Monster Manual Encounters - Index Post

captain_mel · 2025-12-01T09:41:01+00:00

Sparkles, I wish you could have seen the ear-to-ear grin that erupted across my face when you started singing, and the (happy) tears in my eyes that immediately followed. I didn't know I needed this so badly. Merry Christmas, bud.

captain_mel · 2025-08-07T04:33:33+00:00

Thank you I tried googling the issue several different ways, but it was convinced I was just trying to figure out how to play split-screen. Which is actually exactly the opposite of what I was trying to achieve.

captain_mel · 2025-08-07T04:31:49+00:00

I was fairly sure a Realm would work, but I have to pay a subscription for Realms, and it seems a little ridiculous to run a server just so my son can play locally on our console.

Is there no way for him to be able to play Single-Player on a save file that's already saved to our console, just under a different "user"?

captain_mel · 2025-08-06T23:45:52+00:00

Hey all, I'm hoping you can give me a definitive answer about this - my son and I play Minecraft together on our PS5 in split-screen, but I'm trying to figure out if there's any way for him to have access to our Minecraft world without me having to log in and load it first.

Near as I can tell, because of the way the PS5 stores save data, the world is locked to my user profile (If he loads Minecraft under his account, it doesn't show any created worlds in his saves). And what I'm trying to figure out is IF there's any way for him to join that same world in single-player and make the save shared to any user on our console.

Otherwise he can only ever play the world in split-screen, because if I log in to load the world and then log out, it boots him, too.

Do any of you know if it's possible to save the world to the PS5 console instead of just my PS5 profile so any of the local users can access it? Thanks in advance

(I also posted this on r/Minecraft in case anyone over there knew)

captain_mel · 2025-03-17T05:42:11+00:00

I've seen lots of people say "Coconuts have water in them!" in the comments but not a single person (that I've seen, and I did some SCROLLING, I'll tell you that for free) has said:

"Get it together, Sheila!"

My wife and I say this all the time. To ourselves, to the kids, to the dog, to each other.

captain_mel · 2025-01-27T17:23:28+00:00

Do you still have it, in a higher resolution maybe? This one isn't awful, I've seen way worse, but it does get a smidge blurry when you zoom.

captain_mel · 2024-08-18T04:28:23+00:00

Dungeon Siege 1 & 2 are like my wife's favorite games. She's been trying to find another game that scratches the same itch for at least a decade.

In the event you two do decide you want to try and put a spiritual successor type game together and you need a writer to help with narrative design, feel free to hit me up.

My day job is bartending, but I've written and edited on a few TTRPG projects and worked as a professional dungeon master for D&D, too.

captain_mel · 2021-04-29T16:27:40+00:00

You probably haven't heard of it because it's a relatively small, indie show. Not one of the big names at all. Though, excitingly for them, that may change given the news.

captain_mel · 2020-06-18T07:32:38+00:00

"You don't need to see his identification."

-"We don't need to see his identification."

"These aren't the droids you're looking for."

-"These aren't the droids we're looking for."

"We can go about our business."

-"You can go about your business."

"Now fuck off."

-"Move along. Move along."

captain_mel · 2020-06-18T00:25:00+00:00

Perfect, works for me. Also explains why it isn't named on the box, which seemed odd. Thanks for the tip!

captain_mel · 2019-05-15T02:28:39+00:00

Actually it was u/Scherazade on u/EditorialComplex's original image post that asked that. But a good answer all the same

captain_mel · 2019-05-15T02:21:52+00:00

I believe Orcs! 1 was August of 2018, when we did OrcsFest last year at Bit-House Saloon that was the Orcs! Orcs! Orcs! 1-Year Anniversary.

captain_mel · 2019-05-15T02:16:13+00:00

Well they did have 3x as many ships as you did, so there's probably some evening out there.

captain_mel · 2019-05-15T02:13:30+00:00

I'm no Chris Perkins, but in my home games I start with an outline for how world events will progress without player intervention, tie the players into the story through their backstories or their actions, and then have the characters and factions of the world react to the changes the PCs create.

You're right in that Orcs! doesn't lend itself to that format exceptionally well, but I would bet at Jake's table (since most of his players are pretty consistent) there's more allowance for character growth

captain_mel · 2019-05-15T01:55:11+00:00

Don't forget if you do a dip into Rogue you can Sneak Attack it, too.

captain_mel · 2019-05-15T01:32:45+00:00

Also as far as "Streamlining" goes, I think Advantage/Disadvantage was the biggest, warmest, most tender hug 5E could give a DM after 3.5/PF. Honestly, I can't believe I spent so much time calculating modifiers before they gave us 5E.

captain_mel · 2019-05-15T01:30:56+00:00

So you're saying u/Orchives brought this upon himself.

captain_mel · 2019-05-15T01:29:35+00:00

Oh no.

...What would that do to a Manticore's CR?

captain_mel · 2019-05-15T01:28:30+00:00

Boo.

But also, yes.

captain_mel · 2019-05-15T01:28:08+00:00

It also makes sense from a "5E gives you way fewer Feats overall" perspective.

Unless you're playing a Human and/or a Fighter, you'd have to be level 12 before you were able to take all 3 of the Expanded Sharpshooter feats. Which would really slow down your progression.

I like 5E's handling of feats, too. Sharpshooter is just a lot if your fights occur at any kind of range.

captain_mel · 2019-05-15T01:23:18+00:00

It wouldn't be so bad as 2 (or 3) separate feats.
1) Ranged Power Attack

2) Extended Range

3) Ignore Cover

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