The Bears Den

  So.... uhhh.... Hi.... I started this blog back when I was in senior high, during the COVID-19 Pandemic. It has been... holy fucking shit, 4 years?! I started randomly writing stuff in blogspot after a sudden peak of inspiration during my creative non-fiction class, with the intention of this being a healthy creative outlet for me in order to better express myself and relieve some stress through the magical power of finding things to distract you from everything else going on in the world! It started out great, I was happy researching and writing the things I was putting up on this blog, but for some reason, everything just... *snaps* stopped. After some point in August 2022, I sort of disappeared and essentially abandoned ship. Whoops, my bad, really. Stuff at that point got extremely busy. Since that last post, I was busy doing college for the past few years. I am a B.S. Psychology Major in Benilde Antipolo, currently in my Senior/4th Year, and preparing for graduate in Februar...

 holy shit. it has actually been a minute huh? welp. we'll be cooking soon. thx for waiting :3

   i have been working on this for a whole day... So in the previous article, I mentioned that I will be converting one of my D&D characters from the standard 5e rules to the playtest materials for One D&D. I have asked my DM permission for this and dude was cool with it, so this particular character will be the test subject I will be using for testing and reviewing the UA materials for One D&D. Reason for this being because I wanted to test their promise of "Backwards Compatibility" with the rest of 5th Edition. The link to the character sheet I will be using for the next reviews can be found here , whom I will refer to as "Tuikku" for the sake of simplicity. With all of that settled, let's jump in. For this review, I will be doing the following to Tuikku's character sheet (dw, i asked my dm permission b4 doing this): - Convert Tuikku from a 6th Level Monk (Way of Mercy) to a Cleric (Light Domain) - Change her race from a Half-Elf to a full Elf ...

  the adventure begins... So... A lot of cool stuff has happened over in the D&D community since the beginning of the pandemic. The game has since rose to a greater level of popularity to new masses all over the world, with many taking in the 5th Edition Rule sets of Dungeons & Dragons as either their first introduction to the "Worlds Greatest Roleplaying Game" or a new avenue for veteran players for a more simple and streamlined player experience. We have all seen the releases of Unearthed Arcana content and subsequent supplement materials being released by Wizards of the Coast (WotC) which showcased major rules changes that could lead a new path for the future of D&D. There are two examples of this phenomenon being showcased in D&D's recent history:  In April 2019, we have seen the release of Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos, a campaign setting which introduced the idea of classes sharing the same subclass according to their chosen college within the Acad...

here we go again... Right. First blog post of the year. It was already very uneventful and full of work and all of a sudden a ton of bullshit suddenly came crashing through by the time my academic break for this trimester came rolling along. In the past month since the beginning of this wonderful year, we've had the rise and fall of the omicron variant; the Philippine General Elections; and now the whole world suddenly exploding again because the Russians decided to invade Ukraine after aggressively teasing it for the past few weeks prior to literally a few days ago as of writing.  Literally nothing much can be said about it, as it was already to be expected. I never really imagined 2022 to being the mega year the entire planet would pull its boot straps together and sing so hard all the problemos go away. Shit is still bound to happen. The most I have expected was further disappointments with maybe some pleasurable moments tucked somewhere in the side lines. Let's just say tha...

  it has been fun... i guess? Here we are. A few more weeks left into what can be considered as the second worst year in all of humanity. After that, we will be moving on into expecting so much out of 2022 that we will all cry into depression when we realize that the New Years celebrations do not equate to a ultimate reset button, but instead indicate a set reminder that it can been 1 year and we still have not yet solved the problems that has turned the entire planet into a burning shithole along with the thousands of new problems the world decided to push out on the way. To be completely frank, you can probably see that I am not that excited for the festivities to come a few days after Christmas Day. People may or may not agree with this, but I feel that we overhype the new year, especially knowing how dogshit late 2019 and the entirety of 2020 was. We have dealt with almost 2 or so years of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccinated so many people, discovered new variants of the...