I think a thing with Disco Elysium is that it like It's made me realize that, when I am DMing, how Dialogue can be Combat. You know what I mean? People will hide things. People will force you into situations to give themselves an advantage or you a disadvantage, or do things unexpected to gauge a reaction Your skills like Sense Motive are more than "He is lying" it can be "There is more going on that meets the eye" or "He is blinded by ideology he does not understand himself." And that can play in to how the players will want to handle things and proceed. Your non-social skills can be important. Your ability to fight may be relevant in gauging an opponent's background or habits. Your ability to spot something may notice a peculiar tic. If you put in a social encounter as an obstacle to bypass, where one side wants something out of the other and the party has to assess and plan things about this, things can get really interesting.

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@disparatepeace got another good one!!!

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A story where the main threat to the world is Goop That Makes You Evil. There's a big bad main villain who got drenched in it and is evil now and wants to spread the goop everywhere, because nobody else should have nice things if they couldn't. Every single character treats touching the goop as a fate as good as death, because surely you might as well be dead if who you used to be as a person is completely gone.

In the final dramatic end battle, the protagonist gets dropped in the goop. This whole time you'll be waiting for them to be somehow heroically rescued at the very last second, or miraculously saved by some buckwild Deus Ex Machina bullshit twist, but nope, into the goop they go. Submerged entirely and without a doubt that they're all the way in there.

And once everyone has managed to process this horrifying event, and the villain is just about to start gloating, the protagonist crawls out of the goop, shaking off smoke tendrils, spitting out something black and oily green, coughing up a few flames of purple fire, looking positively Fucked Up and villainous. And pauses to reflect that they're still the same person.

Like sure they're irrevocably changed in some ways, and there are parts of the person they used to be that they're never going to get back, but ultimately they're not some different person now. And then it clicks. The goop that makes you evil didn't turn the villain evil. This whole time, it's only been their excuse for being so cruel, sadistic and petty, while having the audacity to act like they had no choice. The protagonist muses that sure, making the right choices feels a bit harder now, but it's still a choice.

And in that moment both the hero and the villain realise the same things. The goop didn't turn the villain evil, and the protagonist isn't evil now that they were also immersed in the goop. They are, however, within punching distance of the villain and very, very angry.

@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

frankly obsessed with how he made the cutesy moe girl eating noise here

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

HAAANK! THAT'S NOT ART BY THE OP HANK! OP REPOSTED IT WITHOUT CREDIT! HANK!

Warhammer 40,000 character designs by John Blanche

The Bat Woman by Albert Joseph Penot (1890)

The Vampire woman by Leanna TenEycke.

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