Japan has Pokemon Gashapon machines that dispense miniature gashapon machines with tiny prizes

this is the shit I do like

power lines are crushed with the weight of four days of accumulated freezing rain in boucherville near montreal, canada, january 9, 1998

photo by robert laberge, via bbc archives

Ice Storm 98. not so fun when you don’t have power for 3 weeks

ass up

SCORPIA, PRINCESS AND HORDE ALLY »

It happened again

Tony Hawk could enter a ‘Tony Hawk lookalike contest’ and end up in last place.

Hiei got to stand on a lil box for the second pic.

Winter cuteness by *BlastOButter

at first I thought it was going to be an artful series of pictures of a fat orange kitty against the snow

then I scrolled down

I love you, Mr. Murderbritches.

flight of fancy

More dumb magic items for your D&D campaign:

Kind of in the same spirit, there’s a crappy magical item generator right here: https://rexiconjesse.github.io Ive been. Extremely tempted to inflict some of these things on my PCs.

That website is fantastic

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What an absolute unit.

This means that we’re almost out of time for human history to contain “that time someone stole the unit of mass, and we had to catch them to get it back for the mass of everything to be well-defined again”.*

For fun theory reasons, we need someone to plan and execute a heist, and soon.

(* Well, okay, on a global scale. I’m sure this has been done for smaller local reference objects through history.)

angry anfisa masterpost

web star

Wait is that…

ITS HER

anka as inquisitor :’)

Warm blooded creature: wow I’m chilly

Warm blooded creature: *vibrates*

Cold blooded creature: wow I’m chilly

Cold blooded creature: goes into a coma

Here’s a little trick I’ve used in D&D games where the premise of your campaign calls for the party to have access to lots of Stuff, but you don’t want to do a whole bunch of bookkeeping: the Wagon.

In a nutshell, the party has a horse-drawn wagon that they use to get around between – and often during – adventures. This doesn’t come out of any individual player character’s starting budget; it’s just provided as part of the campaign premise.

Before setting out from a town or other place of rest, the party has to decide how many gold pieces they want to spend on supplies. These funds aren’t spent on anything in particular, and form a running total that represents how much Stuff is in the wagon.

Any time a player character needs something in the way of supplies during a journey or adventure, one of two things can happen:

1. If it’s something that any fool would have packed for the trip and it’s something that could reasonably have been obtained at one of the party’s recent stopovers (e.g., rations, spare clothing, fifty feet of rope, etc.), then the wagon contains as much of it as they reasonably need. Just deduct the Player’s Handbook list price for the item(s) in question from the wagon’s total.

2. If it’s something where having packed it would take some explaining, or if it’s something that’s unlikely to have been available for purchase at any of the party’s recent stopovers (e.g., a telescope, a barrel of fine wine, a book of dwarven erotic poetry, etc.), the player in need makes a retroactive Intelligence or Wisdom check, versus a DC set by the GM, to see if they somehow anticipated the need for the item(s) in question. Proficiency may apply to this check, depending on what’s needed. The results are read as follows:

Success: You find what you’re looking for, more or less. If the group is amenable, you can narrate a brief flashback explaining the circumstances of its acquisition. Deduct its list price (or a price set by the GM, if it’s not on the list) from the wagon’s total.

Failure by 5 points or less: You find something sort of close to what you’re looking for. The GM decides exactly what; it won’t ever be useless for the purpose at hand, but depending on her current level of whimsy, it may simply be a lesser version of what you were looking for, or it may be something creatively off the mark. Deduct and optionally flash back as above.

Failure by more than 5 points: You come up empty-handed, and can’t try again for that item or anything closely resembling it until after your next stopover.

As an incidental benefit, all the junk the wagon is carrying acts as a sort of ablative armour. If the wagon or its horses would ever take damage, instead subtract a number of gold pieces from its total equal to the number of hit points of damage it would have suffered. The GM is encouraged to describe what’s been destroyed in lurid detail.

Dec. 7th, 2016: Gotta Supercharge It!! Pre-Grand Prix Final Special!

From the creators of ABZÛ, The Pathless. Don’t sleep on this – the adventure  and action looks incredible.

Thor + some of his under-appreciated intelligence