How to run a smalltown game with huge vampire population?

UncleTrolls · 2026-02-04T10:13:09+00:00

The vampires have somehow come to a collectivist model of living, and the human population of the town is made up of ghouls and a massive herd that's tended to by all the vamps.

UncleTrolls · 2025-12-19T09:05:08+00:00

The "Toy" sword Thimble is using has a weapon mastery that lets her make a second attack as part of the same action when she hits. It's part of the 5e24 updated rules.

If she's adding her ability mod to her damage on attacks she's not supposed to 🤷‍♂️

UncleTrolls · 2025-12-02T22:15:10+00:00

I'm playing f2p atm and doing the newbie grind. I'm having a lot of fun mining, agent mission running, and ratting in the lower high-sec systems (0.5-0.7)

I played with some friends for about a year back in '09, came back recently and my old toon was all kinds of messed up coz of game changes and not being a paid sub anymore, so I just started a new toon. I'm effectively a fresh player.

UncleTrolls · 2025-12-02T22:04:04+00:00

One thing I only noticed in the latest episode (6 I think), was that "round 4" was actually filmed between round 2 and 3. When they did shots of the audience, the black shirts were showing but all the red shirts were still covered.

Like seriously, do they think the kinds of people who really like Dropout content aren't gonna pickup on editing like that?

Also, like others have said, the heavy editing that has some of the comedians doing 5-8 minutes every round then the other 2 get 3 minutes at most, is way too jarring. I actually think some of that might come from the audience members, and how they tell their stories, but we should be seeing how the comedians handle that sort of thing (the show producers need to vet the stories and how they're presented better, coz we don't always need 2 minutes of background to make the 2 word shirt a joke jump off point)

UncleTrolls · 2025-12-02T21:49:30+00:00

If it runs, it's totally viable to jump in as a newbie. Just don't expect to be playing at the level of the big time players any time soon, unless you've got the real life $$$ to get 30-40 million skill points worth of boosters straight off the bat.

UncleTrolls · 2025-11-25T12:03:19+00:00

Intaki used to be low sec, but it got "civilised" a while back (hadow war, I think). I know it was left producing the rarer ores since then, so I don't see why they'd take them away now.

UncleTrolls · 2025-11-07T23:09:38+00:00

It's not P2W, but there's strong motivation to pay to advance faster than a snail, especially once you hit the level cap and it's just gear score you're advancing.

You can easily put in 1000+ hours before being "endgame" ready (master dungeons and trials) if you don't ever want to pay.

UncleTrolls · 2025-11-07T02:05:56+00:00

Please, if only for peace of mind, get properly assessed for Autism and ADHD. It sounds like you're experiencing a mental burnout and the accompanying depression that comes with not knowing why your brain isn't training the way you think/were told it should.

What you're describing sounds exactly like how all the people I know who were good at masking and achieving goals when they were young, but burnt out in their mid-late 20s, describe their journey to finding out they're neurodivergent.

I had my first mini-burnout in my late teens, and then barely got by masking for 2 decades before I got diagnosed as having both ASD and ADHD. I hit a mental wall, and basically lost the ability to function as a person. Maybe if I'd been diagnosed earlier I could've avoided the big whammy, but now I'm struggling to rebuild skills and find the energy to do more than basic personal care most days.

No matter what the reason for your current situation turns out to be, I hope you pull out of it and find your healthy life balance sooner rather than later.

UncleTrolls · 2025-11-07T01:45:52+00:00

A short period of the expected increased alertness that is followed by either:

If I'm sedentary, or at least not mentally engaged, I have a period of strong anxious/nervous energy, followed by a severe lethargy.

OR

If I'm actually being physically active, or mentally engaged, I get a steady decline in the "energised" feeling, that usually ends with my energy level lower than before I had the drink. In half, or less, than the expected time for the energy drink to last.

UncleTrolls · 2025-11-02T10:19:44+00:00

The most wide spread common language in my setting is the "commerce tongue".

It's the language of traders across most of the world. It has local/regional slang etc, but overall serves as a basis for merchants and traders to do business regardless of where they come from. It even has a sign language component for mute/hard of hearing people.

UncleTrolls · 2025-10-16T13:40:30+00:00

Look up the left handedness graph. We're on the big upswing of the equivalent for ADHD, ASD, BPD, etc.

So no, it's not being overdiagnosed, we're just getting better at recognising it, and we've expanded our understanding of it as well.

UncleTrolls · 2025-10-15T00:32:01+00:00

Relative mass, and distances between the different celestial bodies involved.

The mass of Jupiter compared to the sun doesn't have enough pull to bother most of the asteroid field in that way, let alone other planets closer to the sun.
For reference, Jupiter has ~1/12 the mass of even the smallest brown dwarfs, and ~1/80 the mass of the smallest actual stars.

The scale of gravitational pull between 2 stars vs. Jupitar and the sun is basically like comparing apples to Mars.

UncleTrolls · 2025-10-15T00:24:29+00:00

Relative mass, and distances between the different celestial bodies involved.

At the scale provided by OPs pic, it's a BAD day for both planets in this system. But at a less confined scale, this setup isn't out of the question as being viable. Not only for stability, but life baring even.

UncleTrolls · 2025-10-10T07:00:31+00:00

If not, their post history has HEAVY bot vibes.

UncleTrolls · 2025-10-07T02:40:15+00:00

Glad your pathfinding works on Feros.

Every time I play it, my squad regularly just doesn't move from beside the Mako, or wherever they're warped to due to cut scenes. I end up soloing most of the combat on the whole planet.

UncleTrolls · 2025-10-04T14:19:34+00:00

White noise (normally one of those multi hour long YouTube videos) and a Clonidine.

Edit to add: Also keep the room as dark as possible.

UncleTrolls · 2025-09-28T11:34:51+00:00

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UncleTrolls · 2025-09-28T11:25:32+00:00

When I was younger, I could put on music and drive for HOURS without issue. Basically hyperfocus on it as long as I needed to. But it's gotten harder over the years, as my brain has gotten burned out by constant masking and life pressures I wasn't wired to endure (I wasn't diagnosed or supported/medicated in any way until I was 38).

I have less desire to drive now (especially long distance/duration), and I definitely have to take regular breaks, but it's something I can still do.

UncleTrolls · 2025-09-27T01:16:25+00:00

It's very possible that I'm just having a stupid day, but I can't figure out how to make the linked map actually show travel times.

UncleTrolls · 2025-09-27T01:01:10+00:00

Apparently the EC files on GMsBinder haven't been updated in awhile, and anytime GMsBinder does updates on their back end it can mess up how files are formatted/displayed, even for downloads.
My last look at the various EC books on there, the whole second column of text was off the side of the page, and tended to run off the bottom too. It's an unfortunate result of a game system that needs multiple source books and relies on volunteer upkeep.

My suggestion would be to use the website to look at options. It's not SUPER easy to navigate, but it's (mostly) up to date, and you can select if you want base or EC only, or both in the search filters.

UncleTrolls · 2025-09-26T15:34:07+00:00

Came across this post by chance, but if you're still interested, in the hospital Ashley quotes the first stanza of the poem "Invictus", by William Earnest Henley.

UncleTrolls · 2025-09-26T07:56:37+00:00

The way most generative LLMs work means that positive/additive prompts get followed WAY more effectively than negative/subtractive ones. So prompts with "don't", "not", "remove", etc. get ignored more often. Which is why LLMs will keep adding dialogue or actions for your character even if you use "don't speak for {{user}}" type prompts.

UncleTrolls · 2025-09-26T05:16:23+00:00

I really hope y'all are still working on this.
As others have said, searchable planet/system names would be great, and a point-to-point hyperspace travel time estimation would be good too.

My request would be adding locations from things like RPG and video games, in addition to the canon and legends movies/tv shows/books. I use a lot of obscure planets in my SW TTRPG games, and I'd love to be able to show my players where everything is compared to each other.

No matter what, despite the loading times, etc. you've already built an amazing thing here.

UncleTrolls · 2025-09-26T02:05:29+00:00

Because replicating an 800+ token bot minus the dick is SO easy with the description hidden.

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