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I haven’t run one of their stories, but I’ve bought a few to get the structure for my own down. Making sure I have things like levels, traps, challenges, and rewards lined up with time spent in the adventure. But as far as storylines go, I love writing my own too much.
The rules are free. The stories are paid. I think that is more than fair.
“But I don’t have a cloaca.”
Context, if you want it:
I was playing a frost giant fighter, and I found a dragon egg. I asked the town vet (who the DM made up on the spot) how I could hatch the egg and raise the dragon as my own. The vet told me that dragons cannot be tamed, and that dragons bond with their mothers in the womb, and then, the egg must be laid. My line, “But I don’t have a cloaca”, and the vet shrugs. Queue Always Sunny theme music, “The Gang Kidnaps a Druid”. In the end, I gave birth to my dragon buddy, and I named him Pellinore, and we had many great adventures until I found a bell that reversed aging, and Pellinore turned back into an egg, and the campaign ended before he hatched, again. I’m GMing the new campaign that is all homebrew, and Pellinore is making a comeback, though.
Believable. I once passed by a book titled “Common Circumcision Rituals of Orc Clans in the Great Southern Wastes” written by Dr. SpinalfluidHammer, MD. The cover was of the author holding a too-large knife covered in too much blood. He seemed happier than the situation called for.
Woah, woah, keep that thing in its sheath.
You can’t miss.
Any npc I make up on the fly is 100% an orc. I can just put bodily-fluid+weapon together and boom, named.
Oh, him? Yeah, that’s the Orc bartender PissMace.
“Woah! You can’t just cast any spell you find laying around. You have to create a virtual world first, then cast the spell. That way if shit goes pear shaped, you just pull the plug and the world vanishes. Can you imagine if you got a grimoire labeled ‘Summon Frog’, but it actually summoned a plague of frogs? Do you know even who wrote the book? Bro. Virtual World.”
Letting the installer autonomously adjust the recovery partition may open up vulnerabilities where malicious software can be placed in recovery. I don’t know how accurate that is, but it makes sense to me, and would be why they want it done on a case by case basis as needed and not just a mass fix to all installs whether they need it or not.
Don’t cram touchscreens and smart features into every fucking aspect of your car. Keep your costs low, keep prices low, and believe it or not, you’ll tap into the “bottom” 60% of the market that has been forced to buy used for the last 10 years. I don’t want a base trim 10 year old Honda Accord with 150k miles, but it’s all I can find for under $20k.
I don’t care what the situation is, I’m taking Bourdain over Fieri any day of the week, but I get the guys point, and Fieri by all accounts is a fucking solid guy.
The first time was when they gave a piece of their culture to a wandering orphan minstrel girl who didn’t have a family. The second was when he “accidentally” killed a young man in the arena, and the man’s father challenged him to a duel for the honor of his son. The old man took some magical PCP which is my homebrew one-way ticket to Pharasma. It was a short fight, and it may have been a bit heavy handed, but I needed to punish the bloodlust murder hobo antics the group was devolving into. It worked.
I’ve made two cry, but one of them has cried twice. Does that count?
This is about to happen in the next session we play. They are 100% gonna have a run in with the authorities when they sail into port, and it’s gonna be up to them on how to deal with it. I would love for them to befriend the knights, but I know at best they’ll spend a night in jail, and at worst they’ll be hunted down like stray dogs by every Knight in the city. They’re learning, though. A month ago I wouldn’t even bother brainstorming alternatives, because they’d just fight everyone without thinking and wind up sleeping outside the city, again.
I have the opposite problem, my players love to infight about everything. It’s all roleplay, we are great friends and we laugh the entire time, but one of them has assumed the role of Captain of their ship, and barks orders at the other player’s PCs and it just devolves into chaos as the Orc Barbarian and Human Wizard try to interpret the wild and dangerous orders of their Goblin Captain. I haven’t tried it, but I think if I didn’t reign them in, they may go at it all night.
For your needs, I don’t think it would be that complex, and it should be able to do anything you need it to.
I think Rainmeter is your best bet. I haven’t used it in a decade or so, so I have no idea how well it performs now, but it was the thing to have back in the good ol’ days.
I don’t want to shit on a fellow GMs hustle, but between the atrocious layout and constant misspellings, I have a hard time believing that anything you tell me is worth reading.
It’s a wallpaper. That’s it. Nothing else for 50 years. Just a wallpaper. You know what would have been cool? Some PDFs of updated first edition adventures that work with 5e. Maybe a free one shot with a fun twist where all the characters are 50. I don’t fucking know, how about a limited edition d20 for sale? Like, an actual one, not a digital die. Fuck, WotC, pull your head out of your ass. You have one of the most beloved franchises of all time with a fucking DIEHARD fan base you don’t deserve. Get your shit together.
WotC and AI generated art.