You deploy a great deal of creativity in roleplay. But you can deploy just as much in figuring out where to connect the two.
AGE AND EXPERIENCE:
nothing in the rules of DnD says your character has to start as a young fuck and gradually gather combat experience. What the rules of DnD say are that your character starts not as good at things, and gets better at them. This might mean:
A character learns to manage their psychological disability as the campaign progresses, letting them use their class abilities more effectively. Play a bard who is recovering from a stroke or head injury and re-teaching herself how to play her favorite instrument.
A character previously knew their class abilities, but has forgotten how to do them, and re-learns as the campaign progresses. Play a 70-year-old paladin who retired from adventuring but got back into the game because their granddaughter wants to be an adventuring warlock and dammit, he’s going to keep his little girl safe.
A character knows *how* to use their class abilities, but is unable to do so due to injury or lack of habit, and is physically rehabilitated as the campaign progresses. Play a rogue who was badly injured by a trap and has to re-learn all of her skills with the non-dominant hand.
ADDITIONALLY! Ability scores do not mean your CON 18 character has to be super ripped, your INT 20 character has to be Sherlock Holmes, your CHA 19 character has to be physically attractive. Ability scores mean your character can perform to a certain level. how they reach that level is up to you.
EXAMPLES:
Your halfling fighter with 18 STR isn’t actually *stronger* than others, per se; maybe she just knows how to use her leverage super well.
INVERSELY, maybe your bard with 8 STR IS nine feet tall and shredded, but just has never moved, lifted, or hit anything in their entire life, and hasn’t the faintest idea how to do so.
Robin Williams’ character from Flubber clearly has an Intelligence of AT LEAST 20, but he can barely remember his own name and is shit at social situations.
INVERSELY, maybe your Barbarian with INT 8 has an encyclopedic knowledge of the folk history of his people, and a natural gift for metaphor, but never once in his life comes up with a myth or metaphor that is actually relevant to the party’s current dilemma.
Maybe your CHA 19 character is SUPER GROSS TO LOOK AT. Charisma is force of personality. People shorthand it to “The Hotness Score” but FUCK THAT. Make a CHA 20 character who has unconventional facial features, but a fucking magnetic personality. Make a CHA 20 character who by all rights shouldn’t keep getting away with their crimes, but somehow is enough of a canny social manipulator to get what he wants. Make a CHA 20 character who wears a porkpie hat and has a bald head. Become the danger. Be the one who knocks. Become Walter White.
FURTHER.
There are no stats for:
How many of your character’s limbs are original vs. prosthetic.
Additional note: where does it say you have to have two arms to be a monk? a fighter? a wizard? fucking nowhere, that’s where.
Hmmm it looks like it doesn’t say your druid has to have both of their legs. As long as they have legs, they have a walking speed of 30 feet.
Look, we know Tenser’s Floating Disk exists, so there has to be a Tenser’s Personal Transportation Disk ritual which could double as a wheelchair.
Number and type of functional eyes (as long as it’s not zero). Make a pirate with one eye. Make an aasimar with nine.
Sex and gender. (make a wild mage who changes sex every time they cast a spell and changes gender every long rest! fuck society! there are no stats for gender!)
Mouth. (seriously. your character doesn’t have to talk. your character can just use sign language. bonus points if no one else understands sign language so your character is just annoyed all the time)
CHALLENGE THE TROPES OF FANTASY. These are just some ideas that I’ve deployed in building characters that I’ll never use ever. Don’t be intimidated by the numbers of DnD! They’re there to help you be creative!
i feel like counter-trolling is an essential skill that kids online aren’t learning and it’s kinda worrying
like back in my day, the day of online forums, learning how to trick someone in to getting themselves banned was an essential skill. if you could tell someone was a chud, you would ask them short, leading questions and watch them get frustrated and post longer and longer rants until they said something that would catch a mod’s attention and get them banned and/or at least publicly humiliated.
and guess what? that’s the exact same tactics the alt-right use now. these people are exclusively acting in bad faith. every interaction these people post online is done with the intention of getting someone to respond to them so they can screenshot the massive paragraphs of text and laugh
so, what’s the solution?
dare ‘em to post dick pics.
don’t acknowledge the content of the stuff they post. if you see someone trying to engage you in bad faith just dare them to post pictures of their penis until they either get frustrated and leave or get frustrated and do it. either way they lose.
this is the tactic used by the fans of a podcast (that i haven’t listened to) called the Chapo Trap House, and 4chan’s /pol/ users fucking HATE them. they hate Chapo Trap House and think they’re crazy because Chapo Trap House fans refuse to engage in meaningful debate and repeatedly demand dick pics. they get frustrated and leave. it works.
I’m upset because I want to change the world but the world is too big and people are too mean
“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” - Rabbi Tarfon
I needed to hear this
not obligated to complete the work, not free to abandon it.
The stories of women in my family who were forced into lives they didn’t want and didn’t utilize their passions breaks my heart. My grandma wanted to be a journalist and write about the injustices she saw inflicted on disabled ppl while she was volunteering at a state run institution as a teen. Her father decided that she was “too fat and stupid” for college and forced her to get married at 17 or else he’d make her homeless. As a kid she told me that she wished people believed that she had meaningful opinions on events around her. One of my great grandmothers wanted to be an artist but was pressured into marrying a man who beat her. She stayed up late each night when her children were in bed writing poetry and pasting it over elaborate collages she mad herself. We still have stacks of these notebooks she created but was never allowed to do anything with. My mother wanted to be an operatic singer and was considered a musical prodigy in her town because she taught herself three seperate instruments by 13. When she was 18 she met my then 30 year old father who emotionally manipulated her into giving up her dreams to start a family with him. As a kid I would hear her up at night playing the violin or doing vocal exercises until she became too depressed to practice anymore. Like idk y’all there’s a quiet type of violence in the way women’s talents are devalued and brushed aside in favor of bullying them into “traditional” roles that ultimately don’t fulfill what they wanted for their lives. We’ve lost so much art, music, writing, science, and happiness to misogyny.
Villains in Addams Family movies go to really unnecessary lengths to defraud them of the family fortune. These people just give it away on whims all the time. If I just walked into the house and started wearing their clothes and spending their money, they wold start introducing me as Cousin Intruder and forget there was ever a time I didn’t live with them.
Gomez in particular would enjoy your boldness, Cousin Intruder.
Oh shit.
The Addams family loves and greets every person entering one of their homes.
The Addams family adopted or married every person wishing to stay.
This is why the Addams family is full of freaks.
Of course.
So what we’re saying is, tracing the Addams’ geneology is damn near impossible and it’s just as likely that no living member of the family is actually a blood relative of the people who originally held the family name?
What I’m hearing is that Batman is actually an Addams.
He most certainly is
I mean, considering if you look at it in the light of a different story, the near (actual, factual) homicidal level of bond and love the Addams have for each other, the idea that they’re all adopted, the way that Bruce is often portrayed as a bit of an aloof, smarmy smarm in private, the possibility that young Bruce might not be wholly appreciative of his extended family’s eccentricities, of which his parents are the mildest of the bunch, the idea that those two parents are (distantly) Addams’ and get gunned down, well.
[Gomez]: I came, I came as soon as I heard
[Bruce]: I…I told you never to come back, I said, I said you were weird
[Gomez]: Please, my boy, to compliment me when you are so wracked with grief. *clutching hug* Dear Thomas, dear Martha, so full of life…
[Bruce]: *extricating* They….they fell in front of me…while he laughed…with mother’s pearls…
[Gomez]: The fiend! This dishonor cannot stand!
[Bruce]: And I felt….I felt it well up inside me, a black blood welling up…
[Gomez]: Yes, dear boy…
[Bruce]: I….will be vengeance….
[Gomez]: Yes….
[Bruce]: I…I will be the night!
[Gomez]: Yes!
[Bruce]: I….I am an Addams!
[Gomez]: YES!
[Bruce]: I. AM. BATMAN. *lightning, thunder*
[Gomez]: YES, YES!!! My boy, the rivers will run red with wonderful blood!
[Alfred]: *sigh* I’ll put the tea on and grab the foils then, shall I, sirs?
I mean when you think about it, if Bruce Wayne is an Addams, everything he does makes sense. Gotham makes sense. Damian Wayne, trained vegetarian assassin, makes more sense if he’s an Addams.
Now that we have accepted this revelation, I want you all to think about a hypothetical situation in which Bruce brings Superman and Wonder Woman to meet the Addamses.
I mean getting the government running is a priority RN. I’m sure Dems will get to it in time
Like they got around to closing Gitmo right?
the bill wasnt to fund ICE by itself the bill was to FUND THE GOVERNMENT PERIOD. Like seriously voting no to stop funding the government specifically to stop ICE from being funded is 1. not actually going to deal with the problem of abolishing ICE and 2. Only will continue to harm those who are affected by the shutdown. Like those whos families need the welfare programs that the bill voted to fund??
If we want to abolish ICE you dont do that by just saying ‘hi i vote to stop funding it’ once?? it takes LEGISLATION and WORK. Not just voting on one bill that isnt even focused on the issue at hand.
this is such a bullshit outrage piece and yall keep falling for it. incredible.
also, where’s that post where ppl were misrepresenting her views on deportation? because she is in favor of deporting actual dangerous people.
It wasn’t even ‘dangerous people’ in general that people were attacking her over- it was one single actual nazi war criminal.
Yall need to be real careful about what outrage you uncritically swallow about Dems right now, because if you think that it won’t be used to divide and screw over the left like in 2016, you’re naive as hell.
You want 4 more years of Trump? This is how you get 4 more years of Trump.
^ for last comment. Channel your outrage where it belongs: Trump and the GOP. Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and your hateful Uncle Bill and Aunt Trudy. You wanna shade on Democrats? Try Sen. Joe Manchin and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and their fucked up loyalties and hateful speech.
also hey, maybe more generally? don’t believe everything you see on the internet. If you see a story that looks important to you, take some time to google it, check a few different news sources, see what’s actually going on. If the issue is really important to you, you’ll only benefit from a more in-depth perspective.
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