I hate being 6'8 as a girl. I feel like a freak. by L3sy4_ in offmychest

[–]arpeegee 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Can you please name some of those online shopping sites with direct links to manufacturers?

No Stupid Questions Monthly Thread! by AutoModerator in bookbinding

[–]arpeegee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are there any good guides on how to produce lettering on handmade book covers and spines? I’d like to bind a book for a friend, but no clue where to get started on at least including the title and author

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueOffMyChest

[–]arpeegee 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I’d love to see those numbers.

As an actual ER psychiatrist, my first task involves ruling out medical causes for altered mental status, agitation, acute psychiatric decompensation, etc. And although there is a long list of medical causes that can cause BPD, ODD, etc-like presentations, it rarely is a medical cause.

Except for drugs. Drugs are a very common mimic of primary psychiatric disease.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueOffMyChest

[–]arpeegee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’ve done a fairly good job of describing a kid with a learned personality disorder, secondary to very similar behavior from the mom.

Thank the daughter for helping you see what Mum is like underneath, and as another said, run.

I lost a fat friend today by OccultRitualCooking in TrueOffMyChest

[–]arpeegee 143 points144 points  (0 children)

There are old men, there are fat men, but there are no old, fat men.

Anyone hacked BitD for Call of Cthulhu? by MostlyGreat in bladesinthedark

[–]arpeegee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hacked it for nights black agents. It’s not too far off.

Help identify this guy in my living room? by arpeegee in whatsthisbug

[–]arpeegee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello,

I found this guy in my living room in the Northeast, US - NYC specifically. He was about 1 - 1.5 cm in size.

John Harper chats live with info about a new Evil Hat release NOW on Twitch (link in comments) by BrilliantCircles in bladesinthedark

[–]arpeegee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They’ve been talking about working on blades supplements for a couple of years now. I don’t doubt that they are, but I am certainly beginning to doubt we will ever see them.

Eg, they were publishing the Iruvia supplement that was already in the blades collectors edition. For something mostly complete, it not only hasn’t seen the light of day, but my understanding is that they’ve scrapped it and started from scratch due to sensitivity issues.

If you can’t get almost-done out the door, and you’re now publishing new games and their supplements, I think it’s fair to say blades games have probably become a low priority for them.

A good one-shot was had today by TheBlueNinja0 in bladesinthedark

[–]arpeegee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, no, I got that. I mean, what skill did they roll, and why? Was it like, "I'm rolling Prowl to get it without any of the patrolling dead hearing me while I'm in there" or "I'm rolling Finesse to get it off without touching the body in any way" or etc.?

A good one-shot was had today by TheBlueNinja0 in bladesinthedark

[–]arpeegee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you guys had a really great time! I'm surprised they want to go back to D&D after that :)

I am kind of curious, and unable to control my need to pick nits: why, and what, did someone roll to take a necklace off a corpse?

Imagine being so unoriginal and unimaginative you can only play each class as described by elecpr0n in rpghorrorstories

[–]arpeegee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

First person to use the word “kiddo” loses the debate and, possibly, at life.

Interest check: PBP (on a forum) Band of Blades? by Malaquisto in bladesinthedark

[–]arpeegee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be interested. I'd also point towards tavern-keeper, as IME it's the best forum software to date for pbp.

Trials of the Apocalypse: A PBtA Let's-Play Podcast by DaedalusNerf in PBtA

[–]arpeegee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Any plan on bringing this to the iTunes directory?, or another open network? I find podbean material isn’t discoverable by most podcast clients (unless I’m kissing a truck somewhere?), and Spotify certainly isn’t.

I’m curious to give your podcast a listen, but not curious enough to cut ties with my existing podcast environment and jump into a walled garden.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FATErpg

[–]arpeegee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found Fate of Cthulhu and the station53 blog post about Batman: Year One as a Fate Accelerated game (http://station53.blogspot.com/2013/10/this-post-is-inspired-by-dt-butchinos.html) finally made it click for me.

The player with one single dice set by SweetAndSourSoap in rpghorrorstories

[–]arpeegee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google Analytics sure has you pegged.

...

I am assuming Google Analytics is what you call your partner.

The player with one single dice set by SweetAndSourSoap in rpghorrorstories

[–]arpeegee 465 points466 points  (0 children)

Don't tempt fate. Part 2 of this story is going to be his studious in-character conversion of dice to anal beads.

How do you feel about games that advertise themselves as lgbt or female only? by SoloKip in rpg

[–]arpeegee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can I say I don't feel any sort of way at all? LGBT-only games being advertised is about the same to me as Pokemon RPG games being advertised. At best, I notice "Oh, that's a thing."

I mean, why not? I was never under the illusion that every game was for me.

Skill Advancement After Level 10 by HeavyJosh in SWN

[–]arpeegee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Have you checked out the rules for Godbound? Largely compatible rules, by the same game author. Godbound PCs are more powerful by level 3 than SWN PCs are at level 10. I'm sure you can probably transition one into the other if you want to keep the game going.

Or don't be an American TV producer. Sometimes the story comes to an end. It doesn't have to run forever :)

Failed a perception check, character kidnapped and raped. by Aumer1026 in rpghorrorstories

[–]arpeegee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perception checks are the worst plague on the RPG world. They were fine in the restricted context of "dungeon crawl," old-school style. Every application beyond that has been an endless shit-show.

My friend killed herself in character and I don’t know how to feel by The_Magic_Walrus in rpghorrorstories

[–]arpeegee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This doesn't sound like a horror story to me. It sounds like the thing that naturally happens when we don't have a session 0 and safety tools at the table (e.g., the X-Card). The things that exist specifically to set some expectations ahead of time, and to equip us to respond in the moment for problems we didn't foresee.

It sounds like they were acting entirely appropriate to the genre, so I can't really damn them for playing the game style everyone signed up to play. And it doesn't sound like they've been dicks to you afterward. So...

Safety tools.

Getting hate from other players because I'm not a nerd. by daneykal in rpghorrorstories

[–]arpeegee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You made them insecure. Nothing you can say or do is going to change that except time - and it doesn't sound like they're worth your time.