Carl [he/him]

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Cake day: January 29th, 2025

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  • It’s too case by case to make a sweeping statement. Sometimes a pet’s quality of life is extremely bad, sometimes an animal’s instincts will tell it to stop eating, sometimes you could have an old pet that does that and think that they’re going but then it turns out they have a totally treatable kidney issue and go on to live five more years after two weeks of pills. That last one happened to me with my thirteen year old cat who went on to live until eighteen.

    I wouldn’t put down an animal unless they were suffering and an expert told me there was no way out of it - but of course that’s easy to say in isolation, when in the real world vet visits cost money. I guess what I’m saying is that I wouldn’t judge someone on the decision they made for their pet unless it seemed that they were acting without compassion and didn’t consider all alternatives.













  • This is a classic dilemma for D&D groups for a good reason, you really gotta have a group who’re all on the same page if you’re going to do it because it can turn into a real fight and destroy the group if not handled well. If there’s any doubt in your mind how every member of the group will react to the dilemma it’s best to just handwave it: maybe not all of the orcs are pro slavery and you just take out the current leadership, maybe this is a colonial outpost sending resources somewhere else and there are no non-fighting orcs present, maybe the orcs are zombies or under mind control and you just need to take out the evil wizard, etc.

    Anyway if I got a whiff of “wannabe goblinslayer” from one of my players I would try to discretely kick them from the group. Fuck that shit.