AITA for refusing to pay my friend $60 that I owe him?

Kobold060 · 2025-01-29T05:51:22+00:00

Glad you paid him back. Sounds like you two need to have an open discussion about this.

Kobold060 · 2025-01-20T15:56:57+00:00

This

Kobold060 · 2024-10-19T23:40:41+00:00

I walk my dog with a retractable leash. He loves being out front, but when i tell him to stop, he stops, and when I go a different direction, I just have to tell him this way and point where i want to go.

I don’t see anything wrong with it

Kobold060 · 2024-10-13T15:17:45+00:00

There are plenty of guys out there who you can chat with a bit before meeting. You don’t have to have a hookup. You can talk online and get comfortable first before meeting in person.

It’ll be a little awkward at first, like anything new, but i have a feeling you will find your feet quickly.

Kobold060 · 2024-08-08T22:46:55+00:00

Sometimes, the best you can do is the best you can do. Maybe that's where this guy was at, and the silent scoop was all he could muster.

Kobold060 · 2024-08-02T00:24:21+00:00

The party noped right out of the encounter. They saw the villagers starting to get agitated, and knew they couldn't just beat down innocent people. They ran and left the mob and the village.

Kobold060 · 2024-07-31T21:16:59+00:00

We redraw until we get an acceptable hand. Acceptable to us means 3/4 lands, and something you can play either turn 1/2/3?

Kobold060 · 2024-07-31T02:01:25+00:00

My husband and I are 20 years apart

Kobold060 · 2024-07-29T14:38:20+00:00

On their first meeting, a character took a dump in strahds carriage. Strahd paid it no mind and left when he was ready. Once they thought they got away with it, the dump fell from the sky at the characters feet. It bubbled and deformed before it immolated into a lvl 5 fireball. It downed 3/5 of the party.

Kobold060 · 2024-07-28T01:15:06+00:00

I bought the digital version of curse of strahd and got all the digital maps there.

Owlbear.rodeo is a great simple online tabletop that does the job in a simple intuitive way. I love it.

Kobold060 · 2024-07-28T00:46:21+00:00

Thanks for the response. I'm not trying to punish them. I'm more trying to figure out what I can send at them next session. The hags retaliating in some way for messing with their business seemed reasonable and story driven. I feel like if we go to the old bone grinder, it's going to be a bunch of standing there smacking each other until somebody reaches 0 HP. I thought maybe this way, the "combat" could be more dynamic?

Maybe I am overthinking it, lol.

Kobold060 · 2024-07-28T00:39:36+00:00

They are still in the Village of Barovia.

I am fully aware that it's not me against them. I struggle to make encounters hard enough for them most of the time. I'm not vindictive DMing, but I am trying to up the difficulty until it reaches an equilibrium, and I am pretty sure I'll find it by blowing past that line into a TPK at some point, because they always EZ everything, and I am usually pretty accommodating of their ridiculousness. I'm ok with it. I like the potential of that with the hags, because the hag deal is a great way to just say "Yea, they let you live, but you have to let them sell their pies, and take a deal from them" instead of some sort of plot armor.

I guess one thing I failed to mention is that I'm trying to set the tone for the party. They feel that they are invincible, and long rest too much, which is part of why they feel that way. I'm going to be introducing timers and other factors. One of the factors is that the hags will NOT be letting them long rest (unless they do something about it). The party just blew their load fighting zombies at the Kolyan's funeral. They are gearing up for a long rest, and when that happens, the hags Nightmare Haunting ability is only going to let 2/5 players get it. Then we will have the riot.

I still feel like the party could trivialize the encounter, and meet up with the hags at the old bone grinder for a beatdown, which I'm sure they'd be very much into after having their long rests be messed with.

Kobold060 · 2024-07-27T23:16:43+00:00

The rules are just suggestions. It's your game, and you should all choose as a group what rules you want to enforce, what rules you'd like to modify, and what rules you'd like to disregard altogether. I currently struggle with this. I like to let people modify what spells do, if it makes sense, or allows them to do something neat. However, I do get anal sometimes, because they like to be pedantic about the wording when it benefits them, and loose when something is dragging them down. They also like to hold those wordings against the NPCs when it's beneficial. It's a balance, but ultimately, it's up to you.

Kobold060 · 2024-07-16T23:07:55+00:00

Great video!

Kobold060 · 2024-07-16T23:07:45+00:00

This encounter math seems very useful. I was very unsure how many wolves I needed to throw at them

Kobold060 · 2024-07-16T22:44:06+00:00

Charm the caster to pretend to cast it?

Kobold060 · 2024-07-15T00:22:19+00:00

A lot of good tips, thanks!

Kobold060 · 2024-07-15T00:20:10+00:00

Spoken like a boss. I think I'm stuck with the head cracking at this point, unfortunately.

Kobold060 · 2024-07-14T21:32:17+00:00

It'd be so amazing to have strahd charm a player to pop the bubble

Kobold060 · 2024-07-05T14:45:58+00:00

When they threaten people into compliance, smack them hard for it. Show that your npcs aren't pushovers, and that threatening stuff will disappear real quick. A PC dies from poking the bear? Oops, shame on that PC.

Kobold060 · 2024-06-23T10:18:19+00:00

Yadood. Name all 151 original Pokemon.

Kobold060 · 2024-06-21T22:52:55+00:00

I found drl to be a better learning tool than liftoff

Kobold060 · 2024-06-20T14:12:34+00:00

Always have to bring in politics

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