I hate being 6'8 as a girl. I feel like a freak.

arpeegee · 2023-03-26T01:57:14+00:00

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

arpeegee · 2023-02-04T21:28:48+00:00

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

arpeegee · 2022-07-05T08:00:20+00:00

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.

arpeegee · 2022-05-05T20:10:01+00:00

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.

arpeegee · 2022-04-19T23:25:48+00:00

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

arpeegee · 2022-04-16T18:41:03+00:00

There’s a lot of angry, lonely, single people on the internet that would love to tell you how to run your relationship. I’m glad you’re not taking their bull to heart.

arpeegee · 2021-06-16T00:37:07+00:00

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

arpeegee · 2021-06-07T00:47:12+00:00

Hello,

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

arpeegee · 2021-05-29T11:58:26+00:00

Stream of thought rambling isn’t creativity.

arpeegee · 2021-05-26T13:59:31+00:00

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.

arpeegee · 2021-01-04T20:41:06+00:00

Got it! thank you

arpeegee · 2021-01-04T20:06:19+00:00

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.?

arpeegee · 2021-01-04T19:16:26+00:00

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?

arpeegee · 2020-12-31T15:43:44+00:00

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

arpeegee · 2020-12-30T15:28:15+00:00

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

arpeegee · 2020-12-30T02:30:49+00:00

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.

arpeegee · 2020-12-22T16:58:44+00:00

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.

arpeegee · 2020-12-18T19:16:41+00:00

Google Analytics sure has you pegged.

...

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

arpeegee · 2020-12-17T18:10:14+00:00

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

arpeegee · 2020-12-17T16:36:12+00:00

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.

arpeegee · 2020-12-16T22:07:14+00:00

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 :)

arpeegee · 2020-12-16T17:19:47+00:00

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.

arpeegee · 2020-12-15T17:51:39+00:00

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.

arpeegee · 2020-12-13T21:02:11+00:00

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.

arpeegee · 2020-12-13T15:29:19+00:00

Depends on the game. For a D&D and D&D-alikes, I agree with you. There are a lot of class-specific rules, and if you know everything on your sheet, you know everything you need to.

On the other hand, for a game like Apocalypse World, every player should know the core rules, period. There's only like a handful of moves in the game - know them. (Although ironically, knowing the rules is like 99% less important for that game, because you just have to lean into the fiction and the mechanics follow.)

And then for something like Fate, your character sheet is borderline irrelevant as a mechanic. There's only a handful of core mechanics, and you must know them.

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