#Orcs

Gail Simone

GailSimone

Come watch @CriticalRole with me right now! My first episode ever...campaign 2, episode 1!#criticalrolewatchparty Also, eat a cookie! Look at their dice rolling boxes.Wait, is this a nerd show? Holy

Matthew Grave-Warden

thetowerofstars

For a change, I’m not going to derail someone else’s #Tolkien thread – I’m going to scribble one of my own. Specifically, it’s about something that rubbed me wrong about

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Writing in @techreview, @samuelwoolley and Jacob Gursky take a deep dive into the data-gathering in the apps from the Trump and Biden campaigns. It's quite a study in contrasts!https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/21/1004228/trumps-

All Dead Generations

DistemperedGus

Having talked about Alignment and Reaction Rolls, I think I can manage another thread on classic mechanics that help mitigate some of the concerns around moral essentialism (and the corresponding

Ajey Pandey

AjeyPandey

Hey, Jeremy.If D&D’s first rule is “make it your own,” then uh...Care to explain Adventurer’s League?Because all your attempts at addressing bioessentialism in tieflings and orcs and whatever?Not AL legal.I’m

taejo | arizona's ocean eyes

praetorseju

cr:.◤◢◣◥◤ ◢◣◆◢◣◥◤◢◣◥ The Hobbit◣◥◤◢◣ ◥◤◆◥◤◢◣◥◤◢.by JRR Tolkien the only way to respond to good morning It's sad tho that Thorin was

Sam Thompson

SamWritesMovies

You asked for it! The following is a thread about scene transitions in screenwriting. One thing I find interesting about writers is that the more they write, the more they

Barry Wainwright

bnwainwright

@mellon_heads I read the books (several times) long before the films came out. There are so many changes that irked me, though I can see the reasons for many of

Matthew Gravelyn

mrmatthew

Spending some time this evening unpacking (pun intended) @Bitchinville's Sword & Backpack. This is a very simple RPG framework that fits inside a pocket notebook and focuses on experiences over

Bobby D.

Ancient0History

Had a dream last night that I was trying to teach a college class about Lovecraft's racism. One of the students raised a hand and asked why there was a

creed👻 | CEO of Pippin 🍎

FoolOfATook01

Iconic Moments from the Lord of the Rings trilogy: a thread 1. “A wizard is never late...” 2. “What about breakfast?” 3. Aragorn vs The Nazgul 4. “You have my

Sam⁷ 🦖 never your sis

Morelenmir

And here we go! Hoping to get in the first half of Return of the King before my ding dang chronic pain body decides that's enough. Y'know, I think this

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vexwerewolf

Unpopular opinion: Blizzard's writing staff are hacks who are able to disguise it by putting exactly one (1) highly relatable trait into each character they make Pharah: Loves her momAna:

Titania McGrath

TitaniaMcGrath

IMPORTANT THREAD Brave social justice activists such as myself are working tirelessly to expose *all* the racist elements within our society.Sometimes it is difficult to keep up, so I thought

Robert Kearney

Robkearney1981

Millions have come to enjoy and love J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy but few know that the author privately told many that these works were based on a

LL McKinney

ElleOnWords

Ok, so, first let me clarify a few things.When I say "stand-in bigotry," I mean characters act in some way that resembles bigotry in the real world, but it's not