@vahnj Here’s a retro Kobold for everyone, as requested by @TonyDiTerlizzi #dnd #dnd5e #kobold #WOTCstaff https://twitter.com/WhittersRichard/status/996269557617590272/photo/1
This morning I am trying to think that my lack of future is as much conditioned reaction from people who wanted me to believe my only viable options played into their convenience, as it is any objective reality (we don’t live in particularly good times). This isn’t easy.
Also, I’m pissed off about politics (this is like saying “I slept sometime in the last 24 hours”) and want to play hookey to draw and study this one composition thing.
lewd, gross
so first my housemate pointed out that Wicked Grounds had huge photos of fisting on the walls rn and I suggested they were gonna sell doughnuts
then they were grumpy about jaywalkers in dark hoodies with the hood up, so I suggested I'd be real visible if I had a pink hoodie, and I could pull the hood down and unzip it and moan, and they suggested sewing ruffles around the zipper, and I suggested splutting sriracha on everything claiming it was That Time of the Month.
Whoa so bugbears in 3.5 got +4 str, +2 dex, +2 con, -2 cha, +3 natural armor, +4 to move silently, a ton of racial skills and 3d8 racial HD for get this +1 level adjustment. Aarakocra are +2 ECL by comparison and I would way rather play a parrot anthro than a bugbear. It’s like the designer was dating a bugbear. I found where all the cheddar went in Faerun.
Also “aarakocra” has the same scansion as “my Sharona.” #dnd
class stuff, personal
This is kinda nice though they talk about vacations, daycare for the kids, tv shows (when asked for recommendations I said I really liked The Expanse), stocks (?). I feel like I show up saying “Hello fellow humans! How is your bipedal locomotion going today? I’ve really been enjoying driving on freeways lately.”
Also although we’re fairly diverse as far as East Asian/mid eastern/East Indians, and there are some Latinos, I have exactly one Black coworker, and that bugs me.
class stuff, personal
My current gig does lunch for all employees. It’s weird to work gigs like here or the last place where “startup” means stuff like “we have beer and wine on Friday” after 2017 being constantly told I was doing 2-4 people’s work because we were a startup.
Today’s lunch is surprisingly bland middle eastern. Like I can see going light on garlic, but light on lemon juice?
Everyone tends to eat together except the accountants where I sit.
personal, mortality
One of the several ways that I’m kinda weird is I’m aware of my own mortality opposite from usual.
A lot of my family’s lasted into their 90s but my grandparents really scared me. Assuming my dire fears don’t come to pass the end isn’t going to be next year or in five years, I’m looking at 4-6 *decades*. That’s a long time to be haunted by all of the bullshit from childhood. I’m not great with this stuff but still hope to resolve this as much as possible, as soon as possible.
Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
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