#I also LOVE other TTRPGs!

[excitedrainbow]

so so excited for Burrow’s End and so so frustrated with the biggest parasocial fans telling anyone who was discussing what other TTRPG systems could be used that they should never question the expert GMs, please just leave us to our (loving!) conversations!

there are always going to be dickheads who talk shit and rudely tag in the people/performers they’re referring to, but most of the time any fan critique or discussion I see of D20 comes out of being big fans of both the show and TTRPGs, is super respectful, and no one is tagging in anyone involved with the show. yeah some of us get tired of how often DnD is used in the recent games, because it isn’t always the best system for the story and there LOADS of other TTRPGs that would be cool to use!

for this season, most of the discussion went DnD???? Again???? > wait it looks like there’s a bunch of combat and monsters > probably not suited for Wanderhome/other suggested TTRPGs > what other animal TTRPGs could work > Aabria is an incredible GM and she’s worked with other systems before so her choice of DnD for this story is interesting, let’s see how this works out for the story > oooh this is what Aabria has said about using DnD, ok cool, can’t wait to be emotionally hurt im so tired of seeing a loud minority of people increasingly butting in on respectful conversations to say “they like DnD! they play however they want to! they’re the performers why do you question their choices?” Or “omg how dare you have the audacity to question them” or other bullshit like that. if all you want to do is never have conversations about TTRPGs or cast/GM choices etc. and never want to hear any respectful critique or discussion then I think your fandom experience is going to be poorer, but that’s your choice. you don’t have to start shit with other people just because you can’t stand that they’re lovingly but thoroughly discussing/critiquing this form of media and not putting the cast on pedestals. parasocial attachments to vaguely famous people aren’t new things but god they are getting worse and making the experience of fandom more awful

[artharakka]

🔥🌿 Commission for @ mle.samson on instagram 🌿🔥

[brynnmclean]

I've got another D&D poll for you all in a similar vein to Is the Advisor Evil? because I think it's funny and one of my players/mutuals suggested I do this, if only so she could make a propaganda post about my special little guy.

Here's the scenario: you, the DM, start a new campaign and want to get your party invested in the game quickly, so you create an NPC to lead the group to a nice little first combat scenario that your guy can aid them with before he gives a quest hook and dies dramatically.

Immediately you run into problems with this plan: the healer saves his life. The party adopts him. You think, okay, he can give them important information periodically and then you'll TOTALLY kill him off later.

Three actual IRL years later, you have tried (and failed) to kill him THRICE total and he is now a PC's love interest. So!!!!

[heavenlyeros]

£30 clay creature commissions & 20% discount on a second one

✦ animals !

i only put cats & big cats on the flyer because i love cats, but i have made all sorts of creatures, like sheep, cows, prehistoric animals, dragons, an octopus, birds, frogs, reptiles, bunnies, fish, pokemon, bugs and lots more, and i am always excited to try new things too. although i'm behind on updating it with my new projects, my website has photos of other fun stuff i've made ! i promise it's not all cats

✦ what i can do

your pet, fursona, favourite ffxiv minion, beloved pokemon, rarely depicted special interest, science outreach mascot, tabletop game character, and anything else you love long as it is creature shape (rather than people shape). they can have little accessories and fun details both sculpted and painted, but obviously the scale means these details will be somewhat minimalist for safety's sake (like in examples). they can have patterns and colours painted or i can marble and swirl clay of different colours. i can also texture them to appear fluffy or scaly. i love using shimmery and metallic paints - neat for the festive season! if you are gifting, i can add a little card and/or ribbon to your creature and mail it directly to your giftee.

✦ refs

images of the actual creature you would like me to make you are always neat, but it is okay if you do not have those. a little doodle, a moodboard, a picrew, a detailed description are all very good too, and i will ask for any info i need. or if you only have the vibes and would like me to come up with a design that's neat too.

✦ what i cannot do

because these are small and they must also survive in the mail, i cannot add super fine details like long antennae or thin tentacles. i can still add details like these in, but they will be chubby and short. the tails on the flyer are about as thin as they can go. i am also wary of creatures with very delicate details coming out to the sides from the main bulk of the animal (like wings and antlers) because they have a riskier time in the mail. these will also need to be very chubby in order to be sturdy. where viable, i would prefer creatures to remain on all four legs (like meerkat being long instead of tall) and that they are standing, not sitting. this works best with my sculpting technique, but i am happy to branch out where needed. loafing and splooting creatures are very welcome. because they need to be able to stand, biped creatures have to be extra chubby on the bottom. for this reason i tend to not sculpt legs at all (on birds for example), but i can paint them on where it is an option. if the creature really needs legs they can be sitting instead with their legs in front of them or similar. i will do my best to come up with an idea that works for your creature and still allows them to balance fine ! i prefer mixing clay and getting colour variation that way if the creature is not one colour. for paint, i generally use dark blue or dark brown for darker details, and white for lighter details, with other colours used sparingly where that detail is necessary, like eye colour. i am most comfortable with minimal paint, because it means the finish is much sturdier and will not get damaged with regular handling and play. so patterns like multicolour spots or swirls and accessories like hats and scarves will be a different clay colour rather than painted, most of the time.

✦ about your creature

the animals are about 5cm/2 inches long. wolf & ghostling creatures always have beans and x shaped buttholes and other little details like that where applicable. i make the creatures out of polymer clay (usually fimo) and they are painted with acrylic paint and sealed with glossy acrylic varnish. i also use shimmery and colour changing powders that i mix into the paint sometimes to get metallic, pearlescent, and holographic effects. they are waterproof (just don't scrub them) and they are very sturdy. they can survive falls and even being yeeted across the room by my bastard cat. they are weak to things falling on them and to being squashed. the clay has some flexibility but it will eventually snap under pressure. the finish should not rub away at all with handling, long as you do not scratch it. unless they're super stubby, their legs and tails are built on armatures (wood and wire). this makes them extra sturdy and also quite easy to fix should an accident happen. they are full of love. i adore making them. they bring me so much joy. i hope you will feel the same.

✦ timeframe, shipping, and shop policies

your creature will be finished in 1-4 weeks. it depends on how many i have to make and whether i have the right colour clay on hand or must order it online. i will always aim to work as fast as possible. i do not always complete the first orders i received before later orders - i work on them depending on which one i feel is best for me to tackle at the time so that i am always excited and get the best results. i will contact you with updates if you like, and to ask any questions if something is unclear. i love taking wip photos. once your creature is finished, i will ship it out using royal mail. uk orders are shipped tracked and international orders are shipped standard. if your country has notoriously unreliable post service or you'd just feel safer with a tracking number, please let me know and i can invoice you via paypal to upgrade to tracked shipping for around £6. creatures should arrive to anywhere in the world in 2-3 weeks maximum, but of course i cannot guarantee, and varies by time of year and your local carrier. as these are custom orders there are no returns or refunds. if your creature gets lost in the mail i will do my utmost to sort it out with royal mail but i unfortunately cannot refund you out of pocket as i am barely covering my own costs and offering these so i can afford the most basic of necessities. if your creature arrives damaged please get in touch and i will provide advice on how to fix it or a replacement, depending on circumstances.

please message me on here or on ko-fi if you have any questions at all and thank you for checking out my creature commissions <3

[dontstandmedown]

i need the improv comedians who are playing dungeons and dragons in my laptop to stop making me cry/stay up until 3:45 am

[katartna]

Song of Frosted Light ❄️🕊️

[psikind]

do people know about my evil dragonborn woman I feel like people would appreciate her

[puttingwingsonwords]

Just got a letter from my pen pal 🥰 Everyone should write letters more. ‘But I can just send a text!’ Exchanging letters is so different from texting! Especially if you’re like me and don’t do well in conversations—long-form writing that gives you the time to think and say whatever you want to say can help you create deeper connections. Instead of trying not to write a wall of text in someone’s DMs, you’re trying to fill up a whole piece of paper (or several) because you don’t want to leave all that empty space! Also it’s fun to tell people you have a pen pal.

[milfygerard]

living in the inbetween hell where I dont hate or love ttpd enough to agree with anyone on the dash so im just sort of flinching whenever I see a post about it from any side

[gregrulzok]

Love is when your DM writes you into the campaign as an NPC, then looks at you anxiously and impatiently as they wait for you to figure it out

[dum-vivere-vinum-rubrum]

i don't know any feeling that's better than succesfully traumatizing your dnd players :)))

[warlordfelwinter]

this party is already shaping up to be bananas and there's still two people to come

(@majoras-skull-kid's and @cappurrccino's pcs next to Foxglove there, but to be entirely fair these sketches are just me playing around, i didn't ask for detailed character descriptions or anything jsdfng they could look completely different)

[girlwonderers]

journal entry 01

a welcoming feast, and our intrepid hero meets her adventuring party.

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The call for heroes came from Aldori manor. Lady Jamandi Aldori held a grand welcoming feast, alongside Restov’s Lord-Mayor Iosef Sellumis. Lady Jamandi and the Lord-Mayor are offering charters for baronies in the Stolen Lands—presumably in exchange for some service, though we haven’t been given the details as of yet. It seems Lady Jamandi intends to outline the specific terms tomorrow in a series of meetings.

The Stolen lands have never stayed settled by anything more organized than tiny cults and gangs of bandits—the reputation for danger both mundane and magical is legendary—but it’s a bounty of natural resources. If I could take a position of leadership in a barony, with the resources of the Stolen Lands and the support of Brevoy’s government…land, supplies, political influence and soldiers—I could offer all of them to the Knights remaining in Lastwall as part of an alliance. And the Knights could offer their experience to the new barony in turn; we were the ones who settled and fortified the wild lands around the Gallowspire, and I would say no nation is more experienced in raising and protecting new settlements.

Of course I was hardly the only person to show interest in the offer. The banquet was very well-attended by a number of adventurers—

The Iron Wraiths were present—I’ve heard of their time in Ustalav hunting undead

Gwynarawn—Kyonin ambassador—laid on the charm too thick

Maegar Varn—third son of a Brevic noble house, seeking glory since he has no hope of inheriting—nice lad, seems capable

Valerie—Brevic knight, possibly from noble family—exceptionally well-mannered—experienced combat veteran

Stronghorn? Headstrong? surely not his real name—some sort of monster hunter from Vudra—incredibly rude

Sun—another Vudran adventurer—young monastic pilgrim—very cheery and social

Athos—minotaur—elementalist? possibly a refugee

Amiri—warrior from the Realm of the Mammoth Lords—unmannered, no patience for court politics, but an experienced survivalist

There were others I didn’t get the chance to speak with, but I heard there was a cleric of Groetus among the attendees, along with a pair of obnoxiously loud bards.

Lady Jamandi is lodging us in groups; I’ve been bunked with the ambassador, the monster hunter, the minotaur, and the monk, as well as a leshy by the name of Orpheus and a cleric (not the Groetan, I think) named Soma. I can’t say I’m thrilled to be rooming with the monster hunter; he’s diminutive but too nosy for his own good…not to pun on his horn.

Jamandi recommended an early night and I’m inclined to agree. Tomorrow is likely to be challenging enough without exhaustion to contend with. Hopefully my new compatriots won’t be too hungover.

[lexicals]

Friend and I went to a d&d taster session tonight for people who have never played any ttrpgs before, supposedly as an experienced player to help out but when we got there there were so many people our friend running it was like "okay I know I said come to play but if one of you could gm that would actually be great" & like both of us had already offered help if needed anyway so we were like yeah sure, however we couldn't decide which of us would gm so we were like..... well this game is divided into sections so why don't we just. Trade off every new section lmao. Which, if it had been all newbies probably would have been a bit much but we ended up with the group that was mostly experienced players with one new person, so we were like hey fuck it chaos time let's go

And obviously whoever wasn't gming needed something to do so we decided we'd share a player character between us to pass off when each of us tagged in, but then I was like hey..... what if it is actually two different characters who are pretending to be one character, and one of them is trying to help and the other is trying to hinder lol. And so we ended up with stanford the train conductor who, between every carriage, would conveniently vanish and then reappear again, sometimes comically far away from where he just was. One of the other characters decided he was the devil, another tried to set him on fire. They did not realise that it was two different people until we revealed it at the end, overall extremely funny experience

[druidic-focus]

you ever fall back into a hyperfixation so hard you feel insane.

[b4kuch1n]

my art is not in the game yet but u should still go check out the browser version of The Zone do it