Recent content by Mannahnin

Coincidentally I just was reading the AV Club this week for the first time in a long while, and enjoying some The Bear episode recaps. I don't do videojames, but hopefully this will be enjoyable for those who partake.

Knot in my upper/mid back still hurting. :/ I was planning to lift tonight. Oh well. I'm still keeping up the morning PT/core/lower body exercises, even if I'm slower and stiffer and groaning more.

Here in NH the classic is 40F in October or Nov = shivering and bundled. 40F in March = shirts off and hollering!

They're not invading anyone yet. :/

Interesting!

Eh. There may be varying levels of self-awareness and of subjective aesthetic preferences involved. They may have built what they thought was a competent but not over the top character within what they saw as a minimal level of self-imposed limitations and not felt until 6 or 10 sessions in...

I had some unaccustomed energy so I went back on a consecutive evening last night, intending to do pull and shoulders, but blanked and went into auto-pilot and did dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, and dumbbell skull crushers again. And then I did add three sets of cable row. I was...

Look, look, trying to buy clothes for all of Caldwell's underdressed heroines would be like trying to support all the single mothers and grad students at the gentlemen's club. We can only marry so many!

The typical way over-optimization is a problem is when a given character outshines other characters, and makes the players of those characters feel relatively ineffective by comparison. This impinges on their fantasy. When a given character is substantially more powerful than others in the...

There are a couple of clips of Gary talking about the game, including about winning and losing, in this recent short BBC piece. Closing with: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5yf6

It's a nice little piece.

Had a good session last night- circuits of dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, dumbbell behind the head skull crushers, and dumbbell lateral raises, with some additional drop set reps. Tweaked my form a little and added reps to my dumbbell bench, which felt nice. OTOH I pushed hard and...

TBF if you're going to have a long ongoing campaign you're still going to have to win the large majority of fights you get into. The percentage gets cut down a bit by morale checks, rules which actually support fleeing as a viable option, and players being encouraged to negotiate or avoid...

You can't win or lose at life, either, but people still talk about life having winners and losers, and we all know what they mean. Success or failure still feel like winning or losing, even in an open-ended scenario with no final predefined victory condition. RPG campaigns can have an intended...

This comes close to my feelings. Winning and losing in an RPG are mostly down to the mission at hand, but success or failure are usually more applicable terms. It's when character death occurs that it tends to feel more like actually losing the game. I've known a lot of players who have hopes...