Emlashed

My players just finished dinner with Strahd at the castle last session. In the prior session, they met Blinsky who confided in them his fear of Izek and told them about the Ireena dolls he makes. They hadn't totally figured out the connection between Strahd and Ireena at that point.

During their time in Castle Ravenloft, one player was alone with Strahd and asked if he knew anything about "this weird guy Izek" and mentioned the creepy Ireena dolls. Strahd became intensely interested in this information and the player realized he'd made a mistake. He didn't want to say more, but Strahd successfully Charmed him into telling him where Izek could be found. In the moment, it felt to me like the

My players fell in love with Urwin and Danika (#couplesgoals and such) and have doted on their kids. They've been using the Inn as their base of operations ever since they came to Vallaki. Quite unfortunately, Urwin was killed by vampire spawn. His death was recent (a few hours ago in game) but his dead is known to various townsfolk. If my party uses the Raise Dead scroll they have in their pockets to bring him back (There's a decently high chance they will use it for this), what problems would this create for Urwin and his family? I imagine he'd be significantly mistrusted now but probably not to the point that the town would try to burn the Inn down or anything like that. The consequences

For a fun Halloween themed session, I just ran Death House for my group as a one shot. But they had a blast and now want me to run the full campaign.

So the thing is, these loveable knuckleheads all decided to make their one-shot characters based on the Scooby Doo gang. We've got the full group, including Scrappy Doo. It's so dumb and hilarious, I'm absolutely loving it.

If you're one of my loveable knucleheads, stop reading here and go work on your backstory.

I'd like to lean into the theme and work some small mysteries for them to solve as they travel around. Traditionally, of course, the ghost or whatever turns out to be a regular but disgruntled person. I feel like it should be the

Let me start by saying I'm completely aware how privileged my current office job is. I'm thankful every day that I no longer have to deal with the horrible customers and worse managers in retail.

But I'm not able to stay at my current job. The position is being eliminated. I got a new job offer yesterday. The base salary is essentially the same. The problem is the benefits.

1. You cannot join the health insurance plan until after 90 days. (I'm in the US and have a chronic illness so I don't want to be without insurance for even 5 mins.)
2. You can't join the 401k until you've been with them for a year. No contributions yourself or company match until then.
3. Their vacation offer is 2 week

My partner and I are wine enthusiasts who happen to share a birthday. We're not experts by any means but we've been exploring the wine hobby together and just wrapped up a trip to Napa. One thing we haven't been able to try is a vertical tasting.

Our birthday is coming up in a few months and I'd like to get a few bottles of the same wine over different vintages, specifically a 1988 and 1990, the years we were born, and 1-2 more recent ones so I can host a vertical tasting for us and a couple friends.

But after searching through some vintage wine sites, I'm having a really hard time finding a wine with both of those vintages. In fact, I've not found any. Have I set myself up for an impossib

I'm about to have 80lbs of acorns come into my possession. I've ground them into flour before, but not nearly this many. Previously, I've subbed it for regular flour in some breads and pancakes. But I have a feeling I'm going to need some more recipe suggestions to use this all up.

My local store recently created a bunch of mystery Commander decks and sold them for $25 in a plain cardboard box. You had no idea what was in it, just that it was a complete and playable deck they curated. Seemed like fun. Unfortunately, they're sold out and have no idea if/when they'll make more.

I wanted to buy 4 and send 3 out to my friends so we could open them together and play over Spelltable together since we still can't game in person.

Do you know of anyone that makes and sells decks like this?

I am incensed. Three times in the last few days, solicitors have come to my door in Herndon, trying to sell me pest control, roof inspections, etc. The usual schtick for a neighborhood solicitor.

None of these clowns were wearing masks. They ring my bell and then they're standing 2 feet away from my face when I open the door. Which I am now no longer doing.

What is wrong with you!? What is wrong with your company!? Under normal circumstances this is annoying at best, but now? This is completley unacceptable. How could anyone think this is appropriate?

Has anyone else had this happen since we "opened" back up?

What do you do with the tons of extras and expansion items you get for your games?

I just found an empty HATE box for sale that I plan to put all those game extras in (will reduce about 10 boxes to 2), but I have 6-7 other games (mainly CMON ones tbh) that have 5-6 smaller boxes of extras that don't fit in the base game box.

Is there a place that sells game boxes similar to the ones games already come in? I'd like them to look decent on my shelves and I'm not a big fan of using plastic bins.

My 5yo Catahoula attacked and hurt a dog at daycare over the weekend. He's had some people problems buy never exhibited dog aggression before this. He's just been incredibly dog reactive. But always friendly up until now.

For those of you who've seen one, I'm curious what your experiences have been with them and what you wish you knew before going in. I want to get as much out of it as possible.