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well, all in all, Campaign 3 is certainly not my favorite and I think its weaknesses existed to the very end because many of those weaknesses are structural, so they weaken what are really interesting and fun concepts and ideas and even narrative outcomes that I'm otherwise super into by just not giving them the support or time they deserve or by not framing them in the most impactful way, but I very much hesitate to even consider calling it The Bitter End. i have my criticisms as always, and I've had them from the start because they remain, but in the end, i bear no ill will, for lack of a better term, toward how it all shook out. it's fine, i suppose. the campaign is alright, all said and done.

it's ultimately okay, it's sometimes fun, it's sometimes even great and there's some interesting stuff to chew on as a worldstate and going forward, quite liked the stuff already set up for what shenanigans—for better, worse, and morally neutral—that the gods will be getting up to in their upcoming lives.

easy come, easy go, I suppose

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Goddammit Aabria, making me cry listening to a faithful woman talking to her god.

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Confirmation that the Chained Oblivion is different from the rest of the pantheon is comforting, as much as any of this can be "comforting."

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Some of the criticisms of C3 sure become stark when you compare C2’s opening regional lore breakdown to C3’s. In retrospect, everything Matt talks about in C2’s opening gets explored, both the physical regions he’s talking about and the political/societal tensions that are going on there. It’s a great way to look back and see how far the M9 went over the course of their campaign. Meanwhile, so much of the historical and cultural detail of Marquet just completely disappeared after the Apogee Solstice, and none of it ever really became relevant to any of the Hells’ stories. C3 didn’t have to be a story about these sorts of things to be a good story, but the fact that that regional intro was there but ended up not being engaged with at all and has no relevance on the destination we’ve arrived at speaks to the divide between what Matt probably imagined and what the players ended up making of it.

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i drawed

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some gems from the donation reel

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"What does Orym use, Whisper?"

Never change Sam. Never Change.

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My jaw hurts I'm laughing and smiling so much.

The world sucks right now, but this is so much fun.

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This is what the country needed after this week

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Meme in the flesh

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The world sucks right now, but this is so much fun.

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strong feelings at the table about rerolling ones 🤔

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The Mighty Nein really are the “tonight we cancel the apocalypse” party, because that is the attitude of the patently insane and patently hypercompetent in ways that are too insane to be real and yet WORK. VM have Big Justice League energy. They’re saving the world by the book. They’re very much the epitome of their classes. This is not a knock. They are good at what they do, but their flair is extremely straightforward. Percy is gonna shoot fifty times a round. Keyleth is gonna archdruid her little heart out. Grog’s gonna smash. Scanlan is gonna sing a little song. That’s them! We like that for them! But it is very straightforward clock in/clock out heroism. They have day jobs now.

I’m not gonna be unfair to BH right now because I think they haven’t really figured out their niche yet and are constantly stuck in the mindset of not actually being heroes and being, and I say this out of love for their stupid little faces, selfish little turds. We might get a better idea later on when we come back to them as high level adventurers after how they shake out here, but so far they’re somewhere in the middle. A little Suicide Squad-y.

The M9 on the other hand are not clock in/clock out heroes. They’re barely heroes. They get told something could be a threat and they deal with it and they won’t just kill you, they will EMBARRASS you. They will act like you’re nothing and bet on fight outcomes mid-combat, call you names, hit you with lollipops and dicks, turn you into a fruit bat, whatever they have to. They’ll ruin your action economy, stun you, whatever. Not only did they come to stop you, you’ll be shamed so hard that your Lich won’t even want to rise again to seek vengeance because you know they’ll do it again. They’re canceling the apocalypse not because the one doing it is dead, but because they’re so demoralized there’s no gong forward. When the Mighty Nein come for your plans, your plans DO NOT survive because they’ve had dicks drawn all over them.

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Do not let them erase this. Do not let them tell you he meant "my heart goes out for you."

This man is the grandson of a Canadian Nazi sympathizer who moved to South Africa BECAUSE he thought the apartheid was just the coolest.

He has a gaggle of kids specifically because he believes his genes are superior and need to be spread to improve humanity.

He has thrown his support behind the neonazi party in Germany and the far right party in the UK, not to mention how far he's wormed up the ass of the Republican party.

He threw two sieg heil salutes back to back at the inauguration of the president of the United States and is trying to scrub the evidence off the internet.

Elon Reeve Musk is a fucking Nazi.

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Please tell me again how the two political parties are the same? Because yesterday we were still in the Paris Climate Agreement, still a member of the WHO, weren't trying to ignore the 14th Amendment, and weren't defining gender in only sex terms and pretending intersex people don't exist.

But congrats, you are a morally superior human being, and every stranger on tumblr loves you very much.

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In sync face palm