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The calendar tell me it's July 27, Gary Gygax's birthday, so I rolled up a character -- 3D6 rolled six times in order referencing Holmes' 1977 basic D&D rules (his tidy edit of Gygax and Arneson's original 1974 little books):
Srength 8
Intelligence 13
Wisdom 10
Constitution 8
Dexterity 10
Charisma 8
In old school D&D this is a perfectly viable character with no penalties, before 50 years of stat inflation was built into the rules. He could be almost anything, but will be most capable as a magic-user, receiving a +5% bonus to earned experience for having a 13 in the prime requisite ability.

Magic-users and thieves get only a D4 for hit points in early editions, and as often happens I rolled a 1. Survival past the first few levels will be extremely unlikely, but it always was for those classes. He'll need to hide in the middle of the party and hope for the best.
3D6 x 10 for starting gold pieces results in only 60, but he doesn't need much gear. He'll carry some basic tools and a bundle of empty sacks to help carry treasure after his one and only spell is spent.
With Int 13 he has a 65% chance of having a specific level 1 spell in his book, and will have a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 8. He can roll in any order, and can reroll from the list if they fail to meet the minimum. On the first pass through the list he fails to know Detect Magic, Magic Missile, or Hold Portal, but his book holds Charm Person, Dancing Lights, Protection from Evil, Read Languages, Read Magic, Shield, Sleep, and Tenser's Floating Disc. From that list of 8 he can choose one spell each day to use, only one time per day. In combat Sleep and Charm Person will be useful for reducing the number of opponents.
#Gary Gygax Day#D&D#Dungeons & Dragons#dnd#Holmes D&D#character creation#Basic D&D#dice#D6#D4#Dungeons and Dragons
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So for anyone interested in the differences of earliest DnD, I found this thread and made it visually easy to access.
(all credit for this goes to Adam Dray, check the link for the entire post)
#I was actually looking for early-game applications of Infravision before 3rd edition axed it#someone on a reddit thread mentioned a Darkvision description by Moldvay and... so this happened#I won't go through ALL the books in their entirety (at least not now) but there's certain things I seek inspiration from pan-editions#Some novels are an excellent source of applying game skills in-life as well but I like knowing WHAT abstract game concept is being morphed#plus inspiration#DnD#d&d#ttrpg#tom moldvay#frank mentzer#j. eric holmes#od&d#basic d&d#odnd#basic dnd#dnd basic#d&d basic#dnd basic revised#d&d basic revised#adam dray#dnd editions
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#dungeons and dragons#ttrpg#rpgs#dungeonsanddragons#d&d#thoughts#tumblr polls#my polls#polls#poll time#dnd#dnd5e#dungeons & dragons#od&d#D&D basic set#Basic D&D#ad&d#1e#ad&d 2e#advanced dungeons & dragons#d&d 2e#d&d 3.5#D&D 3e#d&d 4e#d&d 5e#d&d 5th edition#adnd#poll#random polls#tumblr poll
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Little continuation to this sketch
#my art#sketchy sketch#arcane#zaundads#vanco#Silco can drink anyone under the table#nobody knows how but he can#he'll be a miserable drunk tho I think#like he'd be quiet and sassy and angry#...so basically just season 1 silco :D#he'd be super happy when tipsy tho#thats my queue to leave
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shattered glass B-127
#bumblebee#b 127#goldbug#shattered glass#transformers one#transformers#orion pax#d 16#i think its funny if this alt version of bee doesnt talk much but hes always thinking the meanest things LOL#basically if bee grew really resentful instead#he would be crying tears of joy watching optimus tear alpha trion in half#he wants REVENGEEE!!!#i think this version of bee would follow optimus soley because he killed the bot that put him down there#megatron would try to convince him to stay but bee would think hes too weak#also... optimus killed the guy who hurt him...#optimus cares about him...#he wouldnt want to get left behind again would he...#what has megatron done for him?
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incredible to me that in the age of spending minimum $100 for groceries for one person every three weeks where i live, people are still online like "dairy is bad for you because it has a lot of calories". at this point im calculating calories per dollar at the grocery store and youre still stuck in "fat bad" mindset from 1980. you are an absurd person to me. laughable
#blog#food#we are facing mass malnutrition in the usa which is going undiagnosed because it is happening to fat people#population surveys show that almost every american is deficient in multiple basic nutrients#like magnesium (the big one)#vitamins d and c#and tons of micronutrients#fruits and vegetables have lost a huge percentage of their nutritional value from soil depletion#and youre telling me not to enjoy butter and ice cream#ok
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there's a bartender ace au that i want to make real sooo badd...
#my art#but i cant. not until finals are over.#this is basically him staying home to help makino with the bar when she gets injured! he never gets his devil fruit powers#and there is other stuff because its me. but it will have to wait#portgas d. ace#one piece#portgas d ace#makino one piece#bartender ace au
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as far as one piece antagonists go Crocodile truly gets absolutely scooby-doo’d at unmatched levels
He immediately falls for a phone scam and from basically little garden to rainbase he doesn’t even know the strawhats are alive (and clowning towards him at incredible speed). As soon as he does, they’re in his house tearing at his walls and bringing marines into his villain lair.
He uses a literal floor trap door over a gator pit to catch them, gets phone scammed again, full scooby-doo chase scenes after Chopper through the streets while still missing him, and suddenly his prisoners have escaped his impossible cage, and his giant bananagators are dead. and Nico Robin saw it all happen.
He then spends rest of the arc complaining about those meddling kids and their dog “strawhat pirates and their weird pet” and at no point does he even know how many strawhats there are.
Like yeah he keeps having plans on top of plans to stop everything Vivi can do but also she keeps coming up with a new thing to do (Tom and Jerry ass dynamic).
Part of it is that he’s underestimating them and keeps grandstanding villain monologuing but also teens keep killing hundreds of his grand line bounty hunters and he straight up does not know what is happening.
Cause he IS trying to kill them he’s sending top assassins after them and ripping out luffy’s organs, the whole time he’s yelling HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?? DIE. as whack-a-mole Luffy keeps inventing new ways to hit him.
#who would win: an untouchable warlord w 1000 plans and a million agents or 1 bouncy boy and his 4-10 (croco has NO idea how many) companion#he literally says like go kill all 4 strawhats and their pet thing verbatim#p sure he thinks there’s like at least a dozen strawhats by the end and more then one mr prince#sanji and chopper are basically shaggy and scooby throughout rainbase like if they had stopped for snacks instead then came & freed evryone#honestly the plans on plans is the only reason he made it as far as he did cause they were knocking through them mach 10#he was in mob boss spy thiller mode and the strawhats are NOT matching his energy#he’s getting conned he’s getting clowned on his mouth is punched off mid line and now someone has called the cops (marines)#sir crocodile#monkey d luffy#nefertari vivi#tony tony chopper#black leg sanji#roronoa zoro#nami#usopp#straw hat pirates#one piece#alabasta arc
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To Be Wooed
I blacked out and wrote this. This is so silly to me.
Enjoy!
Look Danny didn't mean to kill the Joker it was an honest mistake, he was still recovering from escaping the GIW and whatever they had used on him had still been in effect when he honest to Ancients ran into the fake clown.
Of course it doesn't look like an accident with how he left the Joker
But it was!
Really it really was!
Whatever the GIW did was out of his system, but that still left a very dead and coreless Joker.
Yeah...apparently Joker had a core, but not anymore because he ate it like it was pop rock candy, if the weird cousin spicy version of it. He still feels like he has some of it stuck in his teeth.
Anyways! Not the point!
Joker! Very dead at his feet, what is he supposed to do-
THUMP
Oh Ancients he's going to die again that's the Red Hood!
"Uh...I can explain, well not really. But it was an accident! I promise and-"
"You killed him?"
"I'm really sorry? He bumped into me, it was an accident I swear!"
"Go on a date with me."
WHa-what?! Did he just hear correctly why would he ask him out out of nowhere it made no sense and..oh.
Red Hood's been touched by Death not like him but enough to count, and enough to have some ghostly instincts.
Okay ghostly courting he can do that, he totally can, no sweat!
Shit who is he kidding he may have the instincts but he was never actually taught how he's supposed to use them or anything.
Well he's always been good at making it up as he goes, and at least his instincts will help push him in the right direction.
So he should just do what feels natural to him.
"Yes I'll go out with you. If I were to make jewelry and knives out of his bones would you accept them?"
"...For me to wear and use. Yes."
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Danny freaking out about just killing and kinda eating someone: I'm in so much trouble!
Jason behind him fixing his appearance: "Well hello there handsome come by here often?"
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Joker bumping into Danny: "ahAHA you will make a good experiment!"
Danny is high as a kite and getting the munchies: "I didn't know I could order food with my mind!"
Joker: "Whut-"
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Jason seeing Danny absolutely wrecking Jokers shit: *Ghost Instincts Activated*
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Jason falling fast for Danny without even knowing his name: "Can I pretty please kiss you?"
Danny realizing what's going on but still being clueless: "Does that mean you will accept these gifts made from Jokers bones?"
Jason's Ghost Instincts rising to a fever pitch: "I'm going to woo the fuck out of ya and then we'll get married then we'll fu-"
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Danny's Ghostly Instincts being connected to his 'Protection' & Jason's to his 'Revenge' showing these kind of specific gestures towards them is incredibly romantic.
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Jason and Danny's relationship basically:
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#They're like Morticia & Gomez absolutely smitten for each other
#Jason brings a crying & beaten up GIW who has been stalking Danny
#Danny almost swooned
#They start flirting with each other while standing on top of the GIW dude
#Jason's goons are happy that their boss found 'The One' apparently but can they please stop eyefucking each other while they're there and-
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Just an Idea
#dead on main#jason todd x danny fenton#Murderously Wooed au#Ghost Instincts TM#comedy murder romance basically ;D#glowy-death-ideas#dpxdc#dp x dc#danny phantom#dc x dp#batman#danny fenton#dp x dc crossover#dc x dp crossover#dcxdp
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pov the reaper that’s dragging away your boyfriends soul says something so freedomphobic you hit his corpse with the nika stare
#sorry I have like so many thoughts abt these two basically coming back from the dead during roof piece#I’m actually glad zoro didn’t see g5 luffy bc I think he would’ve died from a heart attack or something#but I can like dream. bc the visuals go crazy#luzo#zolu#one piece#monkey d. luffy#roronoa zoro#sun god nika#my art#one piece fanart#luffy#zoro#wano
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This is the book that got me into D&D and TTPRGs.
115. Tom Moldvay - Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules (1981)

So, in early 1981 we got a new version of the Basic Set which included character sheets, dice, rules and the B2: Keep on the Borderlands adventure module. I've covered Keep on the Borderlands before as it came out officially in 1979, so the only truly new thing in the set are the new Basic Rules. This rule book is basically an update of the 1977 J. Eric Holmes rules but there are some considerable changes.

One of the most immediately apparent changes is the fact that it's just a better and easier read. The rules are similar but better explained with more practical examples and some cool illustrations, also including a nice directory of monsters and magical items to be used in adventures spanning levels 1 to 3. One of the effects of this set, coming out. as it did, during the height of D&D fame, was to make Keep on the Borderlands one of the most popular of all adventure modules and certainly one of the most widely played.

There is another major change for the game, however. While Holmes' version created a continuity between D&D and AD&D, telling players that when they "graduated" from third level they should look to AD&D rules to continue playing their characters, this version distances D&D from AD&D by directing players to the Expert Set of D&D therefore not directing players to the Advanced version at all. With this set D&D is now a completely distinct game from AD&D, which even if that was the official position by Gygax in the pages of Dragon magazine, for example, was not really the case in practice. Next up, we will look at that Expert Set that came out at the same time as this Basic one.

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Zargon awaits beneath The Lost City -- Kevin Glint updates the look of a classic encounter from module B4, first drawn by Jim Holloway:

Quests from the Infinite Staircase (July 16, 2024) will include 5e conversions of 6 D&D/AD&D adventures from the 1980s:
B4: The Lost City by Tom Moldvay (1982, originally for Moldvay's version of Basic D&D)
UK4: When a Star Falls by Graeme Morris (1984, originally for AD&D)
UK1: Beyond the Crystal Cave by Dave J Brown, Tom Kirby, and Graeme Morris (1983, AD&D)
I3: Pharaoh by Tracy and Laura Hickman (1982, AD&D)
S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth by Gary Gygax (1982, AD&D)
S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks by Gary Gygax (1980, AD&D)
#D&D#Dungeons & Dragons#Kevin Glint#Zargon#The Lost City#AD&D#Basic D&D#dnd#D&D 5e#5e#TSR#WotC#Gary Gygax#1980s#Dungeons and Dragons
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did anyone order a luffy mermaid au?



in this universe, he’s usually a person with legs cuz of the human-human fruit, but he also falls in the water all the goddamn time and reverts back to fish.
he still gets all weak in the water cuz of the devil fruit, so he’s kinda just a useless floppy fish sometimes 😅
#asl brothers#one piece#one piece luffy#roronoa zoro#mermaid#basically the plot of h20: just add water#mermaid au#monkey d. luffy
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Okay so human au for tfo what would be the human equivalent of them getting te-cogs like do they just get magic rocks and the have some crazy growth spurt or something else…? 
Love your art btw
maybe it's like magic??? they don't get a cog but Receive a 'spark' that yeah, gives them a growth spurt like u said, and also gives them.. um.. Magic Weapons & abilities.. and Magic.. vehicles.... ?
thank you !!!! <3
#transformers#transformers one#humanformers#d-16#megatron#art#hmmm......#so basically they all could use Magic but sentinel somehow removed the 'spark' in them that made it possible to Manipulate..#i guess !!! idk how he could've done that though !!! LOOL
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[Day 364]
O7 For day 364 I decided to throw in a bit more food into the wild as a treat /SILLY
Designs by @gingermaple once again :D
#dddaily4sherin#sorry i am. 30 mins late i had technical difficulties (literally was in a car) and physical (fell asleep at one point) JFLJAKDMSKKA#WE STAY SILLY#desert duo#scarian#hermitshipping#hgcz roleswapverse#this HAS become basically dress up but listen it's Spectacle's fault ok#:D#maples designs are so pretty guysgsuysgsysyshebrn💥#the day before the last day this is. crazy#i hope i can get tmr done in time HDLAPALAHA GOD THIS IS SUCH BAD TIMING FOR ME IRL WISE LOL#o7o7o7#isdoodles
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Guilt
Under starlit skies,
Orion’s gaze pierces deep,

Haunted by lost time,
Guilt wraps around my spark tight—
Your light, a ghost that lingers near.
And Alternative ending
#megop#megop week 2024#transformers#transformers megatron#transformers fanart#transformers au#transformers one#tf one#tf one 2024#tf optimus prime#tfp optimus#transformers optimus#optimus#optimus prime#transformers orion pax#orion pax#tf one megatron#transformers one megatron#megatron#tf one d 16#tf one orion pax#my art#Im punishing Megatron for hurting OP with angst#basically an au where Orion never got reformatted as Optimus#angst#tf megatron#tf megop#maccadam#maccadams#mtmte
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