Either a whole load of books, fiction, tabletop RPG sci-fi. I would also need to buy more bookshelves to put these on.

A decent upgrade to my computer, maybe a new graphics card.

A sword or two, some better protective kit for sparring.

Seconded, I’ve run the introductory module another bug hunt and loved the system and the module.

34 male. Grew up with 3 siblings. Always wanted kids when I was younger. As I got older, met my wife and started living together we had lots of discussions about kids. She was never really interested in them and the whole pregnancy and giving birth thing terrified her.

On lots of reflection I realised that I was only interested in kids because of family and societal pressure, I think the world is over populated and generally heading downhill (fascism is massively on the rise globally, global warming, various wars) so decided that I didn’t want to bring a child into that.

There’s plenty of children in the foster system so if we change our minds later we can adopt and give a good home to a child that needs one.

What’s your plan for winter?

Same, I had Wildsea and Delta green before watching the reviews but I’m definitely considering Delta green as my next game now. He also sold me on Mothership which was great fun to run. Most of the characters even survived.

I’m loving Wildsea so far, just immaculate vibes. First session was exploring a new port and meeting the local colour. My players have made:

A Gau, Island born, stargazer (can’t remember the book terms without looking it up). A shark lady (an extra race from the expansion book which I did not know existed until they found a website to help with character gen, that race is right at the back of the book and not fleshed out), rootless , hacker (like path cutter explorer). And an Ironbound, anchored, steep (a ghost, piloting a robot body made or scrap who makes tea and potions, our groups face character)

There’s a good Quin’s Quest video review of it on YouTube.

One of the main reasons to include that area are pocket foxes which are exactly what they sound like and will most likely be adopted by the party very quickly.

Yes please. I love seeing how other GMs prep.

This feels like a cool setting. Presumably the players would be focused on getting the day night cycle going normally again? Could be fun having an against the clock type game as they get more desperate for food as the game progresses. Or society shifts to mushrooms wholesale. Lanterns and fire would be super important.

No. Chavs were the school bullies for me growing up so I get a pretty strong visceral ewe from that style choice.

Dragons dogma 1 and 2 fit the bill I think. 2 more so than the first.

My Dad’s gone totally off the rails conspiracy theory nutty.

Fake moon landings, fluoride in the water is mind control, vaccines cause autism and maybe microchips and mind control again, foreign people are simultaneously lazy stealing benefits and stealing all the jobs, my god the racism. He fell into an echo chamber during COVID and hasn’t come out again.

The best one was when I was telling him as a healthcare professional on the front lines watching patients and colleagues die that COVID was serious and we should take any opportunity to avoid it and make it better, he told me it was just flu and all fake news.

Yeah I don’t talk to my parents much anymore.

Generally speaking a beer is 2 units, in the UK we recommend no more than 14 units in a week. If you want to stop talk to your doctor if you can or seek help. Stopping or reducing is much easier with help.

What’s your favourite part of the job? Do you get stage fright?

I might be reading this wrong but I’m not convinced it helps. My read of this is basically we get 1 free go at surviving and can send messages back to the start point for the second go to try and survive.

You could keep a running commentary of what you’re doing and where you’re going which would give you a little bit of notice of where and when you die but unless you can time loop and continually adjust the plan until you find something that works I don’t see how knowing 1 point of failure is enough to keep you alive.

Maybe someone smarter than me has a better idea though, or I’ve got the prompt wrong.

I work in a hospital so: scalpels, oxygen bottles/ wall supply explosions (hard to do without disabling the safety’s which I don’t know how to do), plenty of radiation sources in the building, loads of dangerous drugs from sedatives to painkillers to chemotherapy. If I’m lucky the monster might just die of MRSA or pneumonia before they get to me.

Any recommendations on the mods? There are loads!

My wife and I have been playing Vintage Story. We’re really enjoying it. It’s a block survival game ala Minecraft but it’s much nicer to look at and the mechanics are way more in depth.

We’re in our first winter currently and doing things around the house we built at the start of the cold season (so we can stay close to somewhere warm). We’ve just made our first windmill and are building a chicken coop and making our farm look nicer with fences and paths. I’ve just started tanning to make leather using barrels full of borax and tannins (which you get by soaking oak logs in water for a day or so).

It’s also highly customisable with the world gen/ server settings and mods. For example we’ve moved our default spawn to our base and have a mod that sets spawn at beds for when we are off exploring.

It’s in early access but there’s definitely enough game to justify the cost at present.

But those days where you just relax and enjoy yourself count as good days so that’s ok too.

I love Iron Sky for this. Nazis on the moon. It’s satire all the way through. Such a goofy film but a lot of fun.