My super advanced mapmaking technique - a handful of dice makes the map nice

interesting method

My question is do the die affect topography any or just set the borders?

I imagine it’s up to the person making the map. But maybe the more dice in a single spot, the more mountainous or forested the area. Maybe choose a few dice to be deemed cities, and some dice for ruins.

Maybe let the dice choose, like a nat 20 would be the world capital, and 10’s would be mountains or something like that.

1-5: Plains and fields

6-8: Forests

9-11: Mountains

12-14: Tundras and snow covered lands

15-17: Farms and towns

18-19: Larger cities

20: Capitals and castles

what would happing if all the dice landed on a 20?

then you have a very busy continent

not all of those are d20s though, so you’d have to come up with another method for the other ones

Adjusted for all dice you might have

D20

1-5: Plains and fields

6-8: Forests

9-11: Mountains

12-14: Tundras and snow covered lands

15-17: Farms and towns

18-19: Larger cities

20: Capitals and castles

D12

1-3: Plains and fields

4-6: Forests

7-8: Mountains

9-10: Tundras and snow covered lands

11: Farms and towns

12: Larger cities

D10

1-3: Plains and fields

4-6: Forests

7-8: Mountains

9: Tundras and snow covered lands

10: Farms and towns

D8

1-4: Plains and fields

5-6: Forests

7: Mountains

8: Tundras and snow covered lands

D6

1-3: Plains and fields

4: Forests

5-6: Mountains

D4

1-2: Plains and fields

3: Forests

4: Mountains

Holy shit. Definitely using this.

I swore at how simple this motherfucking thing is. You’re all bastards and i love you.

YOU WANNA LEARN ELVISH?! HERE YA GO!

is this legit?

This is legit. My husband, sitting across the room, looks over and says, “IS THAT SOMEONE SHOWING HOW TO CONVERT ENGLISH TO TENGWAR?  BECAUSE THAT’S THE WAY!”

Believe this man.  He owns atlases of Middle Earth, the complete history of Midle Earth (leatherbound), and has read the books at least 150 times.  Also: speaks elvish.

Yes.

For future reference. :)

So I was never the only one who learned this in my schooltime instead of French or Spanish? Such a relief, indeed! People like you make life worth living. *o*

just a reminder:

a black girl character growing her hair out long breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character having short hair

a black girl character getting to be soft and fragile breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character being strong all the time

a black girl character being protected and comforted by others breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character having no one to look out for her but herself

a black girl character being considered pretty or cute by other characters breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character being considered unattractive

not everything that is empowering for white girls is empowering for black girls

the sexism we face overlaps, but it is not the same

On NPR they were talking to this guy who specializes in created languages, who does all the languages for like Game of Thrones, Penny Dreadful, and a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy movies.

I applauded when the interviewer asked the guy if he ever considered using obscure native languages because “It’s not like anybody would notice,” and he scoffed like “Are you asking me if I’m gonna take someone’s cultural heritage and ascribe it to aliens or demons or elves? Because the answer is no.”

Im glad Thor Ragnarok is successful but the movie makes me deathly afraid because the sheer possibility that its gonna revive the 2012-2013 tumblr-hiddleson obsession fills me with a fear that can’t be explained and i dont think im strong enough to survive that again

this is by far the best addition to this post 

i want to see a lesbian version of queer eye for the straight guy except instead of giving straight people a makeover & making their house look nice, the lesbians get you a lot of comfortable clothes with deep pockets, make you dump your shitty boyfriend, and find you a robust & supportive social circle

Queer pal for the straight gal

when all the characters are badly written and the plot is bad and there’s misogyny everywhere

boy: do you have any fantasies

Me: I get my PhD so I can make reservations at fancy restaurants under “Dr. & Mrs.” then when they expect a man to show up, my gay ass will stroll in instead: hot intellectual wife on my arm. She’s wearing a cocktail dress & is also a doctor. Im smoking a Cuban cigar. their heteronormative wigs is snatched…

You know what’s really hot? Not having to guess someone’s feelings or intentions

Donatella Versace answering questions is everything I needed today

IMMMMMMM

“How do you react to criticism?”

“I hate it” like mood

I’m her looking him up and down in silence when he asked for fashion advice lmao

this is it

this is the vine that killed me

the suffering never ends

This is the real process

Resources for you!

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Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Bonus art masterlist!

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

lol but imagine how much more badass all the female characters in naruto would be if kishimoto didn’t let his misogynistic views influence his storytelling

like what if sakura and ino stayed friends despite their rivalry and trained together to make each other stronger instead of dragging each other down

what if inner sakura was acknowledged to be a major threat to itachi’s mangekyo, sasuke and naruto are out cold in the hospital and itachi comes and sakura’s there and they face off and he’s like “oh shit, what is this girl? I done fucked up”  

what if sakura, after three grueling years of training, was actually a match for sasuke and put up a hell of a fight, what if sasuke grudgingly acknowledges her and she just went ‘frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn’

(I know this is a bit of a stretch) but what if sakura, after being the hokage’s apprentice, healing thousands during the war, being extremely intelligent, patient, determined, and diplomatic, was at least considered for the hokage position (but turns it down because it’s naruto’s dream)

what if karin tried to slap some sense into sasuke and stood up for herself, what if her dream was to keep young girls from suffering the same abuse she did, or getting revenge on the people who used her, instead of ‘seeing sasuke smile one more time’

what if hinata was inspired by naruto to have and pursue her own goals regardless of what other people thought of her  (like being the best head of the hyuuga clan to ever live and liberating the branch family vs. just being like ‘naruto-kun *blush*)

what if (aside from the few existing exceptions) the female characters in naruto actually put up a hell of a fight, maybe even WON most of the time when they went against a male opponent

what if naruto was a genuinely empowering show for boys AND girls all over the world, what if naruto OBLITERATED the subtle undercurrent of “yeah, girls can do it, but never quite as good as guys” that taints the shonen genere

look at all this wasted potential. what a fucking shame.

Maybe reclaiming Pennywise, a pure evil entity who preys on the innocent and canonically is a child molester and killer and is also homophobic, racist and antisemetic, as an lgbtq+ icon isn’t a good idea have y’all dumb shits considered that

Give the Babadook a better boyfriend y’all the idea that this ugly ass clown dude is anything but evil is misleading for people who haven’t read the book or watched the movie and harmful for the community in general

universal sapphic childhood crushes

jade from victorious

alex from wizards of waverly place

vanessa from phineas and ferb

stella from lemonade mouth (bonus points bc hayley kiyoko)

shego from kim possible

raven from teen titans

underappreciated form of humor: using incorrect long forms of proper names i.e. Craigory, Bobert, Barold, etc.