Sovereign of Armoured Invertebrates

every time i hold a door for someone i can't help but think of this halimede post

What the sneef? I'm snorfin' here!

Imagine being one of the parents for the kids in the Magic School Bus class. Getting those field trip permission slips home every single night.

Ms Frizzle sending you one (1) permission slip at the beginning of the year to cover all the field trips and you’re like huh that’s a little unusual but I guess it’s efficient at least and then you open it and it’s written like This

i do think its fun that in Undertale the two characters who are, like, Conventionally Attractive are both ghosts possessing artificial bodies. like Undyne isn't a muscle mommy she's built like a lolipop and kinda gangly and gap toothed. the boss monsters come the closest and they're some kind of magical royalty, and even then Asgore is... kinda fat? and toriel is a brick. like actually look at that sprite, she's a brick.

Hello princess , your profile caught my eye. I’ve been feeling a bit lonely since losing my wife and I’m looking for someone kind to talk to just friendly chats, nothing romantic or sexual.

IT'S A WEBCOMIC, COOP. FOUR KIDS PLAYING A COMPUTER GAME. SLOW AT FIRST, BUT IT REALLY PICKS UP ONCE THE ALIENS ARE INTRODUCED.

Goblins were in fact, for me, a turning point on this concept. I had a player who wanted to be a goblin, and I forgot about this fact up to the point that the party got a quest to kill goblins. As soon as I was announcing the quest I realized it would be a problem, though I didn't have anything else ready so I went with it. And it was! The players immediately questioned why the mayor was paying mercenaries to kill goblins, and then further questioned his justifications, at which point I realized it would be a better story if the goblins were a scapegoat and not an actual villain. This turned into a terse interrogation where the mayor threatened to put them in jail once their questions got pointed enough that he would have to either field accusations or lie; they then went CSI on the situation and drilled through his political cabinet to get answers. I had to improv pretty much all of it and I don't remember the actual ending (I know they sided with the goblins and the mayor was guilty), but this helped me realize that the Gary Gygax writing style of "certain races are just BAD and that's why they hang out in dungeons" was very short-sighted.

Reblogging again to add a quick take: as a DM introducing ethics makes your game so much better.

here’s a couple of articles on the history of racism + xenophobia in tolkien & how that influenced dnd

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