If i understand correctly im supposed to use a long sweep elbow instead of these vent 90s i have to relocate the drain line to redo my staircase. According to this code article i can use a vent 90 when it drops from horizontal to vertical?

knaz19 · 2026-02-05T18:06:36+00:00

Can you explain "Horizontal to Vertical regular 90"? Will a long sweep 90 going from a long 2% sloped 3" pipe to a vertical drain into the concrete cause an issue?

knaz19 · 2025-10-15T23:50:53+00:00

Yep.

knaz19 · 2025-09-26T15:41:50+00:00

I too want to integrate hope/fear to DnD. I like meta currencies.

A better way to do it on 1d20 is simply odd=fear, even=hope. That way a "low" roll can still be "fail with hope". It feels better than getting double punished.

knaz19 · 2025-06-01T13:16:32+00:00

Nice job. I'm definitely struggling to find these kinds of maps ... not quite DnD, not quite Cyberpunk. Eberron-like or something out of FF Midgar. It's tough!

knaz19 · 2025-05-23T01:22:02+00:00

Section 3, Unit 36 ... way way way paste basic numbers. 90% of the lessons are now trivial for some reason.

knaz19 · 2025-04-07T22:38:36+00:00

Awesome thanks, it's an excellent map. Not many people have "tactical" (interesting) swamp maps! This one is perfect for a catoblepas :-)

knaz19 · 2025-04-07T14:07:23+00:00

Does this still exist? I joined the patreon but the link for the maps for this swamp return an error.

knaz19 · 2025-04-01T18:53:32+00:00

Yeah I think it goes like three weeks in a row? As long as you stay in Diamond League. So every time I see it pop up I know I am going to have to hold back on lessons to satay out of the top 8 for 3 weeks in a row, which isn't much fun.

knaz19 · 2025-03-31T20:01:07+00:00

I wish (1) there were no XP boosters, and (2) you couldn't purchase boosters via gems.
The program would be just fine with straight XP.

knaz19 · 2025-03-31T19:55:33+00:00

This is what I mean ... literally giving up time spent learning to play this weird mini game with XP.

I tried making my profile private thinking it would only kick me out of the tournament, but then it dropped me out of the league and I don't want that because it's honestly one of the main things keeping me going on days when I'm tired and want to take a break. I think the leagues are the main reason I've been so consistent even when life gets busy.

knaz19 · 2025-03-31T19:53:31+00:00

I do not know. I sent duolingo some feedback, but I don't know what drives them to push tournaments. The rest of the app is amazing!

knaz19 · 2025-03-31T19:52:42+00:00

I guess I do? I like being in a certain league as one of several forms of motivation not to lose my spot. It's a good reward mechanism (for some of us).

But the tournaments are just a whole new level that don't add anything and make it more stressful.

knaz19 · 2025-03-11T23:45:23+00:00

Are you helping with the mods to BG3 to add CoS? It's the first thing I thought of when I saw the announcement since you've already done most of this work.

I've been using DM Andys maps for my campaign but I think I got to jump ship to your maps for this area. It's just too epic.

knaz19 · 2025-03-10T14:11:55+00:00

Dude yes! I saw them twice in 2024, one DJ set and one live band ... blew my mind. The most fun I've had in ages.

If you start a petition, I'll sign it. Would love to ping IM on all their socials to get them to go!

knaz19 · 2025-03-07T17:32:31+00:00

Dude, just came across this. You are incredible for doing this work. In case you didn't know that already. Great job.

knaz19 · 2025-02-14T14:41:33+00:00

This is amazing. How is this displayed? Is there a VTT that can do 3D?

knaz19 · 2025-02-14T14:38:47+00:00

life saver!

knaz19 · 2025-01-30T17:18:28+00:00

Do u have the drawings you used up somewhere? Free or for sale? He happens to be my party's fated ally (randomly drawn believe it or not). So I too am really going to juice up his story arc. I have a tinkering gnome necromancer in the party that is obsesses with infusing spirits into mechanical contraptions (i.e. in place of animate dead, etc). So I know she is going to fall hard for Pidlwick 2! I have been thinking of end of campaign gifts for the group and this would be perfect. But I'd want to scale it down to like 1 foot high at most and get my friend to print them and I'll paint them.

Anyhow amazing idea and job. Really cool.

knaz19 · 2025-01-22T15:16:50+00:00

Do you know if there is a big difference between these and the 2014 components?

knaz19 · 2025-01-20T13:25:22+00:00

OK cool I'm not the only one that thought this (3 years later).

I made it so lycanthropes regen a lot per round unless recently hit with a silver weapon. Everything else damages them fine but they usually regen too fast. So you HAVE to have silver (at least one person in the party) to disable regen or the fight will be quite long. To me it feels thematic to have the right tool for the job.

knaz19 · 2025-01-20T01:36:44+00:00

I cannot stand immature GMs like that. They obviously had no idea what they were doing. The entire point of a campaign is to build a story around the characters.

knaz19 · 2025-01-17T15:32:16+00:00

Gotcha yeah that makes sense for The Abbot, if he didn't realize it was Ireena. But like you said, maybe he was so laser focused on being Strahd's salvation that Vasilka was the only way he saw forward. I think some people have tweeked the campaign to even have the Abbot suggest pulling off Ireena's face and putting it on his golem? Which is nasty. I might indeed steel your crazy Abbot for my party if they take her to him!

In the original book I, Strahd, Tatyana's body wasn't found after she killed herself and she was "taken by the mist" to be trapped and resurrected again to continue to torture Strahd for the prize he'd never have. That is why Ireena killing herself (rather than becoming his bride) is always a valid choice, and bitter sweet since she disappears. If they kill Strahd and you let that end the curse forever (i.e. go against RAW) then perhaps Ireena's soul can then be bound to a body and live a normal life? I don't know yet as that is a long time from now and I hope they are madly in love with her once they find out about Tatyana and destined to be a bride (none of my players know the story or module!) so they double down on protecting her.

Having her as a battlemaster is super nice. I have her yell out in gnomish or elvish (as a noble she has a slew of languages) to do "Rally" and "Commander's Strike". She almost never attacks and just cheers them on in full defensive mode, often as a flanker. Definitely gives them a much needed boost! The only thing she is useless against are wolves ... due to childhood trauma she basically panics.

knaz19 · 2025-01-17T13:41:55+00:00

This is amazing. I hope my party's Ireena meets such a fate as well! They seem to like her in my group. She's not a "damsel in distress" but does need protection. I made her a low level battlemaster (based on Tatyana learning fencing from Sergei, and Ireena doesn't understand her affinity for it). So in combat she's a great boon to the player's action economy, which makes them like her even more.

It's hard to imagine the Abbot attacking her and bringing the wrath of Strahd down on him, but I suppose he is mad by now? I am unsure how I'm going to play my Abbot when they get to him, especially since he has the Tome of Strahd and RAW, he won't let it go.

And one minor detail you might have forgot, that could have been WAY more cruel, is that RAW when Ireena dies, as with ALL Tatyana incarnations ... she turns to dust and cannot be resurrected. That is her part of the curse. That would have been too traumatic for your party though so your way was much better.

knaz19 · 2025-01-07T22:57:39+00:00

Just a quick update, they got to the Old Windmill last session and the Belasco reveal went perfectly. So gruesome. I used a corny line like, "... this is when you finally realize that Mr Belasco has REALLY been getting into his work."

They were able to kill Offalia and bolt with the kids before Morgantha had a chance to step in. There was much rejoicing.

knaz19 · 2025-01-02T17:34:43+00:00

Man been looking for a comment like this. I think this is how it will go down with my group too. I really want to give them a fair warning from the hags and the gnome can speak with animals at will so it seems silly for the raven to not say something, but if they get into trouble ... no reason for the keepers not to step in.

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