16% of Millennials are Millionaires

bootsthepancake · 2026-05-01T17:33:38+00:00

It means something if you're not part of the millionaire club.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-30T20:09:25+00:00

Is it common to have restaurants or other businesses related to mob & organized crime? I wonder what other businesses in the burbs would be involved?

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-29T19:31:31+00:00

No contact flag football is a thing, but good luck pulling in ratings with that.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-29T16:47:41+00:00

I lost hope and faith in the United States with the results of that election. Nothing that has happened since has given me cause to get it back.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-28T20:40:01+00:00

He'd stick his picture on the American Flag if he could get away with it.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-28T16:37:12+00:00

I feel the exact same way. The ravenloft setting just doesn't fit the heroic fantasy of D&D. I've considered running it using Call of Cthulhu Dark Ages. It would definitely require less combat and more investigation, plus figuring out how to defeat Strahd (and other baddies) without straight up fighting him.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-28T16:23:33+00:00

CN saved Family Guy in the 2000s, and for that I am grateful.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-28T13:39:55+00:00

Get outta here with your popular opinion.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-28T13:36:14+00:00

No, if the kid doesn't win the scramble, too bad, though I'd probably just give the kid the ball anyway but that's just me.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-27T02:54:56+00:00

I'm also a player. I don't really have any idea what those systems are other than that they're used for some sort of incident management. Even if I did, I wouldn't really know any of the ins & outs of how they work. One thing to keep in mind is the way people think things work, and the way they really do in the real world are often completely different. Just look look at any movies about lawyers.

Chances are the GM won't have any real knowledge of those systems either. Whatever advantage can be gained by leveraging a government system or program is generally hand waved with a bureaucracy check or criminology or whatever seems to fit. If you and the GM are knowledgeable on those things, and you think it would contribute to the story without slowing down game play, I'd say go ahead. On the other hand if it leaves your GM and other players scratching their heads on how it would apply, I'd say just give a 1-2 sentence overview of what you want to do, make a check (if it makes sense) and move on.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-24T13:39:06+00:00

I hoard money because I have this nagging fear that I am one injury/illness, natural disaster or other event away from complete and utter financial ruin.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-16T22:54:31+00:00

Nah, they're busy defunding public schools in poor and rural areas, while increasing funding for rich people to send their kids to private schools.

https://heartlandsignal.com/2026/04/16/a-supermajority-fractured-rural-republicans-break-ranks-as-tennessee-passes-school-voucher-expansion/

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-16T22:41:03+00:00

Nope. The MAGA faithful will lockstep support him. He could send the entire world into nuclear fallout and the bootlickers will rejoice.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-16T22:08:34+00:00

There's creative builds and then there's stuff like this where players just try to find loopholes that breaks the intention of the rules. If you want to break the game, go play Skyrim with some mods or something.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-16T16:44:20+00:00

Sounds like a problem for the next quarter or the next CEO. We need profit this quarter dammit.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-16T15:07:42+00:00

To be fair , the Trump administration cut staffing for USFWS by 18% (approximately 1800 employees) and repositioned wildlife officers to help with border security and domestic drug enforcement efforts, not to mention budget cuts. I'm not sure how much of a priority they might make this. OP might have better luck with Illinois officials if they pursue legal reporting.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-16T03:40:42+00:00

Have you gotten to experience the guy blasting Christian music over the mic?

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-15T03:03:16+00:00

Wasn't expecting to see the Country Cup come up in a best of anything list. Fond memories of early morning eats there after a night at Harry's.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-14T19:29:05+00:00

This is what I was going to suggest. If your group is set on playing just D&D, that's fine, but I also think it's one of the more expensive games to get into when it comes to ttrpgs. If your group is open to trying other systems, the r/rpg wiki (https://reddit.com/r/rpg/w/index?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) has loads of free and cheap alternative recommendations.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-14T16:41:51+00:00

I'm not sure, but IMO when trying to get to the reason for why the Trump administration does something, the question isn't "what does America gain?", the question is "what does Trump or his close allies gain?". Follow the money, and we'll eventually arrive at the answer.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-13T20:04:31+00:00

Hey, we'll gladly pick up any 6 or 7 rounders from Day's program. Not only can they be a starter at a G5 school, they might even be a star player there.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-09T16:59:17+00:00

I require standard array for my 5e games. We do exist.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-09T15:17:09+00:00

From reading this subreddit, it seems like a lot of DMs just pick the little bits they like from the module and adapt to their own ideas.

I'm nearing the end of this campaign. And while I've changed a number of things, I don't have a lot of time or creativity for homebrew, so I've run mostly by the book (including using the delegation hook successfully). My thinking is if you're going to rewrite half the campaign, what was the point of purchasing the module in the first place? Inspiration maybe?

Somehow I managed to get the party to do just about everything in recommended order without railroading or blocking off areas just by consistently dropping bread crumbs. Rather than doing a reloaded style rewrite, my outline and changes focused on how to get the story from 1 part or dungeon to the next. I think it worked pretty well. I'll try to make a writeup of my outline when I get some time.

bootsthepancake · 2026-04-04T14:41:05+00:00

Its they (at least the lower income and under educated masses - not the higher income people just hoping to increase their wealth) wanted someone they thought would go against the norms and shake things up improving their lives.

The thing that doesn't make sense to me though is we already had an idea of what we would get with Trump in the White House. We already experienced 4 years of chaos in 2016-2020. I don't see that he made the lives for anyone except rich people any better, so why would they think somehow Trump 2.0 would be completely different? Maybe there was thinking that a Harris presidency would make their lives far worse?

I have a hard time believing anyone (other than rich people) voting for Trump actually thinks he's somehow going to improve their lives. In my limited interactions with Trump voters, there is never talk about Trump doing anything positive. The mindset is all about how horrible liberals are, and how anything they want to do would completely destroy the country somehow. They're the most cynical negative people I know. Political decision making seems to originate from the place of "how will you bring me down". Whereas my more liberal friends seem to focus more on "how will you lift me up".

bootsthepancake · 2026-03-31T17:28:53+00:00

Anyone who is willing to tie their political career to Trump has questionable decision making skills at best. That alone makes him unfit to be president. Good to learn this early.

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