#d20 Ava

[th3b4dk1dzz]

I've seen a lot of admiration for the extravagant makeup for Rashawn and Jasper, but none for the beautiful subtlety in Erika's makeup.

The detail of the scar coupled with the dry and cracked lips gives a visceral intreague into Ava's backstory. It's not the most flashy look but I love its simplicity.

[agueforts]

— I look deep into Tula's eyes, and I go, "That's for not telling me you were dead."

[gammawilson]

Ok last episode was good for a lot of reasons but most of it was Lukas.

Enjoy this quick dirty sketch.

[pucaantaibhse]

God… Tula finally coming to her mother needing support and only getting blame, not even out of malice but because of Ava’s own bad past experiences leaving her inclined to do that… Erika and Brennan really are coming for the girls with mommy issues, huh.

(Not to mention Tula snapping at Lila earlier when she expressed her anger about her dad…but then apologising to her…having some big feelings about cycles I can’t quite put into words properly.)

[thisisnotthenerd]

just doing the intrepid heroes wasn't enough for me so we're doing the heavy hitters of the sidequest cast:

this round will be the second chaos party, after which point we will vote on which one is the ultimate chaos party, who's gming, and where they would wreak the most havoc

[ricephobic]

watching the warrior cats season

[joanna-fake-name]

This is so small but in episode 8 of adventuring party, Aabria mentions how Tula and Ava are so similar to flight for fight and like. That's just so cool. Because all of Ava's outside person is so rough-and-tough and willing to fight any enemy, but deep down all she can do is run from her big emotional issues and deny them until she can't any longer, and Tula spends the whole series attempting to run from danger and stay away from conflict but when it comes to emotional baggage, she's so much more willing to face those issues and talk about them. God I love this shit so much

[honorary-bad-kid]

if i had a nickel for everytime aabria gm’d a campaign where erika ishii and brennan lee mulligan both were pc’s and the characters they played were a bit (maybe a lot) unhinged and the other sad while there was a npc of probably british twins and a crown of candy joke was said either in the season or the ap i’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice right ?

[howlbear]

I'm truly going to miss the way Erica says truck

[sugarplumdone]

If you've seen trivia posts going around, may have seen ones about the baculum, a bone in the penis whose purpose is to help support erections which is present in most placental mammals, including non-human apes, but which is conspicuously absent in humans.

Those posts typically don't go into why this is the case, which is fair enough, since the question is far from settled. However, there are a lot of hypotheses about it, and some of them are pretty fucking wild.

I think my personal favourite is the recently proposed idea that, since soft tissue injuries tend to heal more rapidly and completely than broken bones, a flexible and resilient boneless penis constitutes a reproductive advantage in situations where genital trauma is common, possibly as a result of the development of upright posture rendering the penis more prone to blunt encounters.

Like, imagine humanity's proto-hominid ancestors going "actually, bipedalism is great" and promptly getting whacked in the ding so much that it exerted evolutionary pressure on the morphology of the penis.

[mintcrows]

didnt know how much i wanted a campaign of brennan playing a single mother and siobhan a little reckless child until now

[th3b4dk1dzz]

One of the most heartbreaking parts of the episode was Rashawn describing Viola pulling Ava towards her as "a child reach out for momma"

[audible301]

Aabria in MisMag: YOUR WAND WILL REACH FINAL FORM NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TRY TO STOP IT

Aabria in Burrows End: YOU CANT AVOID LEARNING TO READ FOREVER

[may12324]

💙Dimension 20: Burrow's End 💙

It was such a joy to be able to work on this show, I'm so excited for everyone to be able to watch it for the first time! It's such a sweet and heartfelt story, but also jam packed with action and amazingly detailed minis 👀

[pucaantaibhse]

Ava’s need to believe that there’s always something the family can do is making me think of something I heard once, about how it’s good that life isn’t fair, because imagine knowing that everything bad that’s ever happened to you is your fault.

Her little granddaughter telling her that what happened to Kenji WASN’T her fault, and Izzy holding Erika’s hand, really got me. 🥺

[thisisnotthenerd]

this stoat family is going to be truly something in these coming weeks. first episode and i'm already feeling it.

siobhan and izzy's character interactions as jaysohn and lila are so so good. true sibling behavior. kids who can kick ass. little rascals. even though this is a full family season i have a feeling they're going to have a whole thing of their own. and watching siobhan get to really go ham is delightful.

thorn vale and viola. my god. talk about making an impression in the dome right there. jasper and rashawn are just excellent. the way that every interaction with the cult members goes tells you so much about who they are as stoats.

that first scene with ava and tula. mammalian grooming. erika ishii, never change. i knew brennan was playing a single mother this season, but by god is it coming across so well. tula is stretched thin. and erika is in their element with ava. first non-caster of her d20 characters. the werther's original. a grandmother.

everyone is leaning towards partial casters and martial classes this season. 2 paladins, a ranger, a monk, ancestral guardian barbarian, and an inquisitor rogue. it tells you a lot about the world dynamic and how this is going to be constructed. they aren't your average stoats, that's for sure. dex is the most common high stat with wis following--i'm anticipating a lot of stealth and perception checks.

anyway, i'm very excited for the next episode. the spreadsheet is updated with class information for this season; assuming they level up at some point that may change. they may not. take a look if you'd like.