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- Untitled May 16, 2024 4:35 pmPeople are entirely too trusting when it comes to #ai. Yes, this technology might, MIGHT deliver acceptable results. But people expect things from it they really shouldn't. And they definitely need someone to double check if it doesn't, you know, leave out core sections of the document they try to create.(Personally I wouldn't trust any information generated by AI)https://futurism.com/the-byte/company-sheepishly-admits-handbook-chatgpt
- Untitled May 16, 2024 4:25 pmIt's this one if someone is interested: https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/
- Untitled May 16, 2024 4:23 pm@dianeduane strikes again :DIt's again my post about Terry #Pratchett and the soup ads
- Untitled May 16, 2024 4:20 pmThinking WarlocksJohn Faed, Warlocks and Witches in a dance (1855) I am not a fan of Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. In fact I am not a fan of the 4th edition either, or the 3.5th edition, or Pathfinder (the 3.75th edition) for that matter. Actually I burned out running 3e and that was the impetus to go back to older edition, retroclones, and the OSR.https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/05/16/thinking-warlocks/
- Untitled May 16, 2024 2:01 pmhttps://eldritchfields.blogspot.com/2024/04/black-snakes-gang-ad-bandit-group.html#ttrpg #blogospherefind #adnd
- Untitled May 16, 2024 1:48 pmnow that's a way to market somethinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GkSDchj7uE#ttrpg #lego #dnd
- Untitled May 16, 2024 1:45 pmhttps://grognardia.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-true-birth-of-roleplaying.html#ttrpg #toys #blogospherefind
- Untitled May 16, 2024 1:33 pmhttps://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/ten-unanswerable-evergreen-discourses/#ttrpg #blogospherefind
- Untitled May 16, 2024 1:26 pmhttps://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2024/05/osr-1d20-dungeon-merchants.html#ttrpg #blogospherefind
- Untitled May 16, 2024 1:23 pmhttps://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/3498/kafka-and-his-precursors/#ttrpg #blogospherefind #osr
- Untitled May 16, 2024 1:20 pmhttp://archonsmarchon.blogspot.com/2024/04/d6x6-simpering-serpentmen.html#ttrpg #randomtable #blogospherefind
- Untitled May 16, 2024 1:18 pmhttp://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/04/d12-anomalous-orbs.html#ttrpg #blogospherefind
- Untitled May 16, 2024 11:51 am#Agile is basically project management esotericism. The smartest people have managed to build processes on top of it that work, the same way that some churches have worthwhile charities that do good work, but that doesn't mean the core of the methodology isn't mumbo jumbo. (ah yeah, going for both developers AND the faithful today in one fell swoop, what am I even thinking?)
- Untitled May 16, 2024 10:47 amjust realized they put a meeting in my calendar for 1pm. it's about*checks notes*achieving inner peace in a busy world. ...huh.
- Untitled May 15, 2024 9:30 pmI now bridged my #ttrpg #irc server (which barely anyone uses) to my #discord server (which is just as dead)Not sure WHY I did that, but the bots show up as seperate users so it looks a bit more active than it actually is.
- Untitled May 15, 2024 8:30 pmI don't think that's what you want when buying energy drinks, but you do you.#drink #poland
- Untitled May 15, 2024 8:36 amone of the best parts is actually the parts where you drive around the Mako on various other planets. There isn't much to actually do, but the scenics are sometimes really nice.
- Untitled May 15, 2024 8:12 amit also... doesn't really have interesting characters. So far the most interesting is John Shepard himself, and he is as boring as a bit of stale bread. And that still is better than the others.
- Untitled May 15, 2024 8:03 amalso frustrating: Feros had a few "one-way drops" that really shouldn't have been. I could have climbed them, and I'm a 40yo fat guy with a desk job and bad knees, not the first human spectre. which became really frustrating when I was trying to leave via one of them because I just couldn't see the actual exit in Feros. In the end I had to use a walkthrough to figure out that there was a dark corner I had missed.
- Untitled May 15, 2024 7:59 amplaying through Mass Effect 1 the last few days. Man, that game feels somewhat badly designed. It feels like it wants to be both a #crpg and a shooter, and it doesn't quite pull it off.Also the Legendary Edition I am playing has so many spots that are too dark to see it feels like walking through the game blind at points. If I have to use the map to find the exit of the room there's definitely something wrong.I assume part 2 will be better.#gaming
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I’d love to see a Discworld campaign setting (other than the aforementioned GURPS one – that system has a real knack for draining the soul from cool setting ideas, e.g. Conan, GURPS Goblins, Castle Falkenstein) but I have trouble picturing D&D being the medium for it. Its inclination toward power-leveling and built-in magic just doesn’t have the right feel. It would take a lot of house-ruling to squeeze it into the gonzo-but-deadly world of DW. (Of course, its rules-lite nature is an advantage here.)
On the other hand, I ran a few sessions of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay just before Christmas, hot on the heels of repeated viewings of Hogfather and The Colour of Magic; this influenced the way I portrayed the game world, and it definitely touched on that DW vibe. It would be the place I’d start from if creating a DW setting…
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Well, when I say D&D I mean Original D&D (or in my case the retroclone Labyrinth Lord) which, played according to it’s rules is quite dangerous and hard to survive in, and even harder to gain a level over 5. I am talking old school roleplaying here. At the same time the rules are light and fast to use, even with the few oddities it has. The hardest might be the concept of a descending armor class.
I see DW exactly in that style.Warhammer I just can’t get myself to like. I have a completely unfounded antipathy against it, even though I know (academically) that it is suppposed to be a good game.
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[…] am not too much of a fan of these books as one might have noticed, nevertheless I think I should include them here. The books show some really nice ideas in some […]
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[…] more or less at least. Remember all the posts I had, oh, years ago, regarding modding some variant of D&D for a Discworld game? Huh, looking over them there were A LOT. I […]
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I’d love to see a Discworld campaign setting (other than the aforementioned GURPS one – that system has a real knack for draining the soul from cool setting ideas, e.g. Conan, GURPS Goblins, Castle Falkenstein) but I have trouble picturing D&D being the medium for it. Its inclination toward power-leveling and built-in magic just doesn’t have the right feel. It would take a lot of house-ruling to squeeze it into the gonzo-but-deadly world of DW. (Of course, its rules-lite nature is an advantage here.)
On the other hand, I ran a few sessions of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay just before Christmas, hot on the heels of repeated viewings of Hogfather and The Colour of Magic; this influenced the way I portrayed the game world, and it definitely touched on that DW vibe. It would be the place I’d start from if creating a DW setting…
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Well, when I say D&D I mean Original D&D (or in my case the retroclone Labyrinth Lord) which, played according to it’s rules is quite dangerous and hard to survive in, and even harder to gain a level over 5. I am talking old school roleplaying here. At the same time the rules are light and fast to use, even with the few oddities it has. The hardest might be the concept of a descending armor class.
I see DW exactly in that style.
Warhammer I just can’t get myself to like. I have a completely unfounded antipathy against it, even though I know (academically) that it is suppposed to be a good game.
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Check out the new D20 based system “Legend”. I am running a home grown campaign setting that is greatly inspired by DW. The Legend mechanics have been working well with the group.
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I’m looking at trying a modification on strands of fate. My problem is a lack of dw fans to play.
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