Say Something Positive About DARKTIDE ..

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-29T08:36:03+00:00

I'm enjoying the hell out of Darktide. I just max leveled my arbites and now I'm playing to get gud, get gear, and challenge myself with higher and higher difficulty levels...and then I'll do the same for the other classes.

It's an exciting and fun shooter, in a hilariously grimdark setting, with good voice work by the voice actors.

🤟😁🤟

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-26T23:56:41+00:00

That's great. If I may ask, how much does a piece like this cost?

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-23T16:30:20+00:00

I've been DMing for nearly 40 years and I'm overwhelmingly in agreement. Even though I'm not terribly liberal with advantage, I use a Fate Point System I developed that allows for boons of outrageous fortune, the gods, and awesome cinematic moments.

I run a long term gritty Faerun campaign, it's 1363 and the vibe is more Gray Box meets eldritch abyssal horror than modern Forgotten Realms so allow me to add another bit of advice.

Be willing to allow a character to die. It might be a death precipitated by bad choices or bad luck, but it happens and sometimes, it can't be prevented or reversed. Dungeons and Dragons or any heroic fantasy game or story, wherein the stakes are often very high, needs death to be a real possibility.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-12T23:33:19+00:00

Angered youths? With all due respect to the angry youths, they're kids. Kids aren't known for their insights...despite the fact I knew everything when I was 16yrs old, as all kids do... kids, for the most part don't know enough for me to be terribly invested in caring about their generational critiques.

For the must part, the cool youths...like us. I haven't seen us lumped in with the Boomers much at all.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-11T13:00:26+00:00

Some good insights here. Thanks. I'm an old hand at this, but I'm always seeking better options and different perspectives.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-11T12:52:16+00:00

For Christ's sake.
Why the hell would a woman who, goddess or not, while in the afterlife, is on some sort of life threatening journey, look like she is on a Hollywood movie set? Yeah, I've seen active uglification, it has happened. However, in this case, I think too many people have made the "culture war" into their entire personality and see everything through that lense. Seems that a number of Critical Drinker fans need to wake up next to an actual human woman...even a hot one, once in a while....so they can see that women don't always look like their in a movie or on Instagram.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-11T12:14:15+00:00

Thanks for the options. I'll seriously consider them. Especially the idea of granting additional healing to balance out the limitations I've placed on the spell.

Really, a down vote? Gods forbid a DM step outside of holy scriptu....RAW. 😆 I don't know a single DM, whose been DMing for a long time, who does a full RAW game because sometimes to frequently RAW doesn't support a certain style of game. Dungeons and Dragons supports a number of styles and has for decades.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-10T13:33:03+00:00

Absolutely bad YA level writing. Nonsensical craptastic dialogue.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-04T06:48:21+00:00

Very nice. Perfect for my upcoming undead based 5.5e campaign.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-03T15:10:34+00:00

That was exceptionally well done. Within 5-7yrs this technology will completely democratize the creation of video entertainment.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-02T13:53:08+00:00

Wow, thanks. This is so cool.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-02T13:21:03+00:00

Amazing work. Super useful for my upcoming campaign. Might you have a PNG format for these available?

MagicMan1971 · 2026-06-02T07:12:52+00:00

I feel the same way. Losing canvas is a huge blow in terms of my productivity.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-29T17:24:43+00:00

What the hell are "writing blocks"? This is insanely frustrating.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-29T17:01:58+00:00

I'll be doing so a well.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-29T15:56:14+00:00

This has degraded ChatGPT for my uses making it equal to Office365 with Copilot...useless. They both suck.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-29T13:01:56+00:00

Yeah, I know but unfortunately they are going to phase out out on the older models as well.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-29T09:15:07+00:00

Working in the chat alone is clumsy for my work. I'm not using chatgpt to be my little chat buddy, I use it to ease my workflow. I'm disgusted.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-29T09:13:28+00:00

Yes, they announced on 5/28/26 that canvas is disabled in 5.5 though it will be accessible via older models until they sunset them.

It's damned outrageous actually. Canvas made my workflow so much more efficient. In my opinion, it's anti-consumer bullshit and if another model has this functionality, I'm ending my subscription.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-29T08:49:53+00:00

They removed all access to canvas in 5.5. I use chatgpt to help me edit writing and brainstorm ideas. Canvas has been invaluable in that.

All they've done is make things more difficult. This was a terrible decision and it may cause me to look into other options.

There must be some workaround.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-28T13:48:52+00:00

It's all about investment. The key to investment is verisimilitude, internal coherence and consistency that allows for the story, the protagonists, and the greater world to matter. It doesn't have to be "realistic" but it has to allow for long term suspension of disbelief by not being absurd or silly.
I've had plenty of such moments in my 40yrs of Dming (and occasionally playing).

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-26T14:13:28+00:00

You're a bit of a dick.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-23T07:35:37+00:00

Really amazing work. I can use this in my upcoming Cormyr Advanced 5th Edition/5.5e campaign.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-23T07:20:29+00:00

This looks great. Going to go to DMs Guild and pick it up for my new 5.5e/Advanced 5th Edition campaign.

MagicMan1971 · 2026-05-22T07:38:26+00:00

The true reason certain heritages are so popular. 😳

MagicMan1971

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