tear down this fourth wall

ladies. you should be able to switch from a melee build to wizard anytime you want

respec women 👍

... almost scrolled past before I got it

Reason I am glad there's no sign of a Jewish knight in Arthurian legend: All of the antisemitism that the source material and adaptations would probably have heaped on such a character.

Reason I am sad there's no sign of a Jewish knight in Arthurian legend: Missed opportunity for someone with hidden ill-intentions to manipulate hospitality at Camelot to gain a promise that "No good Christian knight" may stand against them, whereupon they wreak havoc until our boy gets to pull a religious version of the Éowyn Reveal.

I couldn't resist

No no, a moray is when you swim in the sea and an eel bites your knee.

Meanwhile, when two patterns entwine in a way serpentine, that's a moiré.

a few days ago a coworker asked me to explain Hanukkah and I asked her if she knew what a menorah was. She said, “like the Northern Lights?”

I’m simultaneously haunted by and wild about this concept now. instead of aurora borealis, menorah borealis. menorah borealis

i’m not Jewish but now i’m also captivated by the concept of a menorah borealis, and I didn’t see anyone else drawing it. Hope you like it & hope everyone who celebrates has a lovely Hanukah. <3

MENORAH BOREALIS

oh that's a Nancy Lebovitz button, I'd know one anywhere :D

im just a poor boy… i need no shrimpathy… 🍤

mamaaaa………… just krilled a man…………….. 🦐

He’s just a po’ boy, from a po’ family

#spare him his life from this lobstrosity

(bless u shati)

Here, have a Dr. Seus pun

have i told you recently that you're my favorite

i am YELLING

we must imagine sisyphus itsy bitsy

itsybitsyphus

— Rabbi Jack Abramowitz, Angels (via he-harim)

Im obsessed with this idea and I will not be able to stop thinking about the angel that caramelizes onions

I am also obsessed but I’m considering the idea that caramelizing onions is really just an example of the Maillard reaction, which is also what causes bread to toast, chicken skin to crisp up when you roast a chicken, cheese to brown on pizza, and milk to become caramel. 

Basically I’m saying that there could be an angel of the Maillard reaction and they really won the angel mission jackpot. 

This will, of course, also be the angelic Power responsible for bacon getting brown and crispy when you fry it.  :)

(And a side issue for those linguistically interested: the Greek word from which the English “angel” is derived, Αγγελος / angelos, just means “messenger”. …For certain values of “just.”)

(Making it a precise translation for the original Hebrew word, מַלְאָך / malach, which means, yes, “messenger.”)

I do very much like the idea of the angel of the Maillard reaction. For a terrible cross-linguistic pun, we can suppose that its name is Carmiel.

...

i'm gonna --

Thats a-torah-bull

... oh, well played

Question of the Day: September 17, 2021

What obscure (or not so obscure) reference did you build a dnd character around (either PC or NPC) and no one noticed?

I made a bard whose thing was puns. For the first part of the campaign, they only went by their first name: Dabel. We played for about a year and a half of me torturing my group with wordplay, and no one really questioned Dabel's name.

Then, plot happened, and we ended up in a situation where we were getting information from an oracle. Each PC was allowed to ask one question. Most of the others asked nicely plot-relevant questions. Me? I saw an opportunity.

Dabel decided to "trust, but verify" that the information the oracle was giving us was accurate. When it was their turn to ask a question, they simply said "What is my full name?"

I had primed my DM ahead of time, so without missing a beat, he answered.

"Dabel Entendre."

I think it took a good 5 minutes for the group to recover their composure. Getting yelled at for sitting on that pun for 18 months was one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had in tabletop gaming.

I didn't exactly build the character around it, but when I was constructing a rogue to be the younger brother of a friend's monk character, I named him based on a stealth pun.

The monk's name was Jhinx; I named my rogue Shen. Solely so that if opportunity ever arose, he could solemnly reveal that their full names were Hijhinx and Shenanighans.

okay, let me start out by saying that the whole shooting fireballs from your hands thing is awesome as hell. thanks for showing it to me. but, just so you know, this is way outside of my specialty as a gastroenterologist. if you want to make your fireballs stronger, you should schedule an appointment with a rheumatologist.

rheumatologists specialize in inflammation

EGGS TERMINATE

... booooo :D

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okay i laughed

That's a mandarin. The Mandalorian is a stringed musical instrument originating in Italy.

That's a mandolin. The Mandalorian is a small, shell-shaped sponge cake.

Those are Madelines. Mandalorians are those little clicking things on the sides of a spider's mouth.

Those are mandibles. Mandalorian was an artist known for his use of primary colors and squares and rectangles to create abstract designs.

That’s Mondrian. The Mandalorian is a five-book fantasy series by David Eddings, sequel series to The Belgariad.

Oops, I know what I’m doing to the cat tomorrow.

“CURSES, FOILED AGAIN”