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Alrighty, fellas. Today I’m gonna teach you how to play chaos dice.

This isn’t strictly a rpg thing, but it involves D&D dice and could easily be worked into any campaign that uses gambling, lots of chance, or players getting very mad at each other and the universe.

So each player lines up all their dice in this order: d4, d6, d8, d10 (ones place), d12, d20, d10 (tens place).

On “3, 2, 1, Go,” each player starts rolling their d4. As soon as you roll a 1, move on to the d6.

You keep rolling each die till you get a 1 (on the first d10 you’re still aiming for a 1, not a 0) until you hit the final die. First one to roll double 0s wins. If you drop a die, all other players are allowed to keep going.

That’s the basic way.

If you wanna make it more fun, any time you roll the highest number on a die (first d10, the 9 is the highest number), go back one die and continue as normal. The exceptions are the first die (cause there’s no lower die to go to) and the last die (because I’m not that mean).

I’m convinced this is the worst best way to play. I’ve seen games where one person zooms their way to the d20 while the other has rolled a 6 on their first d6 roll 4 times in a row. It’s fantastic.

You can also add a Queen’s Luck or Bitch Luck rule. Queen’s Luck—anyone who rolls three 1s in a row on their first try skips to the end. Bitch Luck—they have to start over.

Wanna be extra cruel and slightly impossible? Go straight from d8 to d12, and make it so the first person to roll all zeroes with both d10s (as in, tossing both at once) wins.

So if you’re a GM who wants to make their players hate each other and develop weird superstitions about their dice—just have ‘em play some chaos dice and watch everything unravel.

And if you’re a player with a bad unlucky streak—you might just be a chaos dice champion.

HEY TUMBLR WHAT’S WITH THIS HMMM

Found my cat.

AUDIBLE GASP WHEN THE CAT CAME OUT

THE WHOLE VIDEO I WAS WONDERING HOW THAT CAT LOOKED AND HOW CUTE THE MEOW WOULD BE AND I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED.

I haven’t seen this post in YEARS and I’m so glad it’s back on my dash, you guys. <333

Found my cat.

AUDIBLE GASP WHEN THE CAT CAME OUT

THE WHOLE VIDEO I WAS WONDERING HOW THAT CAT LOOKED AND HOW CUTE THE MEOW WOULD BE AND I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED.

I haven’t seen this post in YEARS and I’m so glad it’s back on my dash, you guys. <333

fittonia albivenis (nerve plant) will ‘faint’ when they need something – to be watered, to be removed from the sun, when they are too cold – however, they almost always recover quickly once their needs are met.

I realized that a bunch of my favorite vines are ones I haven’t seen in any vine complications and I was afraid of losing them to the void so here you are (plus some classics that I couldn’t leave out)

Part 2

There are trick shots, tricky shots and cat shots.

The real trick is to combine them.

Wow that cat looks so real

what’s the mood for july?

I’ve compiled every raw ass quote from tumblr shitposts into my phone and i’m gonna use every single one of them in my campaign at some point.

peruse my quotes, if u want

Do you think William Shakespeare would be offended or proud that his “hell is empty” quote was misattributed to a tumblr shitpost?

you’ve embarrassed this cat with your antics

I saw an opportunity and I took it

This is what they mean when they say life flashes before your eyes as you die

For those wondering, the song is ”Mr. Blue Sky” by ELO.

Perhaps someone beat me to it, but here are ALL of the featured vines, in order of appearance:

I HOPE IT’S HELPFUL TO SOMEONE! Peace ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

this gave me such a warm feeling i legit teared up no joke

BEAUTY

I decided to make a very compact character sheet, as I was inspired by the index card initiative system. In this system, you make a pile of cards in initiative order to keep track of whose turn it is. 

I thought it would be neat for the DM to have a smaller version of a character sheet to keep track of your stats during combat, especially for newer players so the DM can help suggest what they can do if the player can’t figure it out. 

If the player has one it clears room on the table too. When the time comes to clear the table for a battlefield, the process will be so much faster!  Here’s a link to PDF printables on A4 and Letter paper: Click

Numb // Linkin Park 80s Remix

this remix is basically this image:

#this is peak 2018

I now know firsthand that going to a car dealership is…an experience.

I went going exactly what car I wanted and I imagine that if you don’t know that much it’ll be easier for a dealership to screw you over when you get there by feeding you misinformation about a car, manipulating you into buying a more expensive model, and etc.

I had already done all my research online so I knew what I wanted. Down to the color. (Green is my favorite color!)

So boyfriend and I went (I followed Tumblr’s advice about bringing a man lol). And I test drove the car and loved it just like I knew I would. And THEN the real dealership experience began.

The bottomline is that I knew my credit score and so I knew what kind of interest rate (APR) I should expect. I also knew the manufacturer price of the car (MSRP) and I knew how much they were selling for on average in my area ($3k less than MSRP).

So I knew what I was going to pay and I had already decided on that in my head.

So dealer #1 (a white guy–this is relevant to mention lol) brings back the first set of numbers. He cushions it with making small talk and flattering me on starting my PhD in August. He also chats up boyfriend.

The numbers were bad. I could tell looking at it. Although they didn’t say the APR, I knew that my monthly rate shouldn’t be that high based on the number of months I’d be paying it. Also they only gave me $2k off MSRP.

I noted that the sticker price was too high because I can go to another dealer and get it cheaper and they knocked off another $1k.

And then I asked him what the APR was. He was very evasive and kept telling me to look at the monthly payments because that’s what “really matters.” No, what really matters is what I’m paying for the car overall which is the sticker price + state fees (unavoidable) + interest rate.

Dealer #1 finally told me the APR and it was 3x the rate I knew I was eligible for. I told him that’s not gonna work. He turned aggressive and said that I’m a first time buyer and I can’t expect better and that I’m being unrealistic to expect a lower rate and etc etc.

So I said that my bank quoted me a rate half that much and I’ll just go through them and buy later (at a different dealer). Because I want the car but there’s 2 other places I can go to get it in my area.

Then all of a sudden dealer #1 could get me a better APR. His next offer was 2x what I wanted to pay. I said nah that good enough.

Then they brought out dealer #2, who was a Black guy. He didn’t sit down and instantly start talking about the price. He said a bunch of small talk and said some stuff about being Black lol. Tryna be chummy chummy and connect with us on a racial level.

Then he tried to push the same numbers as dealer #1. I said I know I’m young and I don’t have a math background but you’re charging me way too much for this car and I’m not going to buy it at that price. Period. I said: get the APR down and I’ll buy the car. He kept telling me it wasn’t possible and I said okay…I won’t buy it.

But then he was like wait…lemme run the numbers. And ta da! He came back with the right APR. Also zero down. And payments lower than my target.

This whole process took 5 hours.

Moral of the story:

- know as much as you can before going to a dealership so you can focus on the numbers - know your credit score so you know what your APR should be - get approved through an independent bank for a loan so you have leverage to negotiate with a better rate from the dealer - don’t focus on monthly payments. Times that by the amount of months so you know what you’re REALLY paying - threaten to walk because stuff magically happens at dealerships when you do lol

YES. and I will also swear by The Toast’s How to Buy a Car Without Interacting With a Human

@plasmasea 

Why is it that in almost every D&D group I’m in, SOMEONE wants to have a joke character. And no, I don’t mean like a choatic neutral bard or something, I mean a goddamn chicken. You wanna be a fucking chicken??? A CHICKEN???

I SPENT SO MANY HOURS CRAFTING HOMEBREW RACES, AND CLASSES AND SHIT AND YOU WANNA BE A NORMAL FUCKING CHICKEN WITH A BIG SWORD??? REALLY???? REALLLLYYYY????

So no, I don’t really mind bards.

Me talking to new player: So what race and class did you decide?

Him: Umm a rouge and uuuuuh bird person.

Me: Oh an Aarakocra?

Him: A what? No, like I’m still small but … like a bird furry.

Me: A small … bird furry

Him: Yeah like a coupla inches tall … but my knives are normal size.

Me: