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I'm a big geek. TTRPGs, Comics, Video Games, Board Games, Minis, Toys, Anime, Sci Fi, Fantasy or whatever random thought might work its way into my noggin. #dnd #TTRPG player and GM.

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They will also run into an alien ghost hunting squad who they may or may not fight, depending on their choices

The aliens know that some of their people do come back as ghosts, so this is a retrieval team

But the ultimate goal will ne to force the ghosts back and close the breach

13.10.2025 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For more detail, basically this would be s team of specialists (Mostly technicians/Engineers maybe one security office) get sent to a moonbase to see why they lost contact

They discover the personnel either dead or insane and the base is haunted by alien ghosts coming through a breach of some kind

13.10.2025 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thought about it, but it doesn't handle the laser pewpew very well

13.10.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So #TTRPG peeps what's a good system to run a one shot with that can handle alien ghosts on the moon (Will also be live aliens too) without having to do a bunch of adjustments to the system?

13.10.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love that last bit before Macron walks away. Macron steps back, keeps his grip and doesn't let Trump yank him or his arm forward before giving him one last pat like "Nice try but no" before walking away

13.10.2025 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It is a power move he always does. Yanking the person he's shaking hands with forward to assert physical dominance by throwing the other person offbalance

I love that Macron is having none of it. He's one the of the few world leaders that doesn't give in to that or returns the gesture in kind

13.10.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It took them years after the campaign was over for one of them to find the book that the mcguffin I used was from

Even though said item was the title of the book

And almost 30 yrs later, none have found the book that led to them hauling a statue halfway across the Empire

13.10.2025 16:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is all a trick to get me to buy MtG cards again!

I won't fall for it again!

Even though it'd be sic to drop Optimus Prime on top of some uppity planeswalker

10.10.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I will always have a soft spot for Auntie Anne's. Mostly because way back in the late 1900's when I worked at an arcade/lazer tag arena one of the guys who worked at Auntie Annes would stop by after close with a bag of leftover pretzels and bribe us to let him in to play free video games ๐Ÿ˜

09.10.2025 04:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hold a rally of a couple thousand people who were probably going to vote for them anyways

(example being AOCs Among Us streams got 200k+ viewers where in person rallies were like 20k. That's a huge difference in outreach)

08.10.2025 20:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stuff like this is why Dem leadership needs to stop being old white guys who balk at using those new fangled computer thingies to reach out to voters

Why should they use a technology that lets them reach hundreds of thousands of new voters or people that weren't thinking of voting when they can...

08.10.2025 20:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Booya! Was able to schedule the next two #D&D sessions! Not just one, but TWO sessions in advance!

Suck it scheduling demons!

08.10.2025 20:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And sometimes the best trap encounters are when the finding of the trap is not the puzzle. Its obvious one is there, they see it. But the puzzle comes in, there's no obvious way to disarm it, so how do you get past it? ie: blades swinging across a corridor, spikes going in and out, etc

08.10.2025 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also delayed traps or traps triggering other traps

Have an explosion go off. Triggering that one arms a second one on a timer that will go off shortly afterwards

1st traps gets them to stop, they will usually pause and look around during which time the second one goes off

08.10.2025 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

explosives, but that wasn't readily apparent. All any intruders encountered were just randomly hearing the Ka-click as one is triggered, on the floor, a door, window, chair, toilet

So they were hindered by Did I just trigger something? over and over again.

Also see Nightengale floors

08.10.2025 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some fun traps are things that aren't meant to hurt the person tripping it. Instead they're meant to slow them down/distract them or warn the defenders someone is there

in a Battletech game, had one payer 'boobytrap' their base. He just hid little trigger switches EVERYWHERE. They weren't connected

08.10.2025 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Map of the four levels of the Mall of America circa mid 90s

Map of the four levels of the Mall of America circa mid 90s

As a few people mentioned, malls are great for layouts. Also airports

Like this is a map of the Mall of America in MN (its a map from 90s, can tell by it still saying Camp Snoopy) it has 4 levels, but also not pictured is the aquarium underneath it all

08.10.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's kinda too bad. It was like the only quest that encouraged using stealth

Sounds like its like everything else and its "Just zerg rush it". Unless they've changed other quests, been a long time since I last played. That's one thing I didn't like, rogues were just wanted to unlock chests

08.10.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And let's not forget the days when you had to go into Suncoast to special order a tape and the people working there thought anime was either elementary school kid stuff or hentai and they looked at you like they were trying to figure out which one you were ordering

08.10.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I remember the days when to watch anime you had to know a guy who knew a guy who had a brother who's old roommate knew a guy who knew someone who had spent a year in Japan and could copy bootlegged VHS tapes with kinda wonky subtitles

08.10.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I remember this quest. Played when the game first launched and got pretty good at running through this one on my rogue. I wasn't in a guild so finding a higher level group to run other stuff was time consuming so did this to pass the time

tried again a few years go, and mechanics have changed a lot

08.10.2025 16:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Today in #D&D

"We can make everyone sick, then no one will come to the concert"
"Yeah, we can rub our butts against everything"
"We want to get them sick, not just give them pink eye"

08.10.2025 00:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Butter stick dispenser/spreader

Butter stick dispenser/spreader

Or amazon ๐Ÿ˜

07.10.2025 17:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Its gonna be all

Wizard: I need you to deliver this message to Olivia the Oracle
Party: Isn't her shop right across the street?
W: Its important no one else sees it

The note: Thank you for your insightful advice about that dragon. Now see if you can visualize..
...
...
...
DEEZ NUTS!

07.10.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think I'm going to throw in a bunch of fetch and delivery quests into my #D&D game.

We'll see how long it takes the party to realize that the old senile wizard they're working for is just using them to hand out very passive aggressive notes to people in the city he doesn't like

07.10.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Japan has had butter stick dispensers to apply to things like toast for decades! Its a square tube you put a stick of butter into and you can use it like a pen

Which shows just how far behind the US is in butter spreading technology. For a country that uses so much butter this is a travesty!

07.10.2025 15:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Please take a look at this thread. Wobble is a great guy and if you can help a wobble kitty out that would be awesome. Or if you could share this with others that would be awesome too

07.10.2025 04:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Its just going to end up being 8 theaters playing Kpop Demon Hunters

07.10.2025 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just about every single one of my players when told that I trust them to roll their own dice "But I don't wanna do the math so I just click the button"

03.10.2025 20:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you! Someone else remembers that this happened back in the 90s

And you remember all the ads with Aki in them after the Final Fantasy movie came out! Right? Right?

03.10.2025 14:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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