Negative_Null

Guys...

How in the heck do I DM a decent campaign?

(I'm talking about D&D, btw, in case you weren't aware)

All of my sessions are just super boring combat montages and nothing ever happens. If I present the players with anything other than a monster and a roll for initiative, then they just deal with it as fast as possible and get to killing another demon. It's just dice rolling after dice rolling after dice rolling. I absolutely loathe every minute of it and nothing I can find offers any solution.

So I'm not looking for one of those vague responses like "adapt to your players" or "give them something else to do." If any of you has some sort of miracle cure for this then I'd love to hear it.

Hey everyone, glad to see that the Shard was able to keep going without me, and hopefully our little roleplay corner didn't hurt too badly. Sorry I left at the worst time for some of the rps. I'm so happy that they're still going, especially Siren's Call. 

So by way of explanation, the last few months have been kinda crazy. I got a girlfriend, got through finals, broke up with said girlfriend so she could go on her church mission, and came back home to a bunch of little siblings who were very excited to see me. I feel as though all I did between February and April was sit and study and I haven't had a moment since then to sit down. My life is settling down now, though, so hopefully I can get back some level of activity on the Shard.

There was another little wrinkle during my time off, because of course you can never only have one life event at a time. So... yeah, I'm in the process of coming out as non-binary. More specifically, I'm choosing to identify as bigender, but that's all up in the air as I explore that area of my life. Yay. I plan to update my pronouns and stuff on the site but don't worry too much about it, I'm still figuring it out myself so I won't get after you if you use the wrong pronouns or whatever. Feel free to ask me anything about this (or storms, any of the other stuff)

I just figured you'd like to know what's been going on the Negativerse while I've been off here. I'm glad to be back and while I know I'll need a heck of a TLDR on some things, I'm excited to get back to some roleplaying, discussion, and crazy theorizing.

Journey before Destination

Hey everyone, glad to see that the Shard was able to keep going without me, and hopefully our little roleplay corner didn't hurt too badly. Sorry I left at the worst time for some of the rps. I'm so happy that they're still going, especially Siren's Call. 

So by way of explanation, the last few months have been kinda crazy. I got a girlfriend, got through finals, broke up with said girlfriend so she could go on her church mission, and came back home to a bunch of little siblings who were very excited to see me. I feel as though all I did between February and April was sit and study and I haven't had a moment since then to sit down. My life is settling down now, though, so hopefully I can get back some level of activity on the Shard.

There was another little wrinkle during my time off, because of course you can never only have one life event at a time. So... yeah, I'm in the process of coming out as non-binary. More specifically, I'm choosing to identify as bigender, but that's all up in the air as I explore that area of my life. Yay. I plan to update my pronouns and stuff on the site but don't worry too much about it, I'm still figuring it out myself so I won't get after you if you use the wrong pronouns or whatever. Feel free to ask me anything about this (or storms, any of the other stuff)

I just figured you'd like to know what's been going on the Negativerse while I've been off here. I'm glad to be back and while I know I'll need a heck of a TLDR on some things, I'm excited to get back to some roleplaying, discussion, and crazy theorizing.

Journey before Destination

Hey everyone, glad to see that the Shard was able to keep going without me, and hopefully our little roleplay corner didn't hurt too badly. Sorry I left at the worst time for some of the rps. I'm so happy that they're still going, especially Siren's Call. 

So by way of explanation, the last few months have been kinda crazy. I got a girlfriend, got through finals, broke up with said girlfriend so she could go on her church mission, and came back home to a bunch of little siblings who were very excited to see me. I feel as though all I did between February and April was sit and study and I haven't had a moment since then to sit down. My life is settling down now, though, so hopefully I can get back some level of activity on the Shard.

There was another little wrinkle during my time off, because of course you can never only have one life event at a time. So... yeah, I'm in the process of coming out as non-binary. More specifically, I'm choosing to identify as bigender, but that's all up in the air as I explore that area of my life. Yay. I plan to update my pronouns and stuff on the site but don't worry too much about it, I'm still figuring it out myself so I won't get after you if you use the wrong pronouns or whatever. Feel free to ask me anything about this (or storms, any of the other stuff)

I just figured you'd like to know what's been going on the Negativerse while I've been off here. I'm glad to be back and while I know I'll need a heck of a TLDR on some things, I'm excited to get back to some roleplaying, discussion, and crazy theorizing.

Journey before Destination

Hey everyone, glad to see that the Shard was able to keep going without me, and hopefully our little roleplay corner didn't hurt too badly. Sorry I left at the worst time for some of the rps. I'm so happy that they're still going, especially Siren's Call. 

So by way of explanation, the last few months have been kinda crazy. I got a girlfriend, got through finals, broke up with said girlfriend so she could go on her church mission, and came back home to a bunch of little siblings who were very excited to see me. I feel as though all I did between February and April was sit and study and I haven't had a moment since then to sit down. My life is settling down now, though, so hopefully I can get back some level of activity on the Shard.

There was another little wrinkle during my time off, because of course you can never only have one life event at a time. So... yeah, I'm in the process of coming out as non-binary. More specifically, I'm choosing to identify as bigender, but that's all up in the air as I explore that area of my life. Yay. I plan to update my pronouns and stuff on the site but don't worry too much about it, I'm still figuring it out myself so I won't get after you if you use the wrong pronouns or whatever. Feel free to ask me anything about this (or storms, any of the other stuff)

I just figured you'd like to know what's been going on the Negativerse while I've been off here. I'm glad to be back and while I know I'll need a heck of a TLDR on some things, I'm excited to get back to some roleplaying, discussion, and crazy theorizing.

Journey before Destination

Hey everyone, glad to see that the Shard was able to keep going without me, and hopefully our little roleplay corner didn't hurt too badly. Sorry I left at the worst time for some of the rps. I'm so happy that they're still going, especially Siren's Call. 

So by way of explanation, the last few months have been kinda crazy. I got a girlfriend, got through finals, broke up with said girlfriend so she could go on her church mission, and came back home to a bunch of little siblings who were very excited to see me. I feel as though all I did between February and April was sit and study and I haven't had a moment since then to sit down. My life is settling down now, though, so hopefully I can get back some level of activity on the Shard.

There was another little wrinkle during my time off, because of course you can never only have one life event at a time. So... yeah, I'm in the process of coming out as non-binary. More specifically, I'm choosing to identify as bigender, but that's all up in the air as I explore that area of my life. Yay. I plan to update my pronouns and stuff on the site but don't worry too much about it, I'm still figuring it out myself so I won't get after you if you use the wrong pronouns or whatever. Feel free to ask me anything about this (or storms, any of the other stuff)

I just figured you'd like to know what's been going on the Negativerse while I've been off here. I'm glad to be back and while I know I'll need a heck of a TLDR on some things, I'm excited to get back to some roleplaying, discussion, and crazy theorizing.

Journey before Destination

Hey everyone, glad to see that the Shard was able to keep going without me, and hopefully our little roleplay corner didn't hurt too badly. Sorry I left at the worst time for some of the rps. I'm so happy that they're still going, especially Siren's Call. 

So by way of explanation, the last few months have been kinda crazy. I got a girlfriend, got through finals, broke up with said girlfriend so she could go on her church mission, and came back home to a bunch of little siblings who were very excited to see me. I feel as though all I did between February and April was sit and study and I haven't had a moment since then to sit down. My life is settling down now, though, so hopefully I can get back some level of activity on the Shard.

There was another little wrinkle during my time off, because of course you can never only have one life event at a time. So... yeah, I'm in the process of coming out as non-binary. More specifically, I'm choosing to identify as bigender, but that's all up in the air as I explore that area of my life. Yay. I plan to update my pronouns and stuff on the site but don't worry too much about it, I'm still figuring it out myself so I won't get after you if you use the wrong pronouns or whatever. Feel free to ask me anything about this (or storms, any of the other stuff)

I just figured you'd like to know what's been going on the Negativerse while I've been off here. I'm glad to be back and while I know I'll need a heck of a TLDR on some things, I'm excited to get back to some roleplaying, discussion, and crazy theorizing.

Journey before Destination

This is kind of stupid.  And I doubt many people will see it.  But I want, and need, to say this.

I've made myself a persona, on and off the Shard, that is built on being kind.  On being supportive.  On being quiet, and a little bit naive, and a little bit disconnected from the world.  And that quietness and naivete and disconnect is real.  I am that person.  The problem is, being that person can be exhausting.

I want to be a kind person, and I try to be.  Making someone's day brighter is something I love doing.  But it creates a sort of stained-glass window effect.  People see what I want them to see, because it's easier.  It's easier for me to be the happy, smiling person who puts a smile on someone's face when they need it most, than to say 'hey, I could really use something funny or sweet or silly right now'.

It's tiring.  It's isolating.  And when it comes to a head, I feel stuck behind the pretty colored glass that I made.  

And that's where I am now.  It's rough.  But I'm done.  I can't keep pretending that everything is perfect in my life.  Sometimes I feel that way.  My family is great.  My situation in life is good.  So I feel like I shouldn't say anything, even when I can, because there are other people who need the support more, who don't have what I'm so lucky to have.

One of the things I'm lucky to have is the Shard.  There have been countless times where I've been down, and tired, and all I want to do is scream into the forest and then sleep for a week, and I run across a goofy comment in Sharder One-liners, or a interesting tidbit in a book discussion board, or a especially beautiful piece of fanart, or a meme that makes me crack up.

It's not a bad think to be supportive, and I know that.  But what I have to learn is how to be supported.

So thank you.  You all are amazing, amazing people.

Hmm... which is the best pair of powers?

Like, Crasher seems pretty cool. But I don't know.

Hmm... which is the best pair of powers?

Like, Crasher seems pretty cool. But I don't know.

Hmm... which is the best pair of powers?

Like, Crasher seems pretty cool. But I don't know.

Hmm... which is the best pair of powers?

Like, Crasher seems pretty cool. But I don't know.

I just found something interesting. People have been wanting a FotT subforum, right? But we all kinda dismissed the idea as a joke because it wasn’t big enough? What if I told you there was a RP, with a subforum, that’s more than 10 times smaller than FotT?

Meet Nexus, the inactive RP that spans 5 topics and has 981 total posts. 

Meanwhile FotT spans 6 topics and has 13,182 total posts. That’s 13.43 times bigger. 

So maybe a subforum is more possible than we thought? 

I'm back! Q&A time, maybe?

Shoutout to my brother who woke up at 1am and didn’t go back to sleep. 

Want to know how I know this?

Just making a rant post, because I'm really frustrated right now. I'm working at a live performance theater, and we're doing Christmas Carol, for context.

Riddle me this. How can you go to a show and watch a show all about kindness, charity, and selflessness, a story about helping the less fortunate that would otherwise go unnoticed, how can you sit there in the theater with your mask dangling around your chin and go "yeah, this is a great show, it's got such a good message", then leave and continue on your way? What kind of psychopath do you have to be?

Ok, rant over

Truthless had a status update awhile back.

How did it go?

*Wakes up. It's a beautiful morning.*

*Goes outside onto my balcony, feeling the sun on my face.*

*I look up, then sing into the dawn.*

"Never gonna GIVE YOU UP!!!"

Would people be interested in restarting a Mirrored Dimensions like thread? IE playing a more rule based roleplay over the forums? I'd be willing to play as DM, but I also have a bunch of characters I want to play. I just want to see if there's interest before hand rather than letting the thread die before it starts.

Would people be interested in restarting a Mirrored Dimensions like thread? IE playing a more rule based roleplay over the forums? I'd be willing to play as DM, but I also have a bunch of characters I want to play. I just want to see if there's interest before hand rather than letting the thread die before it starts.

So. RPs I'm in. Feel free to join one, keep one from dying, or do whatever.  

• The Happy Inquisitor
• The New Empire
• FotT - Just the Plot
• The Mishmash Inn
• FotT - Other Stories
• Radiant Academy
• Athe
• Crystellation: Autonomy for the People
• FotT - Side Tales
• FotT - Seasonal
• Crystellation
• The Caped Crusaders
• Medical Mysteries with Karla Omer
• Scholar
• KrystalFyre
• The Toraiik of Tailzesesh Almor (The mages of the city of scorpions)
• The Linear Thread
• Siren's Call: an RP
• The Fellowship of the Thing
• A Magical Reawakening
• Let's go find a dragon

So. RPs I'm in. Feel free to join one, keep one from dying, or do whatever.  

• The Happy Inquisitor
• The New Empire
• FotT - Just the Plot
• The Mishmash Inn
• FotT - Other Stories
• Radiant Academy
• Athe
• Crystellation: Autonomy for the People
• FotT - Side Tales
• FotT - Seasonal
• Crystellation
• The Caped Crusaders
• Medical Mysteries with Karla Omer
• Scholar
• KrystalFyre
• The Toraiik of Tailzesesh Almor (The mages of the city of scorpions)
• The Linear Thread
• Siren's Call: an RP
• The Fellowship of the Thing
• A Magical Reawakening
• Let's go find a dragon

Wow, those 246 notifications were not as bad as I thought they'd be. I'd already seen most of them.

Just have to say, I'm loving all of my RPs right now. Props to... everyone!

I need another mini notebook.

The duality of person:

Really, really wanting to post an RP because it's a cool idea and you could just post it now.

Not wanting to post because that's yet another RP to a rapidly growing list and you really, really don't want to suddenly find yourself overwhelmed.

Sigh

I'm bugging you to write your story

*Dives out of portal just before it closes, kicking at the clutching hands reaching out of it to pull him back in. Stands up, dusts himself off, looks at notification list, and sighs."

Sorry everyone, school sucks. What did I miss? I'll get started reading through the... 500+ notifications you've gotten for me.