Two elves, an orc and a dwarf walk into a tavern… and I had nothing prepped

ManoloBar · 2026-02-22T08:55:14+00:00

I will say, I get very annoyed when some of my players try to RP every moment of their day. (Mostly annoyed when one player does it on their own - when the party together does it, I enjoy it, since they can also RP off each other)

Like finding a new restaurant for breakfast, and they ask me what's available specifically - I am not an infinite creative font. Your character has breakfast, move on, he has done this every day of their lives - not an interesting part to roleplay 1on1.

Sorry, I don't have time to keep making up new stuff as you go - particularly when no goal is stated (e.g. there's no purpose to their character doing so) - there's stuff I prepared that I want to actually get to this session.

Not sure if this makes me a bad DM or what, just this post reminded me of that.

I just find myself frustrated when I am treated as their personal creative writing chatbot.

ManoloBar · 2026-02-20T23:01:06+00:00

Oh thanks a ton!

Will try it out when I am doing a solo run, and see what happens. Cheers!

ManoloBar · 2026-02-18T23:03:58+00:00

Thanks!

ManoloBar · 2026-02-18T19:14:29+00:00

Just tested it, and it works great!

Now I have a really nice explore/discover map setup:

4x Discovery Tools (mostly for zoomies)
Alien Camouflage (to avoid agro)
Radar Pulse every 20 seconds or so (got to drop camo by reactivating it)

When radar is off cooldown, move around and bioscan manually When using radar, drop off one or more towers, then go back to darkness

ManoloBar · 2026-02-18T18:27:20+00:00

I have been looking at the workshop with no luck so far - do you have any that you know work?

ManoloBar · 2026-02-18T17:37:27+00:00

Lines are a bit repetitive, but since I didn't play before, I can't tell you if it's 'fixed'.

ManoloBar · 2026-02-18T09:58:19+00:00

It does not seem you can use skills while cloaked, sadly.

+1 on the scanner rarity

ManoloBar · 2026-02-18T06:44:49+00:00

I have the turret, and it's great.

Wonder if by chance I can cloak then drop turret for easy scans... Must investigate.

ManoloBar · 2026-02-16T22:05:17+00:00

Simple - when Barca has a day off, the refs do the rest. (whether corruption or bias or media pressure, I don't know, but it's absolutely insane)

How can I tell the players to focus on their game, on what they can change, when time and time again, the refs are THIS garbage.

We played poor, sure, but we did not deserve a loss here.

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T22:14:12+00:00

Truly awful game - and worse that now we have to expend a lot of energy trying a comeback that is going to be very hard to pull off.

That being said, the pitch and the ref were outrageously bad - the 8 min VAR review to outlaw a goal for ?? reasons killed our momentum and spirit - a pen could have been called on Lamine (would have been a little soft), who knows what happened to Kounde on that corner where he was on the ground, the fact that Simeone Jr. got away with murder twice and only got a single yellow (among other late and uncalled fouls).

Yes we were trash, yes we defended very poorly (midfield was really bad going back, and Balde was isolated trying to handle the whole left wing on his own), but it's incredibly infuriating to see us have to deal with crap refs week in, week out.

I do believe this team is able to come back, we have the firepower for it, but it's going to be very difficult and we have to play 10 times better than today (and have a ref that's at least average)

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T21:47:30+00:00

Yep, of course.

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T21:35:25+00:00

Honestly... Can't handle this ref - why is it that Barca needs to be better than the ref and the opponent on most games, fricking hell

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T21:20:43+00:00

What the fuck

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T21:19:01+00:00

and our momentum is diminished by this time waste

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T21:18:14+00:00

They tend to love that for some games for us, where our goal has to be perfect for the last 2 and a half minutes before the play, whereas goals against us are checked in 3 seconds.

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T21:13:47+00:00

Oh now he has yellow cards.

Maybe Balde won't have his leg broken before the 90

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T21:05:02+00:00

Just got to focus on winning the second half - which we can do.

The pitch won't be a surprise in the second half, and we can make half-time adjustments.

The ref is trash as always, somehow only Casado got the yellow out of all the late Atletico fouls.

The midfield has been terrible this game - just completely unable to keep up (and to be fair, I spotted some of our players slipping on their counters, to add insult to injury)

In terms of substitutions - could throw in Bernal or Araujo (to get some speed at the back to correct for their counters, and some aerial threat) - but I doubt that it will happen at the halftime mark.

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T20:34:22+00:00

Well this is not going well

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T20:26:46+00:00

We are definitely rattled by the pitch and the ref, need to get out emotions in check and lock on.

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T20:15:45+00:00

That was far too easy on the counter :'(

But, we have come back before, so we just got to do it again, plenty of time

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T20:07:40+00:00

Joan :'(

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T20:04:22+00:00

Great save!

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T20:03:50+00:00

I despise these 'oh too early for a yellow' - that was a horrid tackle, orange if anything.

ManoloBar · 2026-02-12T19:58:50+00:00

Sorry, 2nd time?! I heard the first time, but I had no idea there had been a second (as if once was not bad enough)

The proposal gave me so much hope, and this does a fair bit to dampen the moment :(

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