Emrys ✨🎶

Gamer - Bard - Occasionally humorous

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

A few months ago @roll20app celebrated their "Cheers to 10 Years" event, accepting story submissions re: how the #vtt helped "build an adventure, stay in touch with friends, or meet a new adventuring party."

My entry (below) was 1 of the 10 selected for their prize. 🧵

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump’s dirty election night trick doesn’t work if you know it’s coming. Let me explain.

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

@CatieOsaurus "I'm gonna be the prettiest beholder at the party!"

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

@redwyrmofficial I suppose my point is: "Yes, and" is great, but "no" can and should still be a part of the GM's toolbox (even if, as a people-pleaser, it can be difficult to use).

The GM is there as an arbiter, in addition to their role as a cooperative storyteller.

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

@redwyrmofficial I had a player whose backstory clashed with my homebrew setting. Tried to work with them regardless, despite it trivializing the perceived threat of a major aspect, but as the game progressed they continued to push their own lore onto my setting.

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

@mightbeautistic Had a licensed psychiatrist tell me my child was too smart to have self-esteem issues.

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

@hankgreen Pretty sure David Tennant would be excited to meet a blue whale, as well.

[Neurologist Mom @NeurologistMom]

I remember the time when I gave birth to my daughter. They had to keep me in the hospital for 10 days because I wasn’t feeling well. Every time I tried to stand up, I fainted. At one point, I even stopped breathing, according to my husband. He panicked and called a friend who was a cardiologist. The friend’s response was, “You know, sometimes our wives just want attention because they’re going through a hard time.” My husband got angry and insisted that someone be sent to check on me. When the resident came, my husband simply said, “Just watch.” He helped me stand up, and I don’t remember what happened next. When I regained consciousness, I saw a room full of doctors around me, all in a panic because I had stopped breathing again. That’s when they realized it wasn’t just an “attention-seeking” move.

Why am I telling you this? I’m not sure—maybe because I feel that many women, especially those with chronic and complicated illnesses, have had similar experiences. If you want to share yours, quote this with #MedicalMisogyny.

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

@ThatBronzeGirl Central Missouri does a weekend in October.

https://t.co/5X0YnSyqkX

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

1. Big news: Seattle Children's Hospital is being threatened with jail if they do not provide unredacted data on trans youth traveling from Texas.

This is interstate legal warfare with implications for abortion, trans care nationwide.

I have the docs.

Subscribe to support.

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

Hey @roll20app - I just learned the escape key exits you out of the handout editor without saving.

I learned this because a cat jumped on my keyboard while I was typing, erasing all the writing I'd accomplished over the past 45 minutes.

Hope I can remember what I wrote!

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

Tonight I started my players on a new quest, an updated version of one inherited from my mother's game. Some are familiar with the original, some not. This session was mostly "setting the scene" & introductions, ending with an encounter that'll be next game's start point. #TTRPGs

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

I don't expect I'll spur a migratory event, but in case anyone is interested I've made an account elsewhere in the event this Xit-storm does get paywalled entirely: https://t.co/pQCDxXF9ZU

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

Which party member are you?
The Bard 🎶

[🌈Krissy🌈 @KrissyInColor]

Which party member are you?
The Rogue 🔪

[Dr. Mia Brett @QueenMab87]

Switching parties immediately upon entering office should be considered fraud or at least trigger a new election. You ran on a party infrastructure & got help from that infrastructure not to mention misleading voters

[Emrys ✨🎶 @Dragonharper]

The radio in my head is eclectic today. I just went from Stan Freberg to Taylor Swift to Larry the Cucumber.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Wow.

As the dad of a teen girl, this ad cuts to the bone.

America needs to wake up. Republicans are BEYOND extreme. #MAGAIsWatchingYou https://t.co/MQJSSGSgas

[TWLOHA @TWLOHA]

Please stay. We know doing so isn't easy but you deserve to see another sunrise.

[redwyrm @redwyrmofficial]

Improve your Game - by the 6yo DM

The Real Reasons Why Your Players Are Bored - 🧵

1. They Don't Know the Rules - When a player doesn't know the rules of the game, they don't know what all they can do, so they do what they know. That gets boring quickly -> Eldritch Blast?

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