WoodScientist

Congrats sister! Let the estrogen flow through you!

Damn it, I forgot where I'm posting.

How many dudes have you slept with recently?

They are a bad thing though. Not because of the horseshit FUD reasons transphobes say, but they are a bad thing. They're a necessary evil at best. Ideally every trans kid would go through puberty at the same age as their peers. Sometimes people aren't sure of themselves and need some additional time to think things through, but in an ideal world, people would figure this stuff out long before puberty even starts. Puberty blockers are a necessary evil, but in an ideal world, no one would be on them except kids who get very early precocious puberties.

Trans kids having to start puberty at 16, 17, or 18 is not a good outcome. Not when they're now years behind their peers developmentally. A trans girl should be able to get her first bra at the same age her cis female classmates do. A trans boy shouldn't have to go through the awkwardness of learning how to shave while in college. Trans kids should be able to have all the normal developmental experiences cis kids have, at the ages everyone else gets to. Today, sometimes puberty blockers cannot be avoided, but in an ideal world, puberty blockers would have no use at all in gender-affirming care.

Trans kids shouldn't be on puberty blockers at all. They should be given full hormone therapy at the same age their peers undergo puberty so they can have a normal development. Puberty blockers were meant to be the peace treaty. They were meant to be a compromise to hyperventilating cis people. And then they just went and demonized the compromise. I'm done.

Know a trans kid? It's your moral obligation to get them access to full hrt. Order it off the Internet and give it to them. It is your moral obligation to disobey evil and unjust laws. These laws have no more moral legitimacy than the Nazi anti-Jew laws. Anyone who respects and follows them is damned.

I played a whole Curse of Strahd campaign as "Merrtyle." She was a bard, didn't play an instrument. Painted instead. She was a fanatic of Ilmater, and I had her follow a bonkers over the top sect. She went everywhere in a hair shirt, self-flagellated herself with a cat-and-nine-tails, and generally lived the most miserable austere existence possible. Her physical stats were garbage. Once when the party had to scurry up a rope to an upper floor, she couldn't make it, and the other party members had to pull her up by a rope around her waste. And a common saying of hers was, "hold your horses, in coming...." as the party waited for her to catch up.

She was a blast to play.

Whenever [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiglath-Pileser_III](Tiglath Pileser) shows up in a history podcast, I chuckle.

"He he. Tickle Pleaser."

I spent 23 years role playing as a guy. I'll be damned if I ever play an RPG as a male character ever again.

Exactly. Why not make them crit? It's going to be up to the DM anyway to define what a "critical success" means on a skill check. There's no hard rule like the extra damage that comes with crit successes on attacks. The DM gets to choose what a critical success on a skill check actually produces. The DM can easily just make sure the crit success isn't game breaking.

Your players are in an audience with the king. The bard tries to be funny and tries to convince the king to give him his crown and hand the kingdom over to him. Actually making the bard the new king would break the game. But maybe a critical fail means the bard gets sent to the dungeon to be tortured for daring to make such a request. A critical success means the king will grant the bard one "wish," ie, any reasonable single reasonable request that is within the king's power.

The whole situation is fully in the DM's power.

Cats truly are assholes. They're lucky they're so damn adorable.

My cats are like that except instead of an automated litter box they're curious about, it's me in the bathroom. If I don't close and latch the door all the way, they'll push the door open and barge their way in.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE???!