#forbidden d20

[xdraonarts]

tfw the guy that looks like a surface version of Your Dad hits on you

[samwellthembo]

i wanna eat the turbo tokens so bad

[soggycardboardbox]

My Forbidden Candy sticker set is available over on my Etsy Store

[antique-traveler]

i think an essential part of the experience of watching community is having to skip advanced dungeons and dragons and advanced advanced dungeons and dragons because they’re such wildly, horribly, insultingly, offensively incorrect portrayals of how dnd is played that it makes you grind your teeth so hard you get a migraine

[mushy-bread]

A non-exhaustive list of ideas for future d20 seasons

- Spider verse (using a power by the apocalypse system)

- The 7 season 2

- Fantasy High but it’s the parents on an adventure together

- Bring dadlands to d20 add rehka and ally and Jess to mcelroys

- Honestly just a superhero season would be fun

- Some sort of universe hopping season that goes through all of d20 canon

- ACOFAF SEASON 2

- a stranger things-esque pbta game with a 90s/00s aesthetic and analog horror

- Honestly give them my hedge maze world it’d slap

- Pls god something with scandal/political intrigue, give me hamlet, give me acofaf in a different font. GET MESSY GET PETTY GET HORNY MAKE IT FORBIDDEN PLS

- Give me Stanley parable, office comedy with a dark twist

- Monster of the week idc what just use this game pls and thanks

- Saw trap season dm’d by Sam Reich with og CH people

- Last of us, Zombie apocalypse give it a twist idk what

- Murder mystery!!! CLUE, Knives Out, you get the vibes!

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

It's that time again, guess the next D20 season with literally no information

Woodland creature revenge thriller

The haunting of human resources

Robots patiently reforesting the earth so their humans may return

Toy soldiers caught between the opposition and the stuffed teddy

Oops all character creation anthology season

That reverse indiana jones Brennan invented on Um Actually

Up-and-coming fashion designers during a minor zombie apocalypse

Biopic subjects forced to team up with their method actor portrayers when the aliens take hollywood

Pneumatictubepunk

Vaporwave western

First girl eliminated last year returns to Engagement Island to murder the new contestants

Forbidden romance between the hoodies and the dress shirts

Stranded archeologists crashed their starship and must restore the ancient windows 8 machine

Mad max but with public transportation

Deep sea soap opera

Fungal espionage intrigue spanning millenia

Superheroes' assistants unionize

The prophecy states that before they can banish the old gods for good they must win regionals

Lou dms and kills Brennan's pc

Ross dms musical improv (and Zach and Jess play exes)

More Alex Song-Xia

Birds

[nomi800]

Just put up my third set of d20 keychains and this forbidden candy set is extra sweet!

Download them from cults or consider joining my patreon to get all three sets and lots more!

[reckless-glitch]

honestly I really would like to see an updated nymphology book for d20 systems

and I don't want it couched in all this "oooo it's forbidden and taboo to talk about using magic for sex"

the community is always talking about the seductive bard trope...lemme see what's in that toolbox (😏)

[performance-fart]

Collecting data for normal reasons

[dailyadventureprompts]

Alright, the votes are in, time to share the psychic damage.

On it's surface Mega-Feats Revisited is like any other 3.5/Pathfinder player supplement, packed to the gills with options for niche builds, some of which are genuinely good and creative (a cleric feat that gives you the ability to give minor healing to the targets of your buff spells), while others are mechanically redundant ( a feat that lets you haggle, a thing you could theoretically already do in game).

Then you get to stuff like this, and you just stop in your tracks:

I know that d&d takes inspiration from a lot of different mythologies/folklore traditions, and I know that a lot of those traditions have stuff to do with menstruation. I'm not squeamish, it's a thing 50% of the population needs to deal with... but why have a feat for it? Why of all aspects of moon worshipping pagan-ish practices did this make the cut for a player option? What does it say about your d&d games that you're tracking your character's flows over the course of a campaign and then using that as a month long love potion?

Did I mention there's an entire feat chain for this?

In many ways, megafeats is for me THE 3.5 book, because it combines:

a desire to simulate everything in the most rules lawyer-y way possible

totally unbalanced (both under and overpowered) content that was never playtested, and clearly not designed with fun at the table in mind

an obsession with sex and breeding, jumping right past being unsexy and directly to deeply unsettling.

If you want a better example Look no Further than the Breeder feat:

....Which takes up a total of 2.5 pages once you combine it with it's supplimental feats: Breed the Forbidden, Zooamorous Breeder, and Eugenicist (yikes!). Gameplay wise it lets you spend lots of GP and months of dedicated handle animal checks to hybridize different creatures together like you were a professional pokemon player crunching the numbers to try and find a shiny with perfect IVs. Yet again we have to ask what the FUCK kind of game these publishers are playing that they think this is a good player option. Imagine you sat down at a table with a new group to talk over builds and backstories for a new campaign when someone announces their intention to have their ranger spend his time personally inseminating owlbrears in the hopes of breeding a new master race.

I was going to just go on about weird feats (Like the one that lets you retroactively have two heads or one of your parents be a goose, the one that lets you dissolve your skeleton at will, or the actually interesting one that lets you detect if someone's ever killed for money by scent alone) but then I realized that I remembered this particular publisher's name, so I thought I'd do a little bit of a deepdive on him:

Here's a Few Details about Chris A. Field

He's written numerous 3rd party supplements, but most notably:

Multiple furry setting books ( completely normal, d&d wouldn't be what it is without furries) including one set in IRL Oregon that was repopulated by anthro immigrants after the state was depopulated by race riots (wat?) 

Black Tokyo, an X rated urban fantasy based off Japanese mythology and late 90s hentai, featuring supplements about busty magic maidens and tournament of rapists.  Less said about a game that has legit torture porn as an inspiration the better. 

Otherverse america: a d20 modern scifi setting which is set in the aftermath of “the abortion wars” where the pro life/choice debate has formed a fissure in american society that’s spilled over into psionic/cyberpunk lite street violence.  I feel like there’s some thematic resonance with the breeder feat here, but I don’t know what it is. 

All in all, an odd book by an odd dude, but a neat little window into what the 3rd party publishing space was like back when I was first getting into the game.

You folks want to see the weirdest d&d book in my collection? It absolutely beats out the Book of Erotic Fantasy for sheer whatthefuckery, at least in my opinion.

[beatriceeagle]

11, 5, 29

5 - What work got more feedback than you expected?

Gonna list two here, because my immediate answer was Mastermind, which is a Dimension 20 vid that I kind of expected not to get much attention, but which has gotten tons of views and comments, and seems to have really connected with a lot of D20 fans.

But in terms of fics, definitely Seven Days on Starbase Twelve. I didn't imagine that there would be a ton of audience for my one-shot fic about a canonically doomed couple on Strange New Worlds, but boy, some other people feel some feelings about those two.

11 - What work took you the longest to write?

A solid year and a half passed between the first words I wrote on this year's love and the final draft. Even when I started working on it in earnest, it was several months of work that I completed in two separate spells a month or so apart.

29 - Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

Almost certainly something from a white and soundless place, and honestly it's hard to narrow it down more than that, because I really love that fic—I think it did absolutely everything I wanted to do, and it did it well. I literally had one passage copy-pasted here, was about to click post, and then second-guessed myself. And then did it again.

But I think I'm going to go with this one:

Una was a well-behaved child, but she had her moments of failure like any person. When she was fourteen, she stole a book from her mother. It was not, she reasoned, truly stealing; the book lived on a shelf in her own home, and Una had every intention of returning it when she was finished. But it was a book her mother had forbidden her to touch, for, oh, for many reasons. Because it was a little bit racy, certainly, but probably also because it was the first book Mother had been able to afford in two years, and Una was a clumsy child. Una secreted the book off the shelf and carried it with her to school to read under her desk. On the way home, reading as she walked, she dropped it in a puddle. She never forgot Mother’s face when she saw the warped pages and blurry print. Mother knew exactly why Una had done what she did, had probably felt that same insatiable thirst for words her whole life, and yet she looked so hurt. So betrayed. And that was only a book.

I like this passage because I always like it when I can make a scene do more than one thing, and this passage does a lot of things. It establishes Una's love of books and stories; it establishes her family's poverty; it deepens Una's relationship with her mother, which is very important to the fic; it carries the theme; it establishes, without directly saying it, how Una feels about what Bren did. I also like it because I think it reflects Una's narrative voice well, and because it's a little bit subtle.

[fic writer ask game]

[kurakurakura99]

"i'd like some more options to be useful in combat." the martial asks me. I raise my eyebrow. She is innocent. This is maybe her second campaign, and Swashbuckler seems like a pretty limited class compared to even other Martials. She has access to Ultimate Combat, as well as all the other pathfinder books in our repository: I ask if she has looked in those, and she says yes. I know this. She needs more kick. I glance at my copy of the Tome of Battle:The vaunted text of weeaboo fightan magic, from a forgotten age. It is kept securely in a prismatic force field, floating placidly in my closet. Yes, Pathfinder is theoretically compatible with all D20 products, but...that is forbidden magic. "There is a path to martial options that some may consider...Unnatural."

[thief-of-love]

uh I believe when Eve bit the forbidden fruit God specifically says "Oough, you should not done that. Roll a d20 to make a consistution saving throw."

[molotoph]

I feel sick. This is fucking horrible and incredibly tone deaf… I really have sam the benefit of the doubt despite knowing he’s a nepo baby whose father worked for Bill Clinton. Afaik the two times dropout spoke out as a company were in regards to George Floyd’s murder and the rampant escalation of AAPI hate crimes following&during Covid. It’s “unsustainable” now?! He wants to “play a civilian” but he’s not just a civilian like us. He’s a CEO. D20 especially is explicitly anti fascist and dropout built a lot of its platform off providing a space where a diverse community of all those who would fight for a better world feel like we can have silly guy watch tv time and relax while still being seen in our media. People like stories and we’re people and we need stories.

I’m so… does he like not understand how much worse he made it sound. How much he didn’t bail the mods out of this by defending these actions? Your father was in the White House during the Clinton administration but the concept of the Balfour Accord and the history of a tightening noose that came after it is “too complicated” for you?! I’m an actual college dropout. I’ve been unemployed for years with philosophy skills nobody wants without running me through the higher education pay to play endurance gauntlet of college and grad school. It sure as shit ain’t too complicated for me to understand what fascism is, what it does, how to recognize it, and how to fight what mandatory participation in it our government rips from us. How we can’t just not pay taxes or stop working because we are not CEOs, we are civilians. How the term “civilian” is a fragile and flimsy agreement between the working class and the ruling class that could turn to devour us gleefully and brutally any moment it pleases, rendering us martyrs (dead) and terrorists (alive.)

Concern for Israelis? Concern for people in a colonial fascist empire waking up and realizing they have to fight knowing what ghouls do to their enemies and knowing it will NEVER be as barbaric for them as it is for Palestinians. I feel concern for my American comrades in a country that for the record to his father’s statements on voting, was already fascist, Robert, there is no freedom on the line to choose, there was just the caste stratified levels of protection from the full reality of being considered outside of whiteness completely, and even white people who choose to leave and who ally nearly without flaw KNOW they will never truly see the same hell. I do not feel more concerned for labeling someone pro-genocide and it making them think or confront themselves. I am not here to dispense moral purity certificates for other white and/or Jewish people in other imperial cores like me. I do not care. There is no time and that is not how we cultivate moving into direct action and in loving each other and caring about each other as human beings waking up.

Bugles is owned by General Mills, which as a corporation that handles the production of among other things chocolate, has been under investigation for child labor and slavery abuses against mankind, and has recently been sued by workers for its practices: “Cereal giant General Mills is facing a federal lawsuit filed by several of its Black employees who claim that one of the company’s plants in Georgia has “embraced a racially hostile work environment” controlled by “white supremacists.”

Race IS Bugles’ fucking business because they made it their business to be racist. Liberal corporate rainbow washing or black washing or green washing like Bo talks about is what consumers generally understand about these things, so it can look irrelevant and pandering when corporations try to virtue signal about issues they have no intention of addressing and the harm of which they directly contribute to, but from the business side it looks quite different. Sam’s on the business side.

Politics is everything when fascists make our lives and our existences and freedom explicitly forbidden by their praxes. When their praxes kill us on purpose and en masse. And nobody targeted by these forms of dehumanization wanted their life as a finite reality to be made someone else’s politics. They didn’t DO anything to cause fascists’ ire— other than establish their own humanity and the boundaries and rights of being human. There is no acceptable amount of humanity to destroy in order to make members of a death cult feel comfortable because they’re uncomfortable being human and nothing we do can ever make them feel comfortable while death spiral ideologies rule them.

Does Sam KNOW there are nazizio who watch dropout that would pull their funding? Why would he want their money? Does he think we or his staff or actors wouldn’t understand scaling back and grassroots fundraising for taking one of THE MOST BASIC STANDS POSSIBLE IN HUMAN HISTORY, AGAINST THE MOST DOCUMENTED GENOCIDE IN HUMAN HISTORY?

This is who my stupid tucchus gave the benefit of the doubt to?

Sam you work with people who are a lot smarter and a lot less liberalpilled than you are. Take the fucking hint that you don’t need to walk on eggshells about not wanting to be associated with genociders, and that delicate footing is more ominous of who you have let be in the crowd with us than anything else. We gathered here because of trust for our safety, because anarchist etc. storytelling spaces are sorely needed and hard to find and difficult to protect.

This isn’t like. A game. We aren’t kidding.

Free Palestine, Free Lebanon, Free Yemen, Free Congo, Free Sudan.

What the fuck.

@dropoutdottv ‘s newest episode of Dirty Laundry platforms Noah Grossman, a liberal Zionist who has shown public love of and endorsement of the isrotten terrorist and American imperial projects.

Proof and sources https://x.com/HorrorHijabi/status/1790749434822672600

[rabdoidal]

the official designs for the coffin run characters dropped and i am NOT IMMUNE to dr. aleksandr astrovsky

✨ kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous ✨

[30somethingontumbler]

Thoughts as they happened during this weeks episode of ACOFAF

I don’t like this I don’t like this at all! Don’t make Hob do this please!!

Wuvvy I am so disappointed in you!

His name, is Knick Pknack……..

Wreckingspelt is a HORSE!!!

Hob + Binx= BFFS pinning for their high born loves!!

Andhera!! Pillar boy who??

Mommy! sorry, Mommy! sorry, Mommy!

Grandpapa got some!!! Dirty old turkey!

Lords of the Wing more like lords of the deception roll!!!

Lords of the Wing more like lords of getting kicked out by you ugly bird grandfather.

RUE STOP TALKING!!

Knickolas Pknackolas Hob is going to end that smarmy mofo!!