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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • Toss them a minor magic item. Prep while they squabble over who should take it for 30-60 minutes.

    In 3 months, you’ll forget they have it and they’ll use it to completely bypass a 4 hour combat you planned, leaving you in the exact fake boat you are now but even worse.

    But that’s a problem for future you.


  • I’ve got 4 groups.

    Groups 1 and 2 are small groups made of friends and we handle everything over text. We do tend to have a lot of “hey, are we playing today?” texts on the day of.

    Group 3 started as a work game and has a larger group with less consistency of who shows up week to week. We use discord. Creating events, hosting lore, and places to stash special/homebrew rules is nice.

    Group 4 is a west marches-ish game with about 10 players. Discord for that also, though once a group is set for a couple sessions we switch from the discord channel to a group message for communication.

    I’ve used Teams in the past as well but I find discord to be better for managing the various things I need to organize a game.





  • So it’s not exactly that, but if you want a rhythm game with some more nuance, Before the Echo is awesome.

    You’ve got 3 different screens (mana gathering, spell casting, and enemy attacks) and you need to balance which you’re prioritizing at any time. Mana is needed to cast spells, spells are needed to defeat the enemy, but you need to block their attacks to not lose all your HP. Each one goes different parts of he music, and as a bonus all the music is from Ronald Jenkees.

    It’s old, and while funny is also sometimes very cringey, but still a terrific bit of fun.