...i, too, had to text-message my coworker...
...are you presuming her gender?..it's a woman's right to grow a beard if she chooses...
...just ripples in the carbon cycle, momentary standing waves until we lose coherence...
...new sourcebooks coming next year, but fourth-edition maps kind of butchered the realms and third-edition maps compressed them into a fantasy theme park: i appreciate the proper scale of the fifth-edition map even if broader setting resources mostly entail tracking down older reference material...
...fifth edition does offer officially-sanctioned sourcebooks for the moonshaes, border kingdoms, thay, chult, and icewind dale in addition to the sword coast, though; you just have to delve into the DM's guild for adept and adventurers' league material...
...third-edition maps do alright in a pinch as long as you double the distances...
...when i was in second grade i wrote a book report on chocolate fever, in which the climax involved the protagonist taking vanilla pills, which were so obviously the opposite of chocolate to my eight-year-old perspective, but which no adults with whom i discussed the book found at all obvious...
...i don't doubt it: when i left the bay area for cheaper lands twenty years ago, 650sf apartments were going for $1600 and i'm sure prices have only inflated since...my data points are all the cheap minima on my housing curve over the past ~~three~~ four decades...
edit: ...f*ck, i forgot how old i am; it happens on the north end of the century mark...
...it's pretty common knowledge and readily explains his propensity for late-night toilet tweets when he's not busy watching TV...
...my wife's a mad scientist: well, she's a senior scientist and she's mad pretty often...
...well there's always rice-and-beans but with the way finance, insurance, and real estate are going these days you'll need rice-and-beans just to survive, not to save up...
...in `98 i was paying $500 to rent a 650sf one-bedroom apartment at $30k salary; in 2008 i was paying $750 to rent a 650sf one-bedroom apartment at $45k salary; in 2018 i was paying $1250 mortgage on a 1500sf house at $85k salary: today i pay that same $1250 mortage at $105k salary and thank god i managed to save that down payment within twenty years, before the real estate speculators completely overran my local market...
...not sure what that illustrates other than 2024 is brutally expensive relative to pay: we bought three nectarines last night for six dollars at the local discount grocer, which would have cost less than a dollar thirty years ago...
...likewise, each character is different distillation of some aspect of my own personality; it's kind of an integral part of the character creation process for me to figure out who they are and properly get into character...