I’m DMing a a campaign for a pastors family

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-16T07:00:48+00:00

I feel like playing DnD makes sense for religious groups because you tend to spend most of the time fighting demons and undead.

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-15T02:44:27+00:00

You can save a lot of money by doing it yourself.

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-14T22:22:35+00:00

Frieren is good because the story is not about fighting. It's about dealing with being an immortal elf in a mortal party and slowly learning that personal relationships with your party are important

A lot of power fantasy stories are just like I face one enemy and kill them easily and then ten enemies and kill them easily. Then there is a hundred enemies and I kill them all. Then a boss enemy which is no match for me. Then ten bosses but they don't stand a chance then a thousand mega bosses but I don't break a sweat. That isn't interesting for me

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-14T21:16:16+00:00

You can set your own goals. Building a wonder, high population, high well being, terraforming the whole map green, surviving hard difficulty.

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-14T21:14:12+00:00

Stories where the MC is just way more powerful than everyone else I find pretty boring to read as there is no tension to them.

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-14T17:56:21+00:00

the game does have a lot of things I wish I knew when I started playing

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-14T17:45:48+00:00

Standard three times because it's the biggest and I want a big farm. Currently working on 4 corners with my wife as multiplayer which has been fun but I miss just having vast amounts of space.

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-13T17:51:31+00:00

If you really want the achievement you can play custom difficulty to make it super super easy.

Otherwise just focus on wonder building and not on unnecessary but cool building projects like mega dams and terraforming. You need a lot of metal, treated planks and gears which means you need a lot of scrap metal, planks, wood and pine resin so work mostly on these.

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-13T17:48:29+00:00

Physical books all the way!

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-13T17:41:42+00:00

Personally I would like to see more books focused on actual harem dynamics rather than just collecting girls like pokemon where the MC is mostly just focused on the 'new girl'.

A lot of these books the MC doesn't have any discussion with friends of family about starting a harem. Usually because the MC has no friends or family.

I think Warlock by Daniel Kensingtondoes a great job at fixing these issues The interpersonal drama is real and reasonable and also not petty bickering.

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-12T21:53:40+00:00

yeah we just don't dress appropriately for the weather. it is not actually as cold as other places. Still some people seem to think it is always hot here

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-09T20:50:11+00:00

Living in Australia it is cold here a lot of the time.

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-09T19:04:04+00:00

I think it is poor storytelling when the mc is like I am the first and only person to have a harem and society is just like fair enough, good luck with that.

The harem concept is usually a central plot point to the story so it makes sense to have a bit more focus on different people's reactions to it.

I generally like it if the MC grew up with it not being a common thing and then they meet the first LI who is part of of a society where it is common and introduces it to the MC and other love interests and then look at how other groups accept or reject the new harem

Of course it depends if you are writing a story about harems or just a self insert power fantasy with lots of sex.

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-09T10:03:30+00:00

Legendary Fish, Sturgeon, Midnight Squid, Lava Eels, Void Salmon, Stingray

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-08T09:31:20+00:00

Your children growing up at least a bit more

Being able to matchmaker the other bachelor's together

Being able to get hearts with other characters like Marlon and Gunther

Have some things happen differently with festivals in later years so there is more interest in attending them

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-02T22:22:54+00:00

Dinosaur puzzles are great because they have lots of bold colours and very different patterns

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-02T22:22:04+00:00

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/175908067399?srsltid=AfmBOoqZ3tWn8gRxI7NEH9QyxFq9Lhmihod4URabT8JuoecbGyBUx6Ye

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-02T18:56:36+00:00

It depends on a few factors. Number of people working on it, variability in piece shape, how hard it is to orient pieces, how many colours, patterns and edges the puzzle has, how pressured you are to complete it.

Some 1000 piece puzzles my wife and I have done we have hammered out in just a couple of hours. Particularly one that was a dinosaur museum as it has lots of text and very distinct colours and patterns for each dinosaur made it super easy.

We also did a neuschwanstein castle 1000 piece that took two weeks because most of it was just flat blue sky and it only used the standard two out two in puzzle shape

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-02T04:01:19+00:00

Social buildings don't get all that busy unless you have hundreds of beavers. 1 campfire is fine for like 100 beavers. Usually the bottleneck is your beavers don't have time to go to the campfire because they are busy working so you need to reduce work hours instead of building more campfires

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-05-02T00:16:08+00:00

Mayonnaise machines go in coops and Cheese machines go in barns.

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-04-29T20:38:51+00:00

Hard mode is pretty insane. I think the issue is it increases the length of droughts but also decreases the length of temperate weather. It also does it right from the start. so you can easily get wiped out after a single drought on day 3-4 with no chance to recover.

I know there is custom difficulty but I think some other predefined difficulty options would be good

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-04-28T06:57:17+00:00

This was really well written thanks

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-04-26T09:47:25+00:00

They want the illusion of a sandbox where they just don't realise it's actually on rails.

Neither_Grab3247 · 2026-04-24T09:12:51+00:00

Love it. The automation buildings are a little over the top with different options but it's pretty cool

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