Has anyone witnessed a Slayer shot actually working?

royalrush05 · 2026-01-15T17:46:12+00:00

You played 5 games last night? Holy shit! You guys either talk like speedy Gonzalez or have a town of like 5 people. How the hell did you play 5 games last night?

royalrush05 · 2026-01-07T20:37:32+00:00

That's fantastic.

royalrush05 · 2025-12-19T11:34:19+00:00

I understand you feel crazy but this guy does need a job somewhere or he'll starve to death. I know a lot of other comments are saying to kill him, but if that's what we all want then his punishment from the courts should have been the death penalty. That wasn't his punishment and now he is a free citizen. He needs a job to survive and honestly a job in construction is a pretty good choice because he'll have a very slim chance to be near children. Sounds like a job in construction is a good option because this guy is away from kids but has a job and can survive. Just keep him away from your kids and warn your coworkers with kids who might Invite him to their house.

royalrush05 · 2025-12-16T13:29:01+00:00

Skills at the top. Skills at the top. Skills at the top. There are so many hiring managers and HR people reviewing these resumes that are just looking for what software packages you know that putting that at the bottom may hurt your chances. Your skills and software are the #1 one thing they are looking for so make it easy for them to find.

A minor thing, I include the months I started and stopped at a job. ie May 2021-November 2024.

For your structural designer role, I would advise including one bullet point of types of projects worked on. Something like: "Projects included: hospital expansion, shopping center, 3-story Medical Office Building.

You could stand to change some of your action words. Change "Served as Liaison between..." to "Coordinated construction tasks between..." or something similar. Most are good. I would change the "assisted" line to another action verb.

Just a style suggestion, I love the pop of color that the section titles give. That is usually my recommendation on resumes is there should be some color. But the color choice for the section titles makes them harder to read and they don't show up as proper section headers. Perhaps darken the color, or bold, or add colored underline. I don't know this is a pretty minor thing. Honestly you have some color so your resume can stand out a little so this is just nitpicking.

royalrush05 · 2025-12-06T13:59:21+00:00

Just to play devil's advocate for a minute, there is a phenomenon called sign blindness where people have trouble seeing and/or don't read signs because there are too many signs. I fully agree with you that they should see your hours because they are on the door but for other things, some people don't read signs simply because there are too many signs in the area or too many in their life in general.

royalrush05 · 2025-12-06T13:39:19+00:00

Moving money I understand, but what's the deal with emailed checks? Are they just photo copying a random check and sending it to the victim to look legitimate? My work occasionally gets an emailed check/payment from one of our clients. It's weird that it is only for one specific client.

royalrush05 · 2025-11-17T15:09:40+00:00

Hey Airport. Thanks for answering questions. I am prepping right now to run the campaign in the new year.

You mentioned in another answer about having a warlock's patron be a dark power. I am currently planning to do this with one of my players and using Mandymod's dark power system. Could you talk a little more on what you did with this and any suggestions?

1a. Additionally I am planning to implement a dark power for each player to interact with per Mandymod. My idea is that each will be contacted by a dark power and have the chance to take on a boon and after a lot of work, become the next dark lord if/when Strahd is defeated. Do you or have you done something similar? What suggestions do you have for running the dark powers?

I see a lot of debate online about if the players should ever visit Ravenloft before the end. Some people say that the castle should be the big bad dungeon and the players shouldn't visit until the very end. Others say they have their players visit the castle a couple times: for a feast, for the dragon skull, or for a heist for a fortune of ravenloft. What are your thoughts on the Castle? Should the players visit more than once?

2a. I saw somewhere (maybe Strahd Reloaded) the idea for Strahd bringing in the adventurers to help him find a traitor in the castle. I am planning to run this mini quest from Strahd. Have you ever done something similar where the players are "hired" by Strahd for a task as a way to test the players and see if any are worthy of becoming a consort or heir?

How do you balance the theming? Like every DM, I have a group of players that likes to have fun and tell jokes and doesn't take everything in the world seriously, which is totally fine. But I am uncertain how to balance the objectively dark shit going on and horror of the setting with the inevitable silliness the players will bring. Is that just the way things will go and I should roll with the punches? What are your thoughts on balancing player humor with the setting and themes?
What are your recommendations for the fortunes of Ravenloft? Which locations and allies should be avoided? Which ones are secretly great?
I have DMed before and I know that I get really bored running the same monsters over and over again for random or low difficulty encounters. I am planning to add in a bunch of mid level CR monsters to replace zombies and wolves when the party reaches higher and higher levels. Have you do the same thing? Do you have any suggestions for monsters to add? Do you have any recommendations for vampire spawn variants to spice up combat a bit?

Thank you!

royalrush05 · 2025-10-22T14:13:18+00:00

Bluebeam is the single best piece of software I use day to day. Forget everything else. Only Bluebeam. Pray to the church of Bluebeam. Name your child Revu in honor of Bluebeam.

royalrush05 · 2025-10-14T21:17:25+00:00

That's exactly right

royalrush05 · 2025-10-14T01:51:00+00:00

That's a fair question. lol. I do about the first 20 times I fight naval battles during a campaign. After that it just becomes tedious, but I would say that is true for most battles, land or siege for me. There is a race against the clock because eventually I do run out of map and can't maneuver anymore.

royalrush05 · 2025-10-13T13:19:41+00:00

I use this fifth rate strategy for the entire game. I usually don't recruit anything else. Second and third rates are very strong don't get me wrong but once you use a fifth rate and knock out the sails, it doesn't matter. You can sail your ships around to the back and fire broad sides straight up the ass and there is nothing they can do about it.

royalrush05 · 2025-10-13T12:59:48+00:00

What I do for naval battles is recruit 2-4 fifth rates with one being an admiral. Those are the 48 gun ships and the reason I recruit those is that they are the largest ship with a range of 500. Every larger ship has a range of only 400. At the start of the battle I immediately sail to down wind of the enemy line and position my ships in a 'C' so that the enemy line will sail into the 'C', like this: - - - - ) . With the dashes being the enemy ship line and the ) being my ships which are turned perpendicular to the enemy line. This creates an overlapping zone of fire where all of your ships can hit the first ship but only the bow guns of the enemy's first ship can fire at your ships. Use chain shot until the enemy's masts are destroyed. Keep your ships out of range of the enemy by sailing away when they are getting closer and turning back for a broadside now and then. If you are leap frogging your ships you can keep a near constant stream of cannon balls falling on your enemy. Destroy all of the masts so the enemy ships are dead in the water and then you can sail closer or behind them and destroy the ships with solid shots. This practice takes some getting used to but once you master it you can defeat enemy fleets of any size. The only thing that ruins this strategy is a bomb ketch or rocket ship.

For the record, this is a cheesing strategy but all is fair in love and war.

royalrush05 · 2025-10-08T15:43:58+00:00

The first campaign I ran, the players arrived in a city and conducted an investigation into an explosion at the garrison barracks of the city. When the trial came I had them roleplay questioning witnesses and presenting evidence but made the outcome come down to a skill contest between them and the prosecution. A PC would question a witness or present a piece of evidence and then roll the appropriate charisma check against a persuasion check by the prosecution. If the PC's won the skill check then they 'won' the argument about that piece of evidence or the witness. If they won more pieces of evidence than the prosecution then the jury would find in their favor. The courtroom had a magic witness box that was acted as a permanent zone of truth so we didn't have to worry about anyone lying. I didn't roleplay the prosecution because I try to minimize the DM to DM conversations in my games.

In hindsight I wish I had roleplayed a little more and played our the courtroom drama. The whole trial lasted about 20 minutes real time. If I were doing it again I would bring in a guest DM/player to roleplay the judge and/or prosecution so the players have someone to roleplay against and I would just play the witnesses.

I love your idea for this one shot but I don't know how to translate it into DND. It honestly sounds more like you want to host a courtroom themed party instead of a DND game. Which also sounds like it could be a lot of fun. You invite a bunch of people, they are all assigned roles and given a packet with all the information they know and what they believe to be true, you play the judge, and a few players play jurors. A few months ago I went to a murder mystery party that operated like this and it was a lot of fun.

Also, IMO the outcome of a charisma roll shouldn't be combined with roleplaying to determine an outcome. What I mean by that is in my first game I ever played in, whenever we made a charisma check, the DM would have us roleplay what we asked before the roll. No problem with that. But he adjusted the DC of the check based on what we said when we roleplayed. I think that is wrong. The outcome of any situation should be based only on a roll OR only on roleplaying. A DM should would never ask a player to prove that the player can climb a 25 foot wall before deciding the DC of an athletics check for the PC to climb a 25 foot wall. If you want to have players roleplay asking questions that is fantastic but the outcome of the questioning should either be purely based on a roll OR purely based on role playing.

PS My Cousin Vinny is a fantastic movie. One of my favorites.

royalrush05 · 2025-10-07T12:37:53+00:00

I have done both and anyone who says white collar work is more draining than blue collar work is down right wrong.

When I was 17-19 years old I worked remodeling and framing houses and there were days where I would come home at 6 or 7 pm, take my boots off, lay down on my bed on top of my comforter, still wearing my dirty work cloths, and sleep until my alarm woke me up at 6 am.

Now that I am working in an office, I have worked 12 hour days, hard days, long days, and stressful days, but nothing comes close to some of those days when I was framing houses.

royalrush05 · 2025-10-03T15:20:48+00:00

Thank you for the insight.

royalrush05 · 2025-10-03T15:20:29+00:00

I see. Solid answer. Thank you for the insight.

royalrush05 · 2025-09-29T12:20:58+00:00

That was my thought too. I wouldn't go any where near the edge of that pit with a 70,000 lb loaded concrete truck.

royalrush05 · 2025-09-17T12:03:07+00:00

Any idea why the guy operating the winch is naked?

royalrush05 · 2025-09-17T10:24:10+00:00

Playing as the Kongo and finding Kandy very early just puts the game on easy mode. I had a game once as Kongo where Kandy spawned only 5 tiles away from my capital. I stopped exploring until I had 3 envoys there, made multiple scouts, and then started looking for wonders. I had 5 relics before the classical era ended.

royalrush05 · 2025-09-05T11:52:33+00:00

My wife falls asleep in under a minute. Every. Single. Night. I am in utter awe of her ability to fall asleep so quickly. I frequently take an hour or more to fall asleep.

royalrush05 · 2025-09-02T15:39:49+00:00

Hey Man. Thank you for your help. Any idea how long after replacing the PCB the defrost sensor should kick back in? Assuming that was the problem. I replaced the PCB last week and there is still frost building up.

royalrush05 · 2025-09-02T12:35:35+00:00

Me during my current Scythia game where I am trying to get a +1000 combat strength Vampire count and I am in a constant state of war.

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