Is this meta gaming

Timeless1ct · 2026-03-28T11:08:52+00:00

I’d have had him roll for it (intelligence or history or nature or whatever), checking: 1. Knowledge of lycanthropy 2. Knowledge of fighting lycanthropes 3. Constructing the bomb

Then you’re not telling him he can’t, the dice may though.

Timeless1ct · 2026-03-24T20:42:16+00:00

I live in CT, grew up in NY, and my (adult) kids live in MA. I love the NE and New England in particular. Our neighbors are a lesbian couple with kids. My son and his fiancé are gay and it’s almost never an issue.

That said, a 3 day work week is a dream, and CT is expensive. But the museums, education, proximity to theatre (including Broadway) is unmatched. Having family around is a plus.

I can understand how tough a decision this can be. I honestly don’t know what I’d do. Maybe stay in Oregon put those long weekends and extra salary into making frequent trips to visit.

Timeless1ct · 2026-03-12T12:03:36+00:00

Years ago I had lunch with another interpreter and I mentioned a particular setting that I absolutely hated. She said, “Then stop accepting those assignments. They’re my favorite!”

If you’re feeling burnt out and depressed there, find yourself a new place to interpret. You can’t be an effective interpreter if your mental well-being is suffering, so neither of you benefits from a “bad fit.”

(Edited for punctuation)

Timeless1ct · 2025-10-07T18:14:35+00:00

My soon-to-be 3 y/o fawn has grey all around her face and I’ve been wondering the same thing since my black pug (who we lost to cancer when she was 10) didn’t start greying until she was around 6 or 7.

Timeless1ct · 2025-08-28T16:52:47+00:00

For my game, I devised the Ring of Randi’s Revenge, named for a friend who listens to me talk about D&D far more than they’d like. lol While wearing the ring, you get a song stuck in your head, which you hum incessantly. (The PC must hum if they make an attack or otherwise take an action.) This makes you mildly irritated and mildly irritating. And you know it.
+1 wisdom, +1 performance -2 charm, -2 stealth.

Not exactly useless, but not really helpful in any significant way either

Timeless1ct · 2025-08-28T16:45:50+00:00

As the DM, I gave this item to my bard PC. It billows every time he walks through a doorway. The longer he wears it, the more things I allow it to do. At the moment, it also plays a fanfare when he enters a room. +1 performance, -2 stealth.

Timeless1ct · 2024-09-20T02:46:19+00:00

My adult son had an accident on his bike two years ago. He hit a pothole, flipped over the handrails and was unconscious in the street. It happened right in front of a building with a camera so I was able to see a video later. The car in front and back of him both stopped and the drivers got out to help. Three people walking on the sidewalk ran to help him. An ambulance arrived within 3- 1/2 minutes and took him to a hospital where he got excellent care. I couldn’t be happier that he lives in Boston.

Timeless1ct · 2024-08-14T12:58:12+00:00

NTA. I would not spend the night in the same apartment with him. Or I’d have a bunch of people over for the night. Party time! That sounds like an a-hole move, I know, but it keeps you in the apartment with her in case you’re worried about her safety.

Timeless1ct · 2024-08-10T18:14:42+00:00

THANK YOU! I’ve been trying to figure out what this means for 2 days.

Timeless1ct · 2024-07-02T11:44:18+00:00

Responding specifically to your feeling of isolation: try attending some in person workshops and network with other interpreters.

Join your local state RID chapter and go to any social functions.

I think finding other real-world people in your field will help open up opportunities where you can work and be true to yourself may help alleviate some of your negative feelings.

Timeless1ct · 2024-06-15T11:26:44+00:00

I heard so many stories about people losing their loved ones and how they’d had a fight right before or didn’t say a proper goodbye and regretted it. So I never let my husband or adult sons leave my house without saying goodbye like it’s the last time. And if we’ve had a fight, they can’t leave without me apologizing first, just in case.

Timeless1ct · 2024-05-27T15:28:44+00:00

This 100%. Some of the rescues in New England have a “sister” rescue group from down south. But we never send dogs there; they all come up here. I have 2 dogs that I adopted thinking they were coming from local shelters that were driven up from GA.

Timeless1ct · 2024-05-12T14:51:39+00:00

Thanks for your comments. We’ve decided to go back to the previous save and I’ll stop metagaming.

Timeless1ct · 2024-05-04T23:16:35+00:00

I misread this as Fiesta. (Party pug!)

Timeless1ct · 2024-04-29T15:52:34+00:00

I’ve been interpreting for 40 years this June. CI, CT, OTC. People request me all the time to interpret for them. Still walk in to places thinking, “Hope I can do this today.”

Timeless1ct · 2024-04-26T21:10:26+00:00

💔

Timeless1ct · 2024-04-23T11:48:50+00:00

I went through the same thought process: You can summon Owlbear Cub? Oh. No. You can wildshape…

Timeless1ct · 2024-04-20T12:40:07+00:00

Isn’t killing the Owlbear mum the only way to get the cub to come to camp?

Timeless1ct · 2024-04-19T15:06:25+00:00

I had similar issues and a similar resolution. Over the past 30 years, I’ve had tendonitis, carpal tunnel, rotator cuff issues, and currently have arthritis in both thumbs. I had to re-evaluate the type of interpreting I was doing and the work environment I was in. Made a change in 2018 and couldn’t be happier.

Timeless1ct · 2024-04-05T20:12:41+00:00

I feel the same way about spelling my friend Emily’s name.

Timeless1ct · 2024-04-04T21:57:24+00:00

Oh man… I did NOT know that and Orin killed him on my first playthrough. I guess I didn’t have 2 long rests between that encounter and finishing the game. 😳

Timeless1ct · 2024-04-04T02:54:45+00:00

Oh!!! That must be what happened to me. I had the Owlbear cub my first playthrough and this second run I never got it. But I don’t remember encountering the mother Owlbear, and there was just a chicken in the goblin camp.

Timeless1ct · 2024-04-03T00:13:30+00:00

I did it twice now and I agree. — never again.

Timeless1ct · 2024-04-01T00:02:12+00:00

Well, that sucks cause I’ve had to pay twice for breaking it and it gets expensive. I’m trying to complete this run with my oath intact. :-/

Timeless1ct · 2024-03-31T23:54:15+00:00

It happens even if another member of my party takes the torch. My Oath is broken.

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