This sounds like a great idea!

That’s the breakfast of champions right there. Also great looking cast iron.

The caves are alive and have developed a taste for poor John. They yearn to feed, and their howls sound through the night like gusts of wind through the trees.

John knows the hopelessness of inevitability. Some day, they will find him. Some day, he will wake up deep in the bowels of the caves, and his cries will add to the howls of the caves on the wind.

It is a great deal of fun and tremendously addictive.

Very nice! How did you go about it?

It really does, and there are always some loose dissapear into the weave over the course of a campaign, but there is a huge high from pulling years of work into a final epic encounter and conclusion.

Plus, the debrief at the end where players can ask all the questions about loot they missed and which characters were actually doppelgangers is always fun.

I recently joined a second game with a different group as a player, so I still get my individual play time. Some of my players will also likely run one shots or small adventures in the interim while I do the next campaign prep, but they are adamant that they don’t want to run any long form stories.

I can relate to that so much. Switching gears from GM to player is a real struggle for me at times.

The way the party kind of adopted the recurring mini BBEG. He was designed to be a recurring villain , showing up near the end of act 1, and was supposed to be the final boss in act two.

He had done some truly vile things to various members of the party, but apologized for them each time, spoke to them as equals, and was overall a fairly amicable person, at least if you can discount the kidnapping and torture on one players father, and the murders of another character’s entire tribe.

Late in act 2, they discovered that he was under a compulsion to serve the whims of the big bad, and I had assumed it was going to lead to a confrontation where they killed him, then went after the BBEG. Instead, they went on a whole redemption arc for the mini BBEG, found a way to break his compulsion, and went on a long quest to free him from the control of the BBEG.

It was kinda inspiring, again except for the multiple murders and other truly vile things this guy did. It was certainly not the outcome I was expecting in a campaign specifically bent to focus on moral grey areas.

I am something of an over planner, but it took me probably 40 hours to get the themes and major plot points nailed down for all three acts. Then, probably another 40 to flesh out act 1 to the point I was ready to bring the players into the sandbox.

For the first year, I was then spending about 3 hours of prep time per session to tie in all the character backgrounds and weave them into the narrative. After the first year, it was down to probably an hour of prep per session unless they were about to transition between acts, or a major character story was happening.

Sounds like a good start to a really nice mead.

In a perfect world yes, but with dishwashers specifically, I like to have both. If the dishwasher has ever been run as a dishwasher, then there are always going to be chucks of food waste sitting in low spots of the drain hose. Without a water barrier from the loop it basically turns the drain hose into a mini sewer as the food waste decays. It’s much smaller in scale, mind you, but you can still end up with some pretty serious funk.

If you use it as storage, I would want to make sure that it is installed correctly with a looped drain hose, preferably into a p trap. Especially if it doesn’t get run often. Otherwise, sewer gasses are going to come back up through the drain and whatever you have sitting in there is just going to bathe in funk.

Started learning the Jim Croce song “Operator” on my acoustic guitar. It’s been on the list to learn for a while, and I finally got the chance to sit down and start figuring it out.

I used to have this same conversation multiple times through the years until I realized that ultimately, it wasnt really about being right. The wife was just uncomfortable, and was going to be uncomfortable whether I was “right” or not.

Now I mostly don’t worry about the fans, cause her comfort is more important.

Having an empty office where you can get work done in peace is one of those simple pleasures that are uncommonly rare.

Exactly. No fuss, and no muss. Be direct, but tactful. The more obfuscated you make this conversation, the more awkward it’s going to be.

That is really cool and slightly terrifying.

Usually play guitar, play around in blender, or code. It sounds backward, but boredom does wonders for my creative side.

It’s hard to overstate how important the film is to cinema. It pretty much established what the modern movie is.

That said, based strictly off of entertainment value. IMO it is just absolutely terrible.