this is a deeply unattractive quality

but I was reading a random character wiki for one of those podcast campaigns and the character was a random noble of Waterdeep from a family not listed in the Power of the Realms appendix or the Waterdeep campaign setting books

and reader, it irked me

you can't just be a random waterdhavian noble!! (except, of course, you totally can)

and it's weird, because historical inaccuracies don't faze me at all

don't worry, lore inaccuracies bug me too

but i just sit and stew in impotent disgruntlement

I think it's because a lot of my personal tabletop fun comes with trying to integrate a character really deeply into a given setting

but yeah, there's no non-asshole thing to do about it

you either sit and stew in impotent disgruntlement or get over it

my other problem: not enough planescape

also a relatable complaint

all these tieflings and NO planescape

especially since 4e realms made tieflings super boring by making them all look the same!!

and I know 5e rescinded that a little (because it was a dumb rule) but there was a whole in-canon explanation for it backwritten in

let me guess which podcast this is

acquisitions inc?

idk, i just was looking through google image search and accidentally wound up there

maybe??

I remember people being baffled that despite being a comedy focused super goofy podcast stuff from it started showing up in canon

I, too, would be baffled but the spirit of 5e is very everything goes, from what I've seen

like stuff from critical roll showing up in official D&D stuff is fine it's its own setting but AI is set in the FR so when you start canonizing that one of the characters is a masked lord and also the realms has this super anachronistic amoral corporation (but I repeat myself) focused on franchising adventurers it's

it's A Little Much

are the thayan enclaves insufficient?

>tymora
>war domain

but yeah just glancing it does not seem like they take lore (or anything) seriously at all

and I guess it the campaign gets ported into whatever setting wotc is pushing at the time which… cool

the other problem: icons

esp because I refuse to use katheryn winnick in vikings!! because everyone uses her for their oc shieldmaiden

liSTEN

there aren't really a lot of pb choices for that niche, okay

I might have to just suck it up, idk

making icons of vikings is hard

jaime alexander as sif?

I feel mcu is too popular to use as pbs, more power to you if you can but I'd be worried about all the bleedthrough

oh, that's fair

i guess i didn't really think of that because she's not really in it much but yeah, it would be awkward

I also use Ygritte from GoT

and if you want a woman who isn't wearing makeup, your choices are, like, lost, the walking dead, and katee sackhoff in bsg

or all the other women in vikings

and yeah got also runs into that "great aesthetic, canon too popular" concern for me

the women in Vikings wear makeup

not every scene, but a lot of them

I use Alicia Vikander in the new Tomb Raider for a PB of a fighty character, but that might be too modern for you?

there's definitely a ton of warrior eyeliner but there's a fair bit of not wearing makeup, having stared at screencaps for several hours

there's also the last kingdom but there's less screencaps and such out there

this is why I'm never going to play any of my tabletop characters until I get off my ass and commission icons

that costs money though (as well it should)

looking through my ocs and whatnot icons folder, karen david in scorpion king has a decent fantasy look

and she makes good faces

apparently i gave the fuck up and decided on alia shawkat for my pathfinder cleric

(not that she's a bad choice but she's never been in anything fantasy)