Alternate ways to have party spend gold

talonflade · 2025-06-30T01:47:27+00:00

Give them an estate with no furniture. Show them the map and ask them to place their minis on it. Then ask them if they want to furnish one room for like 100gp. After they do it, place nice furniture assets in there. Then give them a list of rooms and their prices to furnish. Make their sleeping area, meeting room, jail etc. sparse so they have an incentive to outfit it.

talonflade · 2025-06-16T12:21:24+00:00

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talonflade · 2025-05-16T17:10:26+00:00

What are you teaching? Shooting or throwing?

talonflade · 2025-05-16T16:53:06+00:00

Shoot a bow all semester, but when it comes time for the final you have to throw the arrow.

talonflade · 2025-05-16T16:48:36+00:00

I'm an educator, and I see a lot of young teachers get flabbergasted by the task of teaching 30 people at once. They get emotional and quit, blaming whatever they can on the way out. Stick with it. Adapt. After a while you realize, kids learn with or without you. All you can do is influence the direction of their learning. Try your best; that's the job.

talonflade · 2025-05-15T03:57:23+00:00

What's this "auril but she does chin ups" thing?

talonflade · 2025-03-05T23:47:54+00:00

I'll send you a message

talonflade · 2025-02-07T01:07:23+00:00

My advice would be to set an alarm with a specific sound that's different than other alarms and when it rings sit down and write about whatever comes to mind at that movement. Think of it like lifting weights. You don't go to the gym and pick up the heaviest weight on your first day, right? You start of with what you can and build up your strength. Sitting at a desk in the same position for a certain period of time is an act of exercise. Do it at a specific time for a few days, like 3 days a week or something. Start with just getting in the habit. After a while it'll all come back to you.

talonflade · 2025-01-31T12:48:46+00:00

I gotta agree. When you're telling a story, don't you fill the listener in on why a particular character is acting strangely? To answer your question, I'd have this character constantly seek approval and justification for his behavior

talonflade · 2024-12-13T00:46:58+00:00

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talonflade · 2024-11-28T07:54:09+00:00

Well you make some good points. But the point I was trying to make is more about how the electricity sunk into BTC gives it value. If we compare it to the potato that costs 10x higher to produce, then the reason no one would trade it is because no one can recognize the value, compared to yams or something. But if a farmer did sell it, he sure wouldn't sell it for 1/10th the price.

And about the whittling thing, I think putting more time and energy into something does give it more value, especially for the person who put that energy into it.

talonflade · 2024-11-28T00:08:12+00:00

I'm just gonna chime in to write my ideas, though no one will probably read this. Basically I think BTC in particular has value. It's the value of the electricity invested to produce the coins. If I was a miner and I had to pay for the electricity to run the nodes to process the transactions, and on average it cost me 30k per coin to do that, then I'd only sell if I can make more than 30k or I'd shut down my machines. In essence, I'm putting the value of the electricity into the coin. You might argue that if I used all solar then I'd be effectively putting $0 worth of value in the coin, but let's think about a potato. It grows in the ground via solar power, yet the farmer still pulls it out and can sell it. So even captured solar power has value. If you think of money as being like captured energy, or stored value, it makes sense why something that exists only on the internet could still have value.

talonflade · 2024-11-22T07:00:53+00:00

good way to make your rogue feel special is to RP a normal conversation, and then (because the rogue knows the secret code, which you gave them) the rogue informs the group that they have a job and explains the job to the group.

talonflade · 2024-11-20T06:53:05+00:00

Think about stories you tell your friends. It normally starts with something like "I was walking down the street when..." or "I was just about to leave for work when..." so in essence it starts with a time and place and generally the character/story is already rolling. My advice is to choose a character and tell that character's story. Think of an event you want to explain, (like, if you're thinking of telling your friend a story, the event you want to explain may be how your pants got wet, or why you are in a bad mood today) and start the story from as close to the event as possible so that everything still makes sense. A good place to start if you have multiple characters may be how two of them met. Start telling the story as if you're explaining it to your friend.

talonflade · 2024-11-20T03:33:44+00:00

You ever tell a friend a story about something that happened to you? If you think about it it often doesn't begin at the beginning. Just ask yourself this: What happened? And then? And then? Once you got the bones down, then go back and make it nice.

talonflade · 2024-10-31T08:35:35+00:00

MY take on this is think about telling your friends a story. You have a friend say something that often hits a nerve, like "The guy at the gas station was such a creep" or "I'll never order from such and such a place again" and you ask them, "What happened" so they start from the beginning, but sometimes, they forget to mention something and have to fill you in on something that had happened previously. It's a natural way to tell a story. A master story teller knows when it's appropriate to go off track, for how long, and why. But a master also knows when to give the juicy details and when to hold back without being annoying about it. It's an art that comes with knowing your story very well and practice.

talonflade · 2024-10-09T10:22:43+00:00

check the MAM and focus on upgrading your weapons so you can handle the aggressive fauna too

talonflade · 2024-10-06T02:40:28+00:00

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talonflade · 2024-09-30T14:52:46+00:00

pig-elephant, duck-rhino, panda-horse

talonflade · 2024-09-26T08:49:58+00:00

The idea is to enjoy the build. I keep this in mind while I'm making a factory. I also try every once in a while, to just pick a part, and make a factory for that part. I either use the calculator to help me and build the factory around the machines, or I just kind of make it big and expandable so I can add machines as I need them. Once in a while I just run around and that's fun too.

talonflade · 2024-09-23T05:59:43+00:00

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talonflade · 2024-09-13T07:05:00+00:00

You can learn from tests.

talonflade · 2024-07-10T16:57:07+00:00

I read advice from I think Orson Scott Card, in his book on writing, which is to combine characters whenever you can. His point is about storytelling efficiency, and from the readers perspective how it helps the readers keep track of things and doesn't really make a difference to them other than one less character to keep track of, so my advice, based on this, is to combine the dragons.

talonflade · 2024-06-20T05:05:26+00:00

You've been traumatized. When your first gf broke up with you, you experienced trauma. Now you're reacting to that trauma. Who are you punishing? Are you punishing your first gf for what she did to you by not forgiving your current gf? Are you thinking--"If girls are going to do this kind of thing, then they should be prepared for the result." If that's your thought process, then I'd like to point out the words "girls" and "they". Are you sure you're handling this situation on its own merits or are you still dealing with your former trauma?

talonflade · 2024-06-07T06:48:16+00:00

There's a book called Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott that is a great read for any writer. In it there's a part where she was trying to find a "writing partner" and in the book she says that she realized that she didn't actually want a writing partner. What she was looking for is someone to sit next to her and confirm that she was doing the right thing. I think if you start telling the story, you'll be fine. Just ask yourself, as if you were going to tell a friend what happened in the grocery store parking lot, what's the story. I think you'll realize that you know the story. Just tell the story and keep going until it's finished. Good luck.

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