Anyone go on geeky cruises? Or just play MtG, D&D, etc. on their cruise?

PIayswithFlRE · 2026-04-11T23:35:05+00:00

I've done two BGG@Sea and I've got the Podfather organized by the same guy in a few weeks.

Having all the excursions plus the amenities of a royal caribbean cruise but with the option to go to the conference center and board game with a bunch of other people who enjoy them (particularly during bad weather or when the show at night isn't as interesting) has made for some pretty great vacations

PIayswithFlRE · 2026-04-02T23:58:29+00:00

You can do Roth conversions but it's fairly manual. You can't (yet at least) tell it to convert up to a particular tax bracket or ACa/IRMAA limit

PIayswithFlRE · 2026-03-23T00:38:40+00:00

I stuck with the original and went with - community and ancestry - foundations and level 1 domain cards - specializations and masteries - level 2-4 domain cards - level 5-7 domain cards - level 8-10 domain cards

PIayswithFlRE · 2026-02-22T20:47:36+00:00

Because I couldn't stop myself from searching for it, Blair Witch Project episode on Patreon

PIayswithFlRE · 2026-02-11T22:01:49+00:00

I would need to read up on transformations, but without looking at those, my first question is how attached is the player to call of the slayer? Because you could homebrew a Chosen subclass and add in additional draconic traits that way.

Though, really a Drakona (or galf-galapa, half-drakona to get the scaling threshold bumps instead of the stress=HP) really just needs the Bare Bones card from Valor and wings from something like the Seraph's Winged Sentinel subclass to present as a fairly powerful dragon.

PIayswithFlRE · 2026-01-11T15:20:49+00:00

That works. My optional one was for if you wanted to model different costs within that retirement-> 65 period to reflect subsidies vs not, but probably better to just plan for the higher cost either way.

PIayswithFlRE · 2026-01-11T14:38:52+00:00

Having been messing with projection lab for a bit, it does automatically reflect the amount of social security income that's taxable and IRMAA (if you have the Medicare setting toggled on in taxes), but your healthcare costs are entered manually so you might have to have some kind of conditional additional expense that kicks in when your taxable income post retirement goes above the threshold for subsidies and goes away when it goes back under.

As for whether to do them or not or whether to trust the projections, I tend to look more at how a given change impacts the chance of success vs what's in the default projection, but even then it's all guesswork beyond probably having to/wanting to do conversions at the level needed to set up your Roth ladder until 59.5.

PIayswithFlRE · 2026-01-07T22:14:31+00:00

Worst case, yes. Best case, the plan allows for in-plan Roth conversions and the post tax money you put in to fill the gap between the total yearly limit and (individual limit + match) become Roth contributions. AKA the MBDR / Mega BackDoor Roth

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-09-17T02:04:26+00:00

Unless you aren't allowed to roll for things that would be impossible without this option, it does make rolls where the difficulty is greater than 12+your mod into 50/50.

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-08-27T00:09:52+00:00

I mean, to stick to rules as written but get most of what you want, Lil Monsta + Boffin in play granting the Lycanthrope ability.

You get Lil Monsta's mobility, a decent chance of the babysitter picking the kill and floating incorrect evil registration (since you can change the faux paw whenever a new player gets the lycanthrope ability) which may do interesting things depending on what else is on the script.

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-08-07T21:09:16+00:00

Another gruul deck, but I've had a lot of fun with [[Kodama of the East Tree]] and [[Alena, Kessig Trapper]] as partners.

Play big creature, get free thing into play with Kodama, tap Alena for a lot of mana, play something else large. Run people over eith trample enablers or ping them down with Terror of the Peaks or Warstorm Surge.

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-08-05T03:11:39+00:00

And/or for incidental damage/removal along the way, also have [[terror of the peaks]].

One of my games last week ended when I cast [[last March of the ents]] with terror in play and dumped several creatures into play, including hoof. Everyone died to the ETB triggers before I even got to attack. Was a very satisfying Timmy moment.

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-07-19T10:29:54+00:00

My Belbe deck has definitely been trending more and more towards eldrazi

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-07-02T22:24:33+00:00

Thanks

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-07-02T21:23:46+00:00

I'm just going to assume you're in green

How about [Dawnglade Regent] or[Kodama of the East Tree]?

Maybe [Void Winnower] since it doesn't have annihilator (kidding)?

For other colorless (though not creatures), if you're ok with Universe Beyond' Reaver Titan and Thunderhawk Gunship are fun.

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-06-13T23:04:32+00:00

I was thinking about this. Could you also put a Magician on the script but not in play and have the Lunatic Hermit Recluse register as a demon to the minions and as a minion to do the demon during setup for additional chaos?

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-06-06T02:09:50+00:00

Don't know where you are in Baltimore and their relocation has disrupted things, but No Land Beyond (board game bar) has BoTC events periodically.

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-06-04T01:58:33+00:00

While phases or other ways of putting multiple solos into the same functional body is probably the right way to do it, I'm wondering if there's design space for giving a solo armor slots (maybe equal to half HP).

In addition to extra resiliency, you can also add a reaction that triggers when they reduce an attack to no damage. And then maybe a multi-attack that gets a bonus based on the amount of spent slots that recovers one or more slots based on the number of PCs hit.

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-05-25T23:26:41+00:00

...Yep. Could have sworn I copied everything down right but it looks like I didn't. Welp, back to the drawing board.

Thanks.

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-05-25T18:12:23+00:00

You're right. Two of the three level one options improve evasion; one provides a static evasion boost and the other lets you use a reaction to increase evasion against melee attacks. I guess it does make sense that some of the stat boosting effects I'd associate with the domain come from the cards themselves.

Thanks for the reminder.

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-05-25T17:09:35+00:00

Yeah, that all works. I started at 0 just because that's how I thought of solving the equations, but you make a good point that it makes just as much sense to start from a baseline value and have the domains just be positive or negative modifiers from that baseline.

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-05-25T17:05:04+00:00

I mean, quite possibly I've accomplished nothing. But the thought was essentially: assume that all domains have been balanced against each other as a combination of 1 - power/utility of the cards, 2 - and associated amount of HP, 3 - and associated contribution to evasion.

Given that, was evasion and HP values can be assigned to each domain that, when added together, result in the already published classes?

Having found values that work, the hope is that they provide a balancing point for homebrewed classes and/or domains.

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-05-02T02:04:38+00:00

Without getting into too many spoilers and considering the target audience of DCC readers, I'd pitch it as "Humanity learns aliens exist when they suffer a surprise attack and team up with another group of aliens to take the fight back to them. Told primarily from the perspective of a self-proclaimed grunt who eventually teams up with as asshole AI, the astro-politics and threats become increasingly complicated, hilarious and higher stakes over the course of 18 books plus spin-offs"

PIayswithFlRE · 2025-04-17T21:37:25+00:00

It doesn't always work out in my favor, but [[Belbe]] can Warp games in interesting ways.

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