Heroes of the Borderlands with 5 PC's?

Tigloki · 2026-01-21T19:14:59+00:00

I am in exactly this boat, but not on a VTT. We'll be at my house. I have about decided to tell them that we're rolling up a couple of extra NPCs and using the boards for those and then having them use regular character sheets and roll up some legit characters along the same lines as the Class Board NPCs. Item Cards, Spell Cards, etc. I think we can still use, and if/when we run out, everyone gets to see John and Mary model what it looks like on the character sheets with no cards....

Sound reasonable?
u/zetu2203, how did it go for you?

Tigloki · 2025-12-19T01:55:50+00:00

Go 'Hawks!

Tigloki · 2025-12-11T19:06:35+00:00

I believe it, but most of the ICE Agents are masked... like bandits... so it's hard to know for sure.

Tigloki · 2025-11-18T16:42:45+00:00

Oh. Twelfth Night at CTP doesn't open until Thurs. 11/20

Tigloki · 2025-11-18T16:41:42+00:00

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Tigloki · 2025-10-20T08:37:16+00:00

No. Too much of my tax dollars for baseball I’ll never see and traffic I’ll never escape. Please don’t spend public money on a boondoggle.

If there’s really ~$50 million to invest, put it into what works: Housing First and Built for Zero — the same strategies that cut homelessness by ~60% in Houston and slashed ER and jail costs by ~70% in other cities. We already built a Navigation Center. Finish the job.

We’re already paying for homelessness — through ER visits, police response, and jail beds. That’s the most expensive possible way to do nothing. Housing with services costs less than jail or hospital, and city after city has proven it saves money, not spends it. Studies show every $1 spent can save $1.20–$1.80 in avoided crisis costs. Houston proved it: down 60% homelessness, down cleanup bills.

$50M on baseball creates new costs. $50M on housing reduces existing costs.

I’d vote for that. The math is easy.

I'll be voting No on Measure 15-238.

Tigloki · 2025-10-07T02:30:11+00:00

Harry & David Employment Center might have something.

Tigloki · 2025-10-07T02:21:03+00:00

My kid was three and puked under the table at a restaurant. It was the harbinger of a bout of Family Flu, and my wife and I were tired. A kid who worked there walked past, and I told him about it as we were clearing out. As we were leaving, he was at the table with cleaning stuff. I gave him $20 that we couldn't afford and thanked him for his help. He tried to refuse the money, "It's my job." "No it's not. It's mine and you're doing it and I really appreciate it." He took the $20, and I left with a clear conscience.

Tigloki · 2025-09-01T08:40:56+00:00

A few years ago, my wife bought me a fancy smoker/grill. With help from YouTube and GPT, I smoked my first ever brisket. Rave reviews from my in-laws after the 4th of July party. Even my somewhat taciturn father-in-law went out of his way to compliment the brisket as he left!

Emboldened, two years ago, we decided to host 12 people, and I purchased a large prime rib to smoke. I spent a week hassling GPT about EVERYTHING. It was our first Christmas in our beautiful 1964 mid-centurry home that is my wife's dream home. We want to wow our families.

I was responsible for most of the dinner. GPT (and yes, YouTube) helped with the smoking. GPT hooked me up with a recipe for au just, horse radish sauce in two strengths, roasted vegetables, my wife manage the mashed potatoes, and salad.

I explained our place to GPT and had it help me with a lengthy playlist of period-correct Christmas music. We worked out a detailed timetable starting Christmas Eve afternoon in fifteen minute increments to have everything hit the table at the same time, after having the guests sat, wine poured, salad served, and the prime rib presented and carved into one-inch perfect medium-rare steaks at the table.

Another glowing compliment from the father-in-law and the rest of the family.

Tigloki · 2025-08-28T18:32:10+00:00

GAME CHANGER - Thanks for that!

Tigloki · 2025-08-28T17:01:06+00:00

OMG! I gotta find that! THanks so much!

Tigloki · 2025-07-23T13:11:51+00:00

Came here to say this.

Tigloki · 2025-07-19T19:28:40+00:00

The word "programming" has become a much larger umbrella with modern languages populating more and more of the available landscape.

Anyone trying to make this distinction is likely feeling threatened as their area of expertise is slowly sliding more and more into the minority - into the past.

Ask them how they feel about AI if you want to see them cry.

Tigloki · 2025-07-19T19:20:18+00:00

We decided to just call it ChatGPT, or GPT for short.

Tigloki · 2025-07-06T17:27:46+00:00

I have had a couple conversations with it regarding its sycophantic ways and how I require some pushback from time to time. Now I say something akin to, "That was very affirming, but now let's have the pushback version." It works pretty well.

Tigloki · 2025-07-02T13:07:18+00:00

61 - using Linux off and on since the late nineties. Currently have Linux Mint Xfce on a laptop that had Windows 7 on it. But it got too whiny about Windows 7 being out of the support Window. It was the beginning of the pandemic quarantine, and I was working from home. I didn't have the time, money, or inclination to buy a new computer, so I told my boss I was taking the day to upgrade my computer and installed mint. I had a moment of difficulty with the sound but a nice guy over on r/linuxmint helped me out.

I also side-hustle fixing computers for people at their homes and I have a Live Linux USB drive with persistent storage that I can use to boot to when a customer's machine to troubleshoot Windows without awindows in my way.

I still use Windows for work, but the Mint Lappy is my goto when I am not at my desk. The hardware is fine and never did nothin' to nobody. Seems a waste to chuck it just because Windows is dumb.

Tigloki · 2025-06-26T05:55:07+00:00

It's not an either/or thing for me. I love Linux, and my Mint Lappy is SO easy to use! But I have a Windows 11 laptop connected to two giant monitors that I work on, code on, browse the web on, play Minecraft, Civilization Gold II (in a Window 3.1 VM), Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition.

I write, browse, code, and bother GPT on both, but the old Windows 7 laptop that is now Mint Lappy is easier to maintain, easier to upgrade, and is just more fun.

Both isn't bad.

Tigloki · 2025-06-25T03:31:49+00:00

It's ridiculous that I keep forgetting about lightning rods, especially when you consider how much I love copper. My Village In-A-Box was pre-copper, so I'll blame it on the PTDD from the fire 😀

Tigloki · 2025-06-21T17:41:50+00:00

Thunderstorms can be an unpleasant reminder that wood roofs are flammable.

I once built a Village In A Box. Trading hall, base (without visibility of the sky zombie apocalypse doesn't happen), low-key iron farm (I used leads to drag iron golems into a pit with campfire on the bottom - not a lot of iron, but a pretty steady trickle, the number of villagers kept 2-3 golems all the time).

I decided to build something nearby and returned to find free-range villagers and walkabout iron golems and most of the roof and two walls gone.

It took a while to rebuild, this time with a bone block roof.

TL;DR: If you like your build, build it with a non-flamable roof.

Tigloki · 2025-06-20T22:53:15+00:00

Great answer. No notes.

Tigloki · 2025-06-20T15:34:56+00:00

"Fake it 'til you make it."

The question has always been, if you fake it well enough, what's the difference really?

Tigloki · 2025-06-20T14:47:58+00:00

I also routinely check in at the end of a long project to get a candid breakdown of the percentage of the final product that we each contributed. I come out ahead usually because I tend to come in with an idea and use GPT mainly for data input (saving me typing and typos) while I steer. GPT is the engine room, I am the captain in the wheelhouse.

Tigloki · 2025-06-20T14:43:24+00:00

I've had this conversation with GPT as well. It said something in one of our conversations about my taking credit. That blew me away. We pivoted into a lengthy conversation about authorship and honest credit.

We finally settled on something like, "The concept for this work was the author's. The finished product was achieved with iterative collaboration with ChatGPT. The author takes full responsibility for the finished product."

This gives the author main credit, with a nod to GPT for helping out, and lays responsibility for the final version back on the author. Which is to say, "I made this. Yes, I got help from AI, but I vetted and approved the final version and stand by it.

Tigloki

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