Congratulations. Having high level characters and well rounded players does make everything smoother. If you’ve had those, I envy you. But not much.

I’ve managed a couple of games but I always made my plots to willfully accomodate chaos. I like to reward stupidity and recklessness. After a couple of disastrous events, the table tends to settle down and the mood tends to loosen up.

I’m fairly comfortable saying we have different approaches to playing and play directing. Which is good.

That is scripting.

Are we playing a campaign or renacting the Lord of the Rings?

Live for the chaos and mayhem. Expect it. Thrive from it. And tell the players that if their precious avatar dies, it’s on them, exclusively.

A campaign should be built around goals, capable of being moved around, delayed or put ahead of schedule as needed.

The players are walking in the campaign blind. It’s not their concern if a random action - that may be completely in line with their character - ampers, deviates or collapses the entire campaign.

Set wide goals, expect mayhem, have fun. Anything more than this is wishful thinking.

DnD is no more just dungeons and dragons. The moment it becomes an open world, the players roam around and do mischief.

If you want to play out your dream campaingn, write a book. It will never play as you expect or want. Unless you have the play fully scripted, with fixed roles and outcomes, it will derail.

You’re welcome to down vote to your content.

Cruelty met in kind.

And give him free atention? Nah.

The first dog I took under my responsibility (I won’t say he was mine; I don’t own dogs, I care for them) came to me at 12 weeks. He was the sole survivor of his litter, as his mother was too old.

We spent the next twelve years together. A cancer took his health and at nearly twelve years old I had to ask help for him to go peacefully and painlessly. He took his last breath in my harms.

I miss that dog every single day.

You did your best. If you miss that pup, that much, you did your best. Remember the good times you had and be happy. They don’t like to see us down.

I’m wondering if getting the dog a raincoat wouldn’t be more practical.

I made a promise to myself that no matter what, I would love my children. It’s not my life, it is their life to live and find happiness and fullfillement. And if my children are happy, I am happy. Nothing more, nothing less.

Just say “I wish for this man, his ideas and his life work to slide into disregard and irrelevance and become nothing more than a footnote on idiocy”.

Hey, that is a nice one!

Two sentences I have on my walls:

Violence is always an option.

This is a reminder that that option is always available. I should not resort to it but I can and so will others.

Violence is not the answer, is the question. The answer is yes.

A reminder to always question myself if resorting to violence is, in fact, on time. There are times when things are only or more easily solved through violence than negotiation and words.

This is the next to go up on the wall:

Whoever said violence doesn’t solve anything, wasn’t using enough force.

If you need to resort to violence, be brutal, be swift, be hard. Because, as someone else has said, “don’t start a fight; but if you have to fight, fight to win”.

Let them come. We’re already here and this space is very different from Reddit.

There is the probability that OP could be watching their own conception. Doesn’t get more instructional than that.

Portugal, €5/month, 100GB of data connection, 5000 call minutes. I’m supposed to pay one cent per sms but I have yet to be charged.

Try store brand first. I have first hand experience with Lidl and it’s good. But then again, my mouth is very tolerant regarding care.

From my country, Portugal, I can recommend Pasta Medicinal Couto.

It’s a staple from decades ago. Never used it but people who do swear by it.

And after this, I think I have to try it.

Yes. And I use only rugged phones.

I work in an environment where not having one would be very unwise but even before I’ve used screen protectors. It became standard practice from the moment the usable screen area became too large to not being worthy of protecting by my own means and efforts.

I’ve used those flexible anti scratch protectors, the hard, glass like, and the new generation gel films. I personally prefer the hard, supposedly tempered, screen protectors.

It is a learned skill to apply a screen film properly, I’ll admit, as I will admit I have ruined my share of it. I used to just buy it in bulk to allow for mistakes.

There are quite affordable vaccum machines that do wonders for those who are less apt at applying those films. Only work for hard glass or flexible; the gel ones have to be precision cut.

If you wear a lot of films, it may be a reasonable expense. Applying one protecting film can cost me anywhere between €8 to €20. The machines I’ve seen cost around €60.

I live in an area where fires are frequent and aerial cables plentiful.

Once in a while, a crew comes around and picks up all the broken cable. But considering these are mostly glass, non insulated cables, I’d risk it just becomes another inert part of the soil.

Hopefully, there will be a retrieval plan, after all the madness ends.

There’s another unnecessary organization. And an evil one, at that.

Someone has a tender spot.

Nope. Grow a mind and learn proper insult, hot breath.