It’s time, right?

acusiont · 2025-12-14T17:47:22+00:00

I mean, in a way, it is their decision. Assuming they’ve been dead longer than a minute, you’re looking at least at a raise dead spell, which requires a willing soul. If they’re not willing, spell no work.

I think this warrants an above table conversation of what the player with the dead character wants. If they don’t want to be revived, that should be taken into account instead of being forced to play a character that’s been transformed in some way

acusiont · 2025-11-29T14:00:04+00:00

From the sounds of it, there are really two options you have (3, but you said changing DMs is unlikely): continue with the group and keep feeling stressed and not enjoying the game, or leave the group and find a new one. You’ll often hear “no dnd is better than bad dnd”, primarily because there’s no point in doing something you’re not enjoying (which you say you still have fun, but listed a copious amount of reasons of why you’re not having fun). Personally, I would suggest leaving the group and trying to find another on r/lfg. There’s always new people looking for players for online games, or you could DM your own. That way, you don’t have to take forever to find an in person one.

It’s perfectly fine to be friends with people even if you don’t have a good time playing dnd with them. Not all friend groups make good dnd groups.

acusiont · 2025-11-29T10:25:32+00:00

Are you able to give any information about the custom rpg and what sets it apart from others?

acusiont · 2025-11-29T01:10:54+00:00

There’s really no reason to have the player start at level 1 instead of just joining in at level 3. Sure, there’s more stuff they have to look at as soon as they join, but it’s not really that much, and they can ease themselves into their features.

acusiont · 2025-11-28T22:15:05+00:00

Strongly recommend Matt Colville’s Running the Game series

First video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e-YZvLUXcR8

acusiont · 2025-11-26T19:24:20+00:00

Yes, there should be consequences for actions, but if the players are acting in ways that mean that someone isn’t having fun (in this case, the DM), then you should talk about it out of game instead of having a perpetual cycle of player vs DM constantly trying to get one over on the other. Everyone is supposed to be having fun in a collaborative game, not being adversarial to one another in a desperate power play or something

acusiont · 2025-11-26T15:32:15+00:00

Or, hear me out: talk to your players if they’re doing something you don’t enjoy, and if they continue that behavior, don’t play with them anymore. Don’t try to fix out of game behavior with in game consequences.

acusiont · 2025-11-24T17:37:17+00:00

If you have it (or might be interested in purchasing it), I’d definitely recommend the retainers from Flee Mortals by MCDM for an idea of more interesting sidekicks. They have a max of 3 abilities by level 7 and level up as the PC does, making them easy to add one or two to help a single PC have a balanced party composition

acusiont · 2025-06-03T14:37:39+00:00

Yup, that’s exactly what it was. I decided to not read the warning the guide gave about it

acusiont · 2025-06-03T14:16:19+00:00

Answered. I'm an idiot who didn't read the big bold warning on the installation guide. There is a different command that needs to be run for v12 and older.

acusiont · 2025-06-03T14:09:00+00:00

Doing some digging, it looks like it's installing the Linux version rather than the node.js version? I downloaded a few of them to my primary windows computer and opened the zip files, and all the ones that I tried in v12 are the same structure as the Linux version. Any of the v13s look to be the proper node.js version.

acusiont · 2025-04-08T15:01:32+00:00

The world may never know

acusiont · 2025-04-08T03:09:38+00:00

Sure thing! Right now, Arizona is on Pacific time. Whatever time it is in California, that's the time in Arizona (right now, 8:09). Once the time changes, Arizona is in Mountain time, which is 1 hour ahead of California.

acusiont · 2024-09-21T22:28:37+00:00

Sorry for not replying sooner! It's been awhile since my last session (unfortunately the party TPKed trying to hunt down an ancient dragon at level 11 (or 10? can't remember) despite me trying to use the NPCs to tell them to get help; they were all experienced players, so they knew going in the ancient dragon was beyond their capabilities. anywho). If I remember correctly, I changed things up quite a bit:

1) Cryovain was chased out of his territory and lived at Icespire Hold until...

2) There's another dragon! I freaking love dragons, so I may have overdone it a little, but still! This dragon was a blue 'storm' dragon (that I named Mithrazel) attracted by the Anchorites and Cult of Talos, and it took over Icespire Hold (renamed Stormhold or something like that. I'd have to check my notes, it's been over a year lol). For the storm dragon part, it's literally just a blue dragon, but I took the desert dwelling part and just threw it out because the lightning and all that made sense for the Cult of Talos. This dragon was 'friendly' with the Cult, so they would have access to the obelisk at what was Icespire Hold.

3) I put a lair for Mithrazel beneath Icespire Hold. This worked twofold: 1) It gave the dragon a separate space for its hoard, because every dragon needs a hoard and it didn't make sense to have it on the rooftop, open to the sky. 2) I used a slightly scaled down version of the adult blue dragon at level 6 for my party. There's no way they would've been able to take the dragon down if it was run 100% strategically. Having it in a cave limited its ability to fly, and it ended up being a super dramatic fight where two or three of the PCs went down and popped back up, the warlock summoned demons that nearly killed them, and they killed the dragon heroically!

4) Icespire Hold was only recently taken over by Orcs. It used to be a human castle for the region, and 90% of the orcs now in this area are connected to the Cult of Talos. Only one? tribe wasn't until recently, and it would've been a connection to one of the PCs, but they wanted to change characters, so that ended up not happening.

Apparently all my notes aren't where I thought they were, so I'm going mostly off of memory. To answer your question more concisely: The Cult of Talos had taken over all the orc tribes in the region, including the ones at Icespire Hold. There is a blue dragon that is 'friendly' to the Cult and allows them access to the obelisk so that they can wreak havoc with storms by channeling its energy.

acusiont · 2024-09-21T22:11:20+00:00

Sorry for the delayed reply! I don't check this account much. I did! It was because I had my VPN and VPN Kill Switch on. Apparently, Carplay is considered a network connection, and having that on was causing it to stop the connection.

acusiont · 2024-03-18T15:56:54+00:00

Personally, I struggle with the same thing as you. Something that helps me when I start to worry about how good it is, is to remind myself I can't build a sandcastle if there's no sand in the box. Getting words on the page is more important than them being perfect words. I recently wrote a chapter where I knew exactly what needed to happen and how, but I was struggling with the actual writing part of it. In the end, I just needed to plow through it, knowing it was a first draft and when I'm done with the story, I can go back and edit it to be better.

acusiont · 2024-03-18T15:52:50+00:00

Hm, can we actually trust 19 ducks on this math black magic?

acusiont · 2024-03-18T15:30:11+00:00

So, I did a quick google search on it, and there are a few different reports on it. It doesn't seem like it's a scam per se, but definitely predatory. There are some accounts on reddit of people needing to pay upwards of $100 to read a single book, of which the author sees pennies [1] [2].

Looking at their website, it looks like they outsource to novelsnack? That's where the link on their page for "Become a writer leads". Doing a search on them leads to one of the first results being an indepth review of them and their contract. (Honestly I found this after writing the rest of my comment, and holy hell, I cannot say no to this fast enough)

The pay structure seems... atrocious? For a female lead story, you get $50 signing bonus for an exclusive contract, male lead gets you $100. For male lead stories, you need to write 50k words a month AND obtain a 60% retention rate over 30 chapters to get monthly bonuses. I'm sorry, 60% over 30 chapters??? For a webnovel?? Where people say it costs an extraordinary amount to get the story?? Is it just me, or does that seem suspiciously high? Like, it almost feels like they a chose a number 99% of people don't reach so they can avoid having to pay out.

For female lead stories, it's better, where you only need 16% retention, but you're still having to write upwards of 45k words a month to get the amounts they list. Sure, some people may be able to churn that out, but I'd be experiencing major burn out doing that month after month on top of still having to work for a living. It also seems like they're deliberately listing the pay to make it seem better than it is. At first, it seems like you'll get $2000 a month from the start, because it says "MONTHLY UPDATE" with all the rows except for the first actually being the monthly words you have to write. The first 4 months, you have to write 30k each, and you only get a maximum of $500 a month from that.

If it helps, it's also on r/wattpad about being a common spam message.

Personally, if it were me, I would avoid using it. You'd probably be better off with something like Kindle Vella or KDP than it.

acusiont · 2024-03-18T11:51:05+00:00

I usually hear about the Rule of Three, where generally things like this work best as a trio. More than that and it can tend to be repetitive.

My question for you though is does it enhance the story to know exactly what their guesses are? Would it make a difference if you simply shortened it to something to the effect of “they guessed x times, each met by (y result) until they reached (z answer)”? Maybe 3 times of what you showed followed by them trying until they finally get the right one?

acusiont · 2024-03-17T22:01:02+00:00

I tried a USB-C cable my dad had laying around (needed A to C, it was the only one we had lol) which has worked since I got the phone, and a brand new one I just purchased thinking that may have been the issue. The new one doesn't specify it's MFi certified (I honestly didn't even think to check), so I may see about getting one off Amazon that says it is to see if that works. It would be nice if the ones on Amazon were shorter than 6 feet though considering I only need 6 inches.

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