A few years ago I had this idea of dnd characters playing a human version of dnd…Finally made a small comic about it lol
Tintin remembers what comes after 15.
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FUCKING HELL IT’S BACK FROM LAST YEAR
ctoons
This literally gets reblogged every 15th of the month. It’s almost two years old. It’s beautiful.
ctoons
listen up ya’ll this post is 6 years old now and you’re still reblogging it. every month. once a month, my notifications blow up for this one video, but only until the 16th. then the notes on this vid completely stop. it’s so eerily spot on and impressive how you just all collectively know what to do. if I’m not online, people irl still remind me that it’s the 15th. thank you for six surreal years of me wondering if I completely fucking lost it. here’s to the 15th
zen’s crush is cute but whos gonna tell him
some dnd backstory ideas that give your character a reason to leave home that isn’t “everyone in my family died.” (just to say: i have nothing against those backstories (i use them a lot), but its fun to mix it up!)
family/friends/personal
- someone close to you is sick. you need to adventure to find a cure
- someone stole something important from you and you need to find it
- you’ve received a message from a long lost relative and are trying to find them
- someone that you love has been kidnapped (maybe you have to earn money to pay a ransom or complete some deed…)
- adventuring runs in the family! everyone is expected to complete one quest in their lives
- your family/culture sends people out to complete certain tasks when they reach a certain age as a rite of passage
- another player’s character saved you in the past so you feel indebted to them and travel with them, protecting/aiding them
- there’s a magical drought in your hometown and you have to fix it
- your hometown doesn’t have a lot of jobs so you have to travel and send money back home
- some childhood friends and you made a “scavenger hunt” where you try and complete a checklist of certain tasks (ie. defeat a barbarian in hand to hand combat, steal x amount of gold, slay a dragon, etc) in an allotted amount of time
quests/jobs
- a god/patron has sent you on a quest to do something for them
- you’ve been hired by someone to complete a task (and you get sucked into the big adventure along the way)
- you’re on a quest for knowledge. maybe it’s to learn the best ways of fighting, maybe it’s something more academic related
- your priest received a vision from your god and they sent you on a quest
- you’re writing a book about the world and different cultures and you need first hand experience
- you’ve found every map you’ve come across is shitty, so you decide to become a cartographer and make your own
- you’re a detective who helps solve crimes and need to travel to solve a particular case
- you’re a collector of a certain object and travel across the land to find it
- you’re apart of an adventuring academy and have to complete a quest to graduate
- you’re an artisan and you travel with your wares, trying to sell them. alternatively, you’re trying to spread word of your business and gain new business partners
- you worked at a tavern your whole life where an old bard would sing songs of their adventuring party and that inspired you to go and do some adventuring of your own
feel free to add some of your own!
you just learned how shitty the world is and damnit somebody’s gotta fix it
you did something embarrassing and need to get the hell out of dodge
you’re taking a gap year
your arch nemesis is dying and you need to call them a bitch one last time before you go
hrt is free in a certain monastery
you met your significant other on fantasy tinder but they live across the kingdom
you’ve heard humans have this thing called “djinn Der” and you want to know what that’s all about
resume building
you’re adventuring to save up enough money to hire a wizard to cast True Polymorph on you because you wanna be a dragon, damnit
your friend got super drunk and stumbled into a random teleportation circle and you were the only sober one at the party so you have to go find them
you want that super powerful dude’s sword and will do anything to get it
you wanna get swole by hitting lots of different things with very large hammers
you want to prove the arrogant bard who told that super incorrect story in your tavern wrong by bringing them the evidence yourself
you read someone’s biography and want to imitate their life ultra-fan style
you found a message in a bottle asking you on a date
you want to find somewhere where your allergies will be less annoying but no one knows where that is so you have to find it for yourself
you really really want to see a volcano
you heard about another culture’s food and are desperate to try it
you’re interning with/shadowing a professional adventurer before you set off on your own
spite
^^^ Really like the spite one so here’s some more detailed specifics pertaining to it:
- Your magic/craft is really unconventional and no one thinks it’s useful so you head out on an adventure to prove them all wrong
- You made a bet with your sibling/friend that you can find and kill a dragon/some other big monster
- Honestly any bets of unlikely magnitudes are very fun
- Your (possibly ex) god/patron told you a problem can only be solved one way and you don’t want to do it that way and you think there’s another way so hey, guess who’s being a rebellious child?
- There’s a legendary recipe (potion or legitimately baking/cooking) that requires incredibly rare, hard-to-procure ingredients and no one thinks it’s possible to be made. Guess who’s doing it
- Yeah sure everyone may think the world is bleh but that doesn’t mean you’re not gonna go and and spread kindness to counter it
- Or maybe you think the world needs… less good. Maniacal laughter time
- Spite is very fun
- boredom
I love it when I click on a recipe link because it sounds yummy and instead of a recipe I get a several page dissertation on a food blogger’s boredom with her marriage and lies she was told in childhood
benepla
this ending in a recipe literally changed my fucking life i thought i was being spread some fucking truisms abt the ugliness of marriage but it was literally a preamble to creme brulee brownies. writing is fake
likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015
“Miniature topographies inside 200-gallon fish tanks, based on traditional landscape paintings. Keever fills the tanks with water once he’s sculpted and placed the miniatures, and colored lights and pigments create dense, atmospheric environments. He views his works as an evolution of the landscape tradition and deliberately acknowledges the conceptual artifice.”
Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987, b. Pittsburgh, PA, USA) - Vesuvius, 1985, Serigraph on Arches
Source: christies.com
not to dive back into this as always but TRULY the way jennifer honey was written in matilda to me is one of the most beautiful mother figures ever created. a woman abused her whole life choosing love and kindness despite how cruel the world has been to her, and choosing to pour that love into matilda who experienced the same is such a simple yet poetic story. a woman who chooses to adopt her and care for her because she understands, and more importantly knows, what the feeling of yearning for someone to love you as a child would feel like
My town just got a new temporary rule where you can only walk around the giant volcano lake clockwise
It’s to help with social distancing but it sure sounds weirdly superstitious
“If one wishes to avoid the plague, one must no pass widdershins around the sacred waters”
The tourism guys have also replaced their usual slogan “Discover Mount Gambier” with “Plan to discover Mount Gambier later”, which is amazing.
a collection of photos of leonard cohen in kitchens
Tintin remembers what comes after 15.
drtanner-sfw
FUCKING HELL IT’S BACK FROM LAST YEAR
ctoons
This literally gets reblogged every 15th of the month. It’s almost two years old. It’s beautiful.
ctoons
listen up ya’ll this post is 6 years old now and you’re still reblogging it. every month. once a month, my notifications blow up for this one video, but only until the 16th. then the notes on this vid completely stop. it’s so eerily spot on and impressive how you just all collectively know what to do. if I’m not online, people irl still remind me that it’s the 15th. thank you for six surreal years of me wondering if I completely fucking lost it. here’s to the 15th
“Said roar, roar the thunder and the roar Son of a bitch is never comin’ back here no more Moon in the window; a bird on the pole Can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal”
buzzardblues
sometimes I specifically listen to this on YouTube so I can revisit this buck wild comment
[ID: youtube comment by kayeff: This sounds like someone cut you open and started playing a song with your bones. /end ID]
but he’s a hero, you know. the strong kind, the hold-up-the-sky kind, the too-good-for-this-world kind. he’s a hero, and he doesn’t deserve this.
because he is kind, too-good-for-this-world kind, and i think that’s what makes him a hero. his heart is too big, and he carries it in his hands and i think it’s as heavy as the sky anyway and even if atlas was never a hero, he is.
and he’s a hero, and he doesn’t deserve this, but we all know how this story ends and even if you rip out the last page it doesn’t stop the story from ending.
he’s a hero, he is, and one day it’s going to kill him. because his heart is too big, and he carries it in his hands, and no one can hold up the sky forever.
— heroes are only heroes until it takes its toll // p.s.
and he’s a hero, and he doesn’t deserve this, but we all know how this story ends and even if you rip out the last page it doesn’t stop the story from ending. —p.s.
IM FUCKING CRYING
wanderinglake-deactivated202110
Connie Converse - How Sad, How Lovely
The title track of a beautiful release. Old folk singer/songwriter who never made commercial success in Greenwich Village.
