Here’s a little trick I’ve used in D&D games where the premise of your campaign calls for the party to have access to lots of Stuff, but you don’t want to do a whole bunch of bookkeeping: the Wagon.
In a nutshell, the party has a horse-drawn wagon that they use to get around between – and often during – adventures. This doesn’t come out of any individual player character’s starting budget; it’s just provided as part of the campaign premise.
Before setting out from a town or other place of rest, the party has to decide how many gold pieces they want to spend on supplies. These funds aren’t spent on anything in particular, and form a running total that represents how much Stuff is in the wagon.
Any time a player character needs something in the way of supplies during a journey or adventure, one of two things can happen:
1. If it’s something that any fool would have packed for the trip and it’s something that could reasonably have been obtained at one of the party’s recent stopovers (e.g., rations, spare clothing, fifty feet of rope, etc.), then the wagon contains as much of it as they reasonably need. Just deduct the Player’s Handbook list price for the item(s) in question from the wagon’s total.
2. If it’s something where having packed it would take some explaining, or if it’s something that’s unlikely to have been available for purchase at any of the party’s recent stopovers (e.g., a telescope, a barrel of fine wine, a book of dwarven erotic poetry, etc.), the player in need makes a retroactive Intelligence or Wisdom check, versus a DC set by the GM, to see if they somehow anticipated the need for the item(s) in question. Proficiency may apply to this check, depending on what’s needed. The results are read as follows:
Success: You find what you’re looking for, more or less. If the group is amenable, you can narrate a brief flashback explaining the circumstances of its acquisition. Deduct its list price (or a price set by the GM, if it’s not on the list) from the wagon’s total.
Failure by 5 points or less: You find something sort of close to what you’re looking for. The GM decides exactly what; it won’t ever be useless for the purpose at hand, but depending on her current level of whimsy, it may simply be a lesser version of what you were looking for, or it may be something creatively off the mark. Deduct and optionally flash back as above.
Failure by more than 5 points: You come up empty-handed, and can’t try again for that item or anything closely resembling it until after your next stopover.
As an incidental benefit, all the junk the wagon is carrying acts as a sort of ablative armour. If the wagon or its horses would ever take damage, instead subtract a number of gold pieces from its total equal to the number of hit points of damage it would have suffered. The GM is encouraged to describe what’s been destroyed in lurid detail.
CBC made a good documentary on adult ADHD and part of it really caught me off guard because i swear they repeated verbatim my life story for the past 3 years
My ADHD manifested in excellent in-class work. Excellent understanding in discussions. Excellent participation.
My ADHD manifested in piles of homework left undone until the last possible minute, while I stared at them, thinking; “I want to get these done. I understand the theory. It would take 10 minutes. I want to start, why can’t I start?”
My ADHD manifested in fantastic reading comprehension – nigh impenetrable focus on interesting topics the first time I’m reading about them.
My ADHD manifested in a complete inability to focus on reviews or re-reads, mind skittering sideways and away whenever anything was boring or repetitive. I sat down to study, my books open, my eyes on the text, and my brain clawing its way out the back of my head to focus on something else – anything else. Focus, focus! [No.]
My ADHD manifested in Articulating wings half-finished but still beautiful, in beautiful lineart and half-hearted coloring. In stories written passionately for days until I forgot it existed and never returned. In projects started and forgotten and started and forgotten a thousand times until my bins of project supplies piled up and my bank account shriveled down. No, it will be different this time – I LOVE this new thing. This new thing is my world, my destiny, my Everything. I CREATE and CREATE and CREATE and never FINISH.
My ADHD manifested in confusion and surprise as time slithered away, hours passing like minutes and minutes seeming endless by contrast. An inability to gauge how much time had passed, was left, a task would take. An inability to hold dates in my head, because time didn’t feel consistent or even real.
My ADHD manifested in watching someone talk and not understanding a word they said – literally hearing sounds and translating out only nonsense. In thoughts so loud I couldn’t speak coherently. In a conversation across the room shattering an idea I was trying to hold. It’s hard to think when you’re already thinking about everything around you.
And that’s just like, one of the hundreds/thousands of other sketchy things the site has going on in the background by just sitting on any of its web pages without an adblocker/scriptblocker
Yo, if you wanna use KissAnime, you gotta be able to protect yourself & your computer from its shadiness. This post is discouraging, but sadly, there aren’t any less shady alternatives (aside from the legal streaming sites, of course) Anyway, if you wanna use any streaming site, you should download these Chrome extensions:
This extension is a lifesaver, seriously. Personally, I’ve never seen it used on Kiss, but it works a lot on other streaming sites. With uBlock, Essentials, and Pop Up Blocker, it’s very rare that I see ads.
As the name suggests, it blocks crypto miners. I can’t vouch for its reliability yet, as it hasn’t blocked anything for me atm.
I also use a tampermonkey script to block the “Are You Human?” thing. Pretty sure it’s on the Kissanime reddit (also, if you use Kiss a lot, browse that sub even more!! It’s really useful to know what the hell is going on the site before you risk your computer). Make sure to download Malwarebytes, too!
reblogging this again because this is a much better version than just saying “dont use kissanime”
All illegal streaming services do stuff like this, so instead of going somewhere else, learn how to protect yourself from malicious advertisements.
Honestly, even if you don’t use illegal streaming services, but traverse the deep web fairly regularly, I would suggest using these- hell, even the surface web is getting pretty muddy these days. I recently switched to uBlock myself for a different reason and I really love it. The filters list provided above is great and way more extensive than what I previously had in my filters list. Minerblocker is *okay hand*. Good stuff.
i hate how reward systems never work for me like i can’t just say “if i finish this assignment i can have a cookie” bc my brain is like “…..or u could just have one right now” and i can’t argue with that logic
Self-imposed deadlines don’t work either because I know the guy who set them and he’s full of shit
Hi! I’d like to tell you about Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies!
Basically, she found that people generally fall into four categories based on how they respond to external expectations (like a school or work deadline) and internal expectations (like a New Year’s resolution). Upholders respond readily to both external and internal expectations. Obligers respond to external expectations but struggle with internal ones. Questions respond to internal expectations but struggle with external ones. Rebels, well, they struggle with both.
These tendencies are hard-wired! We’re born with them, and they aren’t something you can really change. What you CAN do is learn your tendency and then change your circumstances to make yourself accomplish the expectations!
I’m an Obliger myself, so that’s where I have the best examples. Plus, that’s kind of what this thread is about! I can’t get myself to go to the gym – but if I’m meeting a friend there, I know they’re counting on me, so I’ll be there. For Obligers, it’s all about taking your internal goals and creating external accountability for them. You want to read more? Join a book club! You want to get up earlier? Find someone else who wants to get up earlier and schedule a morning conversation every day!
For Questioners, they (surprise) question everything. They need to turn external expectations into internal ones, and the key is to know why this is necessary. Questioners can easily get lost in research, so they have to be careful – they may never buy a coffee pot because they’ll spend weeks searching for the perfect one. If something feels arbitrary, they’ll never do it. They have to find the why.
I know a lot less about Upholders, just because it always seems to me like they struggle less with expectations and goals. They want to do something? They will do it! Someone else wants them to do something? They will do that too! It’s important for Upholders to recognize that people around them aren’t always wired the same way, or they can become very frustrated easily.
As for Rebels, they struggle with all expectations. They can do whatever they want – if they want to do it. Accountability, like what an Obliger needs, will NOT work for a Rebel, and in fact will make it more likely that they will not accomplish the goal. Rebels need to make things appeal to their sense of identity. “I want to be known as a smart person, therefore I will write this paper.” Rebels need to do things because they choose to do them.
There’s lots of nuances and variance within each of the Tendencies, strengths and weaknesses and striking patterns as well. The important thing here though is that if you know how you respond to internal or external expectations, you can accomplish what you need to do by changing your circumstances to best suit you!
There’s tons of information on Gretchen Rubin’s website, where there’s a quiz you can take to find out which tendency you are. She also has a book called The Four Tendencies and talks about the framework all the time on the podcast she hosts with her sister, Happier with Gretchen Rubin.
I see this post all the time and always have this itch to explain the Tendencies, and I’m reading her book right now so I couldn’t resist.
apparently ppl don’t know about waifu2x??? despite its… concerning name it’s literally the most convenient website i’ve ever come across as an artist
it allows you to resize artwork without it becoming pixellated. this is a MASSIVE help if you, for example, make lineart too small or something. it works best with things that 1. have no textures 2. have smooth lines 3. have cel shading, but it still works really damn well for things that don’t fit that profile
here’s an example:
normal size
2x in paint
2x in waifu2x
so like, there’s that. go wild
Original:
Photoshop scaled:
Waifu2x scaled:
It’s legit!! Tell your friends!
waifu2x-multi is the newer version. It allows for rescaling multiple pictures at a time and to scale them up to 10x the original size.
backup blog in case tumblr explodes 