playing D&D with people who use the rules more strictly is so fun genuinely. now i can engage in tactics and character building. whehehe

as someone who also uses mephits as little bombs in bg3 i feel so vindicated when brennan first realises they blow up when they die

Maybe I made another oc.....

Started trying to put together a lightning charges build for Karlach and ended up obsessed with the non binary gnomish inventor who broke up with Lenore who owned the arcane tower and the whole thing ended in tragedy, and after I read all the tooltips and letters associated with them I'm just sitting here like... ooof.

Yrre - Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki (bg3.wiki)

I ended up looking Lenore up because when you go in the tower and look at the book on the first floor Gale's like "Hurr blurr man with impeccable taste in literature" just assuming the wizard is a man, so I looked up Lenore because I could have sworn Blurg told us she was a cleric and we'd know who owned the tower from that, and then I realised that the wizard stuff was probably all Yrre's and they are the wizard in question, dating a cleric of Mystra, so actually Gale isn't just being presumptuous about wizards being men, he's also misgendering my new favourite character... Anyway gonna push him off the tower*

*lying about that because this is alas the Gale origin run I have been poking at to get Tara's POV on things and all my games further up the storyline are suffering hilarious but impractical bugs so I'm just exploring and learning more about the sides of the story and now I'm down a rabbit hole. Bulette hole. Lenore kept the bulette as her pet. I guess after her dog died she got really really weird.

was toying around with writing a 5e module sort of thing where a party is hired by a queen to protect her from her evil husband trying to assassinate her, only to learn that they were hired as a cover for her trying to assassinate him

and i was like, that's good, but it's cliche. it needs a second twist.

and then i got it: the king and queen are BOTH trying to kill each other. they throw huge parties and hire rival adventuring parties and set up rival assassins to try to get the other. it's their foreplay. they keep having to reach deeper and deeper into neighboring countries for parties that aren't completely done with their shit, which is why your party has been called from so far away

anyway idk how i'd write that but i know my group would have a blast with it

Don't Look Behind You . . . 😨

Non-Spellcasting Area

"All face-up monsters, except for Effect Monsters, are unaffected by other Spell effects."

The unsung hero of this goddamn game.

Unless people do sing/talk about it, and I live under a rock. If so, my sincerest apologies.

I actually have a sixth sense, which reminds me to check Cass's blog for Apocalyptic au updates. It has worked 10/10 times

not entirely accurate, but does kinda illustrate the issue doesn't it?

But also paranormal pack is more like the 'ghost hunter from Ambitions that we have at home' than it is the supernatural packs careers.

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Legit, I've been thinking about the Eyes of Avalir just all day and just..... So many thoughts.

ok so i recently saw the designs of the werewolves for TS4 and i legit more than ever don’t understand why people were so mean and harsh on criticizing them; like i dont mind people criticizing EA at all cause its just a company with a priority to grab our cash moneys, but recently especially a lot of DLCs have content (wether its an occult’s design, clothing, patterns, hair, objects etc) which are primarily made by artists who independently do the designs for the game which is the case of the werewolves design and seeing the artist themselves tweet about how bad some of the negative comments (straight up some were negative comments not valid criticism about features of the design) made them feel really made me feel so shit for them and hit me hard as someone who also is an artist and even then i couldnt even imagine the amount of effort this artist had to put from concept to something that would translate well with the game’s style i cant even imagine, and honestly even though werewolves arent my thing or whatever (ill still get the dlc probablylmfao) buut i think the artist did a great job in adapting werewolves to TS4 style like i really dunno what people wanted from it like ofc they look “furryish” werewolves are literal anthropomorphic wolf beings hh like did people just want the TS2 werewolves who were just reg sims with just some questionable quality (as in low res cause ofc its ts2 but yea) fur skin and a funney walk or like ts3 werewolves who were literally just regular sims with a lot of body hair, over bit with lower fangs, eyes w diff colors and cartoony angry brows Hhh did people want goofy hyperrealistic gigantic twilight werewolves or something? i legit think this was the most full fledged werewolf design for the sims honestly, idc about sucking up to ea because ea is just a company and i dont rlly care/empathize with major corporations/companies but this is more of a post to show appreciation to the artist who independently made the designs for ea (btw im not bashing anyone who makes/gets retextures,overlays, default replacements or anything thats beyond a okay cause i also use em on some vampire/occult stuff from TS4 its just on the people who immediately went on to bash/belittle the design to the point the artist tweeted abt it)

Found this in an old-ish sketchbook yesterday and cackled

They do be like that <3

🖊 !

Thanks Mik~

I had to think a bit on what character to ramble about. I'm gonna go with the DnD character I made for a one-shot, who I absolutely love and need to play again sometime.

Her name is Manager, and she's a kenku monk. Kenkus in DnD are these corvid-like bird people who mimic speech/sounds. In her case, she was adopted and raised by a Weaver's Guild, and as a result speaks entirely in Customer Service Voice (though she can mimic Karen™ and also Employees Shittalking™).

Also, she took up the Monk path after she lived through the Great Black Friday Sale of Year XXXX, where she maintained order with nothing but her fists and a broom.

dnd with the kiddos update: I got a bunch more kids today! and akari my beloved akari half orc barbarian who I included to essentially b a meat shield is already dead. so win some lose some

someday i want to play a classic sneaky murder rogue in dnd if ONLY because i think murdering someone with daggers would be very sexy