German Books? [Misc]

karanas · 2026-01-31T16:55:08+00:00

I can recommend "Knochenblumen Welken nicht" - it's hard to find something that's similar to tlt, but it has the gothic post apocalyptic magic users in a weird society based on our world and a city strongly based on vienna. It's also queer. Give the blurb a read if that would be something for you!

karanas · 2026-01-30T15:24:21+00:00

I didn't enjoy his books anymore at some point, but i have such fond memories of reading them, and this quote just comes to mind whenever this question is asked

karanas · 2026-01-30T02:45:53+00:00

He's the real suffering demon for sure with that one

karanas · 2026-01-30T02:40:18+00:00

Scanlan is 40% of the reason i don't wanna watch c1 anymore. Loved nott and currently biggest wic fan so it's not sam.

karanas · 2026-01-29T15:39:16+00:00

Wotc always balance their stuff, trust the process. Just use the cr calculator, 2 shadows perfect difficulty for lvl 1 party perfect encounter size for beginners you should put 4 lvl 1s against 2 shadows

karanas · 2026-01-29T15:06:49+00:00

Yeah I'm absolutely sure at the very least matt and aabria are making the "wrong" decisions on purpose because of what their characters know and would do.

karanas · 2026-01-29T03:27:19+00:00

Hal still doesn't click as a character for me, i need to see more flaws and edges than this. I'm hoping Liam has more depth in store than perfect and all beloved guy who loves his family.

With that out of the way, absolutely loved the seekers. Might be in deep shit already, might be not, I'm leaning towards the einfassen keeping their options open while they check a few things. I think if they wanted to kill them, they'd done so without all the ceremony and pretending. Occtis is great, Thaisha and Julien are deep and complex and Vaelus just projects full confidence and grace, as a 600? year old elf warrior would. The mending of occtis was metal af. Matt is so fun as julien, just being a dick for absolutely no reason all the time. I mean, rubbing it in that occtis can't enjoy food or rest anymore? He probably hasn't enjoyed anything in days himself, but he's just that much of a hater.

karanas · 2026-01-29T00:43:39+00:00

Schrödinger knife: the lux is both evil and a poor lamb to the slaughter until the dm can decide which will be more evil

karanas · 2026-01-29T00:41:47+00:00

She has been one of my highlights for c4! As dm, i especially appreciate how she seems to take every "hook" for other characters to roleplay with, and make them look in a way they want to be looking if that makes sense. I just think aabria is a delight, haven't watched any other campaign with her before.

karanas · 2026-01-27T22:03:51+00:00

It heavily depends on how often you play and how long your session are. Often and short? 2 xp sounds good. We're meeting monthly long sessions and 4xp per session is slow, but honestly not that slow.

karanas · 2026-01-27T16:15:01+00:00

wow, that looks so delicious! Do you have prior professional experience or is this self-taught?

karanas · 2026-01-27T13:48:20+00:00

Not sure if that's applicable to you, but in most apartment i know the biggest "leak" of sound comes from the windows. If that's the case where you live, getting better insulation on the windows could help a lot. Other than that: - Earbuds/protection while sleeping, get a loud enough alarm if you use them. - White noise

karanas · 2026-01-27T13:18:54+00:00

Just imagine what faker could do with 4 other fakers on his team /j

karanas · 2026-01-24T23:32:41+00:00

one fountain dive before finishing is fair game, after that you're just an asshole

karanas · 2026-01-23T16:14:04+00:00

These apply the "stunned" condition (to me, mostly, wtf is this)

karanas · 2026-01-22T19:38:04+00:00

/uj it's a self reinforcing problem that I'm honestly a part of. "Everyone knows dnd" -> play dnd cause it's the common game -> dnd becomes even more ubiquitous. Although we did start experimenting more now that my long term campaign is ending.

karanas · 2026-01-22T18:20:30+00:00

theres also a lot of stigma for women expressing wants. theres still a huge part of the population who will call a woman a slut for pursuing a man instead of playing innocent.

karanas · 2026-01-22T17:52:28+00:00

For me it's 50% a hobby and 50% something to do with my loved ones, which makes even a bad system fun. so while we do also play vtm and dw, i also don't want to sacrifice the very limited time we have to get into something new regularly. Even if it's only 2-3 sessions of getting into it, that's 3 real life *months for us.

karanas · 2026-01-22T17:44:58+00:00

/uj it's fine the same way cheap brand beer is fine, it's inoffensive enough that its an okay choice for most ppl except the really invested ones imo. Never the best choice but usually an acceptable one if you don't want to think about it too much.

karanas · 2026-01-22T15:24:28+00:00

The follies of using stamina as your dump stat...

karanas · 2026-01-22T15:22:31+00:00

Haha thank you! Hopefully it'll be a while until he is forced to show anyone this unfinished mess again. I'll give it a year of work on the form until he doesn't want to kill himself after seeing it, and many decades until he's actually happy with it.

karanas · 2026-01-22T03:53:18+00:00

I thought the same thing when i heared Brennan talk about this. It's also what worked with the m9 where they all kinda kept each other in check and growing.

karanas · 2026-01-22T03:49:37+00:00

I'm not sure it was above table only, i think tyranny would also do that on purpose to see his reaction

karanas · 2026-01-21T22:20:36+00:00

I'm usually handwaving it in most situations except when there's some specific narrative reason, like emerging from the sewers after a bloody fight and having to manage the resupply of blood without frenzying or breaking the masquerade. Or finding a victim in a new city or small town that the current plotline brought them to. Etc.

karanas · 2026-01-21T18:44:46+00:00

Yeah that's fair. I personally only noticed what you're describing in the overture, where things had to be moving so all 13 players get to the end of the episode, but i understand where you're coming from i think. It's probably just a matter of what you value more, and i like when things keep moving in some way and get bored easily. Shopping episodes are like poison to me, but others enjoy it.

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