There’s no easy way out of this, and the older your playerbase gets, the more often it’ll happen.

Having more players can give you leeway - I prefer to get a minimum of 4 in possible campaigns to be able to both split tasks and coordinate in case of missing people.

But the key aspect, and the one that will be harder to manage, is to not have a main character; Its easier said than done, as in theory all your players should be main characters, but if you find that a plot point hinges too much on a single person - your example of the King demanding an Orb that’s carried by a PC sounds like a key example - then it might be time to reevaluate how you’re treating everyone else.

If all your players have spinning plates, someone missing a session will be a lesser deal - all you have to do is go balance another event of the story with the others. But, again, like I’ve said - easier in theory.

Can’t believe this is the first time I hear the expression “Wernher von Braun club”, fantastic.

Shameful, but this is the state of modern game developers. Scrap every possible avenue of paying your workers a living wage while surrendering to all latest failure tech fads.

Lemmy hiccup but I’ll leave my shame on for all to see

Damnit, I came here to post that exact quote

Damnit, I came here to post that exact quote

Most times I see “Great D&D ideas” posts are scenarios better suited for any game that’s not D&D

This would be great in a more free-form, narrative TTRPG

People keep bringing LLM trash into the fediverse and then complaining when they aren’t put on a pedestal. Another community to throw in the trash bin.

Thanks for sharing

Queijo

None of those games need sequels, and neither did Hades. I get why they did, because it was the first time they weren’t veering on bankruptcy and could use a bigger safety net, but doubling down on this lack of creativity is hardly what I expect from Supergiant.

I can’t recall if it was on the second or third year of high school, but it was a single Biology class. The teacher was comfortable with it, but she was very clearly biased towards abstinence and insisted the only way to be 100% sure was to just not have sex.

Despite that, she still talked about basics of sex and genitalia, a few common STDs, and basic preventive measures, both for pregnancy and STDs - even if they weren’t particularly effective. Both coitus interruptus and sodomy (we had a loooot of fun repeating that word for a week or so) were mentioned as ways to avoid pregnancy, but condoms and IUDs were the real recommendations.

As a class, we weren’t too rowdy, though there was a kid or two that made a few too many jokes - and the teacher cut them off fairly quickly. I also recall she handled pamphlets with each of the methods talked during class and their approximate efficacy.

This was in 2005-ish and I’m Brazilian.

Also of note this was the second time, the first attempt happened in middle school (and in a different school altogether) and we had to do a presentation on STDs and the like. The teacher decided to cancel at the last minute because we were clearly too embarrassed to actually talk about the subject in front of our classmates.

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I recommend everyone hit up the Trove, get HakuNeko or a similar app and start making offline backups. Its not going to get easier from now on. KissManga and Mangafox still have suitable uploads for plenty of those series, but we don’t know for how long.

I wasn’t expecting quality from modern Bungie but this is definitely an unexpected low

someone in a group I know asked the same a few weeks ago and the general reply was “No”

iOS ain’t friendly to any kind of 3rd party app

The whole point of these apps is that they are local, independent from algorithms and YT’s surveillance. If you want to synchronize something, you’ll have to do it manually.

I don’t, I believe one of the piracy instances might be able to help you with the issue better than I

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!piracy@lemmy.ml

Here’s your occasional reminder to use FreeTube on your PC or Newpipe on your phone

https://freetubeapp.io/

https://newpipe.net/

I was obviously talking about COVID.