#Token Card

[lilystrations]

Your honor, I love them.

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Minion Token by Dave Kendall

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For part of an anniversary gift to my SO this year (and just in time for spooky szn) I designed some Magic the Gathering zombie token cards 🧟‍♂️ I had so much fun making em and I'd love to do more of these. I'll probably have a few extras in the shop/at cons, stay tuned Patreon | Shop

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And here is the full major arcana tarot deck for the Eepy Token <3

Took me a bit to find the right colors, but settled on a combo of red monochrome with the OG TMBTE album colors! Hope y’all like it, please tell me what y’all think before I toss these bad boys to THE eepies™️.

Next gonna do a little backing and the box, so stay tuned for that :))

[donutdrawsthings]

woke up and realised I could make my own fake Pokémon card illustration with my OCs. This is team Funny Bone!

here it is in the pokémon card format!

[egophiliac]

I have a question about the jp server pickups, since I really want knight Sebek, but I’m trying to save gems for bloom malleus + the 3rd tsum event that’s gonna show up sooner or later. Iirc, after knight Sebek, the next story update’s pickup had all of the previous story cards (ie cerberus Ortho, general Lilia, and knight Sebek). Is this true, and if it is, did it include a token system like the dorm pickups where you can just do 100 pulls and then buy the specific card you want directly? Because if that is how it works, then I can wait until then and be sure I won’t have to go to 200 for him.

we did indeed get a second chance at those three when 7-7 came out! I'm pretty sure there was not a token system -- though admittedly I don't 100% remember, sorry! 🙇 I took a quick search through some past posts/videos from people who tend to include the gacha and news stuff, but I didn't see any mention of it, so I'm inclined to think there really wasn't one. :( they were all separate pickups with their own pull counts rather than a combined one, if that info helps at all.

speaking as a strict f2p who hoards keys/gems like the lovechild of a dragon and a magpie, given the choice between saving for a story card and a birthday card, I'd go for story -- it does require a lot of patience, but there are way more opportunities to get past birthday cards, both from the anniversary events and the rerun pickups! tsums is a bit harder to say anything on because Eng doesn't follow the same event schedule, but it's a longish event and those pickups let you have a free 10-roll, so I think they're also a bit easier to save up for.

(ALSO speaking of free rolls, starting with the fifth round of birthdays -- the kutsurogi my room ones -- the birthday boy/union jacket/bloom cards have had a separate pickup that you can get two free 10-pulls at by doing missions! I got a bloom Jade from it a couple weeks ago. :D meanwhile general Lilia is the only story card I've ever managed to pull, so...I'm probably kinda biased. whoops.)

[wioryz]

for @starcunts, hope you enjoy!

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requests are open!

[bucksboobs]

If I’m being very real when people try to pull out Eddie’s latinidad as a gotcha, it feels very much like a bunch of white people going “oh yeah? Well we have a Coloured!!!” Like that’s great you have a Mexican friend Carol but could you try to be less homophobic now?

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the tarot 🖤⛓️

but not final, maybe fixing something later... 👀

[healthylevelsofmagicthegathering]

I don't make custom Magic cards very often, but I got inspired to make one based on my character for my Ravnica rp sideblog @lotleth-spore-farmer.

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my silly little cat man has finally arrived im so happy <3

by the wonderful @fadetodvst thank you so much !

[the-himawari]

A3! Chigasaki Itaru - Translation [SR] Bright Star of Blooming (1/2)

*Please read disclaimer on blog; default name set as Izumi

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Rento: Alright dudes, I’mma skedaddle now. I guarantee you the sound’s gonna pop at today’s screening!

Itaru: Great. Thanks for your help today.

*door closes*

Itaru: Now then, we still have some time. Let’s watch the video that was just posted.

Sakuya: …That video has an impressive amount of views! Are those people popular?

Citron: They’re V-talent brothers who have been all the rage recently!

Itaru: They’re real brothers, apparently.

Sakuya: I see. That’s why they get along so well! They’re kind of like Nero and Blanc from “SSR Family”.

*knock, knock*

*door opens*

Izumi: Hey, guys. Akashi-kun popped in to say hello.

Akashi: Sorry for the intrusion… and sorry I’m late.

Izumi: Ah, they’re all watching a video together!

Akashi: All of you like those V-talents too?

Itaru: You know it. I’m currently hooked and I watch them all the time.

Citron: Me too!

Sakuya: I found out about them just now after they told me!

Izumi: This is the first time I’ve seen them. Are you also a fan of them, Akashi-kun?

Akashi: Yes. I watch them a lot these days… They’re great. They’re pro at games and they always have fun stories to tell.

Citron: Hey, Akashi! We have similar tastes in V-talents!

Itaru: I guess my taste is pretty close to theirs too.

*knock, knock*

*door opens*

Manager: Sorry to interrupt! Everyone, it’s almost showtime.

Izumi: Manager. You came to call us over?

Manager: Yep. I figured it’d be fine since you’re here, but I still wanted to make sure.

Itaru: It’s already time? Time sure flies when you’re doom scrolling.

Sakuya: Let’s head to the stage wings!

Citron: We can discuss about V-talents again later!

Akashi: B-Before you go… I like “SSR Family” a lot… so I’m eagerly awaiting to hear the behind-the-scenes stories from the show. Today… I'll make all of you shine with colours that suit you.

Itaru: TY.

Citron: Please do~!

-pause-

Itaru: So, remember how there was a scene where the family unit wasn’t doing so hot since Sakuya’s Blanc and Masumi’s Nero were showing us attitude… It actually took us a little while 'til we could create that tense atmosphere.

Citron: Yes, that’s right~. That brings back memories!

Sakuya: I’m sorry. That was all my fault… Masumi-kun got it right off the bat, but I was struggling with it…

Citron: There is no need to apologize! Masumi was just being himself!

Sakuya: Don’t worry about it. It wasn’t just on you. Plus, Masumi’s just good at that kinda stuff. Although, I’ll say it was unusual for Sakuya to be having such a hard time.

Citron: Did something happen back then, Sakuya?

Sakuya: Honestly, I don't really know how to explain it… But back then, Itaru-san took us out on a drive before rehearsal to get food, didn’t he?

Citron: Oh, yes! That reminds me, Itaru, Sakuya, Masumi and I went out together!

Itaru: Right. I wanted to try acting like a father, so I invited the members of the family unit out.

Sakuya: I had so much fun that day that I guess I had a hard time showing an attitude against Itaru-san and Citron-san.

Citron: I know how you feel! I had a lot of fun too~!

Itaru: If you enjoyed it that much, then as your father who took you, I’m glad.

Guest A: What did you eat?

Sakuya: We had sushi!

Guest B: Sounds awesome~!

Itaru: Our mom, I mean Citron wanted to eat that.

Citron: At that moment, I was craving to have sushi no matter what! The sweet shrimp roll was very tasty!

Itaru: My wallet might’ve become a desolate wasteland, but I’m glad I got to see my family smile. …Hold on. That phrase sounded fatherly, didn't it?

Sakuya: You sounded just like a father!

Citron: Itaru, you’ve gotten the hang up this father thing~!

Itaru: Hang of, right?

Citron: That’s it! I am dying to go to that sushi restaurant again~.

Sakuya: I’d love to go too…!

Itaru: I hear you loud and clear. Let’s all go together as Spring troupe next time.

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Cat Warrior Token by Ben Wootten

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Tamer Goods Set Diaboromon [PB16] Playmat by Spareribs

Armageddemon BT5-085 and Diaboromon Ace P-114 Alternative Arts by Spareribs from PB-16 Tamer Goods Set Diaboromon

Diaboromon Token by sasasi from the PB-16 Tamer Goods Set Diaboromon

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Tease of the first 8 cards 👀

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I know DnD is not about realism but how accurate is having, say, your heavy armor wearing paladin have 10 dex or even negative dex? Where medieval knights built like The Rock or like The mountain? I’ve seen youtubers saying that you needed a lot of strength to be able to fight like a knight so women and smaller people couldn’t do it.

I think I know which YouTuber you're talking about, and you can pretty safely ignore them. Their personal misogyny takes priority over their (alleged) expertise when they're forming their arguments.

There's two logistical problems with the idea that you need someone like Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson to make up the bulk of your elite forces. The first problem is that they need to consume a frightening amount of food. This isn't as much of a problem in the modern era, when we have the capacity for truly staggering amounts of agricultural production. But, in a medieval society, with serfs responsible for most of the agriculture, the prospect of feeding each of your elite troops 10,000 calories a day would economically destroy most kingdoms. (And, yes, that is what Björnsson reports to consume on a daily basis. Other estimates place his dietary intake somewhere between 3600 and 8000.) And, to be clear, that is an absolutely absurd amount of food. But, if you want to build that kind of mass, you need a lot of energy, which means, a lot of food.

The second logistical problem is, there's only one of him. Okay, that's not literally true, The Mountain was portrayed by three separate actors, Conan Stevens, a professional wrestler, and Ian Whyte, a stunt actor who had previous appeared as a White Walker in the first season. But, Hafthor Bjornsson took over the role in the fourth season, and is probably who you're thinking of when you name drop the character.

Bjornsson is a member of the 2000 pound club, which include power lifters who can lift over 2000lbs combined between bench press, dead lift, and squats. Not many people ever get that far, and Bjornsson is one of the few individuals who can get into the 1000 pound club from a single lift.

Here's a fun name to know, Becca Swanson is also in the 2000 pound club. She credibly claims that she is the first woman to have achieved that, and I'm not sure if there are any other women in the 2000lb club, but it is achievable.

Now, here's the fun thing about all of this, because you're asking about D&D, and D&D players need to know exactly how much their character can lift. The calculation is (STR*30)lbs. (In the Player's handbook p174.) This also means if you have a real person, and you know how much they can lift in the real world, you can reverse engineer what their strength score would be in D&D.

It's 37.

If you wanted to convert Hafthor Bjornsson into D&D, his strength score would be 37.

Dude can fucking arm wrestle the Terrasque and easily win.

Putting that in perspective, it's a little ludicrous to say that if you want a viable martial character (fighters, paladins, barbarians, etc.), they need a Strength score of 37, when it's not normally possible for player characters to exceed 20 base strength. (If you're wondering, Becca would work out to have ~29 Strength. So, on par with most ancient dragons, and a few gods.)

So, there you have a man and woman who are both superhumanly strong according to D&D.

D&D and math have always had issues like this, and it pops up in a few different places here.

The basic concept that your ability to hit, and the amount of damage you deal is based on strength comes from a very, “schoolyard,” understanding of violence. It's okay to step back and abstract it out, where “strength,” is some amalgam of melee combat aptitude in addition to actual strength, but the idea that being stronger means you can hit harder with a sword or dagger doesn't make a lot of sense. It doesn't even make much sense with axes and maces (the force applied has more to do with the mass and velocity of the weapon, rather than the strength of its wielder.)

A paladin with negative DEX is dead. I don't mean that figuratively, and I do understand what you meant to say, but this rule is a little obscure in 5e. If any of a character's physical attributes (STR, DEX, CON) are reduced to zero, the character immediately dies. Ability draining effects used to be far more common, so the rule existed by itself, though, now it mostly shows up when you're looking at a monster with a physical ability draining attack.

What you probably meant was a negative DEX modifier, meaning your paladin is unusually clumsy. Outside the context of D&D, that would be an incredibly bad thing for a front line combatant. In the specific context of D&D, if they're in heavy armor, it doesn't really matter, if they're in medium, then it reverts to being “a bad thing. Specifically, the rules is that light and medium armor add your DEX modifier to your armor class. Medium armor caps this at +2, but it can go negative with either armor type. However, heavy armor in 5e ignores your DEX modifier entirely.

Now, here's the thing about D&D, its concept of armor is spectacularly weird. Unlike RPGs where armor reduces damage taken, either by subtracting a fixed amount from incoming damage or by reducing damage via a percentage, D&D's system is that your armor class grants you a chance to avoid being hit at all. (5% chance per point of AC, if you're wondering.) Narratively, this is often framed as taking a hit, but your armor turned the blade or something similar. This is because sometimes the enemy attack straight up misses, and that's (usually) determined by your dexterity. This is important, because the game is trying to balance two different power fantasies against each other.

On one side you have the players who want to roll in heavy plate armor, and soak all the hits, and on the other you have players who want to go with light armor, and dodge around enemy attacks. Realistically, that's not an option, but D&D permits it, and again, that's fine. The fantasy of lightly armored fighters makes a lot of sense. I'd even go so far as to say that the barbarian's unarmed defense bonus (where they add CON modifier to their DEX modifier while unarmored) is a really good change in 5e even if it does make no sense objectively. It contributes to the fantasy of this brutal fighter who runs around without armor slapping people silly with their weapons, and shrugging off damage because they're too stubborn to die. In (nearly all cases) the ability to deliver the player fantasy of a class is more important than a strict adherence to reality, and that's fine, that's the point, but the realism of D&D doesn't translate off the page in any meaningful way.

If you wanted a more, “realistic,” (and, yeah, that's incredibly loaded in this context), approach to armor for D&D, I'd say gate access based on your Constitution (or Constitution modifier). Sort of like how your equip load in Dark Souls is based on your Endurance attribute. Give armor and weapons a burden value, and if the combined burden on a character exceeds their CON, the character risks taking levels of Fatigue when they're fighting in heavier gear than they're conditioned to deal with. Maybe add a Conditioning feat or skill if you want to add some other attribute modifiers to the mix should you end up with your heavy armor fighters being underequipped. (Then again, I am one of those psychopaths who really liked the D20 Star Wars' vitality system.) So, ultimately, tinker with the balance until you find something you, and the people at your table, are happy with. Roleplayers who have more meaningful build choices tend to be happier, so long as they don't feel like they're being punished for having a character fantasy.

One of the more amusing descriptions I've read of medieval knights is that they were built like methheads. I can't fully vouch for that, because I'm not an expert on the physical appearance of medieval knights, but it's certainly credible. These guys were eating pretty well for the era, and engaged in a lot of physical activity. Depending on what they were doing, that could easily result in some fairly bulky guys, but it could also result in some wiry looking guys who hide their muscles. Just, knowing what I do about the human body, the answer was probably both, depending on their metabolism and diet. But the image of Sir Methhead, Knight of the Realm, and his implausibly clean teeth, still amuses me.

It's worth remembering that a lot of the times I've seen someone say, “they were built like athletes,” they'll drop an image of a bodybuilder. No. That's not what you would get. Bodybuilding is designed to create its own physique, one that doesn't occur unless you're abusing your body in some very specific (and unhealthy) ways. It's probably better to think of someone like a high-school football player. Bulky, but without the carved physiques of a Boris Vallejo painting. (If you don't know who that is, look up his art. It is a bit dated, but it's gorgeous.)

Alternately, if you do want your characters to look like those paintings, it is your fantasy, have fun.

-Starke

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