#shocking grasp

[animentality]

Read a DND porn fic where someone was using the shocking grasp cantrip in a manner of which it was not intended.

[dungeonmalcontent]

Shocking grasp really is such a good backstabbing spell.

Could you imagine. You play someone like a fiddle. Convince them that you live them. You lean in close, at the moment of your apparent betrayal, and kill them. Only to turn that kiss to turn into a near paralyzing electrical shock.

It deals damage, yeah, but it also prevents reactions. That means no uncanny dodging, no counterspells, no opportunity attacks.

You plant that electric kiss of betrayal on someone and you step away and they get pierced with countless attacks and all they can do is regret.

[spicypepperjack]

I love how MIles' Venom Blast is pretty much Shocking Grasp

[cagemasterfantasy]

Dnd Spells: Shocking Grasp

Shocking Grasp is a Evocation Cantrip for Sorcerer and Wizard. Casting Time is 1 action Range is a Touch Requires a Verbal and Somatic Component Duration is Instantaneous.

Lightning springs from you to a creature that you try to touch. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 Lightning damage, and it can’t make Opportunity Attacks until the start of its next turn.

Cantrip Upgrade: The damage increases by 1d8 when you reach levels 5 (2d8), 11 (3d8), and 17 (4d8).

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[ruporas]

your love returns in tragedy (ID in alt)

[prankprincess123]

Going from Vox Machina the last two and a half game sessions to Mighty Nein tonight is absolutely insane tonal whiplash.

Cause both are lvl20 parties who've done incredible things, but Vox Machina heading to battle were like: *battle plan 1000% made enough that there's pretty much nothing to discuss* "We're saving the world again!" *fully confident that they'll successfully save the world, save Vax, and come home to their kids safely* *Inspirational Leader speech to an entire army* *equally confident that even if they fail their family will be fine and able to take care of the world in their stead* *saving eachother instinctively* *successfully saving everyone on a crashing skyship while on another skyship thats being shot at without any hesitation, difficulty or injury* *looking absolutely eipcally cool while doing so*

Meanwhile at pretty much the same time the Mighty Nein are just: *genuinely discussing if charging in butt naked would be an effective plan* *mostly saving the world just cause they live there* *start randomly tattooing people* *discussing love lives and a potential threesome in front of people they met yesterday* *casually arguing about unhinged wedding plans instead of planning for battle* *fighting eachother* 'If you kill our friend I will take advantage of being the favorite uncle to make your life torture' *almost TPK while on a zipline to the battle because they're just such disasters* "YOU WIN BY DEFAULT! DONT SHOOT MY WIFE AND OUR SHARED BEST FRIEND!" *slipping on ball bearings they threw behind them*

Everything about this was just wild in the complete opposite way the last few were

[redeliminator]

i believe that to some extent Andre knows he's fucked up and this headcanon is one of the hills I will die on in the farewell tape, Cal says that “you can’t cure somebody who has nothing wrong with them.” 

Andre, on the other hand, admits they might be seen as hypocrites. he's not gonna back out, he still thinks it's the right thing for him to do, but he seems to acknowledge that people will not perceive it the same way. he tries to explain that no matter what it’ll look like, it’s not murder for the sake of murder - not in his eyes at least. there's a (sick and twisted) lesson hidden in this tragedy.

to some extent, Andre is aware of what’s going on with him, what exactly shaped him into who he is now. he sees the cause and effect of being bullied, of feeling rejected and alienated, and not being able to do anything about it because that's just who he is. he can kick and scream and shout but he will never change who he is at his core and this realization is crushing for a 17/18-year-old. this and all the implications of a missing sense of belonging.

he knows he’s messed up. he knows what would fix him and he’s convinced it’s out of his reach. he looks at other students and he thinks: it’ll never be me. and he's angry that they have something he will never have.

his awareness doesn't help though. if anything, it fuels his frustration. what adults know to be a temporary problem (high school) seemed like an insurmountable obstacle, the end of everything.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price in his first starring role as Dr. Richard Cross

Shock (1946)

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

The Mighty Nein have met their strongest foe: A cable suspended above a city that apparently hates them all

[corvigae]

I'm gonna need somebody to make a compilation of all of Veth and Beau's stupid pissing contests that could've easily resulted in the death of one or both of them

[thymejot]

I genuinely believe Agatha still has the tiniest lil spec of the Wandas power.

Chaos can not be contained once it is unleashed. Wanda throwing power at Agatha to distract her from her rune writing gave her that spark.

You cannot put the chaos toothpaste back into the tube once you have squeezed most of it out.

Also, there is no way Agatha has walked the road before. She obfuscates every time it is brought up, walks off, lies,or changes the subject.

The only coven she ever had was the one she consumed.

Unless she walked it with Rio, which seems unlikely, though possible, with that "coven two" line mixup.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

love getting like 20% into a book and going "oh so his mum's a selkie then" only to later realise the book didn't want me to figure that out until much closer to the 80% mark

[ofbardsandmen]

me, just going about my day

my brain: it is possible that one of the last things crepus ragnvindr saw before he died was his younger son smiling in strange relief from the distance, unmoving and with no words escaping him.

[jammerskrik]

[st4rsinthenight]

★Em. Thinking about a tiny getting spotted by a giant while they are on a high place, like a countertop or something, and out of their sheer panic or desperation to evade said giant, they absentmindedly throw themselves off the counter so that they giant doesn't capture em or smth.★