Haha, missed that. Yes, I hate that too.

Yep! It’s cold, damp, and dark and it goes on too long. Having to shovel snow is also awful. 0/10, do not recommend. I much prefer spring and summer.

It’s impressive that he managed to avoid touching any grass for 11 years!

I have a player like this. He always specs out all the options on spreadsheets and tries to find the optimum builds for any RPG we play. Which is fine, but I got really tired of him telling everyone else how to play their characters in D&D that we’ve only been playing other RPGs for the past few years where build optimization is less of a thing.

This is why I liked the how Torture skill in Burning Wheel does just this: you decide what the victim says. It’s not true, it’s just what they admit to.

Aww 😞

Even if I don’t directly use each book, I might find ideas and inspiration in them that I can bring back to the games I do run. This has happened plenty of times. Besides, they can be fun to read. This goes for old books too. Numerous times I’ve adapted old material for new games.

Fair point! I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, it’s just interesting to me cause I’m not used to it. I usually run D&D as medieval (like ~1300 AD) European fantasy with magic and a little bit of anachronistic renaissance stuff.

As someone who’s been DMing for 30+ years, it’s really interesting to me when people have anachronistic stuff like coffee shops in D&D.

Yeah, exactly my thinking! THIS is the real D&D party!

I look forward to them being equipped with the ability to refuel by consuming biomass, self replicating, and having unbreakable encryption so they can’t be stopped!

I’m a big fan of Fira Code! I haven’t found any others I like more.