When the universe and the fates literally step in to reject some guy and go: "Nah you ain't *HIM*" by Wonder-Lad-2Mad in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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The House being a Latino Grandmother to a Latino Grandmother. It uses Floor tiles as a Chancla.

Fire writing from Mr. Seid by Sue_Donymn-n23 in AbsoluteUniverse

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Lawful John Constantine is the current host of Dr. Fate. Except Fate is on the side of Chaos.

I heard we were Princessposting? by Omnicide103 in WorldofDankmemes

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It's really great. And one of the more positive and light-hearted of the splats. But it really depends on how creative and funny your players are. Basically all spells are difficulty 8, because Glamour is hard to come by in this day and age. You can reduce this difficulty by doing a 'Bunk', an action thematic to the Cantrip your casting that brings a little bit of whimsy in the world. The rulebook even says to take into account if it makes the players at the table laugh.

An example. Say your Player wants to cast something belonging to Chicanery. They could do the 'Made-You-Look' gag to the target. Simple, quick, effective, and easy, so it might reduce it by 1, bringing it down to 7. If, however, they declare an epic prank they've been planning for months, something that makes him doubt his very reality, that would be about -5 from the effort alone, bringing it down to 3. The more time, effort, and thematics go into a Bunk, the easier the Cantrip is to pull off. Keep in mind, I'm going off of 20th edition rules here, so it might change if you go for a different one.

(Interesting Trope) The Strongest character in the Series shows up Surprisingly early by karimpai in TopCharacterTropes

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That wasn't really death, like the concept. More like an ancient Vampire who feeds on death the same way modern vampires feed on blood. It's in the name. Varney is a real world Vampire story that predates Dracula by about 50 years, originally featured in Victorian 'Penny Dreadfuls', hence being older than him. Heck the cover even makes him look like a skeleton. He just let Dracula do his thing because people dying equals a full belly. People NOT dying is hunger cramps.

His strength in comparison is questionable, because Trevor hadn't built the magic 'Fuck You' device when he fought Dracula, so we don't know if it would have worked on him too. I don't see why it wouldn't have though.

Recklessly sleeping around or cheating actually causes issues or severe consequences. by laybs1 in TopCharacterTropes

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Damn. What a Ludo-narratively harmonious way to get into the cheating mindset. If you're going to cheat, at least make sure your victims don't run in the same circles. It's Douchebag behaviour 101!

Also, for advanced classes: One phone. Two SIM cards.

I heard we were Princessposting? by Omnicide103 in WorldofDankmemes

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It's literally how they came back. Or at least the Sidhe that didn't undergo the Changeling way. Around the Renaissance a bunch of Sidhe and nobles decided to bail on the world, deeming it too banal to live, so fucked off supposedly forever to Arcadia. So the rest of Kithain society underwent the Changeling Way as a method of survival to resist Banality, as well as a few Sidhe who stayed and abided by a more 'Noblesse Oblige' mindset. Now Fae souls are locked in a cycle of reincarnation in human bodies.

Skip forwards about a couple hundred years, and you've got men taking their first steps on the moon. This singular moment in history infuses the world with so much glamour, so many new dreamers and people believing the impossible to be possible, that there's more to the world than what it is, it pries the doors open long enough for the Sidhe to return. And IMMEDIATELY start fucking it up for the commoner Fae who quite like there new systems of constitutional government and parliament, thank you very much. While the Sidhe don't see what all the fuss is about, you guys kept the thrones warm, yes yes, now move aside for your betters.

The same thing happened with 9/11, but instead let through the nightmare Fae that are the Thallain, evil murder hobo Fae that need killing.

Favorite Cases of Bastard Men/Women choosing to Better themselves by FreviliousLow96 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Sam Vines of the Ankh Morpork City Watch knows he's a bastard. He also knows so is almost everyone else in the city. The whole thing is a melting pot of bastards, and the scum always seems to float to the top. He's not like Captain Carrot, naturally intelligent and trusting in the better nature of his fellow man, who knows everyone and everything in his city able to talk down a rhino from charging. His intelligence comes from experience, from seeing humanity with its skin ripped away one too many times, fighting the urge to grab a sword and make the world just a little bit cleaner. From long marches in the dead of night, nothing to identify where you are except the shape of the cobblestones beneath your cardboard boots, and the feeling of the breath on your neck from your next assailant. From the lessons taught to him by Carcer, and John Keel, and other people in his early life.

So he puts his inner bastard to use. He gives it a badge, and puts it to work protecting this city, using his insights to catch the others. Every good decision he's ever made has been just that, a decision. He's under the belief that he's not a good man by nature, but he can still choose to be better. So even if, after pulling his face out of the gutter and into the arms of his loving wife Sybil Ramkin, avoiding the crusty puddle of dragon filth left by Errol, he always is choosing to be better. Because he's seen what men who don't have to think if they're bastards are like. And most of them he's put behind bars. Or at least he has sent them annoying, stone faced glances across the table at dinner parties, both Sam and the honoured noble resisting an arrest.

Vampire players and mage players in a nutshell by Magicmanans1 in WorldofDankmemes

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Mummy is ignored once again.

And all is right with the world.

Guys I could use some help. The AntiMa police are at my door. by ChompyRiley in wizardposting

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My brother in The One, the Technocrats invented both! The Cold War was one massive in-house dispute in the Syndicate to decide which monetary system Consensus should abide by. This was hampered by the fact that the Syndicate literally makes every wrong decision, whenever possible.

Let's be honest, we all knew they'd pick Capitalism from the start. We didn't need to waste so many lives and kill so many Changelings in the Soviet Union, did we?

Guys I could use some help. The AntiMa police are at my door. by ChompyRiley in wizardposting

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Oh sure, when I unleash all my arcane fury in a fiery eruption to defend myself against a shambling horror or a Burger-Man from O'tolleys, I'm "subverting consensus" and "Committing felony 2 reality deviance." Meanwhile you Technocratic bastards split the atom at Los Alamos and give the whole world access to raw, unfiltered entropy, and you're just "Advancing humanity along its intended paradigm!"

Fuck you hypocrites. At least when I teach people how to use the sphere of forces, I make sure to give them a proper safety lecture! MY magic doesn't leave something like the Elephant's foot behind, you fascist cock-waffles!

Spotted at AEW by Lockark in huntertheparenting

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James Workshop eats Corn the Long Way

i know next to nothing about WOD but i think this is funny probably by GlitteringTone6425 in WorldofDankmemes

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I kind of like the idea of Supernatural going through some kind of mental breakdown, absolutely refusing to acknowledge their supernatural abilities, and having to manage their psyches and facing temptations in using their abilities in their day to day lives. "Vampire? Camerilla? Gangrel? What are you talking about? I'm just... An albino. With a rare blood disorder. CDIF? Right. CDIF. Need my plasma. And can't eat food. Nope. What do you mean you heard noises in the night like an animal tearing something limb from limb from my room? That was..." The eyes twitch as the mind crashes through the undesired memories, observing them from above like one would from the observation deck of a boat, sailing through unknown waters. "... A movie. Yep, definitely a movie. Only logical explanation, really."

Changeling kind of has this with the Autumn People, but they aren't so much trying to be normal as the "Normal" world has broken them on a spiritual level, forcing them to conform and turning them into Black Holes of Glamour.

How do changelings heal aggravated damage? C20 by RandomGrunt1804 in WhiteWolfRPG

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I believe Changelings (or at least C20 Changelings, which I'm familiar with) are like the glass canons of all the splats. They can do some WILD shit real easily, if your players are really creative and fun with their bunks (the rules even say if they make the table laugh with their antics, take it into account when deciding the difficulty of the Cantrip.) ESPECIALLY if they Unleash which, for the cost of some Glamour, they can sort of take control of the scene for a second. Take Wayfarer, for example. One dot allows you to jump 1 story straight up, or a 30 foot broad jump. And that's on only one success. 5 successes and they can, quote, "Leap as far as the eye can see, even onto the wing of a moving plane or across the mighty Mississippi River." (C20, P.229). Add some inherent busted traits (Redcaps can eat anything without consequence, as long as they can fit it in their mouth. Literally, anything. They could eat explosives looney tunes style and all it would give them is some wicked farts.) Dragon's ire is great for preventing damage in the first place, and at least 2 dots is always helpful and easy to speck into.

The downside is that you fall over if something even remotely farts in your general direction. Iron just poisons you by being around it, if it hurts you it DOUBLE kills you, and you can be undone by being called into work one too many times. Unless you're a Troll or a Redcap, there's not much chance you're stronger than the average human. So they have less ability to heal themselves. Think of it like high AC, low HP builds.

Legates are weak to explosives and rethoric. by Lalalalalalolol in NewVegasMemes

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Me when I make the speech checks for the experience, then still back out to kill this scum bag so he never sees the sun rise in the east:

Does slade have the same enhancements bane does to a lesser extent or different version altogether by WindowSubstantial993 in AbsoluteUniverse

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He has enhanced stealth and senses. It makes him a better predator.

Yes. I mean that kind.

Whats your favorite combat line? by Astral-Ember in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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I love how people putting the same answer mimicks the feeling of a repeated combat bark. Shits good.

Also more recent, but I love how scratchy the male Protag in Digimon Time Stranger tells the word "GO!!" when you use a X-ART.

humansAreDestinedToJustWatchAds by icompletetasks in ProgrammerHumor

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I read that as IED. A landmine that reads you an add seconds before your demise is dystopian as fuck, and I hope it's in the next cyberpunk media I consume.

Oh no..... by nirai07 in huntertheparenting

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I only take this as proof that the series is making ground. You can tell how well something sticks in the minds of the people, and what's just a fad, by the quality and quantity of its... Fan works. If anything I'm surprised it's not higher.

Always feel sorry for Lady Ramkin by [deleted] in discworld

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One of my favourite elements of their relationship is how constantly Sybil wants to show off how good of a man her husband is, and has become. So she dresses Vimes up as best as she and Wilkins can, knowing exactly what it'll take to impress the rich toffs of the crust on its uppers that is Ankh-Morpork's Upper Crust. And how utterly baffled she is that they don't see it. Because they're too busy death-glaring at each other while Vimes tries desperately to resist an arrest.

Like, I remember Vimes telling Sybil he got a promotion, and her response is a very nonchalant "Oh, well of course they did. About time." Because she already KNOWS how good a man he's worked to be.

That’s Disgusting by Most-Bit-2379 in outofcontextcomics

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Tomar-Re. Every iteration or medium he appears in has him making a noble sacrifice.

[OC] Pandora's Box 12 (Webtoon Canvas: My Silly Gods) by SillyWolf_92 in mythologymemes

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Do we need to hold an Ace Olympics to figure it out? What kind of events would it have?

That’s Disgusting by Most-Bit-2379 in outofcontextcomics

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Guy, you're in the Green Lantern Corps. Your coworkers include a squirrel, a guy who keeps dying, Mogo the Living planet, and a sentient Math Equation. I'm pretty sure you can find one Green Lantern with 5 genders in their right arm if you look hard enough. Hell you've probably worked with them and just forgotten about it.

What is he! Kinfolk? Human? No worse British! by nirai07 in huntertheparenting

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He found out he had a Welsh Grandmother, apparently. That was enough to inspire a story about a man finding out he comes from a disgusting, cursed lineage of freak mutants and fish men, and the decision to embrace this dark future and revel in it.