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This WBN finale is some dragon ball Z shit man I need the power rankers to help me out

idk what the fuck is gonna happen

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Brennan really tossed in that "by the way this is the blood of a child" just in case there was a single human being who hadn't picked up the vibe yet

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Lately when I'm talking to my friends about the moral complications of living in a world with ✨ Institutions ✨ I have to just be like "Well if you really want to get what I'm saying either I can try to explain it or you can just listen to the d&d podcast that is currently my entire ethical framework"

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WWWO really portrays the abnormality of adventuring in a way that I haven't seen much of in d&d before. At every step, especially with the citadel, characters are begging the PCs to slow down, consider, and get in line with the mechanics and command structure of how things are normally done. I think this makes it muuuuch more realistic, like in reality, if you try to change something people often are more angry at you for breaking written/unwritten rules, causing chaos and scaring people than they are about your actual goals (at least that's my experience, I'm not an adventurer). There's a really interesting and realistic tension here, because it makes total sense that you might be able to produce change more easily if you work within the system, but of course, that places limits on which changes you can make.

I'm not sure this realism belongs at every table, there's something fun and beautiful about a world that normalizes adventuring. But, it's definitely something that makes an interesting ingredient at an RPG table, and not one that I've personally added to my games that much.

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Vicious Mockery tamori just going around being the most annoying mf of all time

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i'm pretty sure steel is bad. or at least not steering suvi toward eioghorain for any good reasons.

i think she's trying to motivate suvi to hate and distrust eioghorain in order to hide something to do with soft and stone. i think i remember them being spies, or at least having relations with both the kehmsarazan empire and gaothmai. so either they betrayed the citadel and steel was loyal to the empire before all else, or steel betrayed them in some other way. i personally think the former might be pretty likely.

whatever happened, eioghorain knows. suvi remembers him with fear, but he was nothing if not blunt. steel is afraid of what eioghorain might reveal to suvi if she is not fully opposed to him.

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"What are these planetar looking guys?" - One of my players after looking at the map on which the party was about to fight, you guessed it, planetars

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The best thing about playing a solid, well-motivated TTRPG character that drives the story forward is that it allows me to experience the utter fucking exhilaration of being someone who knows what they want

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Never saying "I gotta go" again. From here on out it's always "There are other places that call to me"

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"ITS CALLED A MURMURATION!" - Last known words of Sir Curran of the Hawthorn, shouted to a fellow knight above the din of battle before he was reportedly struck down while paying too much attention to the actual starlings during the battle of Starling's Ford

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Crazy that Abassin turned out to be by far the most likely place in the campaign so far to find an actual Bass Assassin

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This latest fireside (ep 36) confirms that Brennan imagines the other powers of the world drinking coffee. For some reason, this was a surprise to me? I felt like coffee was a citadel thing, I think it's because the citadel has such strongly caffeinated vibes

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Me enjoying my coffee about to notice the massive fucking bird on the top of the mountain

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"Your honesty has bought a moment of strange and hollow silence"

What a hard fucking line. This mf don't miss bro I swear

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Can't even begin to articulate how valuable it is for me to observe Suvirin Kedberiket as a child and finally figure out what the fuck is wrong with me

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The adventures of the Wizard Sorrow & Boshi (working title): a WBN Umora OC comics collab with @yeehawpim!!!!!

Pim did the story + layout and then let me run wild (and pop in at odd hours with questions about Boshi's design) See Pim's mad composition genius + OC lore over here Sorrow lore here & here

👀 more to come perhaps 👀

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Now we know why it ends at Arc 4 - they TPK to the giant toad.

Welcome to Arc 4!! Patreon subscribers get full access to an incredible map of the Shroud Mountains, beautifully depicted by Tucker Donovan.

Do you spy a familiar name on the map? Hmm ....

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https://www.instagram.com/tuckerd_art/

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