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I’ve compiled every raw ass quote from tumblr shitposts into my phone and i’m gonna use every single one of them in my campaign at some point.

This is indeed very helpful for writing.

Helpful things for action writers to remember

Sticking a landing will royally fuck up your joints and possibly shatter your ankles, depending on how high you’re jumping/falling from. There’s a very good reason free-runners dive and roll. 

Hand-to-hand fights usually only last a matter of seconds, sometimes a few minutes. It’s exhausting work and unless you have a lot of training and history with hand-to-hand combat, you’re going to tire out really fast. 

Arrows are very effective and you can’t just yank them out without doing a lot of damage. Most of the time the head of the arrow will break off inside the body if you try pulling it out, and arrows are built to pierce deep. An arrow wound demands medical attention. 

Throwing your opponent across the room is really not all that smart. You’re giving them the chance to get up and run away. Unless you’re trying to put distance between you so you can shoot them or something, don’t throw them. 

Everyone has something called a “flinch response” when they fight. This is pretty much the brain’s way of telling you “get the fuck out of here or we’re gonna die.” Experienced fighters have trained to suppress this. Think about how long your character has been fighting. A character in a fist fight for the first time is going to take a few hits before their survival instinct kicks in and they start hitting back. A character in a fist fight for the eighth time that week is going to respond a little differently. 

ADRENALINE WORKS AGAINST YOU WHEN YOU FIGHT. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A lot of times people think that adrenaline will kick in and give you some badass fighting skills, but it’s actually the opposite. Adrenaline is what tires you out in a battle and it also affects the fighter’s efficacy - meaning it makes them shaky and inaccurate, and overall they lose about 60% of their fighting skill because their brain is focusing on not dying. Adrenaline keeps you alive, it doesn’t give you the skill to pull off a perfect roundhouse kick to the opponent’s face. 

Swords WILL bend or break if you hit something hard enough. They also dull easily and take a lot of maintenance. In reality, someone who fights with a sword would have to have to repair or replace it constantly.

Fights get messy. There’s blood and sweat everywhere, and that will make it hard to hold your weapon or get a good grip on someone. 

A serious battle also smells horrible. There’s lots of sweat, but also the smell of urine and feces. After someone dies, their bowels and bladder empty. There might also be some questionable things on the ground which can be very psychologically traumatizing. Remember to think about all of the character’s senses when they’re in a fight. Everything WILL affect them in some way. 

If your sword is sharpened down to a fine edge, the rest of the blade can’t go through the cut you make. You’ll just end up putting a tiny, shallow scratch in the surface of whatever you strike, and you could probably break your sword. 

ARCHERS ARE STRONG TOO. Have you ever drawn a bow? It takes a lot of strength, especially when you’re shooting a bow with a higher draw weight. Draw weight basically means “the amount of force you have to use to pull this sucker back enough to fire it.” To give you an idea of how that works, here’s a helpful link to tell you about finding bow sizes and draw weights for your characters.  (CLICK ME)

If an archer has to use a bow they’re not used to, it will probably throw them off a little until they’ve done a few practice shots with it and figured out its draw weight and stability. 

People bleed. If they get punched in the face, they’ll probably get a bloody nose. If they get stabbed or cut somehow, they’ll bleed accordingly. And if they’ve been fighting for a while, they’ve got a LOT of blood rushing around to provide them with oxygen. They’re going to bleed a lot. 

Here’s a link to a chart to show you how much blood a person can lose without dying. (CLICK ME) 

If you want a more in-depth medical chart, try this one. (CLICK ME)

Hopefully this helps someone out there. If you reblog, feel free to add more tips for writers or correct anything I’ve gotten wrong here. 

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A Brief List of Resources for Classical Studies:

TOSC-IN:

A database enabling you to search for keywords in article titles from c.160 Classics related journals. Provides a link to an abstract or full text version if one exists online.

Classical and Medieval History:

Annotated list of Reference Websites

Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World

Online database and resources for studying Women and Gender in the ancient world.

Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World:

“Original electronic project aiming at collecting, recording, documenting, presenting and promoting the historical data that testify to the presence of Hellenic culture throughout time and space.”

Perseus Digital Library:

A showcase of digital and print resources for Classical studies. 

World Archaeology:

Books, Magazines, Blogs, Travel. All Archaeology related.

House of Ptolomy:

Portal website on the Ptolomatic (holla!) Empire. 

Star Myths and Constellation Lore:

Information website about the above. 

Virgil.com:

Basically a portal site and resource for information on all things Virgil. 

Homerica:

Portal and Resource. Link is in French, but you can have the website translated to any language. 

Exploring Ancient World Culture:

“On-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval worlds.”

Subject Centre for History, Classics, and Archaeology:

“The Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology is part of the Higher Education Academy.”

The Iris Project:

“an educational charity introducing the languages and culture of the ancient world to UK state schools in order to enrich the curriculum.”

Roman Law Resources

“ information on Roman law sources and literature, the teaching of Roman law, and the persons who study Roman law.”

Egyptology Resources

“World Wide Web resource for Egyptological information.”

ABZU:

“guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world”.

Stoa:

A consortium for electronic publication in the Humanities, including most notably: Suda-On-Line  English translation of the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine historical encyclopedia. Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy; a practical description of how the various institutions of Athenian democracy actually worked. Metis Bruce Hartzler’s collection of interactive QTVR panoramas for ancient Greek archaeological sites. And Medicina Antiqua A resource for the study of medicine in the Greek and Roman world.

Hellenic History:

From the Stone Age through the Modern Period from The Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW), a non-profit cultural institution based in Athens, Greece.  

Hellenic Culture: 

Website of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture with sites on the museums, monuments, and archaeological sites of Greece.

Athenian Agora Excavations:

Website of the American School of Classical Studies at Althens’ excavations of the Athenian Agora.

Digital Classicist:

Concise information on projects applying computing technologies to Classical/Ancient Historical research. 

VROMA:

Online scholarly community of teachers and students who share an interest in the ancient Roman world; images, texts, history and many other resources. 

GNOMON Online:  

Recent journal articles and book in the Classics. Type general search term under “Alle Felder” (All Fields) or specific “Autor” (Author) and hit “Suche Starten” (Start search).“

Ancient World Mapping Center:

University of North Carolina. Cartographic resources, including a collection of free digital maps for educational use. 

Ancient Scripts: 

A website by “enthusiasts” rather than scholars but very interesting!

The Beazley Archive Classical Art Research Center:

Databases and study tools.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 

Timely open-access, peer-reviewed reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology). This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR’s publication, from 1990 to the present. 

Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

It investigates the performance of ancient texts in any medium and any period, from Greek tragedy to Roman epic, from stage to screen, from antiquity to the present day. 

The British Library Digitized Manuscripts

Contains digitised versions of a quarter fo the British Museum’s Greek manuscripts. 

The Ancient World Online:

A blog which, much like this, presents a variety of online resources for the Ancient world. 

Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy:

A website which seeks to store virtual Greek and Latin epigraphy of the ancient world, through a federation of multiple archive banks. 

Projekt Dyabola: 

Litterature and Object databases. 

The Digital Sculpture Project:

A website devoted to studying ways in which 3D digital technologies can be applied to the capture, representation and interpretation of sculpture from all periods and cultures. Up to now, 3D technologies have been used in fruitful ways to represent geometrically simple artifacts such as pottery or larger-scale structures such as buildings and entire cities. With some notable exceptions, sculpture has been neglected by digital humanists. 

Animus:

The open access Canadian Journal of Philosophy and Humanities. 

American Philological Association’s Society for Classical Studies:

A “ principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations.”

The Classical Association of Canada:

Access to a wide variety of resources about Classics in Canada including graduate programs, and the monthly bulletin. 

Corpus Thomisticum:

The works of St. Thomas Aquinas in Latin. 

J. O’Donnell’s commentary on Augustine’s Confessions:

An on-line reprint of Augustine: Confessions, with commentary by James J. O'Donnell. 

LANGUAGE RESOURCES:

UC Berkeley Ancient Greek Resources:

Pronunciation Guide; Accentuation Drills; Vocabulary Drills; and much more.

Akropolis World News:

The news of the world in Ancient Greek- a great way to learn and practice the language.

Logeion:

Quick look-up of Greek and Latin words across all of the Perseus lexica.

Dictionaries [VIA Perseus Project]: LATIN || GREEK

NUMISMATICS [COINAGE]:

American Numismatic Societ’s MANTIS:

Database on more than 600,000 objects. 

 CHRR Online: 

Coin hoards of the Roman Republic Online archive.

Online Coins of the Roman Empire:

Similar to CHRR but coins of the Empire. 

Roman Provincial Coinage Online:

A standard typology of the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire. 

British Museum’s Roman Coinage:

A series of resources on Roman coinage. 

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum:

The Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum is a British AcademyResearch Project, the purpose of which is to publish illustrated catalogues of Greek coins in public and private collections in the British Isles. 

MANUSCRIPTS:

Digitalized Greek Manuscripts:

Princeton’s Modern language translations of Byzantine sources, digitized Greek manuscripts. 

Pinakes:

Pinakes s'ouvre à de nouvelles collaborations institutionnelles et accueille maintenant des projets de recherches sur les manuscrits de divers domaines. On trouvera l'ensemble des partenaires et des financements passés ou actuels sur la page Colophon. 

Greek Codicology/Paleography:

A detailed biliography on Greek codicology. 

Resource Lists by School: All links are to Classics, or Antiquities portals for more resource lists. 

Oxford Libraries

Cambridge Libraries

University of Toronto

Berkeley Classics Department

Library of Congress: Classics and Medieval History

Virginia Tech: Electronic Antiquity

Brock University: Classics Research Guide

Cambridge Ancient History Series

Williams.

University of Texas

Princeton University

Text Databases [Via Oxford]:

Antiquity

American Journal of Archaeology

Archaeology Magazine

Arion

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Classical Philology

Classical Quarterly

Classical Review

Eranos

Greece & Rome

Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Journal of Field Archaeology

Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies

Journal of Roman Archaeology

Kernos

Phoenix

Pomoerium

Syllecta Classica

Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphie

Gateways:

Argos - search-engine for all major classical resources

Classics Section of the Intute gateway.

Voice of the Shuttle Classics Page from University of California, Santa Barbara

Classical and Biblical Literary Research Tools compiled by Jack Lynch at Penn

Reading Classics Gateway

Kirke Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie

NOTE: So I compiled a list of some of my favorite classics sites to use. I also put in links to other school’s departments and libraries. Almost all Universities which have Classics departments have resources lists. If you want to add to the list, please do!

All of the schools above have much more extensive lists for you to use! I made this list in little over half an hour, so there is much room to be expanded on. 

NEW ADDITIONS: 

Latin Library at Packard Humanities Institute - http://latin.packhum.org/ (PHI numbers standard way to refer to Latin texts, look at the ones Perseus uses - it’s PHI).

Brepolis - http://www.brepolis.net/ - may need to access this via your institution or its ezproxy (includes the Library of Latin Texts A and B LLT-A and LLT-B and many other interesting resources).

L’Annee Philologique - http://www.annee-philologique.com - another one in which you’ll have to use via your institution’s ezproxy or other online database (we use ebscohost). Many journals you submit articles to expect references to other journals use the abbreviations in APh.

For databases of journals, first start at JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org - again, institutional access is required.

((Via: monumentum))

The Latin Library - A collection of Classical and Medieval texts in Latin, organized by author. 

The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook - A collection of mostly primary source texts translated into English.  Not comprehensive, but covers a broad range of topics.

((Via: hodie-scolastica))

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Ethan, you wanna see some shit?

You're not the only one.

am i the only one who rehearses things i might say in advance? and I don’t mean like my theoretical oscars acceptance speech i mean like what i’ll say to the pizza guy when I answer the door in my pjs

Amazing, Greek mythology nerd part of myself thinks this awesome 👏

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

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Join us in our talk on Torterra tree care, much needed after our PoGo community day recently.

Last game I played was Persona 5, as well. So... I would love it, it’ll be so fun and since I’m an university student, I wouldn’t have to deal with any high school drama. Perfect. 

The only way to log out is to beat the game. And if you die in the game you die for real.

Awesome recap!!! Looking forward to this! 😇

D&D Presents Panel

General stuff

this a show under the D&D presents banner, their focusing in on new D&D materiel and showing it off

Chris tries to do spoiler free sessions and jumble around the adventures from the book

it’s being live streamed on twitched and being posted on youtube after, THERE WILL BE A PODCAST VERSION.

It’s coming out early 2020, there’s probably going to be a session 0

Mica is going to eat the dice one day

I’m now only using the term ‘Math Rocks’ for dice now

Characters

Shady- Valance Knight, Teifling wild magic sorceror, ‘Vale’ was disowned at 15, was the first person in his town with magic. accidentally caused some shit. people want him dead. is pretty much like Elsa (who is that). Has a silver orb with strange ruins

Anna- Delviny pine, Half-elf bard, is known for being a story teller, is one the look for more stories, I might accidently call her Poppy lol. Lore College, Mark of detection. Has a deed of land for somewhere she doesn’t know

Mika- Sasuna (I don’t know how to spell the last name) , Levistus Tiefling Cleric, Tragic past, tricked into a cleric pack with a death god. has a small silver skull

Nate- Reiner, human fighter, ALIVE PARENTS AND FAMILY!! GOOD LIFE is woke about his privileged, was an order of the gauntlet, refuses magic. has a piece of obsidian that always feels warm(IS IT MAGIC?!?!)

How they meet

Reiner is the lynch pin, is trying to put together the party, these guys were at the bottom of his list. 

group name is T.O.R.C.H = the only red crab here

Setting

WE BE IN THE PERKINSVERSE MY BOIS, 

MIni series in the fandlin area, will be previewing 2020 big story

Q&A questions

Q: Will there be crossovers? A: YES chris is always open to crossovers

Q: are other D&D stuff being brought into the show? A: Chris is very open about the players wanting to bring in stuff as long as the have a good reason.

Spelljammers stuff is happening!

Q: are any of the cast canonically trans or NB? A: They haven’t thought about it yet

Q: will the stream format be similar to DCA? A: Yes, the want to update it a bit

Q: Will this be all ages friendly? A: Chris is aiming for 12 and up. there will be occasional swearing. so 13+

Q: Will be there be accents? A: Anna is tortured about this, she wants Delviny to have a different voice from her. | Mika will probably do a difference cadence. | Nate doing a different cadence as well. | Vale is remembering how to form sentences.(Like Star)

Q: How long will the episodes be? A:1 hour 45 minutes is their aim

Q: Will they be doing other streaming platforms? A: they don’t know exactly, but the producers are most likely 

Q: Most emotional moments for previous characters? A:Shady going to bring his father back to life and give a youth potion was acid instead. | Mika had a Beastmaster Ranger is in a depressed spiral and finds a white wolf, | Nate does not know there are so many | Anna; there are so many, Evelyn planning her death for her sacrifice | Chris; that time he TPK’ed and didn’t feel anything