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yes EXACTLY!!! i’m glad to have the added fireside chat context because i don’t have beacon, and i’d like to massively shout out the daggerheart team for their commitment to diversity here. every time i see a big high fantasy ttrpg like daggerheart decide to prioritize diversity and welcoming all kinds of players, i feel something in my inner child heal a bit. as a kid, i was really into a lot of nerdy culture things, which were predominantly white and decidedly misogynistic. women had one body type (thin and big chested, with occasional slight variations on muscle definition) and men were muscular, pale, and stoic. it brings me such vast joy to see a book i can open and straight up find someone who looks like me, made by people who also grew up wondering why they could never find themselves in the fantasy worlds they visited. daggerheart is helping people like me—kids like me—realize they don’t need to carve out a space for themselves in this hobby. it exists, and we are welcome.

for example this knight on page 49!! fully armored female character with larger thighs, just like me!!

i know that this may seem like, idk, praising the bare minimum or something, but i bought daggerheart at gencon last week and reading through it has brought me so much joy. seeing the diversity of the character examples, from mixed ancestries and wheelchairs (and other disability rules) being baked into the rules to the ancestry variation among class examples. daggerheart is probably the first time i’ve seen a fat person in this high fantasy setting, and there’s actually multiple of them throughout the book. when me and my friends noticed the henna on the human ranger’s fingertips (WHICH MATCH WITH THEIR TIGER COMPANION’S EARS AND THE ENGRAVINGS ON THEIR PROSTHETIC ARM!!!) and the top surgery scars on an elven blacksmith made me gasp. dwarves of all genders have facial hair, which is styled in their various ancestry sketches. there’s an infernis with an afro in the character sketches, and the seraph divine wielder has realistic hair decorations on her locs. each character has little visual touches that make them feel really alive. the pronoun spot on the character sheet makes me really happy, too. there’s a commitment here to increasing visual diversity (not even just real-world racial diversity, either, but in the designs and ancestries of the featured characters! the fungril rogue absolutely blindsided me with how genius their design was) in the high fantasy ttrpg genre, especially as a game that seeks to nab some of d&d’s drifting playerbase. reading through this book is such a breath of fresh air after playing d&d for the majority of my ttrpg lifespan and i’m really having fun with it so far :^D

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what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they're better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.

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i know that this may seem like, idk, praising the bare minimum or something, but i bought daggerheart at gencon last week and reading through it has brought me so much joy. seeing the diversity of the character examples, from mixed ancestries and wheelchairs (and other disability rules) being baked into the rules to the ancestry variation among class examples. daggerheart is probably the first time i’ve seen a fat person in this high fantasy setting, and there’s actually multiple of them throughout the book. when me and my friends noticed the henna on the human ranger’s fingertips (WHICH MATCH WITH THEIR TIGER COMPANION’S EARS AND THE ENGRAVINGS ON THEIR PROSTHETIC ARM!!!) and the top surgery scars on an elven blacksmith made me gasp. dwarves of all genders have facial hair, which is styled in their various ancestry sketches. there’s an infernis with an afro in the character sketches, and the seraph divine wielder has realistic hair decorations on her locs. each character has little visual touches that make them feel really alive. the pronoun spot on the character sheet makes me really happy, too. there’s a commitment here to increasing visual diversity (not even just real-world racial diversity, either, but in the designs and ancestries of the featured characters! the fungril rogue absolutely blindsided me with how genius their design was) in the high fantasy ttrpg genre, especially as a game that seeks to nab some of d&d’s drifting playerbase. reading through this book is such a breath of fresh air after playing d&d for the majority of my ttrpg lifespan and i’m really having fun with it so far :^D

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"Clerics. What would you do without us? Oh! You'd die" is such a cunty moment from Caduceus and I love it

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help I'm SCREAMING

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Still can't get over how canon polyhells is. Like the seeds were there with polymachina and polynein but with BH it's really just... textually there. Like Imodna are arguably the most monogamous pair in BH and they still never hesitate to flirt with Fearne. Fearne herself is the epitome of polyamorous, and her biggest love interests (Ashton and Chet) are as well. Hell, Ashton and Fearne are arguably endgame and yet in the Oaths and Ash liveshow we mostly get Chet talking about that time he had a threesome with Fearne! (And Ashton is always flirting with Chet too lbr.) Dorym are endgame but the way their future is described at the end of c3 sounds very open-relationship, and their sort of qpr dynamic with Fearne is undeniable. Braius is canonically attracted to everyone in BH. FCG is the one potential outlier (seemed pretty monogamously dedicated to FRIDA) but he was still there for the porno and all of BH's other incredibly poly shenanigans. Anyways. This is just truly one of my favourite things about BH and it just keeps on being true.

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Those Hope and Fear dice for Oaths and Ash are amazing and huge. I'm am green with dice goblin envy for those of you at the event who are able to get them.

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i need everyone to know i’m not posting spoilers but that one shot was peak bells hells they THRIVE in daggerheart. i love them.

at the cr indy liveshow now :]

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at the cr indy liveshow now :]

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there are definitely criticisms that i agree with about c3, especially regarding the execution of the ruidus arc, but i need to speak my truth and that is that i enjoyed the beginning of c3 more than i have enjoyed any other critrole thing. c3’s opening energy and characters were so endearing and i think about them every single day

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ALSO c3 had the best guests. i am obsessed with them. you don’t even know how insane they make me.

there are definitely criticisms that i agree with about c3, especially regarding the execution of the ruidus arc, but i need to speak my truth and that is that i enjoyed the beginning of c3 more than i have enjoyed any other critrole thing. c3’s opening energy and characters were so endearing and i think about them every single day

[lunarrolls]

there are definitely criticisms that i agree with about c3, especially regarding the execution of the ruidus arc, but i need to speak my truth and that is that i enjoyed the beginning of c3 more than i have enjoyed any other critrole thing. c3’s opening energy and characters were so endearing and i think about them every single day

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Get to the airship!!

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Dimension 20: Cloudward, Ho! Episode 3: Secrets at the South Pole Station

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daisuke, wealwell, maxwell are like that wolf, chicken, grain problem where if you leave daisuke alone with wealwell he'll kill him, and if you leave wealwell alone with maxwell he'll kill him and you have to get them from one side of gath to the other but you can only fit two of them in your lifeboat at a time.

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shoutout to ep 3 daisuke. he told wealwell he’d kill him if they were alone and then he failed every single check ever, fell over when a torpedo hit, almost got into a fight with bert for literally no reason, confirmed that he had been lost in the sky with only wild seagulls for sustenance for six months at some point, and continued to miss his ex-wife. the perfect man

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Which Thirsty Sword Lesbians Playbook Would You Play?

Figured I'd try putting up more of these polls, as they are fun to do!

Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a game about romance, resistance, and queer stories told with your friends.

The Beast: Go Beast Mode. This is a playbook about assimilation, and hiding your true self. You find yourself driven to resist the boundaries society puts on you; you want to run wild.

The Chosen: A playbook about destiny and the demands of others. Everyone looks to you as a hero, a figurehead, a leader... but do you want to fulfill that destiny? Will you allow tragedy to occur in your wake?

The Devoted: Extreme self-sacrifice and the confusion of suffering for love. Who are you devoted to? Why? How do your self-imposed demands hurt you, and why does it hurt your ability to fall in love?

The Infamous: A playbook about regret, and making amends. You are seeking redemption, and wrestling with justice; can others forgive you for the mistakes you made? Can you forgive yourself?

The Nature Witch: Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, you've just begun your journey of self-discovery. You have a lot to learn, and a long way to go before you figure out exactly who you are. What will you find on your journey?

The Scoundrel: A gosh-darn flirt, that's what you are. You're a disaster, out here to break hearts: you're excellent at getting someone's attention, but can you commit? What makes a serious relationship hard?

The Seeker: Stepping into a wider world completely different from your home culture can be hard. This is a playbook all about unlearning the lessons of the place you came from, and replacing them with personal convictions that you can hold fast to.

The Spooky Witch: You have weird friends: so what? You're weird too. This is playbook about love for the unloved and forgotten; about unconventional ways of finding a partner, and about flirting by talking about bug facts.

The Trickster: This playbook is all about bottling up your emotions and trying to put up a cool-as-a-cucumber facade - until you can't anymore. What secrets are you hiding? What happens when you can't keep a secret any longer?

If you're familiar with the game and have access to expansion playbooks, feel free to name them in the tags!