Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲

chgowiz@dice.camp

Hi! I'm Michael, aka Chgowiz. (Chicago-Wiz). Parent, grandparent, US Air Force vet, IT/programming guy. D&D/Traveller nerd, NERD! Hunting, fishing, camping. Gardener.DIY/hobbyist at things. Co-author of One Page Dungeon template - author of "Three Hex Campaign Starters"KE9DIU / WSDP979<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/FlynnLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FlynnLives</a>

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Post #4304879
Holy crap, I think that last episode of ST:SNW traumatized me as a viewer! That was incredibly well done.
Post #4098996
I took a vet fishing this morning here in the Driftless. After six hours, we'd accounted for over 20 bass and a single bluegill. It was a crazy morning, we just hit them at the right time with the right lures. (Wacky worm rig with Senkos, bluegill-like crankbait) Just a couple of photos from the lake. #fishing #BassFishing #NorthernIllinois #Driftless
Post #4035980
Promises. #Gardening
Post #3869075
A view of my backyard gardens - the containers are doing well with herbs, a cherry tomato and my cucumbers. The in-ground fenced green bed has a cover crop of buckwheat, while I've got pumpkins growing nearby. I have two tomato plants that I put in the ground rather than composting. The Egyptian walking onions have been great! The dwarf blackberry has really taken off this year and lots of flowers, so I'm hoping for fruit. And my rhubarb seems to have taken, so that's good. #G...
Post #3848410
Well, I have a feeling that my little 8Gb Linux box isn't going to run Ollama very quickly. I did get it up and running and fed an export of my Etinerra wiki into it. I'm exploring options so that it hallucinates less and provides facts more. But it's not too difficult to set up and feed documents to. It is, however, kinda pokey. I'm exploring how to address that. #TTRPG #AI #Ollama
Post #2335074
A lot of interesting things to consider in this article. https://spacedaily.com/sd-d-the-complete-story-of-voyagers-interstellar-mission-and-how-a-1970s-spacecraft-is-still-teaching-engineers-things-they-never-expected-to-learn/ #SpaceFlight #InterstellarSpace #Voyager
Post #1983213
If I didn&#39;t have this streak of bad luck, I wouldn&#39;t have no luck. #TurkeyHunting
Post #1983212
Anakinning of my seedlings is all done. Next week starts the hardening - already!!?? This year, the time of raising seedlings went by real fast. Maybe because it&#39;s a been-there-done-that? I&#39;m not complaining because I&#39;ve been much more successful this year... at least with the good seeds! Not so much with the el-cheapos, but now I know for next year. Successes: Johnnys Seeds, Burpee (color me surprised on that one) Failure to germinate: Livingston, Ferry Morse #gard...
Post #1983211
Carrots are in, two weeks late than I had planned. Chalk it up to the wet weather stacking things up for me. Next is the amaranth and parsnips, and planting the container garden with herbs that I&#39;m sowing. The buckets have been refreshed with a quarter of the dirt exchanged for fresh compost. So the container garden is ready - the frame survived the winter! #gardening
Post #1983210
Tonight&#39;s AD&amp;D game was some serious business. A battle was fought at a Chaos Anchor, featuring a necromancer, a pit fiend and a wraith. For only the second time in my various games in this 16 year campaign did a player get level drained - they failed their save vs death and went from a Druid 4 to a Druid 2. The party ended up killing the necromancer but fleeing the field of battle - the hero fighter with the only magic weapon was almost dead! #ADnD #TTRPG #OldSchool
Post #1983208
I just learned that D&amp;D 5e has a monster named &quot;pit fiend&quot; that I never knew about in my 1e bubble. My pit fiend is based off an old monster minis set produced by Grenadier back in the 1980s under a separate label. Their Fantasy Monsters set had a &quot;One Eyed Pit Monster&quot;. In my Etinerra campaign, a pit fiend is a homebrew monster of Chaos. Here&#39;s a link about that old boxed set that has several awesome figures! https://www.miniatures-works...
Post #1569027
Looking for players! What: AD&amp;D/1e - houseruled to fit my campaign world. When: Every other Sunday evening on Discord, 7:00pm to 9:30pm (CDT UTC -5). This Sunday is our next game Who: Anyone who&#39;d like to play a play/fun/explore type of campaign. It&#39;s in an established world, in an area where much remains undiscovered! How: I&#39;ve been running this world for 17 years. This online campaign for about 7. Plenty of space for new PCs! Contact me please for details!...