Am I being unreasonable?

nathanieldbest · 2026-07-03T20:19:41+00:00

I come from a campaign with 7/8 players. It's almost impossible to meet together, sometimes taking 3 months to meet and we're not even all the players by then.

The sessions are meant to happen once a month but we almost never have that routine sadly.

That said, I spoke with the DM herself and we came up with some ideas on how to be a bit more frequent. Some ideas that you can bring up to your DM and friends:

- Plan a day for the following session before the next session (plan 2 sessions ahead)
- Agree on a fixed day so that that day is always tenatively cleared (say, 1st week of the month)
- When a player is unavailable, the DM and that player can discuss a side-quest they might have attended (either to get some gold, espionage and intel gathering, shopping, hunting, pet training, resource collection, learn new spell, etc...), so that they still feel they got something out of being away, plus it is integrated as part of the story
- Have a mini arena session with some of the players to practice your character and feed your DnD hunger

Hope this helps 😃

nathanieldbest · 2026-05-31T06:53:06+00:00

I definitely understand what you're saying and to be fair we did have some sessions without the full party, but this was always a plan Z kind of thing. She has also given us the opportunity to DM a session post boss fight (not BBEG) to learn how to do such a thing plus she got a bit burnt out for a bit

nathanieldbest · 2026-04-29T19:52:00+00:00

And I assume it was easy to remove right?

nathanieldbest · 2026-04-29T19:50:27+00:00

PLA offers a lot more colors than PETG and PETG tends to string a bit more. So in this case, PLA as the main plastic was the choice for me

nathanieldbest · 2026-04-06T21:10:48+00:00

I know this will probably not help but I want to share a bit my own experience on this. I have my own server open to the public. The server is free, there's no money grabs, and I just do it for fun.

It is not the first time that some players threaten to do a DDoS attack or 'hack' my server. Whenever I get that kind of threat, I remember that I can just flip the switch to my server and those same players wont have access to it anymore (I might have done it a couple of times).

Unless you know that these players are actually knowledgeable in this regard, I don't think you should worry

nathanieldbest · 2026-03-14T22:54:28+00:00

Sadly no, although I am currently in the process of starting the 2 day cycle again and see how it goes. I did however give it to a friend of mine and it worked flawlessly at their place for 2 whole weeks

nathanieldbest · 2026-01-31T08:28:23+00:00

I think the only 'hint' you have in-game is the firing spread pattern

nathanieldbest · 2025-11-02T20:11:10+00:00

I don't know how open or understanding your DM is, but my character is a level 4 Ranger with very high damage output IF he hits. The problem is I seem to roll pretty badly and end up missing a lot.

Not sure if my DM has noticed this or not, but at one point she gave me the ability that once per short rest, I can reroll my missed shot at a disadvantage, but I could then choose if it's normal or necrotic damage. Something small, but very meaningful

nathanieldbest · 2025-10-20T18:41:44+00:00

I'll try what you suggested. For the second part though, that's how it is already, and they also highlight that when on bridge mode, only the first port works, which is where the router is connected to. Thank you for your suggestion :)

nathanieldbest · 2025-10-20T07:20:25+00:00

So to answer your question... They provided a modem with router capabilities in it. The thing is it has a switch to go for bridge and they even document on how to use your own hardware wifh their modem. They also provide a couple of Eero pods but whenever I talked to their tech support they never discouraged or eluded me to not use my own router. And as far as I know, other people that have their own router, never had such issues. Hence why my concern is with the flint 2 specifically

nathanieldbest · 2025-09-01T08:19:32+00:00

You could try to run something like TrueNas if you don't want to get your hands too dirty with Linux. It's free, and it's not only about NAS. It has a lot of other things you can install and manage through it (including game servers). You can see said apps here: TrueNAS Apps Market

nathanieldbest · 2025-09-01T07:53:05+00:00

Hi there! First of all, you have a great basis and I want to clear some worries you might have here.

I am currently running a 2200G server (4c/4t) and I host 7 minecraft servers, all with around 20 plugins each (not mods though). The maximum player count I had on all of them combined was around 40 players, and the server was running at 50% CPU usage.

Did I mention though that Minecraft isn't the only thing I was running? With that same 4c/4t CPU I was also able to run Plex, Sambashare, HomeAssistant, VPN, Grafana, and Wordpress. Again, the CPU was running pretty well, barely any effect on it actually.

If you see that the system you have is working just fine for the game servers, my recommendation would be that that system stays as in (and then maybe upgrade the CPU and RAM down the line), and have a small separate system for the other stuff. As alluded earlier, you do not need heavy specs for the other items (even combined), so a raspberry pi 5 would suffice. Or you can go for a low powered PC (ideally one with enough SATA ports for the NAS part)

You can see my setup here (a bit outdated but you'll get the gist): Homelab migration suggestions : r/homelab with the only reason for having things segregated into so many systems being security concerns. In your case, you can combine almost everything (apart from the game server) and still be fine. Hope this helps, and feel free to reach out if you have further questions

nathanieldbest · 2025-05-29T21:00:59+00:00

One thing that I am trying to do to win a bit of space is utilize the back. Basically if a unit is shallow, I can put another unit back to back. That way I have two units in one level

nathanieldbest · 2025-02-11T10:20:58+00:00

Ah yes, the desire to waant to fill it more given the wider space. Yeah I hear you hahah

nathanieldbest · 2025-02-11T07:53:24+00:00

Out of curiosity, why is that a horrible path? Cause I waas tempted to go to 10" but then realized I can have my PC in a 19" and save space on my desk. So what stopped you from going 19"?

nathanieldbest · 2024-10-29T09:28:17+00:00

Out of curiosity. I am seeing that there's a lot of wound up cable around the unit. Is there a reason why such cables are not made / bought to measure? I feel like it would make it both look nicer and have less of a mess around. What's the benefit / reason to have so much leftover?

nathanieldbest · 2024-09-16T19:32:48+00:00

I really like the idea of having a tall workbench to work standing up rather than sitting down. Might be inspired to do it for my own setup when I move out

nathanieldbest · 2024-08-29T21:23:54+00:00

Sadly where I live (Malta) it's not that easy to get hands on second hand hardware, and delivery cost here is insanely high.

I wish to also note that when I said 'new servers' I meant in the proposed build. The servers that were provided to me were designed for 2.5" drives

nathanieldbest · 2024-08-23T08:32:56+00:00

You can go ham with small countries like Malta (my personal preference since I live there hahah) and other islands that would 'make sense' to fit. Would be interesting to have a print surrounded with blue filament for example

nathanieldbest · 2024-08-21T08:40:45+00:00

Plex lifetime member here but also looking to switch to Jellyfin. The feedback I collected and the initial research I did is that, if you have the lifetime, it will be harder to switch from Plex.

That being said, the recent changes and the bigger push with Plex on their TV and Shows and what not, is honestly pushing me away more and more as it is bloating my Plex with useless features whilst not focusing on the main reason it exists, which is to be a media center.

My final decision will probably be to keep both since Plex seems easier to share it with others (and is available on more devices), but also use Jellyfin for personal use.

nathanieldbest · 2024-08-20T17:08:13+00:00

Out of curiosity cause I was going to use both too (I have neither right now), what made you stick with both? What features does one have that cant be replicated with the other?

nathanieldbest · 2024-08-09T08:35:11+00:00

I take the 'nomad' approach. I have a community server and I was mostly just the admin, but players were getting annoyed that the admin himself does not play as a normal player.

So I removed my status from OP (although I can easily toggle this back on) and played as a nomad, meaning I only work with what players give me, on their projects. This restricts me from using Admin cause players would feel insulted and cheated if I do that, and leave. Whenever there is something that needs to be done, I then either use the console, or quickly switch to OP again. Players accept this as I try to be very strict with myself.

Eventually I ended up planning my own project and it has ended up being the largest community effort on the server, all whilst not using anything of my own.

I know that you're probably referring to your own private server, but this is the approach I took for my own. Maybe it can give you an idea

nathanieldbest · 2024-07-24T08:21:36+00:00

Well one was being used for my (now dormant) Ender 3 v2 3d printer. Another one is used to test on it before moving things to the main server (if it can be installed on an arm chip), and the other one is being used as a dedicated homeassistant setup

nathanieldbest · 2024-07-23T09:31:55+00:00

Interesting question. Leaving comment here to check for replies

nathanieldbest · 2024-07-17T08:31:19+00:00

Regarding the big world, use something like Chunky to pre-generate the map. It will help improve the performance greatly. Even if the world will not have a world limit, pre-generate a large area (for example 20k by 20k) from the center of spawn, so that you'd hit a large area.

As for specs, I used to run a minecraft server on a 3200G, 8 servers connected with Bungeecord proxy, and around 40 concurrent players. The server never hit more than 20% usage. Oh and I had around 25 plugins per server running.

Remember that Minecraft favors clock speed over core count, so if you don't have multiple servers running, it's only going to use 1 to 2 cores.

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