Berttheduck

I have a rough idea of my outgoings each month as compared to my income and I just make sure I don’t spend more than I earn at least most of the time.

My wife occasionally sits down and does a proper budget so we can move around recurring payments and make sure we keep things fair.

It’s a lot better than other electric toothbrushes whilst retaining waterproofing.

Yup, you need to send it back to them but for a few quid (or included if you have their replacement head subscription) they will change the battery for you.

We have recently gotten ourselves some SURI toothbrushes and they are eco friendly, repairable, the heads are recyclable/ biodegradable. They also give a better clean than my old oral b electric. Quieter too. Highly recommend.

For car camping a double roll mat and double sleeping bag has made a world of difference especially for my wife who’s a cold sleeper, sharing a bag let’s her steal my warmth. We’ve had a Vango comfort roll mat for a good few years now and it doesn’t pack small but it’s nearly as comfy as my mattress at home.

Wildsea is great, the setting is wonderful and I’m really enjoying the mechanics so far. We’re 4 sessions in and have played through the introductory adventure. It’s a very solar punk hopeful setting (at least how I’m running it) which we all need more of at the minute I think.

I’m looking forward to getting the books for slugblaster, I’ve had a read of the PDF and it sounds like a lot of fun.

Is there anything you’re particularly interested in from the bundle?

If I didn’t already have most of the games I want from this bundle I’d have got it in a second. It’s got some really excellent systems there.

Playing Wildsea at the minute and totally loving it.

Just finished a Spire campaign. Good system fascinating setting.

Nights black agents it’s pretty cool and has a co-op series for it.

Slugblaster sounds like great fun and is probably my next game after Wildsea, I’m waiting for my books to arrive in print.

Vassen has some excellent art and lore but I’ve not run it.

Masks has an excellent reputation and has been on my list to get for a long time.

Some really strong game systems in there.

Either a whole load of books, fiction, tabletop RPG sci-fi. I would also need to buy more bookshelves to put these on.

A decent upgrade to my computer, maybe a new graphics card.

A sword or two, some better protective kit for sparring.

Seconded, I’ve run the introductory module another bug hunt and loved the system and the module.

I use a tablet or two as GM my players are all paper exclusive though. I’d have no problems with people using electronics at the table though provided they were paying attention and not being disruptive.

Honestly other than a little pang when interacting with my nephew’s of am I missing out, it’s mostly positive.

We have time and money to do more of the things we enjoy, not that there’s much of that even without kids when you factor in 2 full time jobs.

Honestly one of the big reasons we decided to not have kids. With some budgeting we have a good quality of life as we both earn a good wage. Though we still have to be careful. Adding kids to that mix would mean we would struggle at times and have to cut back on the niceties to keep food and bills paid.

It is a depressing reality of our capitalist society.

34 male. Grew up with 3 siblings. Always wanted kids when I was younger. As I got older, met my wife and started living together we had lots of discussions about kids. She was never really interested in them and the whole pregnancy and giving birth thing terrified her.

On lots of reflection I realised that I was only interested in kids because of family and societal pressure, I think the world is over populated and generally heading downhill (fascism is massively on the rise globally, global warming, various wars) so decided that I didn’t want to bring a child into that.

There’s plenty of children in the foster system so if we change our minds later we can adopt and give a good home to a child that needs one.

What’s your plan for winter?

No. Chavs were the school bullies for me growing up so I get a pretty strong visceral ewe from that style choice.

Dragons dogma 1 and 2 fit the bill I think. 2 more so than the first.

https://yu-scene.net/register

Link to the first post. I’m using boost via my phone without a VPN.

The ml link has posts, most recent was a week ago.

My Dad’s gone totally off the rails conspiracy theory nutty. Fake moon landings, fluoride in the water is mind control, vaccines cause autism and maybe microchips and mind control again, foreign people are simultaneously lazy stealing benefits and stealing all the jobs, my god the racism. He fell into an echo chamber during COVID and hasn’t come out again. The best one was when I was telling him as a healthcare professional on the front lines watching patients and colleagues die that COVID was serious and we should take any opportunity to avoid it and make it better, he told me it was just flu and all fake news.

Yeah I don’t talk to my parents much anymore.

Counter question, does it matter? If they have fun by knowing what’s coming and being able to prepare for it does that make the experience worse for other players or yourself? If not then who cares let them have at it. If yes then you need to address it somehow, the usual answer to these sorts of things is to just have an adult conversation with the players about expectations. If you know your players and that won’t work then you have some choices to make, again do you care enough to put in more work on top of already running the game? If it’s going to be an issue and they will abuse access to the module even after you’ve asked them not to, do you really want to play with them? If the answer is still yes then I suggest altering things slightly so them having pre knowledge doesn’t help, locations of key stuff, attitudes of NPCs, stat blocks/ monsters and enemy placement could all be changed pretty easily with fairly little work, I’d definitely rework the monsters at least, I wouldn’t go as far as traps designed to catch them out though that’s punishing the party for a player.