undiscoveredlands.bsky.social
I’m Gabe. Parent, partner, and full time pro DM who runs an online afterschool D&D program for kids. Currently running 17 games a week.
https://www.theundiscoveredlands.com/
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You’re not the boss of me.
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Yeah, the click bait is real. But... you'll never believe what they do next!
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Also, there was a surreal moment when we were evacuating that I was running around taking pictures of things for insurance and kept thinking I was taking pictures of “Things we lost in the fire” and your album kept coming up in my head.
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Oh nice! Definitely checking these out.
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Reading about her prescience now. I’ll check it out. I live near Pasadena and had to evacuate so this feels spot on for me right now. Thanks.
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I haven’t used PF’s Nexus but I imagine it’s a similar thing. If @hellomcdm.bsky.social can get the Draw Steel VTT up relatively close to following launch, I think it will have a big impact on adoption.
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I think @mattcolville.bsky.social has the right idea by getting a VTT up and running to support his new game. TTRPGs require people to play with, and making a platform that’s easy to use and super accessible is the right strategy to get there.
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I prefer playing DnD on Beyond because it’s just easier to me. I run games for 9 year olds online and they can pick it up real fast.
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Don’t get me wrong. VTTs like Roll20 are great, but they are a great platform for playing “many” games. There are lots of allowances being made in the UX to create a fluid platform that can apply to any TTRPG.
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Look, this is all happening too fast. I still can’t get my Aibo to fetch.
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Really? I’m not disagreeing with you. Just curious as to what the differences between the 2014 and 2024 rules are that make you feel that way.
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…a lot of Stephen King as a kid and reread a bunch of it a couple years ago and had some funny reactions. Like, Tommyknockers was probably written in a drug/booze haze, and I liked that book as a kid. Pet Semetary was much darker because I have a kid of my own now. It all hit different.
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Reading these responses is interesting because I agree and disagree on a lot of the specific examples people are referencing. I understand this is totally subjective, but I wonder how much of this has less to do with age and is simply where the reader is at when they experience the work. I read…
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Anyway, it may not be the same thing but seeing this triggered that memory. I was just baffled there was a whole cottage industry for dryer duct cleaning scams. Now I see scams everywhere!
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I called the company and they were cagey and I started to realize it was a scam. Had the same vibe as scam call centers. Did some googling and figured it out.
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But they don’t actually have the skills or knowledge or probably tools to actually do the job. And it’s some weird home thing you can’t really check well at the time (e.g. a long enclosed dryer duct). After I noticed we were having the same issues I took apart the duct and nothing had been done.
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I had the same thing happen to me with the dryer vent. Did some digging and it turns out there’s a whole internet scam related to it. Bots flood local social networks with posts about some kind of labor. Someone shows up at your house claiming to be able to do something. All looks legit…
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I find myself avoiding prints that require supports for that reason. I’ve never really gotten the hang of them but it’s had me eyeing a new Bambu printer just for the AMS. I’d have a roll of support material in there for just this occasion.
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I literally print out the monster stat page and then scribble HP and stuff on it during the game. I make sure it fits on one page and then I also recycle each of these by printing on the other side for the same reason.
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Yeah it is. I run weekly games for kids online and during the holidays I get tons of no shows and parents email me with “We just forgot it was Tuesday.” I can totally relate because unless I have to work I barely care what day it is.
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Dang! This totally beats out the tortle monk/ninja turtle trope. Can’t believe I never saw it.
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Looking good!
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I run dnd online for kids as a job and can say all of this is true.
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Don’t tell them the scale breaks and you’ve basically described tomb of horrors.
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My son is 14 and though we watched with him when he was younger, he’s just gotten into the Matt Smith era. It is now all he ever wants to watch if TV is happening. I didn’t discover the Doctor till I was older and am glad for him to have this show as a younger person.
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…advice like this is much worse. It sounds like they don’t have an internal agreement on some simple best practices, which should really be what the DMG is.
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…examples of everything you’re describing in, say, the Amber Temple in Curse of Strahd, but then the Spelljammer adventure is a mess. I’d say they are resistant to codifying too much about adventure design into dogma, but like, that’s actually the point of publishing a “guide,” and giving bad…
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Definitely a solid critique! I honestly skim these parts of the book because I don’t feel like I need the direction but I totally see how they don’t do what they’re supposed to do for new aspiring DMs. It’s odd because they can be so inconsistent with their materials. There are great…
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I literally read this as just like moving your body. Got it on the second read.
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Love this!
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NGL, I’ve been more of a moppy guy myself.
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Their first three albums were great but after that it falls off for me.
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It's the same regret, only instead of being like "why did I have that last drink" I'm like "why couldn't I have left that last detail till morning."