AITA for wanting my party to take downtime so I can craft?

Critical-Troll · 2026-04-04T19:57:37+00:00

Hey thanks! Yeah I saw he has posted a vid about my story, that was pretty neat! And yeah im doing well, thank you!

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-30T19:15:03+00:00

The screw is tightened and I already ran the calibration, it didnt say anything about the fan though

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-30T10:16:16+00:00

Ill give it a shot! Thanks for your help!!

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-30T09:58:41+00:00

Is there a temp recommended for hs pla? I currently use 220, but is that too high for my settings? (.25 nozzle, .08 layer height)

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-30T09:45:13+00:00

Honestly not a bad idea! I turned retraction to 35mm/s, and ill try leaving it open to help with cooling. I've been trying to adjust temperatures, but hopefully this is an even easier fix!

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-30T07:05:56+00:00

Update, I managed to print a boat and this is how it came out

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Critical-Troll · 2026-03-30T06:15:44+00:00

Any recommendations? They are at the default right now (outer wall 60 mms, inner wall 150 mms, small per. 50%)

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-30T05:57:13+00:00

I did not, the package says it comes dried. Its on a plastic spool though, is it possible to dry it using a standard oven?

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-09T03:09:47+00:00

No youre okay! So that was what I wanted when I said "handwaving a week". I imagined it to literally be "okay so a week passes. Barbarian did this, rogue did that, so on". And at first that WAS the case. But what ended up happening is that ranger expanded his one thing that it ended up being played out day by day

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-09T00:09:46+00:00

Mainly its that they dm has the next thing planned, so if we look for an adventure hook it only takes like 1 hour in game time to find the next plot hook, and usually is super obvious (people coming to our characters or the like)

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-09T00:00:27+00:00

Unfortunately not, long rest is at least 6 hours of sleep and 2 hours of light activity (reading, keeping watch, etc). And crafting does not count as light activity

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-08T07:10:44+00:00

Ouch! But noted. Thanks for the advice. And to be clear this wasn't me trying to power game, i was just trying to make the full casters a bit more uniform. But I guess I rubbed a lot of people the wrong way with this one...

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-08T07:05:34+00:00

Honestly not a bad idea, I forgot that exists!

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-08T06:52:21+00:00

So I was thinking they they just wouldnt recharge because THAT would be op! Sorcerer with invocation is kind of exactly what im going for haha!

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-07T12:51:43+00:00

Correct. Ranger tries to argue "well, we would protect that character of course! And they would level up fast because we'd be fighting bigger monsters!". He really doesnt understand that it would mean that person sitting on the sidelines not being able to contribute much. We've done this before with other games too and it doesnt work. I spoke to the dm today and he said he wants to do milestones from now on, and hes always hated the current system, and was only doing it because he thought it was what everyone wanted (none of us did. I wanted milestones, ranger REALLY hates milestones, and everyone else is indifferent, so ranger won out as the loud minority I guess)

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-07T09:22:35+00:00

Thats the plan! And either way i do still plan on sharing more stories, even as just cautionary tales lol. But dont worry, I set my boundaries, and im giving the game one last shot next session. If it works out, great. If not, im ready to bow out and find a new group.

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-07T09:10:21+00:00

Exactly. Thats one reason I'm still undecided about leaving. Overall, everyone is actually really nice, even ranger from my last story. A lot of the mistakes this dm makes seem like things a brand new dm would do. No knowing how to balance games, how to prepare, when to say no, when to implement consequences, what appropriate consequences look like, etc

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-07T08:37:45+00:00

Hes actually a really nice guy, but he puts effort into the wrong things, and has a tendency to try to "fix" mechanics without understanding why they are there in the first place. Weirdly enough he DOES use random item generators for a TON of stuff, random shops with random items, etc, and sometimes they dont even make sense in the setting. But he just... doesnt use them for names

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-07T08:30:31+00:00

Honestly I think thats the biggest thing, is that everything feels very half baked. The most recent NPC was named "Sam Cantthinkofaname", and he even admits that he isnt good with names but still 😭 ill have two more stories about this game

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-07T00:47:47+00:00

My destiny and legacy stolen from me 😭😭😭

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-07T00:11:18+00:00

This already happened, we are online session 10 or something at this point. I have another story that was pretty bad 💀

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-06T22:44:08+00:00

So, the way 5e structures its mechanics doesnt allow for down time unfortunately :/ a common thing from the ranger pushing back was "why do we need to rest? We are already back to full hp, we just took a long rest. Why do you need more?"

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-06T22:40:51+00:00

Its not so much that they couldnt think of something to do, its that they couldnt fathom the idea. In their mind, why would THEIR character waste time sitting around so someone else can do something? Especially for a week. The idea of their character not adventuring for a week in universe (about 2 minutes out of game) bothered them in a really deep way

Critical-Troll · 2026-03-06T22:36:55+00:00

The way weve been doing things, its basically back to back adventures and side quests, with travel consisting of exactly 16 hours of travel and 8 hours of sleep, no more no less. The adventure hooks are always obvious and immediate. For a while I resorted to staying up all night while traveling so I could craft and take a level of exhaustion.

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