• massive_bereavement@fedia.io
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        6 months ago

        Their kid was ill, their partner had a thing, they didn’t remember another event that they had previously agreed on, they said yes but they were thinking of another date, “is it for that game? I thought we were gonna play something else.”, that’s a long weekend week so they had out-of-state plans, etc… etc…

        I sometimes feel bad for DMs.

        Edit: If I say I’ll come, I will come, I’ll force myself. Otherwise laziness will get the best of me. Few things I own, better to keep my word.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      Pretty much same, but TTRPGs in general. I abandoned D&D after it became clear that Hasbro is going to continue making the game worse to squeeze money out of the fans.

      • Tja@programming.dev
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        6 months ago

        I’m a bit out of date, but what prevents you from picking the edition you like the most and just sticking to it?

        • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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          6 months ago

          It depends on the edition, and whether or not you want to pirate or have access to new content or digital companion tools, either 1st or 3rd party.

          4e is basically unplayable digitally now because of licensing issues for the companion technology. If you still have the books you could try, but it’s an edition that leaned heavily on the assumption that digital tools would be used.

          5e scared off a ton of 3rd party creators with the proposed licensing changes last year, and their new 5.5 edition looks to not be very open at all in terms of creator content. You might as well play a spinoff system like the Kobold press 5e or the LOTR 5e.

          3.5 and earlier is still possible but the content was mostly never digitized into a good online resource. You could still play pen and paper, but if you’re going back that far you might as well just play a more modern system that draws inspiration from the older D&D system like OSR or PF.

          All that being said, it’s all still playable, it just doesn’t have much of a future if you don’t want to get sucked into enshittification, ads, and microtransactions that Hasbro has committed to transforming the game into.

          • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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            6 months ago

            PF2e works pretty well on Foundry. I’ve been playing it for a while now and while there are some glitches, there has been steady progress and only a few niche activities aren’t decently accounted for. I heard PF described as D&D5e with some homebrew rules added on to fix the balance issues, and 2e takes it a bit further. There are things I don’t like, but it’s pretty fun and having a computer take care of most of the tedious math is nice.

  • Blackout@kbin.run
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    6 months ago

    I go boxing every weekend I’m home and will keep it up thru retirement just to stay mobile.

    • dustyData@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Training for boxing every weekend, very good. Doing actual boxing and getting repeatedly hit in the head every weekend, not exactly the most senior friendly activity.

  • bugsmith@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    Five-a-side football (soccer). I’m not a sporty person, but started going with a local group a few years ago and have reaped the benefits of doing some intensive team exercise once per week. I go with a bunch of guys way older than I am, and it’s amazing how fit and healthy they are compared to the average person I meet of their age. I certainly plan to keep this up so long an injury doesn’t prevent me.

      • bugsmith@programming.dev
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        6 months ago

        Five-a-side is a specific format of football (soccer), aimed at more casual play with a much lower bar to skill level. Outside of five-a-side leagues (which do exist), it’s rarely played with fixed teams and often ran in a more “pick up group” fashion.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      Greenhouses and indoors plants exist though. And some vegetables like kale grow well in winter. And I’ve seen some impressive greenhouses that use geothermal energy (think water pipes 3 meters deep feeding warmth all winter long).

      • stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 months ago

        I’d love to have a geothermal greenhouse. Saw them on YouTube and was impressed. Here I have to make do with what I got, but one can dream.

  • JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Sailing, scuba diving, cooking a big meal for friends, having a lazy start morning sipping coffee with my partner.