D&D for Queer Peeps

dont ask

This video isn’t quite as unhinged as the opening frame makes it look. I think.

you hear a voice in your head: "No, he wasn't worthy. But you are."

(Side note: There’s a whole ongoing discussion on how the terminology was changed in 5E from “races” of humanoids to “species” of humanoids that’s tangentially related here with many insisting that calling the different types of humanoids different species implies they can’t interbreed and produce fertile offspring (which is not a universal rule even in our own reality), but I digress.)

During the time of their enslavement, their bodies had to adapt to living in the Astral Plane and in addition to this, were heavily experimented on by the mind flayers. It’s not exactly known if the egg laying and sterility of non-egg-layers is a “natural” by-product of living in the Astral or if it’s the result of the experimentation, but it is only a more “recent” change. The Githyanki are still humanoid mammals who just happen to lay eggs now. If it helps, you can equate them to a platypus, which both lays eggs and produces milk to feed its young.

In addition to laying eggs, Githyanki also have more highly developed psychic abilities and “atrophied” digestive systems. They require extremely frequent meals of very high protein foods to live outside of the Astral Plane. I put “atrophied” in quotes because I think high protein foods might actually be more difficult for a person with an atrophied digestive system to digest, but that’s how the lore books describe it.

Gaming Dice.

"No," says the storyteller. "Stories are what make us human."

"OH but it's so useful to help remember all my character abilities and spells"

No it's not. You've only been tricked into thinking it's easy because you're a fucking Ipad baby who's let your brain be sandpapered smooth by corprorate UI design. The moment the wifi cuts out or your app fails to load you're going to forget how to play your character and you're going to eat up precious session time looking it up on your phone.

"but there's so much text, I could never keep track of it all!"

PAPER, motherfucker. Read your abilities and either transcribe them into a word doc to print out or grab a notebook from the dollarstore. Writing them out this way will not only keep them on hand but help you learn how they work in the first place. Doodle in the margins, apply cute stickers, and spill things on them like god intended.

"But how will my DM be able to see my stats and track my damage?"

Why the fuck does your DM need to manage your character sheet? That's your job. Keeping track of your abilities and doing minor math is part of the fun of the game, and the moment you let a computer do the gruntwork you've put up another barrier between you and the character you've created.

The second the plan is commenced and things start falling apart immediately:

It sucks being the only person in your DND party to clock the evil twink NPC -- and then for that twink to love that you see him for what he is ✨