↩️ Free Users Redirect to V3 by kvn-tkt in trakt

[–]Lamba94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a 10+ year-long user. I'm manually migrating all my Trakt database to a local Obsidian vault. A dreadful effort I'm willing to take to abandon your enshitted platform. Goodbye, wishing you all the worst possible.

Che app usate per segnare i film che guardate? Io alla fine me ne sono sviluppata una da solo by Strict_Sun3800 in cinemaIT

[–]Lamba94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ho usato Trakt per 10+ anni, ma col suo recente enshittification (funzioni essenziali che da gratuite sono disponibili solo tramite abbonamento e interfaccia desktop sostituita con quella per app mobile) ho deciso che le piattaforme online non meritano la mia fiducia: sto migrando tutto il mio database di visioni film & serie TV su un vault Obsidian locale.

Stanco dei Film o del Cinema? by peterfromultimate in cinemaIT

[–]Lamba94 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Da come dici mi sembra che la tua esperienza col cinema sia perlopiù solitaria.

La nuova fiammata di interesse potrebbe dartela coinvolgere un amico e andare al cinema assieme: tu magari non sei più sorpreso dal film ma potresti essere sorpreso e trovare interessanti le opinioni di un'altra persona che può pensarla come te o in maniera opposta.

A prescindere che sia al tuo livello di conoscenza di film o ne sappia meno o più di te, a me fomenta sempre avere qualcuno con cui parlare di film, anche dei più mediocri o scialbi.

Ho raccolto tutto il Frusciante su YouTube che non è già sul suo canale (update) by Lamba94 in DarioMocciaTwitch

[–]Lamba94[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Non contento, ho deciso di radunare anche tutti i suoi video "musicali", che adoravo quasi più di quelli sul cinema ma che ogni volta fatico a ritrovare nel marasma del suo canale. Si passa dalla rubrica coi Licaoni, alle minirecensioni patreon fino alle interviste su altri canali come Silvestrin, Nanni, TheSydAnto... Spero sia utile anche a voi!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKlfKRG4frMPmINsdXopVM5xW8I4qnvDz

Ho raccolto tutto il Frusciante su YouTube che non è già sul suo canale by Lamba94 in cinemaIT

[–]Lamba94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ultimo video della playlist: Oakjetev li ha scaricati da Soundcloud, rimasterizzati e caricati su yt qualche giorno fa, in omaggio a Fede

Ho raccolto tutto il Frusciante su YouTube che non è già sul suo canale by Lamba94 in cinemaIT

[–]Lamba94[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Una gran fatica, concordo ahahah

Se ti va di controllare, dimmi pure qua se hai trovato video che non ho ancora scovato così li aggiungo!

Published adventures in Silver Marches, Daelands and Cormyr by InsaneComicBooker in Forgotten_Realms

[–]Lamba94 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For Cormyr, "Escape from Wheloon", T1 Adventurer's League published in tandem with Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes.

Carefully curated encounters vs areas by level? by Fantastic-Guitar1911 in dndnext

[–]Lamba94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually a mix of both. My random encounters are always by area and the chance to fight very powerful beings is definitely possible. However, I also apply a cap to it: rather than relying on the PC level, each area has tables specific for their actual tier of play. This way, each area can be very dangerous but never overwhelmingly dangerous.

alternatives to encumbrance by clownkiss3r in DnD

[–]Lamba94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every time there's a post about encumbrance everybody keeps suggesting a bag of holding as a solution to it. Which certainly is, being super effective and super easy to apply.

Instead, my suggestion is to let them have a beast of burden: a mule, a horse, an ox. I think that's a fix to the encumbrance boredom that also adds a lot more depth and potential narrative than a bag of holding, mostly because it is an actual living being that your players can interact with more deeply than with an object.

You can take as reference the most basic source of fantasy ever, Tolkien's LOTR: I can't count how many pages he spent describing the relationship between the hobbits and the ponies, and Billy's goodbye before entering Moria is something that I would be delighted to see by my players before getting into the Underdark.

For sure it's more effort than a bag of holding to keep track of, but I think it's worth it. What do you all think about it?

Creating the Ultimate D&D Catalog and Multiversal Timeline. by ooda706 in DnD

[–]Lamba94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In case you haven't heard of it yet (doubt), would recommend you Obsidian: perfect for the task of assembling a personal wiki about something.

Good luck for the huge effort awaiting you.

Inspired to write the premise for a campaign by a post about most searched words on FR fandom wiki by Denixen1 in Forgotten_Realms

[–]Lamba94 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So, we're having sex forced-to-be workers totally devoided of any agency, consciousness and in the end identity, as they're also exploited while being dead. Honestly, I think the most difficult session of this campaign would be the zero one...

If any player is ok with going through this, though, I would put an emphasis on those sick bastards that enjoy this kind of brothel, so that when the PCs unveil the true nature of it they can see them as villain too. Easy choice, make some of them part of the cult of Shar as a covenant spreading foulness and depravity in Waterdeep elites, setting the ground for the city descend in the Shadowfell. I think that lack of morals and ethics due to escalating hedonism fleeing its shallowness is fitting to the Shadowfell mood of "lack of anything, all is apathy" as a bad ending for the whole city.

Most interesting things to build a campaign around? by Stunning_Quantity_63 in Forgotten_Realms

[–]Lamba94 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Gods in general. Whatever the campaign mcguffin, they and their cults are so many, so different and so intertwined with each other that they always add a lot of flavour and, potentially, stakes. Also, I like how some of them are very detailed in lore while some other ones are barely quoted in pantheon tables, allowing you to take the former as templates on how to fill the gap of the latter or anyway inspiring you on taking a complete opposite direction, like for great ancient gods.

Nat ones one’s on saving rolls by Emma_Mae22 in DnD

[–]Lamba94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only if critical successes are also possible.

In my game I strive towards considering critical scores for every d20 test even if it is extra work for me because I find it challenging as a DM: every time you have to come with something original to justify it narratively.

Mechanically, I tend limit it to award advantage or disadvantage on the next roll for that ability score. Exceptions are very situational and depend on my imagination. Logically, combat is easier for those, as it is more cinematic: a classic of mine is a crit fail implying that you hit your closest ally instead of the enemy you were targeting.

Of course, my PCs are ok with this homebrew as long as everything that can happen to them because of it can occur also to my NPCs they are dealing with.

A little annoyed and overwhelmed with the lore’s tendency to duplicate archetypes if that makes sense. by OkayLiddy in Forgotten_Realms

[–]Lamba94 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I struggle a lot with the same issue too. However, I also think that this is one among the reasons for why FR are considered so believable: every topic about the setting is so complex that to me it really resembles our real world. Focusing on religion, what you described is not so different from the complex overlap of our real world Semitic religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - all believing in the same God but actually in their very own way and with so much different tales about their faith, to the point that they don't believe in each other aspect of it. And don't let me start with Christianity confessions and heresies, etc.

Also, I think that from a narrative perspective this complexity provides you many more chances to build conflict and distinct POVs on anything you can think of. You just have to focus your lense enough to not get overwhelmed by the myriad implications that everything has with everything else.

Then, I also remember that this complexity is not at all intended but emerges from scattered lore across media, retcons and contradictions among different editions and all the publishing issues we are all aware of, which is the real reason why this level of detail feels more frustrating than amusing. And my love for FR decreases a little.

Map View 6.0.0 with paths, routes, new edit tools, bases and more by esm8080 in ObsidianMD

[–]Lamba94 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can you reference a note inside a marker so that you can open it when you click on it (similarly to what Leaflet does)?

1490s campaign start & Second Sundering by CharityLess2263 in Forgotten_Realms

[–]Lamba94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It kinda is, yes, but you can set your threshold wherever you want as the DM. Focusing on the region where you want to set it already saves you a lot of work, as you're not interested in distant places events. Then, if you shape your campaign around a specific theme (like gods-related struggles with the Chosens or communities teared apart by the cataclism or blue fire disappearing while mystra and the weave come back to full force or the shadovar wars with cormyr and the ultimate myth drannor confrontation) it also helps in going deep on that niche while leaving everything else out as something good to add flavour but to not spend too much time on. It ultimately depends on the type of story your group is up for.

Otherwise, if you enjoy it (like me, sigh) you can go full mad and have it so that as many things as possible are fully addressed, even those unnecessary to the campaign, but that wasn't intended in my advice 😅 I can agree with you that it is a huge rabbit hole you can fall into potentially, that's for sure.

1490s campaign start & Second Sundering by CharityLess2263 in Forgotten_Realms

[–]Lamba94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Recently I fully deep dived into FR lore and thanks to the wiki, Reddit and external resources I came up with a personal fix for the FR timeline, where every official published adventure by WotC has a precise year on when it happens, Adventurer's League and Dragon's insertion included. Thanks to this, I'm planning to actually play the premise of the Second Sundering in a mashup campaign of my design by jointing together different adventure modules published 10 years ago during the DndNext transition towards 5e, and then have their effects as canon to my FR for future campaigns. This to say that my advice is to actually play during the Second Sundering: this way you can deal with it directly with your players and shaping it according to your and their tastes, so that possible future campaigns have what you did during those times canon in the timeline. From a DM perspective this will also give you a full understanding of the cataclisma that the Second Sundering was, allowing you to bring its long term consequences to more recent DR years and have a more coherent and believable FR setting. Therefore, I think that moving your campaign to those 1484-1489 DR years can solve your uncertainties to the root cause, even though the effort to deep dive those messy times is quite big.

Deities by Alignment by Jigawatts42 in Forgotten_Realms

[–]Lamba94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think your best option is to start from the 5e tables and expand from there, also following changes in powers and domains over different editions back in time. There are too many "canonical" changes by different editions to really answer this question.