I'm trying to get a second screen that plays minecraft parkor footage while I'm testing but I'd be okay with subway surfers if it comes down to it.

Okkaayyy

So I've been bouncing between two Shadowdark projects for a minute now and have decided I am going to finish one of them by the end of summer OR DIE. Part 1 of that plan is outsourcing picking one so I can force myself to put the other away, which is hard cuz they both have a very special place in my heart. I'm hoping y'all can help me figure out which one gets the golden child treatment and which gets the boot.

Both of these projects are about the same way done and neither is really a particularly larger scope than the other (just trust me on that one) so just tell me which one you'd rather exist in the world:

1. Stonehell for Shadowdark Guide

Stonehell is the love of my life as far as megadungeons go, it was my first so it's special to me. However it's build for labyrinth lord and while that's a cool system it's not Shadowdark and Shadowdark doesn't have any good megadungeons (yet) and I love Shadowdark. It's super elegant nature and speedy prep time is a perfect fit for Shadowdark. I want to create a total conversion for it that would be all you need to instantly (and I seriously mean instantly) start running Stonehell with Shadowdark. It would also include Western Reaches style factions/patrons for all Stonehell specific factions/patrons as well as Shadowdark variations of all creatures. There would also be additional Western Reaches/Shadowdark pantheon/lore additions to plop in Stonehell.

While it would have no maps, you still need Stonehell to run Stonehell, it would have the same "one page has everything you need" style design to it that Stonehell does. I'd also build in a little adventure that would be built to be run with zero prep and would get the party thoroughly enmeshed with the goings-on of the 1st floor of Stonehell.

Once the Western Reaches GM Guide comes out I'd also include some recommended hex locations for Stonehell within Western reaches. The goal would be that you could pick it up, give it a skim, and be ready to run Stonehell directly from the book with Shadowdark.

2. Elden Ring Catacomb Style Mini Dungeon Compilation

This one requires way less text to explain as the name does most of the work. The catacombs in Elden Ring are BEGGING to be made into "put these wherever tf" mini dungeons for Shadowdark. This compilation would include 5 (to start) mini dungeons inspired directly by the various trap and gargoyle filled nightmare holes of the Elden Ring Catacombs. I'd also include some ways to tie things in with Western Reaches once it drops including some adventures/npcs that give the players reason to explore these dungeon (besides the cool as hell Elden Ring inspired loot they'll contain.)

Soooooo yeah, whatcha think? Either of these sound more or less cool for y'all? Disclaimer: I still have to reach out to Kurtis about creating the Stonehell guide w/o infringing on his property, same with figuring out how much/little of Western Reaches inspired stuff I can include. The Elden Ring inspired one would, of course, contain no direct Elden Ring stuff as I'm not even going to try and get From Soft's permission for that lmao.

Oh also if you comment on this thread before I call "time" I'll dm you a preview copy of whichever project is chosen once it's in a generally playable state o7

Happy to field any questions or requests or whatever y'all might have as well.

I have a 2003 civic with 350k miles on it. It needs needs new front lower ball joints but runs fine besides that. No check engine light or anything. 300k of those miles were the previous owner who used it exclusively to commute to Tacoma, I used it for food delivery so the most recent 50k miles were rougher on it.

I'd love to not have to junk it or sell it to a random used car company. It's done really well by me and my preference is to make less but give it to someone who will Gambler it, use it as some sort of budget track option, or just generally give it a good life.

Making money is secondary to me than making sure it goes to someone with something cool in mind.

Anyone know of anyone I could poke or any communities I could post in? Any insights in general would be great, this is the first time I've sold a car that isn't fully dead. Normally I drive my cars until they explode lol

Forehead?

Alright so I love the benefit/curse tables for generating random items. That said I want more.

Does anyone know of any homebrew stuff or third party materials with more? Please?

(Side note, part of the reason I want more is because I've been giving my players the options to start with a +1 magic item sometimes as long as it has a random curse and no benefit. It's been pretty fun honestly.)

Been running into an issue with some players, railroading might not be the right word but basically they disagree with my rulings on how the world should act? Idk I like collaborative stuff but it's a bit exhausting as these two players seem more interested in litigating their way to success rather than pplaying their characters to success.

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It's not quite rules lawyering and somehow more draining.

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I'm honestly considering a hard "do not argue with me mid session" rule as it can really slow the pace and REALLY exhaust me. I'm, of course, open to working with them but yeah idk, they seem to think I'm unfair to them. Honestly we're playing Shadowdark and I'd argue I'm pretty damn generous/forgiving given the system.

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Anyone have similar issues? Any tips? Anyone able to "AITA" this situation for a poor tired very autistic gm? Lmao?

Examples (cuz I was being vague):

Stuff like "it doesn't make sense that npc would have done x" or "why did that monster attack player A when player B had done x" or "that creature is way to strong why is it here" or "why did that creature have x ability that's fucked up that you didn't change it" (there was a few super weak and dumb scorpions and their only ability is a really strong poison which they had been warned about, player in question in this moment was a ranger w/ a longbow who chose to stay in melee and then rolled poorly on his con save and death timer)

World stuff. Narrative stuff. It's not rules, that's the thing here, it isn't RULES lawyering. The reason I framed it as "players railroading me" is cuz it lowkey feels like the inverse of when a gm does everything they can to ensure the players make the decisions/go to the places they want.

What I /want/ to do is go "Man I'm already prepping everything and hosting and scheduling, let me run the stuff in my world the way I want to run it."

Had 3 players wake up in the donjon (They all had -15 or -20 percent modifiers and rolled poorly) with the 4th player waking up wearing the ring of a murdered noble.

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Honestly it's a pretty sick narrative outcome to carousing but I'm still working out how it'll play out. Anyone run the donjon in the city of masks? A court scene? Maybe a sewer sequence? Any good underground dungeon maps (but actual functional dungeon maps, prison dungeons)

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Looking for any inspo or insight anyone might have o7

Aw geeze I really goofed guys, I bungled this one up good.

Anyone got any tips? This is the first time I've had to use windows 11 with winaero tweaker, never had this issue with windows 10.

Heyo, got a segway muxi through a city rebate lottery. It has a lot of stuff I wanted, love the look, and it was supposed to be class 3.

That said it doesn't go much over 20 or 21 even in class 3 mode, am I missing something? What gives? Did my dumbass just make an assumption w/o checking hard specs?

Heyo,

So I'm an EMT who picks up both days and night shifts at the hospital (7a-7p and 7p-7a) and am trying to find some better ways to ease the change over. I sleep pretty well for the most part with CPAP, no caffine 9 hours before sleep, exercise, a nice sleep mask, and 7mg melatonin/500mg magnesium oxide before bed. That said change overs are brutal and I'm trying to explore alternatives to staying up late before a change over.

Disclaimer: I know that sleep consistency is ideal and preferred however that's not an option for me at the moment, right now I get to choose between paying rent and having a consistent sleep schedule. I'm sure y'all know how it is. I was just prescribed trazadone so I have no idea how well it'll work for me. That said, there's no way it's worse than when I've occasionally used nyquil to sleep in the past.

Anways, has anyone tried using sedatives like trazadone or ambien to sleep EXTRA before your night shift change over rather than staying up later?

For example I normally sleep 9pm-5am. On days where I work a 7p-7a shift I stay up and sleep 4am-12pm.

My thought was maybe I could sleep 9pm as normal, use an alarm to wake up at 1amish, stay up for a while, and then take trazadone to sleep 6am-4pm or something. I know sleep hang overs are rough but honestly I'd rather deal with those than the immediate exhaustion when I stay up late before a change over. I get mad depressed when staying up alone at night.

Would love to hear from anyone with any insight at all. I don't care how tangential it might be I wanna hear bout it.

I was so mislead by everyone saying "oh yeah it's a mile wide but an inch deep, you just gotta learn it and practice."

But what they DON'T say is that what you're practicing is the art of fucking INFORMATION DOWSING. I brought my rain boots only to be dropped in the MIDDLE OF A GOD DAMN DESERT and told "okay bucko best get swimming :)" but the actual water is in some buried ancient aquifier of absolute BULLSHIT a half mile under ground. I'm out here answering questions like I'm wandering around death valley praying that I find a patch of wet sand that vaguely resembles a portion of the "mile wide inch deep" pond I WAS TOLD ABOUT.

It's not just a matter of studying wide and retaining but you have to learn how to dig past the bullshit before you can even begin trying to deal with the mile wide truck stop ass pond of stupid ass slop.

The passage hides what you know beneath stuff you don't, the question obscures itself behind several abstractions, and the potential answers are these weird negative space options where you have to figure out which ones are not not the right answer.

I swear to god that original statement is a god damn psyop cuz it doesn't capture the ACTUAL experience of turning what you know into correctly answered questions. This whole test is a psyop I just can't tell if it's turning me into a sleeper cell or some sort of MK ULTRA ass vegetable.

Anyways yeah great test hell yeah thanks for coming to my ted talk that'll be five hundred thousand dollars.

I will not be taking questions.

This is such a fucking fun hobby.

Stonehell is such a great dungeon. This is a sick as hell hobby.