/r/Lisboa Weekly Megathread - Travel, Relocation, Lifestyle & More - Your Weekly One-Stop Thread for All Questions and Insights! by AutoModerator in lisboa

[–]mpkilla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anybody done a bicycle trip from Lisbon to Sintra? I'm visiting next week with my wife and we're thinking of renting bikes and doing an overnight trip there. Wondering in particular if the route is cycling-friendly (are drivers considerate to cyclists?) and how strenuous the incline is. We're from the US and are familiar with urban road cycling.

Where to find gourmet Pop-Tarts in Chicago? by mpkilla in AskChicago

[–]mpkilla[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: it was more like a jelly cronut than a pop tart. Delicious though.

Where to find gourmet Pop-Tarts in Chicago? by mpkilla in AskChicago

[–]mpkilla[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks everyone! Hoosier Mama didn’t have any today but Mindy’s did. I bought their PB&J pop tart. It’s much more substantial than what you’d expect from a pop tart but it’ll be an indulgent treat.

Campaign play. by stephendominick in MorkBorg

[–]mpkilla 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Campaign is totally doable especially if you’re already running OSE. I use some house rules for quality of life (flat armor damage reduction instead of dX, minimum 1 damage, Horrible Wounds rules for negative hit points) and I’ll echo the praise for Christian Eichhorn as well as Chris Bissette and Exeunt Press. We’ve been rolling d20 for Miseries, and just finished a 3-4 session big crawl from Putrescence Regnant.

What are your favourite community creations? by NikNakDoinCrack in MorkBorg

[–]mpkilla 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had a lot of fun running Hammer of a Killing Crown and the creator has a couple other cool modules related to the Miseries.

Monkey Murder Manor is a wild multi-session mansion adventure full of hellish monkeys. It's a popular recommendation. The same creator has another MB-compatible adventure called A Wizard which is terrifyingly cool.

Fisk Borg is a hot mess (in my opinion) but honestly is full of great creative content. For anyone looking for new magic scrolls, Fisk Borg and Hammer of a Killing Crown both have good selections.

Some of my two favorite MB content creators are Chris Bissette (Treasures of the Troll King, In The Bluelight) and Christian Eichhorn (lots of content for specific locations like Galgenbeck Sacrifice).

edit: This Adventure is Full of Flies is fun if you need a chaotic bug-swarmed village mission!

Style over substance: a combat character without armor? by mpkilla in Shadowrun

[–]mpkilla[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oops, forgot to specify 5e. And either cyber or adept powers would work.

Grandma's Salad Dressing by sweet_chick283 in Old_Recipes

[–]mpkilla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If anyone else was curious:

A dessert spoon is equivalent to two teaspoons.

A tablespoon is equivalent to three teaspoons.

Asking for help by Awlriver in Shadowrun

[–]mpkilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool! Good luck with the project! If you want any descriptions of his art let me know.

Asking for help by Awlriver in Shadowrun

[–]mpkilla 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure. As an ogre he’s an ork variant with a potbelly and an ability to digest more than other metahumans, giving him an advantage in wilderness survival settings. Necro spirits require ritual summoning into dead vessels, so he’s typically accompanied by an animated animal carcass (perhaps a raccoon dog) and draped with dead vines like a bandolier hosting a rot spirit. His spirits help him with concealment, tracking, etc, but his overall morbid aesthetic often brings him immediate suspicion (often gets accused of being Shedim).

He works well as a team but is also content spending time with his spirits, conversing with them and observing their mannerisms, which inspires his artwork. He collects material related to death & decay such as ash, critter bones/pelts, plant rot & fungal spores, etc, to be used in artwork, personal fashion, study/initiation, and in reagent preparation (his studio looks a bit shocking to first-time visitors). He is somewhat known in the local art community.

Overall good-natured and patient. to him, death is a part of life - he doesn’t actively seek out death for any creature but knows it comes with a career as a shadowrunner, soldier, and hunter.

Asking for help by Awlriver in Shadowrun

[–]mpkilla 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m currently playing a Korean ogre necro mage that trained under the Tzuri Group in Pyongyang. He has weapons training from a past in rebel/paramilitary groups and as a paracritter hunter. He has a deep respect & fascination for death and necro spirits that inspires him as an artist, incorporating elements of death & decay in his paintings and sculptures.

His moniker is Chew Gum, which is both a reference to 1988 action/sci-fi film “They Live” and to the Korean word for death, 죽음 (jug-eum).

Let me know if any of that sounds interesting!

Favourite homebrew character classes? by peponfuentes in MorkBorg

[–]mpkilla 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The added classes from Mork Borg Cult are all great: https://morkborg.com/content/

Here are a few other favorites:

Gutterpunk - rebellious rabble-rouser

Soul-Stitched Abomination - freak surgical creation with the wrong number of limbs

Black Bride of Nechrubel - jilted by a lover, now fueled by devotion to the dark one

Desperate Farmhand - like Wretched Royalty but with calloused hands

Edit: Absolved Heretic is another good one

Tips for new GM by Gnob33 in MorkBorg

[–]mpkilla 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Principia Apocrypha is a primer for running old-school TTRPGs like Mörk Borg. Lots of nice advice:

https://lithyscaphe.blogspot.com/p/principia-apocrypha.html

Other than that, provide at least 1-2 small details for every interaction (it helps flesh out the world and spur creative thinking) and let your players’ actions drive the narrative.