You’d need a good investigation into the nature/nurture situation of adopted children. I grew up in an abusive adopted home and only discovered my biological family in my 30s; they were not abusive to the kids they had later in life. It’s been an interesting journey because I rejected my adoptive parents, their morality, their religion, their politics, and their worldview decades ago, but when I met my biological family it was like walking into the home I’d never known I was missing out on. We have uncanny similarities, senses of humor, social/political views, and atheism. Outwardly, you’d look at me and my family and think “became a product of the environment they were raised in”, except I got there without any of the nurture of their home.

My best bard was a morally derelict bastard. But when I ended up with a sentient weapon that had the soul of the previous owner trapped in it, I insisted on making sure it could watch. Homie’s trapped in a sword, he deserves a bit of entertainment.

-the rogue who is constantly being hindered by his moral teammate

Epic level bard/necromancer achievement:

Scientifically accurate rendering of the event:

The franchise has shown over the years that dinosaurs prefer to eat corporate executives and animal abusers. It is also clear that children are safer alone with dinosaurs than with Trump.

That’s the rogue. They’ve already slipped their bonds but are waiting until the trolley is blocking the mage’s path to the rod so they can steal it.

Always a great day when science confirms that supervillain origin stories are now on the cutting edge of possibility.

They do but not like mammals do. Injury occurs, their nervous system responds, but their “brain” does not register it to the same degree it would in animals with more evolved brains. This video is a good example of the processing power of insect “brains”. The mantis is processing “eat” and the pain of being gnawed in half simply can’t over power the drive to eat. There’s not a mammal or bird that would ignore being chewed in half just because it was enjoying a succulent meal. Recognizing that different animals process pain in a way different from others is not license to disregard their pain or lessen the suffering, it’s just acknowledging that different systems process hurting in a different manner.

https://youtube.com/shorts/-P9rlovvbjQ

There’s no shortage of vegan friendly hot sauces that reference “ass burning” in their name that were left out of this study.

“Welcome, to Paleogene Park.”

Admittedly, the kids having to hide in the kitchen from a pack of Eohippi doesn’t hit nearly as hard.

Byproduct of the US educational system. They can’t handle reading much more than a sentence before immediately posting their opinion about what they think the article is about.

Also, this article verifies what seems like it should have been a predictable cause/effect problem. Plenty of places have deforested their land and suffered mudslides, desertification, erosion. The US destroyed its prairies and got a dust bowl. The failure to predict that foresting grasslands and other areas not previously forest would result in ecological disruptions seems shortsighted. But, live and learn, do better next time.

Conan the Bardbarian? Unfortunately this version doesn’t actually kill, only solicits murder for hire.

Sing, drink, fight, and fuck (without discrimination). Bards are the punks of the fantasy world.

The paladin

Sir Molotov of Cocktail.

Right? It’s clearly stated in the lore about what they bring to the party.