#fightwhilefleeing

You could try getting one of those necklaces that’s made for chewing? 

I think the tag originally said that it was a lipstick false agave. When I first got it it was so chipper and pink at the edges, and it’s been flattening so i tried to give it more sun. However, we’ve had unpredictable weather and it’s gotten more rain than I think it should have (I rushed home to try and save it). But the change from green to brown happened literally overnight while it was inside. Help, it’s the only plant alive from the first batch i bought and i really want to nurture it back to life. 

SuccyGirl:

It’s an Echeveria agavoides and it looks like sunburn to me! Which happens when not slowly acclimated to more intense sun. Even an unexpected heat wave can do it, as I’ve had plants burn from a sudden 80 degree day when it was overcast all week.

After the initial burn it will probably start looking worse and worse. But it doesn’t look bad enough to kill the plant. If any of the leaves go mushy I’d remove them but otherwise leave the leafs attached. It’s leaves are going to look damaged forever but it will eventually grow new ones and absorb the scared ones. So eventually it will go back to having no burnt leaves but it’s going to take awhile!

From your other message it sounds like you’re taking care of it correctly, though you may want to change it’s soil in the future at some point down the road. The rain it got probably didn’t hurt, as long as it wasn’t sitting outside for days getting rained on.

So I figure i’ll use this opportunity to explain character making/character sheets in general.This will be more in depth than you need but i’ll call it a resource and add it to my blog in a link. 

Buckle up guys this is going to be a LONG one we’ll call this

DUNGEONS AND KOBOLDS’S LONG GUIDE TO MAKING CHARACTER SHEETS

1.     Character Sheet

First step is getting the character sheet itself. Below is a link to where you can download them on Wizards of the Coast’s website:

https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/character_sheets

This should download a file – the sheet that people use most often is called CharacterSheet_3Pgs_Complete.pdf

It’s well laid out and easily editable on your computer.

2.     Class/Race/Background Combination

Second, choose your class/race/background combination. It’s also important to understand a basic idea of where these appear/what they effect

Race: Ability Scores, Skills, Proficiencies, Features & Traits

Background: Skills, Proficiencies, Features & Traits, Equipment

Class: Basically everything but Ability Scores – although it does determine how you’ll want to arrange your Scores.

3.     Ability Scores

Ability Scores are on the far left hand side of the sheet. These determine your base Strength, Dexterity, etc. bonuses (ie. What you add to your rolls).

There are 3 basic ways of determining these scores: rolling, point buy, and standard array.

https://thekindgm.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/determining-ability-scores/

Above is a link to a post that explains these better than I could which I refer to often. (consult your DM as to which way you are using for your campaign)

For every 2 points your Ability Score goes up/down by, your bonus will go/down by 1. Ie. A Strength of 10 will give me 0 or no bonus a 12 +1, a 14 +2, etc. Whereas an 8 will give me -1, a 6 -2.

Arrange these scores as you wish – a good rule of thumb is you want your primary attacking ability to be your highest (normally the Quick Build section of your class will have good suggestions on how to arrange these statistics). I’ll go through what each of these scores effects in my explanation which should give you some options on how to arrange them.

To these base scores you’ve figured out, you then add the bonuses given to you by your Race.

For example, if I have a 14 Dexterity (+2) but I’m playing a Kobold (which has an increase of 2 for Dexterity as one of its traits) my Dexterity is then brought up to 16 (+3)

4.     Proficiency Bonus/Saving Throws

Proficiency bonus has a separate column in the levelling table of your class. At level 1 it is generally +2. This means that if you are proficient in a Saving Throw, Skill, Attack, or Tool you add your Proficiency Bonus and the bonus from your associated Ability Score to the Roll.

For example, if my Kobold is a barbarian, they have proficiency in Strength and Constitution Saving Throws. This means if my Kobold has a Strength of 14 (+2) and I am rolling a Saving Throw, I add another +2 to the roll (bringing it up to a total of +4). On the left hand side of the Saving Throws (and skills) there are little circles, fill in the circles of the Saving Throws you are proficient in to remind yourself why you have that score (but write next to them what you’ll actually be adding, ie. +4 Strength Saving Throw for my Kobold).

5.     Skills

This sheet actually makes skills relatively easy to fill out. Again fill in the circles of the skills you are proficient in (these can come from your class, race, and background so be sure to check all three). On the right hand side of each skill is the associated Ability – if you are not proficient you write down your base Ability Score bonus. If you are proficient be sure to add the +2 (at first level)

6.     Other Proficiencies

In Other Proficiencies and Languages write down the languages, tools, weapons, and armour you are proficient in – this is more to remind yourself of what you can and can’t easily use.

7.     Armour

https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Armor#content

Here is a link to all of the armour scores you’ll need. Generally, armour is a base score (say 11 for leather armour) plus your Dexterity (just the base Ability Score bonus). Some armour gives you just a base score that you don’t add anything to. Some will have a strength requirement for you to be able to use it. The link divides the amour into light, medium and heavy amour – whether or not you can use them is determined by your proficiencies (found in your other proficiencies section)

If you’re wielding a shield you add another 2 to your armour score.

Unlike weapons your generally can’t use armour that you are not proficient in.

 8.     Initiative

Unless you have a Feat or a special class based bonus your Initiative is your Dexterity Ability Score Bonus

9.     Weapon Attacks

https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Weapons#content

This link again divides the weapon up neatly into the proficiencies (simple and martial weapons).

There are 2 main scores to worry about with weapon attacks – Dexterity and Strength.

Dexterity based weapons are Ranged or Finesse weapons. Strength is everything else. Your attack bonus will be either your Strength or Dexterity Score (depending on the weapon) plus your proficiency bonus (although you can use weapons you are not proficient in, you just lose this bonus).

Your damage is the listed damage (see link above) plus either your Strength or Dexterity (again depending on the associated score).

(I’m not going to go into dual wielding here but feel free to ask if interested)

10. Equipment

Equipment will be listed in class and background – all you have to do is write it down in this section.

11. Gold

Gold normally appears in your background and class, but have a chat to your DM to see if they have a preference for staring gold.

12. Features/Traits

In the Features/Traits column you write down basically the things you can do (though people will use this column differently).

This includes things such as Darkvision, the ability you gain from your background and general abilities granted by your class (that are not spells or attacks). For instance a Cleric’s Channel Divinity might be written in this column.

 13. Spell Casting Ability

Your spell casting ability will be listed in your class – either Charisma, Intelligence or Wisdom. 

14. Spell Save DC

Your Spell Save DC will be your Spell Casting Ability Score’s bonus + your proficiency + 8. Ie. If my kobold is now a bard with a Charisma of 18 (+4) and is 1st level their Spell Save DC will be 4+2+8 for a total of 14.

 15. Spell Attack Bonus

Your spell attack bonus is your Spell Casting Ability Score’s bonus + your proficiency – for my previously mentioned kobold this would be 4+2 for a total of +6

16. Choosing Spells

There are 2 main ways classes determine what spells you have. The first method is, you choose new spells as you level up and those are the only spells you have (for example a Bard uses this method). The number of spells you have for classes such as this will be determined by the Spells Known column in your levelling up table. The second method is preparing spells. This means you can potentially cast any of the spells for your class, but each morning you choose certain ones for the day. The number of spells you can prepare will most likely be your Spell Casting Ability Score Bonus + your level (unless you’re a paladin).

17. The Other Stuff (alignment/personality)

The other stuff you can write or not write as your wish – this stuff is more for RP. Personally I will write my alignment and that is it – but you can plan as much or as little as you want! 

As usual feel free to ask for any clarifications/more information.

sorry i didn't mean to sound judgemental! I just love hearing how people find classic books, but I saw the joke (moby dick/suck) and thought maybe it was just a joke and i was being too excited about books! Thank you for letting me knowwwww. I have always eyed it from afar and now i can probs cross it off my list.

ah right! yeah I find a lot of long “classic” books are in one of two classes of bad.

Could have been good if it was half the length: Don Quixote, War and Peace, Moby Dick

Good story but I hate your writing style: Pretty much all Dickens except A Tale of Two Cities and Oliver Twist, George Elliot, Daniel Defoe

Tyvm. Same here. I could read serious takes on Black Panther all day long. There’s sO much great material in the movie. It was so well written and contained so many interesting points and nuances, and so many people are finally getting to see and learn about black diaspora, outside of Hollywood stories written by white people for white people

Idk it just made me think about how womanhood is policed: acceptable desires, acceptable partners, acceptable bodies. Like transmisogyny is it's own whole thing but it is valuable (to me??) to see the way these things link up across different experiences. Idk. Quality content as always. Pls enjoy my musings. <2>

Oh for sure there are some experiences that overlap in spots.  It’s important for folks t talk about the way that not being cis, or not being hetero can impact the way you navigate through society, especially in interpersonal relationships. Like, when I came out as trans, all of my previously affectionate cis friends pretty much stopped touching me altogether, probably due to transphobic/transmisogynistic stigmas. They only grew more averse when I came out as a lesbian, and I stopped being invited to girl’s nights and whatnot. Like, that sort of experience can be harrowing, and folks need to be able to discuss that and the similarities, how certain systems of oppression sometimes use similar tools to work towards their goal, etc..

It’s just important for folks to be specific, and to not ultimately equate the specific violent history of one group to the general oppression of others, since that is manipulative, and exploitative, and false. Like, we can point out that some of the same tools are used, but we can’t equate the violence, we can’t equate the manner in which those tools are used, we can’t equate the impact on each community, etc. etc.

I just find the “terf rhetoric” schtick endlessly insulting and frustrating, because I am certain I could change a few words in a transmisogynistic TERF rant and produce a biphobic rant, or an aphobic rant. But I could also make a white nationalist rant, and an ableist rant. I could also make it into a rant against transmisogyny, against racism, against poverty and capitalism, etc.

By flipping a few words around, I can turn the message into whatever I want. Does that mean that anti-capitalist activists are TERFs because they share similar rhetoric? Nope, that would be categorically absurd. There are vastly different histories, contexts, mechanisms, etc. involved, even if some of the same words and argument structures are used. Different words involve different contexts and histories, and that can’t be ignored as if it doesn’t matter.

The sentences “I love you” and “I hate you” are very similar. 66% similar. You couldn’t say they’re 66% similar in meaning, in context, though. One is expressing love, and one is expressing hatred. That one word in each determines the meaning. You can’t just swap words and say it’s the same thing. That’s what cishet people do when they criticize LGBT folks joking about them, and cry about heterophobia and cisphobia, and how we wouldn’t lauugh if the jokes were about gay, bi, trans etc. people.

Oh my god you already made it