Spawn today, Spawn Tomorrow

Spawn today, Spawn Tomorrow

Short Description: You are newly raised vampire spawn. And the boss is hungry

Players – Up to 8
Game System: DND 5
Characters: 1st level, pre-gens will be provided, but you can bring your own
Age: Teen 13+

Long Description:
The boss is going to wake up very soon. He will be very hungry. Your mission is simple, go to the local village, find some tasty young morsels and bring them back for dinner. Igor would do it, but he has to do the bosses laundry.

Top Chef – DND

Top Chef – DND

Game will be run at Gamestorm 23

Short Description: The Great Chef-Wizard, Altonia of Brown has need of adventurers willing to brave the wilds of the Wonton and Dumpling hills to the lair of the Ancient White Dragon, Marcos Pierrot to find out the secret ingredient in their upcoming and long running centennial Top Chef of the Realms competition.

Players – Up to 8
Game System: DND 5
Characters: 10th level, pre-gens will be provided, but you can bring your own
All Ages

Long Description:
The Great Chef-Wizard, Altonia of Brown has need of adventurers willing to brave the wilds of the Wonton and Dumpling hills to the lair of the Ancient White Dragon, Marcos Pierrot to find out the secret ingredient in their upcoming and long running centennial Top Chef of the Realms competition.

The House that Maas Built

The House that Maas Built

Game will be run at Gamestorm 23

Short Description: On a dark and dreary night, only lit by frequent lightning strikes, you come across a dark house.

Players – Up to 8
Game System: DND 5
Characters: 10th level, pre-gens will be provided, but you can bring your own
All Ages

Long Description:

Weary from your latest adventure, you’re traveling back to rest and spend your treasure. A storm appears on the horizon, forcing you to seek shelter. In the distance, a hill. And a dilapidated mansion at the top. Surrounded by nothing except plains, there is other choice.

How To: Thunderbird – STMP Error

Thunderbird server settings

How To: Thunderbird – STMP Error

Scenario:

When sending emails from a GMAIL account in Thunderbird, there is an STMP error and the message can not be sent. This has been working for some time, then suddenly stopped working. It can be intermittent and logging into the GMAIL account directly works perfectly find.

This seems to have popped up in build 91.5.1 and may be related to the relatively new feature that automatically adds the GMAIL settings.

How to fix:

In Thunderbird go to Tools -> Account Settings. Choose the impacted account then click on Server Settings.

In my case it looked like this:

Thunderbird server settings

Note the problem is the “Authentication Method”. OAuth2 was a legacy setting from a previous automatic setting, although it is the more secure setting and really should be the default. Change that to the preferred (by Thunderbird) ‘Normal Password’ setting, then close the window and test it out.

Thunderbird fixed authentication settings

This should work without even restarting Thunderbird! Although it is possible the password might need to be re-entered and saved. Thunderbird will have a pop-up asking for this information.

How to fix: Failed due to unexpected error 80004005. No description is available

Google Less secure app access

How to fix: Failed due to unexpected error 80004005. No description is available

Background: This error message comes up in Mozilla’s Thunderbird when using an Google hosted email account (Gmail, or a Google hosted domain/mail server that piggy backs off go Gmail,). “Failed due to unexpected error 80004005. No description is available” is technically either a password or security error message.
Various forums have tried to troubleshoot this error message but failed in my case.

In my case, this is actually a common error message. I have 8 email accounts setup through Thunderbird. When I travel or work remotely Google frequently kicks back this error message when I connect to a new, unknown, wireless network for the first time. 95% of the time just waiting five or ten minutes “fixes” the error message. The other 5% of the time I have to go into the security settings for that specific email address, and tell it that yes, that is indeed me logging in.

What you need to do is instead turn on “less secure app access.” Occasionally Google will flip this as it tries to make your account more secure (which is good,) but it breaks Thunderbird.

To do this go into Security settings:

Google Security Setting Menu

Then go to Less Secure App Access:

And turn it to “On” despite Google’s warnings.

This fixed for me!

Other troubleshooting steps I took:
– Re-entered the account password a billion times
– Told Gmail security that this is indeed my device
– Deleted (multiple) saved passwords for the account in Thunderbird’s Password Manager
– Changed the smtp server from smtp.googlemail.com to smtp.gmail.com
– Deleted the recreated the account in Thunderbird