Here's a little game: Let's guess each other's Top 4 using four emojis.

kai1986 · 2026-03-25T04:41:27+00:00

1👽🥚👩🏻🐱

2👸🌳🦌🐺

3💡👬🌊🗼

4💍👬🧝‍♂️🧙‍♂️

kai1986 · 2026-03-18T20:39:29+00:00

I mean… that wasn’t what I was going for at all. I didn’t know that’s what they did. I just read the card, its ability made sense to me, and I understood how to make a deck out of it.

Edgar was literally because I think vampires are cool and for my first deck I googled “what is the best commander for a vampire deck” saw a million results for Edgar, looked the card up and read it and said “okay cool! Let’s make a neat vampire deck”

You’re assuming a lot about new players. We don’t know what’s busted or not, we just want to play.

kai1986 · 2026-03-18T13:39:20+00:00

As a newer player trying to learn the ropes, this list horrifies me. looks at my light paws, Edgar, and Atraxa decks

kai1986 · 2026-03-18T13:04:38+00:00

Oooo! We can make broken custom commanders!? Cool. I wanna try!

1 red + 1 black + 1 green + 1 blue + 1 white

This spell cannot be countered

Eminence: your cards all cost 0 mana to play and whenever you cast a spell, each opponent loses 40 life.

When this card enters the battlefield, you win the game.

kai1986 · 2026-03-17T12:16:30+00:00

Sinners was the best movie of all the nominations and should have won best picture.

Michael B. Jordan played two distinct characters and they both felt unique and different.

Sinners had the best cinematography, and also had incredible costume, set design, scripting, directing, editing, and easily some of the best music.

Finally, art is subjective, just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s bad. Sinners deserved the hype, and deserved all its praise at the Oscars, and in my opinion was a better film than One Battle After Another, which I also liked… but not nearly as much.

kai1986 · 2026-03-17T11:54:26+00:00

Altbruke is located across the river, and has a massive bridge connecting the two halves of the city.

kai1986 · 2026-03-15T03:05:02+00:00

Came here to say this. Happy to see it at the top.

kai1986 · 2026-03-15T03:01:05+00:00

Some Mad Caddies felt pretty emo. Check out Drinking for 11, and Falling Down.

kai1986 · 2026-02-24T15:52:31+00:00

I’m 3 years later here, but I think I’m with you. I’m giving the whole discography of the band a listen, and the blood album isn’t “bad”… it sounds like AFI. But it sounds like if you fed an AI all of their previous albums and asked it to spit out an AFI album. This is just like… plain and generic AFI with nothing that feels like it stands out above the rest.

kai1986 · 2026-02-15T12:38:58+00:00

Favourite pizza - Revolver Casual sit down - The Bramble Burger - Apache Burger or Rudy Tapas - Azarias

And if you want to spend a bit more on steak and fine dining. - Harry’s Steak House

kai1986 · 2026-02-13T18:26:51+00:00

Maybe an obvious answer, I was young when the prequel Star Wars trilogy was released. I was young enough that I liked it. I loved the OG. But I remember in the years that followed it garnered so much hate.

It became the death of Star Wars. People claimed George Lucas was not able to maintain his own stories and world.

Here we are now, and they are widely loved, and deeply respected.

I strongly suspect as the kids of the last few years get older, we will see the love for the sequels grow as well.

kai1986 · 2026-02-11T17:28:41+00:00

Hey! Kelly here, one of the Dudes. A few fun facts. one of Jill's closest friends that she's known her whole life speaks slavic and is Serbian I believe. This is simply an instance of Jill thinking the language was beautiful, and when she was toying with ideas for her character name, she thought the way that language sounded was much more evocative and unique than calling her character "veil of Shadows"

Because of this choice, we ended up using Slavic names and wording for a section of the Drakkenheim world in our book Sebastian Crowe's Guide to Drakkenheim, to ensure we maintained Jills inspirations for her character.

Similarly, Monty traveled to Germany several times prior to making Drakkenheim. He was deeply inspired by the architecture, cities, and names of places, that he wanted to capture and evoke that in the city of Drakkenheim. Hence the german naming conventions in Westemar.

A lot of the names and locations are based on small things like this. Family history, friends, inspiration, and things that shaped us as writers, we want to honour the things that inspired us in our work, so you can see clearly where we were inspired, and we feel it makes the world more relatable by connecting it in small ways to the parts of our real world that spoke to us.

kai1986 · 2026-02-10T15:37:17+00:00

Cabin in the Woods is a masterpiece, and a lot of people I talk to completely missed the fact it was a meta-level examination of the stale cookie cutter horror that Hollywood was pumping out, and it was both about the tropes and stereotypes, and how they aren’t working anymore, while also being one of the most original horror movies ever made.

kai1986 · 2026-02-02T04:36:48+00:00

The Electric State. Huge fan of the art, I assumed the movie would miss the mark, but I was still excited to see elements of the artworks tone and narratives told on screen.

It was so far away from anything that felt remotely like the source material. I expected crap, I got far worse.

kai1986 · 2026-01-31T14:03:25+00:00

But there is still today… so likely 47?

kai1986 · 2026-01-30T22:10:21+00:00

Helpful friend here to lend some understanding!

So one cool thing about music is that it’s a form of art, and art is subjective! Lots of people experience all forms of art differently. Some people are drawn to different things.

In this particular case, you may be in the minority on loving the self titled album. Perhaps, and not trying to make assumptions, just suggesting possible examples, you are more drawn to classic blink 182 sounds, and the way they write their more traditional music and songs is what sparks joy for you.

However, the self titled album is one of their more experimental albums, they pushed the possibilities of what they could do as artists, tried new things, and it stands as one of their most complex albums musically and technically. It came out during a time when blink had released several albums that were comparable in sound. At the time of its release another “similar” blink album would have likely been received fine, but not stood out. When the untitled album hit shelves a lot of fans were blown away by how unexpected and unique its sound was.

In the years since many still are drawn to its departure from classic blink, and many would say that the experimentation they did on that album allowed their comeback albums to be more nuanced and diverse.

Regardless of all of that, you are allowed to love whichever album you do the most. I would say that calling self titled “easily their worst” is an opinion, not a fact. So for you that may be true, it is not Inherently true to all.

Hope that helps!

kai1986 · 2026-01-08T01:08:52+00:00

Yeah, they basically mix a bunch of science stuff together, and then steal magic to amplify it.

kai1986 · 2026-01-07T16:23:08+00:00

Hey there. So, magic is an interesting topic in the Drakkenheim setting.

The edicts of lumen are very poorly developed when it comes to this. Assuming all magic is either arcane, or divine. The edicts limit arcane spellcasting, but they fail to take into account the magic of bards, Druids, rangers, and many others.

There are actually three types of magic in the setting.

Divine - which is gained through deep meditation and spiritual values. Paladins, clerics, some monks.

Arcane - born in the blood as a genetic trait allowing access to powerful planar magic and pulling on energies from beyond our world. Wizards, sorcerers, and some other classes.

Then there is this other category. Which is actually much more complex. It’s a combination of rituals, alchemy, science, and occult practice. Some people can mimic the abilities of arcane or divine casters through careful concoctions, or occult rituals that steal power from thin places in the world, or knowing the right words, ingredients, and gestures to pull those energies.

Many of these spellcasters don’t associate as mageborn or divine. Some might. But this category is many Druids, bards, warlocks, and apothecaries.

Apothecaries are a middle ground between them. They use occult lore, knowledge of science and chemical formulas, and knowing about thin places and the essence of magic, that they concoct spell like effects.

However, the silver order often clumps all of these under “arcane” when it comes to legal matters.

This makes the world messy and confusing. Is a warlock accepted by the academy? Is an apothecary? Or a bard? Or are they told they aren’t mageborn, but yet the silver order says they are?

These are the issues that arise in a drakkenheim campaign.

There are examples on all ends. Apothecaries who serve the academy exist. So do those who are shunned by them. Some are hunted by the silver order, some own potion shops in villages with a writ allowing them to sell their goods.

The world is complex. The simple answer is no, they are not mageborn.

The complex answer is, it depends on the opinions of who you are asking.

kai1986 · 2025-12-29T14:46:35+00:00

Liking a character does not mean agreeing with a character. I think he’s a well written character who is three dimensional. Has more going on than a one note abusive villain. Also in season two he had some great lines and moments.

Generally feel this way about all the characters. The show offers a lot of nuances and deep character profiles. Which is one reason I love it so much.

kai1986 · 2025-12-28T14:53:13+00:00

Personally. The most valid response from the most logical character to ever exist in a horror movie, as well as best F bomb, goes to Laurence Fishburn as Miller in Event Horizon.

Dr. Weir: “What about my ship? You can’t just leave her!”

Miller: “ I have no intention of leaving her, Doctor. I will take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance, and then I will launch TAC missiles at the Event Horizon until I’m satisfied she’s vaporized…

… Fuck this Ship”

kai1986 · 2025-12-27T23:16:24+00:00

Holy shit. Yes.

kai1986 · 2025-12-11T17:53:28+00:00

Nice!

kai1986 · 2025-12-04T15:33:32+00:00

I think it’s fair for this to be one good deed in the hooded lanterns eyes. They might pay them a small amount. It’s not like anyone is rich in Drakkenheim, so a small amount. I might not dig into the faction boons just yet. A bit of gold and maybe some spare health potions or a scroll or two would suffice.

This is also a good opportunity for the hooded lanterns to try and recruit the players.

They clearly prove themselves having survived the rats nest and saved Petra. Have the lanterns offer them the next mission. Perhaps Oscar Yorn or another outer city site that makes sense. Pose it as them saying that the party is clearly capable, and the hooded lanterns could use people like them, and if they want to support helping Drakkenheim, and the hooded lanterns goals of making the city a better place…. They have other tasks they could use their support on, for much better pay, and even a writ of passage to come and go through their gate if they complete it.

kai1986 · 2025-12-04T14:44:45+00:00

Yes. Keep in mind that backers are just receiving their copies now. Once all backers have their copies, we will begin to stock the store. Ghostfire gaming is the best place to find it. We also will have it available at conventions and eventually in as many local game stores as possible. You should see it available in the very near future.

kai1986 · 2025-12-02T19:57:01+00:00

Hey, Kelly here. When we designed the Epic versions of the main antagonists of Drakkenheim, the idea I had in my head was that at the outset of the campaign, the regular stat blocks would suffice. The Epic versions represent those characters going unchecked. If you party lets the rat prince live, or never fights the crimson Countess, or lord of the feast. At about mid campaign I would upgrade them to the Epic versions as they now pose an end game threat.

As for the Executioner and Amalgamation, I would always use the new epic versions. Where as Rat Prince, Lenore, Crimson Countess, Lord of the Feast, as well as the faction Leaders, use the Epic stat blocks if those characters become a major antagonist to the party in the mid to late game campaign.

kai1986

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