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  I know, I know. You're jumping for joy at the long-awaited sequel of my first blog post, "DnD Classes: Which Ones Could Have Spiciest Backstories". If you haven't read it, I recommend you to do so if you enjoy this. Also, here's a refresher. Dungeons and Dragons, also known as DnD, is one of the most famous tabletop RPGs. One of the best parts of it is that you are able to make your own character, with their own race, class (kind of like a job), and backstory. Today I'll be analyzing how much of a unique character can be born from the basic DnD classes. I covered the first 6 in my first blog post and will be covering the other 6 in this one. Now, let's jump into it. Paladin: 7.5/10 Paladins are upholders of justice, given their abilities and magic by an oath that ties them to a god. Story-wise, they almost always live lives made of pure adventure, at least until retiring. Think of them as champions of gods. Now, I mentioned justice before, and that palad

WARNING: This post will contain spoilers from Harry Potter, so beware if you somehow haven’t read it yet. It also includes my (slightly controversial) opinions, so you can feel free to argue with me.     Harry Potter has been a very popular children’s book series for a while now. The story follows a wizard boy named Harry through his adventures on a quest to eventually defeat the Dark Lord. Despite having many interesting main characters, my focus today is on Hogwarts' potions (and briefly Defense Against the Dark Arts) teacher, Professor Severus Snape. To put it simply, I hate Snape. He abuses people and power, and makes bad decisions that hurt others for pretty much his entire life. And while he does some good things, none of them are for the right reasons, so I don’t count them as making him a better person.  In his childhood, Snape was rather attached to Lily Potter. This grew from a simple enough crush to a creepy obsession that lasted throughout his life, and motivated almost

  The cover art for the most recent of Munroe's books, How To Randall Munroe is a man of many talents. He's a writer, illustrator, cartoonist, and former roboticist and physicist with NASA. While all of those things deserve articles of their own, I'm here to talk to you about his three books: What If? , Thing Explainer , and How To . But first a bit about him from his "about" page: I'm just this guy, you know? I'm a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. Before starting xkcd, I worked on robots at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia. As of June 2007 I live in Massachusetts. In my spare time I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do the same thing, but the other way around. An example of Munroe's style of illustrating/writing  Source:  https://xkcd.com/736/ What's unique about Munroe's work, is that it's the inverse of

Who is Stuart Gibbs?           Born in 1969, Stuart Gibbs is an American author of twenty-two books with a total of five series: Moon Base Alpha series, Spy School series, FunJungle series, Last Musketeer series, and Charlie Thorne series. All books for varying ages from kids to teenagers. He received the New York Times Bestselling award for three of his series.           In addition, he is an environmentalists, conspicuously, in his books, especially, the FunJungle series, you can notice how the events corresponds to real-life situations, for example, poaching endangered animals. It is a really intelligent from him to do this, especially when his books are famous; more people could become aware of these tragic consequences that we cause to the planet. In his website, http://stuartgibbs.com/save-the-world/ , he gives people ideas and ways to fund organizations that protect many biomes. 

Dungeons and Dragons, one of the most renowned tabletop RPGs. Known throughout the world for its fantastical world and unique adventures, but one thing that is easily overlooked when faced with the many stats and combinations of race, class, and subclass; is the story building of one's character(s). Such a diverse and large world with many layers is a writer's playground when looking to make a unique character story. In this post and my next (6 in this one 6 in the next one), I'm going to analyze every DnD class in terms of backstory, giving a few examples, along with the class's stereotypes. There's not really any official scale I'm going to use, really just my own opinion, with no particular order. If you disagree, feel free to reply in a blog post. I wouldn't mind the free inspiration of fighting with another blog.  I'll just be covering the main classes described in the Players Handbook, no subclasses for now. If I run out of inspiration later in

    John Green. YouTube vlogger. Crash Course Giver. Indianian. Husband. Father. Author. He's a man of many talents. I am here to talk to you about this last one I mentioned- being an author. John Green has a very lighthearted aura to him when he is in Crash Course YouTube videos and makes jokes frequently. If you check out his channel (shared with his brother), I'm sure you would be shocked to know he is also a romance novelist who incorporates deep and insightful content and thought into all of his books. Each has a unique 'quirk' to it, so to speak, and it make every book he writes extremely memorable.      John Green has written some amazing books like  Paper Towns , Turtles All the Way Down , and  The Fault in Our Stars , among others. You may have even heard of some of them, the last one of which a movie, starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort (both of whom were also in  Divergent - also an amazing book and movie series), was based on. Paper Towns  also has a