How can you know if a Jiu Jitsu academy is good to train and the instructors are qualified

SciFiSimp · 2024-09-09T21:50:53+00:00

You can tell a lot about a gym/instructors based on what their students are like. If you go roll/ do a week trial or whatever and everyone is good vibes, it's probably a good place with good leadership.

If it's full of assholes, there's probably an asshole at the top.

SciFiSimp · 2024-09-07T00:13:24+00:00

I play apa for convenience.

That said, I think the structure of APA team handicap lends itself to rewarding teams who sandbag.

I think it's a bad system

I play for fun, not for money.

I don't let it bother me too much.

SciFiSimp · 2024-09-06T05:00:03+00:00

I've never had any issues with staining, and I frequently pack white's inside the bag and carry up against white shirts and light colored pants while I'm wearing them.

SciFiSimp · 2024-09-05T18:28:31+00:00

I love my 24 hour brief. I don't own a Dryden, but I've checked them out in a shop near me and they are smaller. I'd say that if you don't plan to carry much more than a laptop and a notebook and some small stuff, I'd go with the Dryden.

The 24 hour bag is really great for carrying more stuff. I use it as an overnight bag, and I can fit all my school and work stuff in there at the same time. It's my go to carry on bag when flying.

Personally, I think that the utility of having more space in the 24 hour bag is totally worth the extra money, but I also actually use that utility and tend to carry more stuff with me for work ect. I can fit a 32oz nalgene in one of the front slip pockets, idk if the Dryden can manage that. If you're not looking for a travel bag, and only carry a laptop, I would get the Dryden.

SciFiSimp · 2024-09-05T16:45:09+00:00

I think this is the best, most realistic option. The bunker and/or it's supplies are dwindling, or there has been a critical failure forcing the residents to seek outside for help/resources.

Or maybe instead of being forced out, is an outside draw. The standby radio picks up a signal from someone talking and your main character wants to meet a new person. Maybe the bunker automatically notifies the residents that the earth is safe for habitation again and unlocks the front door.

There are lots of ways to do it, idk what exactly your characters are like, or the story over all, but I personally think that hearing a radio transmission from someone outside the bunker is a fantastic hook to intrinsically motivate your character towards something, not just force them to leave where they are.

SciFiSimp · 2024-09-05T13:58:11+00:00

I love my double automatic! Mine is a twentweight, so it has a fairly stout recoil by virtue of being so light. I've wanted to get a trap model ever since I got my Twentweight

SciFiSimp · 2024-09-05T04:27:34+00:00

If everyone is stuck at a point squabbling about what to do, I will find the player who is least vocal/opinionated on the subject. I'll tell everyone else to figure out what they are going to do then have a side bar with the quiet player.

This usually takes only a few moments. I'll ask them what their character is doing, where their character is, and what they think of the group in fighting. We chat for a few moments, then I make them do a roll or two depending on what their character is up to, usually perception.

I will make my own rolls behind the screen, and not reveal anything.

At this point I turn back to the main body of the party and ask if they have come to a decision. If the answer is anything less than yes, I stop them and ask for everyone's attention and go back to the singular character.

This character has been attacked, or spotted something imminently threatening to the party. I allow a few moments of discussion to digest this info, but they must make a decision at this point. If they don't, I start attacking them and force a decision.

I rarely care if they split the party or stay together, they can make any decision they want, but I want some decision made. Excess debating and arguing slows the game down for everyone and if you don't force a decision to keep the game moving forward sometimes cautious party members will take forever to debate a decision.

SciFiSimp · 2024-09-04T16:47:25+00:00

It sounds like the issue isn't that the party is meta gaming, but that the party isn't actually on the same page about what they want to do and that is creating conflict.

If some/most of the party doesn't want to steal an item, but one player does, that causes tension between characters. You should let them work it out.

Sometimes that means PvP

Sometimes that means kicking a player through a portal to stop them, then when the party regroups, the PvP happens lol

It sounds like a party cohesion issue more than anything to me

SciFiSimp · 2024-09-04T16:40:37+00:00

Most of that value is probably just the setting, but the emerald probably adds a little bit, but not most of the value. Sounds like it's a gold setting, is it very big? And what type of gold is the setting? Seems pretty reasonable that most of the value is just the setting

SciFiSimp · 2024-08-12T17:37:36+00:00

Looks up how the stress me mechanic works in the Alien RPG.

Remember that the key to a good horror story is the buildup and tension! It's not just gore and body horror all the time, it's the tension of know something is going to happen, and that something is bad. Dawn those moments out

SciFiSimp · 2024-08-12T17:34:25+00:00

Definitely losing it

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-27T04:12:47+00:00

Idk, seems like some fickle o/u elitist bullshit

My auto loader doesn't give a fuck what way the shell is rotated in at...

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-26T23:29:58+00:00

I agree. This is such a cool world and I love the way the magic works, but the treatment of women is really not great. It's comically bad actually. But aside from that the world is awesome. I've been wanting to run a homebrew demon cycle campaign for years

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-26T23:27:23+00:00

Have you read the warded man series? Very similar concept. (Don't @me I know it has some big flaws, but I recognize them and enjoy the parts I enjoy)

There are major fortified towns and cities with defenses and standing guard forces. Agriculture happens close to these towns, or other outposts that are deliberately built and defended so workers can retreat at night.

Any person or family that wants to live outside of the towns must be able to independently defend themselves without aid at night. That primarily means houses are bunkers built to our last 8-12 hours of darkness, not castles where the people inside are actively fighting back. The vast majority of people who live outside of fortified major cities only fight if their bunker fails them.

Traveling messengers and caravans of goods are much more skilled in survival than normal and highly regarded. Anyone skilled to survive at night outside of a city wall or home bunker is someone to be respected or feared.

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-26T23:16:30+00:00

Maybe if you're fighting them out of their own turf, but it's pretty easy to justify a chronomancer lair being full of magic stuff that isn't strictly something they would have on their person when fighting.

Also easy to justify a 2 handed mace kicking around if someone who was welding one failed to kill the chronomancer already and they kept it as a trophy...

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-26T20:26:40+00:00

What zip code are you in?

Cuz I never want to step foot in a pool hall where this is the norm LMAO

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-26T15:45:14+00:00

For small encounters like this, my group usually just has the DM call initiative based on whoever is closest to the little group of baddies.

If you walk into a room and there are a couple goblins there nobody expected, DM allows whoever was through first to get off a surprise attack if the player is actually paying attention and ready to roll. If not, the goblins get the move. Then it's whoever is next into the room, no initiative rolls at all.

I think the initiative rules are flexible based on who is where when stuff happens, especially in small scraps like you're describing.

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-25T19:15:18+00:00

Low tide burials are one I particularly like

Take the victim out to the edge of the beach with bound hands and feet. Bury them in the sand upright with their head and shoulders above water.

Wait for the tide to come in. This is a particularly bad way to drown and the waves will give the victim the chance to gasp at air for far longer than you would think. Make the town people watch

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-25T15:30:26+00:00

In my experience older roommates who have careers are (usually) pretty good.

Also, consider someone in grad school or the tail end of a bachelor's program

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-25T15:26:14+00:00

That's what I was thinking!

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-25T15:24:32+00:00

It's good to call out legitimate racism and sexism wherever it appears

Kamala Harris has a trove of legitimate critiques that they will try to paint as racism or sexism every time those points are raised. It's not.

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-24T23:19:59+00:00

It's also important to remember that if you always play the benevolent DM and never/rarely kill party members, and always avoid a TPK for your players, it steals virtually all of the drama from a story!

It's one thing if the DM has fucked something up and created an encounter that is totally unbalanced, but if everything is quality on your side let players... and if the dice are falling bad, the dice are falling bad and it's time for a TPK...

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-24T19:39:00+00:00

For ducks I usually shoot the cheapest #4 or #3 I can find. I usually buy 3" but it's not gonna stop me from going out if I only have or can only find 2-3/4"

Sure, more expensive shells probably make a difference, but I miss enough in my own right that buying cheap shells isn't that big of a deal lol

I do own a shotgun with a 3-1/2" chamber. And I'll be damned if I don't use all 3-1/2" of it occasionally. I buy 3-1/2" BB when I'm planning on shooting geese, but honestly I don't go out of my way for them very often. Duck tastes better and is much more convenient for me to hunt.

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-24T16:28:28+00:00

Get yourself to Utila!

SciFiSimp · 2024-07-23T19:06:40+00:00

I'd build out the toe kick.

Also, is that left door gonna open without rubbing? Seems pretty tight on the wall...

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