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200% on the Kickstarter already? Amazing!!!

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On This Day In Homestuck:

July 9th, 2010

Vriska is introduced.

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DONT LET PEOPLE ON TUMBLR MAKE YOU THINK THAT:

tsuchinoko not real

tsuchinoko “just a fat snake”

its okay EAT tsuchinoko (it’s REALLY NOT)

its okay Capture tsuchinoko

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eevee girl who starts eevery word beginning with the letter E with another E. eeven ones without a V after it

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time to ask The Question,

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🎵Gonna be a shining star, she's going far, Penny!🎵

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Saber Sunday

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If anyone likes the idea of a low level cap game like that and hasn't heard of it yet, I recommend looking up e6. Quite literally what is described, you cap out at 6th level, and start getting feats every...5k exp? I think the folks at the gitp forums may have come up with a few homebrew feats to give _very_ limited access to higher level stuff (and occasionally like, maybe the first ability of a prc, tho that's a bit more debatable). I've always wanted to try it, bc it seems like it gives the fun character build flexibility of 3.5 but without some of the baggage of easy access to 4th+ level spells.

If you listen to the grognards, over and over again you'll hear the criticism that 5e characters are "superheroes from level 1", or have "anime powers" because they're not as flimsy or as simple as characters back in their day.

Really, the criticism hinges on the fact that a couple people on 5e dev team actually sat down and asked "okay, so what can we do to make this game fun to play at every level?" How well they succeeded is up for debate, but I hope we can all agree some effort is better than no effort when it comes to someone trying to make sure you can have a good time.

Then again, that's REALLY what the grognards are complaining about: they and their friends suffered through weekly TPKs and micromanaging encumbrance and waiting for the DM to resolve 20+ hireling turns (and they hexcrawled to the dungeon in winter and it was uphill both ways) while these young people are so spoiled they actually want to enjoy their time playing the game.

For me it'll always come back to that quote where the wife of a developer sat in on a session and described it as "twenty minutes of fun crammed into four hours." That was my experience playing the older editions of the game, and it boggles my mind that not only do some people prefer things that way, but get together in some weird ttrpg-hipster circlejerk to crow about how they're REAL gamers and everyone else is DUMB by not wanting their hobby to be as dull and offputting as possible.

Though I'll admit, as a pedantic asshole what really irks me about the "superheroes and anime" criticism is that not only the fact that it's lazy short hand, it's the fact there ARE plenty of superhero and anime games on the market and 5e doesn't resemble them at all. Sure, 5e combat is weighted in the player's favour, but is it really a crime that every character has a little mechanical complexity to keep the player interested?

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Playing Homestuck police is good for a laugh, but at some point we've got to acknowledge that it's a sufficiently influential piece of media that some portions of its distinctive jargon have in fact entered the broader vernacular. There are people out there who refer to visual novel style dialogue portraits as "talksprites" who've never heard of Vriska Serket.

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Yorha android Miku, aka 39B

This drawing is the singular reason I have failed inktober. HOW could I concentrate on anything but this?? She has consumed me I fear

(Yes her sword is a leek version of Virtuous Contract. YES she is standing on a pile of leeks. YES I felt the leeks were too important to only mention in the tags.)

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Every week I put on RWBY (a show I do not like) for a Discord. 13 episodes deep into Volume 8 I decided to change the intro to inspire some morale in the five other people who are also miserable.

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