Moonguide @ Moonguide @lemmy.ml

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Same. I'm a new DM (and new to dnd in general, DM'd one one-shot and that's it, working on a campaign rn) and I use bard to make my narrative ideas fit the mechanics, name homebrew stuff, and clean up the text I'm writing for the players handbook I'm making for this campaign.

Wanna know this too. Checking later.

Dunno if you can read spanish, but the letters sent between Colombo and the spanish royalty is a great way to get just a bit more pissed off. We read it in the original old castillian, which didn't click until I was older and understood colonization (read: when I stopped being a lib).

A lot of focus on people like Bartolome de las Casas, and not enough about how much indigenous culture was lost.

Hm, interesting. I'll do some of that recommended reading, Practical Programming specifically. Honestly, I don't do lifting for athleticism anymore. Lift heavy rock make sad voices go away, mostly. But if I can work smarter, I'll do that.

Then they'd put the kids out of work!

I mean, isn't the average english level in the states equivalent to that of a six year old? Remember reading something to that effect. Or maybe it was about literacy rates.

Same here, but it still has affected my day to day. After attending a primarily english school and consuming english media, I end up codeswitching despite not having lived in an english speaking country. Annoys my friends. Though in my defense, I did work in a call center for a while, and that job only worsened it.

Oh, I wasn't aware. I've been doing 3 days a week because of time constraints. So PPL isn't good unless you're on supplements? What other regiment would you recommend?

I recently started bringing my e-reader to the gym, and it has made it so much more enjoyable. I used to be a gym rat but I don't find it as enjoyable anymore, but I still love reading. After a set I treat myself with a page or two, depending on how much rest those muscles need.

Been a few months of honestly inconsistent workouts and I'm halfway there to my PRs already.

As a bonus, I have cut down on my social media use as well. No downtime between sets means I don't check lemmy, tiktok, or whatsapp.

If you have a gym membership, do stronglifts 5x5 to start. It's a scheduled workout plan with basic compound exercises, meaning, they don't focus a single muscle, but a movement instead. Ease into it, all of them need a degree of technique so you don't injure yourself in the process. 3 days a week to start is good, don't push yourself this early on. Your body needs to be made aware that working out is something that will happen constantly, and that takes time. It will suck at first, everything will hurt, even muscles you didn't even know were there. You will also be more hungry. Eventually, DOMS (muscle pain after working out) will become tamer, only then should you think about increasing your workout sessions.

If health is your primary motivating factor, be mindful of what you eat and how much you sleep. We need every kind of nutrient, but if at the end of the day you have a calorie excess, and you're not working out like a madman, you will gain weight. Mind you, most of the calories we burn aren't burnt on a treadmill, we just burn calories by being alive. So, better to have a healthy diet with some cheat days, than stress about what to eat and what not to eat.

Also, because you need to be consistent, it has to be sustainable. Has to be something you won't hate to do. Biggest reason why people on diets fail.

My eldest dislikes it, but she rarely ever likes anything not made of tuna. Doesn't even like catnip. My youngest doesn't mind music. The other day I spent the better part of the afternoon doing meal prep while listening to Idles, Ghost, Coltrane, and other artists on a speaker, and she went to his favourite spot to hang out, coming occasionally for scritches. Could've run upstairs or hid under furniture but didn't.

Thanks! I'll start with that one, then.

Something I was taught in college helps me a lot. Identify the problem, then think about the problem you wish to solve, then create a word cloud about what you know. Research the topic, and expand the word cloud. Then, when you have some knowledge, attempt to produce drafts of what could solve the problem. See what can be improved, and iterate. In my case, this was for graphic design, but it's helped me in illustration when I'm fresh out of ideas, and in creative writing (as a DM). I've realized it was sort of like design thinking mixed with lateral thinking. It's about tackling problems through a methodological creative process, to eliminate bias and inform decisions as much as possible.

For a stretch of time after college I had issues with creative solutions even with that method, however. After finally being checked out by a psychiatrist, it turns out I was depressed and anxious to high heaven. After I started taking medications and doing what my psychologist taught me, not only did the classical symptoms of GAD, depression and adhd ameliorate, I started to feel creative again.

As for the sticky note thing you mentioned, I tried that and ended up having piles of sticky notes that I couldn't easily recall. I started using google keep at first, and now use Notion instead. Wish there was a FOSS detective board style app or something to map my ideas and write down simple notes. Would help me organize my mind a lot.

Edit: also, for reference, I've scored high on self-diagnosis exams on embrace autism, but wasn't diagnosed with it. Idk if my psychologist is up to date with the current science, because the reason she gave me for not diagnosing me with it was because I'm not violent, everything else checked out. And afaik, not all autistic people lash out violently when frustrated. Idk, just wanted to put this out there.

Oh, interesting, thanks! That explains things I've heard and read about it and why some DMs might be reticent to run UA.

Hey, a question from a guy new to dnd, what exactly is unearthed arcana? At first I thought it was community generated content, but now I'm thinking is content that didn't make the cut into full release? Somewhere between the two?

Man, I gotta read Discworld. Where did you start?

I'm very new to DnD (started as a DM a couple weeks ago), heard of gurps because of fallout message boards, no idea what THAC0 is.

Same, but for DnD. I'm a graphic designer as well, and I'm the DM of my group and part of the enjoyment I get out of it is producing player aids, maps, and just random stuff like really fancy stat blocks.

Gaming, cooking, and reading. I've taken up dungeons and dragons recently, acting as DM for some of my friends, their first time playing DnD as well. Currently prepping for my second campaign, a cold war-inspired Song of Ice and Fire setting during the Andal invasion of the Vale. Almost done preparing the classes available, and nearly done with the overarching plot. Still have to do the maps and the wiki, though.