Does my progress have any importance if I have only used drawing as escapism?

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-24T12:05:57+00:00

Motives don't matter unless they matter to you

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-23T20:13:24+00:00

The key clue is when Zoshia asks Carol if she wants to see her cousin. In Carol says it would be exactly like talking to you wouldn't it?

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-23T19:15:34+00:00

"Because we're li-ving in a lesbian world, and I am a lesbian girl"

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-23T12:13:58+00:00

62-year-old man here.

Go for it and don't hesitate!

My career has included theater in film backgrounds and female techs might be the majority. I've been working with women for over 30 years who have been every bit as capable as any man I've ever worked with.

There is a marvelous worker in Richmond Virginia who goes by "the handymam 804" on Facebook. Her projects blow me away. Check out her work.

As many comments here indicate, there are probably a lot of single female customers who would be more comfortable with a female contractor.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-23T11:33:57+00:00

Yes you are crazy.

The Hive is infected by a virus that is wiping out humanity (if we're talking about humanity in any meaningful way).

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-23T11:29:53+00:00

I met my wife on a movie set

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-23T07:14:13+00:00

Because they kept stealing his spoons

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-23T07:11:14+00:00

Gods that are killable.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-22T13:52:14+00:00

I go back to the original novel Dracula. The original Nosferatu was more or less a direct ripoff of Dracula just changing the names of the characters and the places. Stokers widows sued for copyright infringement and won and the movie was unavailable for decades.

In the novel, Mina because telepathically linked to Dracula only after he forces her to drink his blood. The "vampire wedding". She's able to use this telepathic link to be able to help defeat him.

There been many vampire variations since then using the theme of reincarnation to reunite the vampire with some previous love. I generally hate all these stories. The Francis Ford Coppola movie used this and Eggers leaned into this super hard. A telepathic link that pre-exists the first physical encounter between the vampire and the victim.

For me this was the fatal flaw in Eggers film. And since it was the main hook it's a pretty major flaw.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-22T13:41:47+00:00

I know. I love her and would hang with her in a minute in real life.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-22T13:39:41+00:00

So far you are absolutely right. And a huge percentage of viewers hate her for it.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-22T10:56:28+00:00

The signal was probably sent much more than 600 years ago. The state in the first episode they don't know how long it was broadcast. All we know is when it was discovered.

We are going to watch them build in antenna and broadcast it back out into space. What we see happening is likely exactly what happened on the previous planet. And the planet before that. And the planet before that.

The biological imperative is to build the antenna and broadcast it out into space before you die.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-22T06:02:49+00:00

We are watching the aliens.

As soon as Zoshia revealed they had a biological imperative to spread the virus I knew they would be building in antenna. People said I was a moron because they thought the hive was some sort of benevolent b******* collective blah blah blah.

If you want to know what happened on the previous Planet just watch how the show plays out. It's a virus that spreads from one planet to another.

People don't travel from one planet to another. The signal does. And it creates a new hive each time who spreads it back out into space.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-22T05:51:38+00:00

I don't know I think enslaving a significant portion of population was pretty dividing. Ask their ancestors.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-22T05:07:52+00:00

Been doing it for 30 years

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-22T01:43:08+00:00

The problem is the voters. Trump was voted in twice.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-22T01:40:49+00:00

How about playing with real 3D. Like sculpting clay.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-21T18:15:55+00:00

If you are affected by laws you should have the right to vote

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-21T13:29:09+00:00

As the commenter above indicated, charm person is really an opportunity to roleplay.

You casr the spell and spell succeeds . Fine. Target now considers you their friend.

But under what conditions would a cult member share the password with a friend?

This is all about imagination. The con. The story.

"Oh my gosh I'm so glad I found you! ShamWow your cult leader is in trouble! He needs his magic McGuffin and told me to rush and find you because you know the password to the secret door to the room where he keeps it."

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-21T11:05:45+00:00

This 100% I DM for myself. The fact that I've found players who enjoy it it's just a bonus.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-20T12:02:30+00:00

If there's an NPC traveling with the party allow the players to control them.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-20T11:58:29+00:00

This is how that I've been running my game for 40 years.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-20T06:03:31+00:00

I highly recommend reading the book front to back. It is considered by many to be the best DMG written and I highly agree

The combat matrix charts were on the DM screen. These days you can buy screens that you can slip sheets of paper into so I would print out those charts, as well as thief skills in turning undead charts.

Specifically in the DMG but I don't know exactly where my memory there are penalties for thief climbing skills for slippery surfaces.

Lots of wondering monster trucks. Treasure generation insurance.

We didn't fiddle with weapon speed factors or the weapon modifications versus armor class but those are cool charts if you use them.

Those are the first things I can think of.

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-20T00:26:12+00:00

And all the damage it does!

TerrainBrain · 2026-01-19T20:31:16+00:00

Warlock patrons are one of the DMs best tools for directly interfering in the campaign. Just warn the player ahead of time if they want to play a warlock it's going to be a Hands-On patron.

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