adurot:

randomitemdrop:

dr-archeville:

tsaomengde:

My fiancee and I were discussing the worst metal to use to make armor, and the obvious answers are lead and gold, but she cunningly suggested mercury. Which is a fair point, but then I wondered if solid mercury is any good. Googling told me that the melting point of mercury is -38° c (-37° f), so first you get it really fucking cold. At that point, it turns out that mercury has a tensile strength of 1900 mpa, compared to lead’s 18 and steel’s ~500-940 (depending upon the kind of steel).

Now, I know that tensile strength is not necessarily the best measure of a material’s ability to function as armor, but I’m a liberal arts major and didn’t care to actually do that much more research before going straight to, “EVIL ICE DEMONS IN MERCURY ARMOR. THE PCS CAN’T LOOT IT BECAUSE WHEN THEY PUT IT ON IT MELTS AND KILLS THEM.”

Ice Demons wielding weapons made of frozen mercury.  Spearheads that break off & melt inside the target.  Swords that leave tiny bits of melted mercury inside the wound (the swords re-freeze to razor sharpness while in the ice demon’s claws).

Item: blades, spears, and/or arrowheads made of mercury frozen by Ice Magic; can only be used by one with Ice Magic, but deliver whatever damage the weapon type would normally make plus equal amounts of Cold and 1d8 Poison. Once the wound has been delivered, it continues to deliver 1d8 Poison until the mercury has been removed by healing magic, Wish, &c.

Ok, all the frozen Mercury is cool and all, but gold armor…

yourplayersaidwhat:

*the party met a party of NPCs that were same races and classes but swapped*

bard: Are these the dark counterparts of us

DM: No,theyre good.

Bard: Wait, are we good?

Rogue: No

tomatomagica:

can’t have a same-face syndrome if you can’t draw the same face twice

couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name:

can we please talk about that group of historians that are launching a play about Lin Manuel Miranda getting dickens-style haunted until he admits Alexander Hamilton was a terrible person?? because on one hand I feel like it’s a bit of an extreme reaction to a piece of fiction that no one takes as historical fact, but also it sounds extremely iconic and incredible and only historians could pull off being that hilariously petty 

insomniac-arrest:

it’s getting weird knowing natural apocalypse from climate change is bearing down on us all and still going about mundane daily life kinda like

thetrashiestoftrash:

thetrashiestoftrash:

Please, I am begging you, visit the official Captain Marvel website

I would post screenshots but they cannot possibly capture it.

chefpyro:

r–g–b:

me, age 14: I want anatagonists that are morally gray, who don’t realize they’re bad. They should be conflicted and have meaningful backstories.

me now: i want a villain that has “evil” listed every day on their calendars except sundays when they have mimosas with the protagonist