#Longterm campaign

[coreplant]

Sometimes Cantrips are incredibly useful.

This is Ootah, my half-orc Wizard. Not a very conventional class/species mix, but I honestly loved the contrast, and that she was exceptionally tanky for what is normally a very glass cannon kind of class. I played her from level 10 to level 24, before RL interfered and my DM had to just flat out stop DMing. I miss playing her, so I want to share a story of something she did.

As part of the story, she and the rest of the party were working at the behest of Fate, through the medium of a saloon that existed on and connected to simultaneously on many planes of existence and many alternate timelines at near-random. As one of the marked of Fate, she'd get sent out with only a vague sentence or two and the faintest of hints as to what needed to happen. This time, it was an alternate history, and at least part of it was preventing the lynching murder of the local baron and his family - the local population were a few pitchforks away from mob mentality due to a lot of other things going on and that no-one had seen the baron's sister in over a year, and the house had been shut up tight right after they'd arrived in the area. The sort of thing that's pretty much gasoline on the fire of superstitious worry when the rest of the country's facing a war, something's been eating the livestock, and people keep turning up dead. Ootah was passing as a nun since this wasn't a high-magic world, and one of the party was Brother Enoch, a priest from yet another world that had been very much like this one they were in currently. Due to party shenanigans, we learn about how reclusive the baron has been, and between Brother Enoch and our charismatic paladin, the party manages to get inside the manor. It took some work, some sincerity, and some heavy leaning on magical skills, but we persuaded the baron to let us see if we can help his chronically ill sister. With the maid and the cook there, Ootah and Brother Enoch did a physical examination of the poor girl first - it was a very midwestern sort of world - and paused to discuss how to do a purification ritual, since there were signs the illness would just come back if they cleared her, trying to figure out what the root cause was. I put forth to my DM that since it had been established that those serving Fate see the Saloon as it is, Ootah had spent some of the time watching documentaries on the bar TVs. My DM agreed that was reasonable, and asked just what I was thinking. "I want to take a look at the room and see if anything pops out to Ootah as health hazards, since she's seen all those random documentaries." My DM laughed and nodded, asking me to make a few skill rolls to see what stood out to Ootah and Brother Enoch, and what they could remember to compare it to. Two eighteens and a crit later, we got a description of the room and how _splotchy_ and dark it was. Brother Enoch headed out of the bedroom to start setting up the purification ritual in the cleanest room of the manor. "Ootah's going to stand up, and wrap her cloak around the girl and hand her over to [the paladin] to take into another room. She's then wrapping a bandana over her nose and mouth and giving them to the cook and maid to do the same, and tell them to start getting all the furniture moved out and out into the yard to get cleaned thoroughly with soap and hot water." "The maid and cook look utterly confused, and start protesting the orders and the moving of their mistress, calling for the Baron." "Ootah doesn't wait for them to start talking before she starts thunderwaving the black mold off the walls, and she's going to blow out the outer wall if she has to, if it means getting this room clean as fast as possible." My DM was grinning from ear to ear describing how my character was utterly thorough in getting the infestation of black mold completely obliterated, and how much it scared the local crows to have the wall blown out. Turns out the poor girl was fighting off the side effects of black mold, and it was slowly killing her. Between Brother Enoch's ritual and Ootah terrifying the household into hardcore cleaning of the house, our paladin pitching in as a guard to help keep the town calm (as well as help the baron foster good-will by buying supplies there), we managed to avert the lynching.

[bloodsoakedurge-a]

I might have to start calling Balasar a "murder lizard" from here on out thanks to @silvertiefling. Because I enjoy that name way too much.

[max-nolastname]

black sails characters and the dnd classes they would be:

flint: fighter/sorcerer (draconic bloodline) with high wisdom and charisma. able to pass as human in "civilized" society, but has latent magical powers from an ancient dragon ancestor that manifests in the strangest things...eyes that see through the dark...summoning storms...enchanting the minds of others to do his bidding...

madi: paladin with an oath of devotion, but she doesn't answer to a higher power, or a crown or some nebulous greater good. she answers to a chorus of voices...multitudes...of men, women and children bound by chains across the world....she is devoted to them she answers to them

anne: barbarian. when she channels her rage into fights, she deals serious critical damage to her ops. able to take an insane amount of damage to protect the ones she loves and still be up standing and fighting.

jack: bard (college of valor), through and through. hoards the stories of legendary pirates. obsessed with putting himself up there among the greats. loves to Perform. silvery barbs. iykyk

max: mastermind rogue. the tenants of a rogue is to evade and hide, remain unseen, gather information on enemies and allies in order to figure out how they tick and exploit their weaknesses. she is not fighting on the frontlines she is the shadows she is in the walls of your house waiting to strike

charles: human fighter

billy: human fighter

silver: an npc with no special powers or talents or backstory, his name randomly generated using an NPC fantasy name table. He was created by the DM for no other purpose than to bring the party together and deliver the Inciting Incident/Call to Adventure in the form of a complicated treasure map. quite literally sidelined (see: shackled to a chair) in the first couple sessions, and is only brought back by the DM to add mischief and complications to the plot. but there is something so charming and endearing about this npc that the party can't help but have him tag along on their adventures. John Silver soon becomes integral to the campaign because the player characters want him to be. John Silver the NPC is a reflection of what different players want him to be. He is a trusted partner, co-conspirator, love interest, damsel in distress...a Pirate King to inspire their allies and strike fear in the hearts of their enemies. He is fleshed out and made real by the real human players around him. The players are extremely fearful of john silver dying, but what they don't know is that the DM has no plans on killing off John Silver! The DM has already written john silver into the finale of the campaign, and the story doesn't work without him, so.....

Ty @bloodyentrails for letting me bounce ideas off u

[rainia]

fucking hell fantasy high is so fucking good like Brennan is a master DM but all the players are also so brilliant at bouncing off each other it’s honestly so inspiring

[depravedangelbaby]

ohmyg-d i absolutely love firbolgs too!! i’m basically a firbolg honestly

-feral lesbian anon

I've only played a firbolg once before, so I'm very excited to play another!! I recently played a half orc too n that was sooo much fun. I like playing tall PCs lol I'm a lil halfling irl!!

[sammygender]

anyway from the tags on that post some of u guys seem to think the problem with radfems is the feminist part and not the transphobia part

[keplercryptids]

yet again i am having to hack 5e to make something that pathfinder provides rules for

[reading-writing-dying]

Wish I could just join an online dnd group as a player but I anxious and any group larger than 4 means I will never talk ever

[blujayonthewing]

a nice thing about Elyss having built A Lot of her ideas about how to live and behave out of spending a ton of time alone in the woods observing nature is that she's always been really bad at socializing with other people, much less Making Friends, but as soon as she got brought into a small team of people all working towards the same specific goal she went 'oh I see, I guess I'm a pack animal now' and immediately committed 110% to Working With And For The Pack

[qqueenofhades]

I feel like it's important to point out that in the last few days alone, in the middle of the ongoing flap about How Old He Is, Biden has announced two MAJOR pieces of progressive legislation/priorities for his second term: a) major SCOTUS reform, term limits for SCOTUS justices, a constitutional amendment nullifying the "president god-king" ruling, and b) legislation to cap/stabilize rent costs nationwide and financially punish landlords who raise their tenant's rent by more than a certain percentage (the news I saw had it as no more than 5%) in a year.

It is important to note that aside from these both being necessary and needed (the SCOTUS reform alone, holy shit) Biden's response to challenges to his candidacy is to go MORE left, not LESS. The conventional wisdom for 800 years has always been that Democrats Need To Go More Centrist, a mainstream and longterm Democrat like Biden has absolutely heard it over and over, and we have heard so much about how we need to court Republicans who are tired of Trump by being more conservative. Biden is not doing that. He is making the electoral gamble that the way to win is by going even more left, which would also have implications for his policy agenda in a second term, especially when he was freed of re-election concerns and could just go "fuck it."

Now we, and I cannot emphasize this enough, need to reward him for the move leftward and incentivize him to do it more. When you shout endlessly at politicians to be more left and then just bitch at them for not being even more left even when they move in that direction, you discourage them from doing so and make the hoary old Move To The Center narrative come back yet again. So:

[nardacci-does-art]

I only had 10 panels but here's some more fun exciting delightful articles about how republicans think public schools should make kids say christian prayers & teach students that slavery had no longterm affect on black communities, how trump makes fun of disabled people, & just a big categorized list of both republican & democrats' stances on various issues. Oh right the republicans are also lying & saying that the democrats gave all of FEMA's money to illegal immigrants even tho they're the ones who voted against FEMA funding. Not to mention that one time trump refused to fund California's wildfire relief until he was told there's people there who vote for him. Did all the anti-voters just conveniently forget how fucking bad it was when he was president last time.

Either you vote Harris-Wals or you let a bunch of hateful bigots run the US again. Stop using the horrible plight of the Palestinians to justify your voter apathy. It's really hard to help other people when you're fighting to survive. Put on your own oxygen mask first.

Any anti-voter morons will be blocked.

Articles referenced in screenshots under the cut:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/project-2025-what-is-it-who-is-behind-it-how-is-it-connected-trump-2024-07-12/

https://www.newsweek.com/hate-crimes-under-trump-surged-nearly-20-percent-says-fbi-report-1547870

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/24/roe-v-wade-overturned-by-supreme-court-ending-federal-abortion-rights.html

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-anti-immigrant-rant-rally-response_n_66de9a43e4b01b464f3dee5e

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/trumps-chinese-virus-tweet-helped-lead-rise-racist/story?id=76530148

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4892401-trump-proposes-sanctuary-cities-legislation/

https://ballotpedia.org/2024_presidential_candidates_on_transgender_healthcare

https://www.piie.com/publications/working-papers/2024/international-economic-implications-second-trump-presidency

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-refugee-crisis-gop-ban-terrorism-85afcf677743b8f8c82fe814ffe61161

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/11/11/unrwa-gaza-humanitarian-aid-congress/

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[flythesail]

Everything about the Acolyte cancelation just feels so off. I want to be hopeful when seeing the strength of the renewal campaign or even the number of big news sources writing about it, that something like a wrap up movie could be possible, yet nothing about this situation says "normal."

There were reports from so many places (with no evidence) that Acolyte merch was intentionally taken offline. (For the record, nothing came up when you searched "Andor" either.) Then soon after, the merch is back. (Presumably because it was out of stock.) What I find surprising is that the news spread like wildfire. Why? When for most of its existence, the Acolyte has been thrown under the bus - from review bombing to racist attacks from so called "fans" - why was everyone suddenly jumping on the cancelation news when doing little to defend or support the show from the start? Merch seems like such a minor thing within the grand picture.

Many, okay most, shows are canceled after one season nowadays. But this is a first just by default of falling under an IP as large as Star Wars. Shows that are not renewed go "quietly." Kenobi was written as a single season. Tbobf might have been up for a second, but after the way it was used as a bridge for Mando seasons 2 and 3, a lack of renewal is not a shock.

There's so much proof the Acolyte was on course to be renewed and the cancelation was not planned. As recently as last month they were looking for directors for season 2. I believe there were reports of a writers room in February.

Lee Jung-jae says in an interview he's surprised about the cancelation, and right after there's "coincidentally" news that Keanu Reeves would have been Master Sol if not for scheduling conflicts. Lesley Headland has ALWAYS said JJ was her first choice. Which says what? That Lucasfilm wanted to punish JJ for showing support for the show that they canceled. This is on top of doing absolutely nothing to protect Amandla from all the disgusting racists on Instagram. This is on top of them announcing Manny for SW Celebration, which isn't until NEXT year. Wtf is he going to talk about?? Thanks for canceling my show last year! I sure would have loved to continue it! The cancelation news was even publicized on his birthday. This comes after recent news for tie-in novels, an art book, and a visual guide.

My best guess would be that plans for season 2 were underway, and a higher up got scared. Of what? Taking creative risks. Or maybe scared of the people who claim to be "fans" and have done nothing but trash the show from the start with no basis.

I'll play advocate, what if it was just for viewership and budgetary reasons? It does cost a lot to make. But then why not adjust the budget? Why not adjust the marketing strategy for season 2? The success of something like Star Wars cannot even be entirely measured by viewership or Disney+ subscriptions, less so a month after the finale. What about merchandise sales or growth over time, as the Acolyte perfectly slots into a space in canon that quite frankly, is unexplored but adds so much to the overall narrative longterm!

Even if the show is expensive, you will never convince me Disney of all companies doesn't have the money for it. Something happened and it happened fast. Whatever did happen, to cancel the Acolyte is a cowardly move. I want to hope it can come back and that this "scrambling" to change the narrative in the media is a sign of regret, yet it's most likely a poor attempt to control the narrative in their favor and push the blame to everyone who actually cares about the show.

At the very least, I hope the response is a wake up call. That Star Wars fans will not stick around no matter what. That you cannot treat your creators, actors, and fans, primarily women and poc, as lesser time and time again and expect them to continue to support your product. This decision is telling in more ways than one. It's unfair and if nothing changes, Star Wars will only get worse from here. Which is disappointing, because I love it and have been a fan on and off since I was 11 years old. But I cannot deny that everything about the way the cancelation is happening feels like a betrayal.

The Acolyte dared to be inventive. It dared to be diverse. Whether that be the cast or those behind the camera, this story was made by and made for people Star Wars has continually neglected, and it still felt like true Star Wars that anyone could enjoy. It was a step in the right direction. If given a chance, it would have only become bigger. When is the last time a Star Wars project brought in new fans like this? You can only retell the same stories so many times before they lose what made them special in the first place. As a true fan, Lesley brought fresh perspective. From Amandla's performance as Mae and Osha, to JJ's performance as Master Sol, which he learned English for. Or Manny as the Stranger, a mystery turned sith turned lead love interest. The Acolyte explored the grey era between good and evil, the decisions that define us, what it means to feel, and the power of that. The Acolyte dared to exist and a cancelation can't erase the fact that it matters.

If you're still reading, please do sign and share the petition. It might not bring the show back, but it is a show of support for the cast, crew, and fans it stood for.

[horizonfallrp]

🌄 HORIZONFALL 🌠

War cries have echoed in the forest for as long as anyone can remember, outlasting current Leaders and those before. They pierce the skull and make your fur stand on end, breath held in anticipation and uncertainty. Were they from your borders or another's? Would you be required to back them up, or wait in bated, agonizing silence until Clanmates and loved ones dragged themselves back, bruised and bleeding or even dead?

…

The cruelties have grown worse lately.

Stealing food, abandoning elders, stealing kits and forcing them to fight and die before their time… The forest weeps blood and murder. Even the Gatherings are just another excuse for a fight. The only difference is who starts it and how long it lasts. We're tired, you know? Of it all.

But we're not the only ones.

"The forest is lost. Seek the horizon before you are lost with it."

A prophecy is proclaimed upon the Tall Stone one Gathering. It comes not from a Leader, or even a Deputy or Healer, but a young ShadowClan Warrior with a pelt of gold. The Warrior warns of StarClan's wrath, of how their only choice now is to leave this forest or die with it. It's not a prophecy well-received, with the Warrior being dragged from Tall Stone, beaten and then exiled, but it leaves many cats wondering all the same. And it's not the last you see of this Warrior either.

Dodging patrols of hostile Clan cats, this ShadowClanner-turned-outsider delivers his news only to those he feels he can trust. "There's a lean copse of trees between the Small Thunderpath and Highstones, just north of the area directly across from Carrionplace. Meet there on the night of the New Moon. We leave at daybreak."

Something about it sounds like hope. And danger.

But you don't have a choice, do you? The thought of living in these woods marred with rot and pride for another moon makes your stomach turn. A premature death is nearly guaranteed here, but out there you have a chance. A real chance of living out your days in peace and warmth, just as StarClan wanted for you.

So when the moon forsakes the forest, you're there at that copse of trees to greet him and all the others just like you.

Ready to take the journey.

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Horizonfall is a Discord-based Warrior Cats roleplay (run by Nocturnarl and Foxichor) that combines an initial D&D style campaign journey with the end goal of a day to day Warriors group. It will start off small, with no more than 10 members for the duration of the journey itself, and be open to more once the journey concludes. The journey's challenges will be uniquely tailored to its players' characters and their histories, and most important decision-making will be an in-character affair.

There are no formal activity requirements, but we do have failsafes in place for inactive players to ensure we have a relatively active member base. Overall, we aim for a casual, longterm roleplay experience, with all literacy levels welcome and a hope for a cohesive and friendly, no pressure environment.

Please fill out our joining form if you're interested. You do not need to have a character in mind yet!

The form closes on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, 2024!

[serpentface]

Since Couya is starting to believe she’s the one chosen to become the new Odomache, would this leads eventually to conflict with Faiza? Also, does the crowning of a new god-emperor (and fall of the current monarchy) stabilize the Wardi empire in the near-future?

Yeag so I will just say it Faiza does Not survive this story. A lot of Couya and Faiza's arc is them increasingly becoming at odds with each other in both viewpoint and direct conflict- Faiza is a personal friend of the Usoma and strong believer in a balance of power between the axis of the faith and state as a source of stability, Couya sees the society she's in and its royal family as irreversibly degraded and godless and everything she sees on the pilgrimage strengthens this notion, Faiza privately ascribes to an agnostic philosophy and does not believe there is a material reality to most of their rites (instead valuing them as a unifying force), Couya is Extremely a believer and is personally experiencing encounters with God telling her what needs to be done. Both of them basically want the same thing- an end to the instability, for their people to be saved, the preservation of their imperial state, but the ways they want to accomplish this increasingly come to a head and yeah Couya ultimately kills and replaces her. This is Not just like an overnight thing or something she would have ever dreamed of doing prior to the pilgrimage. Couya and Faiza's relationship is complicated but Couya does actually love her, and she's going to be haunted by this for the rest of her life.

Also yeah the crowning of a god-emperor actually does play a strong hand in internal stabilization. As mentioned before this is actually a very popular move in the public opinion- the royal family became extremely unpopular in response to the failed suppression of Finnerich's rebellion and their handling of the drought, and Imperial Wardin only already an 'empire' in a very loose sense of the word (more of an alliance between several city states and their occupied tributaries conditionally deferring to a monarch) with its strongest unifying factor being the Wardi faith, which was often regarded as inappropriately unrepresented by its former leadership.

The coup and resulting restructuring shifted the balance of power to be fully centralized (full merging of religious and political leadership, decreasing individual power of city-states) in a way that was also highly popular among the public and allowed for very aggressive and effective rebuilding efforts post-famine. The biggest issue is that the city-state of Lobera secedes and places adjacent former imperial tributaries under its protection, which effectively cut out almost a quarter of former claimed Imperial Wardi territory and ends in war a few years down the line (which Lobera loses, but this still has long-lasting consequences for the Imperial Wardi side). But like overall this political takeover goes shockingly well and sees the state becoming more powerful and unified than it ever has been and beginning an expansionist campaign, much to the detriment of everyone else.

The longterm stability of this situation is much less certain though.

[luifaro]

Hello, I am Ayman Olwan. I am writing this letter to you feeling a state of sadness and sorrow, after the war on Gaza completely destroyed our lives🥹. I used to work as a fisherman, but my boat, which was my only source of income, was badly damaged and no longer usable.😭😭 My young son, Hamoud, suffers from malnutrition due to the lack of food and the polluted water we drink. My wife, Kariman, and I are trying with all our might to survive💔💔, but the situation has become too much for us. We are desperate to escape to a safe place where we can start over, but we don't have enough money to do so😭😭😭. Therefore, I ask you for your generosity and kindness to help us so that we can overcome this crisis. My trust in your humanity and generosity prompted me🫂😔 to write this letter. Please consider our situation and help however you can by donating and sharing the link💔🍉🇵🇸🙏😭

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-kareman-dohans-family-from-despair

I can't donate, but I can share.

This campaign is vetted by 90-ghost here!

At the moment, they want to reach $6,000 so do share and donate so they can reach that goal:

$5,639/$6,000

They only have $361 left to make.

I'm also putting their bigger goal here, as I assume this is the longterm goal.

$5,639/$50,000