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We're fighting amongst ourselves about how to unlock an open door

Rogue: can I roll to stealth bagpipes

DM: What do you mean by stealth bagpipes

Rogue: I mean I want to play my bagpipes, but stealthily.

DM: screw it, go ahead.

Rogue: *Crit*

DM, after a heavy sigh: the sound of bagpipes echo through the chamber, but nobody is able to tell where from, and the Rogue has mysteriously disappeared. How odd.

Aaron Paul, confused by fashion

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Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

fucking look at this shit though

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

amazing

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

This is getting better and better.

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

Old movies had the best special effects

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

@jurassicparkandrecreation

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Well played. (photos via tombobbin)

Cannibalism

After escaping a dungeon and wiping out a small Orc camp, group decides to rest at the camp.

DM: You notice a rack of meat being roasted on a spit. Nearby, there is a pot of vegetable stew simmering over a fire.

Half-Orc Monk: I would like to roll to determine what animal this meat once was. *great roll*

DM: You are able to determine that this meat is perfectly cooked. It is absolutely ready to be consumed. You use your dagger to remove a piece and you taste it… and you immediately know that this… this delicious, tender, juicy delicacy is none other… than Elf meat.

Half-Elf Dragonborn Sorceress: I’m going to stick with the stew and… ignore what my comrades choose to do with the meat.

(Pointedly Racist) Human Ranger: I’m going to roll slight of hand to sneak some meat into her stew.

Half-Elf Dragonborn Sorceress (OOC): You piece of shit! I can’t believe you!

Human Ranger: *Rolls nat 20*

*Room erupts with laughter*

DM: You are successfully able to sneak the meat of her brethren into our young Sorceress’s meal. She consumes every bite.

Half-Elf Dragonborn Sorceress(OOC): F*ck me.

The first session

Fighter: “Okay, I swing my axe at the ghoul. *rolls 1 for damage*

DM (internally): Okay, he’s a fighter, that’s probably still like 5 damage-

Fighter: “I do 1 damage.”

Rogue: “??? What the hell is your Strength score?”

Fighter: “11.”

DM: “Uhhh? Okay? The ghoul bites you for *rolls* 4 damage. What HP are you down to?”

Fighter: “4.”

Cleric: “Wait, what’s your max HP?”

Fighter: “20.”

DM: “You have 20 HP as a 3rd-level fighter??? What’s your Con score? Let me see your sheet!……11 Con? 11 Dex?…..18 CHARISMA?! WHAT THE HELL? DO YOU JUST FOOL PEOPLE INTO THINKING YOU’RE A GREAT WARRIOR SO THEY’LL HIRE YOU?!”

The fighter just smiles.

Grit Points and Over excited

So this happened on my very first game of Pathfinder that happened a month ago. I’ve used up all my grit points for my Gunslinger while fighting a Minotaur in my previous turn.

GM: The beast smacks the party cleric to the side like a bug on a windshield. It is currently focused on the Samurai.

Monk: *mumbles* a bug?

Me: I want to do something cool but I don’t have any more points!

GM: Do something cool and I’ll give you some grit. *the dude was cool, a really nice guy*

Me: I’m still on the cliff right? Is the Bull guy below me?

GM: You want to shoot it? It takes an action to reload that blunderbuss though.

Me: I want to jump off the cliff onto the Bull guy and slam down on its head with my axe!

GM: I said something cool, not insane! You are a gnome! *chuckles* You’ll never make that jump.

Me: I do just that.

GM and the table of veterans start laughing.

GM made me roll acrobatics.

Me: 20! Natural 20!

Table cheers!

Samurai: FLY! You crazy sunnova bastard!

GM: You are insane! Roll for a hit.

*It took a while for them to teach me how to calculate since I spent almost the entire game shooting*

Me:…20?

GM:…What?

Me: Yeah, see. Its a twenty!

Table is losing it right now. People are grinning.

GM: *made a weird face* Roll this die. Roll another hit. *gave me his die*

*rolled another 20, just barely*

Table lost their shit! I’m just shocked and excited! My axe dug deeeeep.

GM: *pounding the table laughing* Alright just for that, I’m giving you 2 points for grit.

Me: I shoot it!

GM: Wait your turn! *Laughs with the entire table*

The party nicknamed my character “Jack Rabbit” for some reason. I still don’t know why.