#PF rule change

[cuntybun]

Aaron Bushnell setting himself on fire in a desperate grab for empathy from the ruling class and having little affect on them VS Luigi Magione (allegedly) shooting a healthcare CEO causing the biggest display of across the party-line class solidarity america has ever seen causing CEOs nation-wide to scramble to hide themselves from the internet and up their security. just goes to show you that violence against the rich high key is the answer

[theartofwoompwoomps]

Transformers Masterlist

Hello ! Feel free to send ask or request for any of the options below. If you’re looking for rules for the request you can click this link to my main page.

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Optimus Prime:

the hell you mean you dont like humans (tfrotb x reader)

Im a mother now (x human reader, bumblebee is now our child )

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Bumblebee:

No, it’s just you ( earthspark bee x human reader, don’t meet your idol angstish?)

Even when I’m like this? Why, even like that nothing changes (tfp bee x human reader, he is insecure he can’t communicate with you verbally)

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Ratchet:

I’m too old for this nonsense (x human reader, he likes you??? He can’t believe it either)

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Jazz:

Only the best for you (x human reader, just a chill morning)

I’m their Guardian (x human reader, protective jazz)

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Wheeljack :

Doubts wouldn’t stop us anyway (x human reader, he is insecure)

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Megatron:

headcanon, Megatron? More like Megantron !

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Soundwave:

Oh Scrap (x reader he hears you think he’s the hottest)

Why me (ravage brings you to him, es soundwave x human reader)

first meeting drabble heacanon joke

random idea drabble for a jealous soundwave

Just like me (x human reader he is surprised to have things in common with you)

small imagine scenario of what happens when left alone with cassettes (headcanon)

random headcanon pf this diva

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Rumble:

Why’d no one tell me he’s hot?! (X human reader)

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Shockwave:

our thing (x human reader he doesn’t want to give you a translation chip)

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Thundercracker :

headcanon on how he’d keep s/o human room aka tank

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knockout:

oh scrap (his version, x human reader)

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Starscream:

Who you belong to (x human reader, fluffy? slowburn)

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Other:

they feel cuteness aggression towards us

us giving giving them cuteness aggression

random headcanon

random headcanon about the minicons

Scary dog privileges (various x human reader separately)

You ever think the bots try trends you’d normally do with pet (x human reader drabble)

random headcanon about earthspark

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[thecreaturecodex]

If I Ran the Zoo: Energy Types

"Experimental Overload" © Wizards of the Coast, by Lie Setiawan. Accessed at Art of MtG here

Pathfinder 1e is built off of the chassis of Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition. And early in the game’s life especially, backwards compatibility was a priority. Which means that some bad decisions that D&D 3e made were grandfathered into Pathfinder 1e, and then were revised in PF2e. Energy types are one of them.

The canonical five energy types in PF1e are acid, cold, electricity, fire and sonic. Sonic damage is very rare, as is sonic resistance. There are other effects that deal damage in ways that are similar to energy types, like positive and negative energy and force damage, but are not defended against in the same way.

And then there’s poison. In previous editions of D&D, poison did hit point damage for the most part, unless it just instantly killed your character. There’s a lot of instant-kill poisons in AD&D. So it might have seemed like a good idea to change that, and to showcase the new concept of ability score damage, by making most poisons deal ability score damage. In actual practice, this means that characters have to recalculate a lot of their statistics every time they take damage from poison, slowing down play. And for low level characters without access to lots of lesser restoration spells, a fight with venomous monsters may result in days of downtime to recover. Not so great for the story driven heroic fantasy model that most D&D and PF games default to.

Both Pathfinder 2e and D&D 4e course corrected from this model, and made poison a type of energy damage. In PF2e, flat penalties to particular rolls are inflicted with status conditions like weakened and stupefied. In D&D 5e, penalties to abilities are very rare.

So, in the same spirit as PF2e and D&D 5e, I am going to make some revisions to the energy types. The Codex is going to use these energy types going forward, and I intend to go back over some older monsters in order to apply them retroactively. Mostly in terms of using the terms “mental” and “radiant” on previous monsters, but also changing some monsters that deal acid damage to poison (because that was already a change made in adaptation, so I’m changing it back) or changing the poisons of some monsters, particularly low CR monsters, from dealing ability damage to hit point damage.

Homebrew Rules: Expanded Energy Types There are eleven energy types, split into two categories. The five energy types that are the most common in nature are referred to as the primal energies—acid, cold, electricity, fire, poison. The six energy types that are more common in the Great Beyond and are controlled with magic are the esoteric energy types—force, mental, positive, negative, radiant and sonic. Positive energy typically heals the living and negative energy typically heals the undead.

Spells in PF1e that grant energy resistance, such as resist energy and protection from energy, give their full protection against the primal energy types only. Against most esoteric energy types, they give half of their normal protection. For example, a resist energy spell cast by a 3rd level caster can grant resistance 10 to acid or fire, but only resistance 5 to mental or radiant damage. These spells grant no resistance to force damage. Spells that only protect against specific energy types, such as draconic reservoir, are unchanged.

Dwarves and other playable species that gain a bonus on saving throws vs. poison gain resist 5 to that energy type as well. The breath weapon of green dragons deals poison damage, not acid damage.

[winter-soldier-official]

ABOUT + INFO

“I’m just a crosshair, I’m just a shot away from you. And if you leave here, you leave me broken shattered I lie.” Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand

ABOUT

Hello everyone! Welcome to The Winter Soldier’s Official Blog! This is a roleplay blog. Below, I will outline information and what this is all about, plus a part on myself. I am currently following all marvel roleplay blogs I see!

INFORMATION

This is an unspecified earth, and this blog does not adhere to canon. This is my own AU I’m sinking my fingers into and I will treat it as such.

Bucky Barnes and the Winter Soldier are not the same person. In this AU, they have Dissociative Identity Disorder, and therefore share a body but this blog is primarily focused on Winter himself.

(Mostly) everybody lives and nobody dies. I know, this causes frustrating plot holes, but I don’t have the heart to make Steve go back in time or kill off Tony. Let’s cover this hole with leaves and hope nobody falls in, okay?

He’s here, he’s queer. That’s right! He’s queer! His pronouns are he/it.

Name changes! We love ‘em. Winter goes by Winter and James, and will not respond to Bucky. Don’t call him that, he won’t answer.

RULES

Anybody can interact. I’m not going to go onto your blog and dictate if you can or can’t interact or follow this blog, but please be a civil person.

Don’t say hate speech or slurs. If you can’t formulate a sentence without saying a slur or saying something offensive, this isn’t the blog for you.

Don’t say his code words. I’m sure most blogs won’t mind, but this one does. I will block you, no questions asked, if you send them. They affect me personally (which I will expand on below.)

ADMIN INFO

And now we’re on to us! Our name is Stark, our pronouns are he/xir, and we are a PF CDID System. We are bodily a minor, so please respect that.

We have a Winter Soldier introject, and he had the idea of this blog. He doesn’t like seeing his code words, and I expect you to respect that and listen to the very few rules.

If you know our main blog, no you don’t! Don’t mention it anywhere, please.

Fellow Marvel blogs, please interact! I will welcome you with open arms.

TAGS

#Admin Stark - The admin, Stark! OOC posts.

#Winter Soldier Responds - Responses to asks.

#Winter Soldier Reblogs - His reblogs.

#Winter Soldier Posts - General posts from him.

#Winter Soldier Memories - His memories, usually lore posts.

[autisticsupervillain]

FTF: How Powerful Is?

A prolonged breakdown on a character detailing all their scaling, powers, stats, skill, and abilities to determine exactly how powerful they are.

This Week's Character.....

Oz!

Power:

Oz is, quite shockingly, explicitly one of the most powerful characters across the entire Monster Prom franchise. Oz was one of the Ancient Gods created by The Nothingness and is the physical embodiment of Fear itself. His role, which they rejected to live as an ordinary mortal, was to destroy all of existence, wiping out all life across Monster Prom's multiverse.

This means he scale's as a threat to Monster Prom's entire cosmology, which is absolutely huge. Monster Prom's multiverse contains infinite alternate timelines with several universal realms within each of them. Every timeline can contain the realms of Heaven, Hell, The Ghost Zone, The Human Realm, The Monster Realm, and countless others, all of which require interdimensional portals to be accessed. Even our own universe is secondary to the Monster Realm as the "main realm".

Moreover, each pf these universes can contain countless smaller Metaverses, infinitely smaller digital universes layered within each other that one can travel deeper and deeper into for hours without ever hitting a limit, suggesting potentially infinite dimensional layers within each universe.

As such, Oz is capable of posing a threat to an infinite multiverse, with each individual universe contain numerous realms the size of our own and thousands of, if not potentially infinite, dimensional layers. Keep in mind that digital universes being both actual universes and having different dimensional properties is consistent as a rule within Monster Prom, as shown in the first game where Calculester created a digital universe that he could alter the dimensionality of. This all adds up to Oz being High Hyperversal to two layers into Outerversal in sheer raw power for posing a threat to his entire cosmology, even if just over time.

Speed:

Speed is thankfully a lot simpler. The Ancient Deities explicitly predate Time itself and Oz can easily process the entire history of the universe is seconds.

This is pretty simple immeasurable-infinite speed.

Powers:

This is where shit goes well and truly off the rails.

Magic:

Magic in Monster Prom is an omnipresent energy source the permeates all of existence. Only the Human Realm is beyond its grasp. This is because Magic is created as an after effect of the sheer raw power Oz and other ancient Deities emanate at all times.

As such, any ability that can be archieved with magic if something that Oz should be able to do, as any magic that a character uses is something that simply pours out of him passively.

Keep in mind, magic in this franchise is capable of doing some utterly ridiculous things. The feat where Oz experienced the entirety of time was as a result of a spell cast onto them. People have created interdimensional portals, summoned demons that warped the fabric of reality, transmuted people and objects, sent the moon crashing down to Earth, and even folded time itself, turning several years into just a few seconds.

Eldritch and Abstract Physiology

Scaling to Zoe, Oz power's border on the completely absurd. From the power to eat sanity and concepts to the ability devour souls and reduce people to atoms. Both Oz and Zoe may have stopped living as Gods, but Zoe can still lean into the eldritch horror from time to time.

As for the "reality collapses when it loses an embodiment of an abstract concept" thing.... I've since changed my mind on that. While the True Power thing is still just a rumor, Hope's death causing the end of reality seems majorly contingent on.... well, Hope. It's because without Hope everything gives into despair and everything dies. It's a rule of the Hope concept specifically and runs counter to Oz emboding a different concept entirely. Not that it should matter, as Oz should be able to just create interdimensional portals like anyone else, so removing them from reality still shouldn't matter....

Protagonist Powers

All of this combines into some truly ridiculous Toon Force to turn Oz into a truly unstoppable monster.... when he wants to be. Which is generally never. From stealing a character's relevance to the plot to turning reality off and on again and even willingly becoming one with all of existence.

Thankfully, Oz is held back by a mixture of overwhelming social anxiety, an insatiable horniness for his fellow classmates, and a genuine desire to no longer be the monster they once were. Living as a mortal gave them genuine connections and friendships that they've never gotten before and Oz would likely never be willing to give those relationships up.

But, if you threaten any of their friends, or worse, stand between him and his comedic sexapades, then watch out! Because you're boxing with one of this dating sim's all time heavy weight champions. An eldritch dork with unfathomable power.

Conclusion:

Truth be told, I wasn't as able to go into detail on this one as I would've liked. Tumblr's picture limits really did a lot to hinder me from going in depth on Oz's powers this time around. I have the scans for every single ability I mention here, I just can't post them because ten picture cap.

His standing in the wider cosmology made going into detail on lower ends of the verse meaningless. Who cares if Damien can punch the sun or Calculester can nuke the moon when we're talking eldritch abominations. Depite being by far the most powerful and versatile character to get one of these rundowns to date.... Oz didn't need much explaining.

How Powerful is Oz? Yes. What can he do? Yes (So long as it's funny). Funny how that sorta paradox works out.

[marta-bee]

News of the Day 6/30/25: Universal Injunctions

Paywall free.

It's been a few days. I've done my touch grass thing, my adult beverage thing, and my sleep on it (... ish) thing. It's time to talk about the so-called birthright citizenship case.

Starting at the beginning, and briefly: the Constitution's fourteenth amendment, especially as interpreted through US v. Wong Kim Ark, gives US citizenship to anyone "born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." There's a few exceptions like children of foreign ambassadors or an actual invading foreign army, but basically it means if you're born here you're a citizen, even if your parents weren't here legally. Trump pretended he could change that with an executive order, and both individual immigrant parents and attorneys-general in several states sued to stop him.

They won. Significantly, several of the district courts issued universal injunctions: Trump's executive order was essentially paused until higher-level courts could decide if it was valid, not just for the particular parents involved in those cases, but for any immigrant parent anywhere in the country. Trump handled that with all the dignity, grace and nuance we've come to expect from him. But he also got SCOTUS to intervene. They weren't considering birthright citizenship per se but just if universal injunctions were kosher. And that would be a big fat Nyet.

Meaning if you were born here after February 19, your parents weren't permanent, legal residents, and you weren't specifically part of those lawsuits, Trump's EO will still apply to you. But it's more than that. Since the case wasn't about birthright citizenship but all universal injunctions, every time a federal judge made a general ruling that applied to lots of people not part of the lawsuit, the way I read it those decisions are now invalid, too. Federal probationary employees fired by DOGE? The Trump admin blocking funds from being distributed to Headstarts and Medicaid providers across the country? Alleged Tren de Aragua members at risk of being sent off to CECOT without due process? Yeah, we're talking about all those people, too.

The legal argument is usually that district judges should only be deciding for he people in the lawsuit before then. Lots of legal commentators and politicos have pointed out that would be anarchy and totally clog up the courts, and the usual solution offered is class action suits. (PF) In theory you could bring a lawsuit on behalf of lots of similar-enough people at once and have it apply to all of them. The problem is the courts have been making it harder and harder to certify members of a class (basically, add people to the group covered by a certain decision), and the CASA decision itself warns against leaning into being too quick to allow class action lawsuits as the new default ways of handling these cases covering large groups of people.

To be clear, I'm not a lawyer, but I've been pretty thoroughly trained in clear, logical thought. (That's the philosophy degree for you.) I also have my problems with universal injunctions, like when conservatives brought them in famously conservative courts to fight DACA policies. (PF) But if the concern is that you can't have a single trial court judge deciding on people not part of their specific case, I don't see how class action suits are any better than universal injunctions. The only way around that concern seem to be to draw the class so narrowly it excludes too many people. And with an executive like Trump who's so clearly willing to push the legal envelope, we need a mechanism that accounts for the fact that not everyone has easy access to the legal process. Doubly so since we're dealing with undocumented immigrants. Would you want to walk into court and sue for your child's citizenship if it meant telling a judge you lacked legal status, these days? Or even risking your visa or green card by challenging Trump in court?

I wouldn't mind doing away with universal injunctions if there was another good tool to deal with universal issues. Vague nods to class action cases at the same time you warn against making them the new default doesn't cut it, for me. And not tackling how these situations should be litigated, in the current moment, is both stupid and dangerous.

Ah, well. As the Professor said: "Go back? [...] No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter."

More Articles on Birthright Citizenship and Nationwide Injunctions

The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Gets History Achingly Wrong (Paywall Free)

The fight for birthright citizenship started with these Black Americans (PF)

What is birthright citizenship and what happens after the Supreme Court ruling?

Abstruse yet monumental: the scope and impact of the US supreme court’s birthright citizenship ruling

Federal judge asks DOJ to clarify how birthright citizenship order will be implemented (PF)

The Bulwark: Ignoring Substance, SCOTUS Permits Lawlessness (PF)

Reason.com: A Bad Decision on Nationwide Injunctions (PF)

Trump sees policy opening after birthright citizenship ruling (PF)

Supreme Court's birthright citizenship decision exposes a huge flaw in Roberts' court (PF)

On Birthright Citizenship, the Supreme Court Gives Trump a Blunt Tool to Hammer Judges (PF)

Nationwide injunctions: 'The Supreme Court's decision weakens the few checks and balances capable of restraining Trump' (PF)

Barron Trump was trending because of birthright citizenship. Here’s what to know (PF)

More optimistically: The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision isn’t as devastating as you think (PF)

[the-grimm-doctor]

Welcome everyone! My name is Dr. Bones Grimm, but you all may refer to me as Dr. Grimm. I’m the Head of Cryptozoology in the ESC and I figured it would be a lovely idea to create a blog regarding what is probably the MOST unhinged (yet least mentally damaging) website out there! Here I will be showing off my experiments, recording down stuff, and maybe even answering questions! After all, my askbox IS open! Under the cut will go each of my experiments as they’re posted and the scientific log collection :)

Experiments:

001 - Emotion Earrings

Log Book

Hey all, mod here. Figured I’d make an ask blog for the OC I made for the Evil Science Center. Xey go by any pronouns but prefer masculine ones or ones related to being evil. Evil’s more of a cartoon villain than a real villain ngl. If you’re referring to me you can either call me Reboot or Mod. Main blog is @rebootgrimm . For those from the ESC, the watermark I use here is my own, but I made a specific one for the ESC in order to stay in character. Now for some rules

Rules:

You’re allowed to flirt with this OC, but no NSFW. Character may be an adult, but mod is a minor

Please keep this PG-13 (minus any NSFW. I can’t remember if PF-13 has that I haven’t watched TV or movies in a while)

Rules are subject to update / change

Tag System

#Picture Time! - Drawings

#Log Book - Any logs / updates about experiments.

#Ask The Doctor - Dr. Grimm responding to asks

#Mod Speaks - I speak

Any experiment is tagged by: [experiment number] - [experiment name]. These can be found in the experiments section of the pinned post (in character section)

#The Doctor Rambles - Miscellaneous posts

#Dr. Blithe… takeover? - Dr. Blithe handling the blog

#Lore Time - Anything related to Dr. Grimm’s (and therefore Dr. Blithe’s) lore

#RolePlays - I think this explains itself

#RolePlays of the Long Variety - For when roleplays start to get long

Credits:

Credits for the header thing and purple laser go to @/strangergraphics

Credits for the Mad Scientist thing and beaker go to @/e-resources

Credits for the Evil Science Center blinkie goes to @/brightshaw-shipper

[enniewritesathing]

✨New✨ Pinned Post

Hi, hello, I'm Ennie. (👋) I make poses for guys and I'm also an off/on storyteller. It's a hodge-podge sort of blog and this is post is as close as it being organized as well as being an intro post.

ℹ️ Stuff ℹ️

Poses (some 18+ snuck in there)

ALL Poses (incl. earlier pose sets that were nuked for no reason!) -- [SFS] // [MF]

Renders/Edits

WCIF

WIPs

OC Things (catch-all tag for anything related to John and/or Brian)

🌶️PF (18+)🌶️

✒️On Going/In-Progress Stories✒️

✨memory management✨ || (Desktop) // (Mobile) ‼️You will have to read The Werewolf Stories first for maximum understanding/context.‼️

📖Stories (Completed)📖

Down With The Sickness || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

Bare Knuckle || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

Something About Us || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

Survive! || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

Study Study Study! || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

No Place Like Home || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

The Proposal || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

catharsis || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

🐺The Werewolf Stories (Completed)🐺

The Incident* || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

The Werewolf* || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

apple (🍎) || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

Forgiven || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

countryside || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

checking in || (Desktop) // (Mobile)

*Note: You can either start with The Incident first and then The Werewolf or The Werewolf and then The Incident.

❓Drabbles/One Shots/Misc❓

(Desktop) // (Mobile)

🚨Notes!🚨

This is an 18+ blog, so naturally there can be adult things in here. I tag accordingly with common CWs. If there's an Amount of them, I make a list/preface. The stories that have more than 3: catharsis, The Incident, The Werewolf (I think), and memory management .

I have 3 personal tags that I use:

Rated P for Peach – basic nudity, nothing explicit. Usually just hanging around doing nothin’ and it’s usually someone’s butt.

Rated N for Naughty – suggestive/a little racy. Something that can (but doesn’t always) lead to spice. Titillating.

Rated S for Spice – (leans in close to microphone) they're fucking on the front porch. sorry, in-joke

🤖 ANDROID USERS🤖

(as of 4/12) okay so google play store changed the rules on tumblr app and you may see posts that are like 98% incorrectly labeled as mature. I don't use those labels except posts that absolute warrant it on top of tagging it. Which is honestly 12 posts. SO! if you wanna see my posts unhindered while if/when they fix this shit, you can do the following:

on mobile: Account Settings > Content You See > toggle on the mature switch. if you like, you can still blur the posts. you can also use tumblr on the web browser of your choice; you wont need to go do all of that. I hear its less glitchy. Or directly check my blog in the web browser.

if you have an iphone or ipad, or if you use tumblr on desktop -- yall are gucci and dont need to do anything.

[thydungeongal]

Coming up on the end to a very long (5+ years) 5e campaign where everything that gets brought up as a criticism of the system has indeed happened (We don't do half the rules correctly, we homebrewed so much because we liked it our way etc etc) and we're going to swap to PF 2 and I'm appresenhively looking forward to it. (PF 2 fans are the FF 14 fans of ttrpg systems.)

My most beloved system was 4e because it felt like it got the worst part of previous and later dnd editions out of the way with it's often mocked, and to me, simplified combat system that was so much fun to engage with and meant you had more focus on how your characters acted throughout it all.

Dunno why I sent this ask? I'm not rattling my dnd spoon at you I just wanted to talk about an upcoming change away from dnd? Anyways I hope your day is pleasant! Please keep sharing knowledge of other systems, I enjoy learning about alternatives

Hey no problem, it's fun to get asks like this! :) I also intend to move on to greener pastures once the 5e campaigns I'm currently in are over. Personally for me it's going to be running some older editions and games besides D&D. Sadly there are way too many games for me to ever play but I can always keep collecting books. Right?

[dailyanarchistposts]

Decolonization

In order to understand this seeming contradiction, it is necessary to examine both the course of Zimbabwe’s decolonization process and of its post-Independence land reform programme — as well as the manner in which these strands have intersected, in turn, with growing pressures from the working class — as crucial factors that have created the current impasse in the country.

Like most other African countries Zimbabwe moved to independence in 1980 via a negotiated settlement. In this case, the settlement that was reached — the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979, embodied in the Lancaster House Constitution (LHC) — ended the liberation war, or Chimurenga, but set in place draconian restrictions on land redistribution. The key compromise made in the settlement, and agreed to by all parties involved in the negotiations brokered by Britain — including Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Joshua Nkomo’s Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) — was the entrenchment of private property rights. The LHC also included the provision that government could not expropriate land without compensation and that the distribution of land was to take place on the basis of a “willing seller — willing buyer” approach. It . was understood that Britain would help finance compensation.

The policy failed dramatically to solve the land question, lending itself to cosmetic changes rather than to any form of genuine agrarian transformation. By the early 1930s, land had been divided into that governed by communal tenure in “native reserves” (22.4% of the land), “native purchase areas” for a. black yeomanry (7.1%), and privately owned commercial farms in areas reserved for white ownership (50.8%). Between 1982 and 1985, the Zimbabwe government aimed to re-settle 162,000 families on 9 million hectares (ha) of land. But by 1990 the government had only resettled 51,000 families on 3 million ha of land.

Moreover, resettlement typically involved marginal lands, these being the more readily available on the market; better lands often went to wealthy, well-connected Africans, part of the black bourgeoisie that emerged around the State and the ruling party. Land ownership also remained highly gendered, with wives constituting less than 2% of titleholders in resettlement areas at the end of the 1990s. At the same time, the 4,500, mainly white, commercial farmers represented by the CFU continued to hold 11 million ha, representing close to 70% of arable land, whilst Africans owned around 16 million ha.

This situation proved increasingly unsustainable in the 1990s. High unemployment closed an outlet for pressure on land: it is estimated that less than 22,000 school-leavers are able to enter waged employment each year. Unemployment may be as high as 40% today. And a neo-liberal Structural Adjustment Programme implemented with vigour by the government (now ruled by ZAND-Patriotic Front [ZANU-PF], a merger of ZANU and ZAPU) from the start of the 1990s worsened the situation by fostering deindustrialization and mass public sector layoffs. Meanwhile, the former combatants from the liberation war armies of ZANU and ZAPU — the 50,000 war veterans — also came into conflict with government from the mid-1990s.

[rosetheocto]

After the doors finally opened up, the group quickly dashed into the first room they could register. The moment was chilling after their sudden brush with death, everyone taking a moment to catch their breaths.

“Okay.” Blue was the first to speak up. “I’ve seen a lot of things happen in this game, and this is by far the most messed up.” The bean took a quick look outside the Laboratory’s doorway, double checking that those faceless, creepy, glitchy ‘ghosts’ didn’t follow them in there. “You’re right. This definitely isn’t a dream… so how the hell are we gonna get out of this mess?”

we were really robbed of more Blue in the NoVisor Arc. like my guy has been playing this game since 2018, which means he’s been around during the same time Aiden was first kidnapped!! I’m a bit hyperfixated on the rewrite of the NoVisor Arc (and AUL in general) I’m doing with a friend rn, so if I remember to post more of that I will! For now though more context and other scattered stuff about the lore for AULR will be under the cut!! :3

the beginning of Return is kinda identical, but Blue replaces Ria. Player, Veteran, and Noob try to warn them about Things Being Kinda Weird and that they are absolutely trapped inside the game but they both call bs (assuming they’re like dreaming or something) until a group of glitched out ghost things (with no visor cuz duh) chase after them all. PF also Coincidentally™️ shows up not too long before the ghosts start attacking and chasing them! how strange…

ANYWAY now they’re hiding out from those things and are using the stupid cleanup thing in MIRA to give them a moment to catch their breath, buy some time, and think of a game plan. The near death experience convinced Mr. Egg and especially Blue that maybe there is way more to this than they both initially thought.

PF’s a lil nervous cuz he believes Blue is catching onto him knowing more about everyone getting transported into the game than he lets on (AND HES RIGHT), esp cuz Blue has mentioned having multiple encounters with strange cultist beans over the years of playing Among Us. (Spoilers Blue does find out about PF later in the episode, but definitely dies like right after :(()

The way I see NV’s plan is somewhat similar but also different. We didn’t really know what was going on exactly in canon, but for this one the best way I can describe it is like the plot of Side Order. The NV Cult is forcibly bringing people into a virtual world in which they would be able to rule with The Power Of Hacking.

as for why the world they picked is a hacked Among Us game? Well it’s simple! it’s super buggy, and there’s only three developers (at the time this takes place that is), so anything they do will take forever to fix and update on their end. And the game being practically a wasteland to the sudden boom in popularity was perfect for bringing unsuspecting people in.

Innersloth knew something was wrong right away all those years ago, but they just couldn’t keep up with this group of hackers. The eventual solution they came up with to all the shenanigans from the cult (and others when it started getting popular) led to the creation of the Hacker’s Lobby, run by 2 (technically 3 if you count Clogsworth) Admins. This new lobby worked! …for the most part. As new cult members infiltrate the game, there’s bound to be some people Innersloth and the Admins missed…

BUT THATS ALL SUBJECT TO CHANGE and there’s a lot of stuff I definitely missed but yea!! AULR my beloved :]

[ardent-heretic]

We have a rule in this house. Everyone gets to pick what they want for dinner and what kind of cake/pie for their birthday as long as it is less than an hour drive from home. Spawnette’s Birthday is coming up soon. We ask what she might want?

She says she wants that really fancy place but is afraid it may cost too much. I tell her money isn’t a restriction.

So she meekly asks,”Can we eat at the place with the golden statues out front?”

I’m stumped. She says it is near Barnes and Noble.

I laugh and say that is PF Chang’s it isn’t fancy at all.

“But they have golden horses.”

I tell her it is paint.

“Ohh”

I think I just ruined the magic for her lol.

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Writing this down before I forget it:

Just imagine if we could take Ketheric with us after the battle in moonrise towers. Just. Try to imagine, ok?

This old man has been completely corrupted by desperation and loneliness that he gave his body, soul and mind to the two most evil gods of faerun, got completely twisted by them even mentally and committed a few of the most atrocious things faerun has ever seen. He doomed a land, families and their children, all to have back what he had lost. But then he realises it was not worth it.

Isobel is not with him. Melodia would never love the man he is now, and he knows it.

If you tell him on top of the towers before the battle that melodia wouldn’t want this he surrenders. I repeat: this man SURRENDERS. I hate the fact that then he goes on with the “it’s too late” path, but honestly my bard has the same vibes of mob from mob psycho 100, so old man get the fuck up, you’re part of this fucked family now.

He surrenders, gives everything up, and he lives a mortal life wanting to put an end to the chosens with you. Him and Minthara become friends, she cherishes his company as an amazing general, he appreciates her stubbornness and her strength of mind. He manages to make her change her mind about taking the absolute’s power saying “taking the place as the absolute would only drain you: not only you would have no one to rule, but soulless beings that would never comprehend your mind, but you too would become one of them one day, it’s inevitable, no matter how much power you’d have. But most importantly… you’d be alone. Alone with no menzoberazzan waiting for you, no home, and no general like me to sustain you, no one that would fight at your side and drink with you in the evening until you’re completely drunk. We are even stronger than these monsters, imagine ruling as us. Being just us. No power, but the power of our word, no loneliness anymore, but the joy pf having a place, your place, Minthara. You’re strong enough to do it without my help, or anyone’s actually, why would you want to cancel the wonderful being you are?”.

He rebecomes a father to Isobel, and you see him gaining the trust of Aylin even.

Even Ayilin sees a man that is changing, now more than ever.

At the end him, Aylin and Isobel go back to moonrise, to become again worshippers of selune, but no rulers, he will just sit out of his new little house, on a wooden chair, maybe smoking, reading, until one day he will pass away in peace.

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I need everyone to understand. D&D 5e is not a simple game, but it's not complex game either. It's a wierd creature in between that dosn't really deliver on either one. It's not a rules light fluff first kind of game, but it's not a wargame where you speak in character either.

I love d&d 3.5e, pf 1e, lancer and many other complex game for where you can say "I'm buying tiny cute little backpack for my cat because I need 3 extra pounds of carrying copasity" and it makes complate sense.

I love DW, CBR+PNK, TSL and many others simple games where half of game depends on how you describe your abilities. Games that ask you to describe where your magic comes from.

I hate d&d 5e, it is most popular TTRPG, while failing to not being good at either type of play. It's an awkward thing in the middle. It lack the depth of rules to create those intrasting decisions and combinations. However, the few rules it has do things in a very specific thing. From what I see of d&d 5e players, the simple game route is what most people want. However, that would take an education change to achieve and WotC had no such plans

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Race Conversion - Firbolg (5e to PF1e)

I had actually completely forgotten about this conversion, which I had kind of done on a whim because of an inquiry asking how one would do this. My reasoning was accepted, and the person presented it to their GM. Don't know how it went over, or if it was accepted, but the race wasn't broken by any means. Honestly, given how inexpensive it is, I'd have accepted it for my own home games quite easily.

That being said, it took some finagling and borrowing from 3.5 to get my version of the build to work, but I was quite happy with what I came up with.

Art from the Forgotten Realms Wiki, using the 5e and 3.5e pictures.

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Now, let's talk stats.

Using the rules from the Pathfinder Race Guide, the best way to go about it is do a custom build. There is no base firbolg that's similar to 5e for PF1e.

Firbolg -Racial Traits- Ability Score Modifiers (Flexible): Str +2, Wis +2 (2 RP) Type: Humanoid (giant) (0 RP) Size: Medium (0 RP) Speed: 30 ft. land speed (0 RP) Spell-like Ability, Lesser: Firbolg Magic--detect magic, disguise self; (1/day each) (2 RP) Spell-like Ability, Lesser: Speech of Beast and Leaf--speak with animals, speak with plants (1/day each) (3 RP) Other: Hidden Step--Once per day, as a bonus action, you can cast invisibility, but it's duration is 1 round. (2 RP) Other: Powerful Build--The physical stature of firbolgs lets them function in many ways as if they were one size category larger. Whenever a firbolg is subject to a size modifier or special size modifier for a Combat Maneuver Bonus or Combat Maneuver Defense (such as during grapple checks, bull rush attempts, and trip attempts), the firbolg is treated as one size larger if doing so is advantageous to him. A firbolg is also considered to be one size larger when determining whether a creature’s special attacks based on size (such as grab or swallow whole) can affect him. A firbolg can use weapons designed for a creature one size larger without penalty. However, his space and reach remain those of a creature of his actual size. The benefits of this racial trait stack with the effects of powers, abilities, and spells that change the subject’s size category. (3 RP)

Total 12 RP

Hidden Step is difficult because there's no PF equivalent to the quick invisibility. In 3.5, there was a variant spell called Swift Invisibility which was a bard 2 spell (revised to bard 1 in Spell Compendium), making it equivalent to 2 RP, which feels fitting but doesn't at the same time, as it only lasts until the start of your turn or when you attack. Even thought it changed for bard, the other classes in Spell Compendium stayed at level 2 (with the exception of the Initiate of Baravar Cloakshadow feat which gives it as a 1st level spell). If you want to go with the Spell Compendium bard 1, that's perfectly reasonable.

There's no real carrying capacity increaser ability in Pathfinder 1e, so instead it'd be better to borrow from other examples and say, "treat your Strength score as 2 higher for the purpose of determining your carrying capacity". Traits like Muscle of the Society or Efficient Packer are worded like this. Probably just worth 1 RP as there are traits that give you this ability, and they're equivalent to half a feat, and specific named feats are only 2 RP. That said, 3.5e and Pathfinder psionics have the half-giants, which has the Powerful Build race feature. Looking over multiple forums, it's argued that it should be 7 or more RP because it's "like Large, but without the drawbacks", while others say it's only worth 2-3 RP because you don't get the increased Str score which gives you a bonus to damage and other benefits. I went with the safe route of 3 RP since a bonus +2 Str is 4 RP.

Speech of Beast and Leaf is another difficult one. You could just have it be "speak with animals 1/day 1 RP, speak with plants 1/day 3 RP", and call it a day, but because the firbolg only communicates, and there's no real time back and forth conversation, reducing this to 2 RP should suffice. As for the "influence" aspect, if you want to add that, you could make it be a +1 or +2 bonus to Diplomacy or Handle Animal. Could also make it so that a firbolg PC can get the spells at-will with a racial feat, not unlike the Race feats we see for drowand other races. Maybe even a feat to give firbolgs Wild Empathy as a druid, and if you take a class that gives Wild Empathy, you gain +2 to your checks. PF1e has a fair number of race feats so it's not out of the realm of possibility. That said, Pathfinder likes to make things pretty clean on how things function, so I went with just giving them the spells. It limits the race somewhat because you can't do it multiple times a day, but still.

Theoretically, a firbolg is around 12 RP, which isn't bad compared to most of the playable races players enjoy. Humans are 9 RP and dwarves are 11 RP. Elves, gnomes, half-elves, and goblins are all 10 RP, while tieflings and common drow are 13 RP.