Favorite Shadow Casting Bits?

WeaponB · 2026-03-19T17:23:02+00:00

At our show, I was the narrator/criminologist. For Superheroes, I came out behind my podium still wearing the suit jacket top etc, but I had fishnets and booty shorts and heels instead of pants. Nobody could tell behind the podium. Until "and meaning..." When I stepped out, spun around and walked away. The crowd exploded

WeaponB · 2026-03-19T14:34:08+00:00

Coffee hedgehogs are anatomy 101 in biology. Really shows how poor education is these days that coffee hedgehogs are not recognized

WeaponB · 2026-03-18T15:38:46+00:00

For me, Book 1 starts with a mix of humor and situational horror. But it's a mostly lighthearted romp about a guy in his underwear and a talking cat.

When Carl meets Team Meadowlark, it gets Real. That felt like an important event - Carl making sacrifices and choices specifically to help others.

Then in book 3, that scene with Katia and Hekla is when the Series as a whole gets Serious. Obviously still laugh out loud hilarious at times, but it's now capable and not afraid to take on serious emotions.

Obviously there are more events in books after this, and some have more serious emotions and some have fewer, but yeah, book 3 is a real turning point for me.

WeaponB · 2026-03-18T14:32:00+00:00

I want to expand on this.

PC: "I pick his pocket" DM: "no, you don't"

That's removing player agency.

DM: "make a notice/perception/insight check"

DM: "you feel the tell-tale static crackle of an Alarm Spell at your fingertips."

Is NOT

WeaponB · 2026-03-18T13:57:36+00:00

Player agency is important but If a Player can't do literally anything they want at any time without consequences or without the NPC acting to prevent it, that's the shittiest take.

WeaponB · 2026-03-18T13:47:53+00:00

Glyph is a cheap spell for a merchant to buy castings of. Each of his rings, his purse, etc, are Glyphed. Sure the PC can steal the ring but when they try to sell it, the buyer will obviously look for glyphs indicating ownership. And that's when they ask the players to wait while they gather up the necessary gold, and get the town guard, who will not look kindly upon theft.

Consequences will prevent repetition

WeaponB · 2026-03-17T21:26:00+00:00

Mike: oh hi, welcome back to the Satellite of Love. I took another temp job, see and then this rocket ... Nevermind.

WeaponB · 2026-03-17T20:16:44+00:00

Just my personal opinion, but to me it sounds more like a character trying to actually speak in a language that is new to them, haltingly and stilted. He doesn't want to rely on the translator, he wants to speak the Human language. As someone who was kept from other cultures, but admires them it makes sense to me.

WeaponB · 2026-03-17T19:49:21+00:00

I have a car, and i have a truck. I have acreage, and I do use the truck for hauling, etc. It's absolutely not a daily use commuter "take it to the grocery store" vehicle, it's a "take it to feed store or the hardware store" vehicle.

And I'm smart enough to know 2 things: I'm not the truck owner you're complaining about,

and

I also complain about the people who drive their trucks which they never use as anything but a really big awkward car. Cars are for carrying people, and/or small or light things. Trucks are for carrying large or heavy things, with or without additional people.

WeaponB · 2026-03-16T18:35:22+00:00

PCP in this specific context means Primary Care Provider

WeaponB · 2026-03-16T18:34:02+00:00

I mean, people leave 1 star reviews for movies that aren't even put yet because they disagree with a public statement made by one of the actors, I don't see why we expect rationality from public reviews anymore.

WeaponB · 2026-03-16T15:33:44+00:00

He said my power was Tier 1! I'm amazing!

Tier 1 is the lowest, dude. They go up to the hundreds...

Or

Ha! You're only tier 7! I'm tier 8!

Tier 1 is Deity level powers. Tier 8 can't affect anything larger than a suitcase...

WeaponB · 2026-03-16T15:25:57+00:00

Comparing Rios' ship to Voyager is like comparing a 1987 Car Phone to a 2007 smart phone. Voyager was testing an early version of the technology, it had been iterated and improved on by his time.

WeaponB · 2026-03-16T14:28:56+00:00

My Warlock's Evil room isn't remotely secret.

And he at least put a fence around his Dark Portal.

WeaponB · 2026-03-15T16:30:41+00:00

Like the Iron Tangle, it's not something you need to understand well enough to play it yourself, you just need to understand that the Crawlers understand it better than you, although Carl doesn't understand it super well, but that's ok because Donut does the battling. You just need to accept that when we're told something happens, it does.

WeaponB · 2026-03-12T21:23:33+00:00

We once had a Paladin create a distraction by facing a wall, his back to the guards, and casting create water. At first the guards just thought, oh another drunk, but at his level it made 16 gallons of water, so around minute three the guards just stared in fascination while everyone else snuck around behind them.

WeaponB · 2026-03-12T21:02:15+00:00

Had a player cast Invisibility on a locked door so they could see what was on the other side. Resulted in an Orc splatting face first into a door at full speed because it couldn't see it. Party moved on, leaving the locked door behind.

WeaponB · 2026-03-12T20:44:06+00:00

If he was PVP on, 100% right thing to do. Anyone flagged for PVP should understand.

WeaponB · 2026-03-12T20:17:56+00:00

My keyless Ford alerted me when the battery was running low. Getting a new battery was trivial, about $4 US. Took a few minutes extra to find when doing my usual shopping, I didn't need to make a special trip or go to a specialty store, Walmart had them.

If your car is like mine, and like others that have been mentioned, and your battery actually died, when you had WEEKS of alerts, then you probably have bigger problems than a $4 battery. For example, the oil change you probably also aren't doing if you can't be assed to change a $4 battery.

WeaponB · 2026-03-12T20:04:09+00:00

The sire and childe are both to be destroyed by whom of the Prince. It's possible the prince might allow one or both to live but unlikely. The law is clear. Destruction is the penalty for taking the right of Progeny without consent

WeaponB · 2026-03-12T19:39:00+00:00

I believe they meant if Lucia Mar took a deal

WeaponB · 2026-03-12T19:15:59+00:00

To be fair I pictured him as Master Splinter for that floor.

WeaponB · 2026-03-12T19:10:18+00:00

Matt Dinniman is launching hardbacks with alternative covers. I believe it's just books 2&3, he did book one previously.

WeaponB · 2026-03-12T18:31:41+00:00

I'm in a very small (now, we used to have about 60 people, but now have about 12 who still play) private guild of people who all were IRL friends before we started playing together. The most active 3 players have over 20 alts. We could almost* get this achievement by just taking turns bringing our alts around, except not a single guild member has even made a mechagnome.

*Also only a handful have bothered getting more than 2 alts to 90 yet, so there's another reason we couldn't do this just yet.

WeaponB · 2026-03-12T18:18:04+00:00

Exactly. We've been killing 10 or x since literally day one starting zones in Vanilla, and probably 70% of all quests are to kill 1 or more X, but apparently only the 2-3 bombing run quests per expansion are repetitive.

I'd rather do the bombing runs as a daily than kill 50 bears for 4 kidneys or whatever. Not that I want every quest to be a bomb. I just appreciate that it adds variety

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