u/LazerChicken420

[System Agnostic]

Just crowd sourcing some ideas.

His download speed only for Foundry, only on his main PC is being limited to 5.3 Mbps. If he goes on another website, or another device his speed is normal, peaking to 80 Mbps. On his laptop Foundry's dl speed will peak at 68 Mbps.

We've tested with just him on the server. Persists.

Same exact thing with Chrome and Edge, haven't tried on non chromium browser, but I don't think thats the issue.

He is also a DM, but obviously it's different because then he's hosting. It's just the one of the unique factors about him from the other players. But still, I wonder if there's some setting he changed he forgot about when he was host.

He is the only one from the UK, but another player in Germany isn't having the same issue. And the issue persists when using a VPN.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any diagnosing tips or ideas on what it could be causing this?

Update: He also has a player that loads in slowly. SAME ISSUE. Download speed limited to 5.8 Mbps. This is an issue that's common and being written off as, get better internet.

I loved the series. Loved flipping the pages.

I was the oldest child, so parents careers were less established. So I read them all via the library, or those shops full of used items ran by old ladies that’d sell them for $1.50.

Never in order either. Just as they were found. Tobias was a shapeshifting hawk by the time I found out *why* he was a hawk.

I remember one day visiting home and my youngest sister was reading one of them. I got so excited. My mom took interest and with my help, we found the entire series on eBay for a reasonable price.

When it arrived it was beautiful. That box was everything tween me wanted. I was in awe picking them up and looking them over.

Months later when I swung by to visit again I asked how far into the series she’d gotten.

Hadn’t touched them. 😐

The curse of being the oldest is seeing your younger siblings have the childhood you wish you had and be ungrateful for it lol

Running Curse of Strahd and this happened extremely early. They’ve barely left Barovia city and are at level 3.

For now I gave him a level 3 spell slot, but I think a soul would be worth more.

I’m thinking potential ideas… have a way for him to earn back his soul.

I was thinking giving him access to warlock spells but that stomps all over the warlock player’s thunder.

Power hungry player is a blade singer wizard.

His backstory is, he was an untrained wizard that worked at a magical college. Got access to some scrolls he shouldn’t have and summoned a demon. The demon killed his family and left him marked. Now he hungers for more power, he tells himself it’s for revenge.. but the hunger was always there.

My players wrote a tragic backstory for themselves. Then had their intro into the campaign be them facing the consequences of their past. Each heavily laced with details of their backstory while never revealing it

The vision/my goal:

Each player is given an individual google sheet with two pages. One page they fill out their best guess about what every other players traumatic backstory is.

Then on page two it is anonymously linked to everyone else’s page one entry for their guess on the sheet owners backstory.

Extra points if there is a way to have them vote on who is closest, and have that tallied automatically on a sheet I have access to.

A brief google search has me thinking sheets will be the best option. But I want to know if there is a better way to do this?

Edit:

10 minutes in I’m kind of surprised by the negativity of this community. I have an artistic vision that I’m asking for technical help to achieve and mostly been asked to justify why I want to do it. lol

So I don’t keep getting asked. We are all close friends and hid the entire character creation process from each other and went in blind. I helped everyone tailor their intro to instead of being, “we meet in a tavern,” to them living out the repercussion of their worst days before having their misery pull them into the realm of dread.

Yes it’s very atypical. Now everyone is having fun hinting at what their backstory is. What inspired their character development. They didn’t even know each others classes going in.

My idea I’m posting about I thought would be a fun way to start each session by giving whoever got the most votes inspiration.

It’s something I want to do and it’s ok if you don’t like it. I just need help crowdsourcing ideas on how to best pull it off technically.

Running CoS and my players just finished the Doru encounter. 2 players got blood thirsty and wanted to slay him for being a monster. 2 players saw it as morally gray and wanted to at least talk to him. And one was stuck in the middle.

But with combat breaking out by the blood thirsty members, a choice felt forced to the “grey” players. Eventually Doru gets away because a party of level 2 players can’t exactly keep up with the healing factor of a spawn.

The players that didn’t want to kill him spoke to me after saying the party chemistry feels off. With 2 players being so blood thirsty they’re kind of taking agency of the group. But at the same time, if they don’t join the fight, they would also be taking over group agency.

This was session 2 of the campaign. How do you handle this? Force them to RP it out before engagement?

I understand the validity of both side’s opinions. And I’ve been on the other side of the same issue and felt like my PC didn’t belong to the party. I don’t want my players to feel like that.

[System Agnostic]

I'm trying to make use of their different ability scores and make the ones that chose wisdom feel cool.

They're in the middle of combat and I want to drop a text bubble that only those with high enough passive perception can read to reveal "There a sound of hooves approaching you"

Does this exist? Are there better ways to handle this?

[system agnostic]

Example, I ran a heist one shot. I put in all the maps and enemies. Some hand outs and notes.

I realized why haven’t I seen it available where I could have just imported all this as a campaign file.

Why do people only sell the maps? And not just fully put together foundry files.

I’m about to run curse of Strahd and was hoping to skip all the steps of using the D&D Beyond importer and just outright buy a working module

I [32M] just got off the phone with my uncle, wife is asleep and I'm stuck here staring at the void. I have no one to ask, no one to bounce ideas off of. There's so many layers to the call I just got.

Grandma has been diagnosed with Alzheimers. She helped raise me a lot and was definitely a safe haven from my abusive family. Parent's saw me as a tool, I feel like growing up she was the only adult that saw me as a child. Parents kicked me out at 14 and I bounced around a lot. She took me for the tail end of senior year of HS, gave me a place to stay until I graduated and then I bounced off again. She was sad I left and I'm sure she would have let me stay.

The Alzheimer wasn't even what my Uncle started the call with. My mom, whom I haven't spoken to in about 10 years isn't doing great either. No one knows exactly what's wrong, they think a stroke but she's not talking about it. Described it as "mentally disabled", can't drive. Huge hoarder now.

We haven't spoken because frankly, she was a failure as a mother. When police were called because how beat up I was showing up to school, she was upset with me for not hiding the bruises better. She always protected my father. When he started slapping my 2 year old sister and I, a 12 year old, would say that's not right... she would just lock herself away as he beat me up for speaking against the man of the house. I got kicked out at 14 because puberty was making it clear there's a countdown of me being an easy target.

There was a brief window 18-22, where I saw her as a fellow victim. She finally left my dad, because he cheated on her. I don't know... maybe she used to be a good person. But who I got to know in that window was someone that wasn't. She enjoyed being venomous. Our last ever time talking was at her fathers funeral. Whole family showed up. With this huge beaming smile, she's telling everyone how she has this priest friend who says, people should never get married until at least 26 ( I got married at 21). I just remember the joy on her face at watching me squirm. Her father dead not 20 feet away and she's here. digging into me. It was like a moment of clarity. I realized she was just as sick as him. I realized, she saw all the abuse, and apparently had it in her to leave. It just had to be for her. That's always who she was. I finally have someone that loves me, a semblance of normalcy. And here she is with a shallow pretense to be able to gossip disapproval.

So I just never reached out again. Didn't block her. She texted once I think, and I never replied. And that was it. Just like that, out of my life.

Now, 10 years later my uncle wants to throw a birthday party for my grandma in august. He hit me with this double whammy because he wants me and my mom to show up. He wants me to regrow a relationship with her. He wants years of abuse, brushed aside so he can have a complete party. I understand its dire. I offered to show up in the morning or the day before. But that's not enough.

I despise it. That's always how my past was treated. Brush it under the rug so it's not awkward.

And fuck... I'm processing that my mom might not even be there anymore. I'm processing the finality that how we left is how it'll always be. And the fact that I don't think I care? Of course I hoped that one day we'd magically get along, and I'd have a mother. But that was never who she was. That was never going to happen. I moved on long ago. I wish it was different but for that to be possible, she'd had to have been someone else. Realistically I imagined a reunion would be this heated thing where I'd confront her with all the things she turned a blind eye to.

Instead, she is a shell of who she used to be and I don't want to confront that. The grim face people give me when they talk about my moms condition. Why should I face it? Why does she get to abandon me, give me none of the support I needed growing, cower away so I'd be the punching bag and I'm still on the hook for the final chapter? And all this, so I show up to a stupid fucking party. A party full of people who saw me grow up covered in bruises. Who acknowledge I disappeared for years and kinda just haha it away. Who, when after years of not seeing me, always have a funny story of how mad my dad got over something trivial.

It's undeniably laziness, selfishness, hate and emotionally closing myself off. Is that really so wrong? Do I not get to do that?

But I'm scared. Will I regret it? I have no one to talk to because I surrounded myself with better people now. And my situation is such an alien concept to people who get say they love their mom. How do I ask friends for advice when they grew up in a different world than me. I'm sick of the reply, "But thats your mom." when I tell normal people I don't speak with her.

Has anyone faced a situation like this?

It was at Ohana Karaoke Grill & Bar. It’s probably not a traditional Korean recipe since that’s supposed to be fermented, I think

This was fresh. Every bite tastes so good. Not too spicy, if at all

Please help me out here. Is there like a Hawaiian kimchi style that they were probably doing? I called and asked and they make it in house and… no they won’t share the recipe. Which is totally fair.

I just usually don’t like kimchi that much and here I loved it.

My wife and I share the experience of having a sit down talk with an uncle.

The “I know your mom/dad is different, but you got to try harder on being a good kid for them” lol

Or the

“Yeah it sucks your mom/dad is so strict”