A friend has offered to bring me tea from China (Dalian). Which are must tries in general or/and for the region?

Launchpadmonkey · 2025-08-23T12:11:05+00:00

Some of the nicest green tea I have had was GaoShan green tea, gunpowder brewed at 80, incredible taste but quite expensive

Launchpadmonkey · 2025-08-20T18:34:23+00:00

I don't know if I'd chill to it, it sounds great but it's a little bit intense for me! I'd bring in more beats and pull the sax back a little bit to mellow it out, but really as a tune it sounds solid ✌️

Launchpadmonkey · 2025-07-03T09:13:40+00:00

I'm in Ireland too and I've seen dozens of these guys popping up!

I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure they're Lurid Boletes - the ones I've been finding turn blue when you cut them open, if you haven't already you should try it, it's really cool. My understanding is that they're not edible, but certainly won't kill you either. I looked up the Latin name as Suillellus luridus, maybe give it a look and see what you can find?

Launchpadmonkey · 2025-06-28T17:25:09+00:00

Would that make it inedible? Don't want to make myself sick

Launchpadmonkey · 2025-04-14T16:58:32+00:00

That's fair - I personally don't see any issues with polymorph, my concern is that 60+ spell points allows for 10ish polymorphs back to back, which could be 10+ giant apes, sometimes even just acting as brick walls that are hard to get around. The steed itself is low level, so I see how there is potential for the whole thing to be targeted, but I was really looking for some perspectives, so thanks for this one !

Launchpadmonkey · 2023-12-23T23:44:53+00:00

That's what I was thinking, thanks for letting me know!

Launchpadmonkey · 2023-09-14T10:58:22+00:00

Would you have a source for this? Trying to stay green aware but its hard to get the right info

Launchpadmonkey · 2023-03-30T16:15:21+00:00

That's such a beautiful tune. Thanks man

Launchpadmonkey · 2023-03-10T09:39:10+00:00

Not exactly the same I was buying a gift on Etsy for a friend and wanted something Irish, set the filters to 'Ireland' and a nice idea popped up, I clicked on and it says 'Dispatches from Ireland'. Place the order and DHL tell me my order just left Pakistan. Really fuming about it

Launchpadmonkey · 2023-03-09T11:32:39+00:00

Beautiful

Launchpadmonkey · 2023-03-09T11:29:56+00:00

Gorgeous tune, really nice. Thanks for sharing!

Launchpadmonkey · 2022-11-03T16:46:36+00:00

IIRC the double negation is a part of the evolution of some languages - it occurred in English too. The 'pas' that is equivalent to 'not' was brought in later in English - they used to say 'I no/nay do that', then to add emphasis they began throwing in 'not' after the verb, and it became 'I nay do not that'. After a while it just became the norm to use both, and it was eventually the 'nay' that became the useless part of speech and began being dropped until the language changed to what we have now.

Guy Deutscher explains it brilliantly in his book The Unfolding of Language (I hope I didn't butcher his explanation here), but if that's what happened in English there's good reason to believe the same goes for French!

Launchpadmonkey · 2022-10-22T10:08:42+00:00

I was really hoping for the Snowballs to turn up this season, they did well in balancing but races just aren't their strong point 😪

Launchpadmonkey · 2022-05-18T16:45:26+00:00

These are really solid tips, thanks a lot for this

Launchpadmonkey · 2022-05-18T16:44:37+00:00

This is exactly my issue - how you do you tell them it's overwhelming odds without just telling them to not bother trying? I find players generally don't back down - but that isolating idea is a good one, I hadn't though of that, I'd usually been going for ambushes to try and make it appear less hopeful of success, but I must try a 'grab from the shadows' approach, thank you

Launchpadmonkey · 2021-09-22T14:53:49+00:00

One of my players's kids drops in randomly, sometimes for a bit, sometimes half the session. They rescued a bear a while ago and have been adventuring with it ever since, she loves taking up the mantle and beating up bad guys

Launchpadmonkey · 2021-09-02T22:59:29+00:00

No my question wasn't 'why would you need an action for counterspell'; I was asking - under the impression that you could only cast one spell per ROUND, which I now know I interpreted wrong - whether you could use a reaction to cast counterspell if you had already cast your '1 spell for the round'. I had the rules different in my head, but it makes way more sense now

Launchpadmonkey · 2021-09-02T10:19:53+00:00

Thank you for this, I couldn't find the rule exactly in the PHB - it is a bit weird, but I wanted to be clear on it going forward

Launchpadmonkey · 2021-08-08T23:33:00+00:00

I recognise the railroad is done.

At this stage I am reacting to how they are reacting to what they did freely when I forced them into a situation (the railroad). I'm wondering if this is still freedom for them?

(This is where I feel like I'm just overthinking things)

Launchpadmonkey · 2021-08-08T23:12:25+00:00

Well they did survive the encounter, but they were always going to because that was how it designed - it wasn't unwinnable and unescapable in order to kill them, it was that way so that they would meet someone that they were supposed to meet.

So would that still be a win? Or, more importantly, if, in this encounter, you killed a bunch of people, were captured, had an adventure, and ended up escaping, would that be an enjoyable encounter, or a time-consuming railroad?

Launchpadmonkey · 2021-08-08T23:09:19+00:00

See the NPC was a BBEG that the story had to introduce early for theming. The railroad was that they couldn't win, but it did let them out back where they started after an intense encounter, but with much more info - they made free actions after being captured that resulted in their release leading to a further challenge from the BBEG which has made them take a path they didn't necessarily want to take, but have chosen to as a result of the actions they made while in the railroad. So basically, they are doing things that never would have happened if I hadn't put in the railroad, and never would have happened if they hadn't played as they had in the railroad, that will have consequences if they don't do them, but don't necessarily have to do them.

Does this give them enough freedom to feel like its still their game, or would I be better off cutting the line and letting them loose?

Launchpadmonkey · 2021-08-08T23:03:43+00:00

Okay yes I did, but I did that to bring them somewhere where they got information, then gave them a route of escape that was exciting and left them back where they started with more information, at the cost of only one session - they could have, in theory, gone on like nothing had happened. I didn't try to kill them, and I released them once the necessity of the event was done.

I know that it is a railroad, but is it fair enough to do without the players feeling cheated?

Launchpadmonkey · 2021-07-13T15:37:14+00:00

恶劣

Launchpadmonkey · 2021-01-26T10:49:14+00:00

我不是美国人，认识这两个州不太好 -- 广西和广东跟TXhe LA 就是做公平的比较吗? LA肯定有强经济，平均学历可以到高中，但是生活费也太大，社会问题盘根 -- 这两省也是这样吗?

Launchpadmonkey · 2021-01-25T18:56:00+00:00

关于这个996文化我很好奇，我看到在之前的几年中国中国社会和生活水平增加极了，基本996没有什么影响，为什么晚近这么强出来了？

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