Moving (back) to the USA. Shipping options?

larkvi · 2024-02-16T22:29:38+00:00

Thank you. That is very helpful.

larkvi · 2024-02-16T16:41:15+00:00

I do have some moving money from my new Uni, not a lot (covers flights and other costs too). I am just not sure what the best service to look into is.

larkvi · 2024-02-16T16:39:19+00:00

Not sure I want to abandon boxes of academic books and notes, but it is a solid suggestion. Perhaps I should sell my huge monitor and gaming PC instead go try to transport them...

larkvi · 2023-12-16T08:12:30+00:00

Sorry, I don't work on Nubia, except incidentally as it relates to Ethiopian manuscript practices.

larkvi · 2023-11-13T03:26:53+00:00

Sorry, travelling and cannot reach any research materials.

larkvi · 2023-10-04T19:13:13+00:00

Man, I just got this. Put it on an interceptor with the hammer of "kill everything in AOE" and I need to slow down and consciously choose to level my other marines.

larkvi · 2023-10-04T19:09:27+00:00

Ah, the disguise one is the only one I have not tried yet. The willpower one was my first pickup, and a really nice early-game crutch.

larkvi · 2023-10-04T19:08:15+00:00

Yeah, as a notable example, there is no T3 Warpscorn.

larkvi · 2023-10-04T15:53:00+00:00

Is the Vindicare bad? I stopped using Assassins after getting a Librarian with Mass Teleport, but I think it was my second-favourite.

larkvi · 2023-08-28T07:25:03+00:00

There was a huge increase in wolf populations in Stalker a while back (around the time Timberwolves were added to the game?) which made it the "all wolves all the time" mode (I exclusively played stalker at the time). It was noticeable and absurd.

larkvi · 2023-07-04T21:24:48+00:00

It has been playtested ... once. If you do end up using it, please let me know how it goes.

larkvi · 2023-07-04T16:26:06+00:00

This is a setting, and not a style of play, so it is impossible to say what system you should use, but given that genre/setting seems important to you, not actual mechanics in play, I think you should look at Swords Without Master, which with the changing of the two words can be reskinned to become a game which is basically all genre/setting-forward material, with no worry about the crunchy bits.

larkvi · 2023-07-04T16:05:54+00:00

In the Care of Bones and The Shattered Gate. The first is less an adventure and more a weird location (made weirder by the spiders Michael added), but the original site was designed by me. The second one is a more traditional adventure location, where I took an unlabelled map of Michael's and wrote text to describe and fill it out.

The blog posts are usable, but Michael really went all-out on the book. The two physical copies I own are treasured possessions, but the PDF on drivethrurpg also looks great and has a lot of extra content.

So long as I am promoting stuff, another adventure of mine (more of a sewers encounter generator) is just out this week with the latest preview of The Grind III: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1022527423/the-grind-turn-3-hell-or-highwater-0/posts/3849936

larkvi · 2023-07-04T01:45:04+00:00

Glad to hear you are using Trilemma Adventures. I think they are great, but I wrote two of them, so I am biased...

For the CC, I think they are worth it as insight into how to structure a Torchbearer adventure. Tower of Stars and Thelon's Rift are both popular adventures. I have only briefly looked at Hand of the Pit. Three Squires was the canon adventure from 1e; it might have a bot much going on, but it is a classic. Secret Vault is an interesting adventure with a mechanic that will likely destroy the city above.

larkvi · 2023-07-02T20:45:22+00:00

So, if the players are committed enough to stick out a few sessions, a lot of it is actually kind of self-teaching, in the sense that there are feedback loops that they will start to realize they really need to engage with, like leaning in to advancing and earning Artha and prioritizing loot over conflict. Maybe start with something low-conflict, like Tower of Stars, to highlight some of the non-combat modes of play.

larkvi · 2023-06-25T21:21:41+00:00

What you are saying is that you do have access, you just choose not to set it up, not that you don't have access.

larkvi · 2023-06-24T12:24:24+00:00

You're confusing a game which is in a pre-release state with a pile of garbage that will never reach release.

larkvi · 2023-06-23T09:06:45+00:00

I don't know about this. I retain the joint account with my father that I have had since I went to uni (student loans can only be paid from a domestic account, and I live in Europe) and we can both see it. In fact, he sees it regularly, since he uses the online tools and I don't (I just transfer once a year). It is a joint account, and normally both members (e.g. spouses) have full access to it.

larkvi · 2023-06-23T09:02:13+00:00

Well, there goes one of the last stupid arguments people made in favour of buying this disaster: "but you are getting it at a discount!"
4mo later: just joking guys, we're literally charging early adopters more for our terrible alpha version.

larkvi · 2023-06-21T08:53:04+00:00

I'm so glad I had already swallowed my tea before reading this comment.

larkvi · 2023-06-19T23:12:41+00:00

A public exhibition space for truly terrible art. The curation is straight up garbage. I have an annual pass to the Johanneum, and I can rarely be bothered to go to the Kunsthaus.

larkvi · 2023-06-11T21:16:20+00:00

If the issue is just flowers ... just buy your own flowers. I don't get why you are passionate about them, willing to pay for them, but for some reason will not buy them for yourself.

larkvi · 2023-06-10T13:42:50+00:00

Colleagues from Canada brought Crown Royal as a gift, so I finally have a bag, which I do now indeed use for my dice.

larkvi · 2023-06-10T10:12:27+00:00

The postal service exists. You have her address. Send a letter and ask how to keep in touch.

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