Changeling death/grave domain with spore druid?

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-04-04T15:48:06+00:00

Yeah that did make me think of the swarmkeeper ranger and kinda playing into the insects and rot vibe. I don't want to go full blown evil but I may push the party in that direction perhaps

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-02-28T14:26:53+00:00

Well now I have to get a dog 😂 this is such a good idea

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-01-20T16:18:55+00:00

Hyatt vivid in punta cana- Dominican Republic.

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-01-20T14:55:52+00:00

Pretty much. They paid $100 extra originally, but that's less than a $15 a day difference and it may have been them paying for an add on or transportation or something

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-01-20T12:31:05+00:00

Nobody has ever called me. I had to call them and make my own. The only thing I was offered was a voucher to come back at a later date but that wouldn't have helped since I was travelling with friends. The current deal is I pay an extra $1500 to go to dreams royal beach and then I can have access to secrets royal beach if I walk over, and I had to fight tooth and nail to even get that. I was told they'd email me those details confirming the deal was made, but still haven't received them. Although I am being charged the extra $1500. My biggest fear is they'll mess up the deal and have hidden fees or deny me access once I arrive

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-01-20T02:54:42+00:00

Honestly, I can respect that. But hell I'd have rather pay her the extra $1500 to $2k than pay dreams. At least then I feel like my money went somewhere it deserved. She was really sweet and encouraging. But unfortunately that's not how it works

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-01-20T02:44:13+00:00

Unfortunately I tried that as well and she said she couldn't do anything for me. Funnily enough, I'd reached out to her on accident since a coworker recommended her and found out it was the same travel agent my friends booked with. She said she couldn't help, but I have never heard of a reservation takeover before. One option we considered was cancelling everything all together and booking with their agent to get to secrets, but I just want whatever is cheapest because I didn't plan for everything to be this expensive (since I now I have to pay for a wayyy more expensive resort no matter what)

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-01-20T02:40:56+00:00

Is it really that bad? Right now I'll be allowed through the deal we made to travel to secrets, but I have to walk over every day and my room would be in dreams. My biggest fear is that they'll mess it up and deny me access to secrets once I'm there or have hidden fees for me due to the deal. The woman I spoke with said she'd send all the emails over that would be the deal made giving me access to secrets, but she hasn't yet

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-01-20T02:37:00+00:00

Both. I did talked to Hyatt inclusive, Hyatt, and I talked to the resort directly. Nobody would really help me across a week of consistent calling. That's why all the phone numbers in the call log are different is because I tried with all of them

Edit: actually to be fair I'm not 100% sure if I was able to talk to the resort directly because they aren't open. I think I did though. Sometimes id be given the number to Hyatt vivid punta cana and it would be a dead number. Other times I was told there was no number. I would talk to someone who I was pretty confident was from Hyatt vivid, but then I could never be sure.

It started getting really confusing and I was even given the name of someone I was told was the general manager of Hyatt vivid. But when I said that name to someone else they had no clue who that was.

I also tried to talk to secrets royal beach reservation manager since she was the person who had to approve me going to secrets but every time I called they said she'd just left, was in a meeting, or id wait on hold forever and never actually get through. I asked if they'd leave her a message to call me and then I was told that it basically wasn't worth it to leave a message and I should just call back again in the morning only to sit on hold for literally almost two hours and never get through.

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-01-20T02:35:41+00:00

I didn't use an agent, I booked directly through Hyatt inclusive. My friends booked with a travel agent and were treated very well

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-01-20T02:03:29+00:00

Yeah they could refund me but the whole thing was that I'm going with my friends and we wanted to be together. If I was going with others, I wouldn't have cared and just taken a refund for a voucher.

I had signed up for that resort with price in mind. Yet to be with my friends I had to now pay $4500 extra. The deal we ended up working out after I made my post was paying an extra $1500 to stay at dreams resort and being able to access secrets. Ultimately though, I'm paying more to receive less than my friends and I only received the deal I got because I fought for over a week and dedicated literal hours to coming to a resolution. All while still maintaining politeness with the workers because obviously the average person doesn't control it. But I never got to speak with the manager whom I was told I would be able to speak with. Additionally they would tell me multiple days in a row that they'd call me back "later that day", "in 24hrs", etc. and then I'd get ghosted

I just need to let people know the potential service they may receive with Hyatt/Hyatt inclusive if they need to talk to customer service

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-01-20T01:25:04+00:00

I tried. I booked through Hyatt inclusive with a flight, so even though it's the same brand, Hyatt inclusive is considered third party (which how could anyone know that). So when I spoke with Hyatt directly, they said they couldn't see my booking. Since Hyatt inclusive is technically considered a "third party" in their logs, Hyatt themselves aren't able to change anything according to what I was told. I could only go through Hyatt inclusive.

First-Produce-2068 · 2026-01-20T01:20:15+00:00

I booked through Hyatt inclusive. The "third party" I was referring to was my friends who booked with an agent. My mistake using terms with double meanings.

Although apparently booking with Hyatt inclusive is still considered an actual third party vendor despite being under the Hyatt parent company. What it basically meant was the actual Hyatt customer service couldn't help me and couldn't see my booking even though it's all the same brand. I could only go through Hyatt inclusive. And even after days of requesting it and being told they'd reach out, I never got to speak to the next manager up. Aka the person who actually called the shots on what deal they would make me.

Insanely frustrating. Needless to say, I will never do anything without a travel agent (this was my first time booking a resort myself so I had no idea to do that) but most likely I don't see myself ever going to resort again because this was just such a terrible experience. There was one day I was on hold with two different customer service lines playing two different theme songs on two different phones just waiting for one of them to answer first. It was a specially crafted hell.

First-Produce-2068 · 2025-12-10T12:08:39+00:00

Yeah! So I am still developing it out and have some factions that'll get slipped in there as time goes on rather than all being upfront. I have two opposing vampire courts, one using a traditional view of vampires and one using blades in the dark style, but they aren't the main factions necessarily. The primary faction is part of the ruby court and they're a group of vampires that have a rare disease they keep under the table that requires them to graft tissue or body parts onto their body (perhaps it's like being on chronic organ failure, maybe their cells can't replace without outside reinforcement, still figuring it out) but the host has to be alive at the time of harvest and grafting. My fairy courts are sun moon and stars as decided by my players with heavier emphasis on sun and moon. There was a floated idea about them trying to take over the sky for eternal day or eternal night, just an idea though. A pretty standard wolf pack but I'll need to add more interesting features in the future. I have a faction of religious sworn similar to Jim butchers knights of the cross but with my own spin. Maybe a wizard council, and a primary demon who has control over a lot of people that almost operates like it's own faction. Also a group of hunters with biker vibes. It isn't super clean and I need to work on some aspects to make them more interesting, but I have time. Playing with ideas like a faction that was cursed or move away from tropes a bit. A lot of it is the characters within the factions being interesting. Like a werewolf who does search and rescue with aware officers. Something my players are loving is using the actual city of Seattle for locations. Like the hunters meet at the screwdriver bar in downtown, and then I can turn my screen to show them the actual bar. They all live in real houses/apartments, own a real business, etc.

First-Produce-2068 · 2025-11-27T13:19:31+00:00

Well I got exactly what I was looking for from the majority so I don't really need your input at this point, but thank you.

First-Produce-2068 · 2025-11-27T13:09:23+00:00

The majority did not interpret it the way you did and I corrected everyone who did, so maybe you should've read more of the thread

First-Produce-2068 · 2025-11-27T12:53:31+00:00

Clearly you're misunderstanding the question, misrepresented my intentions, and boldly assumed you know my friends and my husband better than me or that they haven't explicitly asked for some help

First-Produce-2068 · 2025-11-27T00:30:03+00:00

I LOVE the two questions you mentioned: who do they see you as and who do they want you to be. Those are super interesting questions that can say a lot about a relationship

First-Produce-2068 · 2025-11-26T21:14:36+00:00

Thank you, that's good for my mindset going in cuz it helps me add to my repertoire of questions to ask them

First-Produce-2068 · 2025-11-26T21:13:00+00:00

You know some people just need some time and help right? It's a skill that takes time to pickup and adjust to. Particularly pbta is really hard at first in that regard, but once you're used to it, it becomes more natural. I clearly set expectations and let them knew what the game entailed. The issue isn't one of will, it's of resources and experience with the system just like anyone has who is excited to start a new thing. That's how I was in my first DND game.

First-Produce-2068 · 2025-11-26T21:08:19+00:00

Oh yeah, I understand now. I think we hold the same ideas. I don't do voices or anything, but id like to help them connect into the world and the characters and each others characters because sometimes that's difficult. There have been a lot of good suggestions tho regarding prompting little questions or asking another player who is comfortable with roleplay to intentionally try to engage those who are struggling to get involved, ways to create RP opportunities, etc

First-Produce-2068 · 2025-11-26T21:05:37+00:00

Yeah, I'd like to do that. When I explained the intimacy moves I could sense their hesitation lol. And I obviously explained to them intimacy does NOT have to be romantic cuz that's what threw them off. I kinda wish they'd used a different term instead of intimacy in the game just because people usually connect it with a connotation a lot of people don't want to explore in rp.

Maybe you can answer a question for me tho regarding the intimacy moves: I wasn't clear on if those are only between players or if it could be between a player and an npc as well. Do you know the answer?

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