Chubby Funster

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A father told his 23-year-old son to “man up.” Months later, he was standing at his son’s grave wishing he could take those words back. To him, his son looked lazy. He slept late. Delivered food for gig apps. Lived at home. Spent hours on his phone. The father came from a different America. At 24, he already had a factory job, a mortgage, and a family. So when his son said: “The economy is different now.” “The math doesn’t work anymore.” …he thought those were excuses. One evening, he found his son quietly eating cereal after finishing deliveries. The son looked exhausted. Not sleepy. Exhausted. “I’m trying, Dad,” he said softly. “I’m just so tired.” The father rolled his eyes. “Tired from what? Sitting in a car all day? You kids have everything handed to you.” The room went silent. Then the son said: “I’m sorry the math doesn’t work for me.” Before going downstairs, he hugged his father and whispered: “I won’t be a burden anymore.” The next morning, his room was spotless. Bed made. Phone on the pillow. A note waiting. His father discovered the truth too late: His son had applied to hundreds of jobs. Worked endless hours delivering food. Stopped taking medication after losing insurance. Was drowning silently under debt, rejection, and hopelessness. The note ended with these words: “You were right. The world is for the strong. And I don’t have any fight left.” He drove to a bridge and never came home. Later, the father admitted something heartbreaking: “I judged my son using rules from a world that no longer exists.” Back then: • Homes cost a few years’ salary • Jobs came with pensions • One income could support a family Today, many young people work harder than ever while feeling permanently stuck. And too often, exhaustion gets mistaken for laziness. Sometimes when someone says: “I’m tired…” What they really mean is: “I’m losing the fight to keep going.” Before judging someone for struggling in today’s world, listen first. You may be looking at someone fighting a battle you cannot see.

@newbiedm I feel the same

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I think these setups are really cool. I do. I love seeing them. But.... what if the players are like... nah, not going there. I also feel like it kinda traps the players into a location because the DM tried really hard to build something cool and it's shitty to not use it. #dnd

@MyEarTrumpet I have a YT video on this coming on Tuesday

Butlerian Jihad now!

@d20play Awesome!

From the d20play discord. Two great tastes @ChubbyFunsterGC. "My home group is starting a new campaign tomorrow using Chubby Funster's ShadowSun with d20play RPG- I'll let you know how it goes!"

@micpewpew Please provide the reasons in the most precise way possible. ;)

Mothership RPG is the only system that inspires me to still spend money in 2026.

@gothridgemanor @EruditeDM @analogmancave And yet you persist in this madness

@EruditeDM @analogmancave Funny you should say that. Every time I talk to Joe I lose IQ points.

@analogmancave and myself are starting a new series. GM advice, there is no shortage of it. The topics have been talked about ad nauseam, argued about for needless hours and stomped to death by many boots. This is no different. youtu.be/Gc6S4NgYREg

@MyEarTrumpet @Lordmatteus2312 Yes, but I prefer this version youtu.be/KPtCG_CUAl0?si…

@Lordmatteus2312 @ChubbyFunsterGC did I see you reference this song in chat about "use sunscreen" youtu.be/VeDDs61AlBo?si…

Tonight, on the Second Watch, @glewis2317and I are joined by @EruditeDM, @karacterdriven, and @FOXXOFRPG to talk about our favorite third-party Shadowdark projects! There is a lot of third-party stuff out there. Tonight we dig for the gold! So jump in the chat and join the conversation to let us know what projects you like! Link in replies.

@amazinggamepro @Fanfare_Int It’s a big playlist! ;)

@ChubbyFunsterGC @Fanfare_Int I will do my best to devour this!

When I criticize modules in my YT videos for being hard for the GM to execute, for being poor references at the table, for having huge "read-all-this-first" sections in order for the content to make sense; I get told that I just don't appreciate the joy of reading.

@Fanfare_Int youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@ChubbyFunsterGC I would love to see some examples of good module design (As someone starting to get into creating them) Send me a link to your channel or specific video, pls xD

@osgamer74 Very likely

@ChubbyFunsterGC I bet most of them havent even read the modules themselves. They just dislike you ‘attacking’ their nostalgia for them

@MyEarTrumpet I’m sure you will do fine ;)

@ChubbyFunsterGC Now whenever I try to come up with ideas for a dungeon etc. I think what would Chubby Funster do? How can pare back my normal tendency for purple prose and turn it into short informative bullet points that can be easily absorbed on the fly.

@MyEarTrumpet drivethrurpg.com/en/product/430…

@ChubbyFunsterGC Sir, have you written a module? I would be very curious to see how you would go about it.

@Grand_DM What kind of questions?

My early con games had multiple GMs walk over mid session asking questions about things I had mentally filled in but never actually put on the page. It was eye opening. That’s when I realized there’s a huge difference between writing something you can run and writing something other people can run consistently.

@Grand_DM Extrapolate on that a bit. I'm intrigued to learn about your personal experience in this

@ChubbyFunsterGC The hardest thing to do is avoid mentally filling in parts of the adventure that will be published. I learned that writing Con adventures that were run by multiple tables. It's a very different exercise.

@TheBasicExpert1 CORRECT!

@ChubbyFunsterGC Those same people won't read the rules either.

@_Autarch_ Natural language

Which do you prefer in rules writing, the more natural language found in AD&D and BX or the more technical language found in 3.5E/4E/5E? ACKS began with natural language but over time I felt obliged to switch to technical writing. Ascendant is largely written technically.

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