Little fawn is the next big thing in metalcore: https://youtu.be/oipkKRWs4P8?si=JIshWeF_gCToMHFF

That's just Australian for ketchup: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dead%20horse

I had an aunt and uncle named Hillary and William.

Usually known as Hil and Bill.

Occasionally known as Hillary and Billary 😄

Mmmm nah a rissole is way different from meatloaf!

As soon as I saw "rissoles" and "meat tray" I knew this post was gonna confuse the non-Aussies hahahaha

A player in our party recently got a magic item that can boost your athletics and double your move speed once per day. I didn't get how useful it could be until I saw him grapple an evil priest and just fucking drag him from one side of the map to the other.

Turns out grapple + double move speed + dash action is super awesome for getting enemies out of position and screwing up their formation.

So my recommendation is to look for ways to boost move speed. This quora post lists some ways: https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-ways-to-increase-movement-speed-in-D-D-5e

I'm sure you can find more if you talk to your party members or DM though. Off the top of my head, Glamour Bards have an ability that lets the whole party move up to their movement speed as a reaction. Then there's Haste obviously. Ask your party if they have any spells or features that can make you fast 😃

It can be hard. Honestly I got pretty lucky in that I was able to find lots of good people through work. There are good and bad parts to the industry I work in, I got hired by a company with a really strong culture that matched what I was looking for. So I was surrounded by a ton of people with similar values and overlapping interests.

Without that, I think mostly it's about trial and error. If you're struggling to find the right people, you need to be brave enough to keep putting yourself out there, and to walk away from groups that just aren't a good match. Like I said, not easy!

Man this has been on my game list for so long! I really need to play it! But I have to finish BG3 first!

You're welcome! Good luck!

Haha it can definitely be challenging at the higher difficulty levels but I probably made it sound a bit more hectic than it is.

It's pausable at all times so you can always work at whatever pace you want.

The pacing balance that I mentioned is more around having to make the right decisions. I.e. choosing when is the right moment to explore deeper into the forest for more resources. Choosing when to take on more citizens. That sort of thing.

How about they're just fun and people enjoy them? That's a use.

Same, if I have a family bag of chips in front of me, I'll eat the whole bag. If I serve an enormous bowl of pasta, I'll eat the whole bowl.

The only way I can not overeat is to not have it in arms reach. So yeah, pour a sensible serve of chips into a bowl and then eat that. Leave some pasta in the pot, or put it straight in the fridge for lunch tomorrow.

By the time I sit down to eat, the battle is already over, whether I've won or lost.