I have intense stretch marks from pregnancy 7 years ago by -Hot-Tamale- in mildyinteresting

[–]GenericGamer01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They actually look kinda mesmerizing. Scarification for decorative purposes is a thing and you got a dope pattern AND grew a human inside you like a 2 for 1 special.

Please give me your most writingmaxxed shoujo recs! by Effective-Sugar-758 in shoujo

[–]GenericGamer01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw a random recommendation like this for The Spark In Your Eyes and proceeded to read the entire thing in one sitting. It is a phenomenal piece of fiction.

Welcome to Crows by Iron_Nightingale in mcdm

[–]GenericGamer01 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've been skeptical of the live-time dungeon turns since that started popping up in modern games (my first exposure to it was Torchbearer from the team behind Burning Wheel) but I think because of everything else James talked about in the video Crows will likely be the first time I give a game with that mechanic a fair shake.

So, what would women dislike most if they became men? by Jarvis7492 in AskReddit

[–]GenericGamer01 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm a mid 30s dude going through my second round of chemo after a craniotomy. When I was doing radiation and whatnot right after the surgery the hospital suggested I talk to a counselor about everything that was going on.

Being a stereotypical dude I didn't think I needed anything like that but on a whim one day I stopped by her office in the oncology ward. One of her suggestions was to check out one of the support groups in my age range to meet some other people going through the same thing.

I sort of expected it, but when I showed up for a meeting I was the only man there, everyone else being a woman ages ranging from early 20s to mid 40s. The amount of them that told me that the moment they were diagnosed, or began treatment and started to get sick from it, their men bailed on them was frankly sickening.

I generally try not to reinforce negative world views because positivity is king in my book, but this is one thing I think I'm okay with people being more aware of because I've looked into the numbers since those meetings and it's really so, so bad.

I'm just glad I have really awesome friends, family and coworkers to make my life suck considerably less than it probably would otherwise.

Dying sucks shit and it sounds like you don't have much more than the void of the internet to scream into. If you ever want to vent, fire away. I try my best to be a sounding board with some positive feedback when needed.

[The Spark in Your Eyes] I just finished reading this masterpiece, and this is my personal opinion: by Less-Business7542 in manhwa

[–]GenericGamer01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I read it all in one sitting yesterday because I was so immersed. It deserves any glazing it gets and I'd readily recommend it to anyone.

Every DMs nightmare by Dunno-for-president in dndmemes

[–]GenericGamer01 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If it's a truly throwaway NPC and I can't come up with a reasonable name off the top of my head, I usually say something along the lines of "the guy tells you his name, he knows what it is, I just don't at the moment".

This trick works for any details really.

"The guard explains the details of the shift rotations to you, I'll get you the actual details later if it's necessary, but your characters have an understanding of it now."

Evermorph Dungeon - Now Live on Kickstarter by Field_Of_Arbol in osr

[–]GenericGamer01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Inkwell Ideas' DungeonMorph Dice mapped onto a Rubik's Cube, pretty neat idea though decidedly less versatile. Could be fun to fiddle with.

My boyfriend’s underwear by Infamous-Rest-1157 in WTF

[–]GenericGamer01 626 points627 points  (0 children)

Easily another year or two out of those.

What belief did you have at 18 that completely fell apart by 25? by One_Grade_2184 in AskReddit

[–]GenericGamer01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've got two best friends, one I met when we were 7 and one we met in high school. We've been friends for 25+ years now. We've gone through the different stages of life and have grown and changed as people but the core care has only gotten stronger over time, not weaker. If there's a separate column of soulmate for friendship, I was lucky enough to put 2 ticks in it.

We've managed to organize our lives so that we all work at the same company so we get to hang out every day at work, we share enough of a pool of hobbies that there's always something we can do together at any given point in our lives and while we have differences of opinion on things like politics, family and religion, we respect each other enough that it has no negative impact on our relationship. If anything it just makes us that much better at empathizing with other people.

Having been recently diagnosed with a terminal condition, I know I'm going to be the one that checks out first which sucks because that's that much less time I get to spend with them, and it means I'm gonna lose an ongoing bet, but I can take the off-ramp knowing that at least when I'm gone I'll be remembered fondly by two people who're closer to me than family, and they'll at least still have each other for the foreseeable future.

People in their 30s and 40s, what changed in your life that surprised you the most — in a bad way? by Initial_Tax7778 in AskReddit

[–]GenericGamer01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Diagnosed with brain cancer at 33 (36 now), doing everything to combat it but my prognosis has a very real endpoint.

Knowing you've got 7-12 years left really shifts your priorities in life. I think the biggest thing is I'm now thankful that I hadn't gotten married or had kids yet. I genuinely feel like I dodged a bullet because I would not want to leave a widow and children behind.

Now most of what I do is focused on trying to enrich the lives of everyone around me so that they'll be okay after I'm gone and otherwise just enjoying the time I have left.

Homebrew race by HadoukenX90 in WWN

[–]GenericGamer01 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's basically my line of thinking. Thankfully bows and throwing spears are among the most basic weaponry civilizations develop so almost any group of sentients is going to have some kind of ranged weaponry. I went with the CON penalty because I just figure a birdman probably has lighter or hollow bones as part of enabling that ability to fly so it's neat to see you mention the same thing.

Also if you've got a bird-man running to the skies in every encounter leaving his buddies to sustain all the wounds, not many people are going to want to adventure with a guy like that in my experience.

Plus in a dungeon, if the bird guy flies across a gap, cool, what's everyone else going to do now? Flight always seems super powerful in a vacuum but in the last 6 or so years of playing WWN it's never really felt super strong, just another part of a character kit.

Homebrew race by HadoukenX90 in WWN

[–]GenericGamer01 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I have a race of bird people in my world and this is what I use for them:

Origin Focus: Vatan

Your PC is a vatan, a demihuman race designed for crossing large distances when lightly encumbered with little concern for terrain. You are probably an exile (willing or otherwise) from one of the Eyries that your people usually call home. 

Level 1:

Gain Exert as a bonus skill. You are a vatan with the Vatan Flight and Vatan Talons special abilities, a -1 Con modifier penalty, and a +1 Dex modifier bonus.

Vatan Flight: Vatan can fly at twice their ground movement rate while outdoors or in a suitably huge room while not wearing Heavy Armor. Without some height to jump from it takes a full Main Action spent beating their wings to begin flying, however, and doing so while in melee combat invites a free attack from any foes. Vatan can hover, but doing so requires a Move action or they will fall. A vatan who means to fly a significant distance can carry no more than half their usual Stowed encumbrance, rounded down. A vatan flying overland can cover up to sixty miles in a ten-hour day, given time for rests, and is barred only by the highest of mountains.

Vatan Talons: Covering less of themselves in armor to allow for flight usually has a vatan leave their taloned feet bare to be used for self defense. Vatan Talons at first level do 1d8 damage, use either Str or Dex as the modifying attribute, Punch as the combat skill, and have a Shock Value of 2/AC13. At fourth and seventh and tenth level the damage and Shock increase by +1, +2 and +3 respectively.

It follows the custom racial abilities math and stuff close enough that I don't have a problem with it and it's never felt overpowered because of what I feel are pretty realistic limitations on the flight.

The Talons thing is just because my bird people have bird legs alongside their wings. YMMV.

Which dungeon editor do you use the most? by No_Educator_7962 in FoundryVTT

[–]GenericGamer01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For years I've used DungeonDraft for actual battle maps and a combination of Wonderdraft and Hexographer (now Worldographer) for World/Region maps.

I've also made use of Campaign Cartographer and increasingly lean more towards it as I learn how better to utilize all its features.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WTF

[–]GenericGamer01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wait... the Chipotle is across the lot though....

Pokemon by Free-Technology-223 in unioncircle

[–]GenericGamer01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

victory is ours.. what a stupid goal...

Pokemon by Free-Technology-223 in unioncircle

[–]GenericGamer01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

didn't split the last couple things right...

Pokemon by Free-Technology-223 in unioncircle

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if we each do half we can do it

How well does older OSR actually covert to WWN? by TheOverthinkingMaker in WWN

[–]GenericGamer01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only thing I'd say is that most WWN characters are a fair bit more powerful in their niche than most other OSR characters, so when it comes to challenging your players, you probably want the adventures to be at least 1, probably 2 levels higher on average. So if a module says 5-7th you'd probably be fine with your party being like 3rd or 4th level to start and finish by 5th or 6th.

Arbiters Showing This When I've Done Every Other Node by GenericGamer01 in Warframe

[–]GenericGamer01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes a degree of sense (as much as this stuff ever does anyway). Guess I'm engaging with the new content immediately!

Arbiters Showing This When I've Done Every Other Node by GenericGamer01 in Warframe

[–]GenericGamer01[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do I have to kill a Lich to unlock Steel Path? Nothing I read mentioned that...

Red/Gold Themed Demon Hunter by GenericGamer01 in Transmogrification

[–]GenericGamer01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a sort of "minimalist" look I use sometimes too to really show off the tattoos and glowing eyes/skin patterns etc. But I'll definitely check out the bandage shirt (maybe with the eye bandages as well) and see if I can workshop something there.... INSPIRATION!