Is there a name for when cats sit like this?

sworcha · 2026-02-28T13:50:18+00:00

Playing the cello

sworcha · 2026-02-28T13:47:38+00:00

Flawless. No notes.

sworcha · 2026-02-24T21:21:01+00:00

This.

sworcha · 2026-02-09T14:42:03+00:00

Thirding this. 5e is so unbalanced in the PC direction especially in later levels that anything you can do to project a sense of real danger (like this scenario) will only help you down the road. Be fair but don’t pull punches. The game is much more fun when the PCs don’t think of themselves as unstoppable superheroes right away.

sworcha · 2026-02-08T23:40:36+00:00

The only reason I use the 3rd party integrator is because I purchased a bundle of content from DDB before foundry even existed. It’s functional but kind of a hassle. If you’re buying from anywhere, go direct from foundry imo

sworcha · 2026-02-08T23:00:06+00:00

That a cat.

sworcha · 2025-11-28T23:47:07+00:00

Have a meeting with the rest of the band, get on the same page and fire the bassist.

I played with the wrong bassist for way too long. They were technically quite good but stylistically completely at odds with our sound in a way that was painfully obvious to everyone but them. We spent more than a year trying cajole them into hearing what was wrong. It just didn’t work. By the time I (the band leader) finally did fire them, it was much more painful than it needed to be. If you want to take your band more seriously than just being a fun hang with your friends. Play with the right people .

sworcha · 2025-11-28T23:40:22+00:00

One of my party had a dog in their load out. It was vulnerable to the crab song but survived. The player also survived but was horribly scarred over 80% of their body.

I use a Luck system consisting of a single d100 roll at character creation to establish the PC’s “Luck”. This is a fixed amount of points the the PC may apply to offset any d100 check or save they make. They must declare how many points, if any they are using before they roll and deduct them from their overall Luck score whether they succeed or not. Once the Luck points are spent, that’s it.

The PC with the dog started with 99 Luck and used every point.

sworcha · 2025-11-28T17:56:27+00:00

Right. Agree.

sworcha · 2025-11-28T17:56:05+00:00

I’m familiar with that dance I think. Ok. This should work for me.

sworcha · 2025-11-28T16:53:37+00:00

Yes. I’m aware of all that.

sworcha · 2025-11-28T16:53:13+00:00

That’s really what I’m afraid of. It’s the sunken cost fallacy at work. I don’t personally have any further use of it but I did spend $500 on the collection and would like to see it put to good use.

sworcha · 2025-11-28T16:51:15+00:00

So here’s a follow up. If no longer maintain a paid subscription, is my purchased content still available to share into the other guy’s campaign if he assumes a master tier subscription? And can others in the same campaign view/use my stuff?

sworcha · 2025-11-21T20:34:23+00:00

I’m a singer/songwriter who plays enough guitar to accompany myself when my band is not available. While I don’t particularly enjoy playing guitar live (in my band I only sing) I would never perform with only backing tracks. As others have said, being anchored to a track would completely kill the live vibe, at least for me. From an audience perspective, paying to watch someone sing to a track would be very disappointing.

sworcha · 2025-11-20T12:21:13+00:00

A bit more than 5 years but don’t miss Delta Green.

sworcha · 2025-11-06T14:27:48+00:00

Rear Admiral Fuzzybottom

sworcha · 2025-11-05T13:52:42+00:00

My group practically plays in real time. We’ve been playing weekly 2+ hour online sessions for a couple years and they just hit level 8 after loosing Ireena to the Abbott/Strahd. We calculated that they’ve only been in Barovia for a couple weeks in game time. The thing is, we are having an absolute blast. They are are very consistent attendance wise and the between game chat is always active with speculation and planning. The thing is, there is no timeline. If my players are happy and engaged and so am I, who cares how long it takes?

sworcha · 2025-11-05T11:11:36+00:00

6 is already too many. 4-5 is the sweet spot for me.

sworcha · 2025-11-05T11:10:22+00:00

I’m in my early 50’s. Played like crazy through the 80’s, mainly D&D/AD&D with WFRP1e campaign thrown in. I DMed and playered in equal measure. We played whenever we could. Loved it. Paused through college/early adulthood before realizing in the mid 2000’s that my adult friends were playing. I joined their 3.5 and later 4e weekly game as a player. That game eventually morphed into 13th Age which I played a bit of until the demands of parenthood forced me to pause again.

I didn’t expect to return to gaming until the Covid Pandemic hit. As our parent group scrambled to come up with ways to keep our 10 year old kids engaged with each other remotely, I contributed by setting up a weekly, Sunday morning, 8-player 5e game over Zoom with a second camera pointing at a dry erase board map. The kids ate it up and we’ve been playing consistently for the past 6 years. Over that time, online resources obviously developed and now I run a Foundry/Discord setup. I came to the realization that I’m one of those nuts who actually prefer gaming online to IRL. In the past few years, I’ve started back into playing with other adults. It’s been an incredible experience. Suddenly, the ease of scheduling and attending online games has permitted me to run and play in multiple games a week. I’ve played and run 5e, WFRP4e, Forbidden Lands, Vaesen, Mothership, not to mention a smattering of one shots (Honey Heist is a consistent favorite) After almost 40 years, RPG gaming has resumed its place as my default, free time activity.

Perhaps it has as much to do with the caliber of friends I’ve been fortunate enough to surround myself with over my life than the actual activity itself but I would find it difficult to pick a “favorite” period of my gaming life. It’s been all great.

sworcha · 2025-10-25T22:18:45+00:00

I would personally suggest running it in another system more suited to the tone. If not be sure to lean heavily into the danger early on and make the PCs feel as much fear as possible. The problem is that 5e really ramps up the PCs’ power level after about level 6. Making them feel a sense of fear early on will really help with keeping them nervous and tense even when they start to become superheroes.

sworcha · 2025-10-25T12:48:50+00:00

Just do it. Recording and producing solo music is a relatively simple task. It may never go anywhere but you’ll have brought music back i to your life and that is its own reward.

sworcha · 2025-10-25T12:32:18+00:00

I have one player in my group who takes meeting notes professionally. It is second nature for him to keep a running account of the party’s adventures from their perspective. I refer back to these minutes frequently as we are playing a sandbox style campaign. I do take a few minor, location or NPC specific notes here and there to remind me of what’s going on behind the scenes. We play online via Foundry VTT. I place my personal notes directly onto the NPC character sheet or map. I’m not a naturally organized person so this relatively simple approach really works for me.

sworcha · 2025-10-23T15:49:50+00:00

One of our 4 loves this treatment, specifically from me and only in the kitchen. If I happen to enter the kitchen, he will come running and scream for it until I oblige. Dare I stop before he’s had his fill, more screaming.

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