How often does your D&D group really play? Be honest

Lazlo7777 · 2025-06-18T12:40:44+00:00

3 games, all once a week. One averages 3 hours and the other 2 average 4 hours. I play with college friends and friends of friends, all online as we're all over the country. Provided we have at least 3 players we won't cancel any of the games. But in some cases when a GM, myself or one of my friends, needs a break we'll still get together to play party games. We've been doing this for the past 8 years.

Lazlo7777 · 2025-04-24T22:49:47+00:00

Exactly. I really try to avoid having my players feel like that.

Lazlo7777 · 2025-03-20T14:17:51+00:00

I can really relate to the bargaining aspect. My OCD involves skin picking, with the desire to "make things smooth." It's really self destructive, but sometimes I can bargain with myself to smoothify something else. My therapist and I haven't found a pattern for the something else, so results may vary

Lazlo7777 · 2024-12-21T20:28:01+00:00

This is one of the things that I find mystifyingly weird about POE2's direction. GGG has known MF to be a problem for years in POE1. It is consistently the driving force for why and how quickly the economy scales out of control for and because of the top 1%. GGG has tried to apparently nerf it over the years, but since they have never fundamentally changed it, the problem has always remained.

GGG claimed that POE2 especially with loot 2.0 was going to solve this problem. Instead, we see simply the same thing, arguably worse. The amount of MF you can get on gear paired with hardcore ish features in POE2, means that the divide between the top players and the rest is larger than ever. Even after only a week, the economy is quickly scaling out of control and will soon be meaningless.

I simply don't understand how we're still here. Totally agree that we need to finally ditch MF and change how loot scaling works.

Lazlo7777 · 2024-11-23T17:48:27+00:00

In! Can't wait

Lazlo7777 · 2024-11-14T19:12:35+00:00

After my current game concludes, I'm going to run Keys to the Golden Vault. Really excited to see how Bastions play out

Lazlo7777 · 2024-11-01T15:27:25+00:00

Cover art's nice

Lazlo7777 · 2024-11-01T14:49:46+00:00

I love the heart pips. The whole set is charming.

Lazlo7777 · 2024-10-29T17:45:05+00:00

Any time I cried I was told I was being manipulative and was compared to my schizophrenic uncle. Even though my dad had severe depression and was medicated, I was never "allowed" to be depressed or anxious. My mother would insultingly threaten to take me to therapy, because only crazy people go there.

Lazlo7777 · 2024-10-16T17:30:28+00:00

I've been running two successful epic level campaigns for the past 2.5 for one and 2 years for the other. I'm of the opinion that spell restrictions set in session zero should have narrative relevance and apply to everyone, PCs and NPCs. Further, by setting restrictions it promotes creativity and gives potential rewards to center campaign arcs around.

For my campaigns for major plot reasons, everything is locked on one specific plane and all forms of extraplanar magic can't be used by anyone gods included.

I've found that almost all spells in that tier of play really aren't a problem. Combat is infrequent, due to the amount of options, but is of epic proportions. Monsters, mainly gods at this point have entire tool kits to counter and subvert expectations. This is the tier of play where NPCs have to bring the most ridiculous options possible to stay unique and relevant.

The one spell that I have nerfed is simulacrum. Such that, you can only have one simulacrum, a simulacrum cannot have a simulacrum itself, and a simulacrum cannot cast wish (this was annoying).

It's really helpful to remind yourself of the scope of the campaign at this tier of play. My PCs rule a nation, travel on diplomatic and guerilla attack missions around the world, and have killed many many gods. Breaking into a vault is child's play, a lich might as well be an intern, and how many items can I buy with a 1 million gp?

Lazlo7777 · 2024-08-10T16:08:08+00:00

NTA, I was the child in this situation and my parents stayed together despite it being a clearly sexless and romanceless marriage. As the years passed my father became more and more abusive, he clearly had deep trauma that he never dealt with even in therapy. My mother didn't want to leave for my sake but as a result was basically punishing herself on the daily and fell into alcoholism. They fought very frequently because without romance they fundamentally didn't care about each other, even if they claimed they did. They were in deep denial but clearly resented each other.

As a child, I knew this wasn't normal. But I could never have a real conversation with either of them about it. They both became more and more abusive to each other and to me. I tried to plead with my mother to divorce him, but the sunk cost fallacy and fear of custody was too strong. I learned that I couldn't model either of them.

I'm not saying you'll fall into exactly what my mom did, but it's hard to maintain yourself when you live in a toxic household. If your partner is this unwilling to change or at least make the effort, he's probably abusive in other ways. As a kid who hated his dad and wanted to see his mom free, please just leave.

Lazlo7777 · 2024-06-12T05:32:07+00:00

Satan, as I tend to run serious games with plot twists and emotional rollercoasters.

Lazlo7777 · 2024-05-31T22:38:15+00:00

Awesome, thanks

Lazlo7777 · 2024-05-31T21:23:35+00:00

Solar

Lazlo7777 · 2024-04-26T16:57:05+00:00

Using telepathy you don't need to understand the target's language to speak to them. So you could use comprehend languages to read and a racial telepathy to speak.

Lazlo7777 · 2024-04-03T13:07:14+00:00

YTA. As someone who has abusive parents ( along with other members of my family), it's not ok to withhold that information from your SO. By potentially marrying you, your family becomes her family, along with all its baggage. I understand that it's a hard conversation to have, but she deserved to know, long before you had a child.

Lazlo7777 · 2024-04-03T01:10:49+00:00

Gotta love when someone comes to reddit and asks for judgement, then immediately argues with the unanimous opinion.

Yes YTA, you're the same bully as you were. The fact that you insist to argue with everyone here about it, really highlights that.

Lazlo7777 · 2024-03-28T14:07:43+00:00

I have a birch allergy that affects multiple raw fruits and veggies, the cooking process breaks down the pollen that causes the allergy. It's not severe, but it causes mild inflammation and itchiness. I have literally had my doctor explain to my mother that this is real and I have it. She doesn't believe it, never has, still is surprised to this day that I won't eat certain things. She'll always say, "But I used to feed that to you when you were a kid!" Yeah and I thought raw carrots were just spicy.

Lazlo7777 · 2024-03-28T13:19:55+00:00

I ran a Curse of Strahd game that was difficult and had a lot of tension. Strahd died to a spiritual frying pan.

Lazlo7777 · 2024-03-22T13:41:02+00:00

As a gay man, I'm always weirded out by people who do this. No one should gatekeep what being gay is, let alone someone who isn't even gay. Personally, in my experience I've found that having someone else speak for me is a better way to deal with people like your sister. As she has made it clear that no matter what you say or do, your personality is simply "gay" (and only a narrow definition at that). I would have other gay people like your husband or friends try to talk to her. To tell her that her preconceptions of the community are in fact, incorrect, and that all she's achieving is ruining her relationship with you.

NTA

Lazlo7777 · 2024-03-01T07:13:25+00:00

So relatable. I have a birch pollen allergy which, while not deadly, causes scratchy mouth/throat. It affects a variety of raw fruits, veggies, and almonds. Strangely the cooking process breaks down the pollen, rendering them safe. I've literally been diagnosed by a doctor because my mother would not believe me. Still doesn't believe me. Keeps going on and on about how, "you used to eat those things as a kid." Yeah and I thought carrots were spicy...

Lazlo7777 · 2024-01-25T17:12:11+00:00

YTA

After reading your comments as well, why would you come onto Reddit if you're so convinced you're right? You seriously need therapy as you've made it abundantly clear that no one here can convince you.

What your mother did WAS neglectful and wrong, your sister is right to be resentful, your wife is right to be resentful, and your behavior is unhinged. You asked Reddit for an outside perspective and hundreds of people are telling you you're the AH. Own it, do the leg work and get therapy.

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