I'm baffled. Currently writing a story about a guy who meets an escort and they work together to better each other's lives. The escort is a man. I've had people tell me this is "pandering". But I'm confused. Sure, they end up liking each other, but the story isn't about sexuality. And because it wasn't about their sexuality, someone even told me that why make the escort a guy and not a woman?

I am now confused as to whether there HAS to be a reason for a diverse character to exist. My character's a gay man because that's who he is. The story isn't even about discovering his sexuality/coming out, etc. There's a romance subplot but there's no focus on being gay, really, yet people object to it because it looks "PC" or that I'm just "shoehorning" in characters. That I'm adding diversity for the sake of diversity.

Is it wrong to make a character diverse? I can understand the issues if someone makes a character and all the character is about is just being a certain race or certain sexuality. Because that's not a well developed character.

But is there really something so wrong about making a character gay/trans/disabled/different race because... you know, that's who they are? If a story doesn't focus on the experience, but it's still part of the character... why is it so wrong to mention it? Is this not what reality is, where people are different, and things can be unique?

Is this really tokenization or am I just misinterpreting the bizarre argument that everything is supposedly "PC" if you add in diverse characters...

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(Potential spoilers maybe)

Watching it a second o realize how much of the story really revolves around Del. The obvious being the entire episode dedicated to her back story, but not only did Wayne never get his backstory episode, all the scenes from before the first episode we DID get of Wayne where all contextualized around Del where as Del’s past has existed freely from Wayne’s.

It’s a mute observation ig and one that could always be boiled down to “they’re both the protagonist” (even though that’s a weak argument) I just took for granted how much of this story really is Dels the first time I watched it.

I mean heck I would go as a far to say Del is the more complex character - not that I have anything against Wayne as a character, I love him to death but he really doesn’t deviate much from his expected course of actions besides (spoiler alert) when he gets to Florida and drags his feet getting the car. Del on the other hand is full of conflict and confusion she’s running from a family she used to love with a boy she hopes to love in the future but in the moment is equally unsure about both.

It’s compelling as heck but when you think of Dels motivations, her fears, her regrets, all the things that make a character, and then compare that to Wayne, it’s just interesting how much more there is to Del.

Tl;dr: ngl I don’t even know what I wrote. Just a random rant about Del. Feel free to scroll

I want a good story with one of these tinker types, preferably longer and recent, and where their focal tech or hyperspecialization doesn't make them super weak (btw I'm pretty sure that they can improve their tech, but only through a specific or few avenues(focal))

Peggy

It doesn't necessarily have to be the focus of the book, or even a major plot point. As someone with depression, I suppose sometimes it's just nice to be able to relate to a character through that experience.

What happened to the whole "Be a stark, and be a greyjoy" thing? It would be so cool if he started calling himself a Stark after finding out he's not a bastard, but not completely abandoning his Targaryen identity either. When the reveal first happened, I would start thinking that he'd veer towards his Stark identity more as he's: a trueborn son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, was raised by Ned Stark and lived all his life in the North. It would have been so cool to see him bridge the North and the South, to see him gather all the lords of the North and admit to them that he's a Targ and a Stark but his allegiance is with the Starks. To address the information he has now in context to Ned Stark and his brothers and Catelyn (all of this could have been with a conversation or two between the Stark children). There's so much more.

Instead all we got was one scene where he stares at Sam, one scene where Dany stares at him, one scene where he's about to tell the Star-cutaway. And a brief conversation between Sansa/Tyrion and Tyrion/Varys (lasting about 10 seconds each?). With forced drama, which i hated, I'd rather this season had no drama with a little more sensible writing, because there is no reason for Jon/Sansa/Dany to be fighting - Ned Stark protected both Jon and Dany and Sansa should understand why, because both are family and good people.

Battle of the Bastards had a long shot that followed Jon as he was fighting. There was also a shot like this in S7 that followed Bron when Drogon was lighting the place up. The style of the shot and the sound effects really made you feel like you were there.

If there’s a shot like this in season 8, which character would you most like to see be the focal point?

Wano will most likely be the first time the entire crew is in the same place, but I don't think that means each character will get lots of focus. Some will get more while some will get less.

Who do you think will be the main focus? My main guesses are Zoro, Franky and Chopper.

Zoro cause it's Wano the home of samurai.

Chopper cause the enemies are zoan and I think his Rumble ball will be a major plot point.

Then Franky will be the Brook of WCI. Brook was the newest member, WCI is actually the first arc since Thriller Bark where Brook has had a major focus, WCI has been used to give Brook his time in the limelight and look at the effects, he went from being one of the least favourites to one of the favourites. I think or atleast I hope Franky will get this treatment as well. Franky is probably at the bottom of most favourite crew member lists. As much as I love him I can't personally say he is too high on my list due to lack of reason to put him higher. Since Enie's Lobby he hasn't done too much major in terms of character, he has had some cool fights and showcases of power, but in terms of character he hasn't had much.

I really hope Franky gets more focus next arc, otherwise I don't really know when he will get his time, most likely Vegapunk stuff and wherever that goes. Also if Franky does get some time in the limelight I'd imagine the Sunny would be involved in it. The main reason Franky even got the smallest amount of focus in Dressrosa was cause of the Sunny not being there (also just noticed that Franky hasn't had much time with the sunny since the end of Punk Hazard, Sunny is with Luffy after all)

Also I sorta want more focus on Sunny, right now it doesn't feel like we have as much connection with her (him? I think Sunny is more of a him tbh since it does have a mane, but I'll call it her) compared to Merry. For Sunny being super strong and all you'd think she'd have more focus in the arcs.

I started writing a book a while ago which started from one characters POV, but as the story grew, I thought it'd be more interesting and help with the world-building to include other POVs from more characters.

From a writers perspective, it really makes writing the story more engaging, and puts the reader on the 'inside' while still allowing me to keep surprises to myself.

On the other hand, I am worried that it slows down the plot and that two of the four characters feel like subplots rather than main plots.

Would you like reading a book which is essentially four heavily intertwined stories which accumulate into an climax which has all four characters come together?

James St. Patrick, the main character on Power, a nightclub owner/drug lord. In the first season he was portrayed as your average anti-hero, you know, the guy who does bad things to survive but is really a good guy on the inside.

But season 2 happened and the guy just down right became an asshole. And I don't mean 'asshole' in a Jessica Jones or John Murphy type a way, there's no coming back for this dude and most people who watch the show hates his ass. The show is still focused around him, but looking through all the other characters perspective he's the bad guy here. Look at all the shit he has done:

• Practically abandoned his wife and kids. Yea I mean, it isn't uncommon or fucked up that he's having an affair, it fucked-up that he doesn't seem to want to spend or make time for his children at all!

• Left all his friends out the loop on what's going on. Poor Tommy, he seemed to be clueless on what was happening last season. Jamie basically abandoned him too.

• Killed one of his best friends over a 'rumor'. Which turns out wasn't true and there was absolutely no remorse shown from James when he learnt the truth.

• Emotionally abused his side chick Angie. spoiler

• Also, it was reveled last season that Jamie was the one who sent Kanan (the antagonist?) .

And the list goes on and on. Have there been any other TV show where the main character turns into a prick? I know most people hates Piper from Orange Is the New Black now....but she is still considered a good person right?

p.s. I'm on that slaughter gang shit, murder gang shit! #Savage

Power returns for season 3 July 17th. Watch the official teaser "Ghost Must Die" here

Self explanatory

I can't find it for the life of me.

In many of my games, I like to use the idea of an heirloom-style item similar to World of Warcraft. An item that is tied to your character, either through background stories or something that is awarded during the early stages of a campaign that can continue to grow with you. Obviously, these items can pose an interesting challenge to balance and subsequently reduce the need to hunt for better weapons or armor, making treasure rewards feel less like major milestones. I wanted to talk about what lead me to use these items in many of my campaigns and why I really like the concept.

Random treasure is really boring – mechanically speaking.

How many times have you fought your way through a dungeon, killed endless hordes of horrors and destroyed the great evil only to receive an item that is so far removed from your character that you would rather have gold pieces? Selling 2 dozen shortswords for GP in town is time-consuming and boring. Selling a +2 battle hammer if your character is a samurai is boring. Selling hundreds of generic “art” pieces, scrolls, books, busts, statuettes etc is boring. Every DM knows this, but the second edge to that sword is that gold pieces are also boring. Generally, by the time characters are level 8, they have so much gold, treasure, or both that they could retire and never look back. Gold is boring, but it is the easiest and fastest reward you can give players without slowing the game to a crawl with minutia.

If you want to, feel free to read the complete article here:

Guide For Creating Player Heirloom Magic Items – Focal Points For Characters

Always interested to hear if you have run something similar or even some cool examples I might be able to... borrow in a future campaign!

Ever since seeing the topic come up on Reddit, I've wondered how to make a good use of a "Rage" cycling Android w/out making a DM hate me. Combine that w/ thoughts of the Beast-Bonded Witch archetype and we arrive here.

The way the character plays out is that the Familiar is using the Android as more of an emotionless bodyguard that does his bidding. When role-played the Familiar will be the PC everyone comes to know and the Android is some twisted Animal Companion.

And something tells me I really want this Familiar to have the Mauler archetype.

Must be first-person narrative

I want to challenge you to write this because I recently learnt about these terms and being a new writer myself, I am unable to come up with a compelling, properly-written story where these three are just different. So I just want to get different ideas of how it could be done.

Good luck!

I always wonder what the actors are talking about. I imagine they are talking about current events or plans to do after they're filming.

When 'American Gods' was first recommended to me, I was told it was a cultural war. The sides waging war being the idols we used to worship vs the idols we actually worship now. Maybe in an effort to save me from spoilers they never mentioned that the gods in question would be lesser known Gods. In my mind I thought that Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Chebbeniathan, and other prominent modern Gods would be the main characters warring against internet, and media.

I was taken aback by the inclusion of much older lesser known Gods. I loved the native American and ancient tribal God segments. I never imagined Odin would play such a focal point in a story like this. I was blown away by my inability to see that the United States that I know is only a few hundred years old. Being that most of it's current citizens have relatively recent immigrated from somewhere else, the gods are foreign and far beyond my scope. So characters like Czernobog and Mr. Nancy were awesome. Midway through the book I accepted what I was reading and really enjoyed it.

It wasn't until the end where Gaiman addressed his omission of Jesus specifically. He said that it was because he didn't write a prominent role for him, and that only lightly including such a larger than life character wouldn't be the proper way to go about it.

I'm curious what the rest of you think about it. I know that often what we say to explain our actions often veils intentions that we not only keep from others, but ourselves. He seems to be someone with a clear history of some denomination of Jesus based worship.

Fear doesn't necessarily seem to be the right word I'd use. But speaking as someone who formally used to partake in Christian and catholic worship, publicly representing Jesus in a way that doesn't align with the Bible isn't something I don't mind seeing when tasteful. But it's definitely not something I'd do publicly or professionally myself.

I loved the bit that he wrote for him visiting shadow on the tree. That whole vigil for Odin as well as shadow himself ran some not so subtle parallel with the crucifixion.

Overall I thought the book was great, I'm sad to hear that the show had so many problems.

Edit: I thought this would be an interesting subject to talk about between a few people. Responding to some of the strong opinions is a bit much.

But to all of you saying that Jesus isn't a God, I agree with you that he is depicted as a prophet and the son of God. But you all need to convince

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Hello everyone!

Welcome to a new entry in our Outriders Developer Insights blog. These posts specifically focus on a specific aspect of Outriders and are intended to be a go-to resource for players with questions around the respective topic.

As mentioned a little while ago, we wanted to provide the community with a clearer view on some of the game’s mechanics that influence the damage taken by the player character.

This Developer Insights post includes a look at the core mechanics that interact with incoming damage, but it also goes into systems that are intentionally hidden and working in the background.

Let’s get into it.

INDEX:

• Core Mechanics
  • Resistance
  • Armour
  • Shields
  • Nodes, Mods and Phoenix Mechanics
  • Status Effects
  • Health Regen
  • Weakness & Vulnerability
• Hidden Mechanics
  • Death and Spike Damage Prevention

RESISTANCE

• What does Resistance protect from?
  • Resistance is a mechanic that serves to protect the player character from incoming Anomaly damage.
  • In practice, this means all non-physical attacks by enemies. All enemy non-melee Abilities and Elemental Attacks are counted as Anomaly. The perfect example of such an attack are fire grenades from Shotgunners.
• What does Resistance NOT protect from?
  • Physical damage completely ignores Resistance. Therefore, all Physical attacks will bypass this stat.
• How does Resistance scale?
  • Resistance reduces the incoming Anomaly damage by the given percentage, so 30% Resistance is 30% damage reduction.
  • An in-game example: A Brood Mother uses Anomaly Eruption. It is an area denial ability that forces the character to move.
    • A hit deals 35 941 Anomaly damage on CT15.
    • If the player has 50% Resistance, they will take 17 970 damage from the hit.
    • If the player has 30% Resistance, they will take 25 158 damage from the hit.
• Does Resistance have any cap, above which it will have no further effect?
  • Resistance is capped at 85% incoming damage.

ARMOUR

• What does Armour protect from?
  • Armour is a stat that serves to protect the player character from incoming Physical damage.
  • In general, this means all melee and ranged weapon attacks in the game.
• What does Armour NOT protect from?
  • Anomaly damage completely ignores Armour. Therefore, all An

“Our obligation is to make money, and to make money, it may be important to make history.”

I’m breaking character for this one. Outside of fashion, I also really love theme parks. I know, I can’t like anything cheap, can I? In spite of their existence as a black hole of time and money and sometimes sanity, there’s an artistry to the design of a great theme park that cannot be found in any other medium. Like all great art, the best theme parks set out to create a feeling all their own. Whether that be to elicit feelings of childhood wonder, discovery, enthusiasm for the future, or just a chill vibe, bro, it’s the work done at the ground level of park design, the engineering and artistry executed at every tenet of one’s construction, that leaves guests in awe and firing off their credit cards from the hip.

Today we’re talking about the time Disney Parks overhauled one of their most beloved rides into something guests and hardcore fans hated so much it inspired protests, petitions, and park visits in funeral dress.

Theme Park Enthusiasts: What I mean by this

There exists a type of person whose love of theme parks goes beyond their typical utilization by the vacationing public. In other words, some people have a general appreciation for Space Mountain from when they were a kid, and others know exactly which shade of green Disney paints their fences with (it’s called Go Away Green). Some people pop over to Epcot to drink around the world, and other people know that there were once plans for a Mt. Fuji rollercoaster in the Japan pavilion before Kodak, one of Epcot’s biggest sponsors, shut the idea down because the name might remind guests of Fujifilm, their biggest competitor, and they’re still pissed about that. They have an annual pass for the explicit purpose of trying event-exclusive snacks and buying the newest popcorn bucket. They pay admission prices to Universal Studios just to drink some Butterbeer (as they should).

What I’m saying is some’s love of theme parkery goes beyond the call of duty. They’re walking encyclopedias of park trivia and sometimes obnoxious appreciation. With this comes a sort of nostalgia that manifests itself in unwavering demands for everything to be just like it was when they were kids. At the same time, they’re

Hello! Today I will be R1'ing this article from Scientific American titled "The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth"

We start with the following paragraph:

>The electric vehicle (EV) has become one of the great modern symbols of a world awakened to the profound challenges of unsustainability and climate change. So much so that we may well imagine that Deep Thought’s answer today to Life, the Universe and Everything might plausibly be “EV.” But, as Douglas Adams would surely have asked, if electric vehicles are the answer, what is the question?

This has nothing to do with economics but it is one of the worst analogies (metaphors?) that I've ever read in my life. I could write an entire post about how awful the writing is in this article, but this is not r/badwriting, so let's go ahead and examine some economics.

On Electric Vehicles

>Let us imagine the “perfect” EV: solar powered, efficient, reliable and affordable. But is it sustainable? EVs powered by renewable energy may help reduce the carbon footprint of transport. Yet, the measure of sustainability is not merely the carbon footprint but the material footprint: the aggregate quantity of biomass, metal ores, construction minerals and fossil fuels used during production and consumption of a product. The approximate metric tonne weight of an EV constitutes materials such as metals (including rare earths), plastics, glass and rubber. Therefore, a global spike in the demand for EVs would drive an increased demand for each of these materials.

Will it? Let's set up a simple model: Each person wants a certain number of cars, some electric, some gasoline. Are these substitute goods for one another? This study from Norway finds a "fairly high degree of substitution between vehicle energy technologies", which implies that consumers view electric cars and gasoline cars as similar and that demand for both electric or gasoline cars reflects a demand for any car. Insofar as an electric vehicle costs the same as a gasoline vehicle, rising demand for electric vehicles likely takes away from demand for gasoline vehicles.

Electric and gasoline cars are similar in construction, so many materials

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Rotten Tomatoes:

• 96% from 46 reviews (7.92 avg. rating)

Metacritic:

• 78 from 13 reviews

cnet:

• "Director Kate Herron continues this quirky and audacious visual style as the series soars into boldly imaginative new directions. This is very much not the meat-and-potatoes superhero action of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. And if anything it has potential to get weirder than WandaVision. That's the foundation of the show's appeal: It is uncharted territory. WandaVision drew us in with its mystery element, which the very familiar Falcon and Winter Soldier entirely lacked. Loki takes WandaVision's weirdness and pushes even further into a whole new myth of the MCU that feels big enough to completely shake up the whole Marvel thing (unlike previous Marvel TV shows, which were precision-engineered to not affect the big screen story at all). After a decade, it's thrilling to see there are still some surprises in the MCU."

Pastemagazine:

• "All of this to say: despite its foibles so far, if you like Loki, the character, you’ll probably like Loki, the show. It’s not as groundbreakingly bonkers as WandaVision, but it’s also not as dourly macho as The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. “So far” is the crux of things, though; there are surely plenty of twists and surprises still to come, even though these first two episodes suggest the show will be the expected mix of comic book references and four-quadrant appeal that Marvel/Disney live and die by these days. One perhaps wishes for more when it comes to Loki."

Observer:

• "As a cheeky action comedy with fast-paced dialogue, frequent gags and a bizarre left-of-center focal point, Loki is designed to be the most purely entertaining Disney+ Marvel series thus far, at least based on the first two episodes provided to critics."

[tvline](https://tvline.com/2021/06/08/loki-review-tom-hiddleston-owen-wilson-disney-

This might take a while cause posts can only be 40,000 characters, comments can only be 10,000 characters, and the Quran is 800,000 characters, but I’ll finish it eventually

(starting here then finishing in comments)

#1

1. THE OPENING (al-Fatihah) 1. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. 2. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. 3. The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 4. Master of the Day of Judgment. 5. It is You we worship, and upon You we call for help. 6. Guide us to the straight path. 7. The path of those You have blessed, not of those against whom there is anger, nor of those who are misguided. 2. THE HEIFER (al-Baqarah) In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful 1. Alif, Lam, Meem. 2. This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guide for the righteous. 3. Those who believe in the unseen, and perform the prayers, and give from what We have provided for them. 4. And those who believe in what was revealed to you, and in what was revealed before you, and are certain of the Hereafter. 5. These are upon guidance from their Lord. These are the successful. 6. As for those who disbelieve—it is the same for them, whether you have warned them, or have not warned them—they do not believe. 7. Allah has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing, and over their vision is a veil. They will have a severe torment. 8. Among the people are those who say, “We believe in Allah and in the Last Day,” but they are not believers. 9. They seek to deceive Allah and those who believe, but they deceive none but themselves, though they are not aware. 10. In their hearts is sickness, and Allah has increased their sickness. They will have a painful punishment because of their denial. 11. And when it is said to them, “Do not make trouble on earth,” they say, “We are only reformers.” 12. In fact, they are the troublemakers, but they are not aware. 13. And when it is said to them, “Believe as the people have believed,” they say, “Shall we believe as the fools have believed?” In fact, it is they who are the fools, but they do not know. 14. And when they come across those who believe, they say, “We believe”; but when they are alone with their devils, they say, “We are with you; we were only ridiculing.” 15. It is Allah who ridicules them, and leaves them bewildered in their transgression. 16. Those are they who have bartered error for guidance; but their trade does not profit them, and they are not guided. 17. Their likeness is that of a person who kindl

Here we go!

>!This is set before Guilliman crossed into the Imperium nihilus (So before devastation of Baal) with Tetrach Felix mostly acting as the reader's proxy!<

>!.!<

>!Opens just before the assault on Iax. Guilliman interrogates a demonhost (previously someone from a radical inquisitor's retinue) to understand mortarion's plan. It got free but Gman used the Emperor's sword to kill it. The grey knights were not happy and left his army for a time so they play no part in this battle (Seems like they do not totally trust Gman or Mortarion's true name would have been shared, plot device to prevent the fight from being too easy I suppose)!<

>!.!<

>!Mortation's position is not so secure since it's the nature of Chaos to fight among themselves. While he waits for Gman to come to him, Tzeentch and Khorne teamed up to conquer his domain in the scourge stars. Typhus left his army to attend to the invasion and warned Mortarion that Nurgle will not be pleased if he tarry too long in his feud with Gman. More Mortarion spoiled brat tantrum!<

>!.!<

>!We cut back to an interesting theological debate between Gman, Maxim (A librarian on Gman sorceror's council) and Illiyan natase (The half eldar ultramarine tennis player, oops! Just eldrad's ambassador to Gman in this cinematic universe) about godhood and whether the Emperor is a God. The Lorgar's origin of the imperial cult was revealed to a disturbed Maxim while Illiyan smiles smugly. On the Emperor it seems the Eldar themselves can't reach a conclusion on what he is and even their farseers aren't able look at the Astronomican directly.!<

>!.!<

>!Two disturbing trains of thoughts were considered. Even if the Emperor was a man, the faith of trillions over the past 10,000 years might have changed his nature. And with people starting to believe in Gman himself, is he on his own way to demigodhood? Maybe the miracles we are seeing these past books might not be the Emperor but manifestations of peoples' faith in Gman? The Eldar also seems to indicate there are Gods more eldritch and terrible than even the C'tan.!<

>!.!<

>!Comedic interlude between Rotigus the rainfather (2nd in Nugle's favor) and Ku'gath (1st in Nurgle favor). They are competing for Nurgle's favor with Ku'gath perfecting the Godblight which can permakill primarchs and greater demons while Rotigus hinting at his own subtle, almost tzeentchian approach to corruption. The Nurgle por

Phil

Credit to u/Collective_Insanity who has covered this in great detail on this sub. For those of you unfamiliar with Vader's current story then check out his post for the full guide & u/Comprehensive-Egg626 recent post which is why I think Vader is becoming another Kylo Ren

The Vader comics began promising but quickly spiraled into cringy stuff like the Amidalans & sadist Vader who at one time asks Tarkin to hunt him down, burns Padme's Nubian starship & is continually presented as this emo edgelord. Now we get more edgelord Vader who wants Luke dead...*sigh*

They're turning Vader into Kylo Ren as if this is the standard of Dark Side characters. I can see recurring patterns here from Kylo's 'character arc' & 'personality'. There's little imagination or creativity going on here.

At the end of TFA Kylo is evil & committed to serving Snoke & becoming more powerful.

By TLJ he's all doubtful & now doesn't care about Snoke but believes in destroying the past & wants Rey to join him so together they can bring about change to the Galaxy*.*

Then in TROS Kylo's just fulfilling Snoke's plan & acting as Snoke, so much for his edgy new plans of destroying the past, he joins Palpatine who admits he's been manipulating him & promises him an empire, which he already obtained as Supreme Leader, but heck why not join another manipulative powerful old guy after falling out with the last one, it's the bad guy thing to do. And he agrees to kill Rey.

Now swap out Kylo with Vader from these comics & it's very similar if not arguably the same. Ochi (Palpatine's incompetent henchman) can even be swapped out with Hux.

• Vader learns in the comics he didn't kill his wife, she gave birth, Palpatine lied & has been manipulating him & Palpatine as a result breaks him dumping him on Mustafar, he then goes searching for a Wayfinder on Mustafar (like Kylo did), he goes on a revengeful rampage against Palpatine to Exegol & discovers Palpatine's secrets (including his Sith & Clones) but still after all of this Vader decides to bow to Palpatine with no reason given in the comics.
• Kylo learns Palpatine's alive, seeks out a Wayfinder on Mustafar, goes to Exegol to kill this rival, but Kylo learns Palpatine created Snoke, has been the voice

So, I'm relatively new to TTRPG's, only started playing earlier this year. The following horror story takes place over a period of roughly two and a half months. I had read some stories and greentexts beforehand, but I didn't expect my first foray into 5e to be so... I don't know, for lack of a better term,

-just like the simulations-

I will be referring to all players involved by the class they were playing to keep things simple.

Onto the story.

I found a discord server that had DM's running oneshots. I got into one and after it was over, thanked the DM profusely for making my first ever game so cool. The DM seemed quite excited with how I'd played my barbarian, and invited me to his server to join his campaigns. He said they generally started as one-shots and often turned into something bigger. I was super happy of course, my first day of 5e and I'd already found a campaign.

What luck.

We played a couple games and I met the rest of the party, who were all nice and pretty chill. Also, entirely female except for DM and me, and with one exception, all new to TTRPG's as well. I suppose in hindsight, that should have come off as weird, but I was too busy being excited about finding a party so fast.

After a few weeks we played a haunted house game in which things went pretty horrific, pretty quickly. With no warning, my character, a female high elf monk, was captured by cultists, strapped down to a table and violated with a metal rod.

I'll admit, I had no idea what to do. I was stunned. But the table immediately erupted into cries of dismay and awkward silence while the DM chuckled.

This was the first incident.

He said it was a dream sequence, so I played along, though afterwards I told him that the scene had made me very uncomfortable, asked him not to do that shit again, and that he really needed to clear such topics with the whole table before inserting them into a campaign.

He apologized, sort of. Saying that it wasn’t meant to be serious and he always took peoples feelings into account.

Incident no.2

I was not present for this, but witnessed the aftermath. Apparently, the DM got into a heated argument with some of the players about Loli’s and started using the usual cringe excuses that people like that make about their choice of anime. Our Paladin suddenly left the games and the server with no explanation.

DM assured the rest of us that things were amicable. During this time period, I started to notice that whenever in genera

Sudden Lee

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.

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The Slaadi were created by Charles Stross, who seems to have a thing for horrific frogs. Giant, horrible frogs. Charles Stross is a British writer who wrote several articles for White Dwarf magazine and several of his creatures have made their appearance in the very first Fiend Folio released in 1981. As the creator of the death knight and the gith, all creatures that still give us nightmares to this day, he had this to say about the Slaadi.

> … the fact that I was running a fever when I came up with the Slaadi is probably not going to surprise anyone — think of ‘em as my independent exploration of Lovecraftiana. (I didn’t discover H. P. Lovecraft until a couple of years later.) > > Charles Stross Interview, SevenDead.com

With that in mind, we dive into the mind-breaking chaos-frogs.

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AD&D - Slaad (Red)

>Frequency: Rare > >No. Appearing: 3-18 > >Armor Class: 6 > >Move: 6” (can hop at 9” rate for maximum of one turn in one hour) > >Hit Dice: 7 > >% in Lair: 30% > >Treasure Type: F > >No. of Attacks: 3 > >Damage/Attack: 1-4/1-4/2-16 > >Special Attacks: See below > >Special Defenses: Regeneration - See below > >Magic Resistance: 35% > >Intelligence: Low > >Alignment: Chaotic Neutral > >Size: L (8’ high) > >Psionic Ability: Nil > >Level/X.P. Value: VI/875 + 8 per hit point

The Slaad is first introduced in the Fiend Folio (1981) and there are quite a lot to meet. There are five different colored Slaadi, along with two Slaadi Lords presented in the book, and none of them are described as friendly. In order of most likely to be killed by to least likely to be killed by, it begins with the Red Slaad, Blue Slaad, Green Slaad, Gray Slaad, and, lastly, the Death Slaad. Pink, purple, orange, and yellow are probably sad because they didn’t get a Slaad, but let’s be honest - a pink Slaad wouldn’t be very intimidating.

In addition, the two Slaadi lords got their own things going on and we’ll jump over to them once we get past the basics of these creatures.

The Slaadi are large frogs with the tallest of them coming in at 10 feet tall and the shortest ones around 6 feet tall. While you might think that these bipedal frog-monster