bit late but what's your favorite NPC you've made for your dnd campaign? how do the players like them?
JODIE.
This is Jodie. She's a dwarven rival pirate captain in my DND campaign, and is very much not a good person.
The captain of my player's ship, Vistra (PC), dated Jodie about a decade ago, when she was 17 and Jodie was a decade older. It was NOT healthy. They broke up around the time that Vistra found a baby Triton at sea, and decided to raise her (becoming Nerea, another PC). Their relationship, in my mind at least, was very complicated. They grew up in the same community, although Jodie left to become a pirate when Vistra was very young, and Jodie was there for Vistra when Vistra decided to leave their community. Ever since they left the community, Vistra has shaved her beard, and since the breakup, Jodie has grown hers back out.
My players have only come across Jodie once. They (rightfully) despise her. I love her because I'm the only one who truly gets her and I find her character sooo compelling. The reason she's like,,, this,, is because she feels so deeply and painfully wronged by everything that hasn't gone her way in life. She resents Vistra and Nerea for her relationship with Vistra falling apart, and she's so angry at the people who raised her because she feels they didn't raise her right, and I think that deep down she knows that she has to hate everything that's gone wrong in her life because if she didn't she would have to accept that maybe, just maybe, not everything is someone else's fault.
Please keep sending me asks about my DND campaign (The Pirates and the Pious) :)
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today's mystery: am I feeling off because I actually slept last night, or am I feeling off because I forgot to take my meds this morning?
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I can feel something bad coming Soon
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Inspired by this post because I have some thoughts about this one au.
So, Damian stuffs his shadow twin into the body of an unfinished clone, and somehow it just got worse really. Danny mostly just stuck to him whenever he was a shadow, and hide from basically everyone else.
But now that he has a body?
Sheer and utter chaos.
First of all, was the Batfamily's reaction to Danny. He explained who exactly Danny was, and it pained Bruce to only know now that he had another son that was killed because he was born with a birth defect.
Meanwhile Danny, feral child who may or may not have shadow powers with the maturity of a ten-year-old and the emotional maturity to match. Does not give a single care of what Bruce or anyone that isn't Damian feels.
Damian, meanwhile, is trying to stop him from putting a rat in his mouth because, as much as he loves his brother, he does dislike his specific trait to put basically anything in his mouth.
As a shadow creature? That would be fine.
As a human? No. He does not want his brother to get a disease.
So he is currently trying to wrangle his brother and trying to get him to spit out the rat, and he succeeds, and the rat runs off. Only for a spike of shadow to spear the rat right one through, leaving Damian stunned, and in that time frame the spike whipped back, the rat went in his brother's mouth, and he swallowed.
He looked down at Danny, only to find a tail of shadows peeking out from his back, horns and clawed hands and feet covered in shadows.
And him chewing on the rat.
Damian, did the only thing he could even think to do at that moment.
He smacked his brother's head and chided him for eating something who could have been who knows where.
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Publishing has always been a fucking nightmare, but now it’s a layer of hell. It’s not enough that writers be good at what they do. Writers have to maintain an active social media presence and cultivate a following. Be available.
They have to be conventionally attractive enough to look good enough to see on a screen, aesthetically pleasing, kind, funny, up-to-date on trends, socially aware but not so controversial that they turn off a brand from California from slapping their discount code on a video promoting a book.
They have to do all of this with no media training, with little help from the companies that are supposed to be doing this for them.
Of course, a lot of this isn't possible for say, the 40-something mother of two who teaches English at a school and writes on the side. She’s boxed out of an already complex industry that already has enough walls.
On some level, I think authors have always marketed themselves a little, but we’ve reached such a crazy point where we’re demanding the author become the influencer. Accessibility in publishing has narrowed from an inch to a sliver. And that inch was hard enough to get in as is.
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