Honestly? I’m good at a lot of things. Not world class good, but good enough that I’m the best at it that I know of.

I’m a fucking fantastic DM. I can improv sessions, build campaigns, do good characters as NPCs. I’ve had players have to stop during sessions because they were crying too hard. Every single player I’ve ever had has not only told me I’m the best they’ve ever played with, but a few have often just stopped playing with anyone else when I wasn’t able to run a game. That shit made me proud as hell.

I ran a campaign that lasted three years irl. Almost every week, sometimes multiple days on weekends. Kept every NPC, side quest, map and bit of detail straight, and explored multiple worlds in the process. Best game I ever ran tbh.

And, I can cook like a motherfucker. I’ve managed to make things that people who hate a given food will happily eat my version. It’s mostly country cooking, soul food, with the usual us standards mixed in, but I can do fancy shit too. My wife? Hated greens, hated black eyed peas, and was dubious about pintos. Now, she’ll find greens like collards at the grocery store, grab a bunch. A bag of beans or BEPs, and ask for them my way. My dad hated Brussels sprouts until I introduced him to roasted with my balsamic reduction.

My wife jokes that she married me for my meatloaf. I’ve actually won prizes for that. My biscuits too. And I bake. My fucking sourdough bread is amazing. Back during early covid, when store bread was decimated, a yeast was scarce, I set up the kitchen for it. Told my family and neighbors that if they brought flour, they would have bread. Was doing a dozen plus loaves every day for weeks. My hands were fucked, so I was downing way too many medications, but there’s still neighbors that ask for loaves, and offer to pay way over store prices.

And don’t get me started about my lemon meringue pie, or my murder cookies (it’s a reddit thing that I’ve tweaked). Kinda suck at decorating tbh. The cakes taste great, but they’re ugly lol.

There’s other shit that I’m really good at, or used to be. But those two are the ones that I’m proud of the most.