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Kaolinite

@porcelain-needle

the story of the no-fly list hack is a story about what happens when you care about people and its clear from the reactions of certain groups that they dont understand that.

the person who hacked the no-fly list was a swiss trans nonbinary it/she bi poly lesbian cat therian, who upon finding the list knew what it wanted to do with it. it took that list and sent it to journalists, sent it to researchers, sent it to people who cared about the data that was put onto it. then later, it does interviews about why it did it and what it thought of the list.

"Another individual, according to crimew, was listed as 8 years old based on their birth year. 

Many entries on the list were names that appeared to be of Arabic or Middle Eastern descent, although Hispanic and Anglican-sounding names were also on the list. Numerous names included aliases that were common misspellings or slightly altered versions of their names.  

“It’s just crazy to me how big that Terrorism Screening Database is and yet there is still very clear trends towards almost exclusively Arabic and Russian sounding names throughout the million entries,” crimew said. "

there are Arabic people on that list. Muslim people on that list. Middle Eastern people. Hispanic people. and not only that, they were varying ages. one of them not even being 10 years old. i don't have access to the list myself, but i can sure make a guess as to how many children and teens are probably on that list.

maia says in an interview that there was a hack made to accessing the 2021 no fly list, but the group who preformed it did not give the information out for anyone, not even journalists or researchers to read. and maia thought that was bullshit. it thought that the list shouldve been seen. it thought that the data in there should be known.

and now that it does know, it wants everyone to know how shit of a list it is. it wants people to know that the US government has a much bigger list than previously stated. it wants people to know that the US has a bullshit system for putting people on that list. it wants you to know that specific groups are being targeted because of their race, their religion, where they come from, what even their name sounds like theyre from. it doesnt matter how old they are, what theyve done, even if they have no criminal record. they're on there because of who they are.

maia did that because it cared. it cared about the people who were on it. it cared about the people who were being falsely targeted. it cared about the communities and groups this was hurting. it cared about people.

but it seems like no one can care about two things at once. people dont care about the thousands of children and innocents on the list, they cared it was hacked by a member of LGBT+. people dont care that it was hacked by someone who is a member of LGBT+, they cared it was hacked and that it had people who didnt deserve to be on it.

thats not what this is about. this isnt about things you dont care about. this is about what you should care about. and what you should care about are three things.

  1. there are people out there who are being targeted all because of where theyre born and what theyre named, and that is not fair and not morally right.
  2. maia is proud of who it is, it is proud to have the labels that it does, it is proud to be free with its gender and sexual expression, it is proud and happy.
  3. this is a story of minority helping minority. something that should be a common human rule.

no one cares if you think maia's labels are invalid or if you think its annoying. no one cares that you dont acknowledge the innocents that are on the list. what they do care about is the kindness and caring of other humans that was used to do this. the mindfulness and determination to bring forth data that shouldve been known a very, very long time ago. the appreciation that people of similar groups and communities have for what it did and to show how theyre truly seen by the government. it wasnt just anger and stubbornness that was taken to do this. it was love. love for people who didnt get it from officials or politicians. love from people who know what its like being alienated and seen as a threat or a joke. love from and to humans who deserved it.

you should care about who maia is, because it is proud of who they are, and that pride was used to create a love for groups who deserved to be seen and treated fairly. and you should care about what is in the no-fly list, because it shows just how many people out there need to be protected from prejudice and bigotry. and you should care that although maia is happy right now, theres always the chance of it being danger for what it did. and you should care about the millions more people out there who are probably on the 2023 no-fly list who might not be old enough to even think for themselves.

you should care about people. you should protect people. you should love people.

Downloading my shit off D&D Beyond and cancelling my subscription. Time to go back to my fucking roots.

If you haven't been following the OGL 1.1 debacle - it's gotten worse! They want to lock D&D Beyond behind a 30$ month subscription, with different tiers, with the lowest not allowing you to use homebrew - as if their shitty ass books offer you anything substantial to run a campaign from. They've been putting everything on the DM's for a long time. They'll also be offering what is essentially a 'game pass', and wanting to offer stripped down AI-DMs. If AI art pisses you off, then so should this.

If you have one, cancel your sub and download the PDF's of anything you've bought/made on D&D Beyond. Don't go see the movie. They need to get a good slap around the head for this.

a reminder that i have pdf versions of every woc book i could find in one sitting (there's 100+) in a google drive -> here

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So, let's go over everything Wizards of the Coast is trying to do this coming year.

>Erasing everything that made DnD fun

>Sanitizing everything to appease a minority of leftist puritans

>Making anyone who wants to play DnD pay microtransactions

>Making anyone who makes anything based off of DnD pay royalties to Wizards of the Coast

I hope the company fucking crashes and burns, Hasbro failed to claim TSR as their own now we just need it all to crash and burn so TSR can make a big comeback.

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Wait, what do you mean Microtransactions? For a tabletop game? HOW?

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They're planning on making all DnD content switch over to digital only eventually, meaning any source material can only be accessed through DnD beyond, and the ones being charged won't just be the DMs, it'll be players too as they'll lock everything behind a pay wall that you need to pay into to play.

They'll most likely disable any ability to share the content with others, meaning each person wanting to play will need to buy access to the content.

BTW the new DnD CEO was a former Microsoft employee who was instrumental in implementing ever more microtransactions in video games.

They’ve switch the President of the D&D portion of WotC a couple times over the last few years. Mearls was an idiot, but then they replaced him with Ray Winninger, a guy who at least had some background in RPGs and Tabletop hobbies, but was clearly hired because of his background in trying to force tablet and app integration into games (which failed). Things under Winninger apparently didn’t impress the higher-ups. New guy, Dan Rawson, is a nepotistic pick from the current WotC President, Cynthia Williams, who also worked at Microsoft with Rawson. Williams is the one above being quoted about not monetizing their brands enough, Rawson’s entire career has been monetizing and e-commerce.

WotC has been a fucking terrible company for years. There’s been more than enough reasons to dump them entirely over the past decade, but over the past few years they’ve made a dedicated effort to prove that it can absolutely get worse. They’re currently trying to sell piece-meal content from their books on the DNDBeyond website.

Individual feats, stat blocks, items, and anything else they can break up. It’s cheaper to just buy the whole thing instead, but this shit shouldn’t even be an option. They’re doing this because they’re trying to see what they can get away with. They will try worse. They will do worse. They will try to stamp out competition. 

People will make excuses that they can just keep playing 5e and keep using homebrew, but they need to stop making excuses for why it’s okay to support WotC indirectly and WotC will continue to see what they can get away with because not enough people will have abandoned them to make an impact on their profits.

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The link above has:

Players handbook 5e (color and black & white copy)

Dungeon Masters Guide 5e

Monster Manual 5e

Deities and Demigods

Moon over Graymoor

Character Sheets 5e

note: all are in pdf format!

Tons of resources for DM's including music!

More fun resources! ^

That link has lots of different formats! ^

Fuck corporate greed! Ya'll have fun and stay nerdy!

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Got any older stuff? Like ADnD and 3.5?

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not at the moment, but I will try to find some stuff and share links!

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Okay that link has:

Complete Adventurer

Complete Champion

Complete Divine

Complete Mage

Complete Psionic

Complete Scoundrel

Deities and Demigods

Draconomicon

Dungeon Masters Guide

Fiend Folio

Magic Item Compendium

Miniature's Handbook

Player's Handbook

Savage Species

Shining South

Spell compendium

I believe that is the complete collection and it has different formats available.

List of resources for dnd

roll20: Make an account to play the game

Orcpub: For hosting and editing your character sheet

DND Wiki: Homebrew things, races, classes, misc

Players Handbook: Rules how to play how to make a character, all basic information for playing a game

Discord: to talk during and about the game

Mythweavers: another character sheet editor

Homebrewery: homebrew creation tool. Uses basic coding language to great effect.

If anyone wants to join just join the discord server and post your character

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breadofthewild

can randomly generate just about ANYTHING. awesome for dms

Tabletop Audio: background music and sound effects for the ambience.

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PCGen - a character creation program that handles all the tricky and tedious parts of building characters, including NPCs.

d20pfsrd.com - all the free information you would ever need to play Pathfinder, an alternative to D&D

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DiceCloud: Interactive character sheet that can be edit and shared with yourself or others easily. Pulled up anywhere with internet connection on PC, Mac, or mobile device. Use it to also mark down health, death saving throws, spell slots, experience, and more on the fly. 

DnDMagic: List all spells currently available from Player’s Handbook and Elemental Evil. 

5th Edition Spellbook app: Make spellbooks for all your characters, manage spells, prepare spells. Keep track of Spell Save DC, and Spell Attack bonus on your mobile device. 

Squire - Another character creation and management app. Contains most of the basic info and spells already, with options to create spells, items, classes/subclasses, etc. This is the free version, but pro has more options for DMs, including initiative order control.

So, what is the OGL and why are DnD creators thoroughly screwed?

Tumblr has not been doing a great job at talking about this, but:

With OneDnD, Wizards of the Coast has decided to update the Open Game License (OGL). Said license is what allowed people to create homebrew DnD content and sell it, and even larger companies to use certain sorts of content. Pathfinder, for example, is built on said OGL. This also allows streamers and artists to exist and benefit from said content.

With OneDnD (sometimes called “dnd 6e”), WOTC wants to create a much more restrictive OGL, which will, amongst other things:

  • Make WOTC take a cut for any DnD-related work (according to Kickstarter, a whole 25% of the benefits)
  • Let WOTC cancel any project related to DnD up to their discretion
  • Let WOTC take ANY content made based on their system, and re-sell it without crediting you, or giving you a single cent
  • And most importantly, revoke the old OGL, which will harm any company or game system that used it as a base, such as Pathfinder. And it means they GET ownership over any homebrew content you may have done for 5e in the past!

It’s important to note that OGLs are supposedly irrevocable. They were planning to use it for OneDnD initially, but they want to apply it retroactively to 5e, somehow. Which is illegal, but lawyers have mentioned there’s a chance they may get away with it given the wording.

This means that anything you make based on DnD (A homebrew item? A character drawing? Even music, according to them?), can get taken and used as they deem appropiate.

These news come from a leak of the OGL, which have been confirmed by multiple reputable sources (including Kickstarter, which has confirmed that WOTC already talked with them about this), and was planned to be released next week.

So, what can we do?

Speak against it. Share the word. Reblog this post. Let people know. Tumblr hasn’t been talking much about this matter, but it’s VERY important to let people know about what is WOTC bringing. 

Boycott them. Do not buy their products. Do not buy games with their IP. Do not watch their movie. CANCEL your DnD Beyond subscription. (Btw, they ARE planning to release more subscription services too!). They do not care about the community, but they care about the money. Make sure to speak through it. 

And maybe consider other TTRPG systems for the time being, Pathfinder’s Paizo has been much nicer to the community, their workers are unionized and are far more healthy overall

Jay just having constant gay interactions with women is the light of my life I love it so much, like everytime it shows up in the show i get super excited and have to take a step back to calm down i love this woman and her loving woman and sldgndasergseug

Something something Gillion is too willing to let himself come to bodily harm for his friends and especially just get shot by people ? Episode 53 and 63 ??? Lmao I’m going insane someone give the fish a hug and tell him he’s worth something