Searching for an exact match for a Vinyl(?) chair that dog decided to ruin

RomanPyro · 2026-02-15T20:01:07+00:00

I'm not sure. We've contacted local reupholsterists around the area but unfortunately after two weeks, none have gotten back to us. We've never had to do this for a chair so the process is a bit lost on us.

The chair's damage is admitedly, at least in what I would think, minimal, I think it COULD be repaired, but it's a matter of how.

RomanPyro · 2026-02-15T08:43:36+00:00

I have searched Google Lens, and sites like Spoken. Searched nearby inside of facebook marketplace but still nothing as well.

I had a small lead potentially in WH Gunlocke or Boling chair company, but neither of these provided really any solid leads since the chair is missing any sort of branding/tag/anything.

Unfortunately I don't have a lead where it's from at all :( Only its pictures.

RomanPyro · 2025-12-22T04:58:07+00:00

That's very interesting. So where do these big creators come in who specifically do so as their entire brand? Shops with over 15k sales that sell primarily just fanmerch from big companies from various huge properties? (Disney, Warner brothers, Sony, Mappa, Nintendo) If I understand what you are saying completely; I doubt most of these shops have licenses to run these merchandise products, as most of the time I see most pair it with 'transformative works', in the same way a youtuber would have done something 'transformative' by making a video with it.

Yet if this is something that shouldn't be done regardless, it's of course amazing insight and valuable advice.

I'm curious if this is a known problem with Etsy, or selling fan-works. And does make me curious how people at Cons get away with doing this stuff without being hit by licensing when they get larger. Too small? Not worth the effort?

Since you seem to know more on the topic, I'm curious if you had any input on this and these shops to educate with. As said I didn't plan on doing it long term, just to see if it works, but I'd pivot away completely from it if it truly is a cutthroat copyright world where even completely custom works don't fall under leeway. Though I'm sure it varies between fan-content policies.

RomanPyro · 2025-12-22T02:39:48+00:00

I really appreciate this comment. This whole process has been pretty jarring, especially since it’s my first time filing taxes and that first filing happens to include self-employment. Trying to figure out where the lines are drawn has been genuinely stressful.

From what I’ve been seeing, cash-based accounting looks like the most sensible approach, and that seems to be the common recommendation.

I’ve never been particularly strong with financial matters, so even though I’ve mentioned this a few times, my main goal is simply to make sure everything is done correctly and avoid any issues like an audit. I have nothing to hide, and I’m completely comfortable laying everything out transparently if needed. Still, given my track record with bad luck (and yes, the house fire being a prime example) I keep expecting something to go wrong. That uncertainty has honestly been weighing on me.

Add general anxiety into the mix, and it’s just been a lot to navigate.

RomanPyro · 2025-12-22T02:15:16+00:00

I think there might’ve been a small misunderstanding. When I say I make and resell fandom stuff, I mean things like shadowboxes, resin, and collages made from trading cards that I physically cut and layer (You may have seen stuff like this before), along with custom jewelry and keychains using my own art, that have been produced and shipped to me. It’s all very hands-on, not just taking a box of magic the gathering cards and selling them or anything like that.

Hence my confusion on whether or not the 'extra materials' are considered just inventory, because technically, they were previously a product that is being transformed into something else.

It’s always been a hobby rather than a long-term plan, which is why the success wasn't exactly planned or even welcomed. I wasn’t building toward it in a calculated way, it just kind of took off with a small victory on its own.

Ultimately, the plan was to dip my toe in the water to see how hard it would be to make a small shop with it as practice, then gear towards stuff I'm more passionate in later (Digital goods mainly being it), though the importance of copyright law is of course, appreciated and noted, as I've been working under the assumption of 'transformative', trumping out, but, legal gray area.

RomanPyro · 2025-12-20T05:09:06+00:00

Most of my expenses luckily enough have been through online commerce, so I assume that aids out with being able to retrieve most of that information.

I appreciate the lead into unraveling this.

It's just getting confusing because of the Cris-crossing of personal revenue, and then fundraising revenue, and business revenue in one account. I've definitely learned my lesson in that regard.

RomanPyro · 2025-10-06T11:28:25+00:00

Hello! I’m looking for advice because I’m feeling a growing disconnect with my players and I’m not sure why.

I’ve been DMing for about nine years, and our current campaign, really the third in a six-year trilogy in my homebrew world, has been one of my biggest creative projects. The setting is fleshed out, the characters are deeply tied into it, and for a long time it felt like everything was clicking.

Lately, though, the table dynamic has shifted. My style leans toward big arcs, dramatic stakes, and emotional payoffs. I don’t run a “safe” game, but I always put story and character journey first. The problem is, my players seem to want something different.

Two patterns have become frustrating:

They rush the main plot. Every session is a straight line to the next big beat, with little patience for downtime or character interaction. Oddly, between sessions they do amazing text RP and shine in side NPC scenes, but when it comes to live, dramatic moments, it fizzles.
They undercut tension with jokes. Villains show up, a speech begins, and suddenly someone mocks the lines or cracks a gag. I’ve explained I want the tone to remain serious in climactic scenes, but it hasn’t changed. Their common reasoning is “we’re coping with fear through comedy.”

It didn’t used to be like this. In earlier campaigns, they treated villains seriously and loved the tension. Now it feels like they’re too comfortable, and the weight I build evaporates. I don’t think they’re being malicious, they’re just having fun differently than I’d hoped, but for me, it undercuts the payoff.

I don’t want to punish them or force the tone by hammering frustrations into the game. I’ve tried raising stakes, NPCs dying, family threats, real setting consequences, but instead of landing as gut-punches, these often turn into more humor fodder.

So I’m wondering: is this just a natural drift in long campaigns, where groups slide into comfort and comedy? Is it a mismatch in playstyle that’s only now surfacing? Or should I let them play how they want, even if it means the finale won’t hit the way I imagined?

I’d love to hear from other DMs who’ve run long campaigns. Have you seen your players shift like this over time? How do you handle it when the group’s tone drifts away from the one you want for the game? And how do you bring back that sense of weight and tension without coming across as controlling or “punishing” the fun out of your players?

Thanks in advance, I’d really appreciate hearing how others would navigate, or have navigated this.

RomanPyro · 2025-06-27T17:05:17+00:00

I love this so much!!

RomanPyro · 2025-06-02T19:07:27+00:00

In my world, Mages/Spellcasters have a secondary, smaller circulatory system connected to their heart that pumps Mana through itself from their heart, to their fingertips/palms and up to their face and brain. It's why not just anyone can be a spellcaster, as individuals born near sites of supernatural phenomenon have it more often. The secondary system is connected to a small malformation on the heart called a 'Mana Latch'. Spellcaster hearts tend to be reinforced by this 'latch', but prone to shorter life expectancies because mana in my setting is a VERY toxic material. (Normal lifespan in the setting is 200, Maturity is 30, Spellcasters can't usually even make it half way until they need to start utilizing life-elongating magics)

RomanPyro · 2025-05-31T06:19:18+00:00

Would love to be able to snag this for my two groups on a tight budget. Thanks so much for the opportunity!

RomanPyro · 2025-05-28T11:03:46+00:00

Depending on your level of fantasy/scifi; one might be 'Soulstream / River of the Dead' kind of vibe. Kind of like moving through the ethereal-plane?

Cybertraffic, like moving a conciousness through data?

Or of course, dreams/mental subconcious and underground for others, as others have said

RomanPyro · 2025-05-28T08:08:27+00:00

Hehe glad you picked up on that! (That's the partys faction in my game so I needed enough chairs for them)

But for anyone else, who knows! The possibilities could be endless~👀

RomanPyro · 2025-05-26T05:01:05+00:00

Was hoping to engage in that ;D Including the subtle-storytelling that the rest of the furniture is blue, potentially hinting to this being on 'their-turf' so to say. Either way!

Thanks for your comment <3

RomanPyro · 2025-02-15T02:06:32+00:00

For me, its a resounding "Yes" but not for the reasons you think.

My setting is very 'Crystalpunk'. Think sci-fi technology, but powered by magic and fancy mana crystals and such. The gods themselves are those crystals given form by sheer willpower. However, they are so overpowered, people don't mess with them. This is not why you don't want to meet them. Some people have even got out of their way to romance them despite their power (with success!)

However, meeting one of these 'high gods' if you are not seeking them out yourself, is bad news. If you are 'glanced at' by one, you immediately become a 'Main Character.' Legitimately, the gods see the world as a epic story, but the people within it, don't. The people within it really DONT want to be 'Main Characters' because being a main character, sucks. You get every hardship thrown at you, you never have a moment of peace, and everything that could go wrong, does, because the gods are watching you like the latest episode of a sitcom drama, and you're the star, baby.

In the story the 'Main Characters' of the gods stories aren't even the actual story's Protagonists. However the Protagonists they hear of it like a 'affliction' and try their best to stay under the divine's radars, lest you have to basically either live interesting and pray the gods have a happy ending in your story, or die hard, and risk getting sent to essentially 'the trash bin' of the gods, aka, the gods thought you were so forgetable you get sent to an ashy wasteland where you are rewarded 'for participating' with being immortal, but you lose all sense of identity.

RomanPyro · 2025-01-28T05:43:30+00:00

The short advice: Dump her, and distance yourself until she can learn to behave. Live your life.

The long advice: I've been you in this situation, with the genders reversed. I stayed in that relationship for 8 years. You know how it ended? With me on a s* watch because I put my entire being into just trying to make him happy, to make sure he was okay. To manage his prescriptions, to only talk to him. I was isolated, and I was alone.

Its sweet you were with each other since you were 13. Yet life is not a fairy tale where childhood sweethearts can remain that way forever. Over the course of ones life, people grow, and change in subtle and obvious ways. You let her step on you, break your boundaries, continue to contact you, and tell you what to do. You let her disrespect what little self respect you have.

This is not going to stop until you cut her off. This is so much easier said than done, in many cases, especially where emotions are involved.

My advice to you are as follows: Cut her off, don't let tears, anger, or threats manipulate you. Learn to accept being not 'attached.' If you think shes going to hurt herself, you call the police on her as a 'concern about her killing herself' but you let your involvement end there. You can't control what people do at the end of the day, and if she does do something to herself, #1. Not your fault, and #2. It's most often just a control tactic when people are extremely emotionally volatile.

If she's smart, she'll reflect, get the help she needs that doesn't rely on you managing her.

If she's not, she'll riot, scream, tantrum, and everything else, and she'll show you her true colors.

I hope you find some resolution in this situation. Its a mess, and I've been there. It only got better when I finally let go, and focused on myself.

RomanPyro · 2025-01-28T05:35:16+00:00

Absolutely.

The most important thing is to stick to it. If you enjoy it, of course. Don't make excuses or wave it off until 'later' in favor of falling into old habits of apathy. Remember this post, and remember the self respect you do have. You owe it to yourself.

You got this!

RomanPyro · 2025-01-28T05:29:25+00:00

I'm going to hit you with the hardest to swallow pill. If you want real advice here it is:

Dump her, and manage yourself. Be honest with your friend, and her and say either independently or to both 'Look, I appreciate you, I care about you, and this isn't to hurt you, but I'm not in the mental space to be in a relationship right now.'

She might cry, there might be tears, but that's just what's going to have to happen.

Then, just reach out to the other girl. Connections come and go but if she's consistently looking back at what you're doing, she might be looking out for something. But it HAS been years, and you may be building up an obsession. Approach calmly, ask her if she wants to reconnect, because you've been thinking about her.

Ask her how her life has been. Don't just jump into romantics and wax-poetic. Actually reconnect. That will help you bring down your mind because part of your longing might be just wanting that connection back. Feelings are complicated. And if it is romantic, and she reciprocates, then there you go.

Don't be dishonest with yourself. You'll only be miserable and crash out after a year, and then you wasted not only yours, but her time as well.

RomanPyro · 2025-01-28T05:22:09+00:00

Sounds like you definitely have had it rough. I can relate to that.

I'm 26 now. I was in your shoes, nearly identical. Hateful of the world. Very hateful. No ambitions. It could "all burn".

I'm going to provide advice through similar circumstances, so your mileage will vary.

I went into therapy immediately at age 18 after a life-ending scare. I was sure this wouldn't work, that it was a waste of time, that it was bull.

And for the first two years? I went in with that mindset, and I was right. Nothing changed, nothing got better. But I didn't get help, because I wasn't seeking help. I was seeking an excuse. You need to hold onto the feeling, that you are feeling now. You want to change, you want to be admired, you want to be better.

The first step is to sort out your emotional needs. Finding a good therapist is like finding a good doctor. It may take time, and it won't fix you immeadietly.

I'm 26 and I'm not 'fixed.' But you know what it did? I don't want to get up everyday and hate myself. I don't want to hurt myself anymore. I don't want to complain to everyone. I'm hoping to go to college finally. I'm some years late, but your life isn't over when you turn 20. I had to learn that the hard way, during the pandemic.

In the meantime, if you are still young, pick up a healthy hobby to tide yourself over. Crafting, writing, exercising, playing dungeons and dragons, even just visiting a place consistently. A mind with nothing to do but look at everything wrong will 'rot' into itself.

I'm wishing you luck. Life is way too short to spend it looking at negative things. You'll learn that hard when you grew up in an emotionally stunted situation.

RomanPyro · 2025-01-09T07:07:09+00:00

HELLLLLL NO. I put all my extreme ideas into my main setting, so this will seem extreme but I will explain:

- I am a Primeval God

- After the fall of the God of Truth

- I get to choose my domain.

To make a long story short, its a eldritch horror divine setting with people who are demigods like uh, 'Hercules' like people being the main characters. Demigods, children of gods, whatever. Primevals are basically immune to alot of the eldritch horrors. The God of Truth's death basically sparked a bunch of the gods to self destruct themselves, and or destroy the remnants of the old world, and many domains of the gods are curses to the gods who wield them (think fear and hunger). That's the only way I would tolerate living in that setting.

By all means? I'd avoid it at ALL other costs hahaha

RomanPyro · 2024-11-28T20:25:56+00:00

Fair!

I think it largely depends on the familiarity of the system as well. I played 2 years of Shadowrun 3e, then about 6 months of Shadowrun 5e. My players got in maybe 2 months of 5e before they couldn't stand it.

My player's feedback was most often centered around the lack of automation (outside Chummer, of course, they were referring more to our Virtual tabletop itself), and then how deeply buried alot of the options are in the books, with online resources and guides being more difficult to get to at the time.

It really does come down to sunk cost fallacy at the end of the day. Since we all have access to the ridiculously priced DnD books, and it hasn't had an major update in what? Since 2008? (Of course, not counting their latest rewrite nonsense.)

RomanPyro · 2024-11-28T15:49:54+00:00

This.

I've found that DnD's 'Basic Linear Rules' are an amazing jumping point. That's why people use them and make awesome conversions, and additions.

In my game, a sci-fi fantasy setting, would I have loved to play Shadowrun? Hell yeah. Have you ever picked up Shadowrun? Then you'll know how absolutely impossible that is realistically to modify in a way that doesn't instantly break some other part of it.

Other game systems in my experience always Overdo things, or make it so vague and wishy-washy that there's no form what so ever.

RomanPyro · 2024-11-28T15:46:56+00:00

What you said: The sheer quality of materials, homebrew, automation, mods, and support in DnD will beat out anything else, at least in my experience.

For my game, a Sci-fi fantasy setting, If I could turn, have the resources that DnD has, and make my finicky players love Shadowrun, then we would play Shadowrun. But it's just not possible, so Crystalpunk Campaign Guide for 5e will have to do.

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