Kinda feel like there’s some untapped meme/reaction image potential from old horror movie trailers…
Since this is gaining traction again, here are the final ones. These had been on separate posts but I suppose they’ll be more likely to be noticed here.
I doubt I’ll post any more after this but I highly encourage others to go find more. YouTube has tons of old movie trailers and there is PLENTY of gold left to find.
Any advice on finding non-dnd playgroups? I'm feral about Cain right now, but have no idea how to find or get a group together. I'm also worried that even if I can talk a bunch of my friends into playing, we'll be horrible at running it bc it's a new system that nobody in that group is familiar with.
Honestly I don’t even know. I got into the Exalted game by random chance, I found the Pathfinder groups on roll20, apparently a lot of people use discord servers to hook up, but I don’t know how you find a specific looking for group server. If you have a wide enough friend group sometimes you can suck them in by being obsessed about ideas so bad they can’t help but want to be a part of it.
Makes sense, I suppose I was a bit silly to hope that there was any one magical solution. I appreciate the advice, and will probably hunt down some discord servers
Maybe a bunch of trans Cain nerds on tumblr will see this post and ask about it.
*sandwich voice* the world is vast and beautiful and i have a sandwich
*wiggles fingers* balicazam!! Your sandwich is now yarn
idk what you did and normally i wouldn’t complain but my sandwich has straight up vanished as if by dark magic
im not even joking my sandwich is gone and i am fucking pissed
motherFUCKER i bet i lost it on the railway tracks
ok im on a train right now. so what happened is I was rushing with my precariously-stacked luggage with my sandwich on the top. and unfortunately it was a vertical sandwich (baguette) and i didn’t tie the plastic baggie shut. fucker slid right out of its wrapper
somewhere in this train station is a single perfect naked sandwich lying peaceably on the ground
MOTHERFUCKER I WAS RIGHT i lost it wheeling my luggage (jostling) across the tracks. i can see it from the fucking window. it’s just sitting there, taunting me
the train leaves in 5 min, I’m already in my seat, and as stated the sandwich is lying buttnaked on the train tracks.
i still kinda wanna run and get it tho
hey op are you still alive
sorry i was busy staring out a train window. yeah got my sammich
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yes i risked missing my train for a dirt sandwich, andpaused to take a tumblr photo of said sammy. my decision-making skills are extensive and highly-developed.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a sandwich to eat.
Wow that wizard did turn your sandwich into a yarn
Engineered to fail is actually my favorite approach.
I got invited into a ttrpg but the character had to somewhat explicitly be a kind of religious zealots, which is a little bit anathema to my personality, but as soon as I hit on characterizing her as fervently devoted to a god which might not be real, as well as both physically and behaviorally unable to do anything but place herself constantly in the middle of life threatening danger, everything fell into place. Is she going to get killed? Maybe, probably. But it’s much more exciting this way.
Trait description is like “If you give your character giant wings that make her able to fly, literally everyone will immediately think she is a monster and try to kill her,” oh wow, I get to fly and constantly get attacked, say less
GM: Okay what does she normally use to conceal her wings.
“Nothing, she thinks they’re a divine gift and should be displayed to show that she is blessed as a prophet.
GM: So, you know people are going to try and kill her.
"Definitely, she also fervently believe she us divinely protected and anyone trying to harm her is an enemy of that divinity.”
GM: So what does she normally do?
“Flies around in full view looking for anyone she thinks needs help because her divine mandate is to help those in need.”
GM: Okay, so, a bunch of people are trying to kill you. Uh, what’s your initiative?
Anyway, she has a small cult now.
I didn’t even know you could get a cult, but as soon as the option was available, obviously I was taking a cult.
I have never gotten more than a passing familiarity with the background lore of any ttrpg, not out of any sense but because I cannot focus on information like that. I will pinpoint the specific details I need with search functions and gain nothing else, which makes for some very realistic bafflement towards the local culture with my winged girl pretty solidly unwilling to acknowledge anything other than her own deity as real.
I am sick so I drw sketches of everyone else characters in the game because I am nice that way.
I’m betting Demon The Descent. What ttrpg is it exactly?
My second favorite thing is making such catastrophic characters that the game becomes unrecognizable untill you know what it is and then it all falls into place anyway it’s Exalted cuz that’s what the GM was running and me and my disaster characters are sought after I guess.
I was chatting with her while I was drawing last night and she was dying to tell me what was in store for my darling failgirl and I was like no, having to figure out her behavior on the fly is my favorite thing. I have some sense of places it can go and ideas of reactions but the suspense is fun. Like the momentary furor at the table when other players learned a deity was involved but it was one for people who by all rights should not have fucking survived a near death experience. Which the GM came up with and was brilliant.
Every player getting all their weapons out, absolutely ready to have to get into a fight, only to watch my girl finally show what I designed her to do and basically command everyone in her way to yield. There was no fight, utterly stupid, 100% what she’s for.
I spent so long leaning into making her a dramatic zealot who doesn’t care if she dies because of her belief in her own righteousness, the hell with consequences, if she dies she dies, that I accidentally made it so that trying to disagree with her could straight up knock a dude fully unconsciousness.
Purely on strength of character, she went from “we need to keep her from getting herself killed” to “we have to stop her from killing anyone important” in one scene without striking a single blow or starting any fights. I’m having a lot of fun.
I think it’s important to know that I play her fairly serious minded. Despite the chaos of her presence, she herself is not the type of person to try and upset every applecart along the way. Chaos happens because she is so very serious and devout, which is by way of prelude to introduce the fact that I’m usually trying to mimic Zhaan from Farscape when I’m roleplaying her.
I don’t know exactly how we got here but the fail girl I built to get killed just ordered someone to go on a quest and he had to go do it. Just walked away in the middle of a fight because she told him to go back to where he came from and help out everyone along the way. Also more people have joined the cult she started, and due to a crisis of faith she’s started telling people to worship her directly and I think she might accidentally be making herself into a minor deity if she can’t resolve things.
Entering her Cosmic Horror era.
She is supposed to have an aura which represents something about her, so I picked The Sun (Sunshine movie cosmic horror version).
I used my way of playing her as imposing and confident to successfully inflict melodramatic tragedy on the other players, when I took the opportunity during her colossal emotional breakdown to remind everyone that she’s kind of average height and build, and in that particular moment of vulnerability, it just hit home that she was not some towering powerhouse warrior at all, with all the normal strength of personality suddenly stripped by her own personal crisis.
It was a delightful effect which would never have worked if I hadn’t decided it would be the funniest, dumbest thing to make her into a big giant beacon of “kill me” and give her a personality that committed to running headlong into “people who want to kill me” spaces. Gotta appreciate the GM who also committed to my policy of “here’s some background, now fuck my girl up.”
There are two ways things happen in this game, one of them is “hey your juvenile delinquent Child of Prophecy has snuck off to conduct some B&E, again” and the other is “Your bird woman has flown into the middle of trouble, again.”
I didn’t want her to look like your normal winged badass, so her appearance is loosely based on Amelia Earhart. She has messy, short hair, freckles, a crooked smile with a gap between her front teeth. Her ears stick out from the side of her head. She has a little pug nose. I named her Zia.
The wings also mean that sometimes she can just leave without warning. “I’m gonna go look at that thing now.” What? Too late, she’s in the air.
Zia is, by almost any metric I could consider, the least “powerful” character in the group. She is not physically strong, she does not have anything that physically protects her or does extraordinary damage in a fight, she has no kind of complicated spells or special connection to mystical spirits, she is for all purposes a nobody with few resources, and only recently got the in game version of magical artifact. She’s not sneaky or good at talking to people or finding things or any of that. All she really has going on is functionally speaking being the world’s biggest bluff whose only goal is to make people back down, either by not fighting or not getting in her way, and also me willing to dump all her game resources into making that happen regardless of future consequences.
I told my GM that Zia is popular on tumblr, and she said she might look up my tumblr so everyone be cool.
Petition to make Zia a Tumblr Sexywoman. Do we have those?
The other players haven’t listened to my Zia playlist even though I have really good taste in music, probably more evidence I need to get off spotify, but I’m doing a lot of life organizing so one step at a time right?
one curiousity search on ebay to see if people are still going nuts over beanie babies has led to getting a strong contender for the funniest email ever
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