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An eye-opener for me was reading articles about how people in my field were Micro-dosing LSD as a performance enhancer. I read into what they were getting out of micro-dosing, and realized all these poseurs were clandestinely acquiring and ingesting an illegal substance in the hopes that it...

In better words, there were always people with ADHD. Before the 80s, we just considered them to be degenerate, lazy or stupid. In the 80s and 90s we recognized there was something different actually going on with a good percentage of the populous, gave the condition a name, and thought long...

The education system didn't know how to deal with us. Instead of looking at ways to improve the education system to work for more kids, they put the problem kids on hard drugs.

It sounds like bragging, but I fully believe this is an apt description: My ADHD essentially makes my brain 20% faster, stronger, better than the average bear's brain, but it also leads me to needlessly multi-task along often pointless pursuits. The net effect of that buff in Int and that...

So, I hope that your feeling there is out of genuine concern, and not something else. ADHD IS a learning disability, and it is debilitating. It doesn't mean i'm incompetent or incapacitated by it, but it definitely does have a strong, often negative, impact on my ability to function in...

Suppose money IS an object. You have a set amount of money you can spend per month on models to paint, and a fixed amount of space to store the models you've painted. Selling models you're willing to part with frees up space to store and display more models, and gives you access to funds to...

Many people who engage in hobbies seek compensation to fund further pursuit of that hobby. There's even a whole section of tax code for "hobby income". For example, if I paint miniatures as a hobby, i can sell stuff i painted, and dump the proceeds into buying more miniatures to paint. There...

I think people back in the 80s didn't know what to do with the word "Hyperactive". I was diagnosed as "ADD with hyperactivity", which today would have just been called normal ADHD. My mom didn't seem to understand how I was hyperactive, since I seemed mostly kind of lazy. That's probably...

Just as I've said about the Heard/Depp and Baldwin stories, keep in mind we're talking about a professional performer and actor. Before she started doing D&D for a living, her day job was making you believe she was feeling things she didn't really feel, so nobody (other than Satine herself) can...

If someone wants to do professional quality work, they deserve professional quality pay. I think most DMs deserve a bit of compensation, even if they don't plan to make careers of it.

Social media didn't do that to us. We've had professional golf, professional football, etc for longer than we've been alive. Reducing what happens on Twitch, for example, to simply "leisure activity" is unfair. You might believe it's leisure activity as a viewer, but the profitable streams...

It's not about whether someone was involved in upper management decisions (she wasn't), it was about who was in charge of handling someone's concern over being asked to work alongside an abuser (she was in charge of it).

One of the accusations specifically mentions actions by Satine during her employment with WotC.

One of the twitter accusers has her, during her time working for WotC, ignoring a complaint about a male abuser associated with the company, and continuing to publicly associate with alleged abuser after the complaint. The abuser's name isn't given in the twitter thread that I could see. I...

My good friend Greg, from How to Drink, was on the official podcast a while back (possibly years back now, as the whole COVID era has shattered my ability to understand time). I don't think there's anything contraversial about people who promote responsible alcohol consumption also being tapped...

What I've gathered from a lot of passionate AD&D fans is that they never really played AD&D. They played a game they mostly made up with their friends during the years when TSR was actively publishing AD&D books, but most people seem to be largely oblivious to, or intolerant of, the rules as...

If they never made it home, these might be the heroes they grew up into.

I'm hoping this can be a spiritual successor to Birthright, or original Dark Sun. We may never again see the setting diversity we had back in the TSR days, but they may be able to combine the mechanical hybridization of Wargaming and Roleplaying with the beloved Dragonlance setting to kill...

We don't know that it's an adventure path. If I was doing this, the Adventure Book would be a set of scenarios that tie into the shared campaign. They would be less about telling the dragonlance story (there are novels for that) and more about showing how D&D scenarios can interact with...

I think by the time you buy both the adventure book and the battlegame, you will have a campaign setting book's worth of setting information. Edit: if any admins happen to be listening, I accidentally clicked "report" on Superchunk's post instead of reply. I think once you see the "reason" it...