Hi! I’m Michael, aka Chgowiz. (Chicago-Wiz).

Parent, grandparent, veteran of US Air Force, IT/programming guy. D&D nerd, NERD!

DIY/hobbyist at things.

Claims to fame/infamy?
Dungeon Masters’s Handbook podcast - Co-author of One Page Dungeon template - author of “Three Hex Campaign Starters”

Find me on Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@chgowiz

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • chgowiz@kbin.socialtoHunting@lemmy.world•What is this Tag?
    2·
    10 months ago

    For the US, every state has their own rules, as well as individual sites on what you can do, how you can do it. If you’re on a Federal site, usually it’s a mix of state rules and Federal rules.

    Part of the responsibility is to know those rules and follow them. Yea, it can get confusing and hard, but that’s part of the deal, so gotta be done. Much better to pick up the phone and call or shoot an email and ask questions, than to not and get a visit…

    In the US, conservation officers don’t mess around. They definitely can be on the unpleasant end of FAFO.

  • chgowiz@kbin.socialtoHunting@lemmy.world•What is this Tag?
    2·
    10 months ago

    I don’t know much about the show or controversy. Considering conservation laws and such, I’m thinking the hunter would have to have a valid permit to hunt, and possibly have to obey local laws regarding tagging their harvest. No matter if someone’s using firearms or primitive weapons, they’ve got to be within local laws or risk meeting the local conservation officers…

  • chgowiz@kbin.socialtoHunting@lemmy.world•Squirrel of a lifetime.
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    11 months ago

    Some experience seems to help with that slowness and deliberate silence. My eyes pick up more sign now, recognizing things that I had passed over a couple of years ago. Clues and bits start to click together, but it all happens when I get out there.

    I love all the encounters, whether I can take a shot or not, or whether it’s a deer or the chipmunk that came within a third of a meter or so, to figure out what the heck this thing in all the scrub was…

  • chgowiz@kbin.socialtoHunting@lemmy.world•Squirrel of a lifetime.
    3·
    1 year ago

    Deer, waterfowl, squirrels, turkeys - that’s whats here in the Midwest. Hell, if those “super hawgs” come far enough, I’ll hunt those as well. At my age of 50+, I’m just now really getting into the “learning” of hunting that I should have done earlier in age.

    Good luck to you both on your farm.

    You’re not the only lefty redneck around. ;)

  • chgowiz@kbin.socialtoHunting@lemmy.world•Squirrel of a lifetime.
    4·
    1 year ago

    No, most western folks don’t know what it takes to put food on the grocery shelves or into the freezer section. They’ve no clue to the work involved on the backs of labor and exploitation, and unsanitary conditions/processes all in the name of cheaper labor and higher stock dividends.

    Never seen an albino squirrel before. Thanks for sharing!

  • chgowiz@kbin.socialtoOld School Revival@lemmy.world•Transitioning from Serial One-shots to Open World Play - Seeking Advice and Suggestions
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know much about DC100, but, to me, open world means there are multiple choices and multiple things going on. Hooking them from B2 to DC100, that feels like a single funnel? From point A, go to Point B, although that path might have 3 diff variants, they all end up in the same place?

    I try to give players in a new campaign 3 different things to do. 3 hooks/paths. 3 factions. 3 locations to explore (whether a dungeon, outdoor setpiece, another town) and a homebase.

    You can make each of those 3 things another module. So DC100 for 1 hex/location after B2, and two other modules for two other locations.

    Then put them in their home base (a village or perhaps even the Keep from B2) and dangle those hooks to each of the locations - rumors, someone actively recruiting, a physical object pointing in a direction, etc…

    That’s just how I would do it and have done it.