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it’s jeff! infinity comic #8

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hey boy don't kill yourself. green's dictionary of slang is available online and allows you to explore 500 years of english vulgarity. you can search by part of speech, source, time period, etymology, and usage. there's a whole category for gay slang. they even have specific citations listed so you can see the exact context for yourself. boy did you know that in 1927 "to kneel at the altar" was slang for "to sodomize"

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I think one of Pratchett's great skills in writing was being able to make silly things serious, in different ways. Like, there's a fairy godmother forcing everyone into fairystales, how fun! Except in the process, she has stopped seeing them as people. She's forcing people to live lives they don't want to because she decides that's how it has to be. Sometimes she goes so far as to violate her victim's minds and deform and puppet their bodies so they'll play their part right, and anyone who doesn't do their job gets mercilessly killed. And there's a zombie activist named Reg Shoe who buries himself every year out of solidarity for the dead, how funny! Except he is filled with a genuine passion for justice and improvement in the world, and that's why he literally refuses to die. And he buries himself on a holiday that happens to be the anniversery of his own death, and he does it next to the bodies of the friends and strangers he fought alongside, the ones who didn't get to come back, so he spends one day with them. There is still a lot of silliness in discworld, a lot that's wacky and funny, but a lot of it, when you think about it, is oddly beautiful or touching or disturbing or something else entirely.

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I hate when I’m watching a period drama set in a pre-industrial time period and they’re ripping through shirts like it’s NOTHINGGGGGGG.

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S.Vimes Modern AU. Yes, he's wearing ripped, holey jeans and thin sneakers.

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Boss encounter: Bladebelt the Thruster, a barbarian warrior whose secondary weapon is a blade protruding from his belt buckle, which he wields by vigorous pelvic-thrusting in phase two once you disarm both his handheld weapons in phase one

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*thinks about that one gun in from dusk til dawn*

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Wow. Sage Advice is even shittier now. Like, now it's not just bad advice, but you have to click through, like, three fucking links for that bad advice.

Answer: in 5e, probably not, because shitty rules, but I don't know, but also, 5e is basically just "how much can we charge for how little rules" so I suggest you do whatever you want and sounds good to your group. In 3.X, yes, if you cast it previously and held the charge.

Can my Warlock use Shocking Grasp as an Opportunity Attack?

@JeremyECrawford Can my Warlock use Shocking Grasp as an Opportunity Attack since it's actually a Melee Attack? #DnD — Vincent Faber (@myv382tokyo) February 6, 2017 Can you use a melee spell attack to make an opportunity attack? See the Sage Advice Compendium for the answer: https://t.co/dh02JRnEH8 #DnD https://t.co/A1k7dHoCBQ — Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) February 6, 2017

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I desperately want to play a Blades in the Dark game set in Happyville now

Don't fuck with me cuz I grew up on the mean streets of Happyville, where you have to fight to survive. Mayor Sunshine and the Funsketeers used to corner me outside of Old Mr. Happy's Sweet Shop every day on the way home from school and try to shake me down and y'know I didn't always win those fights. Sometimes Mayor Sunshine would be at City Hall the next day with a busted nose or his arm in a sling, and sometimes he'd walk away one nickel richer and I'd have to go without my oversized lollypop. I once watched an anthropomorphic kitty cat wearing jodhpurs and an adorable little waistcoat hold up a gas station with a Mossberg. It's a goddamn war of all against all out here.

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chavis mármol, "untitled destruction project," 2024, nine-ton quarry stone replica of colossal olmec head dropped on blue tesla model 3

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Interesting. I love Planesape Torment and Planescape as a setting, but I don't really enjoy D&D. Do you think there's a better system to run a Planescape campaign? If you don't have a specific system in mind, what kind of system do you think would work best?

Hehe someone just asked me the same question in the replies to that ask, here's my answer:

Even though I'm not exactly the biggest fan of Fate I think Fate is actually uniquely suited to Planescape.

I also feel Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine would work wonders as a system for Planescape, but that comes with a big asterisk because I'm actually stupid and have to this day not quite understood how Chuubo's works.

The closest thing to a "D&D" I would suggest for running Planescape would be Songbirds.

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Is it disrespectful to get a tarot deck for reasons that aren't occult? If I buy a deck just because it looks pretty, for instance?

Yeah they are just cards lol do what ever u want with them

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Hey Dee, see if they're doing another ABCs of Death movie and pitch this to them.

"Look, I'm just worried that if I tweeze the wrong one, I'm going to end up grabbing the secret hidden suture that connects up to all the rest of my ffs scars and wind up dumping my face in ny lap."

"...yes I do realize it's been two months since the surgery."

"...hello? Hello?"

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Literally me three weeks ago:

Wanna make a gothic punk RPG about playing cool edgy cartoon animals, probably using an adaptation of the proprietary d10 dice pool system from the World of Darkness games

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Finally.

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*lying at a job interview voice* yeah i can sing all of the lyrics of American Pie by Don McLean. WITHOUT slipping into the weird al version. easy

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That's my job.

— Freddie Mercury

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DnD Character Concept: A Cleric who insists stubbornly and earnestly that their obviously evil patron deity (I'm thinking Lolth or Asmodeus but really any Evil Greater God would do) is actually Good and Benevolent and Just and dismisses all evidence to the contrary as slander from rival deities. Their proof to their claim? Using their divinely granted powers for the most intensely Good tasks and quests they can find: feeding the hungry, protecting the weak, curing the sick- all done in the name of their Terrible Dread Lord and without any expectation of compensation or string attached.

The deity in question is all "???" but keeps granting the cleric power because all that free worship and influence from the people who now pray to them is nice, and hey if the cleric wants to put in the leg work to launder the deity's reputation what reason do they have to say no?

Only it turns out that the cleric is actually playing 4D chess because of the way faith works in Faerun (and most DnD settings). As more and more worshipers start believing The Terrible Dread Lord is actually a Good and Kind and Noble god they start to be influenced by that to become Good and Kind and Noble. Slowly but surely they find themselves warping to match the perception of the masses. It starts by just giving a few random blessings out of what they think is pity, or maybe sending a sign to help someone who is lost on what the deity insists is a whim....but it snowballs until you have Lolth smiting down slavers or Asmodeus sending out devil's to drag down a tyrant to the depths of hell and then they realize 'oh oh no' but by then it's to late: the religious reform movement within their flock is too massive and been ignored for too long as benign. They can't just turn around and smite their own followers- not only because it's tacky but because they feel... compassion and responsibility for those that look to them for guidece.

And then you have the cleric, who at level twenty is literally their most powerful agent and also the high priest of this out of control heresy smugly sipping their tea because, because they where right all along. Their faith in their deity is vindicated- after all what is faith if not believing in something so strongly, against all evidence, that it becomes truth onto itself?