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dailycharacteroption · 17 days

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Keeper of Construct (Inquisitor Archetype)

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It’s time for another archetype geared around killing and disabling constructs… but this one isn’t from construct handbook this time! So I am only halfway reminded of the biggest disappointment in First Edition for me!

In any case, this archetype is tied to the Goddess Brigh (and occasionally Torag), who presides over invention and machines. While the Whisper in Bronze is normally content to let inventors create in peace, sometimes it becomes clear that those that devote themselves to creating mechanical servitors and other wondrous inventions do so without the common benefit in mind. Those that use such constructs as vengeful assassins and tools of revenge, or that sic them on civilians as acts of terror and cruelty are her enemies.

Emulating her wishes and the powers of her herald: the Latten Mechanism, some of her priests take up arms against such violent and cruel creators, seeking to either free their constructed creations from them, or barring that, putting them down s they can no longer cause harm.

Such keepers are found both in Numeria and Alkenstar, where the worship of Brigh and the crafting of constructs is common, but they might be anywhere where constructs are found in great numbers, and their creators need policing, both in and outside the Lost Omens setting.

Divinely guided by their patron, these construct hunters are able to aim for the weak spots of constructed foes, bypassing the durability of most and at least somewhat piercing those that cannot be pierced by adamantine alone.

Their presence and knowledge of construct behavior allows them to make constructs hesitate, almost as if they were afraid.

Additionally, there are few that are more knowledgeable about construct strengths and weaknesses than them.

More powerful individuals can even command constructs that do not belong to them, even wresting them away from the direct control of their master, though this is limited in what they can command and how often they can do so.

This is a pretty solid construct-hunting archetype, though some of the abilities raise questions. Most constructs have DR bypassed by adamantine, so having limited ability to pierce other types of DR on constructs is a bit niche. Furthermore, while the ability to implant suggestions in constructs is nice, it does not say whether this bypasses the magic immunity of golems and golem-like constructs, which I feel is definitely a needed clarification. In any case, this archetype is a bit niche, but not so much so that they’re powerless outside of fights with constructs, but they can really excel in campaigns with lots of robots, clockworks, and other constructs about.

As written, these inquisitors seem to be focused on the preservation of mechanical life that can be saved, so if you’re looking for an archetype for a villain that seeks to destroy sapient machines for whatever reason, such as because they have gained sapience, this might not be what you’re looking for unless you outright change the flavor of the class, which could be fun if you want to apply it to a less benevolent god or philosophy.

The Brass Key clan of dwarves are famous for their clockwork marvels, which range from automatic mechanisms for running public works to full-fledged constructs. However, not all who create these wonders do so peacefully, so in the name of The Maker, there are sects of priests dedicated to putting a stop to such villainy and blasphemy.

The world of the Shattered Tower has been wiped nearly clean of life, leaving behind the relics of civilization and horribly monstrous wildlife alongside the automatons that survived their creators. Most machines try to live peacefully and find new meaning in this ruined world, but others still bear the programming of death and war that brought this ruin, forcing the others to take up arms to protect themselves and the last bastions of life.

The party needs a construct breaker to help handle the guardians of the tomb of Hakshesu, and they find one in Lova Windercoil, who is tasked with handling any automaton guardians while the party deals with mummies and other guardians. However, Lova cannot help but question the application of her divine gifts towards destroying constructs that are no danger to anyone but interlopers.

#pathfinder #archetype #inquisitor #keeper of construct #dwarf #mummy #People of the Wastes

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cor-lapis · 23 days

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"If we must fight, Sethos... I shall defeat you with the power of my friend group of employed adults who miraculously have regularly scheduled meet-ups, and also my daughter!"

[redesigns]

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stuckinapril · 1 month

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I love Tumblr because nothing matters here truly. There are no influencers. Having followers doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a site where people post their sporadic thoughts and rb pretty pictures. Anyone who thinks any of this matters is woefully missing the point

#I joined tumblr for the aesthetics and now I’m here bc it’s the most low pressure social media to be on #Instagram is ppl’s highlight reel but Tumblr is where u see their pure thoughts unobstructed and I adore that #It’s very nice to have people to relate to and is def the main appeal to me but I don’t think there’s much more to it than that genuinely #Monetization on tumblr isn’t a thing and probably won’t be so it feels stupid to put more stake than necessary in it. Like you’re in the #Trenches over tumblr of all things. Embarrassing #I know chronically online people exist bc I have seen them in my or somebody else’s inbox but imagine waking up at 70 one day and the #Realization hitting u like a freight time that u wasted all ur time thinking tumblr. TUMBLR. This dying website. Has enough weight for u to #be sending anon hate or reviewing ppl’s blogs like they’re some kind of product. Brother this is licherally tumblr #I choose to laugh at this behavior than take it seriously bc absolutely no one is driving me crazy on my OWN blog. On tumblr dot com.#I refuse #I will do whatever I want forever etc

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porternash · 1 year

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EVERYONE SHUT UP AND LOOK AT MY CAT

it’s her 10th gotcha anniversary.

I’ve had this fat little fuck for ten years

I haven’t had a single meal alone because of her

she’s perfect 🫶

#judi: a saga #i love her more than most people tbh #‘oh vince you’re really gonna waste money so people see your cat?’#fuck yes i am!#BEHOLD!

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amelia-mariee · 1 year

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Spoilers:

I remember when I heard that Chris Pratt was going to drop the MCU's first f-bomb, I thought it was going to be this badass emotional moment where Quill comes face to face with the High Evolutionary, who goes into this whole speech, and Quill just goes "go fuck yourself" and shoots him, or something. And then I get to the theater and it's just him yelling at Nebula about car doors. Honestly? A thousand times better than anything I predicted. I'm so glad that's what they did.

#people say they wasted that moment #and i think thats ridiculous because that moment was perfect #guardians of the galaxy #guardians of the galaxy vol 3 #guardians of the galaxy vol. 3 spoilers #peter quill #high evolutionary #nebula #nebula gotg #starlord #gotg #gotg vol 3 #gotg3

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insignificantfailure · 2 months

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im so fucking useless

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ruporas · 11 months

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cheers to the future of humanity (and the future of us)

[ID: Digital illustration in color of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun. The illustration takes place during the ship/home arc, specifically chapter 21. At the center, Vash is grabbing Wolfwood by the collar and pulls him into a kiss in the middle of a celebration. The pair is colored in vibrant warm hues while their surroundings are colored in cooler colors like green and teals. Luida, Brad, Meryl, and Milly are shown amongst the crowd, occupied in the celebrations as Vash and Wolfwood share a moment by themselves at the center. END ID]

#vashwood #trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #hospital yuri (explodeds) like any average vw enjoyer i will never get over that arc #specifically the scene where they heard the news of earth ships coming and did that little handshake they somehow conjured or #Had already. and then the entire ship had a party... meryl and milly started drinking immediately from joy and dragged vash and ww to get #wasted too and overall celebrate together. the chapter moves quickly just like how the hope was quickly withered out and died just hours #later when knives destroyed it. BUT IM JUST THINKING ABOUT IN THE MOMENT OF IT ALL bc in the same chapter #ww asks for a chance for tomorrow and then gets news of earth ships coming. in this same arc vash is thinking of all the things he needs to #resolve so his home doesn't get attacked so the people he love doesn't have to die and the humans he wants to protect gets to live.#i feel like deep down they both semi-recognize that it can't be this easy and regardless of earth ships coming- there's still a wait for #them to arrive and they have to hold out. and regardless ww still has a mission to follow through and vash knows knives would find out #but in that mood of celebration the entire ship brought in - they can at least let themselves relax for a moment and indulge #how they basically engaged with no violence for the few days they were on that ship coaxing them into domesticity... i feel like their #thoughts would wander to somewhere soft and all #allowing them to push aside the tiptoeing and tenseness and be sweet for a night #ruporas art

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thebibliosphere · 1 year

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Every time someone adds something akin to "or you could just do things normally" onto any of my disability life hack posts, I should be allowed to harvest their organs.

I don't need them. I just don't want them to have them anymore, either.

#I wouldn't be totally wasteful in this imaginary world #I'd give them to people on transplant lists #but you get the general vibe #if you're an ableist dickbag #I should be allowed to harvest your kidneys #you're clearly not using them to filter out of any of that toxic personality 🤪

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raycatzdraws · 3 months

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ribbonwood

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu hyrule #(also zelda 1!!! but idk how people would feel about me tagging it since I used Jojo's design?)#(ya'll can always tag my gen loz art as LU (or as any linkverse honestly if it inspires you to think about your favs) and vice versa)#(I want to inspire you to think and create! If you see my gen loz art and want to add that to your headcanons or it changes how you think??#take it! play with it! invite me to play as well haha!)#(not ocs but like- gen stuff??? ye go for it)#mom walked in and looked at the comic I was working on #so I started rambling about my plans with it and what my peers are working on and how cool it all is and how I want to have more of that #and she said “what a waste of time”#so I got loosey goosey with it :\#nice exercise to just draw w/o doing guides or being careful #did this in like under 15 minutes! >:D #but anyways #I haven't slept yet so gn!#.. he's holding stuff in the wrong hands!!!! a #look up ribbonwood / redshanks trees! If Hyrule was a tree- this is it #I imagine zelda 1&2's landscape to be california chaparral!!! I'm really passionate about it!!!!!#check out the california chaparral institute's website -> chaparral -> chaparral types #it's Hyrule's Hyrule!

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uncanny-tranny · 7 months

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Hey, if you have speech impediments, you are so amazing.

If you stutter or have a lisp or misspeak easily or you have a flat affect or a limited verbal vocabulary or if your voice is AAC or if you just have a difference in your vocality, you are so incredibly important and amazing.

Just know that your voice is yours. Nobody will ever be able to truly take it away. Your voice is part of you, and you deserve to make it as true to you as you deem fit. I hope you have the space to grow with your voice and whatever about it makes it unique.

#positivity #disability positivity #partially because so much of voical differences arise from disability #i've developed a really annoying lisp-ish issue #and it's hard to be positive about it because it makes me feel like i'll be treated as lesser because it's a 'childish' affect #but i literally can't help it unless i spend 110% of my focus on it. and i don't have that amount of energy #but it makes me think about others and especially those who have it more intensely than i do #and i just want to uplift everybody because vocal differences are neutral at worst #man my dad always tells a story about this coworker he had who had a stutter like you wouldn't believe...#...and he was fucking BRUTALIZED for it... 'c-c-c-c-CAN YOU GET TO THE POINT?!' is how people would talk to him...#...and obviously that made his stutter twice as fucking worse and i can't imagine the shame and humiliation that followed...#...i hope he learned that those assholes were a fucking waste of time and that he doesn't have to deal with that...#...like i'm sorry but there is no fucking need to be that sadistic toward somebody who is obviously already anxious and worried

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xoxoemynn · 4 months

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I know it shouldn't surprise me, but it's frustrating af to step outside the fandom and read about OFMD's cancellation on more general entertainment sites and see the majority of reactions be along the lines of "oh well it was probably Taika being over it, he always gave me the ick anyway so, whatever," and then often devolving into comments about his personal life, or conspiracy theories that can be disproven if you use your brains for 30 seconds or maybe step outside and touch grass idk idk.

And this isn't me saying "omg how could you dislike Taika" bc truly unless you're being racist or antisemitic (which, let's be real, many are), I don't give a fuck what you think about him.

But the point remains that if you have a show that is all about celebrating queer joy and finding yourself later in life, that has a diverse cast of characters in terms of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and body type, that was WRITTEN by a diverse group of writers, that is receiving praise from critics and fans alike, that from all reports was one of Max's most successful shows despite them doing next to no promotion the first season, that had two successful seasons and the creator is on the record saying he had a plan to tell the entire story in three, and it gets CANCELED.

I don't give a fuck how you feel about Taika, or how you feel about OFMD. You SHOULD be concerned about that. Because your show is next.

And before you come at me with "it's just a show, have you seen what's happening in the world?" Yeah. I fucking have. And the arts matter. They have always mattered. It's how we've shared stories and fostered communities and passed down what's important to us as a society. And they've brought us joy. And I don't know about you, but I think we could all do with a fuckton more joy in our lives.

This is absolutely a huge loss, and unfortunately it's not going to be the last as streaming services continue to go deeper in crisis. If that doesn't concern you, idk, go enjoy yourself watching season 47 of The Bachelor.

#also truly if you're going to come on here and immediately start spouting the very nonsense I described above #kindly get fucked #and then do something productive with your life like calling your representatives or donating or going to a protest #you being a dick to people who are upset isn't going to do anything #your smug self-righteousness isn't going to save the world #the world sucks and people should be allowed to experience joy by watching a show where they feel represented #and anyway if you try it on this post or in my inbox I won't be engaging I'll just be blocking #so you're wasting both of our times #byeeeee!!!#ofmd

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dailycharacteroption · 6 months

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Gun Smuggler (Rogue Archetype)

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Firearm technology has only just begun to appear in the world of Golarion, most notably in Alkenstar, but also in other lands far away where gunpowder has long been a technology that has been experimented with.

Naturally, given the near-exclusivity of the tech that these nations have, they have a keen interest in regulating their sale and spread, lest they lose that exclusivity as the technology is reverse-engineered, replicated, and possibly even improved upon.

And where you find trade regulations, you’ll find smugglers willing to circumvent them to make a pretty penny on the black market.

Enter the gun smuggler! These roguish sorts are indeed smugglers, but specialize in firearms in particular, not only buying and selling them, but also having a knack for using them as well, and having developed an array of contacts to keep them supplied and in the loop.

While Golarion has a perfect location to integrate these smugglers into the setting, you can use them in any setting where guns are either new tech or heavily regulated.

In any case, we’ll soon see how effective they can be both in a firefight and in the act of acquiring what they want.

These smugglers start out with a trusty firearm, and have the knowledge to repair and supply it. However, unlike a normal gunslinger, they tend to favor small or concealed firearms such as coat pistols, dagger pistols, and sword cane pistols.

Additionally, they are even more adept at hiding weaponry on their bodies, as well as concealing the true nature of disguised weaponry as well.

Their concealed firearms are their favorite weapon, which does mean that their ability to target a foe’s weak points is somewhat reduced when not using that favored implement.

Additionally, the many contacts of these merchants ensures that they can almost always rely on them to get a dead drop of ammunition. At first, these are just ammo, gunpowder, or cartridges, but later on they can ask for magical ammo as well, tailoring the exact enchantments to the situation. However, they cannot get so much ammunition from doing so as to make a profit, only gaining more each day as they expend bullets from previous supply.

So great is their skill with their signature firearm that these would-be gunslingers can maintain accuracy as surprising distance, and deal even more grievous wounds.

While not capable of the daring acts of the regular gunslinger, this archetype is a fun and well-integrated way to blend the rogue and gunplay together. Getting a small supply of free ammo once per day, which you can tailor to what foes you think you’ll be facing is also very useful indeed, even if it is a somewhat limited list of possible enchantments. As a smuggler, you should be maxing out your bluff, sleight of hand, and other deceptive skills, as well as taking rogue talents to improve this further so that you can get away scot-free when moving your goods, as a mix of gunplay and deception are your bread and butter here.

The sort of characters you can get out of smugglers is a pretty varied lot, though it is influenced by the legitimacy of the government forbidding the sale of their wares and what it is. Someone smuggling people over the border to escape an oppressive regime might be a kindly person who refuses to turn a blind eye, for example. A gun runner, however, well, that strikes me as having few scruples, since they are selling powerful weapons, though I suppose it depends on who they are selling them to.

Baalan Firetongue has been in the smuggling business longer than most, and he knows a bad deal when he sees one. The deep one hybrid clan that he agreed to sell an arsenal of weapons to have been acting suspicious ever since they received the first shipment, and he needs a group of well-armed mercenaries for backup when the deal inevitably goes south.

In order to cross the Blight undetected, the party has to sign on with a “merchant” vessel that “conveniently” has a smuggler’s hold. However, the Blight has more than just twisted sea life in it’s waters, for thick tangles of the corrupted sargassum also play host to abyssal vermin like vescavors, which the smuggler captain expects the party to help defend them against.

While no one can prove it, the merchant lord Obelgan is a notorious smuggler, selling cannons and firearms to willing buyers, providing any faction with weaponry in the many conflicts of the Shattered States, oftentimes to both sides. Only a fool would assume he’s defenseless, however. He’s shockingly quick with the pistol concealed in his cane.

#pathfinder #archetype #rogue #gun smuggler #deep one hybrid #vescavor #People of the Wastes

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tapakah0 · 2 months

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#....I hope you're proud of yourself #because I can't concentrate on anything for the 3rd day in a row #Can't read anything #And can't even answer people properly #I guess I'm wasted for some more time

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aoi-kanna · 5 months

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Doodle time! (Forgive the mess) qwq

Doodle time! I'm rolling on the floor, laughing out loud, one of the best Royal Au side-story chapter of all time. (tw +18 Fic) Dedicated to Askellie and Esino

Dream & Night belongs to Jokublog Killer by RahafWabas Horror by Sour-Apple-Studios Cross by Jakei // Lv20 Cross by Wormy

#aoi-kanna #my art #undertale au #random stuff #dreamtale #horrortale #Cross is angry #a fool has just endangered everyone's safety and he doesn't waste a second to keep his protected people safe #utmv #royalty au #royaul

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florencewellch · 2 months

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"Taylor Swift isn't forcing you to buy to several editions of the same album" and "too many editions of the same album is wasteful and we just want to own 1 edition that has every song" are statements that can coexist btw

#like yeah she isn't holding you at gunpoint and forcing you to buy them #but it is wasteful and a cash grab to have that many editions #and people just wanna be able to listen to every song on the album on vinyl/CD

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shu-bullshit · 5 months

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I AM FUCKING CRYING.

My friend typed "Disco Elysium how to" into the biggest Chinese search engine(Baidu) and the first thing pops up is "how to have fuck with Kim" and second is "how to kiss Kim".

#I love my people #straight to the point. no time wasted #disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #my bullshits

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