I mean, obviously...

That's why we splurged on the VIP: in those four hours, we should see basically everything in Epic.

But then it's over around 2pm, and we have Express Passes and the rest of the day to re-visit as much or as little as we want.

We've never gone because, once you're already committed to going to Disney, it's a lot cheaper to just keep adding Disney days to your trip compared to adding on a Universal day or two.

But we're going this year for our 20th anniversary, and the Gen X in me *has* to see SNW, so we're splurging. 😁

I've never set foot on Universal property in my life, but this is happening for our 20th anniversary trip in December, and I'm freaking stoked. 🤘🏻

Added to my list. 👍🏻👍🏻

But a VERY close second, it must be said.

Legit talked about this movie and its depiction of therapy with my therapist. 😄

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

I ran Jeweler's Sanctum today (from AA 1) for a group of new players, and it could not have gone better. Big 👍🏻👍🏻 for it.

I'm ready to run the other modules, for sure.

Anyway, we'll pick it back up in a couple of weeks.

This all only happened because the Thief had foot surgery, and I figured he could do with some cheering up while he's housebound, and D&D was something I knew we could all do together for a Saturday.

Good deeds matter. 😊

And the other newbie (who is my oldest nephew) agreed to be our mapper for the session.

I was pleasantly surprised at how accurate his map compared to the printed one.

But it was 100% his fault, and really just a consequence of him being greedy.

Still, I got these texts from him before I could even get home.

Jeweler's Sanctum is a pretty small dungeon, but it still took between 3 and 4 hours for them to clear. They had some amazing successes (surprising the Tarantella and killing it before it could even get any licks in), and some things were hilariously confusing to them.

...the Thief died. 😂

Despite one of those two newbie players going fully into murder-hobo mode almost immediately (we laughed that he was less a "Thief" than he was "An Asshole Mugger"), things settled pretty quickly and they worked really well together. A lot of "we" rather than "I" in short order.

Glad to hear that. It's high on my list (we're *just* getting back into TTRPGs after a long time away).