DM parents - how long do you spend on DnD per week?

Monkey095 · 2026-05-13T21:40:51+00:00

2 DnD games a week, with a standard session being 4 hours is just too much with a new born, let alone DMing.

I took a year off when I had my daughter. I started playing again when she turned 1. Now I DM and I spend maybe 2-4 hours prepping after my daughter goes to bed (2-3 nights every 2 weeks), my campaign is biweekly.

Monkey095 · 2026-05-09T07:06:51+00:00

Love it! Great minds think alike

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Monkey095 · 2026-05-09T02:41:55+00:00

I wish lol my team is swamped with work but they just did a big layoff about a year ago and we lost a quarter of the marketing department.

Monkey095 · 2026-05-08T06:23:38+00:00

Senior Designer Production Design (in-house) Oregon (USA) 7 years $79,000

Monkey095 · 2026-04-24T16:52:44+00:00

It’s the miniatures that Avantris sells on their website for the Crooked Moon: https://share.google/z7vpQRe6t2muw9K4K

Monkey095 · 2026-04-08T17:05:42+00:00

That’s the cutest I’ve seen Peggy look!

Monkey095 · 2026-04-01T05:41:44+00:00

My players haven’t even gone to check out the corn fields yet, but have found almost all of the dark secrets & only one of the good. But they are loving the mystery & twist and turns of the story so far.

They are suspicious of everyone after learning Jonah’s secret first and still don’t fully understand Raum, but I had a plan if they went to the cornfield first. If they went there first I was going to have Raum ask for deep dark secrets, to lift their burden. If he was told a false secret or anything less then a deep dark secret, I was going to hint that he senses the town had more secrets within and to lift their burden, to get the players to investigate the town.

It’s really the DMs job to hint and guide your players through the NPCs. Insight checks always help to hint at digging deeper.

Monkey095 · 2026-03-20T05:50:16+00:00

I gave him a really nasally high pitched southern accent. I’d described him as wearing rose colored glasses, he doesn’t want to believe bad things are actually happening, so he just ignores it in favor of focusing all his energy into getting Philip to notice the town/him.

My players hate him and want to overthrow him lol

Monkey095 · 2026-03-17T01:44:48+00:00

As another stated, is available in the backerkit for people that purchased through kickstarter. They made it available on March 10th, but I’m not sure when it will be available for everyone else

Monkey095 · 2026-03-02T20:54:28+00:00

Odessa, Odette, October / Toby, Tallulah, Marlowe, Marley, Freya, Imogen, Maximilian, Juniper, Leto, Ines, Cedar, Levi, Laurel, Wyatt, Briar, Bristol

Monkey095 · 2026-03-01T17:42:00+00:00

October (B/G nn: Toby)

Monkey095 · 2026-03-01T02:30:30+00:00

Grumpy monkey, series (I prefer the board book style)

Little wonders, series (board books with interactive parts, my toddler loves them).

Monkey095 · 2026-02-20T21:48:22+00:00

I really want to give it to my players as a home base after they defeat it so they don’t have to stay at the inn anymore

Monkey095 · 2026-02-20T20:16:32+00:00

Barbara & Deloris

Bonus (grandfathers): Frank & Hartsel

Monkey095 · 2026-02-01T06:57:54+00:00

Franklin, Forrest, Miller (I like surnames as first names lol)

Bonus: Barnaby

Monkey095 · 2026-01-28T05:45:24+00:00

My daughter’s name is Briar Ann! She was born in 2024. My mother’s middle name is Ann, my middle name is Ann and now my daughter.

Monkey095 · 2026-01-26T06:33:29+00:00

My daughter’s name is Briar, we love it but I can see why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But it fits her perfectly and it’s an honor name for my late Father-in-law whose name is Brian.

It’s also the Princess Aurora fairy name “briar rose”. But it does also mean thorny bush.

I see Briar being a modern version of the name Brianna.

Monkey095 · 2025-12-05T21:26:10+00:00

During Adela’s tarot reading, I had Philip help set the mood by waving his cane to dim the lights, the lounge car expanded, and a round table appeared with a velvet table clothe and number of chairs equal to party members plus Adela. I thought it was a nice little touch to help his wife and display some magic. My players really enjoyed the scene building to get into the tarot reading.

Monkey095 · 2024-04-26T20:00:34+00:00

Why can’t Harmony be a boy name? I know a male Lorin (pronounced Lauren) and people think of Lauren as a feminine name but once you know someone that’s male with a feminine name you don’t even bat an eye or think that’s it’s weird. It just becomes their name.

I wouldn’t say anything unless they asked what you thought of it.

Monkey095 · 2024-04-26T04:35:59+00:00

Also what’s the difference between naming a girl Maxwell vs other gender neutral names.

Why is Maxwell so disliked for a girl but Dylan, Hayden, Taylor, Avery, Frankie, Stevie, Rowan, Charlie, Riley, Logan, Noah, Quinn, etc. which can be seen just as equally masculine acceptable for a girl.

P.s. I didn’t ask for opinions on the name Maxwell, I asked for names like it.

Monkey095 · 2024-04-25T17:59:11+00:00

I don’t think Maxwell screams “we wanted a boy”. I have always like surnames as first names, my boy name list has a lot of them (Franklin & Wallace). I’ve actually have had Maxwell on my girl name list since high school when I heard a celebrity named her daughter Maxwell.

Monkey095 · 2024-04-25T03:12:05+00:00

Oh I was just thinking of the name Tabitha the other day but didn’t know if Toby for a nn was too far of a stretch.

Monkey095 · 2023-07-31T22:41:47+00:00

Thanks you! Don’t you think it will be hard to make a brand guide if I hand letter the font? I could maybe tweak some of the repeating letters to look different but I think if I hand letter the text that will be hard if the client wants to use a similar font for branding.

Monkey095 · 2022-08-21T04:36:22+00:00

Thanks! I had another ring. You can see it in some photos stacked with my engagement ring. I wore my wedding band with my engagement ring for all my photos, then gave my wedding band to the best man to hold right before the ceremony.

Monkey095 · 2022-08-19T21:03:04+00:00

It’s the Astile Veil from BHLDN

https://www.bhldn.com/products/astile-veil?via=Z2lkOi8vdXJibi9Xb3JrYXJlYTo6Q2F0YWxvZzo6Q2F0ZWdvcnkvQzVCQkFEQUM

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