Stuffed Crocodile

A blog (mostly) about tabletop roleplaying games

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What is this about? (the non-RPG crowd version)

This is a private blog about roleplaying games. The Pen and Paper tabletop variant that is played with a group of friends, some dice, pencils, ungodly amounts of unhealthy snacks, and a lot of fantasy. Not the other kind that involves handcuffs and school girl uniforms or similar things. (I DID get into some rather odd situations with the terminology at various points).

What is this about? (the RPG community version)

I am a German gamer living and working in Poland and mostly playing in English. I also write about it on this blog. I mostly play Labyrinth Lord (a clone of OD&D), Traveller, and Das Schwarze Auge (the German standard game), but mix in some other systems as well.

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Dyson Logos April 3, 2011 at 8:10 am
After dropping by to see your one page dungeon, I ended up cribbing your blog theme in my most recent rebuild. Thanks for showing me the awesomeness.

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Untitled May 12, 2024 12:54 pm
ugh, we had another session 0 (sort of) yesterday, where we argued about my new character, and the two before which did not win the others' fancy.It still is bugging me, because I put multiple hours of work into both, when I just clicked together basically a stock archetype this time. and they were complaining that you can only create cookie cutter characters with the SR3 priority system, but when I use it it's all of a sudden too far out. #shadowrun #ttrpg
Untitled May 12, 2024 8:44 am
Had to take both kids to my 7yo's logopaedics today. Packed some additional food and water and snacks so we can have a small picnic in the allotment garden later. My 5yo even took it downstairs with him.Of course then he stashed it in a secure place in the basement instead of taking it to the car. As one does.
Untitled May 11, 2024 8:28 pm
worse, I am 4 hours in and the only thing I can think of to describe the characters is: "I don't care what happens to these people". (the famous 8 deadly words)
Untitled May 11, 2024 8:22 pm
finally got around starting that Mass Effect Legendary Edition I got ages ago and it's... humm... a pretty clunky game? It feels cumbersome and slow and the story takes ages so far and I don't see it getting that much better soon. #gaming
Untitled May 9, 2024 9:00 pm
to defend Poland and Lodz a bit, the city really has used taxes and EU funds well, and the city looks quite far from the decrepit state I encountered when I came here first in 2008.
Untitled May 9, 2024 8:58 pm
so a substitute teacher somehow thought it was a good idea to ask my kid's class what their thought about their home country were. They had to write down 4 things. I am not sure she expected the results, my son's friend (6yo), the little tiny shy mouse that he is, managed to sum it up with: *broken pavement *dirty streets *ugly buildings *people stealing numberplates and just bribing their way out of troublegood lord, that kid is a natural born cynic if I have ever seen one.
Untitled May 9, 2024 4:03 pm
google is getting worse and worse in areas I didn't expect them to get worse. A mail my wife sent me 2 hours ago somehow only now arrived.
Untitled May 9, 2024 3:52 pm
I was absolutely useless the whole day. I think I managed to catch the cold my wife had the last few days.
Untitled May 8, 2024 4:57 pm
It occurs to me (for a while already) that something is going wrong when the result of working on a successful media property is getting fired and the company closed. They most likely can do a tax writeoff like that. #gaminghttps://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/making-good-profitable-games-will-no-longer-keep-you-safe-games-industry-expresses-fury-and-heartbreak-over-closure-of-hi-fi-rush-and-prey-studios/
Untitled May 8, 2024 4:05 pm
There is this mother on the playground who was just discussing stuff with her daughter and then her daughter was doing whatever she wanted anyway. That look of resignation on her face was like I was looking into a mirror.
Untitled May 8, 2024 6:32 am
that's some mighty fine police work there. mighty fine.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/lush-body-found-in-truck-1.7196616?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark#news #ontario
Untitled May 7, 2024 12:39 pm
can be checked out here: http://ereborbbs.duckdns.org:9000/?join=idlerpgoriginal code is available on this 20 year old page: https://idlerpg.net/ (including a manual)
Untitled May 7, 2024 12:37 pm
got reminded of #idlerpg when looking around LiberaChat before, so I decided to check out if I can get it running on my own little #irc server.Turns out yes, it's barely a problem to set it up. It's not exactly useful as such (it's literally a game that punishes you for interacting with it), but it's running.
Untitled May 7, 2024 11:53 am
Quiet quitting is over, meet quiet hiring, which is...*reads article*...companies actually training their employees....Huh.Are they all gone stupid or something? And this is why noone takes managers serious anymore. THATS WHAT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING!#work #managementhttps://www.euronews.com/next/2024/05/01/quiet-hiring-is-silently-revolutionising-the-workplace
Untitled May 6, 2024 9:09 pm
I think it might have been because we used the rather convenient proxy for connections it offers.
Untitled May 6, 2024 8:28 pm
#maptool is great when it works, when the server stops working in the middle of the game it's less so. #ttrpg
Untitled May 5, 2024 3:56 pm
Sigh. Kids. Trying to get them to go out and play in the fresh air got delayed so much by various arguments that the outing got sunk by a thunderstorm when we finally managed to get to the place they could agree on.
Untitled May 5, 2024 12:42 pm
I never actuall read the Feist novels either. maybe I should
Untitled May 5, 2024 12:41 pm
looking towards adapting City of Carse for my games. I've had it for ages, but when I last checked it it didn't suit my campaign's mood. Now I think I am going to have a look at it again. Will have to remove the Midkemia references though.By the way, did you know that Reymond E. Feist's Riftwar novels started out with a #dnd campaign (which crossed over with #tekumel?)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Carse#ttrpg
Untitled May 5, 2024 11:33 am
I think what I find most offensive about the whole discussion I had earlier was the use of #AI to flood the discussion with autogenerated drivel that the other wanted me to put time and effort into. It makes me really, really angry. And I think this will become much more common soon enough. Can't find any argument? Just generate 10 responses you didn't put any effort into. Drown out the other voice. What is their opinion against your skill to open #chatgpt?