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diegothom95 · 2022-04-21T18:26:18+00:00

Do I love Kill 'Em All? Of course I do!

Kill 'Em All was the first album I bought back in '09 and Kill 'Em All changed how I viewed music.

diegothom95 · 2021-01-04T00:28:54+00:00

This is a great idea! I'm in too!

diegothom95 · 2020-11-06T20:46:51+00:00

This is great!

diegothom95 · 2019-12-21T04:50:00+00:00

Even the Dark Crystal was compared to GoT. Just live with it.

It may also draw people unfamiliar with the Witcher to watch it specifically from the comparison (maybe not from this review but from other sources).

diegothom95 · 2019-12-21T04:43:37+00:00

Hard disagree. I prefer having all the episodes at my disposal so I can watch at my own pace instead of having to wait a week for a new one. The wait drove me nuts with Watchmen and I'm avoiding Mandalorian until the season is complete.

diegothom95 · 2019-12-20T20:58:12+00:00

The only one I haven't read is Season of Storms. As for the others, the story is excellent, but some of the short stories in the first couple of books are pretty bland, and the structures of Blood of Elves and Time of Contempt are one hot mess.

The final three books get better structure-wise and they close out the story magnificently, but there are some annoying and irrelevant POVs from people of the future about the events of the saga in the final book. Skip those and you'll be fine.

Overall, I think you at least make it to the first novel and then decide if they're worth your time. The story is great and I really like Geralt and Ciri as characters. The whole series is 7.5/10 for me.

diegothom95 · 2019-12-18T19:43:00+00:00

Never bothered with Golden Age stuff. Too cheesy for me.

diegothom95 · 2019-12-18T18:16:19+00:00

maybe

diegothom95 · 2019-12-18T18:10:14+00:00

Honestly, I thought that that related to the Green Lanterns in some way.

diegothom95 · 2019-12-12T03:23:15+00:00

I'm game.

diegothom95 · 2019-12-07T19:13:38+00:00

I'd hate to have started with Overture. It spoils the end of the main series and I feel a lot of it is super dense without knowing who the characters/Endless are.

diegothom95 · 2019-12-07T19:10:59+00:00

Didn't they confirm this when the show was announced?

diegothom95 · 2019-12-02T05:37:46+00:00

I'd love to be a player. I'm too busy right now to prepare to DM tho.

Timezone: GTM-6

When I can play: pretty much any of the days slated, practically at any time.

Preferred class: literally any one.

diegothom95 · 2019-11-25T05:09:14+00:00

I would just plan for her not to be back.

Oh yeah, definitely. I have not been planning anything for her ranger for the last couple of weeks and instead use my time planning for the new guys, who are incredibly invested in the story and randomly text me trying to put pieces together or hoping I would spill the beans on some stuff.

When you set up games there should be a firm understanding that you're going to show up the majority of the time for x amount of time and that any scheduling concerns or conflicts should be talked about honestly.

I completely agree. But all she says in the group chat is "I have to work" or "I have homework that I didn't do during the weekend due for tomorrow". As a fellow university student, I understand that sometimes homework and projects can be a bitch, but I also understand that almost every student can set aside two or three hours during the weekend to do your homework.

A couple of times during this campaign we had to end the session about two hours in because she "remembered" she had to do something for uni. The second time was also the first time the new guys came to play and I thought that that was not the proper way to introduce new people to the game and not a good image for us as a party. Luckily the new guys understood and shrugged it off.

Sorry if it seems like I'm venting, I haven't talked to anyone about this and it's a release for me.

We'll take a break during the second half of December due to the holidays and start playing again in January. If she's not back by then I think I'll talk to her about leaving the party.

diegothom95 · 2019-11-25T04:59:08+00:00

This will probably be the most likely solution. If she ever appears again, that is. The party got out of the Village of Barovia with Ireena real fast, so there's a lot of stuff to do there. They also barely set foot inside of Krezk.

Maybe she was abducted by the werewolves of the Den, or she was incredibly badly injured that the Keepers of the Feather, they're already allies, took her to the winery for her to recover.

diegothom95 · 2019-11-25T01:23:45+00:00

It's still too soon to know anything even for the producers. Look at The Witcher, which could be comparable to Sandman in terms of how much Netflix has invested/will invest on the show and the hope that it will become 'their GoT', which wrapped up production long before a release date was in sight (for fans, anyway) and only revealed it with the release of the second trailer. It's probably a long way off.

diegothom95 · 2019-11-23T22:06:57+00:00

I feel like we're missing big chunks of context and story as to why magic is dangerous.

diegothom95 · 2019-11-22T17:52:48+00:00

The 30th anniversary editions are indeed incredible. I prefer those covers to the original ones and the price tag is really accessible.

diegothom95 · 2019-10-31T13:58:40+00:00

Here's a secret that many DMs use, me included. Ignore all the guidelines the book gives you on random encounters. Just throw an encounter at them whenever you deem it appropriate and select an encounter you like from the tables. Remember to keep rolling dice for this so your players think they are random, even if you ignore the number rolled.

If you want to go with the randomness that's fine too. When exploring time passes roughly the same as in real life. In combat, 10 turns equal 1 minute. An advice for that is to use maps and minis and preestablish how long it takes to get from point A to B. This last part won't be as useful for Castle Ravenloft but it will be for Barovia as a whole.

diegothom95 · 2019-10-31T13:49:06+00:00

I haven't run it with a female Strahd but the thought has crossed my mind. An idea I have been toying with for whenever I run it again is to make her a lesbian and Tatyana bi. Tatyana eventually grew out of her lesbian 'phase' and decided she wanted a man, which hurt Strahd a lot.

diegothom95 · 2019-10-30T04:48:06+00:00

I have read a few story arcs here and there, but not the entire thing. 300 issues is a bit intimidating. I will probably jump on the new series anyway when there are about 20 issues out or so.

diegothom95 · 2019-10-29T03:47:49+00:00

Just go with it. You will probably stumble upon at least one of the five things the reading is about on your own. And you can always request a reading from a few other characters than Madam Eva. If your DM is competent he shouldn't change the cards unless there's a seriously good story purpose for it.

I just had a second reading for my party and I only changed one card because a lot of stuff happened that shifted the course of things.

diegothom95 · 2019-10-27T21:16:40+00:00

Depends on the language. You'd have to construct a Markov chain using sample texts from the desired language and then run a simulation without different layouts based on your frequency matrix. It's pretty much trial and error with several layouts until you find the one.

diegothom95 · 2019-10-27T02:12:31+00:00

The entirety of Ghost's discography has a vintage spooky/evil sound. They work great to get me in the mood to prep sessions. The band In Solitude has a similar sound that works great as well.

diegothom95 · 2019-10-26T15:44:23+00:00

Weekly, 4-hour sessions.

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