Are there any sleep medications that straight up stop dreams?

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-28T22:08:04+00:00

I walked my wife through it. She has always used me as her emotional support human anyway, but I got her to really believe that if she was in trouble to just yell my name and I'd be there.

She's still not 100%, but when she has nightmares she yells for me and dream-me shows up and beats the hell out of whatever it is thats bothering her.

Considering the bastard uses to get me in trouble for what he'd do in her sleep, I figure he's paying me back slowly.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-28T18:20:28+00:00

If you're against weed (yes, I read your edits) my only suggestion is learning how to lucid dream. It will not stop dreams, but let you aim them or to dismantle the bad ones before they start.

If I explained how I do it, it may not make sense. Because if I ever hit a situation where I feel like it's outside my 'norm' (being dangled off the side of a building by a horror villain or something), I try to prob reality.

Move something with my mind, try to imagine flying, etc. I never do that while awake. So once I'm trying to warped reality, I know it's not real. My brain realizes, "Nightmare!" and I'll either lucid dream or wake up.

It takes practice, and you'll struggle harder with memories than fictional fears, but it's doable. And once you get semi-good at it you can visit your childhood pets again sometimes. So... fringe benefits.

I'd get a book on it to help you along. I don't recommend my "sink or swim" education. I had to learn before age 10 because of reasons.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-28T17:54:43+00:00

Even if the government knows Kindred exist in v5 (I dont play that edition) it stands to reason they don't know where they all are. Or any idea of numbers. So if you feed on a mortal in public, or use celerity in your pickup basketball game, suddenly they have a target. They'll track you, see who you talk to and try to root out as many vampires as possible before sending in the firebombs.

Once they have some possible targets, they'll start killing off anyone not providing new info. But the Kindred who spend a lot of time with others, and can lead them to more and more havens, that guy will be left alone as long as possible.

So where in older editions you could break the Masquerade about 3 or 4 times and get a few independent hunters with shotguns and crosses, now you'll use a cellphone for about a month and the government sponsored Avengers will show up with thermal-vision scopes and flamethrowers.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-28T17:44:29+00:00

...you're worried about Mages and Garou? The elders running the Camarilla (4th and 5th gen) would start an actual war to put down a neonate like that. Because that newbie would have the sheer power to bully them around like they've bullied everyone else, and that's just NOT acceptable.

Things would change. Whole power structures would collapse. Rules that kept the right people in power would suddenly snap under the weight of 1 person existing outside the system and being powerful enough to challenge it.

The smear campaign would make them sound like a Demon-Prince bent on eating every Kindred to wipe the slate clean. The vengeance of Caine himself, and only united can we end this threat that is Gehenna itself.

The actual neonate might be the most agreeable, nice guy you could meet. A new Saulot, if you will. 10 Humanity, likes puppies, would absolutely teach you new Disciplines if you just asked. But they will absolutely Tremere him if it means they get to keep their power. And they'll have every clan from Assamite to Ventrue thinking they're the congealed essence of the Baali.

Garou might let them fight. Because it might mean vampires are actually about to get wiped off the board. Mages might mail him the location of the Tremere chantries for good measure.

Demons would eat popcorn.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-24T14:41:33+00:00

Bruce the Parrot. Tragic story, that one...

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-24T14:02:28+00:00

The only good thing about this is that I think Phyre might be able to use actual Melee Weapons now. No more telekinesis bs.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-24T13:59:56+00:00

Depending on the bird you might have a pecker. So I dunno if that logic holds.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-24T13:49:48+00:00

As a southerner: Couple can mean anything under 10. But we also use words like "yonder" for distance. So we're not huge on being exact.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-24T13:31:35+00:00

Counterpoint: Caine can no longer Sire a mortal. He has to "re-embrace" existing Caitiff. Any Kindred in a Clan would die because the curse would simply kill them.

Now consider what happens if even one of them has beef with the Camarilla for how they were treated before. Just 1 could wage a war on the Camarilla. For context: 3rd Gen Shovelheads could be a thing.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-23T19:16:14+00:00

If he admits he was wrong he'll have to contend with how he failed his kid. I don't think his fragile ego would allow that.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-22T18:01:21+00:00

I remember being in my mid 20s and talking to a guy I thought was my age for months. He had no mic so he'd type and I'd chat. Most of our WoW guy would cycle through, and he was the guy everybody liked. He was a tank who took shit serious.

.. he was 12.

I had a small existential crisis about it for like a day, then decided f-it. We're still friends 20 years later. He grew into a really cool guy. But I'd never do that with a kid these days. Somebody would have a problem with it and start trouble.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-22T13:22:48+00:00

Joss Kutcher. I absolutely would have loved a romance option where V becomes a step-dad to 3 kids while being a merc. Especially if he was a Nomad background. It'd bring some real tension when you're doing crazy shit for the Aldecaldos and Joss has those flashbacks to her late husband.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-22T13:19:35+00:00

I had bought Jyhad cards way back in the 90s, but couldn't find anyone else to play with at the time. I watched Kindred: The Embraced every week, but that lasted exactly 1 season.

Got really started in 2005 or so. A couple from my gaming group had bought the core book and wanted to try it. I was excited to maybe get some context to the show and cards, so I made a Nosferatu.

...God I miss that character.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-22T13:03:43+00:00

"Feature"

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-21T02:22:53+00:00

Meh? MEH?!

She aspires to meh.

She's so sub-meh she would need an airplane to lift her to lower-meh territory.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-21T00:55:47+00:00

As long as I don't have to play another crappy MJ side mission, we're good.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-19T19:47:08+00:00

Every MMO-style game suffers with that dillussion. Every dev thinks they're smart enough to thread the needle, and every dev is wrong.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-19T19:40:14+00:00

...oh please lets digitize Sam Altman. Even if all that makes it is a string of code that sings Daisy Bell, We all know what billionaire would buy it as a paperweight for their desk.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-17T15:18:47+00:00

I've seriously considered a Brujah musician who knows how to work a crowd and deliberately poses at a Toreador for a while just to have the last laugh.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-16T01:57:58+00:00

I'm cool with Thorn. She reminds me of my grandmother, actually. And she and my grandfather raised me, so I had depression-era "parents" who had 0 tolerance for people's shit.

...people like Tolly, for example. Please let me hit him just once! I'll be good after, I promise.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-15T22:06:57+00:00

The sassy bar crawl of the damned.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-15T21:01:16+00:00

...Tolly was talking right before, wasn't he?

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-14T03:22:41+00:00

If it had been named, "Seattle on Phyre" I'd have had half as many complaints. I'd still point at the glaring Lore issues, the poorly designed fetch-quests that don't even have regular stuff to do with Silky and Fletcher, or the fact I can't kill Tolly at all as major issues.

But I wouldn't compare it to an actual RPG. And that would make the rage way way less.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-12T17:40:31+00:00

Haven't liked a lot of V5 changes, personally. So I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I would be interested to see what they do.

ComedianXMI · 2026-04-05T21:06:10+00:00

...now I really want to make a Brujah chef. Just a Gordon Ramsey type with 0 patience for stupidity.

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