I'm glad this site has reached the point where raccoon memes hit my page. More, please!
Hey! It sounds like you've prepped a lot with the books and DM screen, which is a good sign!
As a DM, I jumped into running a full year long campaign after just running a couple one shots. It really IS easier than you think!
All you have to do is help your friends interact with the world in the books. That's your only job.
The only tips I have are these:
Make sure both your players AND yourself are having fun! It can be easy to stress and bend to your players every whim so they have as good a time as possible - don't do that. Make sure YOU'RE having fun, too! It'll improve your ability to run the game and everyone will be able to tell.
Don't worry about the tabletop aspect too much. I ran a game for over a year with nothing but my laptop and a map I drew with my friend that had the names of cities on it. I hid my dice behind my hand because there was no room for a DM screen - it really just comes down to you and your players having fun. The objects aren't necessary. Don't worry about not having them.
Have fun! Let us know how it went!
With Twitter and Reddit the way that they are, many people are turning to federated servers as their online home, kbin among them.
How are you using kbin? As a Twitter replacement? Reddit? As something new entirely?
Personally I'm trying to follow multiple types of federated content, magazines, and people.
I think kbin has a lot of growth to go through before all that content can become streamlined and look nice - but it's all there, and that's what counts.
If there's one thing I would change, it would be putting the comment box at the top, or in a drop-down instead of at the very bottom of a thread. But, I'm also just happy that the site is more stable and people are posting!
I fell off halfway through watching Love is War but I might pick it back up this weekend! Baldurs Gate got its hooks in me
As others have mentioned, those Spirit Guardians are phenomenal.
My personal honorable mentions are Silence to mess with enemy spellcasters, Beacon of Hope if you're in a tough fight and keep losing your front liners, and Spirit Shroud, if you are a melee Cleric
As a beardy glasses guy, why WOULD I put my face on a profile picture? I already fade into the background IRL at least here I can be interesting
I have scoliosis, and it was not noticed when I joined the USA military. Then, during a training exercise, I fell down a flight of stairs while carrying >100 lbs of gear.
After medical and a discharge, I was at home and I stood up from my couch only to hear a loud crack and suddenly realized that when people see stars they LITERALLY see stars
My lower back felt like someone had jammed a needle between two vertebrae, and I could see pulsating waves of red and blue over my vision. 0/10, do not recommend. Don't join the military 👍
Thank you! I had fun making it up, I hope it gets used well
Regular Bard
Ancestry: Northern European
Advantage on Con saves against weather affects and immune to Exhaustion caused by Cold
Background: Dissilusioned Millennial
You gain the starting benefit of the last 5 classes you have made progress in, as your inability to decide on a career path has led you to many business ventures which, while failures, have still taught you something.
Class: Mechanical Engineer 1/ Physicist 1/ Teacher 1/Technical Writer 3/Machinist 5
Proficiency in Drafting, Proficiency in Abstract Thought, Proficiency in Patience, Proficiency in 1 additional Language of your choice, Proficiency in Persuasion, Proficiency in 3 sets of tools of your choice, Proficiency in Crafting
Class Features:
It's not due until tomorrow
You gain a +5 instead of a negative modifier to any check made to write on a subject you haven't prepared for.
Dimensional Metrology
You instinctually know when a design you have seen will result in a good part or a bad one.
Operational Parameters
When making a crafting check for any tool you are proficient in, you can add double your proficiency bonus.
Emergency Modifications
You gain the ability to add a +5 to any crafting check you make, up to a maximum of your INT mod times per day.
Feats:
One With Sleep
You gain a +3 to any skill you have no positive modifier in after an 8 hour bout of sleep.
I'd agree to that. I've been a pixel user for a few years now, the only reason I chose them over Samsung is that I don't like Samsung's software preload.
I haven't seen one in person or online in over a decade
I'd love to be proven wrong though!
Would this happen to be Breakers waterpark? If not, I guess it's just a common story lol
Gone but not forgotten is Gameworks. I still have a card with $7 on it that I'll never get to use
As a phone repair tech, Samsung phones are some of the easiest to repair. Especially for batteries or (if you can get Samsung OEM parts) screens.
I highly recommend you take a look at installing the new battery yourself if you're able to be precise with a screwdriver. All it takes is the aforementioned screwdriver, a hair dryer/heat gun, and an old credit card.
The only parts you'll have to buy are the battery and the water resistant seal for the back glass.
As someone who's first TTRPG was 4e: people just like to complain. 5e is a perfectly fun game, as is 3rd, 3.5, PF, or PF2e
The real issue I noticed is that people tend to expect D&D to be the "best " system for THEIR game. And D&D (and by extension Pathfinder) have never been the "best" system at anything besides BEING D&D and Pathfinder.
I look at it as the traditional system. D&D has a ton of old, basically unusable rules that simply exist because... We expect them to exist. We remember these rules existing in old editions so they basically HAVE to exist in the new edition. And this expectation has led to a system that is just really good at emulating itself and not much else.
People who expect D&D to be the best for their horror game, or their survival game, or their political game often complain because that's not what it's for. People who expect D&D to be the best for their old 1st edition game complain because it's that's not what it's for.
It's just meant to LOOK like the old edition.
You'll definitely enjoy playing 5e! A good group of friends and a solid starting adventure will get everyone rolled back into the swing of things quickly.
It's hard to pick a favorite but I find myself listening to the Hollow Knight soundtrack a lot while writing. It's fantastic!
Shout out to the Hades soundtrack though, I play that while playing D&D and my whole group loves it
Yes! I had heard it was in the works. I don't really follow Netflix announcements though so I know next to nothing about it
I'm almost finished with my re-read of Deaths End, the last book of the Rememberence of Earth's Past series. It's just as good as the first time I read through! The Three Body Problem, book one, got kind of popular a bit ago. It's great sci-fi, with a writing style I've never encountered before.
Same for me, except it's regular work hours. When the shop opens at 6, 5:30 is the absolute latest I can push sleep lol
Recently I've been experimenting with staying up till 11 (re, watching a show) and it hasn't been going well. I think I really do need that magic 8 hours
I actually just took a break from playing anything and I'm catching up on some shows. The TotK bug hit me hard for a month straight.
I think in a few days I'll be back to try more Zonai device ideas though. My arsenal of cartoon military vehicles can always get bigger lol
