God I’m Not Even Through One Episode Of Paranormal Home Inspectors And It Rules, This Lady Thought

drew some kids today at the stream!  as usual, I am apparently only interested in STRONG ORANGE LIGHTING.  also, I didn’t realize it until halfway through, but I definitely borrowed the color scheme for Ashivon’s from some of @monoflaxart’s gorgeous fanart!! >O>

F1, G3, P1

I’m gonna answer for Hops (chain oc) and Forthright(my current d&d character)

F1

What do they do for fun?

– Hops would probably be that person to do brewery tours but I think she also likes seeing street performers.

– Forthright is always running grifts and probably spends her the time away from her sewer goblin kingdom gambling. I also think she likes to show off wealth so maybe balls and operas.

G3

what benefits come from being their friend?

– Hops always reminds people to know their limits

– if your Forthright’s friend she wont grift you

P1

What is there best personality trait?

– Hops has big friend energy, thinks shes mom friend but isnt even close

– Forthright thinks shes the double-crossing wildcard but is somehow the (second) most level headed of the party. Knows when to not push her luck

BONUS QUESTIONS (bc I want to)

B3

How tall are they?

– Hops is maybe about 4 foot 7

– Forthright is 5 foot 11 inches (6 foot 3 w/horns)

G1

Most attractive external feature

– Hops has big arms (a feature I have to give credit to @hubbleablubble ’s art for) that I think gets a lot of attention but she really likes her hair

– Forthright is pretty tall. She really likes her birthmarks though.

F2, H2, J2, P1, Z1

again just hops

h2 summer or winter

– She doesnt like either (unless shes in a really mild climate) theres about two weeks of spring and fall that are real nice

j2 what makes them happy

– being useful. success

rest answered already

The Adventure Zone but with Percy Jackson style episode titles

Merle Studies His Cantrips

We Have Tea With a Bugbear

Taako Steals Some Shoes

We Meet Magic Brian

Taako Tries to Eat a Robe

We Hide in a Well

We Drink Magic Jellyfish Shit

Magnus Takes up Arms

We Shop At Fantasy Costco

Magnus Gets Naked

We Get Hosed By Tom Bodett

Jenkins Saves a Spell Slot

We Get Crabs

Merle Plays Diarrhea Cop

Magnus Gains a Lot of Weight

Taako Steals Some Silverware

Magnus Eats Unicorn Dick

Merle Seduces a Plant

Magnus Chops a Treant’s Butt Off

We Fight Weeds on Floor Twenty

Merle Finds Some Extreme Teens

Can You Nonlethally Cleave an NPC in Twain?

We Create Our Fursonas

Merle Swims With the Fishes

We Meet Garyl, the Phantom Binicorn

Taako Enlarges a Motorcycle

Hurley Drives Off a Cliff

Johann and the Voidfish Have a Jam Session

Lucretia’s Necklace Ruins Candlenights

We Are Serenaded By a Rock

Taako Eats a Sandwich

We Quiz a Robot

We Meet the Hugbears

God Lies

Merle Gets Wood

Taako Invents Hentai

Merle Unmakes Some Souls

Magnus Eats the Philosopher’s Stone

We Create a Spiral Mantube

Magnus Goes Rogue

We Get a Shopping Montage

We Die

Taako Meets a Fan

We Blow Up a Locker Room

We Have a Talk With a Skeleton

We Rob a Bank

We Receive a Ball, a Sack, and a Tool

We Chat With the Dishware of Christmas Past

We Flee the Worm

Taako Accessorizes

Magnus Packs a Box of Shrunken Boys

We Play Monster Factory

We Find a Severed Head

We Try to Date a Mannequin

Merle Does Some Healing

Magnus is Skinjacked by the Marketing Department

We Discover Some Very Familiar Pants

We Visit Garfield’s Secret Evil Lab

Merle and Taako Trip Balls

Magnus Wrassles the Power Bear

Griffin Breaks Travis’s Universe

We Get a Beach Episode

Merle Plays Chess With the Final Boss

Taako Does Inspirational Plagiarism

Lup Burns Down the DMV

We Create the Seven McGuffins of Doom

We Have a Family Reunion

Taako Gets in a Foodtruck Explosion

We Found the Cult of Jeffandrew

Epilogue: Magnus Gets a Dog

Part 2: The Adventure Zone: Amnesty but with Magnus Chase style chapter titles

my turn on the local bog hags 

Gotham Girls RPG redesign for fun :) They actually make a very well-balanced team! I was originally going to do them all as knights but then saw Mindy Lee’s Poison Ivy Druid and got inspired. www.instagram.com/kelseyeng32

A long-ish rant about deities in D&D

One thing that always bothered me about the various deities in D&D that there is almost no myth attached to them. The deities of D&D are a bit too understandable and logical. They’re just high level characters who also picked up the ability to grant divine spells because reasons I guess, with motivations and interests in the real world, but no myth attached to them.

Which is kinda boring, because myth is so important in religion. When you read about the shit that Mystra or Kelemvor or Cyric did during the Time of Troubles, it’s just that, shit they did, with 100% real and observable consequences, mostly in the way of eating other deities’ portfolios or shifting around the seating order in the pantheon or something, but no mythic resonance to it.

I always liked the sort of idea that deities exist on a level that is not entirely literal and heavily couched in metaphor, and that events in the real world are reflections of what happens on the divine level and vice versa.

Like, on the material plane some people just slowly adopted an agrarian way of life replacing their previous hunter-gatherer lifestyle giving rise to the establishment of the very first cities, which also lead to a shift in religious practice away from the gods of nature and towards gods that had more relevance to life within a city, but on the divine plane it was a full-on war with the gods of nature and the new-fangled city gods duking it out, and both of these are true.

Maybe on the material plane there never was a time when death didn’t exist and people were immortal so the gods had to kill the deity of life to stop more immortal people being born as a consequence of which death was first introduced into the world, but like, that literally happened in the divine realm! Or, like, literally in a metaphorical sense, because as I said the divine realm is all about metaphor.

And like maybe you rarely see the sun and the moon in the sky at the same time because the goddess of the moon is awfully shy and the goddess of the sun is constantly trying to find her because THEY SHOULD BE GIRLFRIENDS

Loyalty is to be demonstrated, not demanded

Random Thought

Dungeons and Dragons, but your character must be a self insert, and class is determined by your current abilities Barbarian Must have a demonstrable temper, go off I guess  Bard Must be able to play an instrument Cleric Must be involved in a religious organization Druid Must have demonstrable knowledge of, or passion for nature  Fighter Must beat the DM in physical combat (hope your DM’s a wimp)  Monk Must practice a martial art  Paladin Must have a cause that one actively supports  Ranger Must be able to fire a kind of ranged weapon accurately  Rogue Must sneak up on the DM (Hard mode: steal their dice)  Sorcerer Must have a powerful family heirloom  Warlock Must work for a powerful entity (Corporations, The Government)  Wizard Must have a College Degree or a 3.0 GPA  If you can’t be any of these you start as a commoner, and may become one of these classes when you finally satisfy these conditions.

Also, this just in from the Science World:

MIT researchers just developed (as of September 2019) a new BLACKEST BLACK which is more light absorbing than Vantablack

While I think they are pursuing a patent, this article indicates they plan to make it “freely available to any artist to use for a noncommercial art project”

http://news.mit.edu/2019/blackest-black-material-cnt-0913

MIT News

MIT engineers develop “blackest black” material to date

Made from carbon nanotubes, the new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materials.

if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in the midwest, this is it.