Tag: the adventure zone

abracafuckko:

I think one of my absolute favourite things about TAZ is that Griffin got to write a campaign in which the three free agents, the three moving parts that he relied on to make his story work, were the three people he knows best in the whole universe. People talk about Griffin’s story being ‘on rails’ but it’s not. It’s just that – unlike most DMs – Griffin can predict his family’s behaviour in advance in a way most people couldn’t hope to do. If he were playing with a different group, the story never would have turned out the way it did, but because he knows his family, he could fairly accurately predict the big decisions.

He writes a voidfish into the story, because he knows his brother is kind to animals, knows he’d never leave a sentient baby jellyfish on a planet about to get eaten, not even narratively. He’s not writing Travis into a corner, Travis would never consider doing anything else. He writes Taako a sister – a best friend, a twin, a soul mate – because he knows that Justin is a big brother to his very core, knows that his instincts will always fall in line with sibling loyalty and devotion, even when he’s playing an aloof elf who doesn’t care about anyone. He writes his dad into the trickiest position of them all – facing true horror, sitting across the table from the end of the world – and he knows that his father will respond with compromise and understanding, with love and joy and compassion, because he’s seen that grace in his father his whole life. Griffin was betting on those qualities that he already knew his family possessed, and it was the safest bet he ever made! Because they were amazing, and he always knew they would be.

atalana:

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barryjerrybluejeans:

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barryjerrybluejeans:

those “humans are weird” posts but with balance

Magnus and Barry wake up at the crack of dawn just to jump into freezing cold water, and Taako, Lup, and Merle are just like “They must be going crazy or something. There’s no way that someone would willingly jump into icey water for fun-” and then Lucretia goes barreling past the three, yelling, “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU ASSHOLES JUMPED IN WITHOUT ME.” And the three go run to Davenport to say that all the humans they’re stuck with are certifiably insane.

Taako: Magnus put a damn shirt on.

Magnus: It’s not even that cold out.

Taako: It’s literally snowing.

Lup: Oh, babe, don’t eat that. It’s a super acidic fruit, it’ll dissolve your flesh.

Barry, confused: Lup this is a pineapple.

Magnus breaks both his legs in one cycle and the three basically invent street cross country skis to get him to move around and everyone else is terrified

“shouldn’t you be resting???”

“you think two broken legs will stop me?”

“IT SHOULD”

Lucretia: Humans have two sets of teeth.

Lup: you’re lying to me.

Magnus: Im gonna eat this blue glowing fruit I found

Davenport: You can’t do that, we’re two weeks into this cycle and you’re our security officer

Lucretia: Yeah, let Barry do it; if he dies, then he’ll just be a lich.

Davenport: No, no one is eating it

Barry: [has already eaten half of it] 

i wish i could draw because i desperately want to draw the last exchange.

complete with ending on Barry freezing with half the fruit already in his mouth like a fruit goblin.

someone requested a barold fruit goblin?

mod2amaryllis:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

Lucretia had definitely had taako’s elderflower macarons before the candlenights episode like they’re one of his signature recipes and she had loved them for 100 years 

BUT she also knew that they were his own, secret recipe that no-one else knew so she was like ‘hmm ok if i eat one i have to be sure to react like i’ve never had one of my favourite macarons before, if he thinks i’ve had them before he’ll get suspicious, ok Lucretia just… act… natural’ 

& long story short that’s why ‘hot diggity shit that is a baller cookie’

Lucretia, mentally: nailed it

Taako: haha the whole recipe is in my book!!

Lucretia: …

Lucretia: this pretense has been wholly unnecessary 

*later*

Lucretia: *leafing through a newly purchased copy of taako’s cookbook trying to commit to memory which of his recipes she can and cannot admit familiarity with* okay okay okay this is fine okay

*still later*

Lucretia, sweating: *pointing at recipe for a dish taako made almost every week on the starblaster* hey taako… this looks… good… could you make it??

Taako, drinking a milkshake, only half listening: do i look like i work for free

Magnus: why don’t you just make it yourself there’s instructions right there

Lucretia: um

Taako: the director’s a terrible cook

Lucretia, panicking: how do you… know that..

Taako: i can smell it on you