@kensanata @phf @lkh For some reason, I want to run a Star Frontiers game, trying to capture that '80s sci-fi aesthetic.
I'm initially thinking simple rules for characters (no skills/PSAs) but using the advanced rules for some equipment and for advancement (essentially just increasing stats).
I don't know if SF ever was popular in Europe - it wasn't particularly popular in the US but I did play it and actually quite like it.
Any interest at all?
Yesterday my online #ttrpg group had some major issues with our voice chat, and I thought that might be a good way to get them to move something else. But boy, the sound quality of the Jitsi instance we were using was horrible. Possible that it was just this instance? What are some other decent options for pure voice chat other people are using? (We're doing regular chat etc. in a VTT anyways).
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@mhd tbh i never encountered a jitsi instance that didnt have the sound of a discarded Softdrink can.
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@lkh @SalemsLot I might give that a try. I mean, in the end basically everything is WebRTC, and it probably depends on the preprocessing how good the sound quality is. Or I might need to investigate if Mumble is still a thing…
well, good news mostly for me, as I finally managed to get my selfhosted instance of the Convos #IRC web portal running again.
it's available on https://convos.wilderland.ovh and gives access to our little #osr #ttrpg community
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screenshot of irc web portal focused on #talknix channel
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mind you, I say little, but we have a few dozen users and it's more active than most other ttrpg-focused IRC networks I've come across
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now mind you, what I've set out to do before was make a bridge between #minecraft and #irc for my kids' server.
And I still haven't managed that.
Man I get distracted so easily
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but it is actually a bit of an issue as it seems everybody doing IRC plugins for minecraft just stopped ten years ago.
well.
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@kyonshi
Ten years ago? Odd, I've seen a functional IRC-Minecraft chat bridge as recently as six and a half years ago... though that involved a very isolated community I want nothing to do with anymore, full of coders of its own, so they might have done it themselves for all I know.
There was one refreshing exception however: when a pirate vessel was encountered, and parleyed with, a character was confronted with his secret past and the partial reveal that followed was played out to the groups enterainment and surprise.
Still, the result of our flailing around sounds like a decent scenario for our next, final session. The crew, in coalition with said pirates, wants to take their captured drone ship armada, and a hired mercenary landing battalion to finally secure the campaigns prize: the massively valuable rogue planet Satan's World.
@phf @alex @lkh I'm also curious - asking for a friend >.>
::EDIT:: the server is running snac, so someone would have to create a user for us. I ran snac a while ago - I'm not really impressed with it so I'll pass, I think. 🙁
::EDIT (2):: what the hell - since snac is really about the local timeline, if @lkh is willing, I'd be happy to get a snac account on grenzland.club too.
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Poking around the AD&D GM’s Guide definitely has advice I feel is very counter to a lot of neo-old school thinking.
“The final word, then, is the game. Read how and why the system is as if is, follow the parameters, and then cut portions as needed to maintain excitement.”
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Just learned about these two (UK-only?) miniature sets. Loving the cover! One can almost see that Games Workshop was on the cusp of releasing Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, no? 😉 (Picture stolen from some Japanese site, sorry!) #citadel #miniatures #RetroDnD #UKDnD
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Two boxes of miniatures with a cover that goes together: Adventurers to the left, monsters to the right. I hear there's a poster of this image somewhere as well.
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@randomwizard @lkh
Hexes still missing. A good map has to have hexes.
Just kidding. Looks awesome. What tools do you use?
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@FrankBlack78 @lkh Just GIMP and a mouse.
I maintain a plugin to generate hexes but I have not tried in GIMP 3.x yet. This reminds me I need to work on it.
@randomwizard @lkh So one line is a rather high but mostly gradual increase? Or is most of the maps rather low hills (or steep cliffs)?
Anyway, you could pick up a few "prime fortification spots", where you have both a source of water and some high defensive position nearby and place some settlements and/or fortifications.
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50 oder 100 m per elevation line might make sense.
Btw, where did you find this map? I really like the approach!
CC: @randomwizard@vivaldi.net @FrankBlack78@social.tchncs.de
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@lkh @mhd @FrankBlack78 I copied the lines from topagraphic maps available at
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#4/39.98/-100.06
Although, I did not copy the all the lines, just the major ones. And I did not copy them exactly.
Am Wochenende haben wir in Mainz die #PinkPonyOfDeath No. 2 Mini #osr Con ausgerichtet. Es war total schön, mit Leuten aus der ganzen Republik, ein Wochenende lang old schoolige #pnpde zu spielen. Es waren etliche Leute dabei, die ich über Mastodon kennen gelernt habe ❤️
Hier reift derweil der Plan, die PPoD 3 vielleicht mal etwas größer aufzuziehen? 1/2
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An Systemen gab es auf der #pinkponyofdeath con:
#Adnd1e #SwordsAndWizardry #Shadowdark #LiminalHorror #BlackHack #Odnd (LBB + Chainmail + Outdoor Survial), #Warlock #Mothership #StayFrosty #Mausritter #Cyborg …und ich hab bestimmt was vergessen (?)
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Outdoor Survival Spielbox
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Auslage auf der Pony Con mit selbstgedruckten „Tattoos“ und Zines
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Those three valleys to the northwest of that bend in the river look interesting, kind of like a claw. There are two islands a bit downriver, too. The river may be fordable at the larger island. A likely place for a settlement.
It's a days hike to get from Riverford to the Three Claw Valleys, a place of worship for the three forces of creation. Mystics say, this is where the Ur-Dragon left it's footprint in the landscape.
Auf der Suche nach einer Discord-Alternative sind wir bei pnpde.social grade dabei ein Forum auf Basis von Discourse zu etablieren.
Unser Ziel: kleineren #pnpde Communities ein selbst verwaltetes* Zuhause ermöglichen
Wir glauben, dass diese gemeinsame Plattform Raum für Individualität gibt und gleichzeitig den Austausch zwischen Communities beflügelt.
Wir suchen jetzt Leute, die sich vorstellen können, dort mit ihrer Community einzuziehen. Lust auf Unabhängigkeit von Discord? Schreib uns!
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@dnddeutsch Ich melde mal Interesse für „Rollenspiel in Münster“ an. Wir haben zZ 80 Menschen in der Signalgruppe.
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@dnddeutsch ich würde mir das gerne für unseren Verein Mal anschauen. Hast du eine Test Community um Mal die Funktionalität zu sehen? 🤓
Another clue that may indicate that the Temple of Elemental Evil was linked to the Drow series and the Eldar Elemental God.
In G3, there is this passage
"If the drum is beaten, the chimes rung, and the triangle struck while the altar is changed, a glowing golden eye will swim into view from the stone's writhing center." and "If a second summoning of this Elder Elemental God is made within the same day, it will act as follows (d 12):"
Now compare the symbols on the chests of the warriors on the original cover of T1 The Village of Hommlet.
#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #osr #gygax #toee
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@randomwizard One of the players in my Barrowmaze game has a shield like that... 😇 Took it off of a zombie they found who wore an outfit like that... 🧟 @lkh
I really dig snac2's threaded view.
As a side effect, I see the need to unfollow a couple of accounts to uncrowd the time line. Which doesn't mean I don't like those people anymore. I'm still seeing what they're posting in reply to other people's posts and when their posts are boosted by people I follow.
Like, on reddit (while I was there) you don't follow every user you're interacting with, neither on G+ (while it was there).
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- follow: show me everything a person posts, boosts and every thread (in it's entirety, with all its participants) they're interacting with 🤗
- neither follow, nor block: we're good, I don't see everything you post, but still a lot if you're interacting with my friends, and I will happily interact with you 🙂
- block: for whatever reason, I don't want to see anything you post or boost 😞
on grenzland.club. I like it so much, that I'm in the process of
migrating my tabletop.social account to this snac2 instance.
I'm writing this post in ed(1) on the command line btw. 🤓
Uhh, Samstag und Sonntag ist wieder die #PinkPonyOfDeath-#Con, diesmal in Mainz.
Ich werde den Dungeoncrawler #Grotten anbieten und freue mich wie ein Schnitzel, Leute vom #OpenTable in Person wiederzusehen und Leute wie @madmoses , die ich auf der #LoFiCon letztes Jahr kennenlernen durfte. Ich werde aus Kostengründen über Nacht fahren und Samstag Morgen wahrscheinlich ziemlich verknittert da ankommen. ^^ Da werd ich dann auf reinem Adrenalin auf der Con fahren :D
Biete nur eine Runde an, damit ich bei den anderen viel mitzocken kann. <3
Thanks goodness for RSS.
When I wake up, I get the joy of reading a while range of blogposts, distraction free, written by people whose writings I choose.
All there, in one place.
The best of the web, and an underrated technology.
(With many thanks to @freshrss!)
Recent discussions got me to thinking back on the Gazeteer series again. Every now and then, I lament the point that Basic D&D was looked down upon in the 80s. Everyone cool was playing Advanced D&D.
But Basic had a lot of stuff going on in it. It tried all kinds of crazy rules, settings. It was a more open canvas.
The Five Shires finally gave halflings their due. Written by Ed Greenwood. Lot of interesting ideas for the setting.
In addition, it provided a way for halfing's to become the protector of the forests. They got a mix of druid and magic-user spells, as well as some completely new spells.
This idea was like prestige classes before 3e ever existed.
Ed Greenwood has hinted in the past that the Five Shires would fit comfortably within the Forgotten Realms, within the halfling kingdom of Luiren.
https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/16980/gaz8-the-five-shires-basic
Don't know exactly why, but I really love this.
Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/mapmaking/comments/1rr6sxd/upside_down_mediterranean/
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A map of the region stretching from just above the British isles to the Ghana/Nigeria coast from north to south, and from Cape Verde to Afghanistan on the west-east axis.
But here's the twist: The Mediterranean region is flipped upside down, so the Italian "boot" is emerging out of north Africa etc.
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So today, I spent hours figuring out how to build an AI character in GURPS. This character will be able to upload themselves (literally) onto other computers of high enough complexity. It can have duplicates, which can share memory when they make contact, however it's also reprogrammable which is an inherent danger, and it's got no manipulators, no legs and depends on electricity - daydreaming about transhumanity 🤯
I feel I'm well prepared for tonights chargen session 🤓
Glimmermark session 45: first time since 2024 they dared to go further down into Castle Dyson. That is, after finding the goblin castle encroached by rather nasty undead at night.
(Which they caused but they don't know that)
A fight with gargoyles turned out to be much more difficult than they had hoped (4 attacks per round!), but it was a surprise attack by a wererat on the rear during the fight the nearly saw two of them go down.
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Actually two of them DID go down, but some lucky rolls on the death and dismemberment chart only knocked them out.
(Funnily just before we had a discussion of how soft my game is having that at all, in stock odnd these would have been deaths)
And then the wererat decided to abduct one of the KOd characters.
Not that this character doesn't have issues anyway, according to the rules poor Sturlo contracted lycantrophy from all that.
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GIVE ME YOUR FEEDS
i want to subscribe to your blog
i will read it, and every once in a while i will even email you to let you know i enjoyed your blog post
give! me! your! feeds!
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about not using a smartphone: https://lkh.sdf-eu.org/flipphone/
rss links provided 🙂
I understand the public keys for this snac2 install on grenzland.club are out there now.
I also like how the list of people (followed and followers) shows their bios by default. Of course the list becomes much more wordy like this, but also more informative at a glance. And I feel somewhat encouraged to think about who I really want to follow :-o