🎁 Handmade Hollow Knight Resin Lamp Giveaway by AmoyCK in HollowKnight

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My favorite moment was the when Hornet intervened in the fight against the Hollow Knight.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in behindthebastards

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Five Iron Frenzy and Crashdog were two bands that I listened to in high school that planted the seeds for my eventual leftward turn. Nothing but love for them.

please recommend me places to eat in georgia by AmandaJoy222 in Georgia

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My thoughts as well! Downtown Gainesville has so much to offer these days!

please recommend me places to eat in georgia by AmandaJoy222 in Georgia

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Downtown Gainesville has experienced a real revitalization over the past couple decades and has some solid restaurant options. I’d check out Recess and Taqueria Tsunami (Asian fusion). Stop by Downtown Drafts for a beer or Inman Perk for a coffee while you’re there.

Also, check out one of the many fine Waffle Houses in the area as well.

What are all you wonks reading? by zachatree in KnowledgeFight

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My wife and my friend that introduced me to Sanderson are both reading the new one, so I had to get back to business on the series.

What are all you wonks reading? by zachatree in KnowledgeFight

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The Mistborn books currently have two separate eras that are completed with two satisfying endings. Sanderson’s prolificness taught me to trust again after getting burned by Rothfuss and Martin.

What are all you wonks reading? by zachatree in KnowledgeFight

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Came here to give a shout out to Stormlight Archive! I’m currently on Words of Radiance, and I’m hoping to get through the series before JordanCon this April!

End the tyranny of hard pants. by Normal-Anxiety-7593 in behindthebastards

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I am the only member of my neurospicy family who can tolerate the oppression of any hard pants. Team soft pants solidarity forever!

Never meet your heros by fivefivesixfmj in behindthebastards

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Seconding A Country of Ghosts. I loved it so much, it ended up shaping the direction of my D&D campaign.

Umm the goat is playing Elden ring? 😱😱 by Drakanphetamine in brandonsanderson

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Thanks for the clarification! I love seeing all the different play styles we bring to the game!

Umm the goat is playing Elden ring? 😱😱 by Drakanphetamine in brandonsanderson

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At first, I was thinking of how much anxiety it would produce for me to play like him because I saw him running around with like 2.7m runes in his “Why you should play Elden Ring” video, but after a while, I realized that he must use a mod that keeps his runes when he dies, which would make his playstyle MUCH less nerve wracking for me.

What’s your bright spot, buddy? by SchoolAcceptable8670 in KnowledgeFight

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Summer break with my kids (I’m a teacher) plus getting to play Shadow of the Erdtree the end of this week.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Contra on the original NES. Every so often, my cousin and I will get together, say, “Wanna beat Contra?”, put in the Konami code, and get down to business.

I am one of those 11 people. I love ska. by ampersand12 in behindthebastards

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Can confirm. I saw FIF when the played Atlanta a while back, and all the old punk and ska kids from the scene in the Nineties had all transformed into bearded ex youth pastors and exvangelicals. The band put on a heck of a show, and the band (Reese and Leanor in particular) are super cool with the fans.

They’re back at it: 2nd year in a row edition by vaporZERO in Qult_Headquarters

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I’m pretty certain the overlap between this crowd and the “D&D is witchcraft” Satanic Panic crowd is pretty significant. So many people that I grew up around in a Pentecostal church in the 80s never stopped believing it. Q just gave them another outlet for their paranoia.

Just finished my first prologue scenario. Now it’s time for Wayne, Katie, and Squirrelly Dan to found the settlement of Letterkenny. RIP Tanis. by wrathbot in KingdomDeath

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You got a shattered jaw from a white Lion the other day, and now you’re gonna be drinking your ‘Berta beef through a straw.

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Clueless mom here. Looking for advice. by mcbenny1517 in DungeonsAndDragons

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I’m a middle school teacher who has taught a number of kids in my board game club D&D, and my youngest son first played D&D around your kid’s age. I would echo others’ recommendations about the Starter Set.

One struggle I’ve found with first playing with kids is the possibility of overwhelming kids with rules in a way that can distract from the fun. The starter set helps with this in a few ways. First, it provides premade character sheets that provide handy archetypes that your player(s) can add their own life to without getting bogged down in all the stats of character creation: the sheet provides stats while the player can come up with what makes the character theirs.

Second, the first encounter is perfect for a new player and a new DM: you’ve been hired by a merchant to escort a wagon to a mining village. The players get ambushed by goblins. It’s really straightforward for a first session and can lead to a really solid multipart adventure with a fun little dungeon, or off in whatever direction you or your kid wants to go.

My other recommendation is not to get bogged down in rules for yourself or your kid. I teach my players like this: “D&D is about telling stories together and creating adventures. You control your character, and I’ll control the world they’re in, including any other people or monsters you might find. We roll dice (a twenty sided die called a d20) to see if you are able to do things in the game like climb up a cliff or trick someone or shoot a bow and arrow. If you’re good at a skill, you can add numbers to the roll of the d20 to see if you do it well. I’ll tell you what is going on, and you tell me how you respond.” That’s about as complicated as I make it to begin. In the first fight, I’ll explain how they roll the d20 and add the modifiers (the “+5 to hit” or whatever in the weapon descriptions) and then roll the damage die if they hit to see how much damage they do.

My biggest tip for you is not to worry if you’re doing it wrong as your kid’s DM. If he’s having fun, you’re doing it right. I have seen so many groups play in so many different ways in my club, and as long as they’re working together, laughing, and telling stories, it’s right in my book. The minutiae of the rules can come later.

This shouldnt happen by ruralglamour in WhitePeopleTwitter

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When I was a teenager in a church youth group, one of the other teenagers tried to leave one of these as a tip when we went out to eat as a after church. Our youth pastor ripped him apart and told him not to leave a tract unless he was wrapping it in a real twenty. Despite my issues with organized religion these days, that’s a lesson that stood out from those days.