A Living in Theria originally posted by Jason in 2013 about vampires of Theira.

My thoughts (Susan) on “railroading” and why it really isn’t that bad when done right. In my opinion, anyway.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the work/life balance recently. I know that it’s important to have time off and to just turn your brain off for a while. I guess my problem is that I don’t know what that means for me. As humans we tend to “goldfish” our way into things.

Recently we posted our Removed Spell List on World Anvil. These are spells that are in official WotC sourcebooks that Jason and I vetoed from the world. It was a process⁠—reading every spell out loud and then discussing it. Here are 16 of the most popular or perplexing spells we decided to remove from our game of D&D and why.

Dungeons and Randomness started as a weird little branch-off of a wrestling podcast. I didn't even know Jason, but he knew some guys who were willing to sit in a call with him and listen to him stumble through his first time as Dungeon Master, and for some reason they decided to record it and share it with the rest of us. We are so lucky they did, but I think I might be one of the luckiest. Because of that choice I have gained so many friends, a job that doesn't feel like it should exist, and a better life than I ever could have imagined.

We’ve done D&R a certain way for so long that I often wonder what it would be like to suddenly be thrust into success. What if we caught on overnight and this Arc, for some reason, just clicked with a lot of people. Would that make the show better or worse? I don’t really know, but I don’t think I would like to work with a committee of people on a project.

When you make stuff like we do for a living time and accomplishments feel different. If you create videos, music, books, movies or anything online you probably know what I mean by this. Working a job where you’re on the clock has a lot of drawbacks. It does have one thing though for a lot of people, a sense that you’re accomplishing something.