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Yes. That's my experience as well. While not everyone's campaigns include emotional vulnerability or soul-baring, the nature of role-playing and getting into a character does tend to make it more emotional and personal than other hobbies, and provide opportunities tailor-made for emotional...

Pretty much all of this, except I did LARP. I first dipped my toe in it in Seattle (including attending the convention Mark Rein-Hagen and Stewart Wieck flew out for in Spring of '93 to make the Camarilla the official WW fan club) just before moving back East as a teenager. Once I got to New...

Another wonderful article! For clarity and courtesy, it would be good to credit the author by her current name, Pauli Kidd, perhaps with a "writing as" note.

Went in again last night for a quick session on limited time - three sets machine triceps extensions with drop sets (increasing weight a bit), three sets of lat pulldowns with a drop set on the third, and two of machine overhead press with a drop set on the second. Guy on the station 45 degrees...

One of the scariest antagonists I remember from a 3.5 campaign we played was an assassin who possessed people a la Magic Jar. Giant pain to fight, especially once he started possessing us.

I had a witch villain in one of my campaigns who used construct scarecrows as guards and enforcers. I think I came up with my own stats. Not especially horrifying, but the PCs didn't love the extra flame damage they took being slammed by them once the (vulnerable) scarecrows were set alight. :LOL:

Just a quick note that the oft-ignored social rules in the DMG cover all that. I tend to concur. I don't want to be too rigid, but I do want substitutions to make sense.

"playing 'Disintegration' by The Cure" I really liked a lot of the shrunken-down scenes with the ants and that sense of creepy but G-rated adventure some old comics could have. Those scenes gave me a bit of a horripilated thrill and made me think of old stuff like Journey Into Mystery or Tales...

I getcha. I think I agree. We felt it worked once we thought about it, but they hadn't quite established/laid the groundwork for it to feel natural. Watched Iron Claw recently with the same friends, and I Saw the TV Glow back in the Spring with a younger friend. Iron Claw was excellent, and...

Got in last night for three circuits of dumbbell bench with drop sets, inclined dumbbell curls with drop sets, and seated dumbbell lateral raises with drop sets. Getting some small incremental increases. After my circuits the triceps extension machine was again taken up, but I went and did a...

I think you mean "whoop whoop!"

The factions all have ways in which they can be seen as good or bad, and rivalries. They can all be antagonists if the PCs don't want to cooperate with them. Two of our casters joined the mage faction, three of us joined another faction, and we wound up largely opposed to two others. From...

My group played through it and I enjoyed it quite a bit.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...