#i got the role btw

[ihavenohotcocoa]

fun fact: i performed the 118 monologue for my audition to play the villain in an after-school theater program

anyways when i said “how old were you when your father left” the director nearly did a spittake it was great

#i got the role btw #i also am a co-author of the script #it’s pretty neat :) #tma #the magnus archives #tma spoilers #magnus archives spoilers #hailey’s cove #coco says stuff

[quippso]

#critical role #the mighty nein #mollymauk tealeaf #caleb widogast #nott the brave #fjord stone #god i love these idiots #my friend got me into critical role about a week ago and im already on like ep30 ish #fjord's casting eldritch blast btw #when i was drawing them all together it looked like he was sniping a caleb in the corner

[milquetoad]

can someone check on taliesin jaffe please. this is two campaigns now that he’s built a pc specifically designed to seduce liam o’brien and both times he’s gotten cucked by a cool-toned trust fund baby that wasn’t even in the main party

#molly got iced before he could get caleb’s clothes off and essek got his manicured claws in before kingsley had a chance #now orym is sending where u at? texts to dorian while ashton is just sitting there. tragic #critical role #bells hells #ashrym #dorym #widomauk #thIS IS A JOKE POST BTW. i mean i believe it but it’s a JOKE

[imorphemi]

So I ended up animating this haha I just. I love these two sm they are just so incredibly

#my art #animation #critical role #the mighty nein #caleb widogast #nott the brave #I GOT TO THE VETH PART BTW #OUGH #;-;

[gorgynei]

"you're vax'ildan. keyleth spoke about you a lot."

#btw i got emotional drawing this. dies #i watched the finale of c1 literally days before e33 it was a funny little joke the universe played on me #cr spoilers #critical role #orym of the air ashari #vax'ildan #critical role fanart #aceart

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

watched Grease the other night with my buddy and. well. obviously i Had To

#this was a good warm up i think. kinda low quality cause its Small and Not Much Effort Went Into It #but i think the fuzziness adds to the charm. or something like that #ive always loved greasers as a concept and general Thing #anyway now im Thinking about what everyone's 'roles' would be #i think the little greaser group would be wally / sally / barnaby #except theyre the most unconventional greasers ever #sally is all bark and no bite. barnaby is no bark and no bite. wally is just there to look pretty #i think theyd fold frank into the group eventually due to Witnessing His Knack For Violence #i can picture them mostly hanging around a diner #where they all share the single milkshake they can collectively afford #scribble garnish #welcome home #in middle school i absolutely adored the outsiders #we even did a thing for the class where we were assigned 'greaser' or 'soc' and i was So Fucking Delighted to get greaser #assigned greaser by 8th grade english class #got to dress up and everything. i had a blast. so gender. #during that time i would even sit there in class thinking 'i was born in the wrong generation'. delusional? yes #one of my ocs is even a fuckin. universe-hopping assassin greaser #their vibe.... 50s punk... #loved the movie btw. made next to no sense. very charming

[gonkaccino]

Season 4 hope/prediction: Deb's show is solid, zero issues, runs flawlessly with great ratings, but her personal life is completely eroding. We start with her discovering Marcus is leaving, and it culminates in DJ going into labor right before a taping. Deb chooses the show. When it's over, and she finally flies to Vegas, it's too late -- Aiden's not letting her in because he loves his wife too much to let DJ get into a shouting match with her mom right after giving birth, and instead takes the brunt of Deb's wrath, with her making excuses and talking about how they used her money for IVF, and anyway, DJ's fine, so who cares if she wasn't there? Kathy's in the room with DJ and the baby (DJ's the closest she has to a daughter, after all) and Deb leaves too furious to think about how badly she's hurt her family.

She heads back to her Vegas mansion -- empty, obviously, Josefina and the dogs would be in LA -- and pops open a bottle of wine. Alone. Completely alone. Can't call Marty, she has no friends, the closest she's got would be Kiki and wouldn't that be embarrassing, calling your poker dealer to talk about your feelings --

and then Ava's there. She got the news about DJ's labor, she got the story from Aiden (who was distraught, by the way, man's too much of a sweetheart for Vance drama), a spare key from Damian (happy to pawn that off on her, though if it isn't returned promptly he's taking legal action) and has arrived just in time to see the Deborah Vance having a breakdown the likes of which no one thought physically possible. Crying gives you wrinkles, you know. But Ava has to be here. She's the physical embodiment of a lesson Deb never truly learned: you don't have to like someone to love them.

In my imaginary fantasy land that I am concocting this would then subsequently lead into them fucking nasty but I understand that this may be a step too far for the surprisingly large number of very normal people who watch this show and would forgive JPL for not taking it that far. However I do believe they should fuck about it and let Ava take the reigns in their relationship while they see how many of Deb's bridges they can un-burn.

#hacks hbo #ava x deborah #avorah #avadeb #hey if anyone wants to bother writing this for real go for it I don't care #if any of this is any degree of accurate for JPL's vision of s4 then I will be extremely happy #deb is NOT miranda priestly #miranda knew from the start that she could never have human connection or she'd lose her dream job #deb has inspired such genuine devotion that she does not understand that a woman in a man's role historically requires sacrifice #she knew the fire cost her the show but she didn't KNOW that that was the only reason until now #that the network did not give a shit at all #the advertisers did and the advertisers are the true enemy #she still believes she got to the top through hard work and talent #wrong the deborah vance brand was built by people who love her and believe in her #only when she has lost DJ will she be open to hearing the truth (that it was a group effort) #from the mouth of the one person who stood by her out of a wombo combo of love and spite #only THEN will she accept that kathy was right #THIS is why frank left her. THIS behavior. the belief that SHE is a special queen who did it all alone #frank was scum by the way dude groomed her little sister #his behavior is fucked but his reason is close enough to correct that ava can use it as an example of how much deb HAS to change #btw please please please we need deb sleeping with ava and not calling it a mistake because she's too fucking tired and sad

[sky-scribbles]

What is Essek's Wisdom score?

(aka, a totally unnecessary ramble about one drow and his dnd mechanics by me, a tumblr user who should be asleep)

Last episode, we got a rare hint about Essek’s Wisdom score, in the form of Fearne’s attempt to sneak a look at his feet while he slept. Whatever Essek’s passive perception is, it was ‘just enough’ to catch Fearne, with her Sleight of Hand check of 9. I made a joke about this giving Essek a pretty low Wisdom score, and several people pointed out that because Matt halves his characters’ passive perceptions when they’re sleeping, Essek’s Wisdom would actually be around the 18-20 mark. But this… might not necessarily be the case.

Now, I did honestly mean that post as a joke and not any actual theorising on Essek’s mechanics, but since people got me thinking, let’s crunch some numbers! (Huge thanks to the folks over on the Essek discord for helping me with the maths here! Also, disclaimer that all of this could be disproven next episode, and I am fine with that. I enjoy doing dnd maths anyway, because I am a nerd.)

So: if Matt remembered the house rule about halving the passive perception while a character sleeps (and he doesn’t always), this would give Essek a passive of 18-20. But does this mean his Wisdom is 18-20? Actually, no! For a start, if he had no other bonuses to perception (and I’ll get to that in a second), this would give Essek a bonus of +4 or +5, which would make his awake passive just 14-15, and his sleeping passive 7. Not enough to catch Fearne. But: it might well be the case that Essek simply has Perception proficiency, in which case, he wouldn’t need a Wisdom of 18+.

While Essek, being an NPC, obviously doesn’t conform to PC rules, it’s worth bearing in mind that all elf PCs get perception proficiency for free from their Keen Senses trait. Perception would therefore be a pretty reasonable proficiency for Essek to have, even if it didn’t make sense from a character perspective – which it does. He is, after all, constantly having to look over his shoulder for assassins (and even before he was, having a keen eye out for trouble would be a useful asset in his former courtly intrigues.)

So what does this mean for his passive perception? Well, he appears to be the equivalent of a level 17-20 wizard, if his use of a ninth-level spell slot is anything to go by. With the caveat that he doesn’t have to use player rules (just attach that caveat to, uh… everything I say in this post) that would give him a + 6 proficiency bonus. If this is true, then all Essek needs for a waking passive perception of 18 is actually a Wisdom modifier of just +2, i.e. a Wisdom score of 14 or 15. (A baseline of 10, plus 2 from his Wisdom, plus 6 from proficiency). This would allow his halved passive to be at least 9, and let him catch Fearne in her sneaky feat of feet-peeking. If we make his Wisdom any higher than this, I don’t think we can qualify Matt’s ‘just enough’ statement.

But wait! There are more options! Unlikely ones, but options worth bearing in mind, nonetheless. We know Matt is on board with giving his allied NPCs feats; indeed, Essek himself has the War Caster feat. So it’s entirely possible that he might also have the observant feat. This would be a very logical choice from a roleplaying perspective considering Essek’s current status as a fugitive.

Having this feat would add +5 to his passive perception. Let’s say Essek has no Wisdom bonus at all, but has this feat and is proficient in perception. In this case, his passive while awake is 21 (a baseline of 10, plus 5 from Observant, plus 6 from profiency). That's a sleeping passive of 10: just enough to catch Fearne in the act. We could actually dump his Wisdom into the negative and he'd still be able to just barely notice her.

If you shook me and asked me to tell you what I actually think Essek’s Wisdom is, I’d guess at his Wis being at that ~14 mark I pitched earlier. I think this would make sense from what we’ve seen of him – yes, he has done some completely dumbass things, but he’s shown a level of self-reflection and self-awareness, especially after his redemption arc kicked off, that I think a Wisdom of about this number is justified. I wouldn't be surprised to find it was lower or higher, though; Wisdom is a wibbly stat to define at the best of times and you can make a case for Essek being just about anywhere on the number scale.

A stat of ~14 also works for me from a character construction perspective: we already know he has an Intelligence of around 22, and a decent Charisma; back in campaign 2, the Nein regularly had to roll Insight checks of 20+ to see through him, indicating a high Deception. So I’m hesitant to pitch his Wisdom too high; this might just be my own personal preference as a DM, but I’d be unlikely to roll up an NPC ally with high numbers in all three mental stats. Give ‘em some lower scores to keep things spicy, y’know?

(As a side note, Essek’s Dexterity is a very serviceable 16, and I suspect that his Charisma is at least equal to that. Having scores of 16+ in four stats would be a bit much, imo, even if his Strength and Constitution are probably much, much lower.)

A final point: one thing we can rule out is Matt allowing Essek to use his regular, un-halved Passive while trancing, since he didn’t remember that Essek could trance until Laura reminded him (bless them both), and I’m pretty sure the Fearne incident happened before she did. Though I should say again, considering that Matt can and does forget rules from time to time… it is also true that Matt might’ve just forgotten about halving the passive score. If he did just forgor, this entire ramble is meaningless but oh well.

Tl;dr: we don’t know, but a reasonable guess would be to say that his Wisdom is about 14. I guess I’ll just sit here and hope that Matt may eventually release his statblock (and an explanation of how he made his dad so mad he died. Hi, Matt Mercer, not to beg but please –)

#critical role #cr spoilers #cr3 spoilers #essek thelyss #this was so dumb but I couldn't sleep til I'd got it out of my head #(gentle request for people to stop 'um actually'ing the original post now sdhfd #i know you mean well and ily but it was a joke I cannot stress how much it was a joke) #my cr meta #genuinely interested in anyone's thoughts on his Wisdom from a character perspective btw!

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

if 9&10 were "dont wander off", and 11&12 were "the doctor lies", 13s rule #1 is "dont question me"

"have we not had a good time together" shes pointing yaz to the rule that yaz very well knows is there: we can travel if you dont ask me any difficult questions. yaz knows this is the rule - "because you ask too many questions", "this team structure isnt flat" - but she also was the one to invite the doctor into her home so im pretty sure she also knows shes not gonna kicked out that easily. she has some leeway. which she has been using between revolution and flux, which is why the doctor reminds her of the rules

i dont think she'd kick her out though. she wouldnt. i think it's just that the more you break the rule, the more unpleasant she becomes to be around, and eventually youre gonna walk out on your own. she doesnt want you to, she'd rather you stay and dont ask questions. but if youre gonna try to ask questions anyway, i think thats whats gonna happen

and yaz must think so too. because she does back off. because she doesnt want that to happen either. and it does anyway

#dont question me/dont challenge me. questions are the sore spot but the challenge is one she says explicitly once #because you see this in how she is with other people too. dont try her patience. dont act like shes smaller. dont challenge her or Die #based on the giggle - 'i thought i was clever' 'what do i say?! because im always sooo certain' - i dont think 14 is like this #also based on the expressions of affection #hes not that......reactive. to this. specific thing #so i wonder if it runs over to 15 #he seems chill. i think? he seems fairly chill. but also i think we've so far only seen him mostly in control of things #faced with the maestro temporarily not entirely in control hes Notably Less Chill #but still bigger picture. hes mostly in control of things right now i think #or uhhhh based on how eager he seems to get out of the role of doctor #hmmmmm #13 didnt want it but like. was stuck with it i think #didnt want it but nobody else was gonna do it. thats why 12 regenerated #15 comes out 14 Literally Quitting #he doesnt want it and hes decided hes not stuck with it. maybe #none of this is true btw im just saying words recreationally #like those 13 moments are super cherrypicked and i havent rewatched in forever so #dont believe me gfkjghgjh #this is based more on how i write them than what ive seen basically #anyway in terms of 14/yaz i think it takes yaz a while to figure out how to deal with 14 Not being like this #bc she got soooo practiced at handling 13. most of which was abt like not tripping this rule too much #she'd keep it up with 14 and he'd just do stuff that like breaks the rule from his side and yaz wouldnt have any idea how to deal with it #he'd show her hes chilled out a bit. about this. over and over and it'd still take her moooooonthssssssss to start relaxing #just muscle memory at this point. doesnt help that shes also like this #i wonder if 14 - in a sort of compelte reversal - wants to be told what to do and how to do and #seeks out situations where someone else knows more than him so he can sit down and say 'teach me' #i think thats what he does. about all the human stuff. hes like teach me. all of it. show me how to do this

[terresdebrume]

Following my basic rules cheat sheet (also tagged 'For DND newbies'), here are the Artificer, Barbarian, Bard and Blood Hunter cheat sheet. These are super basic things meant to be printed in A5. PDF version can be made available on demand. Still no ID because I have no idea how the fuck to describe this more than I just did.

Please reblog if you find this useful :)

#DND #Dungeons and Dragons #Critical Role #Dimension 20 #DNDing #DNDinspiration #For DND newbies #I've decided to go in alphabetical order #CONCRIT WELCOME BTW! #100n #300n #400n #I was like 'ah looks like this one will stay under the radar' #and then it just got a hundred notes in 10mn #500n #600n #700n #800n #900n #1kn

[aroaceleovaldez]

actually in hindsight why did Rick repeatedly have Piper solve all the ghost problems on the Argo II when. Hazel was right there. A daughter of Pluto. who by all logic should be able to control ghosts even a little bit. like, we know she has at least some of those types of powers. she just never gets to actually practically use them. ever. and then when there are zombies Hazel once again. does not get to use her powers about it. what.

#pjo #riordanverse #hazel levesque #does hazel EVER use necromancy powers? besides *maybe* a little bit when working for gaea to raise giants? #though that was pretty explicitly mostly geokinesis #where is hazel's necromancy cmon #but like. ''oh no people are getting possessed. i know! PIPER! FIX THE PROBLEM WITH YOUR CHARMSPEAK'' #''rather than oh i dont know HAZEL. THE PERSON WITH GHOST POWERS DIRECTLY NEXT TO ME.'' #heck Hazel is very familiar with people being possessed. her mother was for. awhile. #why not just have hazel go ''hm yup. that's possession if i've ever seen it. hold on i've got this'' and then she uses pluto powers #you cant even use the excuse ''oh but she wouldn't know how to-'' #she's been hanging out with her brother Nico ''Ghost King'' di Angelo for what. eight? ten months? something like that? #and one of her major things is that she's pretty good at picking things up quickly and has highly honed her powers #you're telling me nico never told her ''btw just in case: if you ever need to exorcise a ghost from someone just idk smack 'em'' #like why is the exorcising ghosts piper's job #and why with the zombie apocalypse was it like ''oh no we can't do anything until apollo comes over to help us or whatever'' #''if only we had a CENTURION WITH NECROMANCY POWERS. like a CHILD OF PLUTO OR SOMETHING'' #''WHOSE BROTHER VERY FAMOUSLY GOT A ZOMBIE AS A BIRTHDAY GIFT'' #and its like. yes hazel does ultimately play a significant role in stopping the zombie problem #but functionally COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO HER POWERS?

[daily-linkclick]

daily link click: 9/10/23

relief

#link click #link click spoilers #qiao ling #li tianxi #i got an ask askign for more moments of them but i didnt see it so i just. had an angstier doodle #ill give u more ql and xixi momence i prommy... #this doesnt mean anything btw i just want them to hug #i think xixi wld have soooo many issues and would latch on to any older woman who's relatively nice to her #because she's literally never had a good female role model other than her mother and shes surrounded by men who want to kill maim

[life-b4-death]

I spent 4 hours on this makeup and Taliesin said my "head is perfect!" which is all I wanted 😭❤

Also Christian Navarro popped out of nowhere and asked me to take a photo of him and his dad??! Best con experience I've ever had for sure Oh and someone thought I was Taliesin in disguise just bumping around con, which has to be the highest of compliments 😂

#got a million compliments on my cosplay and my favorites included: 'Thats fuckin bitchin!' and 'I want a Fuck Off hammer thats awesome!' #cosplay #ashton greymoore #critical role #critical role cast #rccc 2023 #my post #i wish we couldve talked to all of them but photo ops are so quick 😭 #gonna try for autographs now lmao #this was my first cosplay btw and i spent over $400 on it 😅

[stromer]

I also don’t like talking about him either when I’m up here, but those don’t go in without him.

+++

#THOSE DON't GO IN WITHOUT HIM!!!! BOESER DID THE WORK BUT MILLER PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN MOLDING HIM TO BE WHAT HE NEEDED!!! #we are so back... canucks are being put on panels together and making each other giggle ..... i used to PRAY for times like this #brock boeser #jt miller #i love that jt just Coach Talks his way thru interviews like thank you rick jr for sharing your wise knowledge with the rest of us #i do NOT want to hype you up or talk about you in any capacity but here is a play by play of how i couldn't have scored w/o you #<- and i've been helping you with that since 2020 when you bitched and moaned that you got moved to be a net presence on pp1 #brock's shifty eyes are also something that can be so personal btw #i just needed this entire bit here for safekeeping . for me personally

[teastarfall]

i have no clue what im going for w/ my artstyle anymore exploding on the spot right now ^_^

#i was extremely happy with the colouring on the first doodles until i got to hunter ☹️ #i think it’s because i changed his colour palette on one part of him #and im not used to changing his colours alone #and now i feel like i dipped my own art in cement #oh well i can change it back lol #second doodle brought me back to the days when i was hyper fixed on the dad hunter au #that au is dead btw… the ghost of it still haunts me.. #no reason why i dropped it i just lost interest #hunter does have the occasional babysitter role in my main au though #it goes as well as you’d expect 😋 #is it normal to ramble in my own tags idek at this point #little nightmares #little nightmares 2 #very little nightmares #little nightmares fanart #ln rcg #ln hunter #ln rk #ln thin man #ln six #ln mono

[mariogirl369]

I got this new AU:

Basically, it's an Isekai AU for Final Fantasy VII. Zack Fair is the main character, and post FF7 Rebirth, he was just walking outside the Church in the Sector 5 Slums, when he's suddenly transported to a different world!

He was summoned there for a reason: Someone's prayers, which were heard at the Summoner's Platform, called for him, so they summoned him to this world. And if those prayers are anything to go by, then the world could be facing a great peril...

Zack had lost his Buster Sword in the process of being summoned here, but don't worry! He's got a NEW weapon! And a new outfit as well:

That's right! Zack will be wearing his "Shinra Full Dress Uniform" (AKA Prince Zack outfit) from Ever Crisis for this AU!

Ahem! Now, for this AU, the people in it aren't just people Zack might recognize (like Cloud, Aerith, Yuffie, Angeal, and yes, even Sephiroth), but there are also some new faces that he's never seen before. (Other Final Fantasy characters, might even try to include Seifer and his gang in this AU as Zack's rivals without them being the main antagonist of the AU)

Now, without going into spoilers, the main story is basically Zack's various adventures through this new world (or more specifically, the continent that this AU takes place on), while he occasionally has encounters with a mysterious man named "Sephiroth" who looks just like the Sephiroth from his world, but even though he seems to be slightly helpful whenever he shows up, he also says some weird, cryptic stuff that Zack doesn't understand. And it feels like there might be something that Sephiroth is hiding from him...

He's also been getting these dreams of someone who he doesn't recognize (an OC made just for this AU) trapped inside a crystal, and she's trying to communicate with him through his dreams.

Who is this mysterious woman? Is she the one who was praying for Zack to be summoned in this world? What is Sephiroth hiding? And what peril will this world face?

Find out in...I honestly don't know what to call this AU so if you got any ideas, that'd be appreciated! (If I ever get to writing this)

@ryanthel0ser (tagging for you to find this post!)

#ff7 #ffvii #final fantasy vii #final fantasy 7 #zack fair #sephiroth #angeal hewley #cloud strife #Oh Genesis is also in this AU btw but I'm not gonna say what his role is because it would be spoilers so shhhh- #aerith gainsborough #seifer almasy #AU: Isekai #FF7 AU (unnamed for now. I will update the tags once I got a name for it)