#dnd ramblimgs

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"…let's go home, Verity."

wrapped up our two year campaign tonight. What a ride :) I'll talk about it more tomorrow but. I loved this party, excited to move on to new characters and adventures

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possessed by the spirit of dnd at this wonderful 4am and drew a tiny falka

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When you - the ranger - are the only person in the party who doesn't have dark vision

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I should post abt my dnd campaigns like they're widely known pieces of media with characters people know

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Why do I always feel like I'm in the twilight zone?

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Dawn Valintiere, Social Media Influencer! She's wicked smart and a big cutie and definitely doesn't know Super Brain Hemorrhage

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She skulks :>

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"The skull of Vecna is infused with the power of illusion. It has been known to bring the imaginations of it's wielders into reality."

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New arc and a new patron means a new outfit for verity!

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God gives his hottest NPCs to his ace-est soldiers

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Oath Of Clown Paladin, Bell Bramst! (she's also an aberrant mind sorcerer but like. that's not her career yk)

She's such a cutie, and I'd LOVE to play her someday :)

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the boy!!! hes all fancy now

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the spookiest 8ft tall druid around

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Sometimes a family is a smuggler prostitute, a 900 year old prettyboy soldier, tiamat's champion, a teacup and her best friend, a roomba whose god decided he didn't want it, a fortune teller who keeps getting dragged away from her initial goals, an insane warlock of Vecna, the aberrant ghost of a vampire, a boy who cannot for the life of him stop exploding, a hairless cat from 1500 years ago, and their crew of ghost sailors who never paid off their student loans so are forever damned to work on the boat, and that's okay.

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My dnd characters ranked by how atrocious I think the discourse surrounding them would be if they were from a popular media

Mera - at the bottom of the list is Mera. I've only played Mera twice so it's hard to say, but I already know that she wouldn't have much discourse surrounding her. She's sweet, a little freaky to look at, but in a charming way. She's not the brightest of the bunch in her party, and she frequently misinterprets the situation, but she's not super problematic. I feel like the worst fandom treatment she'd get would just be like. People infantilizing her (she is like. 3 years old but she's also a young adult), but I don't see there being any discourse surrounding her. (as of now)

Whisper - whisper wouldn't really have Discourse, per se, but she would have Haters. I can feel it in my core. Similarly to Mera, I think she'd definitely get infantilized by the fandom a lot since she's very simplistic in her problem solving, and emotes very big and expressively. Unlike Mera, though, I think people would just think she was annoying instead of quirky and charming. She doesn't have any specific discourse surrounding her, and she's a cute girl, so she isn't the Least Popular character, but she's definitely not well liked by the fandom at large.

Ozy - I dont see Ozy as having a TON of discourse either. In large part because hed probably fly relatively under the radar for the more rabid Discourse Fans. He isn't super flashy, nor is he "problematic." He's Just a Guy. I could see his Anger Issues and short temper, as well as his tendency to break things with his crowbar when he's angry, as traits that fans might say are potentially toxic. I could also see people saying that his dynamic with trickster is unhealthy, due to her having no memories. There would be discourse abt whether or not he's taking advantage of her since she's in a vulnerable position and clearly desperate for companionship after god knows how long alone. Ozy has some amount of contention, but it's avoidable, and if you weren't in that side of the fandom, you probably wouldn't even know there was any controversy or discourse involving Ozy, bc he's just not super inflammatory.

Johanna - Johanna is where things start to get uglier. She's a pretty mad scientist who experiments on herself and is motivated by personal gain and also the evil company she works for. She would have a lot of fans who like her in a "go girlboss" sort of way, and probably some simps as well. That being said, there would also be a lot of people saying that the people who like Johanna are glorifying violence. a lot of value judgments about whether it's morally right to be a fan of Johanna. She's problematic! You can't like her, that would make you a bad person. Standard Not-Squeaky-Clean-Popular-Character discourse. It'd be really annoying discourse.

Verity - oh my god. The discourse surrounding verity would be bonkers-insane and insufferable. She's got everything. Questionable decision making. Mommy AND daddy issues. A fraught and close relationship with her younger brother. Loose morals. She's "minor coded"(short). She lies to her friends. She's insane. She's killed people. The internet hates any kind of nuance in its characters, so Verity would for SURE get butchered. I genuinely don't know who would be more insufferable, the rabid verity apologists claiming that Verity did nothing wrong and nothing that happened was her fault, or the people saying verity is the root of all evil and she should die because she's a bad person. If you want to say something about how her mental illness and warped view of the world shaped and informed a bad choice she made, you would be bombarded with people either saying that you're making excuses for her behavior, or saying that you can't criticize her because she's literally neurodivergent and minor coded. People claiming that anyone who likes her is romanticizing mental illness, and a handful of people who ARE romanticizing veritys insanity. People would have her in their dnis. There are essays about why she's the worst character and why she's harmful. You cannot have a productive discussion online about the nuances of her actions and character. She's soooo problematic, i just know the discourse around verity would be godawful. If she were a male character people would call her their poor little meow meow though

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She's a little spooky a little (lottle) insane and she is going to bite you <3