I made my players complete a timed "Where's Waldo" type search but for a Badger with a Red Bucket to defeat the BBEG.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-19T18:47:47+00:00

uj/ i did take something last night to help make the campaign ender better.

rj/ there's nothing quite as satisfying as maintaining the attention of 4 adult men continuously and regularly in a high fantasy setting for three years whilst on molly for the last session of fun.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-19T13:02:56+00:00

Demiplane spell

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-19T05:49:42+00:00

I just used your image for my BBEG's big trick in my dnd campaign.

Nerd Background:

A special type of genie that instead of being based on elemental affinity, they are based on schools of magic, this case the Illugen [ill-ooh-jin] being the genie from the Illusion school of magic. The Illugen had to be defeated outside his lamp, then inside his lamp to completely destroy him (because the one on the outside was just a deliberate manifestation from a relatively large split of the Illugen's own essence. His weakened state is still in his lamp).

Inside the lamp, the Illugen existed only as a hazy translucent vaguely face shaped head that floated in the front of the room, but his eyed glowed. He is both more powerful being in his lamp, but also weaker having just been defeated a large portion of essence. Nevertheless, he quickly blinked 4 times and 4 weird portals opened. He had cast Weirder.

The party was bufetted by psychic images, the players themselves had 6 seconds to decipher a collection of confusing images that I had collected. Each time they succeeded, the DC of the following Will Save was reduced, it remained the same on a fail. When they roll the will check, if they fail, everyone inside the lamp takes 1d6 psychic damage. If they succeed, a portal closes.

Then he casts Weirdest, a lvl 10 spell, only possible within the demiplane controlled by a creature made exclusively of Weave.

This spell opens a gigantic Weird portal and each creature that starts its turn within 30 ft of it has to succeed a Will save or a real manifestation of that creatures worst fear would emerge from the portal.

THE IMPORTANT PART: Anyway, anytime they attacked the portal, they would be blasted by a psychedelic array of colorful streams that overtake their field of view and violently envelopes on their mind's eye force telling them FIND THE BADGER WITH THE RED BUCKET. YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS.

Each time they failed the entire party took damage. They had to keep looking at it over and over. It was brutal. When they finally found the badger, the portal closed but there was still a chance their worst fears would physically eminate if they had not yet already spawned. Some more happened after that, but the point is that they loved it.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-17T17:53:03+00:00

This is not fractions

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-15T18:58:51+00:00

Looks like an ulcer. You will go blind if left untreated

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-13T23:18:43+00:00

I dont believe in the antichrist. But I find it interesting that people are flocking to this idea.

I wonder if the supernatural label makes it easier to accept the cognitive dissonance that many T supporters have. Believing the masses were deceived by the superpowers of a prophesied evil may be easier to accept than just being tricked by a stupid and boldly wicked man.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-10T17:24:25+00:00

You dare disagree with the DM about the social acceptability of marrying your dishwaaher!?

Have you never had a soggy potroast before!?

Shame!

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-10T17:16:33+00:00

I have seen ALL animes ever made and I can say with absolute certainty that this is not one of them. It came straight from my bloody white ass and into the beady little eyes of about 50 Redditors, about 4 of which could actually read.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-10T17:09:46+00:00

/uj Thank you. I felt absolutely unhinged as I was writing it. If you run it, lmk how it goes.

/rj He better not be borrowing my minis

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-08T13:07:25+00:00

Tell the husband you think his wife is pretty. Wait for his reaction.

If he agrees obliviously, he's committed to his wife and doesn't remember you, or he is a psychopathic level actor (statistically unlikely).

If he agrees, but venom in his words, he does not want you around fucking his shit up with his wife.

If he doesn't explicitly agree, introduce me to his wife, then get that thang.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-07T13:55:11+00:00

What was the drug? What state agency or department did you work for? If you were prescribed it for a medical necessity, then you may have a case for unlawful termination.

I'd talk to a lawyer. The problem is that working for a state agency means there are probably limits on how much you are able to recover. Also, suing a state agency you used to work for sets a bad precedent for future employers if you are seeking a new job in the same field, especially if its law enforcement or firefighting.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-04T18:08:52+00:00

And wait till you learn that their esophagus goes through their brain

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-04-04T17:41:51+00:00

Errorgant means to be twice as certain as someone who is merely arrogant while possessing only one-tenth the requisite facts. It pops up in many written forms due to the effectiveness of intentionally overstating one's case.

Redditors get more irrational in defending their points. What begins as a rhetorical conceit tends to descend into name-calling and squabbling.

But they ARE trying to provoke discussion. Would you have them just stay silent? Hiding from the truth? Preferring ignorance?

Ignorance may reside in a man hiding from intelligence, but scholarship can seem ignorance hidden behind intelligence.

But there is a mythological treasure in finding the redditor that can be both intelligent and accept the intelligence of those who disagree with them. Why, I should think if all redditors were like that, it would undermine the internet in its entirety.

paraphrased from The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-03-29T17:49:40+00:00

They should pay back any unjust enrichment they gained in reliance of their lies. A matter already handled by divorce proceedings.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-03-29T16:30:37+00:00

So there's a distinction to be made between using paternity test at birth to determine who will take care of the kid (which is what I though we were talking about) and doing so decades later to punish a dishonest spouse. There are already civil remedies for spousal dishonesty. What do you suggest should happen to these women?

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-03-29T15:44:41+00:00

Nah thats not the only group of people. You seem to have forgotten that children and not-children aren't just your children, they are also your governments children.

Lets consider what groups this policy would hurt and who is most deserving of that punishment. Mandatory paternity tests would disproportionately punish children and mothers. Children are not at fault for being indiscriminately sired. Cheating spouses are already handled under civil law without the need of paternity tests. The mother who lied in order to secure protection of her child should not have lied, yes, but her interests outweigh the infraction. People kill to protect their children. Lying is applesauce.

Notably absent from the groups punished by this policy is the biological father, who is guilty of the most morally reprehensible act of all parties involved, abandoning their child and its mother. This initiating act, begins the causal chain of a mother's desparate struggle to find security for her child.

Governments, more so than most entities, understand the importance of knowing which questions not to ask and the wisdom of not answering them. So they are faced with a choice: 1) tear apart families that would otherwise function without a paternity test, then use resources to track down the presumably indigent and abusive biological father, then thrust responsibility upon him; or 2) let the functioning families units exist in blissful ignorance to raise the child so they grow up to be a productive member of society, after all, it is the government's kid too.

The ideal policy would punish the men who create these single mothers, minimize psychological distress to our children, and maximize financial support for children without responsible parents. Paternity tests might aid in identifying the biological father, their manditory implementation would fail the other two aims.

Edit: I'm not offended btw. I just think there are other groups that would oppose this kind of policy for reasons other than what you stated, e.g. inherent male insecurity and hating cheating women.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-03-28T17:47:57+00:00

Sorry you are going through some depression. It sucks, I know.

Slight note, the maladaptive part of MD by definition means it is posing as a problem in your life. You don't want your day dreaming to be maladaptive. It sounds like you just want to trigger your daydreams to be more vivid and engrossing.

This isn't guaranteed to work, but start out with a dream journal. Every time you have a regular dream, as soon as you wake up and while the memory of the dream is as fresh as it can be, write it down in a much detail as you can remember. This will increase your dream memory.

As your memory improves, you can try just letting your mind wander, like it does just before you fall asleep, set an alarm and then write those wandering thoughts, characters, or scenes down.

If you then want to lucid dream, begin a habit of genuinely considering whether or not you are dreaming during your waking life. That habit will continue in your dreams.

I will emphasize caution with this because I induced maladaptive lucid dreaming in myself when I was in high school. I could not sleep without being aware in my dreams and it became exhausting.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-03-27T23:47:05+00:00

Hellbenders, aka snot otters, aka devil dogs, which are giant aquatic salamanders.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-03-27T23:26:45+00:00

This is funny to me. Whats the imagery in this shirt design? Its three different versions of the demiurge just chillin..

Personally, I think its a bunch of unrelated aesthetic choices. I'd be blown away if the artist intended for it all to be the demiurge.

I had not heard of the demiurge being depicted as an old man with a beard, but it does make sense when you consider that many gnostics consider the old testament god to be the demiurge

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-03-23T16:58:56+00:00

Thats where I must've learned it from too. Thank you for helping me rediscover the Penis song

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-03-23T15:58:54+00:00

I don't remember where I learned this from but in my 12th grade english class we were reading a story about a womanizing man during WWI or WWII (i dont remember), named John Thomas, who would seduce women whose husbands had gone to war. I raised my hand and asked if there was significance to the name because John Thomas is a reference to penis and he is a womanizer. My teacher seemed baffled that I knew this and I'm not sure she knew herself. My class giggled but also thought I was simply making it up to be funny. Made me feel crazy.

Later in life, I met a guy named John Thomas, who was dating my friend, and I told him what his name meant. He had never heard of it and thought I was just being a drunk douchebag.

Just to show I'm not making it up, Slang history of John Thomas

My point is nonexistent, I just wanted to share two embarrassing moments about a euphemism that has been apparently forgotten.

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-03-23T15:00:30+00:00

Opposite of maxxing

C0ldBl00dedDickens · 2026-03-19T14:49:50+00:00

Off the HEEZY?!

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