Ok but the *truly* important question is: how do you pronounce Umdaar? "UMM-dahr?" "OOM-dahr?" "OOM-day-ahr?" "UMM-duh-ahr?" Something else?

I had the same memory about Dream Askew/Dream Apart. They very obviously *should* have done that, but instead just printed them like two chapters of the same book.

Gawd pinnacle bacon is so. good.

When your D&D players have 3 options for where to go next:

-The place that continues the main plot
-The place with a character-driven side-plot
-The batshit crazy place they have no earthly reason to visit

...you might as well not even prepare for options 1 and 2. 🙃

It was an honor to be in the audience for such a momentous occasion.

What's even the point of making money if you're not going to spend it on $20 pistachio almond butter?

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Maybe skip the "arguing with my partner over text" part. 🙃

Looks cool! Note that you've got a weird hyphen in the drivethrurpg listing, though; looks like a ghost from a past line-break.

When Jacinta and I come over to meet Roxy (it's canon now; you can't un-say it) I'll take as many Dead Collections as you want to give me and seed them in the 10,000 Little Free Libraries around Oakland.

WAT?? Congratulations!

I find this especially true in the sports fandoms.

I overused em-dashes before it was uncool.

Op. Always forgetting to self-advertise. "Midnight in the Garden of Chrome and Fog," my character-limit busting cyberpunk RPG actual-play, starts its second season this evening at 7pm! You better believe things are gonna be **weird** for the holiday...

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It's a very specific person who both a.) knows how hot it's going to be in Sacramento this weekend and b.) would express that in celsius.

It's you. You're that specific person.

What a horrifying item to find at the bottom of my to-do list, with no memory of how it got there.

Ideally, you'd have both: the one on the left for the primary read-thru, the one on the right for reference when actually running the adventure.

Like, Taiwan, or something.

The existence of "Rogue State" as a geopolitical category implies Barbarian State, Bard State, Cleric State, etc., and we haven't spent enough time grappling with this as a community.

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."