Assuming a D&D 5e game, I load Kobold Fight Club and click until I find monsters I can build a little story around.

A while back (including enemies from Tome of Beasts) I got Spawn of Akyishigal and Giant Ants, and after a few overland battles they found a beleaguered anthill.

By the next session I had my dungeon made and some lore surrounding it.

The giant anthill had carved its way into an ancient tomb of an orcish warlord who had managed to seal the Demon Lord of Cockroaches with her in an attempt at everlasting life. The actions the players take can result in her rising as a Mummy Lord or in Akyishigal being freed.

All from going “Hey, these enemies work well together.”

Here’s a link to it:

The Mirrored Tomb of Yeskarra

Yuuuuup.

Because the Evangelicals believe that Israel must be in existence at the end of the world of the Antichrist cannot rise and Jesus can’t come back.

They don’t give one fuck about the history of their own faith, let alone about the Jewish people. It’s just pieces on their dominionist gameboard.

Maybe you’re thinking of something along the lines of Bishop Berkeley’s Theory of Immaterialism.

Essentially, things only exist and continue to exist because we agree that they do and expect them to remain that way.

Also featured in the children’s book Mr. Radagast Makes an Unexpected Journey, which I adored when I was younger.

My fighter against an assassin who we suspected killed an NPC in the first session.

We are down in the mud, grappling. I fumbled my sword and he got me good (crit), leaving me quite vulnerable. The other party members were nearby but not in range.

I pulled out a dagger and got a crit of my own, ending his life with less than 5 hp left of my own.

Later that night I realized that dagger I’d killed him with was looted from the NPC’s pack. I’d gotten revenge on her behalf, using her own knife against her murderer.

No, this is big. Someone committed to the cause looked at the evidence and reconsidered her opinion.

This can be useful to get through to some that they have been manipulated, that they have been made terrified of education for unfounded reasons.

Anyone converted away is a win, even if not statisically significant.

“Save it for Tuesday” is a shit attitude in my opinion. A little more constructive would be “I’m glad you opened up to me and here’s what I think but that also sounds like something to discuss with your therapist.”

I can’t offer any other good advice as I’ve only seen a therapist once but I’d assume it’s possible to get as much as you can out of one person and then find someone else who can help you grow further.

(Just realized this is the bipolar group and I’m depressive and anxious but not bipolar, fwiw.)

It’s gotta be exhausting to work in a workspace, warehouse, or factory, not knowing which it will be day to day! At least they arrive knowing the random workplace is ventilated!

$265 each per year. That’s wild.

My wife got a used car with a Sirius in it. She used it for the free trial but we don’t do talk radio so it seemed completely pointless.

Every time I see his name I can’t help but think that in college his assigned email address would probably have been ablinken@fuckingschool.debt.now.

I took the opposite tack.

You ain’t shit, Pythagoras! You just wrote it down, you didn’t figure it out, you absolute fucking fraud. We’re taking your immortality back!

Antitrust? Pff.

How about crimes against humanity?

I’m for 'em!

Committed too many crimes, need to get off the planet fast, and can’t afford a flight? Starfleet wants you!

That’s totally bizarre. Every phrase in that headline is a plot twist.

For anyone thinking “Why, I know the story?” Read it.

I legitimately rented that more than once as an adult. It had no right being as funny as it was.

While I’m at it, if you’ve never read the original short story The Most Dangerous Game, you should give it a shot.

All you can reasonably do is help him get in touch with resources to help him recover.

And then, if he gets sober and starts to get his affairs in order, you can be supportive.

But his multiple severe challenges coupled with the fact that he has a family who could be supportive of him if he had been supportive of them lead me to warn you to limit your exposure here.

It’s too much and you’ll get overwhelmed, even if he’s able to cope.

But being a supportive friend, knowing he has someone in his life who hasn’t fully written him off can still be valuable.

I haven’t and may look into it!

That’s more than a bit rude.

They’re saying they like the Chinese people despite their government. They admire parts of the Chinese spirit and drive to remember their loved ones.

We can learn even from those we may consider our adversaries.