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Go with stealing the adventures from dragons of ice spire since they are pretty open ended and easy to write stories around.

Nothing wrong with basic dungeon design either. I have a lot of go on dungeon and find things in my custom campaign. It's a fun classic design

Thank you for hosting. It's good to be on a regional site

I would double down on the starter packs such as Lost Mines of Phandelver or Dragon's of Icespire Peak. They are pretty basic and open enough that you can change or add on things that people are interested in. That only if you want to use an official campaign.

I would really recommend making your own campaign. Its really not as daunting as it seems. All you really need to do it make a single adventure and see what people like. From there see what parts people interact with and expand on that. I explicitly ask my players what they like, what they want to interact with and expand there. You can throw a bunch of ideas that you think might be fun into an area and see what ones people like. This is what I have been doing for the last few years and its been much less work than I expect. Also the player interaction is really engaging especially for new players. They can see that unlike a video game you can interact or change the world. Best of luck!!!!

You are doing all of the right steps. You are clear up front about who you are and what you want. Ignore the people who unmatch and say bad things. You are telling them one thing and they are telling you everything about them (that they are assholes).

The thing about dating is every relationships will not work out until it does. So until you hit the one that last it will feel like nothing but failures. Also note that a successful relationships doesn't have to mean until one of you is dead. If you date for a while, have fun and then don't work out in the end that is a successful short term relationship if you don't damage each other in the process. Dating especially on the apps sucks for everyone. You are not alone in this regard. Keep on the apps and attempt to meet people IRL via groups, hobbies, volunteers events and other interests you have. People like happy people and people are happy when doing things they love.

There are some fresh baked breads that I enjoy a few days after baking (basically sourdoughs) that are reheated to get warm and crispy again. But I agree. If I could have perfectly timed baked breads I would be so happy.

According to The Journal of Sex Research in 2017 :

Paraphilic sexual interests are defined as unusual or anomalous, but their actual occurrence in nonclinical samples is still unknown. This study looked at desire for and experience of paraphilic behaviors in a sample of adult men and women in the general population. A secondary goal was to compare the results of two survey modes—traditional landline telephone versus online. A total of 1,040 persons classified according to age, gender, education, ethnic background, religious beliefs, area of residency, and corresponding to the norm for the province of Quebec were interviewed. Nearly half of this sample expressed interest in at least one paraphilic category, and approximately one-third had had experience with such a practice at least once. Voyeurism, fetishism, frotteurism, and masochism interested both male and female respondents at levels above what is usually considered to be statistically unusual (15.9%). Interestingly, levels of interest in fetishism and masochism were not significantly different for men and women. Masochism was significantly linked with higher satisfaction with one's own sexual life. As expected, the online mode generated more acknowledgment of paraphilic interest than the telephone mode. These results call into question the current definition of normal (normophilic) versus anomalous (paraphilic) sexual behaviors. (Emphasis mine)

I would say that nearly half would be common enough. Ignore a common desires just leads repression, shame and for people to seek out these desires in more dangerous locations and situations usually without consent. Those who are honest about what they want get to do this with willing partners in specifically time constrained way. This is not controlling anyone outside those situations or pretending that God says all women are submissive to men.

I would also like mention that most kink and BDSM books by professions and those in the scene will discourage the use of choking by anyone in all situations. They will go into exquisite details about to safely flog a man safe and then say how choking is dangerous and shouldn't be done. So don't say that BDSM is choking because that is generally frowned upon (although this is still debated).

Thinking about BDSM (Sadism and Machosism specifically) as violence is missing the point and thinking about it the wrong context. There a many different ritualized and formalized pain rituals that we practice as a society. Something like a marathon, cross fit, sitting for tattoos are other modern example where people voluntarily go through pain for a set period of time for fun and to see if they can do it. These are all acceptable hobbies where pain is a large portion of why people do it. Not to mention that multitude of religious rituals where someone goes through something difficult or painful in a specific context. Its the sex negativity in the cultural that says if someone may get an erection or wet thinking about this pain where we draw the line.

I think what this is pointing out is that those who want to abuse will find a system that gives them systematic power to abuse. So these people will be naturally drawn to systems where they have power and a support system to protect them. So its a self selecting group who are looking to abuse are drawn to system with strong hierarchical structures.

If you are interested in unlearning paternalistic relationship structures I would recommend you read / listen to Dan Savage. He does a weekly sex and relationship columns since the 1990 and a podcast since the early 2000s so he has been doing this a long time so has a great backlog of material most of which is free. Especially since you are young and want some outsider perspective.

He talks often about alternative sexualities (queer, kink, etc.) and relationships structures (polyamory, open relationships, female led relationships, etc.) which might not be applicable to you. I know you mentioned that you are NOT into BDSM but understanding how common and acceptable doing something like that it makes what you are asking into context. Its the same tools around consent and communication about needs regardless of what you are doing. Listening and understanding the extreme level sexual acts will put your asks into perspective. Also hearing about the variety of ways organize their relationships and sex lives will really deprogram you from the single view of gender and sexuality you were brought up in.

I know his older material is available for designs

This is a great article. The number of toys that are just smaller versions of tools that adults use show that children want to help and be adults. I want to try to make sure I do this with my upcoming daughter and REALLY need to do this with any future boys I have. The number of young men who can't do any cleaning or cooking is unsustainable. These are life skills that everyone needs to learn

The best thing about The Wok is that he has a large section at the front about what brands to get for all of the various sauces you will need. I went to the Asian grocery store by my house and got almost all of them. I spent like $100 on sauces the first time but have used them for years. Now its a few bucks as I refresh the ones I use the most. I recommend it

That is correct. I think he typically releases the 3-D models after a few months. I know he has other 3-D Models on his website. This one I think will be later