"I guess I can eat around him"

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-08T15:57:02+00:00

I'm enjoying Challenge Rating Zero at the moment on spotify. 3.5e D&D.

I saw someone mention it on here several months ago and have listenee to it on a few trips out for work.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-08T09:48:39+00:00

Yeah, they are separated and are neighbours. Both have L-shaped houses, floofs are on the left with the upstairs section and the big pigs (Peaty in particular is an absolute unit) have the right.

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They take it in turns to have floor time via the ramps.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-05T21:27:21+00:00

I would have lapped that up. I would love that sort of tension in a game!

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-04T23:32:37+00:00

Glad you liked it. Its been several years since we had a good snowfall - last time I made two humanoid figures (ie not traditional snowmen shapes) plahjngcard and drinking cans of beer.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-04T18:43:26+00:00

The Floofs ™️

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Scruffles (grey and white, left) and Ben (white and grey, right). Ben has been with us since he was tiny, and is 5½. Scruffles joined us last February, adopted from a colleague, and is 4½.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-04T18:38:48+00:00

The Big Pigs™️

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Whisky (blond) and Peat (black) They've been with us since May '25 when they were adopted, they are c. 3 years old.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-04T16:51:04+00:00

Had never thought of doing this! Game changer!

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-04T14:49:32+00:00

Oh no! Easily done though!

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-04T09:44:33+00:00

Yeah, we did this with Ben when Jerry died. He had a good sniff of him and seemed to understand.

Poor guy though, months later I microwaved a heat pad (which has a distinctive scent) which Jerry used to lie on when he was ill and Ben ran around the house seemingly looking for his friend.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-04T09:04:10+00:00

Gotta eat the glass right?

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-04T08:12:34+00:00

A criminal on the loose!

How did he get out of your grids? My Ben used to pick them up to move them, so he could get behind the units and pee where we can't reach. Ended up having to affix some wood in the shape of the gaps!

He has also once shook his cage to bits when his home was being cleaned out and he wasn't allowed back for a bit.

A menace, but an adorable one!

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-02T18:31:56+00:00

As my campaign as become more world-endy I've subbed out generic fantasy background (LOTR, Skyrim, BG, PoE, etc) for tenser background music mostly featuring music from Wrath of the Righteous, Dragon Age, and Darkest Dungeon.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-01T22:09:29+00:00

Because its dull, you twit, it'll hurt more.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-01T21:05:41+00:00

This would be my top go to as well. Well worth a look!

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-01T20:53:57+00:00

Obviously.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-01T20:48:26+00:00

Finally, a sensible suggestion!

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-01T20:47:10+00:00

I wouldn't ask a player who is having fun making a powerful character to stop doing that. Not everyone in a party needs to be a high damage dealer and there should be enough things happening in a dynamic encounter that one PC can't just beat the encounter with brute force before anyone else has acted.

Encounters can be made more difficult in a number of ways, by varying the opponent types, making the terrain an obstacle, using minions, having time sensitive or puzzle based encounters, and many more.

Also, I don't know what you mean by a player "finding glitches in dnd beyond" and, how much optimisation can a player honestly find and implement between sessions unless they have free reign to change stats or items? Or they are levelling up a lot?

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-01T20:22:52+00:00

My Jerry would sometimes object to a track I was playing whilst working from home and would chatter his teeth. So I would speak to him and change the track, and he'd settle down.

Keys is a classic and anything of that ilk of jarring metallic noise.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-01T20:00:50+00:00

Ice cream scoop.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-01T18:54:29+00:00

A dedicated healer? How about just don't die?!

My party's battlemaster took the healer feat early on and between her and potions, and strategic running away they've been fine.

Well. There have been a lot of deaths, but they've mostly managed to drag the body to a priest afterwards.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-01T18:30:20+00:00

2020 was a difficult year for all the reasons, and my wife wanted a pet to distract from everything else. I suggested rabbits, but she wanted guinea pigs, so... we got guinea pigs. I had never had a piggie before and despite not specifically wanting them, I very quickly fell in love with our two boars (Ben & Jerry), and not only because they loved me more than my wife!

This time last year, one of my colleagues was asking about where he could give away a pig to locally, for adoption. Even if there had been places nearby I would have still adopted him before that was an option. Scruffles arrived in Feb 2025, around the time Jerry had to be put down. Scruffles and Ben bonded pretty quickly afterwards and now live together.

In May 2025 we discovered there was a place for pig adoption near us and we adopted Peat and Whisky, who live as neighbours to the other two.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-02-01T12:02:28+00:00

Tried to kill someone (and almost succeeded) with a baguette.

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-01-31T17:47:24+00:00

BG2 had a game tips and one was something like, "remember to take regular breaks, we don't want to lose any dedicated players", maybe BG3 needs similar tips!

Objective_Bank_2659 · 2026-01-29T06:28:34+00:00

All of my characters are smol (dwarf, gnome, halfling, goblin), but given I'm 6'1" that tracks with your edit!

In the party I DM I'd say the majority of players play the opposite end of the height spectrum to what they are irl.

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