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do you guys think JD did it because he was under the mistaken impression that whoever kills the pope becomes the new pope

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Runal Saga, TTRPG

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tell Lilith to stop making the wolfmen handsome

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more people need to give themselves permission to write and draw pornography

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It was supposed to be Gerda but I lost the plot somewhere and kept messing with details/made her a little more furry

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Tried to make her MILFy-ier. Ganyu not having a tail is going to bother me from now on.

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Vorpal Bunnies for OD&D by Jennell Jaquays, from the Dungeoneer Compendium, Judges Guild, 1979.

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STOP POSTING ABOUT OMELAS STOP POSTING ABOUT OMELAS STOP POSTING ABOUT OMELAS YES PEOPLE WILL MISINTERPRET THINGS OR RESPOND TO THEM IN A WAY YOU DON'T LIKE GET FUCKING OVER IT IT'S BEEN 52 YEARS FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO TALK ABOUT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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At The Firm (Tradcath)

Heretics instructing me to monitor spending, but I have a responsibility as a christian man, and that is to become the first daytrading billionaire.

As I was crushing up my piracetam tablets to put in my kratom potion this morning, I remembered just how warm and beautiful god's love truly is. My employer has no idea I'm daytrading right now, and I thank our father so much for protection from my boss.

All I want to say folks is, fuck 'em. Daytrade and sip on that disgusting green drank.

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new girl

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W/r/t "batman guy", while obviously that is a reasonable take I feel like there can be a sort of elitism presented by certain people in the space who have developed this sort of calvinist stance that The Popular Thing (5e) is inherently Bad, and thus they do tend to view people who (usually through no fault of their own as a player) end up playing mostly/exclusively D&D and/or Pathfinder.

Moreover, while obviously there are a lot of systems that support an ongoing campaign (Blades, VtM, or what have you) I would bet that very few people have run a Monsterhearts game that meets every week for years. Certain systems are just better at supporting an ongoing campaign, and those tend to be the more popular ones for a reason.

As someone who enjoys both D&D and other games I have very little sympathy for any argument that relies on evoking the specter of the nasty elitist indie RPG player: D&D is the most popular game there is, there is a huge community of people playing it and producing content around it; the self-consciousness about a diet of just D&D resulting in a myopic view of RPGs as a medium to me seems to arise out of a desire to get validated like one has a deep knowledge of the medium while just having a surface level knowledge of it.

Also, I feel the idea that D&D is popular because it supports longer campaigns has it all backwards. It is very easy to see that D&D's current popularity has very little to do with the game itself, because the way you'd hear people describe the appeal of the game it's either things that apply to all RPGs at large or things that can only be true if one has a very shallow understanding of the medium (i.e. "D&D can do anything"). D&D is the most popular simply due to economic realities, and very little of it has to do with what's inside the books.

And finally, games that support extended campaigns are a majority of games on the market. Like, games that support long campaigns are very much the norm. And I feel bringing up Monsterhearts here has the same energy as those "I'd rather watch a Marvel movie than a black and white art film from a country that's Slavic enough to sound weird but European enough for people not to call me racist for it" posts.

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youtube should give viewers the option to grade video essays like it's a high school english class assignment and if the median grade is below passing then they stick a huge png over your video advising that this is a vlog with slide show components. if the youtuber ever goes "umm. I'm not going to attempt to pronounce this" at any point then they're genetically altered to be able to survive underground and let loose in an endless series of catacombs built beneath their home to live the rest of their life as the fabled town troll.

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