D&D and the rising pandemic

[Janx]

Yeah, we're basically doomed to be treading water until a vaccine comes along.

Funny tangent--I read Danse Macabre recently, Stephen King's non-fiction book about the horror genre, and I remember that either he or somebody he was quoting described horror as "a force that destroys the bonds between people". And that really sums up this virus, doesn't it?

I thought he was describing the Great Divider.

 

[Eltab]

Might help if they had some clear guidance, rather than a series of half measures, and a government that ignores it's own guidance.

And if Officialdom had a goal "kill the germs".
One EnWorlder a while back had a thread about things to do "while Corona prowls the streets" which pithily describes the messed-up situation actually created.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yeah if your use to just being able to open an NPC/Monster sheet or click on a macro to do attacks, it becomes a pain if you haven't already got that critter available, so you need to do stuff manually. Worse if you need to load a token in first as well.

The more you create the more you have available (at least so long as you can import and export between your games), but from games with a rapid levelling mechanic like D&D/Pathfinder, monsters you've prepared at level 1 aren't much good against a level 5 party, and a useless when they get double figures. Flatter games like CoC, you can keep reusing Cultists, Deep Ones and the like.

This is why you get a wide variety of attitudes about how hard prep is on VTT; if, like me, you just use the VTT for maps and tokens (and keep a bunch of those pre-available) you have a lot less overhead than if you have to have virtual sheets, macros and what-all.

 

[Cadence]

The dashboard for the University will show someone in our not-too-far off part of the building at work as a positive case next week. :-/

Wishing well for their family, and hoping that the time I was in an adjacent room last week wasn't long enough for it to spread.

 

[Zardnaar]

American expat over here.

Some erm swearing.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Poop.

 

[Eltab]

There was a similar story about mink farms in Utah, about a month ago.
At least the mink can't just go running all over the landscape.

 

[Zardnaar]

Poop.

They knew about the links back in April.

Fur farming?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Yup.

But from what I understand, it takes a while to confirm or establish a strong possibility that a strain of a virus found in animals can jump to other animals, including humans.

 

[Janx]

They knew about the links back in April.

Fur farming?

Based on Danny's pic, if I was a rich snob, I would only want top shelf minks used for my furred products. Steering wheel covers, coats, underwear, etc. Why would I settle for mink fur that's been peed/pooped on by the upper levels?