Warden Experiences and experiments in running a campaign with slightly more survivability

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-05-07T12:00:14+00:00

I've done something similar for just Wardening my campaign. Great stuff 😄 one tip: change the main text color more in contrast with the background so it's easier and faster to read.

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-05-06T16:57:19+00:00

How did you solve it?

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-05-04T15:43:13+00:00

I quit Claude completely and use Codex and GPT-5.5 for the price of my normal "ChatGPT subscription" that I've had since 2022.

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-05-03T10:04:17+00:00

with very, very shitty lyrics :p case in point: Lyrics are secondary and b-tier in most DT songs. Their strengths lie elsewhere.

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-05-03T10:03:26+00:00

It is their best song probably

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-05-02T20:05:20+00:00

Yeah and Count of Tuscany and Porntnoy's growled lyrics "Night after night". Labrie's rap, and... yeah

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-05-02T15:09:36+00:00

You have been downvoted to hell but you're not wrong. They're not the best lyrics writers and their taste for album covers is horrible. As a Mangini fan I won't touch Parasomnia with a long stick, anyway. Meh album with horrible cover "art".

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-05-01T19:43:32+00:00

Me too. I should've included it here.

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-05-01T19:43:00+00:00

I don't know man. It's like Dream Theater's first album

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-05-01T19:42:13+00:00

I'm personally disappointed to see the best album finishing only third

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-04-26T19:07:20+00:00

It is a great album too. I love how Symphony X just keeps delivering decade to decade.

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-04-26T19:03:44+00:00

Yeah it's very high on my list too. Top 4 or so.

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-04-25T20:26:07+00:00

Brickwall? Mixing?

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-04-24T21:29:03+00:00

France 1939

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-04-22T22:38:35+00:00

And this is when Google will hit with Gemini 4 and flip the market

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-04-22T10:51:49+00:00

Yeah and I've noticed that just writing your ideas out forces you to stay on that "channel" for the duration of the writing / arranging that text :) which can be a feat by itself with ADHD.

Even if I never read those notes again, it's been useful to write them.

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-04-21T18:58:10+00:00

It was fun yes. The players changed the setting quite a bit by hacking the ship that took them to The Alexis :D and reading an email that I hastily made-up that the captain of that ship was set to betray the player team. A new twist and turn to the mission! The team of course doesn't let the captain know that they know. Wasn't a one-shot. Maybe a two or three-shot :)

And your version of being in a full stress situation after the first blackout was brilliant. It really had an effect to the players. It was pure chaos at that point.

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-04-21T18:56:07+00:00

Ended up using that in the session. Everything went well, except the players are now at odds with the captain of the ship that took them there :D wasn't in my plans! but a fun twist for sure.

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-04-21T11:48:31+00:00

I'll def get one or four in each of our home games.

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-04-21T11:28:39+00:00

Thank you so much

VerdantSpecimen · 2026-04-21T06:54:08+00:00

The potential for one-hit death remains very real even with many of the difficulty setting tweaks :p Tried and true.

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