven.

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6/12 anyone?

If you’re thin, tall, left-handed, funny, politically liberal, have a cat, have taken music lessons, have used recreational drugs, drink alcohol regularly, worry a lot, learned to read early, and are the oldest child in your family, studies show you’re probably a lot smarter than the average person. Source

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Notes from Salvation 2x08

Quotes!

"La cocina por favor"

"Or gets a chair thrown at them by the POTUS"

*snores in Spanish*

"Science can fix everything, except for human beings"

"Language is not so good, so bear with me"

"Drink this, it's good for the constitution"

"I FUCKING KNEW IT" (me, very loudly, when Darius revealed his ruse)

"I'm here to prevent a NUCLEAR holocaust"

"I came here to repair what's been torn"

"He's the only one who can stop the TESS-t"

"At this point I don't give a damn"

"I'm sorry, I was disarming 13 nukes"

"I should slap you" "I agree"

Darius is back baby!

Darius and Liam working together brings me joy in an otherwise ending world.

Darius treats Liam the exact same way he treated Alycia. Young padawan, interesting idea, collaborate... then the chips fall where they may.

Grace and Harris are either the most mature people in the world or everyone just forgets their relationship.

All i can think of when i hear Q17 is Sector 7.

Does Jillian's random guy have a name? If so please tell me.

Please let JilLiam have a good reunion. Let them have a repeat of the season 1 montage. Please.

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Salvation "Abre sus Ojos"

Spoilers ahead for Salvation 2x08

DARIUS TANZ IS BACK BABY and boy is he fantastic in this episode. We see him back to being the calculated-risk-taker he always has been but now his smile and charm are back. Santiago Cabrera is clearly in tune with this character and it makes for a wonderful viewing experience. And the Spanish was wonderful! The twist was fairly obvious, but the explanation was unique and interesting. One critique, if I may: this would have paid off a lot more had it come later. Have Darius mad in the white house, this time to the point of nearly ordering a nuclear strike on ReSyst, and have *Liam* make the call to shut it down.

Q17 HAS BEEN REVEALED as this season's illuminati/ReSyst. A private, omnipotent, and omniscient organization that operates like the CIA. Apparently they have powerful clients who want to shift the world order... by putting Darius Tanz in the oval office. My long term guess is that this ties back to Nikolas Tanz (but who knows, so many dead people that may still be alive).

ALONSO is conspicuously missing. Just like last week I can see him going chaotic evil and killing Neal Barrows as much as I can see him going lawful neutral and just BAMFing out to go live out his (hopefully many) remaining days.

PEOPLE HAVE DIED this day and one of them may be permanent. TESS was murdered by Liam using Darius's Flashdrive of Doom. Malcolm Croft was also killed (nearly simultaneously) by a ReSyst goon. We've seen him take bullets before though. TESS will obviously return in some capacity later this season or even next season if there's too much going on already. There's an awesome headcanon post out there somewhere of Darius coming up with names for a new TESS and Liam shooting them down. #makeNEALcanon

JILLIAN IS ZEN AS ALL HELL thanks to random-guy invading Grace's home with a bunch of Cope people. This was weird, right?

All in all a suspenseful episode. We're officially in the second half of the season if last year was any indication. I will say that just as I thought they were falling into a "Liam and Alycia fight over nukes, someone storms into an elevator, suspense!" Of the week scenario, they completely resolved ReSyst (for now). Props to the writers for keeping us on our toes.

And will someone PLEASE get them a better CGI budget.

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In order:

Hard liquor straight (male dwarf)

Tea Ace (female human)

Chocolate milk fluid (genderfluid human)

Lemonade gay (male tiefling)

Mixed bi (male aasimar) <- current

I myself am a

Alignment chart creators have decided most alignment charts aren’t inclusive enough so I present to you my Drink x Sexuality extra large chart

have fun with that last column

I’m a tea queer

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Salvation’s new characters

So far we’ve gotten some interesting new characters on Salvation this season. While Claire’s brother is of interest, partly because we don’t really know where his loyalties lie, Alycia, Liam’s contact in Re/Syst, seems of more interest. It wasn’t difficult to be suspicious of her from the start. Liam seems to find his way to these types of characters. What is curious though is her relation to Darius. At first, I thought past lover and research partner. But after last week’s episode, I’m starting to wonder if she’s more than a lover. She talked about her father and being angry over the type of father he was. I don’t think she’s Darius’ kid because the ages are too close to be plausible (and I would like to think that Darius wouldn’t raise a kid like his uncle raised him, but who knows.) Perhaps they’re cousins, then? She might be the daughter of Darius’ uncle, who we know to be a rather nasty guy. Perhaps there was a falling out between them or jealousy because Darius got more attention than her. I don’t quite get the sense that she’s a past lover anymore and given how Darius feels about stealing technology, I’m not sure that he would outright steal TESS. There has to be more to that story.

I’m curious what others think about Alycia as well as the new characters we’ve gotten this season. Are they worthwhile additions?

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Can someone make a gifset or a video that compares Beau's stunning strike to Vex's hunters mark on Vecna last campaign?

BEAU IS A GOLDEN GOD

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The random woman with a clipboard is Nero

Charlie Rowe in the fifth sneak peek for the pilot episode of CBS’s Salvation x

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Yes. There are more of us. The fandom grows

Salvation S03E02

This post contains heavy spoilers for episode 2 of Salvation’ season 2

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