#kobold problems

[kobold-axe-master]

None of my friends have long enough snouts for affection.

biting someone's muzzle is a love language

[thepioden]

I just. I love the party I DM SO much. They're ridiculous. You know how some parties are murderhobos? Mine are litigation hobos. I think this is because the clorcerer is a former IRL lawyer and his IRL wife started out playing a fiend-pact fire genasi warlock. Her pact was negotiated by Daddy's Lawyers. And since we've established she has access to a pack of infernal attorneys, this has become their go-to.

They got Mammon and Asmodeus arguing over an infernal FDIC situation.

They brought formal charges against the Grand Vizier of the City of Brass.

They stole the Tamlin (hereditary title) from the Queen of Air and Darkness by getting her tangled in a custody dispute with Hell over his soul. The Janet Precedent has been invoked. (Asmodeus is going to notice the repeated chicanery at some point.)

The genasi is going to help our Fairy wizard depose his lightly despotic archfey father by seducing the man and then taking his kingdom and his heir in divorce court.

They're working on ousting a dragon from her involuntary indenture as a museum curator/collection object belonging to a Dao and I suspect contract law will be involved.

I will not at all be surprised if the Warforged decides to somehow seize the patent for his manufacture from the Noble Dao who holds it and liberates his siblings that way.

Just. These litigious bastards. They're ridiculous. I adore them to bits.

[takaraphoenix]

Rereading a fic twice before posting it: Hah, I removed all of the typos! This looks good!

Rereading the fic after posting it: Where do all of these typos come from? Why does this sentence just end in the middle?? What does that sentence even mean? Why is this bit from the first draft still in it, I changed that!!

[voltaichalo]

whos ready for dragon meshi

plus extra notes lalalalalal

[toadlett]

I drew a kobold from our d&d game.

[the-gnomish-bastard]

Man, FUCK Kobolds. I hate those little bastards. Stop trying to steal my fucking dragons! They’re not for you to worship, they’re for me to use as living weapons. Assholes.

[snowlupinwoodstories]

Writer's block and Formatting Trouble

I was hoping to have some work in progress or ideas to float since my last poll. Instead I'm dealing with the worst writer's block I've had in a while. The issue isn't getting the ideas down on the page, its the full lack of ideas. What do you all do when writer's block throws you a curve ball?

Also an Update for Kobolds and Goblins, my previous method of formatting (ie format in the word processing program) wasn't working so I'm trying to now do it through an art program (GIMP). The process is slower because I'm having to teach myself each individual step. Goal is to still be done at the end of the month, but its a struggle.

[superkawaiimothman]

A terrible obstacle for any adventurer: Stepping in gross stuff :(

[blondefoxmedic]

Me asking my friends who have been in rural japan a lot why there is such a cat hype in japan to find out there isn't. It's just the weebs nekofying everything lol

[apocalypticapotheosis]

Lady of the Lower Dark

Witch-King

Wyrm In Waiting

The Rebel Dragon

Mother of Monsters

The Outsider God

Prayer Thief

"That one who's very fond of Kobolds"

[pyomatic]

writing about the evidence for house spirits and how demons in the house differ from demons in the natural world in the 12th c and earlier for my phd and thinking about the designs of house spirits that i drew for my medieval fantasy comic back in like 2019. i still love them. they start invisible, just like a draft you feel, an unexpected creak in the house. theyre the force that makes your threads tangle with dead hair. and then over time they start to collect Things, start to fashion themselves bodies out of lint and dirt and things you mutter under your breath. peak friends.

[hemipenal-system]

sure one 3 hp 1 summoning point creature is weak as shit. but you have a lot of summoning points.

fire archers? send 3500 kobolds at them. wolf rider cavalry? send 3500 kobolds at them. you can’t go wrong with 3500 kobolds

kobolds are the meta right now

[thedragonofcauldron]

@barksbog

My little guy arrived on today, Wednesday, the Froggest of Days and he is so soft and floppy and cute!!! I saw the eyes were random but I wasn't expecting heterochromia!!

Anyway here he is safe and sound with his new friends and one of my Coordinating T-Shirts (I have a second one but I can't find it atm, but I assure you I was wearing this one when I opened him)

[robotgirlservos]

I wanna see more post tf stuff where you have to adjust to your work with your new form, or try and fail spectacularly. Yeah sure you just got turned into a dragon, but we have this very important business meeting you need to attend. Claws gouging the doors while trying to be careful on the handles, frustrated growls setting off smoke detectors because the printer is being deliberately annoying.

Trying to line cook while you're now a pooltoy and cant grab any handles. Gotta make sure your new robot body is intrinsically safe before we let you work near the grain powder and flammable vapors. Your little kobold legs are so short you can't drive yourself anymore, but its even more of a problem cuz you're supposed to be driving a semi 7 days of the week.

Can you confirm its you anymore when you need to show id? This dog is trying to buy some fireball whisky, but her id says shes a human. "Do you know why I pulled you over?" "Is it because I'm made of slime?"

I need to see the adjustment period

[prokopetz]

One of the pieces of feedback I'd received on the previous revision of Eat God is that the introductory text didn't clearly communicate what the game's big-picture deal is. I'm hoping this rewrite makes it clear!

(Image transcript under the cut.)

Introduction

Eat God is a game about being on the outside. It revolves around the Folk, beings who stand for every small, funny-looking creature in every game that insists small, funny-looking creatures are morally okay to kill, every goblin and kobold and imp, all reimagined here as members of the same impossibly varied, self-created people. Each player will take on the role of one of the Folk, different from any other, and navigate the world from their knee-high perspective.

Of course, player characters in Eat God aren't just any small, goblin-like critters. They're also God-eaters, practitioners of an esoteric discipline – part existential philosophy, part martial art – that comes with both fantastical abilities and big questions: namely, what does it mean to eat God?

Is “God” the systems of oppression we build to keep others down, and eating God means throwing off those chains?

Is “God” the culmination of an error in our understanding of reality, and eating God means finding another way to be?

Or is “God” just a great big tyrant in the sky, and eating God means exactly what you think it means?

As a God-eater, your journey to find out will take you from place to place, with each destination presenting potential answers, usually in the form of someone being ground under someone else's boot. Owing to your limited outsider's perspective, your interventions may not always help, at least not in the ways you intend, but they'll definitely ensure that those who benefit from the status quo are having a bad time.

Or, in less elevated terms, Eat God is a game about a bunch of gender-ambiguous muppety things with bullshit super powers wandering around causing problems on purpose. If you cause enough, you might even accomplish something.

[yusiyomogi]

one of the things i deeply respect dungeon meshi for is that kui made it very clear in her writing that being born and raised in racist world makes you racist by default. it's not a new message, but i think it hits really well in a mostly comedic "relatable" story like dungeon meshi. i feel like many people don't understand that we also grew up in racist world. that the problem isn't just some people. that we all have to actively seek it out in ourselves and actually do something about it.

and dunmeshi does a great job to demonstrate all kind of racism and expressions of racism and especially how ignorance sits in the core of it (because i often hear, "it's not racism, it's just ignorance"). and there's a lot of different layers everyone needs to work through and people get stuck on different ones even if they have best intentions (like marcille in relation to orcs or kabru in relation to kobolds). but if you do nothing about it, if you refuse to examine it, it will be with you for the rest of your life. discomfort with yourself is a good thing actually.