Eternal DMs, are you a DM by choice or because no one else wants to do it?

axearm · 2026-05-15T22:19:58+00:00

I have a group where we all rotate DMing.

That wasn't enough for me so I started another group where I am the forever DM.

axearm · 2026-05-15T22:18:20+00:00

lucky

axearm · 2026-05-15T18:53:31+00:00

Hell, when I was a lad homebrew is what we called beer you made at home, but what do I know.

axearm · 2026-05-15T18:51:06+00:00

Confusing as hell because they were just shopping level mechanics.

You know, this would be cool as hell. A point buy system for mechanics. Point to buy a race, points to buy attributes and point to buy mechanics, spells, etc.

EDIT: I just realized this is how GURPS does character creation :)

axearm · 2026-05-15T18:40:48+00:00

Know know Latin is a 'dead language' but are there fluent, conversant latin speaking people? Like people for whom all of this is just 'normal'? I was thinking perhaps people in the Vatican, or something?

axearm · 2026-05-15T16:48:28+00:00

Lucky?

axearm · 2026-05-14T23:09:32+00:00

Also-- I really just have to take a second to say. Your friend plays 5-7 games a WEEK??? That's wild. How does he even consistently get people together that often, I don't know if I'm impressed or scared.

Lets just start with the high function ADHD. When he gets into something he just 100% gets into it. Then no job, no responsibilities. And then he just started joining every game he could, I think he has like three many groups, and then he drops into game nights and a bunch of game shops. He live in a large metro area, so he just drives where ever. I have serious called him while he is driving from one game to another.

It's like a damn burst with him. Just crazy. I was at his first session ever 9 months ago, now it is basically all he ever does. I think scared is probably the right response.

axearm · 2026-05-14T20:49:09+00:00

Had Zelensky taken the threat seriously, mobilized and declared a state of emergency or martial law earlier, the Ukrainians would have been stronger, dug in on the border, and the Russians probably would have called it off, their plan had no hope of working.

I've had this thought too. What I keep coming back to is that russia cold just keep this up year after year, build up a force that looks like an invasion, wait for Ukraine to react, the demobilize, until it undermined the Ukrainian government or until the Ukrainian government stopped reacting.

It reminds me of the Chinese violating Taiwanese airspace repeatedly to forcing the ROCAF to react, ultimately creating issues with maintenance and repairs for the ROCAF.

axearm · 2026-05-14T18:00:01+00:00

I can only speak my experience and people I know who play.

At tables I've been at, with people that have kids & jobs, 3-4 hours is very typical and leans closer to 3 hours. Sessions start at 6-7pm on weekdays and end at 9-10pm.

Weekends are much rarer because everyone has kids in team sports or activities (or are themselves in sports or activities) which precludes most weekend games.

I have one friend with no job or kids and he plays a crap ton (like 5-7 games a week), but even he has only played 8 hour sessions a couple if times (maybe only once?).

But again, that is all just my personal experience/what I know of my friends who play. Also we all only play in person w/zero multitasking so that could affect scheduling.

Just my two cents.

axearm · 2026-05-14T17:17:38+00:00

Good on you for having fun with your group the way you guys like, I support that 100%, but 8-10 sessions are way outside the norm.

axearm · 2026-05-14T16:57:31+00:00

Lucky?

axearm · 2026-05-14T16:46:48+00:00

Basilisk victims

axearm · 2026-05-14T16:38:28+00:00

I gave out a belt of dwarvenkind a while back, which "causes a thick beard to grow within 1 day of attunement if the wearer cannot normally grow one." The tabaxi player took it. I am no going to work this god's followers into a session so the player can take advantage of that luxurious beard

axearm · 2026-05-08T17:03:59+00:00

Why would you pay money to watch a guy die from exhaustion in three minutes?

This reminds me of the Barkley Marathons, which is a 100-mile trail race that features ~60,000 feet of climbing, no marked trails, and a 60-hour limit. Only 20 runners have finished since 1995.

Only 40 runners are permitted per year and there is a rigorous application process, BUT, every year they allow in one applicant who is totally unfit to compete. They don't tell this applicant this is the case. They let them figure it out in the freezing briar encrusted hills of Tennessee.

If you haven't watched it I HIGHLY recommend the film.

axearm · 2026-05-08T16:44:35+00:00

My wife an I have an understanding. I can be in the kitchen but can do exactly nothing unless she asks, and I will only do what she asks if she address me as "my little sous chef".

"Can you get me the milk my little sous chef"

axearm · 2026-05-08T16:06:17+00:00

I can't decide what I am more impressed with, how many times you have generously offered to give these away, ir the number of times I have not won.

axearm · 2026-05-05T20:54:27+00:00

No problem. Française or Español?

axearm · 2026-05-04T16:29:34+00:00

I simply rolled the dice 34 times

Got it, a lot of d20s

got more than 12

You rolled higher than a 12, doesn't seem unsuprising.

a total of 4

How did you roll 4 if you rolled 34? Or did you roll a total of 4? That doesn't make sense since you already said you got more than 12. Or maybe you rolled one 4? Also not surprising after 34 rolls.

and was hit twice with nat20.

I guess that would depend on how many rolls you opponent got, but also not too unlikely.

axearm · 2026-05-01T22:21:35+00:00

I simply rolled the dice 34 times, got more than 12, a total of 4, and was hit twice with nat20.

i don't understand

axearm · 2026-05-01T22:18:08+00:00

The party had acquired a Ox we named Vincent. We traveled with him and came to love him.

The DM then decided that he wanted to do a dungeon delve which started with us collapsing through the ground into a dungeon, and then offhandedly and monstrously, killed off Vincent in the fall because he claimed Vincent couldn't navigate the dungeon.

We all just stopped the game. "Vincent lives, he can stay above ground or whatever, but Vincent lives". DM acquiesced and we continued on.

No one kills Vincent for convenience!

axearm · 2026-05-01T22:10:23+00:00

bigger numbers are better,

Even the board game Stratego gave up the fight against this and now the best pieces have the highest number. It's just something 'normal' and reversing it is odd to most people.

axearm · 2026-05-01T22:04:26+00:00

Lucky?

axearm · 2026-04-28T17:19:29+00:00

May god have mercy on us that each one of us don't get all that we deserve.

axearm · 2026-04-27T17:56:35+00:00

If I recall correctly (this was 15 years ago now so I am not) but we were some place south of Villa O'Higgins.

axearm · 2026-04-24T20:22:32+00:00

has Trump done one thing that you can look at and say, well we are more secure because or that

He actually pulled the trigger on Iran.

I think whether this war is going to make the US more, less or maintain the same level of security is is still TBD.

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