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    D&D General Favorite Creepy Monster To Run?

    Yup. I remember reading an OSR DM opining once about how he preferred NOT to paint his miniatures, because it made them more abstractly representational, as opposed to how a nice paint job inclines the players to focus on the miniature rather than their imagination. Speaking as a longtime...
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    D&D General Favorite Creepy Monster To Run?

    I quite like trolls, as long as you describe them horrifically and don't refer to them by name, I once had a random encounter for a mid-level party be two trolls creeping up and ambushing their camp at night, and the players were all horrified of the nine foot tall, long-limbed, loping...
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    AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?

    Random note: the terminology originates in Chainmail, where it denotes the actual (six sided) dice each unit rolls when attacking, though it varied based on what type of unit was attacking what type of unit, and was often fractional. For example, Light Foot attack as follows: vs other Light...
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    Harvest Festivals

    One thing that can be useful to bear in mind is that there are typically several different harvests of different crops, and there may be multiple harvest festivals focused on the different crops and seasonally-appropriate activities. For example in Ireland there were historically three major...
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    Our Physical Fitness

    Got back in last night for three sets of lat pulldowns (narrow grip) with drop sets on the latter two, three sets of machine triceps extensions with drop sets on the latter two, and three of machine shoulder press with a drop set on the last one. And this morning I managed to motivate to do a...
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    Gaming Journalist Rob Wieland Passes At Age 48

    That is absolutely, tragically young. Awful. Where did he principally share them, for those of us who aren't familiar with his APs?
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    AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?

    I know the subject has been given a lot of discussion in 1E circles, even though I'm only tangentially involved in them. I've seen multiple discussions on Dragonsfoot over the years, for example. Stuart Marshall (aka Papers & Paychecks), the editor of OSRIC, has an interesting perspective in...
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    Streaming Movies and Power Rankings: A Reverie on Max's A24 and Netflix's Rebel Ridge

    Wahlberg is almost always better in funnier/quirkier roles. The Other Guys, The Big Hit, Boogie Nights, I Heart Huckabees. Heck, even Ted. The Departed made good use of him, despite the character being more serious. Same with The Fighter and Three Kings. I enjoyed Payback quite a bit, though...
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    Our Physical Fitness

    Yup. I suspected as much. I usually wind up getting in 3-4 exercises in around an hour (like yesterday), as compared to you having six in yesterday's session. Sometimes more like 3 in 45min if I'm hurrying. When my strength peaked in 2022 before the injury I was usually doing an hour after...
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    Our Physical Fitness

    I recover pretty well between sessions. For me it's the intra-workout rest breaks which seem to eat up more time than "normal". Some of that may be that I'm almost always going to failure and often pushing that with drop sets, of course. How long were you in the gym for that lower body/core...
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    Streaming Movies and Power Rankings: A Reverie on Max's A24 and Netflix's Rebel Ridge

    A year later and I just got around to watching this one, with a couple of friends. I imagine you either And I think I know the question and have a suggestion on the answer.
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    Our Physical Fitness

    I feel a lot of this. I had most of my newbie gains between 2020 and 2022, and my actual advances in strength the last three years have been pretty minimal on the major muscle groups. PT for a couple of injuries has gotten me working a couple of neglected areas which have come up a bit, but...
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    Our Physical Fitness

    Saturday I hiked up a small mountain to a fire tower. Sunday I got back to the gym for three circuits of dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, and seated lateral raises, all with drop sets. Then did two of leg press and calf raises, but I started to feel a bit sick (underslept and too much...
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    Our Physical Fitness

    Awesome. My best friend texted me when he did that, and I wrote back "Awesome! That was your goal, right?" To which he responded "Well, my GOAL is to be The Hulk..." :LOL: Great milestone.
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