#Lots of games out there!

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ghandharva

[chloesimaginationthings]

I love Michael Afton's story in FNAF..

[persephonaae]

Vague recollections. Empty tunnels without a mouth. I am sorry if I frightened you…

I was a part of a fantasy collaboration on Instagram, so I decided to pull together a cosplay of The Princess/Shifting Mound from Slay The Princess by @blacktabbygames !

[themouthwashes]

¨Dies Irae¨ Let her rage

[sundaysstrawberrykombucha]

Alright, so... I do have think I have to put the obligatory "You can try pathfinder, or pathfinder 2!"

Paizo, the company behind Pathfinder, I believe was founded by a group of people who worked at Wizards, but quit/were fired or something, and they made Pathfinder (which was basically D&D 3.5... but with more... or less...)

Pathfinder is very much in the same vein as D&D. High fantasy, you have your elves, your dwarves, your halflings.... And, like, 17 other ancestries (Ancestry is to Pathfinder as Race is to D&D). SERIOUSLY, there are some ASTOUNDING options you can play as, from humanoid, to, like, 5 different plant-like ancestries, or even a shapeshifting spider!

And there are just more classes, all fairly unique, and all able to be built differently so even playing the same class is different!

The problem with Pathfinder 2? It's... REALLY complicated... not like "Oh... a little more complicated then..." No, there's a LOT, so even though the ENTIRE RULES AND CHARACTERS AND EVERYTHING IS FREE ON THEIR SRD WEBSITE (Archives of Nethys: Pathfinder 2nd Edition Database), a website you can browse, read, and learn all of the things (or even look at just the art of the characters and ancestries they have!), there's still SO MUCH STUFF that it can look super intimidating just at the start.

But that's kind of the wonderful thing about TTRPGs... A lot of times? WHO FUCKING CARES? So you're flanking a bad guy, do you get a bonus? Maybe? Don't know? What's the GM think? Yea? Awesome! Roll with bonus and figure it out later. Bend and twist the rules, ignore the rules you don't get or think are stupid (at the GM's discretion), and just have a good time telling a story, rolling dice, and maybe take on a dragon or two (if you know what I mean ;3)!

seriously, TTRPGs are literally just a set of rules to make a story and play a game together with friends (or family), so sometimes saying "fuck the rules!" or "We'll figure it out later!" Makes for a much more fun and entertaining story!

Another good TTRPG that doesn't break the bank? Savage Worlds. Plays different then D&D, much more loose on the genre (the system is meant to be very modifiable), and the core book? That has all of the things you need to make a character and play? The core book that is both the GM's guide and the player handbook? The one and only book you need for the game? Something like $35usd, and it's literally so versatile that one could run anything from High-fantasy to Sci-fi with it.

It's true, though, that D&D is the easiest to find, and the one that everyone knows, it makes it hard and even scary to want to try something new. Learning brand new rules, figuring out how to balance encounters again, convincing your players... So I'm not going to say D&D is a bad system and you should feel bad playing it. You shouldn't. D&D is fine, fun, and let's you play the fantasy you want. And if you already have the books, then might as well! If you REALLY like the game and the system, there's no shame in that!

I'm just answering the original statement (and gushing a little) that other TTRPGs are expensive. They really aren't! A lot of TTRPG publisher's WANT you to play their game, so I bet you could find rules and be able to play a whole PLETHORA of different TTRPGs on the market right now, or even just basic rules and a simple, starting adventure, for free from the developers! If you want to expand your TTRPG game on a dime, there are plenty of ways of doing so... Maybe even ask your local game shop, if you have one around!

Saw someone post this on Facebook:

And like, if this is you, here's a screenshot that will shake your worldview to the core:

(to put this into perspective: if you played one of these games per day, it would take you almost 33 years before you're done)

[rpgchoices]

Rook trying to learn about the companions' backstories and personalities like -

[proxycrit]

(I point. Gently, in the voice of somebody who’s mind touched by the outer gods, i whisper truth in your ears:

Your honor the horses are now lesbians

(Anyways here’s the designs)

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

when the episode's big twist is some old guy you've never heard of

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[hinamie]

bunch of portraits

[weekend-conspiracy-theorist]

given cass's canonical love of reality tv, I am absolutely certain that every year babs has to go into cbs's recruitment email and delete her survivor audition video

[chloesimaginationthings]

The death of Vanessa and the birth of Vanny in FNAF

(Inspired by this art by Yuto Sano)

[ravenpureforever]

On one hand, Young Justice is kind of neglected by the actual superheroes that should be looking out for them in a lot of crucial ways and very much failed by the adults around them

But on the other hand Red Tornado straight up hosts a parent-teacher conference where their respective legal guardians all show up, barring Batman who’s in traffic so Nightwing fills in instead because Robin’s dad does not know he’s a vigilante which is objectively hilarious

[vaguely-concerned]

are. are you telling me that if the romanced mage warden dies and alistair is king, he deadass stares greagoir down over her dead body and grants the circle of ferelden its autonomy after ordering it rebuilt somewhere safer. first you have to deliberately leave him behind so he won't die for you and then he does that for you once you're gone, even when you're broken up??? absolute and literal king behaviour of the highest order????? the actions speak louder than words of it all??????? I think I hauve covid

[apostaterevolutionary]

Okay can I be a bitter Anders fan for like. Just 2 minutes here lmao

Cause bioware released some game stats for veilguard and apparently 72% of players redeemed Solas which is like. Okay yeah the game kinda pushes you towards that. But when I think of all the shit I used to have to put up with just for enjoying Anders like at all and…

(This is not me being anti-Solas, I do not care if you love or hate him, but I am gonna say what he’s done is like. Objectively worse than literally every other companion so lmao. And that’s fine! You can still enjoy him! I’m not saying you can’t and it’s important to me that people understand that! I’m just saying he did in fact do objectively morally worse things in game than Anders did and I don’t think that’s really debatable. And I can’t really make my point here without saying that but I do want to make it clear this is not some moral condemnation of Solas enjoyers cause it’s not)

Getting anon hate on the regular, being told “oh you’re allowed to like Anders as long as you regularly talk about how much he sucks”, people gleefully describing how much fun they have killing him ON your posts about the fact that you like him, the devs making jokes about shitty fates for him when fans asked innocent questions about him, the absolute audacity of his writer to say half the shit she did in interviews (about bisexuality and mental illness, most critically), and then being beaten over the head again in inquisition about how Anders is the worst character to ever exist and there’s no redemption for terrorists who lie to you one time in the entire game and he deserves death or worse and that’s it

And now… 72% of people are down to redeem the guy who lies to you for 2 games straight and who did a lot of questionable things that includes creating the fucking blight and. Like. I guess I’m glad that Solas fans can live in a world where they aren’t constantly harassed and can give their ship like. A pretty damn good ending all things considered. And that the devs love Solas and actually give the option for that happy ending and have characters go to bat for Solas throughout the game and the most annoying thing they have to see are people making scrambled egg memes. I would not wish anyone to have to deal with the shit Anders fans had to put up with back then cause it sucked. It really sucked. And I’m glad it’s not being repeated with a different character, if nothing else

But like. Man there really is a difference when the writers actually like the character who does the thing, huh

[klaipeda-witness]

Best quality version here (you get weird artefacts and colour shifts in the downloaded gif)

I threatened to do this concept ages ago and I finally made good.

From the moment in Covenant when Kira jumps over the railing on the Empok Nor promenade and tackles Dukat's ass just before he's about to pull a Jonestown type situation.