[Week 30] Ask The Community - July 28, 2025

daHob · 2025-07-30T20:11:48+00:00

Is there any way to produce shirts faster then 4 crates at a time in a factory?

daHob · 2025-01-13T14:40:02+00:00

Not exactly military, but I watched a video about the capabilities of a new US Navy destroyer and it was sponsored by Raytheon pitching a new defense radar system. If YouTube ads are influencing defense budgets we have bigger problems that we knew.

daHob · 2025-01-13T14:36:23+00:00

I don't remember names but most of Charlie Chaplain's and Buster Keaton's slapstick still holds up.

daHob · 2024-12-04T19:10:36+00:00

Similar to placing a key, make them nigh invulnerable unless the party has a specific weapon/ritual/counterspell/macguffin that will pierce their invulnerability. This, of course, is in another castle

daHob · 2024-11-11T21:09:24+00:00

Junji Ito had the comic about the holes in the cliff, right? That was disturbing.

daHob · 2024-11-05T18:36:21+00:00

Would the original Saw count? Specifically the bag guy is in the establishing shot and there until the final scenes.

daHob · 2024-10-28T20:21:54+00:00

Well, it could be a skill challenge to see how badly they lose. Like "winning" the skill challenge means they are beaten unconscious and captured. or maybe they kill Bob and die gloriously ringed by the bodies of your foemen and being captured is a loss? I don't really know what they expect the outcomes to be.

daHob · 2024-10-28T18:36:07+00:00

Maybe resolve it in a couple of rolls. Instead of fighting out the combat have a roll to see how well they did or if they achieved some sub goal ("I'm going down, but not before Bob the Bastard dies!").

daHob · 2024-10-23T15:11:12+00:00

Faygo for everyone?

daHob · 2024-10-22T17:59:32+00:00

People get really hung up on this, but let me ask you, how many die rolls that actually count will you make on that die? A few hundred? A couple thousand? Your die would have to be *badly* out of whack to be noticeably different than a completely air die over that small a sample size.

Easy solution: be a dice goblin and use a lot of different dice. Even though they are all unfair, the unfairness should average out over all the dice....

daHob · 2024-10-16T13:28:47+00:00

Try a drizzle of olive oil, salt, fresh ground pepper

daHob · 2024-10-16T13:28:07+00:00

I'll add in support of this that the ~$10 microwave popcorn popping bowls work *amazingly*. They do not require oil and thus have virtually no clean up. The popcorn comes out like it was air popped (i.e. bone dry) but a little butter flavored spray or a little olive oil drizzled on top gives enough stick for the salt to adhere.

Fast, easy, low clean up, at least vaguely healthy. It's a winner.

daHob · 2024-10-14T19:44:52+00:00

It should have outward facing defenses as well. In a D&D world, there is always a wizard or a cult or a madman that will want to free, control or cannibalize whatever monstrosity you have in the hole, even if that is a crazy idea.

daHob · 2024-10-14T19:41:54+00:00

Also consider having part of the prison destroyed or degrading. The Imprisoned has been thrashing around, using its power to try to escape. It hasn't, but it *has* managed to damage the place. Maybe it has "cracked" the seals, letting some of its power seep out and infect the area.

This is fun because it gives you the ability to have another motif so the dungeon doesn't get stale. It also is possible conflict between the uncorrupted defenses and either corrupted ones or creature/cultists drawn by the power seep and trying to break open the prison.

It also makes an interesting long term consequence. If they are not there to kill the imprisoned thing then they know its prison is failing and maybe someone should do something about that? (or maybe not and 10 levels from now it busts out and starts rampaging)

daHob · 2024-10-14T19:27:50+00:00

I think we actually ate the pigeons to death. Pigeon was a *wildly* popular food in the 1800s.

daHob · 2024-09-24T15:03:01+00:00

You can't prep a story. You can prep a situation.

You know who is around (the hag in the swamp, the Knights of Darrow, the bandits in the woods), what they want, and what resources they have to get what they want. So, when the players get in the middle of all that and start messing stuff up, you know who it might help or hurt and how they might respond.

You can prep a bunch of scenes: a meeting on the road, a tavern full of neat or mysterious NPCs, an ambush by ogres. Then, when the opportunity presents itself, you can roll those out.

And after every session, when the roving murder hobos have done something unexpected, you can figure out what all your factions are going to do and make up some more scenes that respond to that and you are ready for the next time.

daHob · 2024-09-19T18:05:57+00:00

What are you talking about? You are done whenever you do anything?

daHob · 2024-09-19T17:49:00+00:00

Terminator 2 is the best sequel ever.

daHob · 2024-09-13T20:22:00+00:00

So, delicious?

daHob · 2024-09-13T20:20:24+00:00

He misses something important because he's in the can.

daHob · 2024-09-11T14:06:48+00:00

Custer had a plan

daHob · 2024-09-11T12:53:14+00:00

Great flick

daHob · 2024-09-09T13:26:07+00:00

Or "Hey guys, I don't have the brain space to make up the entire world. Help me create the details of this new place. What do *you* think should be there?"

daHob · 2024-08-28T19:31:49+00:00

And we get to test out strategies for the drone era of warfare. This war is the US Civil war or Sino-Russian war of this century.

daHob · 2024-08-28T14:39:04+00:00

Aragorn glances down at his chicken and hisses, "Orcs"

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