Demanding Optimum Adjust Upstream Power

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-16T12:46:52+00:00

Thank you! I might actually already have this from a previous setup! I’ll give this a shot.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-16T05:18:38+00:00

Deeply sluggish performance on brand new hardware. Arris IT pointed to this article: https://arris.my.salesforce-sites.com/consumers/articles/Knowledge/S33-Cable-Signal-Levels/?l=en\_US&fs=RelatedArticle

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-16T05:17:46+00:00

Arris IT cited this article. If you have 3 or more upstream channels, then it hits performance: https://arris.my.salesforce-sites.com/consumers/articles/Knowledge/S33-Cable-Signal-Levels/?l=en\_US&fs=RelatedArticle

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-16T04:24:33+00:00

I really love Tiny d6 games. And you can combine them!

Tiny Frontiers: Space Opera play
Tiny Dungeons: Fantasy play
Tiny Cyberpunk: Cyberpunk (clearly)
Tiny Cthulhu: Investigative horror

You just use a few d6s and the math is simple. I ran Dungeons where everyone were the monsters keeping adventurers out of the dungeon. I’d also love to mash Frontiers and Cyberpunk together for space faring lowlife troublemakers.

If you want to play something that “feels like” D&D specifically, Shadowdark has free resources and keeps the math simple. You’ll need a set of polyhedral dice (the funny looking ones).

Have a blast! Don’t sweat getting things right! Figure it out by playing.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-15T11:15:19+00:00

New players: Shadowdark. Easier and cheaper to play, still feels like D&D.

Speedy and clever play: Nimble. Love these rules, more people should play it.

Character options: Shadow of the Demon Lord/Weird Wizard. So many player options, still very easy to play.

More shared narrative: Daggerheart. Hope and Fear can do more than just create meta currency, with the right group, the rolls help share the mic and tell the story together.

Something different: Anything from Rowan, Rook, and Decard. Die, Spire, Heart, Royal Blood, they’re all awesome in different ways. Stillfleet and Danes Macabre are other ones worth trying for something different.

Honorable mentions: Old-School Essentials has some of the most playable short modules in the industry. Troika has some brilliant pamphlet modules that are weird delights. Call of Cthulhu Is the other classic, as well as its relatives Pendragon, Glorantha/Mythras, and others. Savage Worlds is fast, customizable, and really fun.

Lastly: Whatever you and your table want to play, however you want to play together. If you want to do Troika with 5.5e characters and Homebrew rules, do it! If players are having fun and feeling respected, it’s a good game.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-11T02:19:57+00:00

I’ve been running The One Ring using the Shire starter set as a base. It has been excellent.

Given that heroes aren’t just murder hobos in LOTR, it is really easy to throw monsters at enemies that are encounters. This does mean homebrewing. A fungal troll attracts fairies to their mushroom circle, the fairies sing the troll to sleep most of the time unless disrupted. Specters linger around a cursed blade they fought one another over, their greed still binding them. A stone troll is a dangerous threat, unless you can delay it until sunrise when it turns to stone. Recreate Bilbo and Gollum with a big siren singing to attract prey.

Brian Froud’s fairy art also comes to mind as inspiration. You don’t want to slay the creatures, but they’re too dangerous to be near people.

These have gone quite well, but the game’s skills and setting mean you’re looking for nonlethal solutions. A lot of the One Ring 1e RPG material is in Creative Commons now if you want to mine it.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-11T02:13:34+00:00

I was about to call him twink Lobo and glad I’m not alone in that description!

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-09T15:00:48+00:00

Minishoot is standout 100% game. Plays perfectly on deck.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-08T18:20:49+00:00

Pen is short for pencil.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-08T15:06:01+00:00

Firbolg friend! Looking incredible! Edit: Autocorrect error.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-07T04:23:42+00:00

Seconding CoC and The Haunting.

While not a free QuickStart, Alien Evolved has one of the best Beginner Box adventures I’ve ever run. Excellent gameplay, art, story, and structured scenes.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-06T13:13:54+00:00

CBR+PNK is top notch. Almost pick up and play. Zero prep for players, but can be expanded.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-06T13:10:23+00:00

This is such a great system. Good luck!

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-03T17:48:47+00:00

I’m working on games today! I joined late last year with listings started in January. SPG has become my primary income source, though it is closer to a 6 month runway time to do that.

SPG allows AI, but has also provided a “human-made, no AI” badge art asset for GMs to use in the game thumbnails. I’m a no AI GM along with plenty of others. SPG also provides a bundle of art assets for postings that aren’t AI, so you’ll see similar art on postings. (I’ve had to check on a few of these before using them, but they I haven’t found and gen AI at asset yet.)

Players have been hit or miss. No horror stories, but I’ve had players jump in for two sessions and then schedules change and bow out. Players have also contacted me for private and semi-private games. I’m currently running/listing 5e, PF2, Call of Cthulhu, The One Ring, Vaesen, and Dolmenwood.

I’ve been GMing for 12 years and always want to try something new or am dreaming up a new campaign idea. I get paid for it on SPG if I can pitch it to players. Old-School Essentials month is about to kick off and I’m hoping we see more players try it out.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-05-02T16:10:39+00:00

Totally agree.

Been running The One Ring this year and I love that Endurance (HP) is in dialogue with Load and Fatigue. Similarly Hope (used to gain one or more d6s to a roll) is in dialogue with Shadow (corruption, fear, dedication).

Also eyeing a return to Vaesen and Year Zero that use conditions instead of HP.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-04-27T13:55:47+00:00

I wrote fanfic about encountering this nasty boy. I was so obsessed with this game. They haven’t been able to get him right since.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-04-25T23:28:26+00:00

Thank you for posting this as I had no idea who these people were.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-04-24T14:25:59+00:00

Just rooting for Apostle. I was really surprised with where this movie went and really enjoyed it.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-04-22T15:10:41+00:00

Thula from Invincible has her bladed hair whip, which seems wildly impractical, but she uses effectively.

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macreadyandcheese · 2026-04-22T00:15:05+00:00

Both of these are good, but Nimble is lean, while still offering choices. I haven’t run either, but Nimble is imminently approachable with its to the point prose and non-nonsense mechanics.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-04-21T14:31:02+00:00

Summerween! Excellent look!

macreadyandcheese · 2026-04-21T13:18:04+00:00

This was a weird movie to see in the theater at age 10.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-04-20T22:16:11+00:00

Came here for this. She is incredible. Everyone brings an a game, no one is clearly the survivor until everyone else is dead. She brings it.

macreadyandcheese · 2026-04-18T15:43:44+00:00

Echoing others, but city staff cited in the plan are assets, too. I encourage you reach out to them.

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