A Supermarket in California by Ginsberg. Idk why it just always has stuck with me

I prefer games with player-facing rolls. I also prefer emergent gameplay so I’ll roll on random charts, but that’s it. Stakes are stakes, and character death should be something in the forefront of player minds imo

What stakes do you have in your games? What does your prep look like?

Idk it’s like my second favorite edition of D&D©️ after b/x. There are dozens of us!

Texas? Where’s the “you need the 2nd to defend the 1st” crowd?

These are just things I learned running it and they worked for me but might not be the case for everybody

• Focus on just the core book. WoD has always suffered from bloat and an early game I ran got out of hand pretty quick bc I let PCs pick from anything

• Start small. 5e I think does a balance of horror great, but don’t worry about shit going on in the far corners of the world with millennia-old vampires; let your PCs carve their niche out first

• Lorebooks at your own risk. I didn’t like them but again, IDGAF about the metaplot

• Don’t forget hunger is always there and should affect rolls but also you should always be challenging that hunger. I’m not a combative dm/st/gm whatever but like … I think that’s the whole point. Kindred existence is just a constant war of controlling the Beast.

• Ask lots of questions and use those answers against the players especially during character creation and extra especially with Advantages and Flaws

• Watch having thin-bloods in with your genned kindred. I felt like there was a huge power gap, or at least make players aware it might get weird

Idk the rules went fine but I’m used to WoD dice pool weirdness. I never house-ruled any of the 5e rules myself other than the mixed-gen coterie thing

1st, 8th, 9th, 10th, 14th, probably, but the people that are on the wrong side of trans rights only give a fuck about the 2nd or something

Ish? I run machines at a steel tube/chromed bar processing plant in the Midwest which is kinda neat but also mind-numbing, but the money is really good for what I do. They just offered me an outside sales position over my whole state so… I like doing new things and my background is in food and bev so I’d much rather be dealing with people than pushing buttons on a CNC or hone all day plus for a pay increase and not being all gross and oily when I get off work? No-brainer

You aren’t wrong. One of them is a piece of shit that was majority stockholder, chairman, and head booker but now has lost his company and soon enough will lose his money and his freedom

The other is a piece of shit that now has a title and a podcast

Both pieces of shit

One of the current title holders in AEW is also accused of sexual assault PLUS he’s a fascist who donated money to Trump PLUS his wife is an insurrectionist

“Cast not stones that they will sink ships” -Jesus or something, idk

Kylie Rae didn’t, I’m pretty sure

Roger Zelazny

Neil Gaiman

Gregory Bateson

Dan O’Brien

Terrence McKenna

Alan Moore

Ken Kesey

Albert Camus

Badger

Concrete

A lot of purely positive are against “balance” training where we use tools like eCollars and prong collars

Probably because science doesn’t support

their

use

and

documented

their

harm

many

times

over

But do go on with how anecdotally “they work and people just don’t use them right and all these are different things”

I think most reasonable dog owners will stick with proven science-based training and their vet recommendations. Anecdotally my vet said they are horrible. I even asked another because I had a friend who swore by them at her training school. Anecdotally two vets said the same thing .

Anecdotally one of that trainer’s personal dogs she used prongs and ecollars to train mauled a kid and another dog at her training school so now she’s getting sued

Anecdotally, of course

Strikes and gutters, ups and downs. This year’s been the drizzling shits, and it’s tough to keep my chin up but I’m getting by.

Hope you’re doing great OP

This is gonna stretch the definition but

Dorthia Cottrell from Windhand did a country album and it’s so good

Guild Wars 2 I’ve played since prelaunch

Just got Arkham Knight during the spring sale

Always playing Tales of Maj’Eyal

Battlefield 1 and I just got V

Wife and I play Civ 6 a lot

Recently started a new TES Oblivion game

FTL occasionally and Torchlight 2 sometimes

What’s really cool is the shitty search function that shows everything BUT the episodes you’re looking for and also the fact that if a production company from a show you finished puts out a new podcast that you are interested in, there’s no way to find it and subscribe to listen to it

Calcium means the stones are calcium oxalate which comes from having too much oxalates in your diet

I get recurring kidney stones which are from oxalates and sodium

I keep my oxalate intake per day under 40mg

Spinach has 755 mg per HALF CUP!

Fuck spinach

Thanks! They’re the best