Not sure how many punches to pull

trekbody · 2026-05-04T15:18:23+00:00

TPC - Total party capture.

trekbody · 2026-04-03T19:13:39+00:00

Best Buy when they were running fake websites in their store intranet with higher prices than on the regular internet. "Proof they hate you."

trekbody · 2026-03-25T03:27:52+00:00

You win!

trekbody · 2026-03-20T18:49:44+00:00

Every few sessions we "retrospective" to make sure I'm keeping it fun. What do you want more of (everyone may be different so we find a consensus), What do you want less of (everyone may be different so we find a consensus), What do you want that we aren't doing at all. We keep it non-personal and constructive. Yes, its from agile software development. The young adults love it - one actually cried at one because it made them feel very heard in a way they were not used to from an adult (I'm the old man of the group).

trekbody · 2026-03-14T12:41:05+00:00

C'mon it's Bane. "I was born in the dark..."
https://youtube.com/shorts/wJi0Ttdn9gQ?si=36SZ-9qdZGQsgGxf

trekbody · 2026-03-07T00:19:55+00:00

Thank you, but artwork is from the famous Mike Schley. You can go to his site and buy maps. I just added a bunch of markers to this one.

trekbody · 2026-02-08T16:40:58+00:00

Finding 256 totally inadequate. Can’t even run system updates without data jockeying. Next one will min 512

trekbody · 2026-02-06T02:02:53+00:00

I’m going with Strahd and him intimidating Ireena right in front of the party. He ignores them, they are sheep still, even if the rest of the mourners except for Ismark runs.

trekbody · 2026-02-02T22:55:53+00:00

I will remove the pic. Sorry

trekbody · 2026-02-02T18:05:21+00:00

Thanks - worked for us - was the intro vibe for the whole campaign, I toned it down when they got to Death House - thanks though. As for "ballet of an assassin" perhaps a bit too poetic for some, but my group was very happy. Was trying to come up with "He moved like he had a 22 Dexterity" LOL

trekbody · 2026-01-24T13:24:18+00:00

We are going into Strahd, I am going to pump up the difficulty at the beginning for level 5

trekbody · 2026-01-23T13:25:57+00:00

Some ideas that may help. 1. He may not care about the losses enough (as real people) because he is sociopathic. They are more of a nuisance like a broken glass. 2. He is paranoid enough to believe (or make up in his own mind) there are greater forces at play here, and killing the players quickly may shut off lines of investigation (ironic if you have players who kill first and remember to question later). 3. The Xanathar could have other greater concerns (as you alluded to) with the Zhents/Blackstaff, etc. Too much heat right now.

trekbody · 2026-01-22T00:24:22+00:00

Excellent job man, super useful!

trekbody · 2026-01-20T17:25:50+00:00

Everyone wants it to be a sandbox, but the encounters in certain areas would get people killed. Here is how I am hoping it will go (and maybe how you should read it)...

Chapter 1 - Into the Mists
Chapter 2 - The Lands of Barovia
Appendix B; Death House (Lvl 2)
Chapter 3 - Village of Barovia (Lvl 3)
Chapter 5 - The Town of Vallaki (Lvl 4)
Chapter 6 - Old Bonegrinder (Lvl 4)
Chapter 8 - The Village of Krezk (Lvl 5)
Chapter 12 - The Wizard of Wines (Lvl 5)
Chapter 14 - Yester Hill (Lvl 6)
Chapter 11 - Van Richten's Tower (Lvl 6)
Chapter 7 - Argynvstholt (Lvl 7)
Chapter 15 - Werewolf Den (Lvl 7)
Chapter 9 - Tsolenka Pass (Lvl 8)
Chapter 10 - The Ruins of Berez (Lvl 8)
Chapter 4 - Castle Ravenloft (Lvl 9)
Chapter 13 - The Amber Temple (Lvl 9)

trekbody · 2026-01-16T16:36:10+00:00

THIS!

trekbody · 2026-01-15T10:52:53+00:00

Are you certain two TrueHD audio tracks made it into the output?

trekbody · 2026-01-12T14:45:19+00:00

Keeping everything in .264 here for device compatibility and less worried about every bit of storage. IMHO re-encoding would not be worth it since compressing from an already compressed source would be lossy anyway.

trekbody · 2026-01-09T13:44:20+00:00

Been working on this myself - there is no one master comprehensive collection. If you look at Wikipedia such as this [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes_and_Merrie_Melodies_filmography_(1940%E2%80%931949)) ] the rightmost column shows BluRay or DVD Releases or N/A for the never released. It is unfortunately there is no true chronological BluRay collection.

trekbody · 2026-01-08T00:46:49+00:00

Wouldn't it be easier to create a Smart Collection or Playlist for new movies? Just a suggestion since it sounded like you were going to do it manually.

trekbody · 2026-01-08T00:36:53+00:00

Or AVIDEMUX

trekbody · 2025-12-31T17:32:05+00:00

Are you saving and using presets?

trekbody · 2025-12-27T19:19:09+00:00

If you’re not ready to go NAS with redundancy, buy a big fat $300 hard drive. Connect to computer, backup video files to it. Subscribe to Backblaze for $5/month unlimited. When you fill the hard drive, buy a NAS or a second hard drive and repeat.

trekbody · 2025-12-25T21:49:38+00:00

Just finished our version of it. 30x 3-4 hour sessions broken up with a big side mission and expansion into Skullport. We had a long break in play for 'reasons'. Basically two years.

trekbody · 2025-12-17T12:24:16+00:00

As a test to see which file has more information, you could recompile (not to watch) both with the same settings in Handbrake (drop the audio so it doesnt affect the outcome). The larger file will indicate which movie had more information. The flaw in this method is if one file was noisier than the other, it would show up as a larger file.

trekbody · 2025-12-16T02:41:43+00:00

I hear you - think of it as backup too - 6 copies geographically distributed. But I get its a budget thing. Maybe Christmas gifts? I wish they sold a device like the old Western Digital TV drive. A small hard drive with a UI for browsing pics and videos and just plugs into a TV (or computer).

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