Alex Schroeder @kensanata@tabletop.social

#RPG related apps I host:
https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Apps

@host Sometimes I find a toot on another account of mine that is RPG related and I’d like to copy the URL into the search box here in order to pull that toot into the local database and boost it – but searching toots by URL aus disabled in this instance, apparently. What’s the reason for this decision? Before I start wondering whether we could enable it I’d like to understand the context for the decision. I assume it’s some sort of abuse vector?

If you visit https://campaignwiki.org/hex-describe/describe/random/traveller and page through the document, you should see plenty of bullet lists of people. My goal is to have such lists for all sorts of organisations (starports, governments, companies) mentioned in the descriptions. Also notice how I moved most of the ships to the appendix.

The joy of a charismatic dictatorship based on programmers.

;programmer job
1,chief [economic|information] officer
1,programming director
1,head [of programming|bureaucrat|of administration|of testing]
1,[logistics|project|team|network|test] manager
1,[computing|programming|procedural] clerk
1,[system|software|network|test] engineer
1,[software|information|solution] architect

A lovely report of a first family game. "I ran a session with two young kids, 6 and 8 years old and their mother." Love it, @jmettraux!
https://weaver.skepti.ch/20211015.html?t=Where_the_Dogs_go&s=ax

Based on my thoughts on what kind of Classic Traveller prep worked best for me, I'm just adding names and job titles for some situations.

Thinking about Replays after listening to the two episodes of the Diceology podcast where MadJay Zero talks with Andy Kitkowski. Perhaps this is a good format for teaching how to play a system. Not a reference manual, but like an actual play in text.

https://www.diceology.com/blog/diceology-30/
https://diceology.com/blog/diceology-31/

I finally wrote a very long blog post about learning to play role-playing games from modules, and what I don't like about it. I'm interested in hearing how other people play D&D-like games without modules.
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2021-10-11_Old_School_but_no_modules

Just say no to that, look the other way, and move on, if the inanity you're seeing online is a problem. That's how I handle the hobby, I guess. Here, like everywhere else in life, I have to focus on the good stuff to make life bearable.

"The root of my dissatisfaction comes from what I feel are the implicit acceptance of concepts that I abhor. It seems kind of silly, but I think that like many prevailing attitudes that are harmful to the development of our societies are so ingrained as to be invisible without a lot of introspection, games also have these harmful prevailing concepts or assumptions. … This hobby carries a lot of baggage …"
https://frotz.weaponvsac.space/2021/10/dilemma.html