Recent content by Umbran

Yeah, but we took a picture... of an interstellar object... from orbit around Mars! That's just wild!

So, this one doesn't generalize well, calling for some individual work.... When my wife was playing a mad-science Victorian botanist in a Space: 1889 game, I just happened to run into a mug from Cognitive Surplus, with some cool art of poisonous plants on it. When that game ended, and we...

Not exactly a high bar, there.

Do. Not. Tempt. The. Timeline.

Hardly. You can't even work at McDonalds without touching computers these days.

Well, that's optimistic of you...

Jason Momoa was cast as Aquaman because they wanted to try to make Aquaman "cool". It didn't work. Momoa's natural delivery style is a far better fit for Lobo than it was for Aquaman, so that recast makes sense. Wonder Woman, like Superman, is hard to get right, and with the tonal shift they...

Most. Abysmal. Dice. Luck. Evar.

I run too many different systems to have a single answer to that. I don't usually house rule critical successes or failures - I just use the mechanics the system has, if any.

Mod Note: And... with that you've shown that you're willing to use religious icons to insult people who disagree with you. You're done in this discussion.

There is a difference between ,"I see this as a very real problem for the game" and "I want this". Your word choice didn't differentiate between them. If you are going to be vague, you have few grounds to gripe about people failing to read your mind over the internet.

Celebrating the wins... We have a telehealth consult with an oncologist later this week, which might move us forward more quickly. Also, prednisone is magic. The cat had been hiding in a comfy warm cubby upstairs since we'd gotten back from the clinic on Saturday. An hour and a half after...

...including ourselves....

And this is me, keeping my mouth shut, because while well-meaning, the statement won't be taken well.

Not at all. No worries. I think of this thread more as a place to help process what's going on, and maybe be a little bit informative, and maybe to normalize folks talking about these things just a bit.