I'll take "Gifs You Can Hear" for 400.
10.03.2026 05:41
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I'll take "Gifs You Can Hear" for 400.
Bonus mechanic: if you're Resistant to poison or get advantage on your Con rolls for some reason, you can discard any one card if you go over your Con. (You can keep drawing at that point if you choose to.)
I don't know if this stands up to scrutiny, but some quick&easy drinking contest rules for D&D: it's just blackjack, but your character's Constitution score is the limiter (instead of 21). You can stop drinking any time, but whoever has the highest number less than or equal to their Con score wins.
My response to that one specific faction of Star Trek: Lower Decks and Starfleet Academy haters.
Not gonna prepare for D&D adventures ever again; just gonna use this:
Our current era is going to be an absolute historical void. Everything that used to be written down on paper—transitory, but able to be preserved—is now "in the cloud" and will last precisely as long as is profitable.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the main skill for being a professional DM is not storytelling ability, not understanding rules systems, not doing funny voices or balancing group dynamics.
It's a tolerance for sending scheduling emails.
Time to find a new bank...
I still start like 60% of conversations with "H'ok, so."
Also, taking a second to review your character options before a session can work wonders.
(I find it's really useful to make my own cheatsheat—even if someone else has already done the work online—as the act of creating it helps reinforce the learning.)
Spending today coming to terms with how my very, very mature gaming group starting their new 1690s pirate campaign is going to handle the word "pinnace."
Every once in a while I feel a pang of D&D 3e/3.5 nostalgia. If you're like me, my friend Ben has just listed a game that I think will appeal to you mightily.
It was inevitable, perhaps, that my D&D party would start referring to svirfneblin and svirfs, and that that would immediately degrade to smurfs, but what an absolute humiliation for one of my favorite D&D species.
Five Tiers of RPG Publishing
Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only…
This is fantastic reporting.
Tldr ridership is down after the pandemic; everyone's working from home.
www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
Ah, I see. I took from your "whiny babies" comment (and, to an extent, from your "fuckin imaginations" comment) a dismissive tone towards people who don't like to play games exactly like you like to play games. But I think we're agreeing after all: discussing norms with a group is a good thing.
Sure, but the point still holds. If you hold this belief, but your group doesn't want to lose characters, that's probably worth knowing about at the beginning of the campaign.
A/B/C as well
One of my deficiencies as a DM is that most of my NPCs are mostly reasonable most of the time.
I feel as if that's not true of all people in the real world—some people are really quite petty and spiteful in self-defeating ways—but I have a hard time channeling that into my games.
Oooooooooooooooooooooooh.
Introduced a loveable robot NPC to my teens game as a potential ally; they immediately called it "clanker" and destroyed it.
Interesting cultural shift, there.
Oh. Ok.
(I think the thing I thought I liked about Bluesky was that it seemed like it would avoid the toxicity of Twitter, but I'm realizing more and more that I was under a grave delusion.)
Some of us were never even on Twitter!
I don't know what the context for this reaction is, but I know that Wil Wheaton really hates it when people shout this meme at him. (Trauma, etc.) Maybe you know this and it's intentional, but if you don't and it isn't... now you do, I guess.
Gonna see how long it takes my Spelljammer players to notice that I'm just taking them through a beat-by-beat remake of The Mandalorian.
Disco Merlin, clearly.
