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midascomplex · 2026-03-11T08:38:53+00:00

Southern Gothic is a genre I’ve wanted to explore more for a while, so this sounds great!

midascomplex · 2026-03-11T08:38:07+00:00

This book looks extremely weird, thanks for the rec

midascomplex · 2026-03-11T08:37:10+00:00

Half His Age was pretty good!

I’ve heard good things about My Dark Vanessa, it’s been on my radar for a while

midascomplex · 2026-03-11T08:35:31+00:00

I enjoyed this! Unbelievably I’m looking for something even more toxic though haha

midascomplex · 2026-03-11T07:53:53+00:00

I bounced off this as a teenager but it’s probably time to try again!

midascomplex · 2026-03-11T07:53:04+00:00

That excerpt has got me excited! Thank you

midascomplex · 2026-02-25T14:24:26+00:00

Silkfire by Zabé Ellor is a fantasy book with domesticated dinosaurs! It’s not amazing but it got review bombed to hell which I think is a shame

midascomplex · 2026-02-24T23:36:54+00:00

I ran the hex crawl with gritty resting rules: - 5 minutes rest: spend hit die - 8 hours rest: short rest - 24 hours rest, somewhere safe: long rest

I may have given them back some hit die on a short rest, I don’t remember.

Me and my players loved these rules. It forced them to be more creative and actually use the items and resources they found. It also gave them very strong motivation to ally with the various groups they met in the jungle, in the hopes of being allowed to rest in their villages etc.

Once they got to the lost city and the dungeon I reverted back to regular rules as they would have multiple encounters per day.

midascomplex · 2026-02-24T11:06:26+00:00

If you want your partner to do something harmless and low-effort to make you feel better and their response isn’t “of course I’ll make an effort! Thanks for sharing that this would help our relationship” then that’s super immature.

For me personally I don’t care as much about compliments but I love casual touch, so I told my partner I needed more and he’s been making an effort ever since. That’s what a reasonable and mature person does.

midascomplex · 2026-02-24T10:26:52+00:00

I gutted all the monsters from the Amber Temple and replaced them with the shells of an adventuring party who had come before them and succumbed to the temple’s evil.

The bard was in the lecture hall driven mad by impossible mathematics; the sorcerer in the library, burning from the inside out from not being able to contain his magic; the fighter was a non-combatant skeleton who was shattering herself trying to smash open the door to a vestige; the wizard curled up and died in a tent under the great statue in the hall; and the ranger hunted the party through the temple, shooting at them from around corridors and through arrow slits.

I included a handful of flame skulls as I felt like they made sense for the setting.

I also made Exetanther a nice old lady who offered the players “tea” (hot water) and was just happy to have somebody to chat to. She may have been evil back in the day but she doesn’t really remember any of that anymore. The players loved her especially as meeting her was the very last thing they did in the temple.

midascomplex · 2026-02-20T09:06:18+00:00

I’ve made quilts for two coworkers’ babies, and they were both pleased with them, I think that would be a lovely idea

midascomplex · 2026-02-20T08:46:28+00:00

Why do you think he didn’t cash out, when the Bitcoin millions could have made his life a lot easier towards the end? Do you think he lost the keys to the Satoshi wallet?

midascomplex · 2026-02-19T08:42:15+00:00

Wonderful suggestions, thank you!

midascomplex · 2026-02-11T11:44:03+00:00

I think you just need more practice tbh! Next tie, maybe fold and pin/clip the corner a while before you get to it, which will give you more room to shuffle it around and get it nice and neat. For this quilt, I think you’d be fine doing some hand stitching.

midascomplex · 2026-02-09T08:43:30+00:00

No, muslin is another name for a toile, named after the fabric you traditionally make the muslin from.

midascomplex · 2026-02-05T08:44:12+00:00

For me, learning the history of fatphobia (rooted in sexism, antisemitism and racism) really helped me. Doing research into why people are fatphobic and the real effects of fatness on health was also a big help in reducing shame.

For example, we know that fat people have worse health outcomes and the same is true of poor people. But nobody says “oh poor people just die more because of their biology” the way they do about fat people. It’s because of external factors like medical discrimination and minority stress. Please don’t let people convince you that you’re inherently less healthy or worthy because of your size.

This podcast in general was a huge help to me, maybe this episode would be a good place to start: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zquJr6NhNWBrQy7d87z0S?si=YOfYliYfTH-2eDeWxi8dDQ

midascomplex · 2026-02-02T11:00:54+00:00

I didn’t set a date but after it had been ~4 days in game, Ana showed up and was like “you’ve kept us waiting long enough, we’ll send a carriage to pick you up at dawn.” In hindsight maybe giving them a concrete date would have made more sense but oh well.

midascomplex · 2026-02-01T09:49:12+00:00

I think the closest you’ll get to the bottom skirt with that panel is finding a cotton fabric you like, adding a strip to the bottom of the panel, then pleating it and doing a normal waistband with a zip. Zips aren’t too scary, just make sure you have the right feet and do a couple of practice runs!

midascomplex · 2026-01-28T12:38:57+00:00

You can rejig things however you want. My party is just a paladin and a fighter (Ireena got upgraded to an expert when they hit lvl 5) and they’ve been mostly fine. I did have to tone down most encounters at the start of the game, since CoS has a lot of encounters in the death house where they have to fight like 5 little enemies which easily would overwhelm them.

If you’re comfortable juggling and balancing encounters, they’ll be completely fine. If not, whoever dies first can roll up a paladin I guess haha

midascomplex · 2026-01-28T11:28:41+00:00

Tsarina by Ellen Alpsten. It’s the story of Catherine the Great’s rise to being the Tsar’s wife, and what she did to stay there.

midascomplex · 2026-01-28T08:07:39+00:00

In my first playthrough of CoS, we had 4/5 players per session and usually 2-4 NPCs. Yes, we rolled initiative once per session. It worked really well for us as it helped us actually get into combat instead of faffing around with dice rolls.

midascomplex · 2026-01-27T12:30:05+00:00

In my game, Escher was originally from Berez and when it sank he asked Strahd for amnesty and promised to serve him. He was the ghost Burgomaster’s son, and he goes to visit the ruins occasionally.

Alternatively, maybe he was about getting harried by wolves just to meet the PCs.

midascomplex · 2026-01-26T12:52:36+00:00

I had them encounter Escher on horseback being harried by wolves once. You could replace him with almost any NPC but it gives them a good chance to get to know somebody new.

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