The complete base BG2 party roster in Darkest Dungeon style!

Some of them were used in this scene

I thought that the stylisation is way too fun to limit it to my in-game party (and besides, I sometimes switch party members anyway).

The models (sans my Charname, and including background with Athkatla sewers and Othyugh) are downloadable and usable under CC BY-NC-SA.

download via st.ash and via google disk (maybe I'll find a way to host in somewhere else later). Enjoy!

this is a man who just lived through bingo and is now questioning everything

huh wonder where these followers are coming frOH GOD

Enjoy your continued containment breach.

this is the best album release of all time because where else are you going to get unironic takes like this and then even get a few hundred people to agree with it

I bet y'all $10 that if Wyll met a teenage warlock who was kicked out of their home for making a deal with a devil even if it were for a good cause, he'd be like "That's horrible, I can't believe your parents would do that"

things haven't been great but i think they will be. eventually 🌻🌼🩷

I'm sad to see this little comic resonates with so many people, although I hope it gives you strength and solidarity in difficult times. Likewise, thank you for your comments and insights in the tags. It helps me feel less alone.

Also, hello new followers! If you followed me for this sort of thing, prepare to be very, very disappointed hahaha  

I think the idea that love and harm can't coexist is dangerous. It would be so easy to think "I can't be harming my kids, I love them. I know I do, I can feel it." I tried to tell family members about my abuser and the response was "How can you say that? He loves you." I know he does. It doesn't matter.

I've briefly touched upon this topic before but here goes; I know you can play D&D for pretty much free because it's extremely easy to pirate, but I think we've settled by now that piracy doesn't actually hurt companies as much as they want us to think, meaning that pirating D&D isn't as big of a "stick it to WotC" move as it's often presented as. Of course if you absolutely have to play D&D (but, like, why?) you won't get any moralizing from me about piracy, like, ever.

But the point is: supporting another game either monetarily or with your valuable time is a much more direct and tangible way to stick it to the cultural monopoly of D&D than playing D&D and not paying WotC. I mean if it's another big-ish publisher I don't have a lot of faith in their working conditions being much better than WotC's, but in some cases it probably is so. As it often happens, the market leader can often afford to pay its employees worse simply due to those positions being more desirable.

But anyway who cares, there's lots of games out there where you can actually get a full game sometimes for less than the cost of a single D&D book and since those games are often built as more focused experiences than the D&D "forever game" formula you're actually more likely to get to experience all of the game instead of a lot of the content existing just as shadows on the cave wall.

Supporting indie games and indie game makers monetarily is great. I love when y'all do that. But you know what I love just as much?

When y'all talk about my games (or any indie game), share stories about playing my games.

D&D game tales and discussion is everywhere. There's this feeling of a vast smothering blanket shading out the whole garden. It's everywhere. Mountains of discussion and content and reminiscing about your 8th level paladin or whatever. Theory crafting, homebrew (man, I do not like that word), world building. A thick canopy over small sprouts, omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent, making even the struggle to bloom seem pointless.

When I hear someone talking about a little indie game that could, I can feel the sunlight for a minute.

nobody wants to work anymore

One thing I found out recently is that large companies do this because they’re not actually hiring. They list jobs to make it look like they’re hiring to make it look like they’re expanding in order to artificially inflate their companies’s value.

hey uh. the coffee cup in each panel.

girl help I'm getting they/them'd by well-meaning people who don't know what a tomboy is

This feeling is strange and complicated. On the one hand it's legit quite cool that nonbinary pronouns are becoming more widespread! On the other, I've spent my whole life pursuing interests and hobbies and ideals that weren't seen as particularly feminine, and when I was younger this was a major source of bullying and stress alongside some generalized misogyny taking the form of "you can't do or be anything you think is cool because you are innately inferior and to do otherwise means violating your nature," and it took me a while to conclude that this was just straight horseshit top to bottom and I could do whatever I wanted and present myself however I wanted without in any way being Not A Girl, and now it's like the exact same concept has flipped sides and is coming from a point of theoretical validation but still calculates out to "that's not very ladylike of you, you must be something else". anyway she/her thanks gang

I think it's like. the understanding that the gender binary is a small part of a much wider space of identities is separate from the understanding that a lot of that gender binary is a false dichotomy that artificially walls off universal human experiences behind specific pronouns and while the first concept is gaining wider understanding the second is lagging a little, which means "I am a girl and I like doing boy things" reads as "oh I've heard about this, you must be one of the Others who don't do the binary" rather than "the concept of 'boy things' is stupid from the jump"

just to be 100% clear

what this post is NOT talking about: using they/them pronouns for someone you don't know, aren't sure of, hasn't had a chance to introduce themselves, etc.

what this post IS talking about: my highly personal experience seeing some people "correcting" my commenters that were using she/her pronouns for me, because, despite me exclusively using she/her pronouns and saying so whenever asked, through no action of mine they had gotten the idea that I was using "they/them".

girl help I put a nuanced personal experience on the reading comprehension website

It feels impossible sometimes to talk about your experiences as an asexual person without getting lumped in with purity culture because it’s somehow simultaneously true that society hates sex and puts sex everywhere so both people who want to express their sexuality and people who don’t want to participate in it end up having knee-jerk reactions to each other because we’ve all built up defense mechanisms ready to trigger at a moments notice so you try to talk about how sex and romance is everywhere and inescapable and you don’t wanna be involved with it and then people blame you for the kink at pride discourse when you weren’t even thinking about that

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This machine kills AI

enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

i love classic who production methods so much

oh, this actor needs a holiday for a week?

guess their character gets shoved into a cupboard for a whole episode!

a bottom-tier autistic experience is being told throughout your entire childhood that you are just an overthinker when it comes to social situations and later finding out that your friends did, in fact, hate being around you and tried to communicate that through weird little hints