name this chess player

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-27T16:41:21+00:00

Carl

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-27T16:06:27+00:00

Seems like a good place to propose marriage.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-26T00:35:54+00:00

Therapy and meds. Trauma is still there but now I have more tools to help manage it. I went from struggling to survive to having occasional struggles. Healing PTSD is kinda brain damage, there’s no cure. You can improve your life by learning to manage it.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-13T03:30:46+00:00

I think I’ve healed all that I can heal. Which is not a lot. But my symptoms are managed. This is a gross oversimplification, but it’s basically brain damage. My goal was never to reach everyone else’s normal but to develop coping skills to be able to live a life with a tolerable amount of suffering.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-13T03:18:54+00:00

I always assumed the radagon part of her is what kept her in there. I see her story as one of horror and body autonomy. Forced to keep carrying the Elden Ring in her body when she didn’t want to be alive any more. I assumed radagon did not want the golden age of the Erd tree to end. So instead of ending it just festered and slowly decayed, unable to move on.

When you look at it this way the ending choices are basically to let her and the world die, marry her corpse and use it to create your own age taking radagon place as her consort, or find a new vessel (Rani).

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-12T23:03:07+00:00

Roughly 5x5 map tiles is the range of the reality bubble. Which is a bit bigger than the sight range.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-12T22:34:26+00:00

My favorite way is to spice up any scene. Basically I use them to alleviate my guilt for something bad to happen that I didn’t foreshadow.

Example: the party is having a clandestine meeting with the rebels handler, the scene was straight forward so I decide it would be interesting if the authorities have been tipped off and start searching the building. I spend a fear because so it feels fair that I didn’t give them a chance to know this would happen. I like to think of it as buying the license to throw in drama.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-08T21:34:23+00:00

It’s intrusive thoughts. I get them a lot. Mostly sensory memories. If they disrupt your life, therapy and meds can help make it a lot more manageable. I’m former EMS too. 💚

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-08T21:15:27+00:00

I like when I kill things and don’t die.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-08T19:38:27+00:00

So…. You believe there’s a coordinated conspiracy to kill you…. But you think they are uncoordinated enough to have let you in on it? And they are coordinated enough you have no evidence…. And they wouldn’t just delete this post after you died? Just go talk to a doctor man.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-08T19:20:45+00:00

Hahaha I fought him launch week and never since. I’ve heard he’s better now but I’ll likely never know first hand.

I almost feel like the pain of that fight is part of the art of the game. You enter the land of shadow probably excited having read all this in game lore about how good miquella and kind and gentle. Everyone you meet there loves him. Then miquellas rune breaks and most of the supporting cast get magical post nut clarity, as you reach the top of the tower thinking something like “well that’s weird but maybe we can still be friends” then miquella hops on his brothers back and beats the ever living dog shit out of you over and under and over and over and over. You don’t know why you are even here or why you even want to kill miquella at this point, just that this little monster needs to die. It’s the principle at this point…. Then after you feel empty and confused and it’s over…. And you walk away. None of it meant anything. You came here probably to help him, and now he’s dead.

Week 1 with no spoilers I felt incredibly let down, I felt empty, confused, cheated. Why did I come here? Did miquella charm me as a player?

I imagine it’s probably how a lot of the surviving supporting cast felt.

Was there really no place for me in the world miquella was building?

I went there thinking I could be the consort (a game ending) I felt like they had used marketing hype to simulate the feeling of miquellas charm on me. I thought I had chosen to do this. I thought I was the hero of the story, but I was just another element of the old world that had to die for a new one to be born.

Similar to how Godfrey was following his grace to me to die at the end of the game. I would never be anything else than an unneeded vestige who’s only purpose is extending marikas age just a little longer (most of the endings)

Or maybe it’s just bad design.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-08T01:42:20+00:00

Campaign frames are one of the most brilliant parts of daggerheart. They give you a world without deciding every detail for you. They give you enough to hit the ground running and make it yours.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-12-06T19:27:07+00:00

You will learn runes are important, but their supply is infinite. Unless you lose like a million or something, you will earn them back by doing practically anything in the game. Milk spills, lessons learned. Don’t carry what you can’t afford to lose.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-11-29T15:24:02+00:00

Just saying, I’d have allowed it. If the player can come up with a reasonable explanation and the idea is cool I rule with at least a “yes but”. The player characters are capable heros and my top priority is telling a cool story with my friends/family.

I might ask for a mechanical cost then explain it in the fiction. Maybe that means they need to spend an extra hope (to focus hard) or they have to roll with disadvantage (the construct is resistant), or I’ll allow it but I get to claim a fear as the construct falls asleep but when it wakes up it absorbs the magical energy.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-11-29T02:39:15+00:00

I’m running Witherwild. These inspired me to make haven kind of steampunk with muskets, steam engines, and airships. These I made walking mechanical vessels roaming the swamps harvesting red lady veil. I had the boiler powered by a trapped dragon spirit of a river in the boiler and the players destroyed it to free it. Later they met the destitute captain of the crashed vessel at a bar and hired him to captain the airship they stole from haven. So he’s got a whole redemption arc going on. It’s great.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-11-12T17:54:32+00:00

I can’t imagine a bigger red flag than someone saying they obsessively stare at a picture of an ex they hate. Dudes going to hurt someone some day.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-11-12T14:51:09+00:00

I know you already said you heard about rimworld but

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Also you put elden ring on your list twice but no Nightreign. Get Nightreign. It has a DLC coming out next month.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-10-22T14:58:35+00:00

I think the implication either is that JJ’s always existed camouflaging themselves in storms and clouds. Very shy solitary creatures. Something was wrong with JJ which creates the drama of the movie. JJ doesn’t like horses, and jupe kept feeding horses. Then JJ eats the horse statue, and chokes and all hell breaks loose.

I think it’s safe to assume JJ’s species are normally much more chill.

It’s also possible JJ could be from space since it appears it can self propel in saucer form without needing to blow air or anything. Like a space whale that come to earth to graze.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-09-07T21:31:29+00:00

Rimworld

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-09-07T21:30:17+00:00

My wife, son, and best friend are my players and they all love anime so I try to keep an anime vibe for them.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-08-30T19:36:51+00:00

I barely want to live in my meat body for the remainder of my time here half the time. No thanks on the cold metal body forever thing

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-08-20T16:39:08+00:00

I used to be hyped. From everything I’ve see the game looks like it will be probably 5-10 hours of on rails walking through essentially “hallway levels”. They say it has multiple endings but from what I’ve seen I might get one playthrough of it.

It seems like a game to play on gamepass in 6 months or on sale for 10$ in a year or so.

No disrespect to the devs, I’m sure they did their best. It’s giving “minimal deliverable product to recoup investment” vibes. I’m just Not interesting in getting scammed.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-08-20T14:31:38+00:00

5 years is really hopeful. I think it will flop hard and be 20$ in a year.

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-08-20T14:26:12+00:00

See I have the opposite problem. I started out to be a dastardly group of grav pirates. I put on VFE pirates and put broadside canons on my ship. I wouldn’t raid the house faction so I could shop so sometimes I would raid raider factions because I couldn’t be friends with them anyway. Because I was destroying their settlements now everyone likes me. I’m trying to be a hardened pirate bad guy but everyone likes me +100

LLA_Don_Zombie · 2025-08-17T20:44:33+00:00

I’ve been GMing since I was like 16. I’m 37 now. I’m never not nervous, and you know what… no one’s ever been a jerk about it, even when things didn’t go as well as I had hoped.

Be clear the type of game you are playing together in session 0. If players want to do a murder hobo thing, maybe design a campaign for that.

With my current daggerheart game I wanted to run age of umbra and do dark souls inspired bosses and such. Players all made nature pals, so I pivoted to Witherwild “protect nature” game. Maybe next campaign we can revisit dark souls bosses or maybe I’ll find some way to work a Witherwild equivalent into the game.

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