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u/coldfire323 · 2 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

Three cheers for the 402 best friends!

But the glasses, alright, so. These are the glasses, but in order to get the reflective sheen I followed this technique using this specific window film. But we can't stop there! The glasses were jostled around a lot by the wig so to hold them in place I got these strap cords, put the glasses on before the wig, and tucked the excess cording on the back of my neck under the wig/in my shirt.

And it does look great! But it really reduces your vision a lot. :( Part of the fun at cons is to see other cosplays and it's just not worth it. Def recommend it for photoshoots and stuff though. Until then, the hunt for pure mirrored red circled lenses continues...

u/misterjta · 625 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

There's a book series I read, the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaranovich and the lead character, DC Grant, is a black copper. (Also, slightly a wizard).

And there's a thing that happens in them, which is that often when Grant meets someone he'll say if they're white or not. So I'll be reading merrily along and run into a line like

> She was a white, middle-aged woman who looked like she was already losing her patience

And for a while that was really jarring.

I'd literally stop reading to think "Why the fuck would you bother to mention that she's white?"

...And after a while, I realised that Grant mentions that she's white because he's a black guy. It makes sense he'd notice that sort of thing, when I personally wouldn't bother to describe a white woman as white - I tend to see people as white by default to the extent I'd forgotten that DC Grant was a black character with a different worldview to mine. That was a pretty valuable discovery for me, if I'm honest, because at least now I know I'm prone to think like that.

And I suspect that something similar might be happening when people listen to the descriptions of inclusive characters in TAZ.

It's very easy (assuming that you're more or less straight, white and cisgendered) to kind of forget that some people aren't the same as you. Not in a malicious way (or at least not necessarily in a malicious way), but if you happen to inhabit the same cultural space as most portrayals of "what people are like", being reminded that a character is outside those parameters can feel jarring.

It's a good jarring, if you ask me - it makes as much sense to say "But why is Merle a dwarf though?" as it is to complain that so-and-so isn't cisgendered, but people are conditioned to expect dwarves in the context of a fantasy narrative, and they're not (so) conditioned to expect LGBTQ or ethnic variations to be represented in a fantasy narrative or in the media generally.

Honestly the way the McElroys do it, as an aspect of a character rather than the central focus, is probably the best way to fix that lack of representation. I don't think people find it jarring out of malice, just because they're not used to it - but having that representation is how people get used to it. And for those demographics that are traditionally underrepresented, getting to that point is huge.

u/SafeSaxCastro · 1 pointr/TheAdventureZone

Your podcast sounds fun! I love watching (listening?) to newbies playing for the first time!

“Of Dice and Men” is the name of a book about the history of D&D. It’s a pretty great read and runs through a brief history of gaming in general before getting into the story of war gaming in the 60s and how Gygax met Arneson. I highly recommend it!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/145164051X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_FmybBbFXMM83Z

u/Delduthling · 3 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

>just wish there was a better compromise between all or nothing

I suppose this isn't precisely the same thing as typical merch, but they definitely have collaborated with fans to make things associated with the show.

The graphic novel is being illustrated by Carey Pietsch, who was doing fan art and character designs for TAZ long before the comic.

They did a fan-art zine for charity, The Adventure Zine.

And the trailer they made for Balance was done by an artist who started off with animatics and stuff.

u/sailortitan · 1 pointr/TheAdventureZone

That's one reason why it's important to have more than just one character any given race--you have less issues of stereotyping if you commit to a world with multiple black characters, for example, because then any given character type doesn't fall back on the worst stereotypes. (Thankfully, in terms of the NPCs, Carey already has a very diverse cast.)

For example, if you made Magnus black instead of Merle, you fall into the trap of the "fighters are black, because black dudes are tough and not smart." So now you've just swapped one black stereotype for another.

(aside: I don't really think of Merle as being a stoner or a druggie. I'm not sure where you're getting that from? He has an affinity for plants but not really drug related plants? o.O?)

I think someone else mentioned the Taako example but yeah, if you made him Hispanic, definitely I would expect more commitment to his being hispanic than "because Tacos." Like, that's the thing about swapping someone's ethnicity--I feel like you have to actually do research and fucking care and not just be lazy about it, which is what palette swapping is. Ultimately, I feel like palette swapping functions as a kind of colorblind racism in a way--"everyone's experiences can just be leveled and applied in the same way." You're just doing it in a fictionalized space instead of being "colorblind" in the real world.

of course, if you were really worried about someone's culture reflecting a stereotype by reflecting their real world cultures in some way (and to be clear, I don't mean stereotypes, I mean actually researching real world cultures, not just slapping stereotypes on characters' personalities), you could also make fantasy races have made-up ethnic and cultural characters and assign them racial features that have nothing to do with what we consider "relevant" racial features. The Goblin Emperor is a great example of this--Goblins and Elves have racial characteristics and distinct cultures, but those racial characteristics and cultures have nothing to do with actual real life cultures and racial characteristics. (They aren't all white-skinned, though, either, and the main character has dark skin and curly hair, so it's also not whitewashing. It breaks outside of our concepts of culture and avoids making everyone white.)

Or you can "take a third option" and use real human racial characteristics but layered on completely made up fantasy cultures. So for example, maybe black people in your world have a set of made-up cultural characteristics that you've created. That's also not stereotyping, but it's committing to the idea that people of different backgrounds have different cultures.

I just think it's lazy to take a completely westernized fantasy world and just palette swap it. That isn't really cultural representation either, it's taking a very americanized/western view of racialization and what "cures" it and slapping it onto your (still completely normatively western european) fantasy world. People in your imaginary world might not even have the concept of race. Maybe that's a reason to palette swap, but it's a reason you have to grapple with in your fictional world, not just layer on your concepts of what a progressive society look like. (And there are other ways where your fantasy world might be totally backwards from others, but in a different way that you're used to thinking about--like the hyena people in Digger, for example.)

u/themanfromoctober · 23 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

While I love it, it does kind of feel like you’re missing a trick by not making the bible look as unapologetically 90s as the original. Still a really great drawing though!

u/Dim_Spirits · 1 pointr/TheAdventureZone

Ehh, you can get by as a newbie in the 5e scene by using the System Reference Document which is free by default. It doesn't have everything from the Player Handbook, such as all of the cleric domains, but it has the rules and some of the other subclasses. After playing with it for a while and determining you enjoy that edition of D&D you can get the PHB on [Amazon for $29.74 USD] (https://www.amazon.com/Players-Handbook-Dungeons-Dragons-Wizards/dp/0786965606/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483698202&sr=8-1&keywords=player+handbook+5th+edition).

So there are lots of options before resorting to piracy.

u/slowbie · 2 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

I know it's a little weird to respond to a comment this old, but I highly highly recommend this book. It's written for kids but I found it to be very meaningful myself when I read it to my kids.

u/TheTriscuit · 2 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

I feel like no one remembers it was an actual thing that was super popular in the 90s. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0785200819/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_KlJ3Bb8HP35V4

u/BatFlashes · 2 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

Thank you! And yeah no problem, got a link to them right here.

And no progress pics, sorry. :( If you need any help, feel free to PM me! The hardest part was probably cutting the rune shape out of the foam, and even that is pretty simple if you take precise measurements.

u/Ilovescout · 3 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

Yeah, it’s very real. Griffin having grown up in church & gone to church camps knew it was a real thing. That was the joke. It’s just a NKJ Bible with little devotions & stories that relate to teens. I remember seeing them in church as a teen myself.

https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Teen-Bible-NKJV/dp/0785200819

u/FlyinMayanLion · 6 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

I think a drink called Pringles Potion or Hair of the Dog Potion (as seen in episode 10) would be great. It would need to be something that'll get you... real fucked up. They describe it as having gel balls similar to Orbitz soda, which I think was discontinued in the 90s for being gross. If you really want to go the extra mile maybe you could get some of those flavored popping/bursting boba balls (example). I've never tried including those in anything alcoholic before. Would probably take a lot of experimenting to get right (if it can be got right at all) but it's the only thing I can think of that would have a similar visual effect. If you can't get that to work, just make something that'll get you... reeeaal fucked up.

It also could be fun to recreate Redcheek Cider (aka AppleSauce). I vaguely remember it being described as sweet and strong. Should be simple to make a version just from tweaking a regular apple cider.

u/nikkizkmbid · 1 pointr/TheAdventureZone

Oh I have both a cat and have had a kouse and I gotta tell you the bunny is 100 times worse I guarantee lol. The mouse wasn't too bad especially since we have him dried papayas he went crazy for em. Dropped a link below incase: )



Kaytee Fiesta Healthy Toppings Papaya Bits For All Pet Birds, 2.5-Oz Bag https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002UIZ12W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_z0WpDb7SJC8JW

u/SamBone123 · 3 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

This one is a little more subtle but still pretty rad. I have it in blue.

u/tacobongo · 2 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

You are viewing whiteness as an innate, essentialist trait. What's being talked about here is whiteness as a social construction and how it functions. I recommend checking out The Wages of Whiteness or much of the work of James Baldwin if you're interested in exploring this idea at all. But ultimately whether you personally participated in genocide, for instance, is utterly beside the point.

u/cuzspicy · 25 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

The module is called "Lost Mines of Phandelver". It's from the 5e Starter Set.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0786965592 (If you're interested, it really is a good starting point)

u/phoenixashes07 · 9 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

I’ll be honest, it’s one of the starter sheets in the box set the boys use for the campaigns.

u/danstu · 6 pointsr/TheAdventureZone

The "Here there be Gerblins" arc is actually built on the "Lost mine of Phandelver" starter set, which is designed as an intro for the modern version of d&d. You can find it online for about $10-15. That's what my group used to get us started.

https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Starter-Set-Roleplaying/dp/0786965592