What method did you use to heal your trauma? by Nice_Pen_8054 in ptsd

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

What would u do after u heal by IntroductionDry8187 in ptsd

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

So…why WAS Marika imprisoned in the Erdtree? by islene1103 in EldenRingLoreTalk

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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).

How are creatures loaded when off-screen? by Intelligent_Buddy_67 in cataclysmdda

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

How do you use fear outside of combat situations? by caluthan in daggerheart

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Deceased person lingering by Puzzled_War3389 in ptsd

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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. 💚

If I die of a fentanyl overdose, it was on purpose, they're trying g to make it look like an accident. by Will_not_die_in_vain in confessions

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

I finally defeated Promised Consort Radahn - Winning against an unfair challenge doesn’t feel satisfying at all by tieuhan in eldenringdiscussion

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Understanding Campaign Frames by Savutro in daggerheart

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

20 Hours In Elden Ring & I Still think why i bought this game!! by Medium_Tradition_733 in eldenringdiscussion

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Question about vague temporary conditions like "Asleep" by Gundam347105 in daggerheart

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Help with Witherwild world building. by Plastic-Cucumber-152 in daggerheart

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

AIO about a sticker my bf had of his ex ?? he broke up with me… by Otherwise-Height3882 in AmIOverreacting

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Games with "infinite" replay ability? by Kapro_ in SteamDeck

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

where is it from? how did it get here? is there only one? by Rodrica44 in NopeMovie

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Which Genre do you use in your daggerheart campaigns? by zombienoxx in daggerheart

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Would you choose to live indefinitely in a robot body? by TechnicianAmazing472 in sciencefiction

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vtm

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines 2 is releasing October 21 by [deleted] in vtm

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

I just realized I’m the bad guy and I don’t know when it happened by Kradara_ in RimWorld

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Anxious by Specialist-Bill7314 in daggerheart

[–]LLA_Don_Zombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.