#dnd inclusivity

[ashwolfe3450]

[byjovewhataspend]

Tenko in a d10 ~❤️

[asinajar]

I helped develop a fan made, unlicensed, Animorphs table top role playing game. It's in its beta test version and comments and reviews are welcome!

[mayakern]

does TPK stand for Total Party Kill or Total Party Kiss..?? 🤔

[breathofthewilder]

Thinking about fantasy disability aids and medicine on this night

Living wood mobility aids and prosthetics! Canes/crutches that can sink roots into the ground to help traverse steep terrain. Wheelchairs? No. Treechairs. Propelled along by magical roots and branches and not worrying about stairs or curbs. Prosthetics sculpted to look like the limb you lost OR just a straight up branch or trunk to help with finer motor controls/ better balance and stability. Getting a flowering tree variety and watching it bloom in the spring time and turn red/orange in the autumn! Fruit bearing trees to help with low blood sugar or other things requiring emergency snacks

Werewolves and vampires in medicine. Werewolves sniffing out diseases that can't be detected easily! Vampires tasting your blood type for transfusions and checking for things like anemia!

A service animal provider who lives in the forest and uses wildspeak to find animals who want to live a cozy indoor life in exchange for a job. Seeing eye mountain lions. Field mice that stay in your chest pocket to monitor your heart beat. Spiders that talk in your ear to tell you what people said if you're hard of hearing or to help with memory problems. Snakes that curl around your head to protect it when you have seizures. So many cool possibilities here!!

[anonymouscheeses]

Season 2 came out and i didnt know, hello are yall even still alive??? IM SO HAPPY JWDEJR ILL PROBSBLY MAKE MORE ARY BECUZ I LOVE THEM SMM

[thechampagnesocialist]

Animatic update! Steadily making my way through this convo :)

[aureliacetinn]

Ring of blood stability is a glucose checker/companion for your ttrpg

works with both dnd and pathfinder!

can get for PWYW on my ko-fi now https://ko-fi.com/s/57da2a2e5b

remember diabetics can also be adventurers

big thanks to technomancer kyle for advice: check out his kofi here https://ko-fi.com/s/57da2a2e5b

[herenvibing]

cr3 is gonna end and the pc’s still feel like the same people to me :|

(crcritical content in the tags feel free to skip)

[absolxguardian]

I'm reading the original Planescape Campaign Guide and I'm surprised with just how fully committed it is to the whole "there are gods based on real world mythology/religion and these are literally the same guys as those worshipped on Earth, because Earth is a Prime Material Plane" bit it is. A lot of the features on various planes are the realms of real world gods or pantheons. Ignoring if such a thing is respectful, the funny part is that they've inadvertently implied that all religions are real, except for the Abrahamic faiths (all of them, not just the big three) and Buddhism. Devils are real though, their name has just been censored.

[rendnotmyheart]

"What is a women, gender, and sexuality studies degree even good for?" they ask.

"What's it good for?" I repeat from atop my armchair, laptop perched beside me as I sip from a goblet containing an unknown liquid. "My dear, it is the backbone of over 100 pages of complex mythological, political, and cultural dnd lore, the likes of which you can only begin to imagine."

Slowly the light from my laptop screen grows brighter and brighter, until the room is engulfed in it. They fall to the ground and clutch their burning eyes as the light imprints into their brains concepts and realities they have heretofore refused to acknowledge.

"I see," one says, eyes alight with new understanding. "It is a framework through which one can learn to better understand structures of power and how they affect every facet of our lives. With it, you can do anything."

"Exactly," I say, and they are sucked into my laptop screen to live out their revelation in the world I have created, informed by my own wgs studies.

[ashwolfe3450]

[eclecticexclamations]

Limitless Legends

I was told about this AWESOME Kickstarter and I just have to share it with everyone because I love it!

[mayakern]

our button-down shirt inventory is running super low and once they sell out, we’ll be taking a break from making them for an undetermined amount of time

these shirts come in sizes XS-6X, have a straight/“masc” cut and have hidden hooks and eyes in the bust to prevent gaping

store.mayakern.com

[gay-ppl-real]

While I was out on a charity shopping adventure in town yesterday two people walked past us while we were taking a short rest turn and one of them said,

"I just think... Men are not it, y'know?"

like it was something really profound that they'd hit upon.

and I was the only one who heard and I started giggling, and the rest of my party was really confused, and that was funnier so I started cackling, but I didn't want the people who'd walked past to feel self-conscious so I had to wait until they were out of earshot to explain why I was laughing hysterically to myself over seemingly nothing

[asexual-society]

Does orchidsexual fall within the asexual spectrum? I have always gone off of the asexual wikia, but there are a few identities on it, like orchid, that encompass feeling sexual attraction, but not desiring a sexual relationship that are labeled as falling under the spectrum. I always read this as meaning that the desire is a feeling that is a part of sexual attraction, so them lacking that desire means that they don't feel sexual attraction in the typical allo way, so are a part of the spectrum. Other people seem to disagree with this though and think that the identity is just being voluntarily celibate, making them not a part of the community.

This is a slightly controversial topic I think, and one I honestly can't say I'm super on top of, and I feel like it deserves more than a quick 'yes' or 'no', but I'm also just a guy, and just because I sit and answer asks on here sometimes does not make me an authority in any way.

So first off, by definition an asexual person is someone who experiences little to no sexual attraction. This is our agreed-upon definition as a baseline, and so if you do experience sexual attraction, this label is inaccurate to you, however, many people on the ace spectrum do experience sexual attraction and many of those people call themselves asexual, despite experiencing some level of attraction.

Additionally many asexual people have sex regardless of the level of attraction they experience, which is why we use the definition based on "attraction not action".

That being said, a large proportion of the ace community does not have any desire to have sex, and further, many are strongly averse to it. As such, lot of asexual activism boils down to "we exist, stop treating us like shit because we don't want sex like you do". This isn't to discount sex favourable acespecs, but what we're trying to do here is as much about telling people it's fine not to experience sexual attraction as it is trying to make society accept that it's fine to not have sex?

I think orchidsexual people suffer from our allonormative society just as much as any other asexual person, and I don't think it makes sense for you to be excluded from a community that you share so many experiences with. Just like how drag performers and trans people are heavily overlapping circles of a venn diagram, that only very recently have been forcibly pried apart, and gender nonconforming cis people from genderqueer people, and just any and all queer people from each other. Our position within the community isn't based on oppression, we don't need to have struggled the same way to share a label, but sometimes we don't share a label and experience the same things anyway.

The shift of Asexual as a term from meaning just not having sex to the definition we have now isn't a bad one, but it could very easily not have gone that way. Functionally speaking there's no real difference between an asexual person who, through some level of active decision, never has sex, and anyone else who makes a similar decision never to have sex. Sure the reason may be different but the outcome is the same, and sex is a morally neutral action so this isn't even some philosophical "I did a good thing but for a bad reason, does that make me good or bad?", and to the bigots we're all the same anyway.

That doesn't mean everyone who is voluntarily celibate for any reason is automatically ace, but if you feel a kinship or sense of solidarity or even sanctuary within the ace community who the fuck are any of us to say you don't belong here?

I really hope this comes across in a semi-coherent way and that I'm not talking out of my ass or being a dick, I've seen too much exclusionism to want anything other than radical inclusion honestly, but I couldn't just say that and not explain the thought process.

Anyway that's all, other mods are welcome to add anything they like, everyone else is also welcome to argue but if you could do it elsewhere that would be preferable.

- mod key