#instigating

[inheritantroyalty]

❝ are you still happy? with me, i mean. with us. ❞ @chvmpisms

“ what? ” the hotel room is quiet, nothing but the dim lighting of a lamp and the phone screen in cody’s hand lighting up the room. he’s laying on the other end of the bed, almost leaning against adam as his head peeks up at his question. a loaded question at that. did the pair of them even know what they really were at this point? “ of course i am, you already know that ” cody brushes it off with a calm tone to his words, eyes quickly averting back towards his phone. “ what’s got you thinking otherwise? kenny in your head again? ”

[netscapenavigator-official]

You ever notice how it’s always the people that pronounce “GIF” without the French phonics that get heated about the GIF vs. GIF debate?

Like, okay, Mr. “I pronounce everything at face value because I’m American,” pop off I guess.

I bet you also think Grand Prix is pronounced “Grand Pricks” instead of “Grand Pree.”

Mr. “I go to the Mexican restaurant and order the ‘poh-low’.”

Like, look out everybody, the kid who made it through sophomore English with the catchphrase “D’s get degrees” wants to pretend they know how to pronounce a word better than its computer scientist creator. Everybody brace yourselves.

[cagemasterfantasy]

DM guide: Running The Game: Know your players

While your players role is to create characters breathe life into them and steer the campaign through their actions your role as Dungeon Master is to keep the players immersed in the world you've created and to give the characters the opportunity to do awesome things. Knowing what your players enjoy most about the DND game helps you create and run adventures that they will enjoy and remember. Once you know which of the following activities each player in your group enjoys you can tailor adventures to your players preferences. It's rare to gather a table of players who all enjoy the same aspects of the game. The trick is to find a balance so everyone can get some enjoyment out of each game session even if certain encounters don't match their preferences. At best a group of players is a lot like their characters in that having different interests and capabilities enables them to handle a broad range of challenges.

Acting: Players who enjoy acting like to embody their characters personalities perspectives and attitudes. They might like dressing up or using their characters voices while playing. They enjoy social interactions with NPCs monsters and their fellow party members. Engage players who like acting by:

Giving them opportunities to develop their characters personalities and backgrounds.

Allowing them to interact regularly with NPCs.

Highlighting the roleplaying elements of combat encounters.

Incorporating elements from their characters backstories into your adventures.

Exploring: Players who desire exploration want to experience the wonders that a fantasy world has to offer. They want to know what's around the next corner or hill and like to find hidden clues and treasure. Engage players who like exploration by:

Dropping clues that at things yet to come

Letting them find things when they take the time to explore

Providing evocative descriptions of exciting environments and using interesting maps and props

Giving monsters secrets for the players to uncover or cultural details for them to learn. Fighting: Players who enjoy fantasy combat like the excitement of battling villains and monsters. They thrive in situations that can be best be resolved in combat favoring bold action over negotiation or investigation. Engage players who like fighting by

Springing unexpected combat encounters

Vividly describing the havoc their characters wreak with their attacks and spells

Including combat encounters with large numbers of less powerful monsters

Instigating: Players who like to instigate action are eager to make things happen even if that means taking perilous risks. They would rather rush headlong into danger and face the consequences than cautiously plan their actions. Engage players who like to instigate by

Allowing their actions to affect the environment

Including things in your adventures to tempt them.

Letting their actions put the characters in a tight spot.

Including encounters with NPCs who are as feisty and unpredictable as the players are.

Optimizing: Players who enjoy optimizing their characters capabilities like to fine tune their characters for peak performance by gaining levels new features and magic items. They welcome any opportunity to demonstrate their characters excellence. Engage players who like optimization by:

Using desired magic items as adventure hooks and rewards.

Including encounters that let them leverage their characters most potent abilities.

Providing quantifiable rewards like Experience Points for noncombat encounters.

Problem Solving: Players who want to solve problems like to scrutinize NPC motivations untangle a villain's machinations solve puzzles and come up with plans. Engage players who like to solve problems by:

Including puzzles and tricky situations that require thinking

Rewarding planning and tactics with in game benefits

Creating NPCs with complex motives.

Socializing: Many groups include players who come to the game primarily because they enjoy the social event and want to spend time with their friends not because they're especially invested in any part of the actual game. These players want to participate but they tend not to care whether they're deeply immersed in the adventure and they don't tend to be assertive or very involved in the details of the game rules or story. As a rule don't try to force these players to be more involved than they want to be.

Storytelling: (:D) Players who love storytelling want to contribute to a narrative. They like it when their characters are heavily involved in an unfolding story and they enjoy encounters that are tied to and expand an overarching plot. Engage players who like storytelling by:

Using their Characters backstories to shape the stories of the campaign.

Making sure encounters advance the story.

Making their characters actions steer future events.

Giving NPCs characteristics and connections that the adventurers can explore to uncover new adventure opportunities.

Including plot elements that call back to decisions the adventurers made earlier.

[cuartosol]

it's 1am, time to post klaasje snort a line

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

i am megatron

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[u3pxx]

'cause love's such an old-fashioned word and love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night 🫁🪩

my piece for the @de-fanzine-cpr-pale zine! the premise for the zine was so sweet and i'm glad i got to draw something celebrating the love we all have for disco elysium 🫁💖 you can download the full zine here (it's free!!!)

i chose the song under pressure bc not only was it an earworm i had during the time i was drawing this, but also because of this lovely edit that ignited some very strong emotions in me! go check it out!!!

like this art? it's a print, here! | like what i do? support me on ko-fi!

i also considered choosing a tagalog song, but to be honest, i'm not much of a music listener so i didn't know enough songs that would've reminded me of disco elysium or had the vibes/inspiration i was looking for. but, oh well!

another inspiration for this drawing was that one sculpture with flowers bursting from its head that people were redrawing, i kind of wanted to capture that but a little differently! instead of drawing flowers, i get to draw one billion trillion disco elysium npcs good god why did i do that to myself

it's actually been a while since i've drawn this i'm trying to remember if i have anything else to say hm hm hmmm oh yea accessories harry's got are the eight-eyed teratorn tie and on the side is the hat he gets from annette! (it's not very obvious, it just looks like a very colorful part of the background too but that was what my idea was anyways pftt) i wanted harry to be wearing things that were out of the little acts of kindness you do in the game.

i haven't read thru the full zine yet bc i've been busy orz but from the pages i flipped through i'm just blown away by everyone's works!!! thanks so much for the mods for organizing this!!

[jukjujada]

[bananadramaaa]

Some old doodles of a favourite girlfailure

[arthdoesart]

Haymitch:...is this a prank?

Plutarch: Oh, of course! The camera's right there!

[soggydogggy]

made this regarding the situation which recently occurred on twitter because there was no way for me to stay quiet. disco elysium is inherently queer. that’s it. trying to deny that is not understanding the very basis of the game. you can’t claim to be a part of the fandom while being extremely homophobic or transphobic at the same time, nor get to take the clout for cosplaying a main queer character. do your research and stop embarrassing yourself, especially after you’ve already been exposed.

cheers!

[qqqkrolek]

wlw situationship

[slightlyplant]

if i were klaasje i simply just wouldn’t have fumbled her

[sockboioioing]

THE QUEERS ARE INFILTRATING DISCO

Idk why my art skills always increase when im drawing gay shit man

[meontix]

>besties v~v

[www-pinkhearse]

I fucking hate him

[bemorch]

DE requests + unfinished disco art