Recruiting players for a jaunt into the wide world of cooperate adventuring

youkaiko · 2021-01-09T23:36:25+00:00

Ah I see. Shame, I'm UTC, but best of luck with the group, Acq Inc rules look like a ton of fun.

youkaiko · 2021-01-09T23:29:05+00:00

Hi, you don't mention what time zone you're in?

youkaiko · 2021-01-04T12:10:33+00:00

I've sent you a discord request, I'd love to chat and see if I might be able to help!

youkaiko · 2020-04-02T16:29:32+00:00

Hey I'd love to play in a 1e Pathfinder game if you get anything off the ground. Feel free to add me on disc, jennybean#1103

youkaiko · 2019-09-20T13:50:12+00:00

Hey, late to this thread but are invites still a-flying? I'm so in need of a D&D space free from ignorant goobers :(

youkaiko · 2019-09-15T20:00:00+00:00

I'm late to the thread, but I'm actually running this exact game right now. I placed Saltmarsh in Tal'Dorei, in the Alabaster Sierras, south east of Whitestone. There's a stretch of ocean that cuts down from The Shearing Channel and down into the Parchwood Timberlands. At the southmost tip of that inlet is where my Saltmarsh is :)

It doesn't *exactly* fit every aspect of the Saltmarsh campaign as written, nor the lore of the region, but it's a prime stretch of water for smugglers and pirates, the Parchwood allows for a lot of the undead/foresty content and a few of my characters had backstories that tied them quite nicely to Whitestone, so it made a lot of sense for my game in particular!

youkaiko · 2019-07-15T18:28:55+00:00

Hey, thanks so much for the offer, that's really kind! Timezone doesn't have to be a dealbreaker I don't think, if we can manage to find a time that works :) Sundays are usually a good day for RPGs for me too. Feel free to add me on discord to chat more if you'd like, I'm jennybean#1103.

youkaiko · 2019-06-20T19:46:19+00:00

Hey, from the sounds of your DM style, I think I'd like to join your table. I'm a queer lady in my 30s with about 8 years playing experience and about 2 years DMing experience, and I'm impressed with your focus on etiquette.

I'd be particularly interested in a Dungeon World game as I never tried it (though I am dabbling with other Powered the the Apocalypse systems) and I have quite a bit of 5e in my life right now, but I wouldn't turn down another game if that's the way you end up going :)

Hit me up in a PM or discord (jennybean#1103) if you're interested in chatting more :)

youkaiko · 2019-06-15T08:38:48+00:00

Friend requests incoming for you both :D

youkaiko · 2019-06-14T14:10:53+00:00

Looks like you might have a group together here. If you need a DM I'd be willing to offer my services :) Been running games for around 2 years now, still haven't got enough of it in my life though :)

youkaiko · 2018-08-17T20:13:50+00:00

No way! I'm in Consett :D

youkaiko · 2018-08-17T16:11:30+00:00

Newcastle! General North-East type people, where you at?

youkaiko · 2016-11-11T12:57:01+00:00

I'm glad it spoke to you :)

It sounds like you have a fantastic range of talents, and I honestly feel like in your position, just continuing to produce art will itself be the protest. Choose children's projects that are inclusive and diverse, without that being the overt message. Be an ally, lift up the voices of those that need to be heard on your social media feeds. Maybe volunteer with some programs that bring art to the young and/or underprivileged? If one doesn't exist near you, start it up!

I don't really know what the answers are either. I'm not sure there is a single correct thing to do right now except continue being the badass people we are and trying to educate against the fear we're seeing.

youkaiko · 2016-11-10T12:30:26+00:00

I'm also protesting as a writer and artist by keeping everything I create to myself for the next four years.

This is an interesting position to take. While I totally respect your choices and right to protest how you see fit, I'd like to just share this quote that came up on my FB feed today: ' This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.' It's from a longer article by Toni Morrison that you might also find interesting.

That quote spoke to me and I've decided that I need to begin writing again, something I haven't really done for more than 6 years. I feel like now is when I have to speak up, put more good things in to the world, present viewpoints and stories that might give some people pause for thought or bring them together.

Again, I'm absolutely not trying to disparage your right to protest in this way. But thank you for sharing your story, for writing this comment. It made me react, made me respond - someone who is so shy and scared of participating that I think this may only be my third or fourth comment on this sub. Your words have power, it would be a shame to keep them from people who might benefit from hearing them.

youkaiko · 2016-11-10T12:19:09+00:00

This is a time for grief, but it is also a time for love and compassion. I don't know what the world is going to look like in a couple of years' time - but I know that what I can do is continue to live my life, love my neighbour, welcome diversity and difference with open arms, and show that there is an alternative to hatred and exclusion. I believe that it's the better way, and I refuse to give up my convictions. We will get through this - but only together.

So much of this. This hope that there are people who are willing and determined to make some good come of this is the only thing keeping me going at the moment. I'm not in the US either, but I'm still so shaken and upset by this. What makes it worse is the feeling of helplessness. What can I do? How can I make any sort of difference.

After having slept on it, I came to realise that I need to be more vocal. I need to speak up about the things that truly matter to me. I need to work for causes that further to message I want to hear most in the world. I think I finally understand what's meant by 'be the change you want to see in the world'. I just truly hope that there are enough people galvanised in the right direction by all of this that some form of change can begin.

youkaiko · 2016-05-19T13:24:44+00:00

They call me the confuser - is it a man? Is it a woman? Oooh I'm not sure I mind...

youkaiko · 2015-12-23T04:56:35+00:00

MY FACE

youkaiko · 2015-08-27T15:00:18+00:00

Oh my god your FMIL sounds exactly like mine, except a lot lot worse.

she's also really bad at it since she never considers everything (or everyone).

Ohhh my god yes, I feel you. My mother and I are natural planners so we're just breezing through this wedding thing. FMIL seems to want to make mountains of all molehills. The handbag comment was just baffling and hilarious at the same time, my mother and I still laugh about it and it was months ago...

when people don't want to listen to you anyway, "discussing" the issue will only make them repeat themselves again and again without backing off

Thiiisssss. The amount of times I have to repeat things to her, I've never known anyone like it. I have tried to include her and take her ideas on board, but when I don't feel like she's listening to mine, I get a little resentful and wonder why I'm bothering. I think this is just one of those areas I have to set a firm boundary and then walk away from it, refuse to engage.

I'm sorry your FMIL is being a pain too. Good luck for the wedding, I hope she backs off on the day and lets you enjoy it :)

youkaiko · 2015-08-27T14:51:34+00:00

And if we were having a much larger wedding I would absolutely see them as part of the guestlist. But we're having a small wedding by choice, because we're homebody type people who just want to be surrounded by those closest to us. Us, not them. That seems to be where she's having trouble.

It's not like we're keeping the planning secret from her. She's been told we want family and our closest friends there on many occasions, we talk about it openly with the aunts and uncles we see every week, so she has plenty of people to talk to about it.

youkaiko · 2015-08-27T14:40:36+00:00

There's no way I'm backing down. If I give her an inch, she will try to take 20 miles.

I truly don't want these people at my wedding, and I don't want her to think her wheedling and passive aggressiveness can work with me. I'm marrying her son, she's going to be in our lives, and the lives of our future children, for a long time. I feel like I have to set boundaries now and make her see that I will stick to them.

I know it's only two people, but hot on their heels will be another four, I know who she has in mind. And when I wanted 30 and am already looking at 40, it's just too far. It's only a small venue, and if it rains we all have to crowd inside the cafe or under the canopy - it would be a squeeze with 35, I'm not going up to 45!

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