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- Untitled June 15, 2024 3:53 pmHmm. Did anyone ever try to do a #traveller campaign with 1:1 time? (One day in campaign equals about 1 day in RL)Considering the week long jumps in the system one would assume the system would lend itself to a game like that... somewhat.#ttrpg
- Untitled June 15, 2024 6:43 amhttps://youtu.be/QZMSC0FuQOw?si=gE7iiMk8cZNRBpNO#ttrpg
- Untitled June 15, 2024 12:08 amspent most of the afternoon/evening trying to get access to a #uucp server via #ssh. failed.Lets just hope no big government wants to see my posts about #ttrpgs on the #usenet I spend entirely too much time on what effectively is absolutely useless as a tool. but it certainly is fascinating
- Untitled June 14, 2024 10:20 amsmall update: just after I wrote this he also came to my desk to cuddle. hopefully that means he will convince his sister as well that we aren't that big and mean
- Untitled June 14, 2024 7:11 amcat news: after a week with careful attempts at a connection, last night one of our new cats came to get his pettings when we were in bed. His sister still keeps away and yells at her brother to get away from those big ape monsters.#cats
- Untitled June 13, 2024 10:05 amI was in the office yesterday, because a visitor from the home office was here.after that i slept the whole evening. I am obviously not used to that much human contact anymore.
- Untitled June 13, 2024 7:48 amLast night I dreamed I was making photos, and right now I tried checking them in my gallery, only to realize that my whole memory of making them happened when I was asleep.
- Untitled June 12, 2024 12:19 pmToday's horror: a presentation at work with light blue text on dark salmon background.And purple trims.It doesn't look bad, but I can't read any of it.
- Untitled June 11, 2024 12:51 pmMy little newsserver now is running properly, happily exchanging news with uucp.eternal-september.org and two more downstream machines. At one point I am gonna connect it to the server at campaignwiki.org, and then we're going to have the premier #ttrpg #uucp network for mail and #usenet in THE WHOLE WORLD!(Trust me, this would have sounded much more impressive 35 years ago when UUCP was actually in use)
- Untitled June 10, 2024 12:55 pmtesting my local newsgroup on my own little server, and alpine warns me "this message might go out to thousands of readers"yeah. no. You're overreacting alpine. #linux #usenet
- Untitled June 10, 2024 9:50 amthis was brought to my attention earlier: FATAL 2 - The End of HumanityI... don't quite get it? is this supposed to be satire? https://lilith-cohen.itch.io/fatal-the-end-of-humanity#ttrpg
- Untitled June 9, 2024 11:00 pm@lkh as I said, the idea is simple, getting it working isn't. there are a lot of small working parts that need to be configured right. like the passwd file needs to have a tab between username and password, where everywhere else a space is enough. and of course the documentation is spread over at least 20 year old files all over the net. it's not like many people are enthusiastic about this particular technology (because lets face it, for #usenet #nntp is superior, for email it's #smtp)
- Untitled June 9, 2024 10:54 pm#uucp by the way stands for unix-to-unix-copy, and that is what it was intended to do: copy files between different unix systems. those files soon enough were e-mails and newsgroup discussions. but they still were transmitted by copying from one system to another, until they finally reached their destination.back the it could take days or even weeks for an email to reach the target, and people had to give the whole path between machines the email was supposed to take into the address@lkh
- Untitled June 9, 2024 10:51 pmI would love to say uucp is easier than it appears at first glance, but... well, not when you put ssh into the mixture as well. a lot of the issues we had were less with the configuration of the file-exchange protocol, and had more to do with how it wasn't made to work on modern machines at all.I mean, of course it works. it's a very simple program at heart. but it was made for computers calling each other via modem over phone lines. @lkh
- Untitled June 9, 2024 10:48 pmso after lots of struggling with the #ssh configuration @lkh and me managed to establish #usenet peering between his machine and mine, over #uucpnow we need to get someone to actually deliver news from the wider #usenet to us.
- Untitled June 9, 2024 5:15 pminteresting discussion (live right now) about playing #dnd without having access to the rules as a playerI guess that needs a lot of trust towards the DM#ttrpg
- Untitled June 9, 2024 4:58 pmhttps://www.youtube.com/live/3GTlrOoWMyg?si=2E51bliSXC40tdOx#ttrpg #dnd
- Untitled June 9, 2024 12:33 pmOn another kids birthday party. This time they are bouldering.Which is... you know my home village is in an area that is incredibly popular among rock climbers because of all the nice walls there, and yet I never did it. But my son grows up 800km in the flatness of Poland but still gets to do it on a birthday party. It's a it weird I am trying to say.
- Untitled June 8, 2024 8:44 pmone of the weird things about using #uucp mails is how slow that whole thing is, even when just connecting over two jumps. sure, the machines connect every 15 minutes, but that still means there's at least half an hour until I get a response, even if the other party immediately respondsit makes mail somewhat more important
- Untitled June 8, 2024 6:03 pmWhy did we get two new cats? I was just shopping with my kids, and it was just like herding cats.Including the random disappearing when you turn your back.Actually, cats always seemed to be easier. At least with them you KNEW they weren't gonna listen to what you want. With kids it might be they want to be HELPFUL.
12 responses to “The Highest Level of All: The Story of Fantasy Wargaming”
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> Unlike it’s competition it was not afraid of using actual historical concepts like astrology and occultism in it’s descriptions…
Chivalry & Sorcery. 1977.
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@zdl @gmkeros.wordpress.com the question I would pose is how much of a competition CnS really was 5 years after it's release. But yes, you are right.
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@kyonshi @gmkeros.wordpress.com C&S certainly was bigger competition than Fantasy Wargaming ever was.
People actually played C&S. 🤣
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@zdl @gmkeros.wordpress.com well, yeah, but Fantasy Wargaming sold, even if no-one ever played it.
(because of that book club. now imagine what would have been if they actually had used a playable system…)
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@kyonshi @gmkeros.wordpress.com If they'd used a good system that would have drastically changed the face of RPGs for certain.
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@zdl @gmkeros.wordpress.com If I remember correctly, a *lot* of FW seemed to be riffing on C&S specifically. I may or may not be remembering correctly.
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@edheil @gmkeros.wordpress.com I've read it. I've read (and played) several editions of C&S. I have no idea. The writing in Fantasy Wargaming was just that bad.
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@gmkeros.wordpress.com I got hold of a copy of Fantasy Wargaming in the 2000s. Reading it, I was intrigued by how they played the game. But I had been indoctrinated in the early 80s, so I understood most of what they were doing. I agree, it would be a disastrous entry into RPGs. I'm interested to read the Story of.
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@gmkeros.wordpress.com I… remember that cover, and the rich density of the text, but for the life of me I can’t remember where I could have gotten a copy of it; NE Utah wasn’t the best place to find alternative RPGs (tho we did have an excellent local book store).
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far from being very alternative this game was published by the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club as well, which means this easily could have been the most widespread RPG next to DnD.
It might be that lots of people got the idea to get it to look into this newfangled roleplaying hobby, only to be turned off by the book itself.
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@gmkeros.wordpress.com that would be it (I’d joined the club when I was 10); alas, my SFBC books rotted away n the back of a south texas shed. the book is on Archive.org, tho
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> Unlike it’s competition it was not afraid of using actual historical concepts like astrology and occultism in it’s descriptions…
Chivalry & Sorcery. 1977.
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@zdl @gmkeros.wordpress.com the question I would pose is how much of a competition CnS really was 5 years after it's release. But yes, you are right.
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@kyonshi @gmkeros.wordpress.com C&S certainly was bigger competition than Fantasy Wargaming ever was.
People actually played C&S. 🤣
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@zdl @gmkeros.wordpress.com well, yeah, but Fantasy Wargaming sold, even if no-one ever played it.
(because of that book club. now imagine what would have been if they actually had used a playable system…)
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@kyonshi @gmkeros.wordpress.com If they'd used a good system that would have drastically changed the face of RPGs for certain.
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@zdl @gmkeros.wordpress.com If I remember correctly, a *lot* of FW seemed to be riffing on C&S specifically. I may or may not be remembering correctly.
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@edheil @gmkeros.wordpress.com I've read it. I've read (and played) several editions of C&S. I have no idea. The writing in Fantasy Wargaming was just that bad.
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I ask you, what other RPG has combat stats for St. Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ?
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@gmkeros.wordpress.com I got hold of a copy of Fantasy Wargaming in the 2000s. Reading it, I was intrigued by how they played the game. But I had been indoctrinated in the early 80s, so I understood most of what they were doing. I agree, it would be a disastrous entry into RPGs. I'm interested to read the Story of.
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@gmkeros.wordpress.com I… remember that cover, and the rich density of the text, but for the life of me I can’t remember where I could have gotten a copy of it; NE Utah wasn’t the best place to find alternative RPGs (tho we did have an excellent local book store).
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far from being very alternative this game was published by the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club as well, which means this easily could have been the most widespread RPG next to DnD.
It might be that lots of people got the idea to get it to look into this newfangled roleplaying hobby, only to be turned off by the book itself.
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@gmkeros.wordpress.com that would be it (I’d joined the club when I was 10); alas, my SFBC books rotted away n the back of a south texas shed. the book is on Archive.org, tho
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