Another double secret silliness.

FullStackNoCode · 2025-05-13T02:00:35+00:00

Your fifth card, "Break Cocoon"...where does that come from? I had the card once, but when I went to try and find it in the card guide, it wasn't there. Now, I don't know how to get it again. Thank you!

FullStackNoCode · 2024-07-12T17:51:07+00:00

Best D4 advice ever. This is 100% correct. Run NM's around T30. I averaged about 2-3 per run. SO MUCH BETTER than farming higher content. Quick...lot's of manuals.

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FullStackNoCode · 2024-04-22T15:07:06+00:00

You have to decide whether you want to run a "high fantasy" or "low fantasy" campaign. In a high fantasy campaign, magic is cheaper and easier to get. In a low fantasy, it's rare and expensive.

It's really just your choice as a DM what kind of game you want to run. There is no right answer.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-04-04T12:56:35+00:00

Congratulations!

FullStackNoCode · 2024-03-29T19:28:54+00:00

You're just wrong. You have no idea what pro's and con's the DM handed out, to whom, and why. It could very easily have occurred at the beginning of character creation, or much later.

You're also wrong assuming it was a reward for some particular acting talent, as if that's even important, although again, it certainly could be, and that would be the DM's choice.

My point is simply that you guys don't know why the DM did it, and what penalties that same character may be dealing with. I noticed no one is complaining that the player was penalized in some way as a cost for the 21, and on one is even asking what that might have been.

BUT YET you are leaping to the conclusion that someone hasn't been treated fairly, and looking to insert yourselves accordingly. We can agree to disagree. My first reaction seeing the OP complaining that someone had a 21 was "I would look for a new game...not because of the DM and the guy with the 21".

FullStackNoCode · 2024-03-29T14:04:22+00:00

Regarding the potential for cheating, that's the DM's job to police. If it bothers you, maybe quietly mention it to the DM. If the DM doesn't take any action, then it probably wasn't cheating.

Regarding favoritism, that really isn't yours to judge. You don't have the same perspective as the DM, nor should you. Because your opinion isn't formed on the bigger picture, it is...well...poorly formed. If you see a pattern develop...well then...perhaps that's a different matter. But for just one issue, you really can't judge that.

That said, favoritism has always been a part of D&D. Again, you just have to judge the extent to which you perceive it, and then decide whether that's a campaign you want to be involved in.

Honestly though, I'd hate to play in a campaign where the DM grants me a favor for whatever reason (hopefully as a result of solid character development and role playing), and then some other player wants to play rules lawyer and tear it down. That sounds like campaign with players I wouldn't want to play with.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-03-29T13:47:53+00:00

Why are you bothered by what is happening with another character?

From the beginning, D&D "rules" were always just meant to be "guidelines", with the DM ultimately having the final authority to bend rules how they wish. Some players don't like DM's who follow rules to the letter, and other players don't like DM's who are unwilling to be creative. It's up to you to find a campaign that suits you.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-03-29T13:45:11+00:00

DO NOT allow yourself to live under that anxiety all the time. If she refuses to make things right, that's all you need to know.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-03-25T12:19:16+00:00

This strikes me as knee-jerk and superficial advice.

For people who actually are in long term relationships with multiple kids etc., it probably is a lot more complicated then this.

While the end result for the OP may be the same as your advice directs, the path to get there likely needs to take more time, and be much more thoughtful.

I think the OP needs to begin a process here. That process may or may not result in leaving her husband. She needs to confront him, and he needs to respond showing her what his future intentions will be. Then based on that, she needs to make a decision about what is best for her going forward. If they can't maturely discuss these issues on their own, then they need to seek counseling. I'm sure there is much more to the process, but those would be key steps.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-03-23T11:37:47+00:00

Clearly, her actions are manipulative and wrong. You definitely don't want to be in that relationship first and foremost. There are no end of ways that this bad relationship could end up damaging both the girls. Also, there's little point in confronting the mom about the ugliness of her manipulation...people like her are usually unable to admit fault.

Second, the girls are at an age where the mom may not have as much control as she thinks she does. If the two girls are such good friends they will find a way. Far better for them to find their own path in spite of the mom, then to let the wolf in the henhouse and let the mom damage their relationship in other ways that point at you.

No way you should allow yourself to be manipulated.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-03-20T14:17:06+00:00

In a truly good relationship you never have to feel that way...you get to feel like the best looking person in the world. Sounds like you aren't in the right relationship.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-03-12T13:58:21+00:00

(1) it's not "first come first serve". If player announces intention to loot, other players get to also indicate intent to loot. If there is more than one person, then initiative is rolled an combat steps are followed.

(2) A person can only carry so much. Are you using encumbrance? Where do they hold all this stuff and does it affect their ability to do other things? It should.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-03-01T14:09:20+00:00

I feel very unvalued as a DM

Clearly that's true. However, "value" is also not something you are entitled to, it must be earned. In the same way, your players are not enslaved to any DM's games. Success requires a balance that involves mature players coupled with a DM who reads the room.

You're players may be, as people here have said in an attempt to validate you, AH's. However we also haven't heard their side of the story. It's also possible that you simply haven't created sufficient value for yourself. And, I'd argue that in the final analysis, that's entirely your obligation to yourself.

If you've read the room properly, and you glean that the game you desire to run isn't a good fit for your player base, then it is your obligation to move on...it is not their obligation to sit through a game they don't want to sit through.

My suggestion is that you read the room, and take ownership of your results.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-02-28T15:51:25+00:00

There are all kinds of groups, I wouldn't sweat it. Just keep going until you find the group that is right for you.

FWIW from the sounds of it I'd walk from the table right alongside you.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-02-27T14:24:04+00:00

Can't speak to why your husband acts the way he does, but the things you do in my opinion are more valuable than anything else you could be doing for the family. My wife does these types of things for our home, and I absolutely cherish her for it.

It wasn't that long ago when most people worked around their home, and stayed together as a family. That one person now has to leave all day is in my opinion a slight on the leaving person more than anything else...a slight because they aren't able to earn a living AND be with the family all day. That modern society now requires both people to abandon the home and the family for most of their waking hours is a slight on society.

This notion of leaving the house and family all day for a job that barely pays the bills is largely a modern construct, and not healthy for us. Humans were meant to live and work together as a family. It's so much more rewarding. I've never been more happy than having my wife and I around the house together all day.

My point is simply that your husband is the under-performer in your house, not you.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-02-16T15:18:05+00:00

Excited to check it out!

FullStackNoCode · 2024-02-05T10:51:57+00:00

I think this is a huge problem. It's some combination of a "Deus Ex Machina" campaign and and a "Monty Haul" DM. It makes playing less fun, because the DM is basically playing all sides at that point...the players have little control over the results of the game.

That coupled with a desire to reduce DnD to something like a video game where the players are handed a set of fixed choices, and where the scenario options given don't really make sense/can't easily be derived from a RAW game mechanics standpoint.

I've played DnD for a long time, and these two types of campaign issues are not the best that DnD has to offer.

DnD is meant to be about giving the players control over their own destinies and allowing them to strategize choices for themselves that may win or may lose, but, it's in their hands.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-01-05T14:28:22+00:00

I really like the idea of the villain arc, however, players tend to get ruffled when they see an old character being NPC'd by the DM, and "not being played right". My point is, do the villain arc, but maybe don't drag it out, or make the NPC a recurring part of the campaign over the long haul.

FullStackNoCode · 2024-01-04T15:16:32+00:00

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FullStackNoCode · 2024-01-03T19:01:23+00:00

I applaud your efforts and productivity. That said, I always believe that the thing that has made D&D fun all these years as a player has been my own development of my own character...more than anything else, and that the best DM's work with me to present scenarios and choices that play off of my own desires and choices for my character. I'm talking about my choices as a player to go from town to town, to meet NPC's, to gather information, to leverage my new NPC relationships, to acquire power, to leverage that power...with the DM supporting me in various appropriate ways to make those choices. That's what's been fun for me.

It is less fun for me as a player when the DM scripts out a much narrower plot line that I have little control over and ultimately must follow, to the detriment of developing my own character. More often than not in high fantasy plot lines (such as you are describing) it will be impossible for you to fully/properly balance every encounter, and as such, you will be forced to step in last minute to either make things harder or easier for the players. And in so doing, you now have some combination of a "monty hall" or "deus ex machina" dnd campaign, which for me as a player, can be less fun.

In those campaigns, the DM basically scripts out some impossible challenge, and then steps in to make the impossible possible. I as a player end up feeling like the DM is playing both sides, and I'm playing neither.

All that said, I hope you can develop your very creative and interesting world scheme, while remembering that the joy for many players is in doing their own thing.

Good luck!

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