#dndorks: the symmetry war

[dark-nimbus]

It has come to my attention that mine and other blogs have been perceived by many members of D&Dorks.

Which, first off, hi Scarlett!

Secondly, moving past the fact I am completely mortified for myself, I hope that it’s okay to have this content on my page. I try to go through everything I post and pick through it with a fine-toothed comb, as I know this is a public platform and I want to be as respectful of you all as possible.

If you ever see anything of mine that makes you uncomfortable or that you just don’t approve of, I apologize profusely and will gladly take down the post. Love y’all, thanks for giving the fanbase such an amazing show 💙

—Taz Starstride (aka Nimbus)

[cranes-menagerie]

this angry little frog man is my favorite character in all of fiction

[fusionmonkey]

The first meeting with Polnaros just stuck in my mind so much that I decided to try and draw something for like the first time ever. Still not totally satisfied with how parts of this turned out, but I got the important aspects, so it’s good

[narrlsy]

Okay, y’all, I was really hoping I wouldn’t have to make this post, but I ain’t really got a choice.

This page is very openly a D&Dorks fanpage, and it will remain that way, but for now and the foreseeable future, I and many other D&Dorks fans do not support Matthew Selle (Sir_Superhero) because, through a series of private messages, he has proven to be very ableist.

More information is going to be rolled out about this very slowly, but if you would like to learn about it sooner, feel free to join the server ( https://discord.gg/jzA8B4Jb ).

TO BE CLEAR, this will remain a D&Dorks fanpage, but I will be staying away from anything directly owned by Mr. Selle."

[mysoullesscorpse]

Wow. I really need to remember that this place exists. Anyways, I have no idea how many people this will reach because I don’t know how many followers of The Symmetry War are here on Tumblr. but I drew Glib from it.  Also if you don’t know what I am talking about, I highly recomend you check out The Symmetry War on youtube or Spotify. It is great and you will not be disapointed. 

[starwalker03]

Ah yes, the god of death

[austink47]

Just realized that I will have a week without dnd shows because one of them post every Monday except the first of the month and the other the Dm is out of town i so sad

[trans-glib-murphy]

That fact that I saved this URL last year makes me so very very happy lmao

[kreeative-error]

DnD Ramble!

JUST got out of the most hectic session i have *ever* been in and i loved every second of it. Prior to the session i had been listening to "The Symmetry Wars" by DnDorks on spotify, in which they get a magic rock that they decide to lick, which is connected to a wild magic table. So my humble request before the session was to add some kind of fae curses/wild magic table, just for fun.

So we are currently doing kind of a spinoff stormwreck isle- this is the second last session of the campaign (and then i have to take over *sob*) , and for this session we're breaking into the clifftop observatory to free Jelly (a bronze wyrmling who is the friend of Pebbin, an Aarakocra). From Sparkrender (big bad lightning wyrmling). And the SECOND we step into the place, we get "so can everyone roll 2d10s." .....it was the fae curse table. And my character, Kalyre, now thinks he is a Robot on a mission to learn about this world. So when i end up running head first into a kobbold, my immediate reaction is to a) interrogate him on what being a kobbold is like, and b) give him a persuasive speach to convince him to rise up against Sparkrender. Which went something like this:

Kalyre: "Are you tired of this humble life on this planet? Then why not rise up against this "Sparkrender" fellow, ....whoiwouldliketointerviewlater......and make yourself better!" (in like a siri voice)

DM: ...Roll for persausion

Me: *roll* dirty 20 hehhe.

Kobbold: "Yk, i can't believe im saying this, but your strange, monotone siri voice ....idekwhosiriisbutyousoundlikeher..... you are very inspiring, you man."

Aaannnddd then i got advantage on all rolls when the kobbold was with me. I then proceed to keep walking, and lick a statue. So i then have 3 fae curses. Kal thinks he's a robot, is glowing like a lightbulb, and has grown a aligator tail and dog ears. (And as a fun bonus thing, our druid, Dae, is constipated, and Pebbin starts dancing whenever they talk.)

I then keep walking, directly into two MORE kobbolds. I try the same "rise up and defeat sparkrender" strategy and it fails miserably, but we beat their asses. And the og kobbold dies half way through the fight and yk what Kalyre does? Leans over him, holds out his hand (which the kobbold takes) and Kal just....licks his hand. And then mr kobbold just.....dies.

So we destory the rest of the cobbolds in combat, destroy the puzzle set out for us and sneak past Sparkrender into his prison. While attempting to free Jelly, Sparkrender hears us, and bursts down the passageway, knocks out Runara and Avonin (some side characters) and the final boss battle of the campaign begins.

For a bit of backstory, Kalyre is a horrible fighter. He's a bard, he doesn't fight, he just plots and does smart stuff. I have almost died....SO many times in this campaign, like, more than anyone else in the party. So naturally I am very on edge during this battle, because with my track record, Kal will probably die.

And thus the battle begins, and is going pretty well. And then it eventually gets to me, and upon looking at my spells, i find a decent looking damage spell, Hellish Rebuke. So i go for it, honestly expecting it to fail. And Sparkrender fails the Dex saving throw. I roll 3d10s, and he takes *23* fire damage. (His health was like, 53 or smth in total.) So i, the wimpy littler bard, take out almost half his health, in one spell. (He does end up being spiteful and hitting me back which took me down to 6 HP, but i'm allg) DM (@theboredasexual) is incredibly salty that we absolutely dessimated the final boss like it was nothing. It was fabulous.

So we win the battle, hurrah! Save Jelly. And then the final punchline of this whole thing, is "Can i get you all to roll 2d10s." MORE FAE CURSES. So I ended up with a brightpink, long-ass beard. But more importantly, Pebbin. Rolls a 23. Which on the table is "Victim becomes deathly afraid of birds."

Pebbin is an Aarokocra. Pebbin is a bird man. HE IS AFRAID OF HIMSELF.

[dark-nimbus]

The poor dude just needs a break. Preferably with his child and all the Party of Chaos members

[dark-nimbus]

Hello. I really wish I didn’t have to make this, but alas. I wasn’t really given much choice

As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of D&Dorks. Half of my content is D&Dorks. However, recent events have put me in a place where I can no longer support the show as a whole

I’ll go into detail in another post, as today has left me with no energy and very distraught, but for now I’ll tell you this:

I will no longer be associated with Matthew William Selle, aka Sir_Superhero. There is no place for ableism and doubling down or projecting. Such things are not welcome in my space and never will be. Everything I’ve posted that has his face or is tagged with his name will be completely wiped unless relevant as a speaking point. I expected so much better from you

And as for everyone else, specifically those who wish to be any of the -obias and/or -isms, especially towards my friends, let me make something clear: you fuck with my people and you fuck with me

And trust me, you do not want to fuck with me

[dark-nimbus]

Glib’s been through some shit

[dark-nimbus]

We said what we said, Panda 😂

[dark-nimbus]

Rough sketch of Gambit!Canyon

[dark-nimbus]

Messy sketch of Red Hood!Glib

[dark-nimbus]

Glib’s moral standards are…questionable