FrostBolt

What holds up to re-watches?

Industry figures said US orange production would reach its lowest level for more than a century.

It seems like over the last year or so, Amazon has made the calculation that they can save 10 cents on not packing things properly, and only 0.1% of customers will be bothered enough to return the item*.

For many basic consumer goods, like a new spatula or something, it doesn't matter. But when I'm spending $40, $60, $70 on a nice hobby RPG book or a board game, it sucks to have it arrive with all the corners smashed in.

So I finally ordered my most recent core rulebook from a random FLGS in another state. And... it arrived beautifully packed and without damage!

This may not be an earth-shattering revelation for many people; however, it sure felt good to me to take a small stand. :-D

Incidentally, I spent ~$7 more overall on the purchase. But for me it was totally worth it.

* made-up numbers; I don't know the actual ones

It's a new system whose Kickstarter raised $1.3 million since February. I'm curious about it but would like to hear more people's thoughts.

Some background material:

Shadowdark Fixes Everything Wrong with D&D 5e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyaEk0O3Yy0

Publisher's site, where you can download a free quickstart set of PDFs
https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/pages/shadowdark

Opinion essay by the author who wrote The Uninhabitable Earth

Pros / cons / experiences as player and as GM?

Introverts: which ones have you enjoyed the most?

Edit: with Mintyytea's help, I figured out how to do it:

1. Go to https://kbin.social/m/newcommunities@lemmy.world
2. Use the plus (+) button in the upper right of the kbin UI to add the article

I believe one of the Lemmy instances has a "newcommunities" forum, but I'm not sure if kbin has something similar

Thanks

a buddy and I have been getting close, but keep failing to achieve it

Did you ever have that feeling on reddit of "I better word my post just right, otherwise AutoMod will take it down"? Some subs had such strict auto moderating that it was a crap shoot to post something. Not so here. I know there's value in moderation, and I'm sure Lemmy/kbin/etc. will add more of it with time. But, for now, it was just nice to not be nervous when I was submitting a post here.

The Sunday morning before the subs going dark:
88,881 Lemmy/kbin accounts

The following Saturday morning/as I write this:
185,142 Lemmy/kbin accounts

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