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Right hand, left hand, closed eyes

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i miss her (ttrpg character i barely got to play)

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[staggering to my feet and wiping a single perfect drip of blood from my mouth] i have to get back on my bullshit. no matter the cost

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I'm a little out of the loop, what happens if anim doesn't reach it's monthly goals? I could only afford to back the kickstarter, does eureka get cancelled?

Eureka and almost all of the various Kickstarter promises are currently available on itchio in a playable state, so Eureka isn’t at risk of getting canceled.

However, as for what the deal is with our finances, without going into unnecessary detail, one of our team members only has a confirmed place to live so long as they can prove that A.N.I.M. is making roughly 15% more in income each month, until it hits a threshold of regularly making at least $4,000 per month.

If we fail to hit these quotas too many times, that team member’s financial and living situation are at risk of becoming very unstable, which is not only very bad for them obviously, but will cripple the whole team’s ability to continue to do what we do.

That’s why it’s so urgent that we hit these quotas. If anyone wants to see A.N.I.M. succeed, or just wants to keep a disabled person financially stable, please consider the links below.

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Whoa you were one of the interpreters for the Crit Role Sydney show? :O

How was the experience if you don't mind me asking? Interpreting an unscripted nine person cast with crosstalk and fantasy terms seems like it would be a challenge

Hey there! Yes, that was me 🤩

As a D&D fan, it was one of the most fun experiences of my career.

Unfortunately I was a bit late to the Critical Role train, and I never joined later on as I found it as a piece of media very large and intimidating, but I've been a D&D player since high school, and a Dimension 20 and Baldur's Gate fan. Please accept my back tattoo as proof of my credentials.

Working to interpret the show was me and two other interpreters who put in a lot of work before and during the show to make sure that our audience of 3 Deaf Critters were able to access the show all night. As the D&D super fan, I had to prepare some common vocab for the different skill checks and classes that exist in the game. Especially for the character classes, they don't exist in Auslan but I took inspiration from other Deaf D&D fans who use ASL and BSL. I recorded a video of that and sent it to my fellow interpreters and to the one Deaf Critter I was aware was coming.

During the show, we chose to have only one interpreter "on" at a time. After watching the London show recording, I noticed that barring a few moments of cross talk, the cast don't really talk over each other much, and give plenty of pauses between lines of dialogue, especially when Matt is narrating during scene setting. Having one interpreter meant that we had to "roleshift" by moving our body to different angles to show which character was speaking.

We worked in 15 minute blocks, so we got to have 30 minute breaks when not actively interpreting, but I was watching my co-interpreters the entire time to help prompt with different terms or signs they may need help with, as they weren't as au fait with all the fantasy terms as me.

The Melbourne show is also being interpreted by a team of 3 interpreters who are all D&D fans, and I've made sure to give them as much of a rundown as I can so they can do the best job they can during that show too. I hope it's a good one and I can't wait to hear how it goes! 🤩

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lo-fi beats to make a dnd character to 🎵 my piece for the @artists-guild-of-exandria lo-fi project!

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Cloudward, Ho!

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Much to be said about Caleb's backstory reveal scene and most of it has already been said, but it really is so fun how incidentally emphatic Caleb is about tying the acquisition of his anti-scrying amulet to Vergessen. Without that, it is largely a backstory reveal, a lore dump as Matt describes it, but what with how Liam takes a moment to look to Matt and call out the necklace explicitly as related to Caleb's escape from the asylum, it sets up the heist in a hundred episodes so fucking well. There's no way the possibility of needing those items was even in mind by this point, not least at a point where they were in a place to infiltrate that place in particular, but it makes the later scenario so elegant. Of course they need those amulets to hide from Trent. Of course they can only go back to Vergessen to get them. Not least amidst the war bearing down upon them, the discussion of traitors and foreign enemies, when Caleb will return with foreign magic learned from a Kryn traitor who will also evade discovery from both sides thanks to that heist and Caleb's evolving feelings about justice and mercy. Knowing the outcome of that infiltration—Trent finding them there, Caleb rolling a nat 20 to get them out, swaying Astrid just enough to let them get away from the ensuing chase—makes a simple side comment, almost an aside, into a beautiful piece of foreshadowing.

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The early war plot line and the associated conversations are really well done and grounded in such a way that it feels very real—the propaganda is incredibly pointed especially in hindsight, the varied opinions and biases are painfully accurate, and the nationalism is chilling—and also watching it this week in particular is making me thousand yard stare like Caleb Widogast upon hearing the name Trent Ikithon.

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Detect evil but it becomes increasingly clear that whoever calibrated it had some really weird moral stances.

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Running D&D in 2024 is like, the player community collectively convinced each other that dungeon crawls, resource management and attrition are bad, so now everyone runs games where characters can expect to get into one or two fights a day and characters are never stretched for resources, and most Reddit threads about D&D are GMs asking for help challenging their groups because of said ignoring of the resource management aspect and getting told that a good GM could make it work so obviously they must be a bad GM.

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Detect evil but it becomes increasingly clear that whoever calibrated it had some really weird moral stances.

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I know I'm late to the party when it comes to discussing the whole "Mercer Effect" thing but I do just wanna say, if you as a D&D player are expecting your DM to be like Matt Mercer, you should put in some effort to be like Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, Laura Bailey, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, or Ashley Johnson

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lofi beats to launder money and fake your death to

(babenon dosal aka the gentleman for @artists-guild-of-exandria's critical role-fi project!)

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knight who is constantly searching for a good and noble king to serve but cannot fucking find one for the life of him so he has to become the good and noble king himself.

and now all these other knights are coming around like "please let me serve you" and like obviously hes going to let them serve him thats the point of being a good and noble king but its also. very annoying. one of you become the good and noble king for once lets trade

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knight who is constantly searching for a good and noble king to serve but cannot fucking find one for the life of him so he has to become the good and noble king himself.

and now all these other knights are coming around like "please let me serve you" and like obviously hes going to let them serve him thats the point of being a good and noble king but its also. very annoying. one of you become the good and noble king for once lets trade

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i need Lou Wilson to look deep into my eyes and give me guidance