D&D Demotivators IX: Tome of Motivation: Thread of Nine Posters [Archive] - Page 3

Yora

2015-02-23, 02:23 PM

I knew it! I just knew it! :smallamused:

Why does everything that gets posted here get comments like "actually, this joke is not completely correct..."?

Anyway, got an even better one:
https://40.media.tumblr.com/40983815ec6abefbe9fc944ca3c44509/tumblr_nk8n90hPsi1rv231do1_500.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/2b54ec0c77e3e39d4648d472e4041068/tumblr_nk8mlu18zb1rv231do2_r1_500.png

https://41.media.tumblr.com/1a806c204c7e10985b3dc0d07400fd4b/tumblr_nk6c6lQ6yO1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/ec60a5d25360a2899e0b5b5502c227ce/tumblr_nk6c7hR06C1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/8dda9e3479c40e78edbb65ea10d5f730/tumblr_nk6c8dT9fC1rv231do1_1280.jpg

thorr-kan

2015-02-23, 04:32 PM

Amaril

2015-02-23, 05:14 PM

I didn't bother to find an image, because it's not pleasant, but it keeps running through my head and ITWONTLEAVEMEALONENOWYOUGETTOFLOSSYOURBRAINS....

50 Shades of Grey
Still a better love story than Twilight...
Maaaaybee not.

There's actually a new meme for this: a screencap from Twilight captioned "still a better love story than 50 Shades of Grey" :smalltongue:

golentan

2015-02-23, 06:19 PM

Related.

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2015/054/b/f/not_all_damsels_are_distressed_by_golentan-d8j98wr.jpg

Lord Raziere

2015-02-23, 06:56 PM

Related.

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2015/054/b/f/not_all_damsels_are_distressed_by_golentan-d8j98wr.jpg

Yang? when did you get a dragon girlfriend!? and why wasn't I informed?

also, related to that related thing:

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk25/Trizap/draconiccyrano.png~original

goto124

2015-02-23, 09:59 PM

Interspecies lesbian bondage relationship.

... huh.

golentan

2015-02-23, 10:27 PM

Interspecies lesbian bondage relationship.

... huh.

It's how I roll. I was originally going to make it a same sex male interspecies bondage relationship, but I had the twin problems of 1. The Princess kidnapped by a dragon is the classic image in the mind of people, and making the character male might have undermined my main subversion, and 2. Pretty much every picture I found of the menfolk in a similar situation was full rooster visible (nudity was also a problem with the ladies, but less of one, oddly).

I figure it will be fun to watch longterm who has more problem with "dating a dragon" vs "girlfriend." I plan to laugh angrily regardless.

thorr-kan

2015-02-23, 10:34 PM

There's actually a new meme for this: a screencap from Twilight captioned "still a better love story than 50 Shades of Grey" :smalltongue:
Not surprised. Unconvinced, but not surprised.

50 Shades of Grey Twilight...BRAINFLOSSBRAINFLOSSBRAINFLOSS!!!

Oh, thanks a lot! Now look what you made me do!

thorr-kan

2015-02-23, 10:37 PM

Related.

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2015/054/b/f/not_all_damsels_are_distressed_by_golentan-d8j98wr.jpg
Hey, I recognize those two from college! They were part of the Monday Night Gaming Group.

Rater202

2015-02-23, 10:56 PM

There's actually a new meme for this: a screencap from Twilight captioned "still a better love story than 50 Shades of Grey" :smalltongue:

It's even true, considering that Shades started life as a crappy Twilight AU fic until the author decided to change the names and nothing else and then sell it to make a profit.

Meyer could have sued and won, is what I've been hearing.

Sith_Happens

2015-02-25, 07:35 AM

http://bighugelabs.com/output/motivator06e2f376f9146baa0705a07f0102543b05c5cb07. jpg

Did... did you just do what I think you did?:smalleek:

Yora

2015-02-25, 07:43 AM

It looks like it. I usually copy the bighugelabs url to upload it directly to tumblr and then use the tumblr url to post it here. Seems I didn't correctly hit "copy image location" on that one.
Fixed it now.

GorinichSerpant

2015-02-25, 08:15 AM

Hey, I recognize those two from college! They were part of the Monday Night Gaming Group.

For my personal amusement I am going to assume that you played with a literal dragon and her human girlfriend which is probably a princess of something.

Admiral Squish

2015-02-25, 09:07 AM

For my personal amusement I am going to assume that you played with a literal dragon and her human girlfriend which is probably a princess of something.

If you really think about it, almost every story is more interesting/amusing when you assume at least one individual involved was a dragon.

Sith_Happens

2015-02-25, 10:03 AM

If you really think about it, almost every story is more interesting/amusing when you assume at least one individual involved was a dragon.

Especially the story of your own conception.

...You're welcome for that mental image.:belkar:

GorinichSerpant

2015-02-25, 10:47 AM

Especially the story of your own conception.

...You're welcome for that mental image.:belkar:

:smallconfused: I don't follow, what mental image am I supposed to be having now?

Eldan

2015-02-25, 11:03 AM

Your parents having sex, with a dragon involved.

Admiral Squish

2015-02-25, 11:42 AM

In all honesty, replacing one of my parents with a dragon in that visual is SLIGHTLY better than the alternative. My parents are gross. Though, a dragon just like... watching? That's about a thousand times worse.
Yeah, I'm gonna go swap this brain for a new one now. It's never getting clean.

Eldan

2015-02-25, 11:53 AM

My parents are cool. Though I'm not sure who'd be the dragon. Either my father in full early seventies hippie regalia (there's so many hilarious pictures of him in long hair, pink sunglasses and flower shirts) or my mother in early rock leathers and punk hair. Both work.

thorr-kan

2015-02-25, 10:06 PM

For my personal amusement I am going to assume that you played with a literal dragon and her human girlfriend which is probably a princess of something.
By all means be amused; you're quite close.

The dragon is my twin sister and the princess is the fundie cheerleader she shacked up with our sophomore year of college. Though I suppose after 23 years of continuous cohabitation, shacked up don't really cover it.

GorinichSerpant

2015-02-26, 12:39 AM

By all means be amused; you're quite close.

The dragon is my twin sister and the princess is the fundie cheerleader she shacked up with our sophomore year of college. Though I suppose after 23 years of continuous cohabitation, shacked up don't really cover it.

So are you also a dragon or there is so complicated something or other?

Your parents having sex, with a dragon involved.

Oh, conception I am surprised I didn't recognize that word for some reason.

I... I don't know how to react to that idea honestly...

thorr-kan

2015-02-26, 09:28 AM

So are you also a dragon or there is so complicated something or other?
Well, Lana describes herself as "butch" and pretty much endorses the connotations that come with that label. And she's got a real temper. Close enough to dragon for humanoid purposes. *I'm* not going to argue; I've long since learned discretion is the better part of valor. Would you? :)

A Tad Insane

2015-02-26, 11:10 AM

I smell... tax evasions.

http://i1317.photobucket.com/albums/t640/Bannana_King/automotivator%2017_zpsqc9emcmd.jpg

Blackhawk748

2015-02-26, 04:30 PM

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo121/Joncharlesspencer/Complaining.jpg

can i sig quote this?

Yora

2015-02-27, 08:50 AM

https://40.media.tumblr.com/a2909d6ff7884d1a54de90cfbc0f0579/tumblr_nk8uzdVZPd1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/77a0764927d1ba8b800ad213d0a96a39/tumblr_nk6couqoSJ1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://36.media.tumblr.com/9372001aae7300f688dbaf59ad6ecab3/tumblr_nk6c99s51G1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://36.media.tumblr.com/90f147b3d31d97bb49cf49d2f472dee6/tumblr_nk6cq6ZDJm1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/481a0d3ea776b2d055975d2de1f427f6/tumblr_nk6csj8BVE1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/451adee399277c8c6231f2a2d8d9b9c9/tumblr_nk6ctf4f8v1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/5b06d499711004888e9d60231e930ae7/tumblr_nk6cv4OqOG1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/7daeed4d7f036dca0584f679f47a63cf/tumblr_nk6cw2RYPr1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/c7e1b24bd2dc5351da1a3e9ec74be7b5/tumblr_nk6cwvxSKC1rv231do1_1280.jpg

Also, I can have more philosoflumphs and Not my Business Bilbos? If you have a good idea but don't want to add the text, just tell me what to put on the images and I'll upload and credit them to you.

Milo v3

2015-02-27, 09:55 AM

Can't believe I nearly forgot that scissors/paper/rock version.

Ksheep

2015-02-27, 10:50 AM

Rules complexity? But that's only RPS-25 (http://www.umop.com/rps25.htm). If you REALLY wanted complex, you'd need RPS-101 (http://www.umop.com/rps101.htm).

Arutema

2015-02-28, 02:19 AM

Related.

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2015/054/b/f/not_all_damsels_are_distressed_by_golentan-d8j98wr.jpg

I must now base a one-shot game around this idea.

Yora

2015-02-28, 08:21 AM

https://40.media.tumblr.com/21c28c72ebb5605ad8f57b4be2c5270b/tumblr_nkhh2vgAwD1rv231do1_500.jpg

Urpriest

2015-02-28, 10:12 AM

Yora, do you have memegenerator entries for None of My Business Bilbo and philosoflumph? Also, how far along are you in transcribing the thread's demotivators to the tumblr?

Yora

2015-02-28, 10:51 AM

I have the blanks for Philosoflumph and Bilbo in the tumblr posts I first used them. Using the search for philosoflumph and bilbo should show them.

And I am currently usually pretty up to date with uploading, though I often skip anything that directly referrs to the talking here, as those wouldn't make any sense out of context.

Urpriest

2015-02-28, 12:38 PM

Yora

2015-02-28, 05:03 PM

https://41.media.tumblr.com/5cfaef18840c13bc2ebd595ba6363820/tumblr_nk6czzYtUw1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://36.media.tumblr.com/b5e8d6d9e8a04aea11c2d7722362d248/tumblr_nk6d2hg3Ol1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://36.media.tumblr.com/74b84542885d80e2a65ff6c282b378ec/tumblr_nk6d3lDz6F1rv231do1_1280.jpg

aspekt

2015-02-28, 05:14 PM

Interspecies lesbian bondage relationship.

... huh.

Would that make them scalies?

Ksheep

2015-03-01, 11:03 AM

http://i.imgur.com/jVlYsln.jpg

Dire Moose

2015-03-01, 02:04 PM

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0xdH7pE6TSg/T2nQKs2fHlI/AAAAAAAABGU/L3sFHW4GX9Y/s1600/demotivational-game-night.jpg

MReav

2015-03-01, 02:36 PM

[img]

My take on this:

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg192/Cherpet/KirkAloneFeels_zpsq2ic9rjd.jpg

Yora

2015-03-02, 10:59 AM

https://40.media.tumblr.com/31a3e727c1277530b6f20d6c6ad1ffbb/tumblr_nk6cxnQSDf1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/f29684b6bf4500ad0fbb7e5a0120c38a/tumblr_nk6cyjFSp51rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/e293e1e688c55b0cfd0d56b2d882d449/tumblr_nk6czcDJCa1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/59e4099412ab1f2a9b67161cd99c2ef1/tumblr_nk6d4mVPoV1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://36.media.tumblr.com/09b472307dd3768002aa85f1f7ba2d59/tumblr_nk6dadzMEk1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/0535c911dac11c5174f2bbf585b87b8a/tumblr_nk6dbfgkoc1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/f24c0d040d572cdd8edd150d861812a8/tumblr_nk6dcdNn9w1rv231do1_1280.jpg

Eldan

2015-03-02, 01:00 PM

That "Fantasy Architecture" one makes me think of a half-burried rock giant giving the finger. Can't unsee it now.

blacklight101

2015-03-02, 07:33 PM

That "Fantasy Architecture" one makes me think of a half-burried rock giant giving the finger. Can't unsee it now.

That is exactly what I saw!

Yora

2015-03-03, 09:44 AM

https://36.media.tumblr.com/e01efe3212376fd04cee7573eb491584/tumblr_nkn4wfOqUI1rv231do1_1280.jpg

thorr-kan

2015-03-03, 04:26 PM

It's tax season!

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh240/thorr-kan/Demotivators/Relationship%20Advice.jpg

Cerlis

2015-03-03, 07:13 PM

It's tax season!

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh240/thorr-kan/Demotivators/Relationship%20Advice.jpg

thats a picture of Edward Cullan, not Christian Grey.

dps

2015-03-03, 10:49 PM

thorr-kan

2015-03-04, 12:19 PM

thats a picture of Edward Cullan, not Christian Grey.
Yes. Yes, it is.

Spore

2015-03-04, 02:38 PM

{scrubbed}

Lentrax

2015-03-04, 03:22 PM

thats a picture of Edward Cullan, not Christian Grey.

Pretty sure that makes the analogy even more true.

Yora

2015-03-04, 05:31 PM

https://41.media.tumblr.com/99aebd25d38821be785d6912f17db6a0/tumblr_nkni5eu6ot1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/7c3002b82f9dc11fec6a5baf3ad7a03f/tumblr_nkp0fydFiS1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/8ecc30f59de25cbf91e18ac3757de251/tumblr_nkpkr6mSta1rv231do1_r1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/aebe386f851fc4c95b5c6799434fd4a1/tumblr_nk6dd8dllA1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/3bfa5e635b07d6bd2837d083f9ec8a04/tumblr_nk6ddzJ8nY1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://36.media.tumblr.com/e3bbdc6464545412b01f061b46f720c3/tumblr_niwfwtzkmI1r1gnp2o1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/e34ae4a6b81b5e92ca607b3b428e35de/tumblr_ng1365YMnR1s44n34o1_1280.jpg
A wyvern is really just a bat-lizard with fewer body parts.

MReav

2015-03-04, 05:43 PM

I make him confess, natural 1 (https://41.media.tumblr.com/e34ae4a6b81b5e92ca607b3b428e35de/tumblr_ng1365YMnR1s44n34o1_1280.jpg)

I don't get it...

Sith_Happens

2015-03-04, 05:46 PM

https://36.media.tumblr.com/e3bbdc6464545412b01f061b46f720c3/tumblr_niwfwtzkmI1r1gnp2o1_1280.jpg

...I think this one just critically hit my sides.

thorr-kan

2015-03-04, 05:54 PM

Pretty sure that makes the analogy even more true.
Yes. Yes, it does.

Admittedly, my prejudices are showing here. I basing this on an attempt to read the first book, out-of-context clips from the movies, and my tween niece's ravings about how good the books were. I've seen no evidence to convince me otherwise.

Rater202

2015-03-04, 06:03 PM

Yes. Yes, it does.

Admittedly, my prejudices are showing here. I basing this on an attempt to read the first book, out-of-context clips from the movies, and my tween niece's ravings about how good the books were. I've seen no evidence to convince me otherwise.

You're not far off.

Ksheep

2015-03-04, 07:54 PM

I don't get it...

It's a chart showing what various mythical creatures are "made of". For instance, a Centaur is a mix between a human and a horse. Pegasus and Hippogryph are both horse-bird hybrids. Minotaur is human-bull. The main blobs are the source creatures, and the overlap lists the various creatures resulting from that mix.

MReav

2015-03-04, 11:03 PM

It's a chart showing what various mythical creatures are "made of". For instance, a Centaur is a mix between a human and a horse. Pegasus and Hippogryph are both horse-bird hybrids. Minotaur is human-bull. The main blobs are the source creatures, and the overlap lists the various creatures resulting from that mix.

Whoops, I meant to select the Natural 1 on the guy that was reduced to 1 HP.

Ravian

2015-03-05, 01:00 AM

Whoops, I meant to select the Natural 1 on the guy that was reduced to 1 HP.

Game of Thrones. Kind of spoilery. But let's just say that discovering the difference between dead and almost dead was a very "eye-opening" experience for the individual in question.

Why, Yes I am a horrible Person. :smallamused:

Why, No I'm not sorry. :smalltongue:

MReav

2015-03-05, 01:01 AM

Sith_Happens

2015-03-05, 02:03 AM

Whoops, I meant to select the Natural 1 on the guy that was reduced to 1 HP.

That... is major Game of Thrones spoilers. Read at your own risk:

The guy in the second panel is Oberyn Martel, who has just trounced Gregor "the Mountain" Clegane (http://www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2014/06/gregor-clegane-the-mountain-halfthor-bjornsson.jpg) in a trial by combat. The Mountain was chosen to fight on behalf of the prosecution because, as you might guess by looking at him, he's generally considered in-universe to be the second-greatest swordsman on the continent. Oberyn volunteered to fight for the defense because the Mountain is a horrible person who raped and murdered Oberyn's older sister and her children during the civil war that the series starts (IIRC) ten years after.

Anyways, as I was saying, Oberyn gives the Mountain a beatdown of epic proportions... and then, instead of finishing him off, starts circling him trying to taunt him into confessing to the above crime in front of the shocked crowd... which goes about as well as suggested by the third panel. Specifically, he eventually steps just a little too close to the lying-on-his-back-but-still-quite-alive Mountain, who trips him, rolls on top of him, and demonstrates precisely why he (the Mountain) is played by the current Strongest Man in Europe.
EDIT: Nat-1'ed my Spot check.

Tarlek Flamehai

2015-03-05, 06:44 AM

I found this one. I just had to share. Warning no D&D in sight.

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/103/6/b/this_guy_by_fredrickburn-d61jz2c.jpg

Ionbound

2015-03-05, 11:16 AM

To me, what makes the series of images even funnier is that that is exactly the kind of thing Gygax would do to screw with his players.

Man on Fire

2015-03-05, 12:09 PM

http://i.imgur.com/ng39iyX.jpg

Voidhawk

2015-03-05, 02:44 PM

A little bit of back tax:
http://i.imgur.com/SsIVbUK.jpg

SiuiS

2015-03-06, 03:32 PM

Game of Thrones. Kind of spoilery. But let's just say that discovering the difference between dead and almost dead was a very "eye-opening" experience for the individual in question.

Why, Yes I am a horrible Person. :smallamused:

Why, No I'm not sorry. :smalltongue:

Pfffffff hahahahaha!

To me, what makes the series of images even funnier is that that is exactly the kind of thing Gygax would do to screw with his players.

Gygax was actually kind of a softy. If rumors are true, he didn't really kill anyone all that often and he wrote tomb of horrors specifically because people commented how easy-going and no lethal his games were.

kopout

2015-03-08, 12:33 PM

Here, have a poster
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/pyranack/Exterminator.jpg

GuesssWho

2015-03-08, 04:18 PM

Here, have a poster
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/pyranack/Exterminator.jpg

I was in a game where our barbarian killed a thing just like that by getting eaten, then finding its heart and punching it.

GorinichSerpant

2015-03-08, 04:22 PM

I was in a game where our barbarian killed a thing just like that by getting eaten, then finding its heart and punching it.

Hearts aren't generally kept inside stomachs, he probably had to dig around a bit to get to the heart.

GuesssWho

2015-03-08, 07:17 PM

Hearts aren't generally kept inside stomachs, he probably had to dig around a bit to get to the heart.

True. But it was still hilarious, especially since the character was over-the-top stupid and violent. "Krug punch stuff 'til it dies!"

DrewID

2015-03-08, 10:59 PM

True. But it was still hilarious, especially since the character was over-the-top stupid and violent. "Krug punch stuff 'til it dies!"

Amusingly enough, that was essentially the core of the game Snit's Revenge, designed by Tom Wham and released by TSR. Hmmm. According to the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snit%27s_Revenge), the game is now available from Steve Jackson Games. Tempting ...

DrewID

DracoDei

2015-03-08, 11:16 PM

Amusingly enough, that was essentially the core of the game Snit's Revenge, designed by Tom Wham and released by TSR. Hmmm. According to the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snit%27s_Revenge), the game is now available from Steve Jackson Games. Tempting ...

DrewID
I made a Tiger-Claw Stance for the general concept of "Tunnel from Stomach to Heart and stab it." Have fun... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?140299-%283-5%29-%28ToB%29-New-Tiger-Claw-Stance-and-Strike)

GuesssWho

2015-03-09, 12:16 AM

I made a Tiger-Claw Stance for the general concept of "Tunnel from Stomach to Heart and stab it." Have fun... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?140299-%283-5%29-%28ToB%29-New-Tiger-Claw-Stance-and-Strike)

That thread reminds me of a story called "The Cat From Hell." I think it was by Stephen King, I found it ages ago in a book of cat stories.

Noedig

2015-03-09, 12:19 AM

I've never been able to wrap my head around that 'it's eating all our elephants' creature. First off, it looks insectoid, right? So...how did it get so big? How does it support it's own massive weight with no skeletal structure? How does it /fly/ with only one set of very fragile looking wings? What on earth are those crazy back leg/claw/fin/wthf things? Why does it have a reptilian head and an insect body? Why are its primary grasping appendages /behind/ the crazy mantis arms? Why does it have both?! What the hell is it ambushing that it cant pick up and fly away with? WHY IS IT SPIKED!? WHAT EATS THAT CREATURE?!

GuesssWho

2015-03-09, 12:27 AM

Magic! What else?

SiuiS

2015-03-09, 02:14 AM

It's a half dragon. It has one set of diaphanous insect wings, one set of leathery dragon wings. The grasping appendages appear to be feet.

It's an insectoid dragon. Not that big a deal. I don't hear griping that the first orbit of nonmaterial politics is field by the slave economy of sentient fire, why is big bug so hard? :smalltongue:

enderlord99

2015-03-09, 07:18 AM

http://restlesspilgrim.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Nunchucks.jpg

Sgt. Cookie

2015-03-09, 07:47 AM

WHY IS IT SPIKED!? WHAT EATS THAT CREATURE?!

It's possible those spikes are to fend off competitors for mates.

Admiral Squish

2015-03-09, 08:45 AM

Rater202

2015-03-09, 09:16 AM

Evolution is not inherently logical. Features do not evolve for any one specific reason, there is no mind behind it.

Humans still have parts we haven't used since we were a different species. Did you know hat almost every human has a vestigial third eyelid?

Elderand

2015-03-09, 09:35 AM

Evolution is not inherently logical. Features do not evolve for any one specific reason, there is no mind behind it. They simply show up via mutation and, if the creatures that carry those features happen to survive, they are passed on. The spikes seem to aid the creature's survival in some way, but we only assign explanations, evolution does not provide them. Perhaps the spikes are involved in a threat display, or attracting mates, or fending off rivals, or grooming, or perception, or serve some other function we cannot deduce from this picture alone, or even a combination of functions.
Of course, the obvious possibility might well be the correct one. There's always a bigger fish.
Or maybe a wizard did it.

I would make a demotivator for taxes, but I have no idea how to even start searching for that image.

Evolution doesn't have to provide function at all. A trait doesn't have to be useful to be kept, it just has to not be a bigger disadvantage than advantage. Meaning a trait whitout any advantage can be kept as long as it has no disadvantage either. So these spikes might be there for no reason whatsoever, as long as the creature isn't having any problem because of them, they'll stay.

Necroticplague

2015-03-09, 10:04 AM

Humans still have parts we haven't used since we were a different species. Did you know hat almost every human has a vestigial third eyelid?

And a mostly worthless tailbone. And questionably useful pubic hair. And the ability to hiccup (left over from a long ago amphibious ancestor). And risky floating ribs.

Yora

2015-03-09, 10:41 AM

https://41.media.tumblr.com/2099de4e3515c6e23bf6417c24d08034/tumblr_nkuj0oY83E1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/3261fa64267bfd84184d37ef77c16977/tumblr_nk6dewE7mr1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://36.media.tumblr.com/670377b17cc0c17b4f458d2e9880c845/tumblr_nk6dhhtL4W1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/470b665fec859c93b5b8f3978ac7528a/tumblr_nk6dlqUkxw1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://36.media.tumblr.com/b305a8ebe7e2671b0b676b8bf28adf87/tumblr_nk6cuflZ2m1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/33e963376d868ee13164f6747ae1dd34/tumblr_nk6dmipPiX1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/d05f2cb2a7fa2d70e2563ecdd72e3e9d/tumblr_nk6dndwd5n1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/5205eb42690bd3399d6cb6cfc47beb05/tumblr_nkuj72uzcl1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/8fa8d28f0fc0baf5994b97cc8bdb95fe/tumblr_nkuj8sdHs31rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/a4b273e08977ebaf94b3829e53ec686d/tumblr_nkujaaV8ts1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/e47d05cf484fa22f34990a4dfde7e8bd/tumblr_nkt562cuNM1rv231do1_500.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/a0a5ff79cc48909a30d30b64fbf89b7d/tumblr_nkuximAoIk1rv231do1_500.jpg
Had to recreate this as I couldn't find the original, but it's not really my idea.

And some other stuff that is not single image:
http://ddemotivators.tumblr.com/post/112909730625/dungeongrind-the-very-hungry-rust-monster-is-a
http://ddemotivators.tumblr.com/post/112910033340/iguanamouth-do-do-y-ou-mean-this-toad-and
http://ddemotivators.tumblr.com/post/112909572060/player-reactions-5
http://ddemotivators.tumblr.com/post/113097276040/i-can-tell-from-the-ashes-its-the-fault-of-the

Rater202

2015-03-09, 10:52 AM

And a mostly worthless tailbone. And questionably useful pubic hair. And the ability to hiccup (left over from a long ago amphibious ancestor). And risky floating ribs.

Don't forget the wisdom teeth and the appendix.

enderlord99

2015-03-09, 10:57 AM

Don't forget the wisdom teeth and the appendix.

Tonsils... Adenoids... Male nipples... Ear-wiggly muscles... Protruding chins...

Yora

2015-03-09, 11:16 AM

Hey I got a crazy idea!

How about we post RPG demotivators?!

Rater202

2015-03-09, 11:21 AM

Tonsils... Adenoids... Male nipples... Ear-wiggly muscles... Protruding chins...

That extra baby tooth in between the "two front teeth" that doesn't do anything and does';t get replaced when you lose it(I had to get mine pulled.) And that's just the stuff that doesn't do anything or has negligible effect on the body.

there's all kinds of weird crap in the digestive tract alone that makes no sense or is horribly inefficient for it's intended purposes.

Or that fact that human evolution progresses at a much slower rate than we change the environment-we're built for small tribal environments where the two biggest stressors are "make sure family has enough meat for winter" and "try not to get eaten by that pride of lions" and that really screws us up in a "civilized" environment.

enderlord99

2015-03-09, 12:16 PM

http://s2.gif-demotivators.com/2015-03-09/V4wooS.gif

GuesssWho

2015-03-09, 12:40 PM

. . . is that a fractal teddy bear?

enderlord99

2015-03-09, 12:43 PM

. . . is that a fractal teddy bear?

Yes. It's actually one of his least creepy gifs.

GuesssWho

2015-03-09, 01:00 PM

Yes. It's actually one of his least creepy gifs.
Are you quite sure? Because it's freaking me out. :smalleek:

enderlord99

2015-03-09, 01:04 PM

Are you quite sure? Because it's freaking me out. :smalleek:

Quite sure.:smallamused:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuWTQtyKih4

Admiral Squish

2015-03-09, 01:31 PM

That... Wow. Just... :smalleek:

It's kinda lovecraftian, almost. Very... unsettling.

Waker

2015-03-09, 02:27 PM

For a time I allowed this thread to wallow in it's lack of demotivators being posted. But the time for mercy is at its end!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y47/Omnikar/Decisions_zpsoay8isni.jpg (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/Omnikar/media/Decisions_zpsoay8isni.jpg.html)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y47/Omnikar/Disguise_zps59z3tnhz.jpg (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/Omnikar/media/Disguise_zps59z3tnhz.jpg.html)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y47/Omnikar/Perform_zpskvfwbtv6.jpg (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/Omnikar/media/Perform_zpskvfwbtv6.jpg.html)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y47/Omnikar/Scenery_zpsyay5iy5v.jpg (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/Omnikar/media/Scenery_zpsyay5iy5v.jpg.html)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y47/Omnikar/Familiar_zpspyktad76.jpg (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/Omnikar/media/Familiar_zpspyktad76.jpg.html)

Rater202

2015-03-09, 02:47 PM

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y47/Omnikar/Familiar_zpspyktad76.jpg (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/Omnikar/media/Familiar_zpspyktad76.jpg.html)

...Is, is that a, is that a shop job or are ferrets just that squishy?

Inevitability

2015-03-09, 02:48 PM

Quite sure.:smallamused:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuWTQtyKih4

Okay, that's awesome. I'm going to use that in my next game. :smallbiggrin:

Fable Wright

2015-03-09, 02:52 PM

https://41.media.tumblr.com/d05f2cb2a7fa2d70e2563ecdd72e3e9d/tumblr_nk6dndwd5n1rv231do1_1280.jpg

...Is it bad I want to play this now?

Quite sure.:smallamused:

-snipped because you can't actually have two videos in a post, apparently-
I thought you said creepier? This is just interesting look at a spiders-all-the-way-down ecosystem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnWP2Emps1M

Sith_Happens

2015-03-09, 03:02 PM

http://s2.gif-demotivators.com/2015-03-09/V4wooS.gif

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-BEAR!Wild lower-case appears!

IZ42

2015-03-09, 03:37 PM

...Is it bad I want to play this now?

I thought you said creepier? This is just interesting look at a spiders-all-the-way-down ecosystem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnWP2Emps1M

My friend was freaking out so hard when he watched this.

DracoDei

2015-03-09, 03:52 PM

Quite sure.:smallamused:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuWTQtyKih4
That was amusing rather than creepy up until the rapid shift when human faces got involved.

enderlord99

2015-03-09, 04:07 PM

I thought you said creepier? This is just interesting look at a spiders-all-the-way-down ecosystem.

<only allowed one video/post>

Yeah, that's the one I linked in Afro's thread. It's also roughly on par with the one below in terms of creepiness, and moderately behind in terms of disturbingness. And yes, those are distinct to me, the latter being derived from the former combined with various other factors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZfmPREbTd8

Necroticplague

2015-03-09, 07:02 PM

...Is, is that a, is that a shop job or are ferrets just that squishy?

Not a shop job. Ferrets are mostly hair, and even then can collapse to pretty much squeeze into any space they can fit their face into (their ability to back out of said spaces, however...).

Arbane

2015-03-09, 09:18 PM

WHY IS IT SPIKED!? WHAT EATS THAT CREATURE?!

The really big monsters, obviously. :smallbiggrin:

Ksheep

2015-03-09, 09:44 PM

The really big monsters, obviously. :smallbiggrin:

Bringing back a poster from thread number IV:

http://clickdamage.com/motivator/motivator_bank/576.jpg

IZ42

2015-03-09, 10:09 PM

Bringing back a poster from thread number IV:

http://clickdamage.com/motivator/motivator_bank/576.jpg

The ever popular blank poster! I love it! Seriously though, is the link broke just for me or what?

goto124

2015-03-09, 10:11 PM

Edirlt- Works for me. It reads: Summon bigger fish- doesn't always work.

Fable Wright

2015-03-09, 10:19 PM

The ever popular blank poster! I love it! Seriously though, is the link broke just for me or what?

It's not just you.

EDIT:
It wasn't working before, it is now. Maybe it was a bandwidth issue at the host site?

razorback

2015-03-09, 11:05 PM

Edirlt- Works for me. It reads: Summon bigger fish- doesn't always work.
Works on my phone, too.

Ksheep

2015-03-09, 11:29 PM

Didn't realize that linking to the image would cause so much trouble. Here's the original post (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=11322128&postcount=458), and while I couldn't find it on the D&Demotivator Tumblr, I did find the one I was originally looking for. Lets see if Tumblr likes posting images on forums…

http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3g8h1A1ik1rv231do1_1280.jpg

If not, here's the link. (http://ddemotivators.tumblr.com/post/22372382450/summon-bigger-fish-posted-by-welknair)

Again, neither of these were mine, I was just reminded of them from the "there's always a bigger fish" comment(s).

goto124

2015-03-09, 11:32 PM

My first contribution to the thread!

http://www.geneticanomaly.com/RPG-Motivational/slides/fantasyarmor.jpg

Forrestfire

2015-03-10, 12:22 AM

... Is a dead link for me :smalltongue:

goto124

2015-03-10, 12:28 AM

Sigh, I uploaded it to imgur.

http://i.imgur.com/A7BiZps.jpg

Forrestfire

2015-03-10, 12:42 AM

Make it Gloryborn and it's the same as full plate! Best armor mod :smallbiggrin:

GuesssWho

2015-03-10, 03:15 AM

Is fractal-bear guy the same one who did cows&cows&cows?

JackOfAllBuilds

2015-03-10, 05:44 AM

Is fractal-bear guy the same one who did cows&cows&cows?

I believe so. I am pretty sure the fractal bear is also done by Cyriak, who did the cows video, a bunch of others, and all those strange gifs

aspekt

2015-03-10, 11:38 AM

What is it with imgur? I can never seem to get their image links to work here.

Forrestfire

2015-03-10, 11:43 AM

Are you directly linking to the image? If you're linking to the image's page, it's probably not going to work. For example, look at these two:

http://imgur.com/jvDv4UV
http://i.imgur.com/jvDv4UV.jpg

Ksheep

2015-03-10, 11:46 AM

What is it with imgur? I can never seem to get their image links to work here.

After uploading the image to Imgur, look on the right hand side of the image. There should he a selection of options of ways to link to the image, like so:

http://i.imgur.com/Frho4Dg.png

Copy the code from the BBCode (Message Boards and Forums) and copy it into the body of the message here. If you just copy the URL at the top and try to put it into an [ img ] tag, it won't work, because the base URL is not seen as an image. That said, you can take that base URL and add ".jpg" to the end of it and it should be directed straight to the image, allowing you to put it in an [ img ] tag.

Hiro Protagonest

2015-03-10, 11:48 AM

That said, you can take that base URL and add ".jpg" to the end of it and it should be directed straight to the image, allowing you to put it in an [ img ] tag.

Unless it's not a .jpg.

Just right-click on the image to get "copy image address".

aspekt

2015-03-10, 12:00 PM

Thanks everyone.

http://i.imgur.com/9XgP7Xo.jpg

aspekt

2015-03-10, 12:06 PM

And...one more test:

http://i.imgur.com/2HOAHzZ.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/L0B8CXH.jpg

Ksheep

2015-03-10, 12:28 PM

Unless it's not a .jpg.

Just right-click on the image to get "copy image address".

Actually, Imgur will show ANYTHING as a .jpg if you ask for it as one. For instance, that image I posted in the previous comment was a .png.

http://i.imgur.com/Frho4Dg.png

http://i.imgur.com/Frho4Dg.jpg

Feel free to check the sources of those images to double check.

EDIT: You can also tell it to show it as a .GIF and it'll still work. Not sure what other extensions it accepts (honestly, I think it just shows the image if it sees any image extension after the address).

http://i.imgur.com/Frho4Dg.gif

Tarlek Flamehai

2015-03-10, 06:22 PM

I'm not really funny, but I would like to offer an image I felt desperately needed to be demotivated.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/363/7/e/walkies__by_zoiks81.jpg

Traab

2015-03-10, 08:23 PM

I gave it a try

http://i.imgur.com/thBBwSo.jpg

kopout

2015-03-10, 09:03 PM

A not-so-attractive drider
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5h0jxBXpg1ql55zvo1_1280.jpg

Stupid dorf
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17817039/images/1328466454326.jpg

GuesssWho

2015-03-10, 09:55 PM

It's Dwarf Fortress!

Yora

2015-03-11, 05:01 AM

http://i.imgur.com/2HOAHzZ.jpg
This is just wonderful. :smallbiggrin:

Lord Raziere

2015-03-11, 06:52 PM

This is just wonderful. :smallbiggrin:

At first I didn't get it.

But then I realized who that is

and now I'm like: :smallbiggrin:

Admiral Squish

2015-03-11, 07:38 PM

http://i.imgur.com/2HOAHzZ.jpg

..I dun get it, and wouldn't even know where to start a-googlin'.

Necroticplague

2015-03-11, 07:39 PM

..I dun get it, and wouldn't even know where to start a-googlin'.

I'll give you a hint: despite his name, he didn't write romances.

BootStrapTommy

2015-03-11, 07:40 PM

..I dun get it, and wouldn't even know where to start a-googlin'. H.P. Lovecraft. And "unspeakable horrors".

GuesssWho

2015-03-11, 07:44 PM

Good old Éch-Pi-El. Best bad writer ever.

Admiral Squish

2015-03-11, 08:22 PM

Ah. Well, now I feel silly...

Vague thought: What if the reason that lovecraft's monster's are so popular is in part due to the smiley face principle? They're 'unspeakable', 'unthinkable', or 'impossible', meaning the reader's free to fill the blanks with whatever they desire.

aspekt

2015-03-11, 08:29 PM

Necroticplague

2015-03-11, 08:39 PM

Eh, the actual 'horror' part kinda falls flat, though. The themes just didn't age very well in light of progress.

goto124

2015-03-11, 08:49 PM

Why is it still popular though?

Gritmonger

2015-03-11, 08:50 PM

Eh, the actual 'horror' part kinda falls flat, though. The themes just didn't age very well in light of progress.

Not so sure, here - a lot of them were due to the horror of an uncaring universe oblivious to your personal plight. I'm not too sure that theme's been obviated by progress just yet.

goto124

2015-03-11, 08:52 PM

Lovecraft is also about fear of knowledge. I think that's what he's asking about.

You have a point though.

Necroticplague

2015-03-11, 09:12 PM

Not so sure, here - a lot of them were due to the horror of an uncaring universe oblivious to your personal plight. I'm not too sure that theme's been obviated by progress just yet.

Eh, I never found that to be of any significant horror. There was life before, life will continue after you're gone, and even when we're all gone, the planets will keep on turning. This is no great surprise or horror.

Gritmonger

2015-03-11, 09:22 PM

Eh, I never found that to be of any significant horror. There was life before, life will continue after you're gone, and even when we're all gone, the planets will keep on turning. This is no great surprise or horror.

...and I've always found any fiction based around spiders to be puzzling rather than horrifying. Spiders are spiders - and the jumping ones are really darn cute. Understanding something makes for a lot of the visceral horror going away. Doesn't mean somebody isn't going to watch "Kingdom of the Spiders" and not get the heebee-jeebees, instead of laughing out loud at Shatner being Shatner...

Blackhawk748

2015-03-11, 09:34 PM

I love Lovecraft, good stuff. Honestly its the horror of not understanding, of not being able to understand. Add in the fact that most of those horrors are virtually unkillable and you have something that scares people, not when they read it but when they lie awake in bed later that night thinking about it. Thats how Lovecraft does horror.

Also Spiders *shudders* but only the little ones, big ones im less afraid of, its kinda weird.

Ionbound

2015-03-11, 10:47 PM

Yeah, I think what makes Lovecraft scary, even to this day, isn't the unknown specifically, rather, the unknowableness of the rest of the universe. Which, as progress marches on, actually becomes scarier as we do think that we have only scratched the surface of the universe, and the Mi-Go, and Elder Things, and Great Old Ones are still waiting for first contact, which is something we likely won't survive.

ShadowFighter15

2015-03-11, 10:56 PM

golentan

2015-03-12, 12:27 AM

Couple I just whipped up for fun.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/28/19/e0/2819e08e94c141068fb59352001b5e96.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/49/c8/ef/49c8efdabbb15df6ad4098802e1cc0bb.jpg

For those unfamiliar with the character. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81W8tG3wH_4)

Riffing on that:
http://orig12.deviantart.net/f210/f/2015/070/3/e/kryten_by_golentan-d8ldh72.jpg

Some of the characters are really hard to pin down though. Cat: Chaotic neutral? Lister: Chaotic good/neutral? Kochanski: Lawful Good? Holly: Neutral Evil?

Except they all do some good things, and all do some pretty heinous things at various points...

Hiro Protagonest

2015-03-12, 01:37 AM

So not a demotivator, but I found this and thought it was semi-appropriate.
http://i.imgur.com/EUJ6SJo.png

SiuiS

2015-03-12, 01:57 AM

Andezzar

2015-03-12, 02:07 AM

...and I've always found any fiction based around spiders to be puzzling rather than horrifying. Spiders are spiders - and the jumping ones are really darn cute. Understanding something makes for a lot of the visceral horror going away.I agree. I don't get the horror some people have for arachnids either. It does not mean I would move away from an unknown type of spider near me. I don't know enough about spiders to tell the dangerous ones from the rest.

Doesn't mean somebody isn't going to watch "Kingdom of the Spiders" and not get the heebee-jeebees, instead of laughing out loud at Shatner being Shatner...Must find and watch that now.

http://i.imgur.com/meoH55t.jpg (http://imgur.com/meoH55t)

Gritmonger

2015-03-12, 02:11 AM

KINGDOM OF SPIDERS HAS SHATNER?!

Yes... it does (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGI86TeIEN8).

Warning: Contains SPIDERS. And SHATNER.

GuesssWho

2015-03-12, 02:29 AM

golentan

2015-03-12, 03:39 AM

Fable Wright

2015-03-12, 04:15 AM

I find it worrying that people no longer feel existential horror. It seems like they must have something wrong with them, to look at the terrifying vastness of Creation and the mystery that is life and death and just go 'meh.'

When you realize, deep down, that you are the Old Ones who come and destroy the known world, not through malice or even attention, but through your mere presence in an ecosystem, it becomes rather difficult to fear them. When you look at it that way, you realize that it's just eldritch abominations all the way down, that you are both a universe unto yourself and utterly significant to the world beyond, and you look down into your beverage container, shrug, and continue on with your daily life. You can't help that uncounted microbiomes in your gut will live or die based on your choice of drink, nor that the sidewalk that you're standing was an apocalypse to that which was there before, nor that the sun will swallow the earth in the inexorable passage of time. It's just the natural order of things. Why be scared of it?

Doorhandle

2015-03-12, 04:27 AM

I find it worrying that people no longer feel existential horror. It seems like they must have something wrong with them, to look at the terrifying vastness of Creation and the mystery that is life and death and just go 'meh.'

Also, close-ups of spider faces are nightmarish.

Well existential horror has the same issue as existential philosophy, and ironically it's also what can make them compelling: there's nothing you can really do about it.

It doesn't matter if you fight c'thulhu, because he'll survive and bring the end times anyway. It doesn't matter if you run from c'thulhu because he'll survive and bring the end times anyway. It doesn't matter if you try to placate him, or hide from him or even ignore him, because he'll survive and bring the end times anyway. The fact there's nothing humanly possible we can do to change that, there's little point worrying about it because whether you do or do not fear it has no effect on any level: it'll still happen. In a weird way, it makes us think the comic horror itself doesn't matter, because we can't interact with it much at all.

On top of that, "your inevitable demise" has a few issues in being horrific. For one, if there's nothing you can do to change the outcome it's a bit railroad, and for two, it can make empathy more difficult, as "He's gonna die anyway, who cares?"

Plus, to me at least, saying something is indescribably horrific doesn't automatically make me try to think of something indescribable: it makes me think "oh, the author's too lazy to describe it properly. Yawn :smallsigh:" At least try to describe how indecipherable it is, like in this card. (http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardsearch.php?singlesearch=Nemesis+of+Reason)

Joe the Rat

2015-03-12, 07:49 AM

When you realize, deep down, that you are the Old Ones who come and destroy the known world, not through malice or even attention, but through your mere presence in an ecosystem, it becomes rather difficult to fear them. When you look at it that way, you realize that it's just eldritch abominations all the way down, that you are both a universe unto yourself and utterly significant to the world beyond, and you look down into your beverage container, shrug, and continue on with your daily life. You can't help that uncounted microbiomes in your gut will live or die based on your choice of drink, nor that the sidewalk that you're standing was an apocalypse to that which was there before, nor that the sun will swallow the earth in the inexorable passage of time. It's just the natural order of things. Why be scared of it?
H.P. Lovecraft, meet N.D. Tyson. Fear the loss of Meaning, or wonder at the new Knowing.

To be fair, our generations grew up with the greater volumes of knowledge about the scale and workings of the universe that were being first published or becoming broadly known in Phil's time. Imagine if he had been writing before cell theory became common knowledge? All these individual... things making up your body, unknowing and uncaring of your own wants or needs, just waiting to rebel at their purpose and take over. Or more frighteningly a creature which is just a single piece of a larger entity (connected by long tentacles, as extradimensional space wasn't an idea at that period) killing or destroying things as its job while the superbeast is just passing by. Or imagine if he was more versed in the uncertainties of subatomic phenomena. We might have gotten Weeping Angels 80 years earlier.

Braininthejar2

2015-03-12, 09:04 AM

Quoting Cracked.com on the topic:

It's not the appearance of the monsters in his stories, it's the reality of them, the fact that they exist. Their existence alone proves that humanity is doomed and that all our hopes and dreams are stupid. Running into one of Lovecraft's Elder Gods is like finding a strange pair of underwear in your bed and realizing that your spouse is cheating on you. It's not the underwear itself that's stabbing you in the heart; it's the betrayal it represents. Lovecraft's monsters are proof to the protagonist that the universe is not benevolent. Finding strange underwear might mean that your spouse never loved you; stumbling upon a Lovecraft creature means that God never loved you.

DracoDei

2015-03-12, 10:45 AM

Eh, I never found that to be of any significant horror. There was life before, life will continue after you're gone, and even when we're all gone, the planets will keep on turning. This is no great surprise or horror.
Bolded for reference

And when you grow up with that as fact, cool.

Lovecraft grew up in a universe designed by a comforting loving figure to handle his needs. Having that stripped away is frightening. It's the same anxiety as being on your own for the first time, magnified.
To attempt to refine these statements, finding out that, if things continue as they are, the universe will render humanity a tiny blip in the charts of physical existence doesn't seem such a big deal to me.

In terms of space:
People have known that the Earth was tiny in comparison to the space it moves through, and the sun in the sky since Newton or earlier. It seems improbable that Lovecraft was getting quite so much millage out of the vastness of space. I suppose that discovering that the life-bringing warmth of the sun is hardly a unique warmth could be scary, much as a child who sees the careful tended fireplace that drives off their shivers in the bitter cold of winter might be somewhat taken aback to know that their are several fireplaces in their home (in rooms they were previously carefully kept out of), all of which are also kept burning. I don't pretend to be a psychologist, but I actually doubt that that is the problem since a little thought reveals that the care need not be less, only the skill and power to tend millions of "fires" all the greater. Still, "it came from beyond the stars" is a Lovecraft concept (whether original or not), so perhaps there is something to it.

In terms of time:
I submit that it is only when and if one accepts the absence of an immortal soul that is equal or greater in longevity to the physical universe that things get spooky.

Ksheep

2015-03-12, 11:14 AM

In memory of Terry Pratchett

http://i.imgur.com/kNYPgjG.jpg

Waker

2015-03-12, 01:33 PM

Ugh, I just found out about Pratchett a few minutes ago. A damn shame. And I had just started reading "The Long Mars" last night.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y47/Omnikar/Life_zpse24cbayr.jpg (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/Omnikar/media/Life_zpse24cbayr.jpg.html)[/URL]

Hiro Protagonest

2015-03-12, 03:00 PM

So this showed up in the tumblr.
http://41.media.tumblr.com/40a502a651699a4f22a4d41820edcfc9/tumblr_mgbw5uzIDc1qela56o1_250.png

GuesssWho

2015-03-12, 03:03 PM

I never said that Lovecraft himself was a good writer. He wasn't, frankly. But his ideas were amazing.

http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l573/GuesssWho9/Goodbye%20Pterry_zpstpy2ytgl.jpg (http://s1124.photobucket.com/user/GuesssWho9/media/Goodbye%20Pterry_zpstpy2ytgl.jpg.html)

Arbane

2015-03-12, 04:22 PM

I never said that Lovecraft himself was a good writer. He wasn't, frankly. But his ideas were amazing.

Yep.

Lovecraft had a pretty good sense of humor about his own writing skills - his short story "The Unnameable" opens with the narrator (a very obvious stand-in for H.P. himself) being chided for a friend for his overuse of words like 'undescribable', 'unnameable', and so on. (Of course, they then run into something that really IS unnameable...)

Taet

2015-03-12, 11:09 PM

Some of the characters are really hard to pin down though. Cat: Chaotic neutral? Lister: Chaotic good/neutral? Kochanski: Lawful Good? Holly: Neutral Evil?

Except they all do some good things, and all do some pretty heinous things at various points...
Cat is an easy one.
http://40.media.tumblr.com/a7f286cdf64494a6ee64bee7375e6eb7/tumblr_nl4u72ctM71t1xni5o1_r1_540.jpg

Sith_Happens

2015-03-13, 01:08 PM

I find it worrying that people no longer feel existential horror. It seems like they must have something wrong with them, to look at the terrifying vastness of Creation and the mystery that is life and death and just go 'meh'.

The portion of society whose job it is to poke the terrifying vastness of creation and the mystery that is life and death with a stick has a rather high profile these days. Or, to put it differently:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbmwwuHvGz1qeprx8o1_500.jpg

http://rsmg.pbsrc.com/albums/v287/Cornuthaum/Motivators/motivator8c70fb9af16f7082374e6ac98a.jpg~320x480

I find it entirely fitting that the image is of Nanoha Takamachi.:smallamused:

When you realize, deep down, that you are the Old Ones who come and destroy the known world, not through malice or even attention, but through your mere presence in an ecosystem, it becomes rather difficult to fear them. When you look at it that way, you realize that it's just eldritch abominations all the way down, that you are both a universe unto yourself and utterly significant to the world beyond, and you look down into your beverage container, shrug, and continue on with your daily life. You can't help that uncounted microbiomes in your gut will live or die based on your choice of drink, nor that the sidewalk that you're standing was an apocalypse to that which was there before, nor that the sun will swallow the earth in the inexorable passage of time. It's just the natural order of things. Why be scared of it?

[rapid finger-snapping]

Yora

2015-03-13, 02:49 PM

https://36.media.tumblr.com/2ddab421fba93f624d71e09af91492db/tumblr_nl613lNIhR1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/c9ee3743f6aff84278f1fcfa1da322ce/tumblr_nkujc8aVnl1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/22603c2004742c03e084a9469d58b50a/tumblr_nkujddiqhH1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/0fefa3f093e64fce5141f33ac56b1f79/tumblr_nkuje9GV2U1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/422fa0446f769641ffd2d1d0bed5b21c/tumblr_nkujg6oF4b1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/65ff08c7923799ea0fba07bd8e732c3a/tumblr_nkujh6Zksd1rv231do1_1280.jpg

http://ddemotivators.tumblr.com/post/113429372606/chaoticneutralinc-hecklers-in-d-d-are-a-lot-like
http://ddemotivators.tumblr.com/post/113444248155/discardingimages-bears-eating-children-dont-mock
http://ddemotivators.tumblr.com/post/113506698170/chaoticneutralinc-when-the-dm-says-you-have-to

thorr-kan

2015-03-13, 03:08 PM

Tax. Not mine, and I'm so very, very jealous.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh240/thorr-kan/Demotivators/Ninja%20Academy.jpg

Yora

2015-03-13, 04:25 PM

https://36.media.tumblr.com/0aa4d4b818b566434430c98ec270713e/tumblr_nl664bPB881rv231do1_1280.jpg

GorinichSerpant

2015-03-13, 04:59 PM

http://bighugelabs.com/output/motivatorc3970eebd9e9517c68f1eafd4faeff44f29548f8. jpg

Those are the most adorable things ever.

Ravian

2015-03-13, 05:38 PM

http://bighugelabs.com/output/motivatorc3970eebd9e9517c68f1eafd4faeff44f29548f8. jpg

While they are super adorable, aren't those Cheetahs? Baby hyenas look like thus

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/48832868.jpg

Still very adorable but they're the gnolls. Unless there's some joke I'm missing here

Blackhawk748

2015-03-13, 05:40 PM

While they are super adorable, aren't those Cheetahs? Baby hyenas look like thus

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/48832868.jpg

Still very adorable but they're the gnolls. Unless there's some joke I'm missing here

Omg i want!!!

Also where is the trophy collector pic from, i feel like i should know that....

DracoDei

2015-03-13, 06:19 PM

The image isn't displaying right for me. Something about BigHugeLabs wanting you to save a copy instead of linking.

aspekt

2015-03-13, 06:44 PM

The image isn't displaying right for me. Something about BigHugeLabs wanting you to save a copy instead of linking.

Ya mine says something about BigHugeLabs coming to your house.

Sgt. Cookie

2015-03-13, 06:44 PM

Despite only being 23 pages in, can I make a suggestion for the next thread title?

D&D Demotivators X: BigHugeLabs does NOT store posters, but even Yora forgets that

aspekt

2015-03-13, 11:14 PM

Despite only being 23 pages in, can I make a suggestion for the next thread title?

D&D Demotivators X: BigHugeLabs does NOT store posters, but even Yora forgets that

D&D Demotivators X: BigHugeLabs does NOT store posters, but they do make housecalls.

Andezzar

2015-03-14, 12:31 AM

D&D Demotivators X: BigHugeLabs is not the image storage you are looking for

http://i.imgur.com/TkBeUKU.jpg

Yora

2015-03-14, 04:12 AM

I am not forgetting. It's just my browser being to slow and me pressing Copy URL too fast before there is anything to copy.

Fixed the link.

aspekt

2015-03-14, 07:19 AM

D&D Demotivators X: BigHugeLabs is not the image storage you are looking for

http://i.imgur.com/TkBeUKU.jpg

I told you they made housecalls.

Yora

2015-03-14, 10:59 AM

https://36.media.tumblr.com/7e118b967272de7c8cb6307b8a25c8bb/tumblr_nl7lpbuTxK1rv231do1_1280.jpg

NineThePuma

2015-03-14, 03:32 PM

https://36.media.tumblr.com/0aa4d4b818b566434430c98ec270713e/tumblr_nl664bPB881rv231do1_1280.jpg

I journey here from tumblr to inform you that those are cheetah cubs. That makes them catfolk, rather than gnolls. On the other hand, the "catfolk" can't seem to nail down a species of cat to be based off, so I'll give it a pass.

Inevitability

2015-03-14, 03:51 PM

I journey here from tumblr to inform you that those are cheetah cubs. That makes them catfolk, rather than gnolls. On the other hand, the "catfolk" can't seem to nail down a species of cat to be based off, so I'll give it a pass.

Catfolk? These adorable fellows are obviously young Tibbits! Technically, a wizard can get a cheetah as his 'familiar', so there's a bit of room there...

Yora

2015-03-14, 03:56 PM

D&D Demotivators X: "Well, actually...."

NineThePuma

2015-03-14, 04:04 PM

Catfolk? These adorable fellows are obviously young Tibbits! Technically, a wizard can get a cheetah as his 'familiar', so there's a bit of room there...

Tibbits are hobbits that can turn into cats, not cats that turn into hobbits (for whatever reason, I don't pretend to understand it). :smalltongue:

JackOfAllBuilds

2015-03-15, 12:57 PM

Hey Yora, I dont know why, but when i just looked at your recent posts, none of the images are showing right. They all have that little torn image icon like [//]
Then if i try to open the image url in a new tab, i get a page saying something about xml being empty or something. Apparently it is not liking tumblr image linking?

aspekt

2015-03-15, 01:01 PM

Sadly Yora is no longer with us. They were visited by BigHugeLabs and haven't been heard from since.

Yora

2015-03-15, 01:58 PM

I resent that malicious slander.

Hey Yora, I dont know why, but when i just looked at your recent posts, none of the images are showing right. They all have that little torn image icon like [//]
Then if i try to open the image url in a new tab, i get a page saying something about xml being empty or something. Apparently it is not liking tumblr image linking?

That should be a browser problem. Though I have an idea what your browser might do wrong.

How about these?

http://41.media.tumblr.com/a38b3ce7540dbe40f53a6092ea43692b/tumblr_nkujie8jG31rv231do1_1280.jpg

http://36.media.tumblr.com/fc611ab0341e0f9d78253fe7ad476d5f/tumblr_nkujj79EV71rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/40a25f822e003907f1d31c8adacd5f43/tumblr_nkujk5Tuzj1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/244842802f3cc2d52bdc4afa1f8b18c1/tumblr_nkujzlCTc31rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/40a532aa51850da38818e6809b645e78/tumblr_nl3m81dqXt1ty0jumo1_500.png

https://40.media.tumblr.com/ac2ee79e3fd5c28204d232cc449306d7/tumblr_nl4ype3BIj1uonw0bo1_400.jpg

First two work, other four don't?

JackOfAllBuilds

2015-03-15, 04:19 PM

I'm on Chrome and none of them are showing.

Forrestfire

2015-03-15, 04:30 PM

I'm on chrome and they are. Odd. :smallconfused:

NineThePuma

2015-03-15, 07:49 PM

Chrome and they're fine. Y'all need to update your chrome.

enderlord99

2015-03-15, 07:57 PM

They look fine in Firefox.

Ksheep

2015-03-15, 08:21 PM

Working just fine on Safari as well.

D20ragon

2015-03-15, 09:46 PM

They're fine on firefox.

GuesssWho

2015-03-16, 05:54 PM

I don't get the alignment one, I don't think dead dragons get drunk.

Yora

2015-03-17, 03:42 PM

You've been guilty of "Well actually that joke is not entirely correct". :smallamused:

https://41.media.tumblr.com/728a06b29d78604fdc5efdd0b08e8898/tumblr_nkuk0jf10z1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/6f765656ff6ab9514f271e1e7e0ce7f4/tumblr_nkuk1fdsHL1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/3d046da5c50b2c6cfa073a7df5d3018a/tumblr_nkuk27zSzK1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/1b4272aa81d6de6b9ac0d28011e0bad3/tumblr_nkuk370NpT1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/2ba1ebefa91db2b6327805bd489a4a6c/tumblr_nkuk4au3Az1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/0d4c3c197cf00565827b617166ae2871/tumblr_nkuk59EHvN1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/dca09f6cec533ba5fcc6947ab8d190a2/tumblr_nkuk68bhk11rv231do1_1280.jpg

Sith_Happens

2015-03-18, 05:49 AM

I'm on chrome and they are. Odd. :smallconfused:

Chrome and they're fine. Y'all need to update your chrome.

They look fine in Firefox.

Working just fine on Safari as well.

They're fine on firefox.

Fine in Explorer too.

http://images.lolstream.com/assets/media_show/730__26b39d3bb54f5551eb7197b883c8ab4a.jpg

Necroticplague

2015-03-18, 06:18 AM

I'm on Opera and they're working for me.

I think we've pretty much got all of them now, right? Anyone still using netscape?

Lentrax

2015-03-18, 09:13 AM

I'm on Opera and they're working for me.

I think we've pretty much got all of them now, right? Anyone still using netscape?

Not me.

http://s3.postimg.org/7ltzovnrn/4b8epr57dp.jpg

aspekt

2015-03-18, 09:39 AM

I'm on Opera and they're working for me.

I think we've pretty much got all of them now, right? Anyone still using netscape?

I only use NetscapeMobile (tm) for Android.

Andezzar

2015-03-18, 10:33 AM

I'm on Opera and they're working for me.

I think we've pretty much got all of them now, right? Anyone still using netscape?Does it even still exist?

Ksheep

2015-03-18, 04:13 PM

What about SeaMonkey, Camino, Konqueror, NetSurf, Flock, Maxthon…

Hiro Protagonest

2015-03-18, 05:49 PM

Internet Explorer.

Yora

2015-03-18, 06:29 PM

What about posting funny pictures?

Arbane

2015-03-18, 07:05 PM

Internet Explorer.

That's just crazy talk.

SiuiS

2015-03-18, 08:50 PM

What about SeaMonkey, Camino, Konqueror, NetSurf, Flock, Maxthon…

iLunascape here. Works fine for me.

What about posting funny pictures?

That's a strange browser name. :smallconfused:

thorr-kan

2015-03-18, 09:12 PM

I'm on Opera and they're working for me.

I think we've pretty much got all of them now, right? Anyone still using netscape?
It doesn't work on Mosaic.

FOGHORNLEGHORN
(that's a joke, son)
\FORHORNLEGHORN

DrewID

2015-03-18, 10:29 PM

I'm on Opera and they're working for me.

I think we've pretty much got all of them now, right? Anyone still using netscape?

I'm not seeing anything in Lynx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29).

DrewID

aspekt

2015-03-19, 06:00 AM

What about posting funny pictures?

http://i.imgur.com/Yd0Pu6y.jpg

Yora

2015-03-19, 07:06 AM

https://40.media.tumblr.com/f3bbee27d2acf1013bf398300d1f2831/tumblr_nlgk9lV8pe1rv231do1_1280.jpg

Vizzerdrix

2015-03-21, 02:00 AM

Tax
http://i1317.photobucket.com/albums/t640/Bannana_King/automotivator11_zpsfedb5836.jpg

What is this from?

Yora

2015-03-21, 04:18 AM

https://41.media.tumblr.com/45322ebb5facb3e60aa33f728901962d/tumblr_nlh1nhtxB51rv231do1_1280.jpg

Andezzar

2015-03-21, 04:46 AM

Lies! Those are not Red Wizards of Thay. They don't have shaved or tattooed heads. Nice picture though. Source?

Yora

2015-03-21, 04:59 AM

Online image search: "Red Wizards of Thay"

BWR

2015-03-21, 05:13 AM

Lemme guess: 4e is to blame?
*checks*
Yup. Is there anything setting-related that 4e didn't **** up?

Andezzar

2015-03-21, 05:40 AM

Fixed that for you, Yora ;)
http://i.imgur.com/4pAcyD9.jpg

Yora

2015-03-21, 05:53 AM

Wow, that's incredibly insulting.

A new height of smartassery.

Not angry, because that joke was cheap and the picture actually terrible. But still, this is getting out of hand.

https://40.media.tumblr.com/03f2b14c33893c49b4951448bd7ec185/tumblr_nlk7fibugV1rv231do1_1280.jpg

:smalltongue:

A Tad Insane

2015-03-21, 09:39 PM

What is this from?

This webcomic (http://runfreakrun.com/runfreakrun/183/)

Yora

2015-03-22, 05:10 AM

https://40.media.tumblr.com/4c847114848b7ee619ccd3d7b0bdd959/tumblr_nlkphj1k2S1rv231do1_1280.jpg

Urpriest

2015-03-22, 08:53 PM

Tax:
http://i.imgur.com/QVA6iCl.jpg

And yes, I know they eventually show precisely what they can do without their uniforms. Let's not go on a nitpicking hunt here.

Mutazoia

2015-03-23, 03:53 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Krz-dyD-UQ

Yora

2015-03-24, 01:37 PM

https://40.media.tumblr.com/41a6bf11fb0ca1d71aa5cd73789bf5e3/tumblr_nlqbpjkSCf1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/b9b30bcd92658e5eace77c1dfa6cddae/tumblr_nl3lpxRqMn1tqonm3o1_1280.jpg

Yora

2015-03-26, 08:29 AM

https://40.media.tumblr.com/3d870e14da1782c0f3f74d4fb4c2ccdb/tumblr_nltmractBR1rv231do1_1280.jpg

shenshinoman

2015-03-27, 10:03 AM

lurker since thread three. Never had any demot of mine own till now. so start of my lurker tax. (i apologize, i promise I'll have the money someday!)

[IMG]http://i1107.photobucket.com/albums/h388/kitsune_kune/pwk.jpg (http://s1107.photobucket.com/user/kitsune_kune/media/pwk.jpg.html)

edited for spoiler tags.

Yora

2015-03-27, 10:44 AM

https://36.media.tumblr.com/b86cbc0141e3d1c344cfd59ce5efa1fc/tumblr_nlv12hZX351rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/7dc2c0e968c2ec07be96af01ecf0da9e/tumblr_nlvb0f15bL1rv231do1_r1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/5d42ea21f2778a7e662db1d1d2803b17/tumblr_nlucw4a7Vn1rv231do1_400.png

huttj509

2015-03-27, 02:16 PM

shenshinoman

2015-03-27, 11:26 PM

Power word: Doink?

Indeed. do not speak it aloud, lest ye kill your neighbor and do the cats a favor.

Ravian

2015-03-28, 01:37 AM

Lemme guess: 4e is to blame?
*checks*
Yup. Is there anything setting-related that 4e didn't **** up?

If I remember correctly those are Red Wizard renegades. In 4e Thay was taken over by Szass Tam, and while the Red Wizards still exist, those that aren't undead are essentially puppets.

Those folks are from an adventure involving a bunch of renegade Red wizards who are still being involved with the whole magic item trade thing. I suppose given that they're renegades still being hunted down by Szass's cronies, I would assume that hair was considered more convenient for disguise purposes. A red robe gives them brand recognition but can still be thrown on and off whenever they need to blend in. Shaving your head and tattooing it is far more permanent.

However you are still correct, 4e screwed that to the nine hells and back, because lord knows there's nothing more original than another area full of dangerous undead. (which is why 4e Forgotten realms added two new ones, Thay and Nethril with its shades.) Plus shoe-horning the new magic system is why the no shaved head thing works. (Any Red Wizard worth their salt who felt the strange need to be incognito, would just prepare a disguise self spell instead.)

To be fair though, Forgotten Realms came out a lot worse than some of the other settings. Mainly because they had to change so much to make the new system make sense. (Like that god-damned spellplague to explain the changes to magic.)

Eberron worked pretty well. In the words of the creator of the setting, many of the elements of 4e (like simplification of races, and ritual magic separate from wizard spellcasting). Dark Sun also wasn't bad. 4e could bring psionics more effectively into the rest of the rules. And because of the expansion of healing magic to other classes, they didn't have to make up weirdness to explain how templars and elemental priests get their healing powers so that parties would still be balanced.

MReav

2015-03-28, 10:32 AM

However you are still correct, 4e screwed that to the nine hells and back, because lord knows there's nothing more original than another area full of dangerous undead. (which is why 4e Forgotten realms added two new ones, Thay and Nethril with its shades.)

Objection. Shades, at least the ones in Netheril, aren't actually undead in 4E.

hamishspence

2015-03-28, 08:03 PM

They weren't undead in 3e either - they were Outsiders.

Ksheep

2015-03-28, 09:18 PM

Been a while since I contributed anything…

http://i.imgur.com/HX3n9C5.jpg

DracoDei

2015-03-28, 09:53 PM

Been a while since I contributed anything…

http://i.imgur.com/HX3n9C5.jpg
You forgot the most important part: Energy Substitution[Sonic] and Energy Admixture[Acid]. (Too much stuff with Fire Immunity...)

Ksheep

2015-03-28, 10:36 PM

You forgot the most important part: Energy Substitution[Sonic] and Energy Admixture[Acid]. (Too much stuff with Fire Immunity...)

The title was getting rather squashed as it was. I was thinking of adding Searing, Fiery and Blistering, as that would (slightly) alleviate the Fire Immunity issue while adding a bit more damage to boot, but that would have made the title all but unreadable.

EDIT: Reading a discussion on it, someone suggested adding Snowcasting/Flash Frost on top of Searing, just to have an icy-hot spell that bypasses immunities from hot and cold. Oh, and also Explosive (can't believe I forgot that). Could probably sprinkle in a few other Metamagics just to make it truly ridiculous.

Rater202

2015-03-28, 10:50 PM

You forgot the most important part: Energy Substitution[Sonic] and Energy Admixture[Acid]. (Too much stuff with Fire Immunity...)

By RAW, Energy Substitution can't be used with sonic: only fire, acid, cold, and electricity.

Since the damage types correspond to Fire, Earth, Water, and Wind elementals, respectively, and the aforementioned energy types with ES are prerequisites for turning into that type of Elemental with the Elemental Savant prestige class, this was probably the intention of the feat.

Hunter Noventa

2015-03-30, 12:41 PM

By RAW, Energy Substitution can't be used with sonic: only fire, acid, cold, and electricity.

Since the damage types correspond to Fire, Earth, Water, and Wind elementals, respectively, and the aforementioned energy types with ES are prerequisites for turning into that type of Elemental with the Elemental Savant prestige class, this was probably the intention of the feat.

A shame, since Sonic is essentially damage via vibration, and that means you can't turn into a Vibration Elemental.

Noedig

2015-03-30, 08:57 PM

All this talk of energy types has got me thinking....

Show of hands. Who knows what a Zephyr Hound is? Cookies if you dont google it.

VincentTakeda

2015-03-30, 11:45 PM

Zephyr is a type of wind, so a zephyr hound seems like some sort of wind dog.

My first encounter with zephyr is that it was the name of a local baseball team here in colorado decades ago.

My dad's company softball team was called 'Fugawe' which I believe is also a wind related word.

hamishspence

2015-03-31, 01:08 AM

I think in the Fantasy Safari thread, it was mentioned as the prototype for what would become the Yeth hound of D&D 3e - a flying supernatural dog with a less canine and more humanoid-type head.

Necroticplague

2015-03-31, 05:30 AM

Ah, I remember those from my Angband days (Before I discover SLASH'EM).

They're Z's who are a pain in the rear, spawn in packs that are probably a bit too big, and can breathe blasts of wind at you.

Noedig

2015-03-31, 09:57 PM

Necroticplague got it right.
Pack monsters that never sleep, and cannot be stealth'd by, very fast and can see long distances in all levels of light. They can claw and bite to attack as well as breath their various element for an AoE damage spell. Varieties: clear, light, dark, fire, energy, water, cold, air, vibration, impact, earth, gravity, plasma, nexus, nether, aether, chaos and time. The elements that they breathe are directly related to type (in order): poison(and invisible), light, darkness, fire, lightning, acid, cold, super poison, sound, force/shards, shards only, force/literally gravity, fire AND plasma, nexus, nether, ALLLLLLL types, disenchant and chaos, and literally time. Oh and what they breath, they are immune to.

They are everyone's least favorite monster.

IZ42

2015-03-31, 11:33 PM

Why is it that if I ever run a game that I want to throw copious amounts of these wonderful things at my party for the lulz?

Yora

2015-04-05, 09:22 AM

More stuff I found on the interwebs

https://40.media.tumblr.com/6da5d998baa85deded3cae9d2602e208/tumblr_nm4gw2UIHL1rv231do1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/ac0fda2587166ba62e256cbedb084be8/tumblr_nm4gx6Nr6f1rv231do1_1280.jpg

Andezzar

2015-04-05, 11:04 AM

Nice. Could you please name a source for the hell freezing over demotivator, or even better the image it is based on?

DontEatRawHagis

2015-04-05, 11:25 AM

Anyone have the demotivator about rolling for stats and there is a really weak knight(I think child) and a strong one(Adult) standing next to each other?

Yora

2015-04-05, 12:11 PM

I usually remember most of them very well, as I am uploading each of them by hand. But I can't say this rings any bells. Sorry.

Nice. Could you please name a source for the hell freezing over demotivator, or even better the image it is based on?

This is all I got, no idea where the pictures are taken from.

ShadowFighter15

2015-04-06, 06:26 AM

Fresh from the oven.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/af/43/b1/af43b158bce9809056da1e8e2e27648e.jpg

golentan

2015-04-06, 07:14 AM

This is all I got, no idea where the pictures are taken from.

The hell freezes over picture was the illustration blizzard released along with a very, very long awaited Diablo 2 update.

Sith_Happens

2015-04-06, 01:32 PM

Fresh from the oven.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/af/43/b1/af43b158bce9809056da1e8e2e27648e.jpg

Great minds think alike.:smalltongue:

http://i57.tinypic.com/262pi10.jpg

Michael7123

2015-04-07, 04:20 PM

http://i.imgur.com/PemxeLc.jpg

Ravian

2015-04-07, 06:18 PM

Objection. Shades, at least the ones in Netheril, aren't actually undead in 4E.

Meh... details. You see dark ghostly spellcasters infused with necrotic shadow energy to achieve immortality through the sacrifice of their souls, I see a lich mixed with a ghost with a darkness fetish.

Sure they're technically different, but they're functionally the same in a campaign, a really sinister kingdom full of spellcasters that have sacrificed their humanity for dark power, likely with an army of the dead.

Only difference is Thay has more bones and rotting flesh, Nethril has ghosts.

MReav

2015-04-07, 07:41 PM

Meh... details. You see dark ghostly spellcasters infused with necrotic shadow energy to achieve immortality through the sacrifice of their souls, I see a lich mixed with a ghost with a darkness fetish.

Sure they're technically different, but they're functionally the same in a campaign, a really sinister kingdom full of spellcasters that have sacrificed their humanity for dark power, likely with an army of the dead.

Only difference is Thay has more bones and rotting flesh, Nethril has ghosts.

But Netheril doesn't have ghosts (well, not anything too far out of the usual amount) nor does it employ armies of undead. The population is still largely alive and still human, unlike in Thay. There is an upswing of shadow-infused people, but that would make them Outsiders(Native) under 3rd Edition rules.