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How To Be: Hitsugaya Toshiro (in 4e D&D)

The anime of my lifetime have been a series of towering successes that, typically, plow face-first into the ground. I loved Robotech, and it pulled me into loving anime at all. I loved Ranma 1/2, and it pulled me into creating characters and recognising I was bisexual. I loved Bleach, and it pulled me into wanting to understand ways to be cool in storytelling.

Now let’s talk about a character from Bleach who is both very cool, and also, at least trying to appeal to people who are incredibly bisexual.

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How To Be: Baiken (in 4e D&D)

The random Arc Systems Works round start text generator I use for these characters has broken, perhaps a victim of link rot, or some change in pastebin structure. For whatever reason, goodnight sweet prince, THE FRIDGE IS EMPTY, round the FIRST, eat SHIT!

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A parody of the 4e D&D book style, showing Baiken with the title 'Cutting Curbstomps' and 'Baiken up the wrong tree.' The words 'wrong tree' have been cut in half by Baiken's sword.

How To Be: A Bunch Of People From Arcane (Season 1)

This one gets really big and sprawling pretty quickly, here, hey, we’re going to talk about the characters from Arcane.

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How To Be: A Bunch Of People From Arcane (Season 1) (In 4th Edition D&D)

This one gets really big and sprawling pretty quickly, here, hey, we’re going to talk about the characters from Arcane. Oh, and necessarily:

Spoiler Warning: I’m going to talk about Arcane season 1. Doing so I’m going to imply that I didn’t think much of Arcane season 2.

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A book cover for a 4th edition book with an arcane promo image in it.

How To Be: Kaedehara Kazuha (In 4e D&D)

His white hair flutters; the river spins in its slow and wending way around him, the wind dancing with its surface. The stone beneath him is cool, his clothing resting and barely shifting by his breath. Head forwards, he contemplates the world full of complicated feelings.

A sigh;

his lips part;

and he speaks, as if to the trailer;

There’s literally no difference between good things and bad things. You idiot. You absolute imbecile.

Let’s talk about a Genshin Impact character.

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A 4th edition book cover with Kaedehara Kazuha on it. He looks all cool and his sword is glowy and juts out over the book fasure. The text is Leave It To Griever, and A Guide To Getting Inazuma's All Even

How To Be: Marisa Rosetti (in 4e D&D)

In my ongoing effort to not just work my way through the entire cast of Ranma 1/2 for February How To Be challenges, spurred in part by not wanting to cover Shampoo since people would get pissy about me pointing out she’s kinda boring and a bit dumb, I have instead decided to reach out to some other source material, seeking an interesting example of a character defined by their ability to fight things, but also wanting something simple enough that I wouldn’t have to do a ton of research, and hopefully from a source material that could afford to be big on personality and a bit stupid.

Ah, Street Fighter, perfect.

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How To Be: Vivien Reid (in 4e D&D)

Magic: The Gathering is a fascinating nerd franchise. It is probably as a single entity responsible for the most paid high-level fantasy artists in the world making a living these days, and that art is being made in service of straight up enjoyable, indulgent nerd garbage, a sort of prestige pulp presentation. What’s more, thanks to the way that ideas of inclusion and diversity being marketably valuable, that means it’s also a game with a bunch of high profile fantasy art characters designed by top-level character designers to get that same high quality fantasy art that has multiple characters that are non-white, women, and non-white women. That gives us Vivien Reid, a character I can tell you about as a backstory about a lost world and a planet of ghosts, or as a selection of about four cards that are pretty good and one major story spotlight that absolutely sucked pants because nobody making it seemed to understand what would make the story good.

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How To Be 2024: The Covers

Each month of the year I make an article about trying to translate a character from general media to the comparatively constrained boundaries of Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition. This originally started out as a project to try and address a claim I saw about how that game system was limited and on rails, and any given character feels just like every other character. Since starting that project, I have written 55 articles about it, and in each article, I have included a splash image that shows the ‘book cover’ of that character’s book.

Presented here are the eleven book covers I made this year, nice and clear so you can look at them closely and check out the jokes that you may or may not have missed, presented with some notes for the articles in question.

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A fake 4th edition D&D book cover. It shows Power, looking out of the page, with the text 'All That Power' over her eyes and 'Wait there needs to be wo-' cut off, as if the text has all been put together stupidly.

How To Be: Pantyhose Tarou (in 4e D&D)

Look, sometimes we’re just going to do one of these that’s for me. And Blade. Specifically, just Blade, really. I should contact him.

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A fake 4th edition D&D book cover showing a minotaur monster in a manga style. It is titled with The Manmade Monster and subtitled with The Mantyhose with the Pantyhose.

How To Be: Jacket

…You like to hurt people, don’t you?

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How To Be: Jacket (In 4e D&D)

…You like to hurt people, don’t you?

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How To Be: Joker from Persona 5 (in 4e D&D)

In How To Be we’re going to look at a variety of characters from Not D&D and conceptualise how you might go about making a version of that character in the form of D&D that matters on this blog, D&D 4th Edition. Our guidelines are as follows:

This is going to be a brief rundown of ways to make a character that ‘feels’ like the source […]

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A 4th edition D&D book cover edited to show Joker, popping out of the frame, his hand hiding some of the text 'Why So Serious' on the cover, with the subtitle, 'A Guide to changing society.'

How to Be: Astro Boy

Hey, here's some good news! This article is a little different because it was made during a time of technical downtime but now, heroically, only a few hours from live, Fox was able to get things running so I could upload pictures here. Hey everyone tell Fox happy birthday because she rules!

Anyway, let's talk about making Astro Boy, from Astro Boy!

First of all, let’s address the scale of the problem to summarise what we know of Astro Boy.

Astro Boy is the central character of a [...]

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How To Be: Tsubaki Yayoi

This month we're doing something I don't normally do, which is - no, I do fight game characters all the time, but what makes this one special?

She's got a hat.

Tsubaki Yayoi is a character of a rarer type than you see here. Specifically, she's a character who I was introduced to as part of this blog series. I have no pre-existing interest in her, I do not know the games she's from and I'm not familiar with what she's like. This means that this time instead of having an impression of a [...]

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How To Be: The Animorphs

One way or another, I'm going to find a way to make a build for How to Be that involves the druid, and if this is how we do it, this is how we do it. See, I can't tell you who these characters are, or where they're from. All I can tell you is that we're going to do our best to make builds for them, and one of them is definitely going to be a druid. [...]

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How To Be: Eda Clawthorne (in 4e D&D)

In How To Be we’re going to look at a variety of characters from Not D&D and conceptualise how you might go about making a version of that character in the form of D&D that matters on this blog, D&D 4th Edition. Our guidelines are as follows:

This is going to be a brief rundown of ways to make a character that ‘feels’ like the source […]

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How To Be: Cassandra and Rapunzel from Tangled (In 4e D&D)

In How To Be we’re going to look at a variety of characters from Not D&D and conceptualise how you might go about making a version of that character in the form of D&D that matters on this blog, D&D 4th Edition. Our guidelines are as follows:

This is going to be a brief rundown of ways to make a character that ‘feels’ like the source […]

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How To Be: Power (in 4e D&D)

In How To Be we’re going to look at a variety of characters from Not D&D and conceptualise how you might go about making a version of that character in the form of D&D that matters on this blog, D&D 4th Edition. Our guidelines are as follows:

This is going to be a brief rundown of ways to make a character that ‘feels’ like the source […]

#DnD4e #HowToBe

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