#ally rogue

[dailyadventureprompts]

Campaign Starter: Tales from the Bonecart

Whether it's due to superstition or a distaste for a toilsome and muddy trade, folk tend to pay little attention to gravediggers. This makes for an awfully convenient cover for your travelling troupe of tombrobbers as they tour around the realm's backroads filling their pockets with mementos purloined from the dead.

Planning adventures for "evil" campaigns can be tough, but sometimes you and your players just want an excuse to get your hands dirty. What better opportunity to get DEEP down in the dirt than to hand out shovels and have them start out as a group of travelling undertakers/thieves?

Setup: A handful of crews have run the bonecart scam over the past several generations, tempering their skullduggerous actions with a bit of honest gravemaking. This dichotomy is no better represented in the current heads of the operation: Dour and hardworking Heliana, who minds the cart's reigns and keeps the crew on track, and the knavish academic Benjamin Eelpot who loves delving into things that should best stay buried. These two have taken the party on for a series of jobs that will likely require a cold heart and a strong stomach, stealing from both the living and the dead and hoping not to get caught in the meantime.

Adventure Hooks:

The party's first outing on the bonecart should be a meat-and-potatoes sort of job, used to set the tone of the campaign, which happens to sound like "Someone old and rich and lonely has died, leaving their house haunted and their valuables unguarded".

While being stewards of the dead is a great cover, it sometimes attracts the wrong sort of attention, such as when a nobleman offers the party a great reward to investigate an abandoned necropolis and the source of the terrifying dreams that haunt him. Gold is gold though, and surely this couldn't have too many long reaching complications for them.

Irony of ironies, Shortly after one of their scores the party is setupon by a group of bandits disguised as dead men, who manage to make off with a good portion of their illgotten gain. There's no way to recover their goods through official channels, so they'll have to do it themselves.

Throughout their early adventures the party will need to avoid the attention of the heavy handed sheriff hired by the local nobility to quietly and brutally dispose of criminals like themselves.

You get a lot of weird jobs being a gravedigger, but "limo service" is not usually one of them. Still, money is money, and when a bloodsoaked countess offers to pay the bonecart well to defend and transport her coffin across the lands so she can attend a gathering of the great and the ghoulish who are they to say no?

Heliana will eventually approach the party once they've gotten enough shared time , experience, and nightmarish close calls under their belts. She's got some personal matters to attend to, which involve a list of names belonging to an old secret society and a series of graves across the countryside that may contain clues to the locations of some great treasure. Its a bolder job then the crew usually pulls, and will draw unwanted attention, but they can rely on eachother to pull through, right?

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[loumoonz]

Oh they’re such silly goobers with definitely only the bestest of intentions!

[obsidianmichi]

My favorite part of being a Rogue Trader is the "Do What I Want" Writ, empowered by the Emperor of Humanity himself, and the part where Abelard just stands behind me with his beating stick to remind everyone that, "the Rogue Trader may do as she pleases."

[rocketyship]

Okay coming back to this, I really like the design and now it’s an oc based on AM, fight me

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Hadestown UK Behind The Scenes

[moipale]

"ART had an alternate, more drastic plan that included giving me sex-related parts, and I told it that was absolutely not an option." (Artificial Condition, pg. 50)

do you think ART did its crew members' bottom surgery

[mralastorfr]

did someone say AM?

AM with a body?!?!

Rushed it a bit MB

[alatariel-galadriel]

redraw of a screencap from the most recent X-97 opening! Love these two to death <3

[okaybutmakeitgayer]

How I hoped that one scene in Rogues! The Podcast would’ve gone

Jon: Are you gay?

Eddie: no

Jon: straight?

Eddie: no

Jon: bi?

Eddie: nope

Jon: pan

Eddie: no

Jon: asexual

Eddie: no

Jon: omni?

Eddie: no

Jon: demisexual?

Eddie: nope

Jon, five minutes later: polysexual?

Eddie: nope

Jon: then what are you?

Eddie: oh, I’m bi, I just wanted to see how many terms you knew

Jon: …

Eddie: which was a surprising amount for a straight man

Jon: I’m an ally

Eddie: mhm-hmm

[danwhobrowses]

So Callowmoores am I alone in thinking it was cute that Fearne helped carry Ashton to the city? Like there's the parallel also with Ashton carrying her into the Bloody Bridge as well

[lovevalley45]

when i said i thought PIB would be a swashbuckler i think i was still thinking abt shrekiverse puss in boots, but thinking about more mastermind works so well in the context of the original fairytale like bro pib help actioned tomas all the way into becoming king

[illithiddies]

So I never realized that Astarion's cantrip ability comes from being an Elf actually, I always thought it was from being a Rogue.

The dndbeyond page mentions that High Elves tend to have an affinity for magic, and use the Wizard spellcasting list and mechanics for it.

And while BG3 doesn't specify between Sun and Moon High Elves (of which Astarion is probably the later) the FR wiki mentions this about them:

It's not really talked about at all during the game, but Astarion definitely has at least this tiny bit of magical ability. Even more so if Arcane Trickster is chosen as his subclass later on.

Firebolt is his default cantrip, but it's default for everyone so I'd say it's up to interpretation if that's what he would have chosen. With his constant discussion about how much he loves the warmth of the sun, I feel like he probably would have taken firebolt, or at least maybe changed to it after he was turned.

He would have had this one singular magical ability with him for most of his life, both as an elf and as a vampire. Maybe he ignored it, maybe he relied on it, for self defense or maybe even comfort. Cantrips are the one thing you can almost always reach for, even when you've been disarmed.

There's a chance he might have had some further arcane knowledge in the past, but I feel like he most likely just didn't personally care to explore it. It might've not been worth his time as a magistrate. But, alternatively, he maybe 1) wasn't allowed to pursue it during his time under Cazador's influence, or 2) he actually did have some more magical affinity, but it was wiped out with the tadpole, as it was with Wyll.

Anyways, I feel like this can add a lot of fun extra context to his interactions with spellcaster Tavs or Gale!

[jesncin]

Don’t know if you know this, or if it would interest you, but just in case—in the DC Bombshells comic series (a spin-off universe where it’s WW2 and almost all superheroes are women and/or queer), Supergirl and Stargirl are not, for obvious reasons, biological twins, but they are, as near as anyone can tell, the same age, and are basically raised as twins (in this universe, Supergirl was sent to Earth as a baby, and her capsule was found by her adoptive parents on the same day Stargirl was born). They are the most important people in each others’ lives, and even though they sometimes fight, they love each other very much, and almost everything they do is at least partially motivated by that.

oh neat! I'm a fan of whenever Kara has a sister-figure to bounce off of, because otherwise she gets very close to the Martian Manhunter problem of being a loner with no solid cast system! A sibling or close friend does a lot.

[baelavelaryon]

girl help i keep on developing an au so disparate from the source material that it's practically its own story so no one has ANY frame of reference for it.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Umara Entangler

"Sea Gate is gone, the Halimar basin empty. But rebuild the seawall and give these waters time, and they will fill the basin anew."

Artist: James Ryman TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[david-sharkthot-webster]

Anyway if ur interested in non us-centric war shows then watch SAS Rogue Heros it fucking slays