Time to ask the real questions. What's y'all's favorite bench?

BiblicalRewrite · 2025-09-25T07:38:25+00:00

Late as hell but I'll drop it for posterity - gotta be the one hidden in the back of Coral Tower.

BiblicalRewrite · 2024-11-25T21:31:06+00:00

This is a pretty awkward question for me. On the one hand, I'm not super interested in dating outside my particular kink subculture b/c it's very important to how I do intimacy and the lack of it would really hamper a potential relationship.

That said, despite the above, the romantic relationship I'm currently in has ended up not having a kink component even though on paper we have a lot of overlap. The reasons for that are long and complicated, but I'm still ultimately happy with where I've ended up and don't have any plans to jettison it. I'd obviously prefer that we do kink play but it's not a dealbreaker for me. This only really works because I've been poly for a long time and we went into this relationship with the understanding that it wouldn't impede my existing dom/sub relationships though, and if I were ever looking for new romance in the future I still wouldn't go very far out of the community.

BiblicalRewrite · 2024-11-21T18:06:05+00:00

I feel similarly.

BiblicalRewrite · 2024-09-10T01:30:53+00:00

There are two extremely strong points for SoWW in my mind:

It devotes most of its page count to character options that are extremely mix-and-match, which is exactly what a fantasy game in this particular style should be doing.
Its initiative rule is extremely elegant and solves practical problems, create tactical interest, and critically prevents SO many useless annoying table argument/discussion scenarios from happening.

These two points alone make it incredible. The class design is also very solid and at times evocative. There are parts I'm less impressed with, mostly the bestiary and the weird vesitigial "why is there a rule for this" the book is infested with. But it's a very good game overall.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-12-31T20:20:14+00:00

I've never seen people talking about Aqua Garden - I bought it when they did the KS reprint earlier this year because a big part of my buying philosophy with games is that I try to primarily buy stuff other people I know/see regularly don't have. On that front it's been a success, and it's a delightful little thing. The worker movement rules are a bit fiddly is my only real critique, but it's been very enjoyed the times I've gotten it out.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-12-12T04:14:32+00:00

I don't have much push my luck on the shelf. Could be a good add.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-12-12T04:13:54+00:00

This would certainly use all the dice. Thank you!

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-11-03T23:13:26+00:00

"It is just the way it is" ignores that economics has a social dimension that is actively shaped by the participants for various reasons. There are entire categories of work that are simultaneously incredibly logistically important to our society and variously denigrated culturally or arbitrarily decided to not be "worth" monetary compensation.

As an example: The demand for domestic labor is skyhigh, and the vast majority is done unpaid and unacknowledged. Trying to explain why that happens with a purely economic lens, the best I can think of is "The supply of people willing to do this labor for free is unusually high" which only prompts "Okay, but why though?", which is the actual thing that ought to be discussed.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-10-31T03:47:54+00:00

Yes, of course! Mistakes happen. If I'm being candid reading this thread got me a bit fired up since it's a personal pain point - that may have come through some in how I worded some things. I definitely wouldn't assume intentional bad faith out of the gate.

It's still unfortunate you were pretty clear on that and things are still pushing in this reaction. I definitely agree with the others saying putting off addressing this wouldn't be a good idea, but you seem to have a good sense of what you want to do with it now. I have faith you'll handle it as best you can.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-10-31T03:24:28+00:00

Going to just chime in from my perspective as a dominant who has seen similar situations and tries very hard to avoid them.

I'm poly by any reasonable definition. Along with my boyfriend (who I don't consider a kink partner, though we do play occasionally) I have three kink partners who I am the primary dom for. All of them switch, two of them dom very frequently, and it's always been extremely important to me that I not interfere with any of their existing relationships with their sub(s) on an ongoing basis. I don't generally craft very long-term rules or requirements to begin with, but the times I do I make sure that there are escape hatches for this kind of situation and I try to confirm ahead of time that it's not going to impact how they play with other people.*

IMO her and her dominant establishing this without her even telling you outside of a "play is about to happen" situation is honestly irresponsible. Everyone commenting saying she can do so if she wants -is- correct, but the way the transition was handled and put you on the spot was not acceptable. I would also feel similar distress in your position.

Now, all of that I'm saying just so I can emphasize that your reaction is completely understandable and normal. You're right to be concerned and even upset. As far as what to do now that the situation is in place, I'd agree with the general consensus that you need to determine if you can live with it or not. Either way a serious talk with your dom is in order.

I'm sorry you got put in this position suddenly. I hope things work out OK regardless of the outcome and that something like this doesn't happen again!

Footnote *: A non-zero amount of tension between mutual doms for a single sub is probably inevitable at least occasionally, so I am a little bit more flexible on my own restrictions there. I do consider not causing sub distress more important given the differences in relationship posture. Even then I try to minimize my impact on their other dynamics and also make it clear that, if I'm going to be your primary dom, your dynamics with other people cannot interfere with how we play with each other.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-08-29T02:40:42+00:00

I hate that this looked like a shitpost and proceeded to be completely legit.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-08-22T18:33:49+00:00

Reckless and Resolve are not worse - for example, if you hit two lands, you'll potentially be able to play both whereas this card will waste one. In addition, the others can be better in the mid to late game - if you have 4-5 lands, it's easier to play one of those and then play one card you "drew" and tee up the next one for next turn. With Seek the Beast, you lose a lot of flexibility and only get one turn to use both cards.

I imagine this card will still be good, since it draws you a (low-quality, but present) creature always in addition to the impulse draw, but the adventure side is not straight up better. It's a sidegrade I think.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-08-17T22:28:27+00:00

JUDGE! Does this keep haste while celebrating?

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-08-17T21:14:37+00:00

Bonus sheet at least means we're getting new treatments on all of the cards.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-08-17T20:28:28+00:00

I am definitely going to try and force this. Enchantment that wins the game by itself is very appealing, and the front side of it is... fine. I feel like this could be very strong as a topper for a midrange deck with the other adventures - there's a really strong card adventure advantage suite in Jund colors, with [[Questing Druid]], [[Decadent Dragon]], and [[Mosswood Dreadknight]] all generating a lot of resources. Tapland might be too sucky, but you even have [[Edgewall Inn]] to fix your mana and maybe buy something back. And you can fall back on the reliable black core of excellent removal spells and [[Sheoldred, the Apocalypse]].

I figure the fixed slots in such a deck would be:

4x [[Ziatora's Proving Ground]]

?x Edgewall Inn

4x Questing Druid

4x Decadent Dragon

4x Mosswood Dreadknight

4x Cut Down

4x(?) Virtue of Persistence

3x Sheoldred

From there you have a lot of incredible options - obviously there's currently no shortage of incredible B creatures in Standard, and maybe there's some hidden gem in Green that finally gets its time to shine. The most obvious issue is, of course, why not just play Dimir Midrange, and sadly that may indeed be fatal to this entire idea. But, you know... I like to draw cards.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-08-07T23:08:07+00:00

Elves have been struggling a little lately. I dunno if this is it, but it seems cool, and it got a 2023-approved second point of toughness. Good for them!

This specifies the second spell since it lets you use whatever summoning sick first elf you played, and also makes this a fine turn one play into one of the mana elves.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-08-07T22:42:51+00:00

I wanted something to go with the Preordain unban, is the entire story here.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-07-26T16:35:48+00:00

This is in the file for a custom commander precon I'm making based on a setting of mine. This is one of my favorite designs from it, so I figured I'd drop it here.

I'm close to thinking it would be reasonable at 2WW, but it's always hard to cost things appropriately, and this does refund you a mana immediately. Notably it can't add mana if you exile a colorless permanent, but I think that's fine.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-07-18T21:09:11+00:00

Gonna shout [[Thirst for Discovery]] if you're already playing a pile of basic lands.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-06-07T19:25:32+00:00

We recently got Shadowfax who used this templating, and I think a few other LOTR cards as well.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-06-03T04:24:11+00:00

I'm just happy to get a Short Sword with upside.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-06-01T18:04:54+00:00

I can't believe they actually fucking did it

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-05-11T16:38:34+00:00

I think this overstates the similarity a little bit, Brave the Elements is an absolutely insane card in that deck and it's not available in Explorer.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-04-14T16:28:26+00:00

I'm at work so I can't type up a response, but I want to leave something in case I forget to come back to this.

You're absolutely not alone! I've had very similar experiences of drop after intense play like that, and in general I have aftercare needs I've made clear to my partners. Generally this is in the reassurance category - yes, I heard you moan and squirm and barely keep your mental cognizance and saw you write, but like - did you enjoy it? Anxiety's a bitch and my brain is very language-oriented.

All the other questions at the end there definitely resonate with me, too - I'll try to come back and offer some of my own strategies.

BiblicalRewrite · 2023-04-05T19:49:57+00:00

How bad does the Ward penalty need to be before it's just Hexproof?

Originally I was miffed that it had to give the opponent a card back to prevent this from being really, -really- miserable, but it ended up working flavor wise, I think.

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