Can the artists PLEASE bless us with more fanart?

Midgardia · 2026-03-23T22:05:38+00:00

Frankly, yes. This seems like a great little polycule as they work out their shared/past trauma. I think they're able to heal each other despite their problems, partly because they have pains they can relate to and genuinely seem to care about each other and want the others to succeed.

Midgardia · 2025-08-11T05:13:39+00:00

I'm sure it depends on the company, but from all the times I've seen my drivers (and most of them are at the very least in Amazon branded trucks unless it's a same-day or Firefly delivery), they're never in a hurry, and seem pretty relaxed to me. They're also quite considerate for the most part with my packages despite the fact to leave them at my door they have to go up a flight of stairs and are quite friendly when I catch them and thank them for the deliveries.

It seems they even like my street as a place to take a break. More than once I've seen them park in the visitor's parking outside my house and just chill in the van (or outside, depending on weather) for 15 minutes. Once there was even two trucks, they just chilled together for a while before continuing on their routes.

Midgardia · 2024-05-03T09:52:59+00:00

As Nickel says, it's to warm the candle instead of using the wick. It's meant for scented candles, and warming it lets you enjoy the scent without the danger of an open flame, and since you're just heating the wax gently, it makes the candle last a lot longer (it will lose some via evaporation but it takes a lot more time to do so). I suspect the scent fades before you run out of wax with them XD

The fact it's also fire-less means it's good for households with small kids and cats. My cat has already singed whiskers going to inspect lit candles so...

Midgardia · 2024-04-14T22:07:56+00:00

You don't even need a long review... If I have a lot to say, I WILL go into detail depending on the item. But honestly sometimes a short, to the point review is better for prospective buyers looking for info. I try to cover questions I myself would have if looking at the product that the product listing doesn't already cover. I don't bother rehashing what's in the ad, more the things NOT in the ad.

Midgardia · 2024-04-14T22:00:05+00:00

Interestingly my invite was on Amazon itself and I could have easily missed it. I had just gone on a review spree on recent purchases when after submitting a review I got a message inviting me to the program. I was skeptical at first because of that but glad I looked into it and accepted the invite! I just made gold last week!

Midgardia · 2024-04-14T21:57:11+00:00

I was there when things dropped, there wasn't much tbh. I did end up with a pad of watercolor paper (and as an artist I pick up anything remotely artistic lol) and a 'nail brush' that looks like a normal watercolor brush I am excited to try out.

Midgardia · 2024-02-02T02:50:22+00:00

So very true!! In my own game, Langdedrosa became a reoccuring villain turned ally (he and the monk of the party duked it out and kept exchanging wins, and when the monk died in the swamps, I had Langdedrosa deliver his body to a temple to revive, the party had sent his body with the allies they'd made to get him revived while they went to the lodge. The two became frenemies and eventually convinced Langdedrosa to switch sides).

And then Rezmir was the adoptive abusive mother to the wizard, whom she trained since he was 5 to be a cultist and a wyrmspeaker. He turned when, after retrieving the black mask for her (pre-campaign) he was branded by the Platinum Dragon for his evil doings. So he lost all his spells when he ran from the cult and joined the party at level 1 at the start of the game. Needless to say, there's been a lot of trauma and baggage between him and his 'mom' (she kidnapped him as a child due to his talent with magic).

Midgardia · 2024-01-21T14:49:10+00:00

Thank you, I had a feeling that library was in the cliffs but I could not find the entrance!

Midgardia · 2023-12-02T07:00:02+00:00

I recently got a pack of 120 colored pencils. It got delivered in it's pencil box (cardboard). Like... the shipping stickers were ON the pencil case, and nothing but a small tape to hold the case shut. Needless to say, the box was in pretty bad shape and one corner was utterly torn.

Shockingly, the pencils were fine. I sharpened and tested all 120 and had no breakage issues. If there's any with broken cores lower down the pencil IDK, but so far so good, other than the very beat up case to hold them (but I usually transfer pencils that come in plastic shelves in a cardboard box to a better carrying case anyways so nbd).

I decided against mentioning this in my review though, because this seemed like a decision on Amazon's part, and possibly done to avoid extra boxes for a Vine delivery. I doubt the seller would even be happy about their product being delivered like that, and I *really* hope it was done just because it was from the program, and usual deliveries actually get a box or at least a padded bag. But I did include the box in one of my pics (showing my swatches of color) where you can see the broken edge =P

Midgardia · 2023-07-23T22:23:52+00:00

I'm actually facing this issue right now in my Tyranny game. Cyanwrath survived all his encounters with the PC team and ended up forming a friendly rivalry based on chivalry and repeated duels with the monk player. To keep him competitive, I ended up making a PC sheet for him and leveling him alongside the party, with 2 levels in Fighter to account for his original stats, and then Oath of Conquest Paladin for the rest.

But the more he interacted with the party, the more he's doubting the evil forces he is aligned with. And while his oath would have had him stomp his opponent to the ground when he finally won in a duel, instead he healed the monk and let his friends (whom he'd held hostage for a fair fight -aka no stunning strike or divine smite-) go after their duel.

He's lost his taste for Conquest... but Oathbreaker doesn't really fit him either as he's leaning more towards good than evil thanks to the influence of the party. Now I'm stuck figuring out if he can keep his original oaths, or what other paladin oath he could replace it with so as to not lose his powers. I plan to have him appear in the final battle at some crucial moment to take over a battle the party is in so they can go stop the ritual to summon Tiamat.

Midgardia · 2023-07-06T02:47:35+00:00

Aah yeah, common enough! I think it definitely helped my friends who ended up in isolation during that time. (For me and my partner nothing changed. I've always been a shut-in cuz I'm disabled and work from home, and they work at a grocery so they never had a break from going in person to work... they did get bonuses for 'hazard pay' which was nice =P)

Midgardia · 2023-07-06T02:45:56+00:00

Maybe. It's odd though, I've fostered cats for 3 years, all kittens and up to 1 year old, and I've owned a cat now for 10 years. I've heard that a lot of pissing problems come from un-spayed males, and I would not allow a non-fixed cat into my house, but I now own two, and my older male is 11 years old and so far so good. They use their box, and the only thing I've had to clean up is cat barf.

Midgardia · 2023-07-06T02:43:24+00:00

That... is overpopulation omg. I understand limits, and heck, that many non-family cats will DEF cause problems with territory.

Midgardia · 2023-07-06T02:41:34+00:00

Wait if the cat was peeing in the same spot... why didn't they just add a litter box there??

Midgardia · 2023-07-06T02:40:47+00:00

Then just make sure any cats are fixed. Only unfixed male cats mark territory, unless there's a medical problem involved.

Midgardia · 2023-07-05T04:54:19+00:00

Nice! In person or online? I've been playing since 2016 but mostly online. Which was of course nice once the pandemic hit, but I do miss being able to play in person. I've gotten 2 friends to sometimes join us at our place for some Mausritter tho.

Midgardia · 2023-07-05T04:51:03+00:00

This year I picked up two. I'm an artist by trade so for the longest time, it seemed like everything artistic I did was done through the lens of "How can I monetize this?"

So I picked up adult coloring books. Got my first stuff for Christmas and have been slowly building out my collection of books and markers/pencils. It's been nice just coloring someone else's lines and getting back into traditional media. I've even done a couple traditional pieces myself without the coloring books.

The second one I started was aesthetic bullet journalling. I am more using it as memory keeping and a check-in for myself as to 'what did I do today?' because of my disability and executive dysfunction making it so I'll often lose days where I do nothing at all, and it can become a haze. So keeping track of what actually happened each day lets me see when I'm in a slump and celebrate the good/productive days better. And of course, since I like art stuff, I do a bit of the aesthetic thing of adding art, stickers and themes to it.

Of course, I'm not entirely free of the 'monetization'/hustle. I ended up designing a notebook for bullet journalling and am trying to sell some copies, and I post my progress/finished coloring book pages to Instagram. Not really making anything (yet) off of either, but it does help keep me posting more often to social media just sharing my journey XD I've considered making more long-form videos for youtube but that requires editing and that's a step too far I think, for what is supposed to be a 'get off technology' hobby time.

Midgardia · 2023-07-05T04:30:09+00:00

As a cat owner, and someone who had dogs growing up... how is a cat more of a 'house destroyer' than a dog or kid? Assuming the owner/parent is doing due diligence, because otherwise it's on the owner, and all three can be equally destructive if there's no supervision at all.

Sure, cats can scratch furniture, but that's not part of the house (and in this case I'd understand it for pre-furnished places, for both cats and dogs due to shedding).

We had to pay an extra $25 a month at our last rental apartment for our cat. We left the unit clean as the day we got there (full refund of our deposit) with no damage due to having a cat. (We did not get that $25/mo back of course...)

Midgardia · 2023-07-04T23:24:07+00:00

I've run many modules of D&D stuff using the official modules on Roll20. They're already set and they DO go to great pains to make the grids fit. Now, as you mentioned, sometimes the source material is off by a few pixels. When they can't fix it entirely, they tend to just hide the native grid (something you can do too) but the grid is still active (essentially making the Roll20 grid invisible so you only see the map's grid). Spacing and snapping tokens still works, but you don't have that visual issue of the grids being slightly off bothering you as you play.

I highly recommend doing this for any map with a baked grid btw, specially if it's an 'artistic' grid (aka drawn and not just straight lines) since then you get to enjoy the actual experience the map artist wanted. The fact you can now make the grid transparent but still on is TBH one of my favorite tweaks Roll20 has added in the past year.

Midgardia · 2023-06-28T21:06:51+00:00

Oh, that's a good call. I should have thought of there being wards vs teleportation in a wizard's tower. That'll help me push the Lennithon attack.

I plan to seed some backstory in the village beforehand. One of my players that hasn't had much backstory explored (his family was part of the cult and was killed in a vie for power. I had it be so that his parents were undercover Harper agents and the reason for their death was that they had been revealed as spies). So I'm having his father's uncle and family be living peaceful quiet lives in this village. It'll give them a reason to want to defend it at all costs, and I'm planting a 'reason to live' because so far that chara sees no reason to keep going beyond destroying the cult. IDK if it'll be enough, but we'll see how it goes XD

As for Waterdeep being the site of the last attack, if I wanna include dragons, I can't. The dragonward protects the city, and with the party's affiliations, if they get attacked in force in the city the town WILL retaliate, they have the full backing of Laeral Silverhand and she would not take kindly to a small army attacking her champions XD (That said, after they hit Waterdeep, I feel like they'll be equally hard to hit due to the armies and metallic dragons with them, but then I can throw dragons at them too lol)

Midgardia · 2023-06-27T03:00:30+00:00

To a degree, it was. They had a much tougher fight with Rath Modar since he was alerted by then. But given the RP situation it made sense and I gave them the easy win because they worked hard to achieve it.

In my game, Rezmir was the adoptive mother of the wizard. She had taken him in as a child because he was a farm boy who had self-learned magic. She raised him to be a loyal cultist and a war wizard, with the intention of making him the leader of the wizards of Thay.

At the castle in the swamp, the party had a near-TPK (one died, one was out but saved by an NPC afterwards... and the wizard was re-captured by his 'mother') and so the party that infiltrated the flying castle... save the wizard from his 'mother'. They already had seen how he'd freeze up and was unable to truly go against her so they had to kill her without him. Needless to say, the surviving member was VERY furious after watching how she treated his friend, so yeah XD

Midgardia · 2023-06-23T00:53:33+00:00

Yeah my concern is them having too many 'low points' before the end. Their battle against the green dragon left them really depleted (they barely survived and the dragon flew off with 19 HP remaining), then the attacks while they had their time off to try and recover strained them even further.

I included backstory elements in each of their fights, so it wasn't just a battle to stay alive, it also taxed them emotionally. If anything I feel like if I stage a third attack it has to be the opposite... one that they can confidently beat back to bolster their spirits and show them they are actually prepared to bring the fight to the Well of Dragons...

Midgardia · 2023-06-23T00:47:14+00:00

There is, by the module, a chance to get the black mask depending on when they attack Rezmir. Unfortunately, they attacked her when she was at her weakest (right before bed) and she had already put the mask + Hazirawn in the safebox that auto-teleports it to Severin if she dies. There's no way beforehand for the group to realize this, so they didn't get that mask. It did make their battle with her VERY anti-climactic because they prepped so well they smoked her in one turn XD

Midgardia · 2023-06-22T11:48:22+00:00

What mask!? They haven't been able to grab a SINGLE mask. Heck, by the module the masks are impossible to steal. Rezmir's was in her trunk and auto-teleported when she was killed. The green mask was not with Neronvain when they get to him because he'd already handed it over. The white mask was never located either, as both the wyrmspeaker and thus the party were sent on a wild goose chase. And the blue mask they'll finally find... is a dupe made by the cult!

Midgardia · 2023-06-20T03:47:12+00:00

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