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Sonamy Week 2024 | Day 6 - “Fantasy”

Druid Amy saved Rogue Sonic from drowning during a battle that took place in the lake near her home. They’ve been adventuring together ever since!

(She made him that enchanted charm that he wears on his belt because homie has a proclivity for falling into bodies of water and can’t swim)

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[eloaholiveira]

Was thinking about Knuckles and Amy today

[fstbmp-a]

One day I'll manage to fill one of these completely but

To do my best to visualize the Super Rosalin vibes thru other characters for you.

[camyfilms]

13 REASONS WHY 2017

Hey, it’s Hannah. Hannah Baker. Don’t adjust your… whatever device you’re hearing this on. It’s me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I’m about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you’re listening to this tape, you’re one of the reasons why.

[jmunneytumbler]

I Found 'Founders Day' Playing at a Theater Near Me: Here's What Happened

I Found 'Founders Day' Playing at a Theater Near Me: Here's What Happened

Founders, Keepers (CREDIT: Mainframe Pictures/Screenshot) Starring: Naomi Grace, Devin Druid, William Russ, Amy Hargreaves, Catherine Curtin, Emilia McCarthy, Olivia Nikkanen, Jayce Bartok, Andrew Stewart Jones, Tyler James White, Erik Bloomquist, Adam Weppler, Kate Edmonds, Dylan Slade, Arun Storrs, Patrick Zeller, Shravan Amin, Callie Beaulieu Director: Erik Bloomquist Running Time: 106…

[moviesandmania]

FOUNDERS DAY (2023) Reviews of horror slasher plus new trailer and poster

‘Change is here’ Founders Day is a 2023 American mystery horror slasher film about a series of murders during a mayoral election in New England. Directed by Erik Bloomquist (She Came from the Woods; Night at the Eagle Inn; Ten Minutes to Midnight; Long Lost) from a screenplay co-written with Carson Bloomquist. The movie stars Naomi Grace, Devin Druid, William Russ, Amy Hargreaves, Catherine…

[abardnamedreginald]

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[capacle]

Missing your attack can be fun

Something that always bugged me during combat: waiting for my turn just to roll a miss.

I usually try to mitigate (misses) or eliminate (turn order) these sources of frustration in my games.

In Nexalis, however, I went the opposite direction: I combined them.

How? And why?

See, it starts with an alternating turn order.

A player attacks, then they choose an enemy to go next. The enemy attacks, and chooses a player to go next.

This is the basic ping-pong "I go, you go" sort of order (popcorn initiative, as I was reminded).

But when one of the sides misses, you're offered a choice:

If you miss, you can just accept it and pick an enemy to go next.

OR

You can receive a counterblow, BUT you get to pick another player to go next.

Your misfortune allows your side to keep the initiative!

This choice is interesting because of how damage works:

Your attack roll - their defense roll is the damage you'd normally deal.

If your attack is lower, however, you either miss OR receive the difference as damage yourself (the counterblow) for the right not to hand over initiative.

See the tactical choice here?

"I rolled a 5, they rolled an 8." "Should I take 3 damage and pick the caster who has 18 Energy Points to spend, potentially taking down the enemy before they perform a stronger attack?"

The frustration of missing becomes the power to influence the very flow of battle!

And it works both ways:

When an enemy misses, you can deliver the difference in damage as a counterblow, but you forfeit the right to choose a player to go next.

You've got to pick another enemy to attack you.

(Quick reminder: it is a GMless game)

Depending on the circumstances, you can even pick another character to deal or receive the counterblow (if their player agrees, of course)

Imagine the following scenario: you shoot an arrow on an enemy engaged in melee with your ally, and you miss by 2!

You can propose this:

"Hey, man, you got a lot of HP left. Can you take these 2 as a counterblow, and I choose the druid to go next and skydive on them?"

To which they could respond:

"Heck yeah, let's do this".

Or

"I'll take the hit, but pick me to go next".

Or... something else!

It is an informed decision.

You have to consider the circumstances of the battle.

Who is in a good position to go next? How badly would this hurt us? Should we keep the initiative at all costs?

Oh, and about 'initiative', here's how it works: 

You roll a d6 for each side before combat. The winning side picks their first attacker, and then the ping-pong begins.

When anyone rolls a tie (ATK=DEF), the circumstance changes somehow.

So initiative is rolled again (it's a single roll, so it doesn't break the pacing).

So I think that by combining two aspects that annoyed me, I turned a frustration into one of my favorite mechanics of the game!

If you'd like to read more, the free 60-page demo has all the rules!

Or back today to get immediate access to the full game!

[the-great-elwisty]

Neverember Day 1: Home

#a/n. I had the first few hundred words of this written already and lurking on my harddrive. I've now turned it into a full scene. It was actually meant to be three scenes, but time just isn't playing along and I'm about to fall asleep. 😴 It features the protagonist of my main NWN2 fanfic universe plus Georg Redfell No proofreading has happened yet. Will try to do that tomorrow!

She smoothed down her tunic, checked the soles of her boots were clean, and ran a hand through her hair in case the charm she used on it had gone flat in the humidity. Then, putting on what she hoped was her best, most winning smile, she knocked.

Georg’s door was open already, but announcing her presence seemed like the classy thing to do. A Mossfeld would lumber straight in and kick splinters off the doorframe at the same time. One of the hearty, good-natured, and boring Lannon clan would yell whatever was on their mind from the threshold in a voice moulded for summoning cattle home over mudflats. If her stepfather needed the ear of the village mayor, he’d appear like a winter ghost from the shadows of the inglenook, deliver a few sentences held tweezered at arm’s length by his cold monotone, then vanish before the possibility of conversation could arise.

I’m going to be better than that, she thought. No, I am better than that.

“Afternoon, Georg.”

The mayor of West Harbour was at his desk, a parchment in front of him. Although he was a big man, and the quill he was using seemed too small for his farmer’s – and swordsman’s – hand, he held it nevertheless with an easy, correct, grip, the index finger and thumb resting lightly a half inch above the nib. Just in the way that Tarmas had taught her and that she now endeavoured to teach the village children in turn.

“Lila. By the mercy of Chauntea, is the village burning down? It’s not midday yet, and you’re out of bed.”

Once, or twice, or perhaps a few dozen times during her adolescence, she’d been late for shared tasks or appointments after sleeping soundly through first light and later. It was one of several details of her history that Georg would never let her forget. But it could be worse: he never mentioned Cormick. Nor did he mention lizardmen, druids or her last abysmal escape attempt.

In submission to the joke, she gave a deep bow and spread her arms so that the long sleeves of her tunic touched the plain floorboards.

Georg squinted past her. “Dragons?” He craned further. “Rakshasas?”

“Ah ha,” she said flatly and raised an eyebrow. As often with Georg, she felt trapped in a place between annoyance and laughter. “Dragons say they can’t make it today. The rakshasa are going to Stormwreck Isle instead for the climate.” 

“We’ve got the best climate of anywhere between the sea and The Green Dragon.”

“There are no other villages between the sea and The Green Dragon.”

“There’s the Tumble and – “

“–and the caves and the ruins and the mystery band of swamp druids that only you ever see.” She’d reached for the wrong example there: Georg span up oddities and fancies all the time to populate his stories.

But the druids were real, or as real as anything ever was in marsh fever country. Bevil had said that Simon had told him that his girl Runcie had overheard Orlen talking to Daeghun about trading with some druids who were camping in the lea of Faross Tower. Of course, she’d grabbed him and Amie and gone to investigate, slogging a mile out across the home salt flats in a mizzle rain, only to reach the little meadow under the crumbling lighthouse and find nothing there. Not a thread of strange cloth, not a silver pin, not a nut.

“That’s right. We’re better here than all that lot. When I was a lad in Daggerdale–”  

“A tenday ago it was Amn,” she pointed out.

“When I was a lad in Daggerdale, after I lived in Amn and before I moved to Halruaa for the business with the harpies which I told you about before,” said Georg, reshuffling his details without smiling or pausing to blink, “I would never have believed myself so lucky as to live in a place without real winters or summers.” “Last winter the lake froze, and we all put sledge runners on the boats.”

“In Daggerdale the snow drifts come up past your eyebrows. Every winter you sit in your cabin, living on rations, waiting to see if the first thing to dig through to you will be your friends or a horn-toothed snowgre with a toasting fork.”

Snowgre was a new one. A muscle in her face must have twitched somewhere, because Georg opened his eyes wide in a display of earnest credulity that might have convinced a child, if the child was very young and very naïve.

Had there ever been a point when she believed Georg’s stories? She would like to think that she’d come into the world wise to them, but she also had a stubborn memory of once upon a time excavating a three-foot hole along with Bevil because some respected authority figure had told them that a djinn’s flask locked in a golden casket could be found down there. Retta Starling had marched in to pull them out just as the lustrous, slithering clay walls began to collapse in on their creators.

And for days afterwards, going back to that spot and imagining the glittering casket in the earth, still safe in its dark blanket, just a little further away than she could reach.

“Anway, Georg–” she pressed her nerves down, and tried to sound casual yet also confident and good in a fight. Not like the woman who’d missed the militia’s only real battle because when it happened she’d been in a rocky hollow to the south of West Harbour, persuading a line of ants to turn in a circle to the beat of her tabor, and hadn’t heard the yelling to the north. “I wanted to ask about that escort you’re putting together to meet Galen at the Green Dragon this summer. I’d like to volunteer.”  

“Thought you might,” said Georg. “Yes, the escort…” He massaged the edge of his aged desk with his thumb.

“Setting out a month before the fair, I heard, and going up to Leilon first, then down to the Dragon.” When she was growing up, there’d been constant traffic between Leilon and the village. Well, regular traffic. One caravan per month, at least. Then, when she was of age and desperate to see more of the world than the swamp, it had all died away. Patches of reeds were already colonising he straight road north, and pools lay thick across it for most of the year.

“That’s right.”  

Georg looked at her. She’d carefully composed a list of reasons why she should be included in the escort, and they all abandoned her. She suspected they hadn’t been brilliant reasons in any case. If you want to make sure a merchant can travel safely to your harvest fair, then sending him the toughs with combat experience rather than the local schoolteacher might strike you as a better option.

Gods, the bastard was going to send the Mossfelds, wasn’t he? Galen might be better off chancing the orcs and lizards on his own. At least the standards of conversation would be higher.

There was something she didn’t like in his expression. He had started to avoid her gaze. “I’ll be fine,” she said. “And Galen won’t be counting on just me, though I swear I won’t let anything happen to him. I’ll keep him safe.” She paused. “I’ll even get up militia drill early.”

Georg shook his head. “It’s not that.” He threw his quill down on the desk and leaned back in his chair. Flexed his fingers, then folded his arms over his chest. “I’m withdrawing the offer of an escort. Orlen and Daeghun and a few of the others say it’s getting more dangerous out in the depths of the Mere. More of the usual, and there’s worse things crawling out of the bric-a-brac the ancients left us with, bless their souls. The capable people we have should stay here.”

He gave her the kind of serious look that meant that he was including her among the capable people. She supposed she should have feel somehow buoyed up by that. In times past, she surely would have.

His skin was dark, though not as dark as hers. The corners of his eyes crinkled readily into laughter lines, and one side of his mouth rose a little higher than the other when he smiled. He wasn’t her blood father, but he and Retta and Tarmas between them had almost made up for her lack of parents.

They had none of them taken her away from Daeghun though. That was the heart of the problem. Georg was much cleverer than he pretended, and he’d been happy to clown for her when she was a child, nudge her into taking on responsibilities as she grew older, and trade jokes with her as an adult. But the thing she’d really needed – to grow up with a foster carer who didn’t hate the sight of her – that he hadn’t been willing to do. Just like he wouldn’t get involved with Kipp and his family now.

“Let me know if you change your mind,” she said, careful not to let any anger show. Alienating the village mayor would be – what was that phrase in Tarmas’s latest circular? – casting seconds before centuries.

“It’s West Harbour, lass. If I change my mind, you’ll know before I do.”

She plastered on her best smile and went out.

Well, that was another escape plan struck off. Time for the next one.

[renatogpadilla]

THOUGHTS ON CR3E92 IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

- FIRST EVER CR CROSSOVER EPISODE?!

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

- Dariax said "This Flute doesn't play itself anymore." Doriax canon offscreen?

- "After all the handjobs, this is what we mean to you?!" Damn... I mean, I'm glad Opal and Cyrus found a way to relieve stress, Gods know they're both stressed, but damn.

- Ending the episode on Opal Twice-Crowned hitting phase 2 of the boss fight was EVIL!

I love it, @quiddie ! I feel like when this gets animated in a decade or so, we'll get this fight and the fight with Otohan Thull overlayed one on top of the other for a Season Finale or something!

- Raven Queen going two for two on Rogues turned Paladin! Which is great, but now I have to replan Morrighan's moveset for that imaginary Critical Role fighting game that only exists in my head (somebody ask me about it please, I NEED to talk about it!) but at least she gets some Smite options out of the Bunny Hop command jump!

- Dariax is a Bard now too! That's honestly so perfect for Matt! And the fact that both Sorcerers and Bards are Charisma Casters makes me feel like the Synergies are gonna be great!

- Oh, Dorian, wonderful blue king... That's a lot of strength that your Dice will never agree to let you use for anything cool. I missed you SO MUCH!

- Speaking of that imaginary CR fighting game, this just solidified Opal as a puppet character. The tag combos with Ted would be WILD! Think Kenshi from MK1!

- Fy'ra Rai... Just... FY'RA RAI! Gods, I've missed Anjali at the table! Her memory with Opal, her tug-of-war with her thoughts about her sister... THE LAVA WHIP! Nothing sexier than Monks! Except a pissed off Wizard or Druid.

- On the other side of the table, I LOVE the moment the girls all collectively remembered they had to break the news to Frida... Oh, that's gonna hurt BAD!

- Anyone else noticed that Ashton is BURNT OUT and laying on the ground after his Titan form wears off, but Fearne just says she's really tired and just KEEPS GOING? Ashton is DONE for now, but Fearne needs to keep moving forward... Fuck, I love these two.

- Orym... Just... Orym. If you take a level in Barbarian after this, I wouldn't blame you.

- Side-Note: This means Dorian DID get Orym's last message before they went to the moon! He just didn't/couldn't answer! Which means, through the static and everything, Dorian COULD hear Orym! And now he's probably gonna get this message once the battle is over... Jesus, if they get to Zephra and Keyleth went to the Lodge next to the lake that's gonna be a problem...

- Side-Note Side-Note: Anyone else hoping to GOD that Allura called the Nein to help? Cause Beau and Caleb were involved, but now it feels like an "All Hands on Deck" situation, and we could use Kingsley's small army of pirates right about now...

- So much happened this episode between the grieving and the flashbacks and the rolling for handjobs that I didn't have time to process the splinter cell of Xhorhasians that split their soul in twain until I woke up... Opal may have forgotten, but maybe Ted hasn't? Though if they're the same person, maybe they both forgot...

- Aabria, the corrupting of the Memories was FOUL, I LOVE IT!!!

- Somebody needs to tell Essek about the soul-splitters. In fact, let's get to that while we deal with Ashton too!

- IF OPAL DIES, AMY CAN COME OVER AS DENI$E! Like, I don't WANT her to die, but Westruun isn't that far... 👀

- I just realized this is the first ever FULL episode of CR without Sam at the table... Fuck, man, when it hurts it hurts. Glad Marisha brought back the fan.

"Forgot the Consonants?" "No Letters." OUCH, MISS RAY, WHAT THE FUCK?!

- Raven Queen Paladins hasting themselves first thing in the fight. Vax is back, and he's a Bunny Girl now!

- I like that the Crownkeepers are a two-way Overwatch reunion (McCree Cassidy and Symmetra) and a three-way Persona 5 reunion (Yusuke, Ann Futaba and Akechi).

- Everything was so fucked this episode that everything with Liliana got knocked to the background for me, THAT'S how good it was!

- The SECOND Evoroa said Ludinos was on Exandria I knew EXACTLY where he would be! Now we HAVE to get the Nein involved, right? Unless the bastard makes the city float again...

I cannot WAIT for the next episode! And if Sam brings a new character when all the groups are together, it would be SPECTACULAR! I'm guessing he's going to play one of the moon races, because that just sounds cool... Either that or Tary!

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HI HELLO UMMM So I was looking at some of your art for Sonamy week a couple months back and I honestly really loved the artwork for the fantasy prompt that you did, so much so that I was wondering if it would be okay if I made a short fic based around it? SORRY IF ITS WEIRD BUT I JUST LOVE IT A LOT AND IT REALLY INSPIRED ME

YES PLEASE DO, ABSOLUTELY! But please link back to the original drawing and please please please send me the link to your finished fic! I want to do more with Rogue Sonic and Druid Amy when I finally have time, but I would love to read your story with them!!!

[eldritchamy]

What the shit. Fighting a god in hand to hand combat as a gold dragon using immovable rods goes so fucking hard and it’s the backstory for a character that’s just in the main backstory???????? AMY???

You know how a lot of people, when making DND characters, make the mistake of having their level 1 PC have an elaborate backstory where they're super badass and already recognized as a hero?

When I made Ash I did the opposite. Her backstory is elaborate, yes, but in very mundane ways that inform her personality and how she perceives the world around her, and build up the logic of how she makes decisions.

I made everyone AROUND my PC a super powerful character who had done incredible things, and I gave Ash anxiety about it.

She feels, constantly, that she is inadequate by comparison. Her entire frame of reference is shaped by a bunch of women in her life that are outstandingly powerful, and she's just a quiet girl who makes leather goods and sells them for a living. She thinks of herself as the NPC in other people's more impressive lives.

Her mother, Lailah, is a nearly seven foot tall divine warrior created in Elysium to destroy Pit Fiends. She's an angel of lightning built like an MMA fighter, and she wields a weapon like piece of a lightning bolt (not stylized, I mean a real, glowing crackling arc of electricity that she holds like a staff and can be used like anything from a polearm to a spear to a whip, and when thrown it acts like a Lightning Bolt spell). She is built, both narratively and in game stats, to be an unkillable holy destroyer, capable of fighting MULTIPLE PIT FIENDS simultaneously, and winning. She's a CR 10+ magical creature (she's a homebrewed mix of Deva and Erinyes stat blocks with some unique flavor) with eighteen class levels, 16 in Zealot Barbarian and 2 in Fighter. She has a strength of 27 and a constitution of 25. She's designed to deal HUGE amounts of damage, tank unfathomable amounts in turn, NOT DROP WHEN SHE HITS ZERO HITPOINTS, and keep swinging until every devil in her way is a pile of dust, then use bonus action Second Wind to bring herself back above 0 so she doesn't incur the auto-death caveat on Zealot Barbarian's Rage Beyond Death ability. One of her attuned items is also the very simple uncommon item "Periapt of Wound Closure" which automatically stabilizes you at the start of your turn, thereby resetting the death saving throws she would theoretically have to make each time she gets hit below 0. Also, as an angel, she's innately immune to auto-death effects like Power Word Kill, which closes almost all loopholes that get around her build. She is UNSPEAKABLY badass. I ran a simulated round of combat with her once, and she could potentially one-shot a CR 15 Skittering Horror (228 HP) in a single turn. Her theoretical maximum damage output is like, 456 damage in a turn (granted this assumes all crits and rolling max damage).

So that's Ash's mom.

Aria is interesting. She was always strongly attuned to the forces of nature, and her magic grew quickly. Where Ash grew up with someone she knew would always be there to protect her from anything, Aria did NOT have that safety net, and spent her formative years learning to be more self-sufficient in terms of relying on her own power. So eventually she got sucked into an adventuring party consisting of herself (a tiefling Witch subclass with very strong druid flavor), a tiefling zealot barbarian, and a couple of elf twins who were an Arcana cleric and a Celestial Warlock. Sometime after they had made a name for themselves, they were tasked with stopping a suspected fledgling vampire who had been kidnapping girls and killing a bunch of people. When they arrived, they met Cass, who was very much NOT a new vampire. She was almost 150 years old and had been protecting women from abusers and overzealous debt collectors, and things had gotten a little messy with one or two of them, leading to a lot more attention than she normally got. They start off fighting Cass (Aria polymorphs herself into a dire wolf and lunges directly for the throat, which Cass found amusing and impressive) but realize in the banter that Cass wasn't the real problem, and she ends up being a sort of a lesson for the group in terms of whose word they trust and who they take jobs from (YES THE BACKSTORY'S BACKSTORY HAS NARRATIVE ARCS AND MORAL LESSONS THAT LEAD TO LONG TERM CHARACTER GROWTH OKAY I CAN'T HELP MYSELF). Cass, having a particular rapport with Aria, ends up joining their party as a dhampir Soulknife Rogue/Shadow Monk.

Yes, that's all backstory that I made up for an imaginary campaign that exists entirely as a set piece for Aria as one of Ash's story NPCs. This doesn't even touch on the fact that I liked Cass so much as a character that I gave HER an entire backstory of her own. I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM.

Anyway the team only makes a bigger name for themselves for handling things that other groups can't. Eventually, they just happen to be in the Tenth District when the War of the Spark happens (major established event in the MTG canon), and I basically added some extra "scenes" to it that didn't violate existing canon so I could have that be the climax of their imaginary campaign. One of Aria's partners was a new planeswalker at the time and her spark got harvested by the Dreadhorde, specifically by the god eternal Bontu.

Gods in Magic The Gathering aren't honestly that special? They don't seem to have THAT much power, all things considered. Ravnica's gods are mostly powerful magical animals, and in the most recent Magic Story one of their gods (Anzrag the Quake Mole) was captured in an "evidence capsule" (basically Magic's version of a Pokeball). The most powerful god in MTG is probably the Ur Dragon honestly, unless you count the Eldrazi, but that's a whole other conversation since neither of those actually have the "God" creature type.

Anyway, Bontu was one of the gods of Amonket (basically a plane based on ancient Egypt), which had been conquered by an Elder Dragon planeswalker named Nichol Bolas. HE was the one who actually killed all but one of Amonket's gods, and then another planeswalker named Liliana Vess (extremely powerful necromancer) raised them as zombies for his army, because Bolas had a ton of complicated leverage over her (magical contract that he could invoke to kill her if she betrayed him). So Bontu was a god zombie.

Here's a reference:

Well, Aria was a level 18 Witch at this point since this was the climax of their campaign, so she had access to the Shapechange spell, a 9th level transmutation that lets you become any creature with a challenge rating equal or lower than your character level. And the best candidate for that was an Adult Gold Dragon (CR 17). So Aria goes full berserk and stands up on her dragon hind legs and picks a fight with a dead god that she's determined to make deader, and has a Godzilla vs King Ghidorah standoff with her.

So how do you fight a god that can suck your soul out and instantly kill you with a single touch? You don't let it touch you.

What Aria did was basically inspired by this gif of a Wildebeest trying to charge at a lion:

Or this:

And to be clear, yes, I'm saying Aria was the lion in that situation. She basically did a big dragon threat display to get Bontu's attention, and used the Gold Dragon's weakening breath to give Bontu disadvantage on Strength checks and saves. Bontu charged at her, and at the last second Aria dropped to the ground and then shot back up, clamped her teeth around the god's throat, and used her weight to throw Bontu around and knock her off balance, and her superior strength to grab her by the wrists and wrestled her to the ground so she couldn't get a grip on Aria. She had every part of the god that could have killed her pinned, and used the claws of her wings to pull Bontu's armor apart and tear at everything she could reach while thrashing her around. It was Fen, the Arcana cleric, who thought to use Immovable rods to pin Bontu down so that even if Aria lost her grip, Bontu wouldn't be able to immediately one-shot any of them. So Athena (barbarian) and Cass (rogue/monk) as the two martial classes were the ones who got close enough to handle that while Fen and her sister (Gwen) used whatever holy magic they could to help from a distance.

Now CASS had a problem, because she's a DEX based martial class, not a strength based one. She needed a boost to be able to get this job done. So she drank some of Bontu's blood from one of the wounds Aria had left on her arm to give herself a burst of strength. Except. She had to get real close to do that. And Bontu managed to get a loose grip on her, and tried to suck out her soul.

The magic that makes Cass what she is is very old and very powerful. It binds her soul to her body in a much stronger way than any living creature, fusing the two together to prevent her from dying (i.e. by having her soul separated from her body; Cass can recover from almost any conceivable physical injury as long as there's life energy, in the form of blood, for the magic that keeps her alive to feed on and maintain the seal between her body and her soul). BECAUSE SHE WAS FEEDING ON THE BLOOD OF A GOD AT THE TIME, the magic holding her together basically fought against the magic that was trying to rip her soul out, and it had enough fuel to hold on until Aria's thrashing forced Bontu to let go. So Cass survived the Elderspell thanks to a very weird and unrepeatable set of circumstances (which allows something narratively impressive and legendary to happen without being gamebreakingly overpowered and violating the established rules of the world).

Because of how her magic draws energy from other things, though, there was a side effect: she also accidentally took in one of the planeswalker sparks that Bontu had harvested. So when Cass had healed enough for her soul to no longer be dislocated, her spark activated and she became a Planeswalker. (I imagine a soul is connected to a body mostly through the nervous system, because that's how a brain holds consciousness in it, so a "dislocated" soul is like something glued to every nerve ending in your body being pulled on with an enormous amount of force, trying to sever that connection; imagine trying to pull yourself off the ground when every nerve ending in your body is superglued to the floor by something akin to the Strong Nuclear Force. It SUCKED.)

The team ended up being forced to retreat because of Cass' injuries, so Aria didn't actually manage to kill Bontu personally (or die trying, which in her grief-rage she was fully open to). Right about this time, my bottle scene ends and Magic canon comes back into play: Liliana betrays Bolas and turns the Dreadhorde against him, and Bontu ends up being the one who bites him and rips out HIS spark. Due to the enormous rush of energy of consuming all of Bolas' stolen Planeswalker sparks (tl;dr he was trying to become a god), and with the added bit of lore that it was Aria's team that heavily injured Bontu just prior to this, Bontu exploded in the process.

This resulted in Ravnica playing a game of telephone in the chaotic aftermath of the War. Aria fought a god. She's still alive and that god is dead. Rumors spread and now Aria is misremembered as the one who killed Bontu. Half the plane thinks of her as the "god killer." All she wanted was to avenge her lover or die trying.

Neither outcome happened, and now she's credited with the very thing she sees as her greatest failure. And that trauma has haunted her ever since.

[kate-les-bridge-stewart]

I had a convo with someone about different dw characters as dnd classes and heres a summary

13 is an artificer

12 is a monk/ranger mix

11 is a bard, but not the flirty type. Hes the childlike fun loving type who can rile up a room full of people into song

10 is a wizard cus hes a spineless bitchboy

Clara is a warlock/bard mix who seduces every woman she comes across (warlock because she did the timestream thing)

Yaz is a ranger

Ryan is a very overwhelmed low level cleric

Graham was tough but we settled on him being a retired monk

Amy is a fighter

Rory is an exhausted cleric

Rose is a warlock cus she got her power from the time vortex

River is a bard/fighter mix. And yes she's the flirty type.

Bill is a druid who's wild shape is a squirrel. She just wants to hang out with animals and kiss her gf

Kate is a paladin, hands down.

Osgood is an artificer

Dhawan!master is a barbarian cus hes an angy boi

Missy is a mischievous sorcerer

Simm!master is a monk but EVIL!!! >:D

Feel free to share your thoughts and add if youd like

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got a little too bored today and started tallying up d20 cast appearances for the intrepid heroes (and brennan). this is only off of the top of my head so if i forget something don't get on me about it.

Intrepid Heroes D20 Cast Appearances, including sidequests (and BLeeM), ranked from highest to lowest:

Brennan Lee Mulligan with a total of 17/19 seasons that he has appeared in; dm/gming for 14 of those seasons. 7 of those are main cast/intrepid heroes, so assume they each have a baseline of seven.

next up is mister Lou Wilson, with a total of 10 seasons; 3 sidequests, all with guest gms. the man is a combination of dnd knowledge and commit to the bit. great with any season, but has always sidequested with brennan.

tied at nine, we have zac oyama and ally beardsley; ally featured heavily in 2021 sidequests while zac has been more recent in '22 and '23.

tied at eight we have the lovely ladies emily axford and siobhan thompson! i'm so glad siobhan has joined the ranks of intrepid heroes in sidequests, it feels like they just have a lot of fun on the shorter runs.

and in last place, mr brian 'murph' murphy. i know he's busy with naddpod but only intrepid heroes seasons? 7/19? please come on a sidequest my guy. i promise it's fun.

halfway through this process i've decided that guests are also being included now.

Guest Cast D20 Appearances, ranked from highest to lowest:

at the top of the guest list, the effervescent aabria iyengar, with 5/12 sidequest seasons! 2 seasons of gming, 3 seasons as a player, all 3 of which are in established d20 worlds e.g. spyre and calorum. assuming we have an intrepid heroes season coming up at some point in the future, murph can get a bit of a lead, but if aabria's coming on to guest more there's a very real potential that she will outcompete him. i look forward to the day.

next up: erika ishii with 4 seasons. they came on in the first sidequest and have had a steady stream of appearances since. always some kind of mage--tends towards druids/nature magic. 2/3 of her dnd appearances have been druids with an eye for creepy crawlies and the darker side of nature. he's got an aesthetic that he sticks to, and i admire that. real commitment, and not just to the bit.

tied with three we have rekha shankar and matthew mercer. ooh four-syllable names. sorry i got distracted. anyway. very excited to see rekha in desiquest, though she's a fantastic player on d20. big swings, fun character choices, a good balance of support for narrative and spotlight. and then we have matt--one season gming, but for the seasons he's played? some truly cringefail guys who learn to believe in themselves and break out of their personal depression to deliver an asskicking in their finale episode. man likes his themes.

now for the team of two (not the 2 crew) in chronological order of first appearance: mike trapp, ify nwadiwe, lily du, carlos luna, danielle radford, and izzy roland. just enough to make an average d20 table! i'm getting my fill of trapp and danielle in the current season, but seeing a table of these players together? it has potential.

and for the full list of one time appearances on d20 in chronological order of first appearance (only full seasons, not including oneshots atm):

amy vorpahl

justin mcelroy

clint mcelroy

jessica ross

griffin mcelroy

travis mcelroy

marisha ray

krystina arielle

b. dave walters

katie marovitch

sam reich

raphael chestang

grant o'brien

becca scott

persephone valentine

gabe hicks (gm!)

dani fernandez

jasmine bhullar (gm!)

omar najam

oscar montoya

surena marie

anjali bhimani

monét x change

alaska thunderfuck

bob the drag queen

jujubee

alex song-xia

freddie wong

hank green

i've devoted entirely too much thought to this. and i still have more thoughts. too many thoughts and not enough time. can't wait to see who comes on in the future! don't know if i'll edit this or make a new one. probably just edit this.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Top 5 favourite starters of all time?

Oh ho HO, you are all spoiling me with these requests for my baseless opinions

5. Greninja

Ninja frog! I love it. Even its unsettling tongue scarf. Also it's very rare for me to give a shit about Water types, so that's fun

4. Blaziken, my beloved.

I mean I do really love the design. I fully acknowledge, however, that a lot of my love for Blaziken is nostalgia-based, but fuck it, I feel he's stood the test of time

3. Serperior

So snooty! So tsundere! So fancy and ornamental and filigree! Big snek!

2. Meowscarada/Skeledirge

Joint position right now because I'm still meeting them and learning their quirks, but holy shit, what charismatic and creative designs. Adore adore adore

1. Decidueye

TREE DRUID TREE DRUID TREE DRUID

But I mean listen okay this thing is actually perfectly designed. I mean it. A common flaw of three step evolutionary lines is that the middle Evo is just... there. An intermediate step, providing an extra stage and nothing else. Elements of the cute first step, elements of the Tonks McArd final battler, but nothing of its own particularly.

And then along comes Dartrix!!! Rowlet is charming as hell, just the cutest little ball, and then it evolves into Dartrix, WHICH IS A SNOOTY DANDY. It could be a full adult Evo, that's how good and complete a design it is. I once touched mine's hair accidentally in Pokémon Amie and it had a tantrum. Incredible.

And then it evolves into the mysterious tree druid and shoots arrows made of its own quills, I just... what absolutely magnificent design work went into this owl. Epochal. Spectacular. Mine is called Gwydion. It speaks to me as a Welsh person. And a tree person. I love it.

Anyway I could wax lyrical about the aesthetic design choices of Decidueye so I'd better stop there but <3