I like making some silly magic items here are a few of my favorites:

• an invisible dagger ( the dagger can turn invisible only)
• a necklace that gives paladin features but it loses a link if the player lies. Eventually make it too small to remove and then choking the player
• animate Korred hair that gives the player the korred’s hair feature.
• Many handed pocket (an single shared pouch contents that multiple people can use)

They are all fun to use

I agree with your sentiment. The DM is another player at the table and by monetize the role feels wrong. DMing is more work than being a player so I can see the impulse. I do feel that this gives a certain expectations that the DM cater more to the players.

That being said I have payed to play DnD before but it’s more like a fee to use the space. When I played at a game store they charged $5 to play at their table for their weekly game. Same for registration fees to play for public games especially for a DnD play organization. Those that regularly connect players with DMs at 3rd party locations.

Wonderful Christmas Time.

It’s awful and Sir Paul McCartney should be ashamed of himself for making it

In winter is too cold to be a fridge. It’s more like a freezer or super cold freezer depends on the part of the winter.

I do often put beverages outside in the winter to save fridge space but you need to bring them inside at night or they would freeze

We thought one of us was doing to die last night during our session. Instead it was a set piece for monologuing villains and for a powerful NPC to sacrifice themselves. Pretty fun and the pivot to the second half of a campaign.

A few examples

I want some more details about some of these criteria. What makes open area? What about Brushwood/ leaf pile?

I don’t clean my leaves until mid-50 and I am pretty bad about cleaning it in multiple parts.

Here is what I got for my garden: Drinking aid 1 Dry wall (planted) 2 Wild area 2 Berry-bearing shrubs 3 Brushwood/leaf pile 3 Wild perennial bed 4 Trees 5

So I got a total of 20. I am making a larger native planting in my front so I think that move me up to 25 moving above average. This is difficult to get above average

The lesbian episode is a classic. One of their bests.

I watched it for the first time a few years ago and felt like you. How is this so relevant and not dated?

I don’t know if you have gotten to some of their queer episodes but they handle them with grace and nuance. We like to think progress in media is somewhat straight but there’s a lot of backsliding.

Matt Baume does great videos about queer TV representation. His golden girls episode is great

It was pretty good. Hearing Meryl sing terribly is interesting because she’s so good

Asparagus look so funny growing out of the ground like that. Looks like a joke that someone is trying to pull

Ding dong Dear Strong Bad,

How do you type with boxing gloves on?

That is true. Sex isn’t the main focus and there’s more slow building of sexual tensional and anticipation than actual sex. The world building and story is great with some great action chapters.

When Women Were Dragons a great standalone book reimaging the 1950 based on women spontaneously turning into dragons. It’s a concept book where a sociality issue is examined by fantasy tropes which are fun. Worth reading if you haven’t done a female perspective novel or concept novel in a while.

Fourth Wing and the rest of the Empyrean series. It’s technically Romantasy (romance/fantasy) and it’s super popular now. But it’s got good world building, dragons and sex in it. If you have never done a Romantasy it’s worth a read even if you don’t think you will like romance novels.

Babel it’s a fantasy historical account of oxford. It’s beautiful and wonderful. The author also has a series Poppy Wars which is good but it’s dark. But Babel is best.

I have gone in bursts devouring those books. There’s a little too much nerd boy fantasy insert in the first book. (The skinny loner who dressed bad has WAY too many beautiful women into him). But it’s pulp so it’s expected. Besides it gets so good.

Can’t say no to gritty magic crime noir.

All Vonnegut is worth reading