#sam trs

[spam-theresilientsystem]

[nomtheburritos]

Wake up S.S. Endurance nation,

we're back.

[sniperct]

Listen sam haunting the narrative, Lara's unresolved issues, her extremely defensive answer about seeing someone, the constant lingering shots on sam in photographs, the plot hook right into season 2 that is legitimately more than I'd hoped for I am living

[apoemaday]

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by Kobayashi Issa tr. Sam Hamill

After a long nap, the cat yawns, rises, and goes out looking for love

[theoutcastrogue]

Prism: I'm gonna become a book thief. Folio filcher. Parchment pilferer. FCG: A literary larcenist? Prism: Yeah! That's right, when I'm done reading them, I'm gonna set them on fire! Laudna: No, that's an arsonist. Prism: Oh. FCG: Maybe you need to read some more books. Deanna: We got to steal you a thesaurus, baby girl.

— Critical Role C3E64: "Reunited"

Humble suggestions for the Criminal Nerd:

bestiary burglar

codex cracker

compendium cribber

document desperado

grimoire grabber

hardcover heister

leaf lifter

letter looter

library liberator

manuscript moocher

octavo outlaw

page pincher

paper plunderer

paperback purloiner

paragraph picker

scroll snagger

sexto snatcher

spellbook swiper

tome taker

vellum villain

volume varlet

BONUS: anthologist

Some of these would also be formed as *clears throat* exocentric verb-noun compound agent nouns (like "one who picks pockets" is a pickpocket, rather than a "pocket-picker") : liftleaf, lootletter, pinchpage, snagscroll. And these could also be proper nouns, family names (for a certain kind of family, heh) or nicknames or criminal aliases or even tiefling virtue names.

[smolstardvst]

Taiju & Tuxedo Sam ♡

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[jjmaybankswifeyx]

Hey babe how are you, opinions on rafes buzzcut omg its 2 die 4

i’m good thank you baby how are you ?🩷OMG NO I LOVE IT SEASON 3 RAFE OVER ANY OTHER , HE CAN HAVE HIS WAY WITH ME ANYTIME

[spectrophobias]

samantha nishimura my beloved

[goldenphoenix4]

trump mentions? in MY supernatural?

it’s more likely than you think

author’s note: fuck donald trump and anyone who likes him. i hate you and you deserve to step in puddles with your socks on.

[farren-elwood]

Because I’m a gay and depressed archaeologist I decided to recreate the gay hug between Lara and Sam from TR 2013

Plus a silly little photo because “they were roommates”

[miharuhebinata]

i want her back so bad please please please please please you're nothing

[mass-convergence]

I have nothing against the Tomb Raider franchise and I will stare respectfully at Lara Croft and her arms all day.

But there is something about a white British woman traveling the world and essentially stealing artifacts from non-white cultures that makes me go “… huh…”

(I mean I think the same for the Indiana Jones franchise too so this isn’t solely aimed at Croft)

I love the adventures and I love Lara (especially her survivor timeline version who I feel is more, idk, grounded and also gay? I like that version and I have some Thoughts on the new series but that’s a whole other thing). Anyway the Implications™️ of her adventures and literal tomb raiding are not lost on me.

[nomtheburritos]

Big fucking spoilers but

WE ARE BACK AND WE ARE SERVED AND FED A THREE-COURSE MEAL, MY DARLINGS

[sniperct]

I LLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE

[apoemaday]

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by Basho

I am a wanderer so let that be my name– the first winter rain

[theoutcastrogue]

This is petty but that's never stopped me.

In the Vox Machina campaign, Scanlan Shorthalt's resounding success in matters of tactics [this post isn't about roleplaying] was partly due to Sam Riegel's skill, and mostly due to the fact that 5e Bards are just that good. However! The "gnome bard" combo was famously chosen by Liam, after Sam, who'd never played d&d before, asked what's the silliest, least powerful and least badass thing he could play. That was his character concept. And at the time, Liam was not wrong to answer "bard". In 3rd Edition/Pathfinder, Bards DID suck, at least out of the box. You could build a strong Bard in Pathfinder, but you had to optimise to high heavens with carefully selected feats and spells and items from various sources. It didn't just happen spontaneously, and it was still nowhere near the raw power and versatility of a Wizard or Druid. Bards played support.

So at lvl 9, they started streaming and switched from Pathfinder to D&D 5e. Scanlan got an ENORMOUS power boost at that point, but Sam was still harbouring under the impression that his chosen class is not powerful or badass at all. And as they kept playing and he kept killing it (he was brilliant at it, no doubt about that!), he presumed that he was killing it with one hand tied behind his back, because he was just a silly little gnome bard. And, he emphatically wasn't silly. He was a whole-ass full caster, top tier class right there.

Pathfinder Bards are half-casters. If they hadn't switched to 5e, Scanlan wouldn't have access to 7th and higher level spells: no Mordenkeinen's Magnificent Mansion (a signature spell), no Dominate Monster (this is how he made the goristro fight Vorugal), no Reverse Gravity (big moment in the first Ripley fight), and no Wish (kind of a big deal!). Other spells aren't in the Bard list, and there's no Magical Secrets in Pathfinder: he wouldn't have access to Bigby's Hand (another signature spell), Otiluke's Resilient Sphere (how he got rid of the efrit, and Ripley), Lightning Bolt and Stinking Cloud (his standard damage spells), Polymorph (that's several giant eagles including the "now smarter" Grog (this will never stop being funny), and of course the legendary triceratops), or Counterspell (kind of an enormous deal). And all the other spells would have come later: no Seeming at lvl 11 = no cows. (What a loss! No cows!)

And it's not just access to spells, it's also "likelihood of spells to work", which depends on the DC, which in Pathfinder depended on spell level. Lower level spells had a lower chance of doing anything, by virtue of being easier to resist. And half-casters got a slower spell progression, and ended up with significantly less power overall. Whereas in 5e spell level is irrelevant, spell DCs depend on your character level, and that's that. Even (Bardic) Inspiration got a boost from the switch. All in all, we're talking about a spectacular upgrade.

So a tragic misconception happened: Sam got it into his head that he's so good at d&d that he can gimp himself and still kick ass. Well, he can't.

When he played a Rogue (no big spells, huh? no cheat sheet!) he sucked at it and he hated it. And now that he plays a Cleric and actually, actively gimps himself (he said in a 4-Sided Dive that he deliberately avoids cleric spells that others have used before in CR, which by now is most of them, and certainly the best of them), he very predictably sucks at it too (I mean relatively speaking; it's still a full caster), and he doesn't love it. The one time he was BRILLIANT was when he had a top tier class to work with, and used it to its full potential. But he thought he was gimping himself, because he was thinking of a different game/edition than the one he was playing!

I wanna grab him by the shoulders and shake him up and say my good man, you gotta stop this "I gimp myself" -> "I fail to kick ass" -> *surprised pikachu face*. CHOOSE. Either gimp yourself and accept you won't be kicking any ass, but it's okay because you enjoy roleplaying someone like that more than you enjoy kicking ass, OR stop gimping yourself and kick ass, because you do enjoy kicking ass, don't you?

Both are great! I approve either way! But choose.

I also wanna grab Liam by the shoulders and tell him "Wizard or Sorcerer! For the love of all that's green and good in this world, next time Sam asks you what class to play in D&D, tell 'im Wizard or Sorcerer!". But then I remember that next time they'll probably play Daggerheart and not D&D unless WotC makes them an offer they can't refuse, so the whole thing is moot.