(Before I get to the description, thanks to everyone who included stuff that rogues do in the tags when you reblogged the poll post for this au- I've never played a rogue (my main for D&D is usually a cleric) so I benefited from y'all's excitement!)
@forduary week 4 Fantasy AU. Ford has returned home and he and Stan are their final forms. I don’t have too much plot dreamed up for this. I committed to Ford being a beardo pretty early though.
In this AU I envision that Stan and Ford never really argued or fought at any point, but they just kind of grew apart, since their interests are so different- like they were both in training and Ford probably traveled to go find a mage mentor and was away from home anyway, and Stan was in fighter training till he was like “heck with this Imma steal stuff instead”. And then when Ford disappeared for 30 years they were already apart so Stan was just like “dang sure haven’t seen Ford in a while wonder where he is” and maybe traveled around trying to find him. I did have the idea that they team up to fight some BigBad together, but in this AU I hadn't figured Bill. I figured maaaaybe Stan angered someone powerful enough that it would warrant Ford's wizardly powers. Maybe he goes on a quest? I do not have the answers. I just draw the pictures.
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she dungeon on my dungeon till i more dungeons
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if i had a nickel for every time a queer nerdy d&d guy from a tiny american city in the woods got sucked into another dimension during the eighties and then fought monsters and a mind controlling demon to save his family of de facto monster hunters, i'd have two nickels — which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice
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Dice, Dice and more Dice: The Quest for a Fair 38-Sided Die
Coming to a Youtube Channel near you.
Ever since I binged Gravity Falls over the course of a couple weeks two and a half years ago, I’ve been wrestling with one observation:
^ That is not a 38-sided die. Just barely half, actually. This die is quite clearly modeled on a d20, which comes woefully short. So I have wrestled with the question: what would a d38 look like? And could I make one?
Due to Grant Sanderson’s (3blue1brown) wonderful, now yearly challenge called the Summer of Math Exposition, in its third year (SoME3), and being connected with someone who is just as invested but with more coding knowledge than me, I will be able to deliver a hopefully satisfying answer. And not just an answer, a real, physical model. Maybe if there’s even enough desire, I could slap together a storefront and sell these real, physical models. Who knows?
If you want to be @’d when the video drop, please say “Me!” in the comments below this post. I think I’ve got something big here, for both the mathematical world and the Gravity Falls fandom.
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My snow corn also always has elevator music playing in his head! Not sure what it is about snows that makes them so derpy.
You make a good point, friend.
Just for funsies, I'd like to break down the gene combination that causes extreme stupidity in corn snakes.
Snows are the combination of amelanism and anerythrism; the removal of black pigment melanin and red pigment erythrin.
My most intelligent snakes are Amels, but they tend to make impulsive choices that are not within their best interests. Escaping the night before dinner day, for example. These snakes express erythrin but no melanin.
My Anery snakes tend to be less "bright" but they are calm, deliberate in their actions, and learn patterns easily. These snakes express melanin but no erythrin.
Therefore, we can postulate that melanin is linked to a snake's wisdom and erythrin is linked to their intelligence.
A corn snake lacking melanin will experience a negative modifier to their WIS stat but they may still be very intelligent. Amel snakes make very good rogues (they already have race-based +2 DEX) and can be gifted magic users if their party doesn't mind dodging the occasional way-too-close range effect spell. They may need to be reminded to rest and to not put tomatoes in a fruit salad.
A corn snake without erythrin, then, will have a negative INT modifier but they may have a very high WIS stat. Anery snakes can be very strong clerics, rangers, and monks, and may also choose classes like warlock or druid. Their lower intelligence is rarely a hinderance when the other members of their party have complimentary stats and skills.
So what do we get if a snake is lacking both erythrin and melanin?
A Snow corn who is a bard, a fighter, or a positively terrifying sorcerer.
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Vote on more episodes here!
See the full list of round 3 polls here.
Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons: Dipper finds an unlikely friend to join him with his newest obsession, a board game called Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons.
Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls: After Ford learns of Bill's true motives, a final confrontation with Bill ensues. The Pines family make a great sacrifice on the way to arriving at their ultimate fate.
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Had a dream last night where I set out to create a tabletop wargame so obtuse in its rules that it was virtually, if not entirely, unplayable. Entire shelves full of rulebooks, tomes carving out niches or expanding already-existing mechanics by making them even more mechanically complicated, a thirty-year history of dense legal rulings that applied retroactively but were stored separately, so that they could fill another shelf of rulebooks in and of itself. I believe was intended to be a satire on games like Magic the Gathering and Yugioh, with years of errata and obscure cards, as well as the sheer dearth of third party Dungeons and Dragons content (especially during the 3.5 era). It was also an exercise to create something so incredibly complicated that it actively discouraged its own purpose.
Unfortunately, I cannot replicate my dream-progress in the real world, because what I actually ended up creating in the dream was a (possibly wild west-themed?) heist game where one of the main character stats was Lesbianism.
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i'm watching gravity falls with my platonic partner and we're on the DDAMD episode and you guys know how in the credits blubs goes "fortresses dont talk, durland"?
she thought he said "darlin' "
she got SO UPSET when i told her he said durland . "THEY'RE GAY THOUGH!!! I KNOW THEY ARE!!!"
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Dear Adventurers,
Please stop calling everything a "dungeon". A dungeon is a specific classification of ruin structure, built to contain a creature or creatures. Ruins constructed for other purposes are NOT dungeons. Learn your classifications.
If it's used to store information or useful items, it's a Repository.
If it's used to store a dangerous weapon/weapons, it's an Armory.
If it's used to conduct secret research, it's a Laboratory.
If it's used to conduct religious ceremony, it's a Temple.
If it's used to house the remains of the dead, it's a Catacomb.
If it's used to house a population of undead, it's a Necropolis.
Sincerely,
The Guild of Architects
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Round 1 - Poll 14
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trans people and their trans die!!
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@gf10yearslaterzine day 5 favorite episode!
Of course I'm going to pick DD&MD! I love Ford what can I say?
It's the first episode where we get to really see what Ford is like as a person and how he interacts with the rest of the family, and I love it!
Oh Princess Unattainabelle, you are just too perfect!😅
I also liked the fact that it's the only episode aside from Weirdmageddon that the whole pines family is in together. I wish we had gotten a couple more episodes like this before the final.
Ford might not be interested in watching a kids show, but I sure I'm!
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