La Mer Et La Lune

Alright folks, I know i’ve been rather absent since the whole Tumblr Apocalypse thing, but here’s some Proof that I haven’t just been sitting on My Ass:

Announcing The Oracle!

A couple Months back, while I was working on the Mutophage, I had the idea stroke me of trying to play DND using a Deck of Tarot Cards in place of dice. Seemed like a silly idea, but as it happens sometimes, it stuck. I had seen a few classes out there that tried to make use of a deck of tarot cards in same way. but in most cases it was something along the lines of “I play this card to cast this spell” and felt more like a TGC than like reading tarot. I wanted to make something more integral. The Oracle is My take on support-centric class. By reading and manipulating fate, they are able to change the tide of battle, granting boons to their allies, and casting certain doom on their foes. This class is built from the ground up with the intent of feeling like an actual tarot reading when played. Having read tarot for almost 15 years, I worked to make sure that everything flows naturally in the same way as an actual reading, and in a way that won’t upset your deck. In fact, I designed the class to work as a great exercise in getting to know a new deck, or just learning the essentials tarot in the first place. If you love DND, and you enjoy Reading Tarot, you should definitely give it a read.

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There are many wonderful texts on this topic doing the rounds, but I’d like to add one point of view I haven’t seen discussed:

The way Peter doesn’t ever question Molly and Foxglove not speaking.

I’m a sometimes nonverbal autistic person, and in Peter, I see someone who really respects the fact that not everyone will speak.

When Peter is captured and spends time together with Foxglove, he lets her tell her story even if it takes a huge amount of time. He lets her do things in her own pace, even if night falls while she’s telling the story and they must stop for sleep.

(Also: when they have escaped and Foxglove is fascinated by the everyday items at the corner shop, Peter gently guides her towards the matter at hand. Not ”don’t touch it” but ”let’s come back to this later”.)