Recent content by Cadence

There are two I skip in some years, but this year the fates conspire to possibly make important.

That giant sucking sound on the credit card of renewing four professional societies and scouts for myself and the spawn...

Needed to do something with the last of the roast (it was use it or freeze it night). The leftover prime rib made for some pretty tender fajitas. Anyone have a favorite marinade for the meat and veggies for those? It was our first time and we went with a quick web searched one.

Beyond ttRPGs... CCG - Commander/EDH MtG Deckbuilder - Ascension Cards - Bridge, Rummy 500, Multiple Solitaire, Cribbage (and haven't regularly in ages but Canasta and Euchre) The comfort level with the game, the just sitting around talking, and the trash talking.

As a player, we're a few games past our 52nd session of 5e2024 on Mondays. (I made most but not all of them since it started a bit over a year ago). The party is up to 10th level and has been tracking down the gods being reborn into the world. As a DM, the Tuesday sessions with my son and his...

Rereading the Nero Wolfe corpus again (3rd time through for it, this time in in-universe order) after having gotten samples of some more authors in since last time, and a lot of detective TV shows. Neither "Fer-de-Lance" (1934) nor "The League of Frightened Men" (1935) will come in near the...

Hope the post-posting parts of Christmas went well for everyone too! We had fifteen for Christmas-eve dinner at my dad's - including the three of us staying for a week and a half, four just for dinner, and seven who were here for two nights and just left. Wow is it quiet now!!!! (And wow do we...

I'm trying to reconcile this and things it is responding to with what I remember of several people's previous posts on ASIs and how a small bonus on a single stat was a huge deal to some players and made them feel sub-par about their characters compared to others at the table - and whether that...

Some more facts and quotes on Die Hard, but brings up the question of whether "Jingle Bells" is actually a Christmas Carol. https://religiondispatches.org/finally-a-resolution-to-2025s-defining-question-is-die-hard-a-christmas-movie/

Radio show on Dickens, A Christmas Carol, poverty and celebrity at the time it was written, and celebrating Christmas.

It apparently has its genesis in a Christmas story... See more at: The Greatest Gift - Wikipedia As far as the seasonal setting... And in regards to disagreements about the genre...