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Me, a humble draugr, quietly minding my own business in my barrow tomb, doing my daily chores (lighting the candles, taking the frostbite spider for a walk, making the large swinging axes swing in the corridor of large swinging axes), having a sleepover with the lads in the deathlord’s chamber

YOU, loud, alive, obnoxious, barging into our tomb eating an entire wheel of cheese, making a mess, plundering my life savings from my burial urn, setting fire to frosty (the frostbite spider), re-killing me and the lads, WAKING the deathlord

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Dungeons and Dragons adventure modules (1980s)

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Welp, "then your vampire immediately explodes" is going right in the ol' lexicon.

Concept: GMless, semi-competitive tabletop RPG where everybody is a vampire or vampire-adjacent critter, with a set of randomly selected vampire weaknesses drawn from a big deck of cards. However, you don't hold your weakness cards, or even know what they are: instead, they're distributed to the other players.

At any time, another player can hold up a card (without showing it to you) and declare that the action you just took automatically fails or you suffer a point of damage because you transgressed one of your weaknesses. They don't have to reveal what specific weakness was transgressed – only that it was.

When this happens, you have two choices: you can either accept it, take the loss, and move on, or you can say "bullshit – there's no way that's one of my weaknesses". If you're right, you score some sort of meta currency and/or the player who tried to bluff you eats a penalty.

However, if you're wrong – i.e., if the player you called out is able to reveal a card with your name written on it establishing that you really do have that weakness – then your vampire immediately explodes.

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DM: You boop the zombie dragon snoot.

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I based a set of D&D villains around the six main stats called Virtues. (think Full Metal Alchemist sins, except Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, etc..) My favorite of the bunch was Charm. Her conceit was she could persuade, lie, cheat, change appearance, and manipulate the players pretty much however she wanted, but the second someone attacked her she would go down. I introduced her relatively early into the campaign, and I was a bit nervous because I was pretty upfront about her introduction. I didn't say it explicitly, but it was pretty obvious Charm was a Virtue from the offset. I thought "well, I like this character a lot, maybe I'll cheat it a little if I have to." Surprisingly, I never did.

In retrospect, I think the context of the Charm encounters was a huge boon. The party really only confronted her twice: the first time at a dinner party and the second at a war council, where leaders from various factions met to discuss retaking the main city for the finale of the campaign. Neither were explicitly combat scenarios, and both times it would have looked pretty bad for the party if they just up and killed Charm for apparently no reason. The end result was I had villain with only eight hit points to her name run around and torment my level 16 party unpunished for several sessions. Let me tell you, as a DM, that felt amazing.

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A perfectly normal box, go ahead and reach right in!

Tomb of Horrors

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Queen Marlena's from Boise

so, you know, they oughta.

TMNT Crossovers

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Joy Ann Reid said recently that this whole thing is an effort to keep Kamala Harris from running in 2028.

How many people do you think wouldn't vote for bidens replacement but would vote Biden? Would be surprised if any. We know there are people who would vote for anybody but biden, so shouldn't we want Biden to drop out ASAP to get more voters? What am I missing here

There’s no guarantee and no indication that anyone who replaces Biden will see an increase in support or beneficial media coverage, and none of the proposed replacements come close to doing as well as he does against Trump, which is the one consistent thing with the polls.

It also opens the democrats up to a lot of challenges and risks by the republicans to fuck with ballots and candidacies, and would create a serious issue with campaign donations and funding.

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There's at least one fan made B/X Companion out there!

BX or BECMI?

This one's a bit tricky. I'd probably say B/X because it's the more coherent system, simple and clean. It'll take you from a starting adventurer to a big deal lord of the land just fine, though it was never finished as the planned Companion volume was released for BECMI instead.

That being said, there's something to just how nutty BECMI gets, especially once you start adding in supplementary materials like the Gazetteers. It's just too bad they couldn't really figure out thieves past level 14.

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t4t (teratomorph for teratomorph)

They're dropping the sequel to HRT which turns you into a beast or creature of some sort

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Gawd, every time the Rapture Revolutionaries come across my dashboard, I speedrun the whole Christian "faith versus works" argument.

People insisting they're going to tear up the entire foundations of the economy and politics at any moment in a glorious revolution when the most revolutionary thing they've done in their lives is stand under a slightly edgy banner that one time.

You know what? It ends up sounding a lot like excuses not to do anything at all - but I guess it helps them to feel superior whilst blaming everyone else for their particular brand of not delivering anything to help anyone.

The one thing Starmer and keyboard commies have in common? Neither will lift a finger to actually change the status quo no matter how much they bleat about change.

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Hammerhead by Brom

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Georgia Schmidt, Carole Shelyne, Serena Sande, Meg Wyllie, & Sandra Lee Gimpel

A tribute to some lesser-known women of Star Trek :)

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Dr. Manhattan isn't wearing a mask, but then he is hairless and several shades of blue. And he doesn't have another identity anymore.

The women aren't even wearing masks...typical.

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MIND BLAST!!!!

Illithids and Gith are from the most batshit wackypants setting in D&D and you want me to believe I should take them super seriously and be afraid? Y'all talk about Lae'zel being from a very super srs grimdark place but you have to remember something real important about the Astral Sea: It's a B-movie.

it's where the illithids and gith come from but we also have giant hamsters, hippo people that all sound like blustery English explorers and love explosions, vampirates, jawas in the shape of rainbow penguins, and fuckin SPACE CLOWNS.

I'm sorry I can't take the idea that the illithids and gith are 'zomg so scary srs bznss' seriously because of ::gestures:: all of that.

This isn't Space designed by Lovecraft and HR Giger.

This is Space designed by Weird Al and Jim Henson.

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Come over here within 60 ft of me and say that.

Illithids and Gith are from the most batshit wackypants setting in D&D and you want me to believe I should take them super seriously and be afraid? Y'all talk about Lae'zel being from a very super srs grimdark place but you have to remember something real important about the Astral Sea: It's a B-movie.

it's where the illithids and gith come from but we also have giant hamsters, hippo people that all sound like blustery English explorers and love explosions, vampirates, jawas in the shape of rainbow penguins, and fuckin SPACE CLOWNS.

I'm sorry I can't take the idea that the illithids and gith are 'zomg so scary srs bznss' seriously because of ::gestures:: all of that.

This isn't Space designed by Lovecraft and HR Giger.

This is Space designed by Weird Al and Jim Henson.