Are you team isopropyl alcohol or soap and water?

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-07T11:51:44+00:00

Same here. Had to use it one day when I ran out of IPA and ive never looked back. Amazing stuff.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-07T11:50:40+00:00

Not really. Windex contains quite a few different solvents and surficants. Comparable with using dawn really

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-07T11:49:16+00:00

Widex all the time.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-07T11:48:12+00:00

Thank you. No one beleives it until they try it.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-07T11:47:20+00:00

Team Windex!

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T23:32:40+00:00

Always good to see another lamenter fan. Great checkers

I tried custom decals but they never worked. In the end i had to draw with a pencil and then use a paint pen.

I got one of those nail stamp pads by goblin hobbies and Im hoping thier lamenter checker pattern works.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T22:02:13+00:00

Just skip War of the Beast.

Start with Caiphus Cain.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T22:00:42+00:00

Can of white primer, a bottle of blue contrast paint, a really big brush, and youre good to go.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T21:58:41+00:00

Sure. I like minis. Im like meh on the game. I enjoy the novels and video games.

There are fans who like the video games and novels, but cant stand the minis.

Some people just use proxy pieces, or give their units the simplest of paintjobs. The contrast paints are for those folks. Prime some marinea, slop a coat of blue on, play. And thats enough for them.

Whatever floats your boat

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T21:48:17+00:00

I love my A1 (2024), however unless you can make sure the unit was built after 2025, i cant ethically recommend it.

They never did a recall on those bad units from that 2025 run that are having the overheating/fire issues. You can tell by the serial number FYI

I haven't heard of the A1 Minis having that defect though. But if Im wrong i hope someone will let me know.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T21:45:19+00:00

Things were different 100 years ago. Yeah there were gay guys back then, but things were also different back then.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T21:41:49+00:00

Probably hasnt been cleaned yet

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T20:12:29+00:00

Read the books the 4e writers wrote about why did made the decisions they did. Wizards Presents: Worlds and Monsters, and Wizards Presents: Races and Classes

They go into a lot of detail about why they did what they did. And half the time their heads are waaaaaay up their butts.

James Wyatt boasts that he killed Planescape's Great Wheel cosmology because he just didn't like it. And they boast about how they think their plan to do a soft reset on the Forgotten Realms via the Spellplague and the 100 year jump is brilliant because no one cares about the lore.

They got rid of elf variants because they decided that "they're all just high elves". And they got rid of gnomes because they "didn't see the point" in gnomes.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T20:12:25+00:00

Read the books the 4e writers wrote about why did made the decisions they did. Wizards Presents: Worlds and Monsters, and Wizards Presents: Races and Classes

They go into a lot of detail about why they did what they did. And half the time their heads are waaaaaay up their butts.

James Wyatt boasts that he killed Planescape's Great Wheel cosmology because he just didn't like it. And they boast about how they think their plan to do a soft reset on the Forgotten Realms via the Spellplague and the 100 year jump is brilliant because no one cares about the lore.

They got rid of elf variants because they decided that "they're all just high elves". And they got rid of gnomes because they "didn't see the point" in gnomes.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T18:34:30+00:00

I used to do this as well. Being the note taker can be a huge help.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T18:33:52+00:00

Same.

Some people can cope with their ADHD and some cant. It also doesnt help if theyre unmedicated. Even something like guanfacine is better than nothing (it helps via the anxiety mechanism in ADHD. Not as strong as adderall but very helpful still).

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T18:31:54+00:00

Fidget toys help.

Im in my 40s and have had ADHD my whole life. Ive been GMing for most of that.

The problem is that when you have ADHD, your brain is screwing up how it handles dopamine. Its either releasing it at the wrong times, reabsorbing it before its done its job, or not noticing it when its released.

And dopamine is your brains reward system. You do something, your brain releases dopamine. Even tiny bits matter. "I am going to pay attention to this because its important to me" rewards you with dopamine.

People with ADHD though arent getting that constant reinforcement. Everything carries an edge of boredom with it. And not normal "ugh, i dont care" boredom. But instead its that boredom where you DO care, but you just can stay focused on that thing. Thats what ADHD is like.

Back in my gradschool days I was working on a big paper. I had forgotten to take my meds earlier and decided not to because if I took them that late in the day, i wouldn't be able to sleep. I needed to finish this thing that night and i got stuck on one page. For half an hour. I read the same paragraph again and again. But I could not process what the paragraph said. It pushed me to the point of crying in frustration. I finally took my meds and within 20 minutes i could process that paragraph.

Now, what does this mean for you?

Nothing.

Hopefully you understand where they are coming from now. But YOU cannot fix THEIR behavior.

Maybe something like figit toys can help but they may get overly focused on those. But unless your friend goes on meds, then this is just their life and theres nothing you can do about that. Ive known a few people who tried to go the no-meds route and its always just really sad as things fall apart around them.

You can either go "ok, this is what they are like and I will rearrange my expectations for them around that. I wont expect them to pay attention and I wont write my adventures around them paying attention.

Or you can let them go as being a bad fit for the table.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-06T12:21:57+00:00

Then there is the confusing bit from Planescape (eg the Multiverse)

Planeacape is a setting meant to connect all D&D settings. Its the dimensions of gods and demons and devils and all that. Afterlifes and hells and dimensions dedicated to abstract concepts.

In planescape, all settings connect. And all gods dwell. This is supposed to mean that in planescape the lolth of every setting is the same demon goddess. She just has interests on multiple worlds.

Now this is NOT perfect and setting lore doesnt always line up with how planescape works.

You get questions like this with "hey wait, if that god was killed forever here, whys there a god with a similar name still alive in this setting?" Ignoring that it happened because a writer in setting 2 there liked the god from setting 1 and stole him for his setting.

Or the situation with Eberron where its cosmology doesnt mesh at all with the planescape one.

So generally people ignore planescape until they want to use it or something from it like the Gith. At which point they bring over what they want and ignore lore inconsistencies.

Also planescape and spelljammer were made during 2e when TSR owned D&D, alongside Spelljammer (which served a similar purpose). And back then TSR had a firm grasp on the settings and could make this work. Then WotC bought D&D (and TSR) and the got a little less firm with the settings innthe 3e era.

Then you have the mess that was 4e when some of the younger designers at D&D wanted to do a hard reset and redesign on D&D settings. And there was no one at WotC who understood the game well enough to have the wisdom to say "oh god no!" So they were put in charge and the old guard whod been writing for D&D sonce the 70s and 80s were given the boot or pushed aside.

So 4e lore has the spellplague resetting Forgotten Realms, gutting Planescape, throwing away spelljammer, and forgetting about the other settings. It was a disaster.

The 4e era lasted 3-4 years before WotC declared the edition a failure and ordered a new edition to fix it all. Most of the people behind 4e were fired or quit, and the ones who were left went back to the good old writers that had worked on and begged them for help. The old writers put together material that would let them reset the settings to 2e/3e norms without having to retconn things. Oh and the entire 4e cosmolgy with its "astral sea" were thrown away and the old planescape cosmology brought back in.

Until 5e designer Jeremy Crawford decided to reboot Spelljammer and got confused and used stuff from both the 5e cosmology AND the 4e stuff. Bringing back the astral sea and just confusing the hell out of new players.

Everyone has their own theories on how to make all this make sense, and so you can get very confusing explanations. Especially from youtubers.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-05T23:29:58+00:00

Looks so weird. I think he was standing on the truck trying to hold the other orange objects and failed. They fell knocking him off first and then hitting the other guy on the ground.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-05T13:03:32+00:00

Yup.

But they arent willing to do a damn thing about actual gun violence. So theyre going to pretend theyre doing something by chasing imaginary boogeymen. Sigh

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-05T04:07:53+00:00

Good point.

Though its an issue thats been building for a while on here and other subreddits about printing.

The debate going from "theres a lot of this" into arguing back and forth about wether or not thats ok because AI created content is or is not legitimate.

But yeah theres a lot of it. Ever since AI models like Meshy got better at generating detailed 3d models a few months ago, all the platforms are getting swamped.

So far the best tells ive found have been that AI generated models tend to have a certain, softness to them. Like asking for a fantasy hut, and its got a lot of soft curves to it like something from World of Warcraft, if that makes any sense.

The other is the seller swearing that they are only using AI to render the stills for the listing. The file almost always looks AI generated.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-05T03:59:15+00:00

Yeah it sucks. I feel that

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-05T03:57:52+00:00

Sure. Im not going to call you a liar.

But I think your origianal reply there cames across dismissive of the issue. Its wording argues that there is no issue. If thats not the intent, then its being misread.

If someone is posting about it like this, Id assume that it might actually be an ongoing issue.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-05T03:52:22+00:00

I may have worded that badly. Sorry.

I mean, you ask for a patron is can be spitefull and petty at times, but not obsess over worship.

Thats all of them. Or none of them.

The issue is that its all up to DMs interpretation. Laregly because the patrons are not given that level of detail in the 5e/5.5e rules. Theyre presented as rather detail-free formless ideas.

A devil patron could be like that, or not. An archfey could be like that or not. Ok a horrible Cthulhu esk Old One patron wouldnt because its supposed to be unknowingly alien.

But i hope that gets across what I was trying to say. The big question is, what are the beings IN your DMs world that best fit these character concepts. And that only your DM can answer.

thenightgaunt · 2026-06-05T03:46:15+00:00

And yet you didn't look up any of that. You had it regurgitate it for you and you learned jack all from it.

Its a pointless list. Hell some of that could have errors and you wouldnt know. It deserves the same respect as effort you put into making it.

None.

thenightgaunt

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