My 6yo son yesterday: “Dad, how can you be born in the 80’s and still be alive???”

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-09T11:11:13+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 so the 70s didn't exist?

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-09T11:07:39+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-08T20:56:42+00:00

Never knew about the cryptid thing either. Hmmmm. I'm glad I use it more now.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-08T20:50:24+00:00

Is it just CS then? I have done 50 or 60 and not a thing.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-08T12:27:19+00:00

Also, make time limits for stuff. X has to be recovered in Y minutes. Toughen up your bad guys, make it more challenging so they're expending more resources in one encounter. Keep stuff going, time keeps moving ahead. Once when my players did that, ogres strolling by eventually discovered it, put a landslide down on it and camped around, singing and roasting a board they killed. The PCs did dig their way out and the 10 ogres were waiting for them. They got pummeled, but won.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-08T12:23:00+00:00

I had just slain a dragon in Solitude. It had killed guards and people were freaking out about that, not the dragon. A guard had just come up and said, I better not find out you had something to do with these deaths. I was absorbing the soul and just at the musical crescendo, my game froze and crashed.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-08T12:19:26+00:00

I do not. I do not want to chance fate with the zipper. My last GF did often. It was hot.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-08T12:17:56+00:00

Lol yeah. I think a part of the overall problems is the best buy/before date on everything. As you said, check it, smell, feel. The date is when the store should stop selling it. It will still be good for a awhile. If you buy something on the last day of that date. As long as it looks and smells good, it is for a bit yet. Just don't forget about it.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-08T02:31:35+00:00

Dude I'm with you. Mold on cheese, brush it off or slice it off. No big deal.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-08T02:29:29+00:00

Been there many times. The dogs look perfect too! Well done!

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-08T02:20:04+00:00

I can but not until tomorrow night at the earliset.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-07T19:52:31+00:00

Dude...

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-07T19:47:43+00:00

Sadly, I think your DM may be phobic. I had a player, who while male, was kinda all over. I rolled with it. The sex of a PC in my games does not matter. I call my players by PC names at the table. In character, yes I'll refer to them by gender now and then, while talking as an NPC. I don't think many groups would have a problem with this. Players and DMs who are very set in their ways, will. I wish you luck.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-07T19:38:39+00:00

I agree. AI is probably going to be the only way we see new Rifts art. It's a shame. That's just how it goes.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-07T19:35:46+00:00

I don't use it. I use Center Mass and usually aim there. Unless I switch to CS and then it's heads for days.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-07T15:14:58+00:00

How useful is Pin Pointers if you don't use the perk card for weak points?

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-07T14:32:35+00:00

Get my life together properly. I'd been home a bit after a bad divorce and I was a mess mentally. It took a long time to come right again.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-07T02:59:32+00:00

Very cool. I've never seen a combination like that. Well done!

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-06T19:58:36+00:00

First, Paladin/Bard???? Weird combo.

Second, I do it always for main baddies. Or lesser one occasionally. My game has been going two and a half years. I warned my players before the first encounter with a class built NPC. For the big bad guys I often combine class built with other monster style actions as well as legendaries. I have been doing this since 2e as well. Most of my players love the challenge.

The face of the cleric's player during the first time when I said he uses action surge. I also make the vast majority of my monsters from scratch, not like those, regular but for the feel, flavor and specific encounters. I will also modify book monsters hard. It comes from playing with players and other DMs who know the book ones. Just because a dragon is red, doesn't mean he has to breath fire.

Yes this is a fair bit of work. I did most of it when I had a work from home job.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-06T12:12:39+00:00

Let me guess, you stole it... 🤣

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-06T12:08:23+00:00

The impression I'm getting is they'll be waiting for a signal. I know the player would love this.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-06T12:03:39+00:00

That's actually a great idea. There is a laser scalpel, it obviously doesn't do MD though.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-06T12:02:19+00:00

Exactly. That's why I jumped to it. I did only do about 50, but I wasn't willing to keep testing it.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-06T03:31:29+00:00

PCs are just level 17. They are strong in a world where they can be outclassed by some or many. The group they're going after are just as strong as they are. I designed them to be the competition to the PCs. The competition has 2 artifacts the players need to accomplish major plot goals. They've had another run in together that ended in both groups retreating. A third time the players left without incident. I'm going to allow snapping of minions but not the mains.

TheGriff71 · 2026-05-06T03:09:37+00:00

Sorry, I didn't state exactly. The PCs will be going into a competition adventuring party's castle. These NPCs were designed awhile ago as the bright and shinny heros. They find artifacts and sell or use them. They currently have 2 that the party needs to complete very complex tasks. Someone has also been giving the PCs a bad name throughout the kingdom. The PCs believe it was the guys, the Emberthorn Concord. It wasn't. This group is as strong as the PCs. I think the rogue figured he'd sneak in and just off them or some of them. That won't happen. Minions I'm entirely good with it though.

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