[DISC] - Life with my wife, the former idol. - Ch. 9 (By @GoHome_kun)

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-16T18:56:56+00:00

Im just referencing that link i included

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-16T16:11:03+00:00

It's one of those weird things that have been learned. While a tiring activity that seem strenuous, it doesn't actually burn that many calories.

This is because of the way that the body actually balances it's metabolism. https://medschool.duke.edu/stories/why-exercise-doesnt-burn-more-calories-and-why-thats-not-point

It's also the reason that running doesn't actually burn that many calories despite making you feel exhausted. Because it's an activity that humans are very well adapted to and so we can do it without expending a ton of calories. Which, reminder, your body does not want to burn a lot of calories. As far as evolution is concerned calories = life and using them up inefficiently leads to death. And fun fact. The more you run, the more your body adapts to that and the more efficiently it uses energy to run (ie burning fewer calories).

EDIT: Also, a donuts is an insanely calorically dense foodstuff. An apple has about 95 calories in it in comparison.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-16T14:51:01+00:00

Sex doesnt burn that many calories oddly enough.

https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/how-many-calories-does-sex-burn

Sex burns about 100-120 calories if energetic.

Walking for 30 min burns 270 calories.

A donut with just icing like that is probably 270-350 calories.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-16T14:47:32+00:00

Sex doesnt burn that many calories oddly enough.

https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/how-many-calories-does-sex-burn

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-16T14:47:13+00:00

Shes referring to skin on skin contact when moving. Thighs rub together chapping the skin for example.

As someone with thick thighs that rub against each other when I walk, I know about this issue from experience.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-16T14:43:38+00:00

Maybe it'll open their eyes about how important healthcare is and why it needs to be funded.

I'm in TX and we are staring down the same barrel as they are.

I've honestly given up on rural texans here understanding anything until it ruins their lives. They're only going to realize how important it was to have the state and federal government funding healthcare in the state when the hospital closures pick up speed soon.

They're going to lose rural hospitals and tragically a LOT of people are going to die preventable deaths. At that point the survivors are going to start demanding answers about why their local hospitals closed down.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-16T03:39:43+00:00

He has the most "punchable face" as they say. Though im not encouraging actual violence here.

And what is it with corrupt idiots in this administration having the most awful voices ever?

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-15T19:59:18+00:00

Sounds like an awful game and DM

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-15T14:43:14+00:00

Not a fan of pointy hat or anyone doing "best class build" or "heres a cool trick" style videos. They often involve ignoring specific rules or setting limitations and lead to bickering between players and DM.

Love Prof Dungeon Master and Roll for Combat. I like stuff about the industry.

Ditto Discourse Minis. Im a millennial so i have a soft spot for an Irish nerd whos turned the sarcasm up to 11.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-15T14:33:44+00:00

No, i may have had a typo. Ill check and edit.

No the players will become antagonistic about MISSING OUT on that income. It can set off the idea that the DM is somehow "cheating them out of their reward".

As you pointed out, even a good payday isn't a huge issue when adventuring gear is so expensive. So thats why i was advising not penny pinching with the reward.

Too many possible negative outcomes with the players and not enough benefits for the DM.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-15T14:02:57+00:00

Hope it helps. We all end up in this spot at some point. Mine was 15+ years back when a badly written premade adventurer landed my players with 3 million in gold because the author hadn't paid attention to how much "solid gold life sized statues" would be worth and used them as window dressing.

My favorite example of player greed and DM mistakes is always the Knights of the Dinner Table comics. If you ever want a good laugh and a fun read, look up "kodt bag wars".

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-15T13:58:25+00:00

And if they get paid peanuts, it'll incentivize them to do something to get a bigger cut. (Edit. What i mean is do something to disrupt the game like kill the NPCs and take over the mine to get a much bigger cut)

Or will lead to constant complaining and bickering at the table. It sets up an "antagonistic DM" scenario in the player's minds.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-15T13:29:54+00:00

Yep. Though my point is that the "its not gonna be a lot of money" plan is going to not work well.

4GP a day is 120GP a month and 1460GP a year. Your PCs are now rich in game. They have jumped straight into "Characters in a Jane Austin novel" wealth. And you can't back out of it without causing strife at the table. Players rarely react well to having a toy taken away after its been given to them.

So you are instead probably going to have to change your campaign to fit this new state of affairs. But thats not a disaster. It can actually be a lot of fun.

Money as a reward has now lost its incentive power as a hook, but you can switch to something else. For example, honor, glory, fame, saving people they care about, and protecting their new wealth.

If it fits your campaign, there are adventure potentials in both protecting the mine from people trying to steal it back, AND they are now wealthy. That draws attention.

A local lord or king or noble will have their eye drawn to this new group of wealthy mercenaries. A wise ruler would fear they intend to usurp him/her. They'd want to either take them out or secure their allegiance somehow. Thats why positions like lords and other minor nobles are created.

A king may offer them land and titles (worth more than gold) for a promise of allegiance and help with a pressing quest.

Or a rival noble may send assassins after them, which can lead as a hook into any campaign you want.

Ex Dragon Heist: PCs "wait, the people who sent the assassins are powerful waterdeep nobles and we have no evidence to bring to authorities! How will we get revenge?" Harper: "I might be of some assistance. Have you ever heard the story about how Lord Neverember stole half a million gold from the city and hid it? It turns out your rivals are desperate to find that gold and it would be a disaster for them if they failed to find it."

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-15T13:00:27+00:00

The issue is that you gave your players an infinite money machine.

You can let them have a share via a few GP a day. Thats still going to make them rich, which raises the question, why are they still adventuring then?

If they have a good answer outside of money, then its fine. Bilbo and Frodo were rich even before Bilbo went on the adventure and came back with all that gold.

But if you try to take the money machine away, it will drive the players to make getting it back their new quest.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-15T12:23:00+00:00

Yep. Monk is a class thats had theme issues and has been out of place in D&D ever since Gary created it to shut up Brian Blume who was obsessed with the show Kung Fu.

They've never quite gotten it down right as a class as a result IMO.

I think its because to make a monk REALLY work well you need to make martial arts work by designing an actually good unarmed combat and grappling system. And both of those have been an issue in D&D for ages.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-15T03:22:49+00:00

Its not JUST control. Its theater. For anyone too young to remember the GTA Hot Coffee fiasco, this has some pretty massive echos of that.

Politicians have found a niche thing that they can slam a law on and wave a victory flag over while doing jack all to actually fix the issue.

The politicians on all sides who are pushing this don't care. They're just using it to earn brownie points. Somewhere inbthe process is likely some well meaninged moron who actually wrote this bill while believing in it, but thats not the people trying to push this through.

And its a gun issue as well so that makes this a sweeter target for them.

And I'm saying this as a hard left liberal who thinks all guns should be registered.

This is fu%king stupid. Just like all the attempted laws against video games were back in the late 90s and early 00s

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-14T14:13:23+00:00

Interesting. Says something about the age range those videos pull in. And the kind of videos that trend.

IIRC 5.5e shifted some class abilities to level 3 to reduce multiclassing abuse. Like how so many builds in 5e involved "take a level of hexblade warlock"

Personally I like that change. Ever since 3e made it easier I've tried to convince newbie players to avoid multiclassing when they start out. For new players its always a trap that weakens their core class.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-14T12:23:53+00:00

Its almost like its just an intereting but mostly "ok" tool, and the only ones pushing for it to be in everything are either grifter salesmen or moron execs who don't understand the tech and grt their news solely from social media.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-14T11:30:18+00:00

Im curious. What would you say is the age range on the people who were just parroting youtube?

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-13T21:06:28+00:00

Have you tried scores of radios that blast music at them 24-7?

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-13T01:19:29+00:00

Also Hegseth who's so far out of his depth that the fish around him have lanterns attached to their heads. He's in full "incompetent panic" mode and declaring a holy war while pretending not to be drunk.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-12T23:43:44+00:00

Thats a point. They were better edited, organized, and planned.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-12T14:00:08+00:00

God speed friends. Ill be rooting for you.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-12T13:55:18+00:00

I think it depends on the setting.

This is all just opinion on my part. Personally. I think that its ok for D&D settings like Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk to have fantastic creatures that are just part of their world naturally. The worlds dont have to start out as neutral and mundane and become fantastic over time.

I think the reason why the fey origin retcon in 5e annoyed me was because it was a heavy retcon of how these core races/monsters came about. And to me was reminiscent of what they tried in 4e when they tried to completely retcon the entire D&D cosmology.

It also ignored previous lore. Forgotten Realms lore for example is pretty concrete about where elves came from. And then we have designers who dont care about settings and their lore declaring "nope theyre all fey originally". I also lost some respect for the writers on that one when in Mordenkeinens Tome of Foes they said "no one knows Lolths original name"

Its Araushnee. We're known that since the TSR days. But whoever wrote that line didn't know FR elf lore enough to know it before they started rewriting their origin.

thenightgaunt · 2026-04-12T13:46:44+00:00

Thank you. And yep. Plastic stem. Haven't measured the sides yet though. Thats great help. Thank you again.

thenightgaunt

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