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What's happening with Theo Solomon is so, so frustrating and needless and disgusting (more info can be found at this post), and I also want to acknowledge the treatment of Wyll's original voice/mo-cap actor, Lanre Malaolu.

Malaolu gave an excellent performance! His delivery and the way he incorporated mannerisms and posture into Wyll's physicality was amazing. The original characterization of Wyll was written very well and matched the general tone of the wider party/narrative.

And to suddenly have Larian, years into the project, rewrite the character entirely and then re-cast it? To have other actors talk about how Wyll just 'wasn't working' as a character? All because of fan criticism that places ridiculous (and often contradictory) standards and expectations on black characters. Even if the re-cast resulted from scheduling conflicts (as Malaolu couldn't come in to re-record), we lost Malaolu's entire performance because of a rewrite that was simply not necessary.

And after disregarding Malaolu's years of work into this character, the same criticisms that Larian caved into are thrown at Wyll's rewrite, and the same disregard is being seen with Theo Solomon again and again. As someone who started playing early access when it first came out, fans' treatment of Wyll and his actors hasn't gotten better. It's actively gotten worse.

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"wyll's too nice i'd like him more if he were a little meaner and angrier" you guys couldn't handle vivienne de fer having a complicated relationship with the oppressive system she was raised in. you couldn't handle liam costa making a minor but well-intentioned mistake. you couldn't handle preston garvey having a recurring fetch quest.

you couldn't even handle early access wyll who was angrier and grappled with moral quandaries more. and you can't handle wyll as he is now when he playfully teases astarion.

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Tom Cardy: Perception check

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Perception Check | Tom Cardy

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Because I’m curious, I wanted to make a couple of polls. This one is essentially a poll version of a post by @mookybear12404

Please reblog for sample size!! And feel free to tell me about your first characters!!

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i told my friend’s dad that he was hot (it was in context with the conversation, he was complaining that he was feeling old, etc), and he said a very genuine thank you and the conversation moved on to other topic, my friend was now talking about something else entirely when his dad goes

“i think if i were born in your generation i might have been bisexual”

and friend got kinda mad at me lmao

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it’ll never fail to amaze me that chessex, the game dice company - like if you bought your first dice set from a game store/comic shop/card shop you most certainly bought a chessex set - has such an ugly and poorly designed website. it looks like they went out of business 15 years ago.

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Spend NO MORE than 90 secs looking up a rule, then make a decision, and move on.

Later, after the session you can look it up and inform everyone of the correct ruling moving forward.

What do you think?

pointsofinspiration.com

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Oh boy am I late with this one folks! This week's drink is The Scourge of The Gods. It's based off of one of the Tavernkeep's characters, J'anellaine.

J'anellaine is a War Cleric Aasimar who hates the gods because they think they can dictate who gets healed. They are a radical healer and will put their powers to use healing everyone, friend or foe.

The drink is 1/2 oz orange liquor, 1oz sweet vermouth, a dash of absinthe, and 2oz peaflower gin all muddled up with some cherries. Top it off with ginger beer and throw in some ice cubes made with tonic water!

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Grave domain clerics respect the natural cycle of life and death, it honors deaths inevitably. They would in theory be the ones to give the dead proper funeral rites, comfort loved ones, etc. They want you to die when it's your time.

Death domain clerics are more focused on what causes death and what makes things undead. They want to kill you and bring you back wrong and under their control. They just want you to die.

Their rolls in a party are also different. The death domain is a more martial class while the Grave domain provides more support.

Hang on, there’s a Death Domain Cleric and a Grave Domain Cleric? What the fuck is the difference? That’s like being a pyromancer, and then finding out there’s just a better version of pyromancy!

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How it feels.

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A preview of this week's Bartender's Brew!

This week's brew is called Vee's Eight, a take on a Bloody Mary. Composed of pickle brine, tomato juice, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, vodka, ginger liqueur, Lawry's seasoned salt, and 2 Caffeine capsules (optional).

This drink is based on the Tavernkeep's player character from a monster of the week one shot. Vee is an Initiate with an oath to not consume food or drink (aside from bread and water) during a hunt. Since most monsters come out at night when the hunts over, they go order a bloody Mary for brunch adding their own special ingredient- two caffeine capsules.

Want a drink based off of one of your characters? Submit a description of your character and what flavor profiles might fit them best and you just might see them appear in a future episode!

New episodes of the Tavernkeep's Guide airs this Saturday at noon (CDT)! Find it wherever podcasts are peddled.

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I am so entertained...

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Honestly the biggest thing that in my experience makes DnD or any ttrpg run smoothly is buy-in

Players have to buy-in to the story otherwise it won't work

And by this I don't mean be railroaded by the DM I mean like,

When one of my players switches characters and I introduce them to the party by them just happening to be nearby, I know my players will find a reason to talk to the new PC cause it's important. If there's a noise outside they'll investigate (albeit cautiously) cause that's the point of the noise outside

You have to meet the DM at least halfway and Want to engage with the world

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Brennan Lee Mulligan on TPKs

"The easiest feeling of dread I feel as a dungeon master is in a difficult combat when players start changing their mind turn to turn about what the overall strategy is. That has presaged every TPK I've ever seen. The only times that all the players get wiped out is when someone's like 'We gotta run' and they spend their turn runninng, and the next person is like 'I'm gonna follow them' and the third person says 'Shit, the artifact! I'm gonna swing twice and get the artifact' and then person number four goes 'Are we staying or are we running? I'm gonna cast a spell to try to pull the artifact, OK they saved, shit umm, I'm gonna move into this hedge for better cover for next round' and the first person is like 'Next round?! Well I'm gonna run back then!' and now you're blowing your action economy, and the damage is piling up, and that's when people die."

Worlds Beyond Number Fireside Chat for WWW ep11 "Promises Promises"