Alex Schroeder 🧞‍♂️ @kensanata@tabletop.social

@DialMforMara have pictures of a #cassowary!
@Canageek

I think the reason I don’t like Darkest Dungeon is both the aesthetic that pulls me down emotionally, and the gameplay: it’s like the character build mini game of modern iterations of D&D with none of the fun. What ability interacts well with what other ability? This question, in a gazillion variants, is basically the game. That’s not what I like about games, I think.

@fuseboy Oohhh! Offset printing sounds very nice. But the risk, the risk... of the only risk is delay, I’d take it though!

Split up the functionality of @textmapper and @hexdescribe (two bots that post weekly links): one posts just a map, the other posts a map, and a link to a mini-setting. I'm starting to wonder if every generator I wrote to create a visual something needs a bot to spread the word, haha.

As for @textmapper, I think the last map is a harsh reminder that global warming and an eventual water world is thinkable… but the description provided by Hex Describe is a bit lame. It thinks every blue hex is a lake: I need to differentiate between the open ocean, coastal regions, and lakes! https://botsin.space/@textmapper/102121388932638864

This is a useful discussion of how to run a hex campaign.
"So, there you have it – the procedures and philosophy underpinning my Hex campaign."
http://bearded-devil.com/2019/04/09/how-i-run-a-citycrawl-campaign/

«The former system of eight "Grand Schools" (Abjuration, Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Evocation, Illusion, Necromancy, and Transmutation), a system that fit so neatly into the eightfold paradigm, suffered several esoteric but devastating blows. Transmuting base metals was shown to be a property of raw magic, not a separate school or class of spell.»
But the comments on the blog post are the best! 😁
https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2019/05/osr-academic-classification-of-spells.html

Also, I want to watch hours of He-Man and run Carcosa!

The two episodes of Fear of a Black Dragon in Yoon-Suin make me want to order a print edition. I shall try to use it for my current campaign! It appears to be so eminently usable.

I'm still working on Hex Describe and I still love reading through those mini-settings. They get better and better, I feel! And reading through them gives me ideas for more stuff to add.
https://campaignwiki.org/hex-describe/describe/random/alpine

Introducing the kids of friends to roleplaying games while babysitting. (Not really babies anymore, haha.)
We’re using “Hexen & Haudegen” which is the German translation or Sorcerers & Sellswords, which is the Fantasy translation of Lasers & Feelings. It’s perfect! We played without GM and drew cards from Paizo’s Harrow Deck to inspire the story: The Avalanche, The Empty Throne, The Rakhshasa. Very nice!

Zedeck Siew's writing about a game by Robertson Sondoh Jr, published as zine.
https://zedecksiew.tumblr.com/post/184844575811
https://zedecksiew.tumblr.com/post/184845917491/medium-a-class-for-metatoy

@Judd’s podcast episode on writing about games and remembering games makes me think about my wiki and my blog. I write session reports on the wiki for us to remember what happened last time, for us to search for names and locations, but not to reread it after 10 years. I use the blog to write about rules and prep and all that. Those I will occasionally reread, mostly when talking to other people on the Internet. I’ll remember having written something years ago…

Music for prepping the game:
https://mixedsignals.ml/games/blog/culture_music
Music for running the game:
https://mixedsignals.ml/games/blog/culture_music-ingame
As for my current game, we play tracks from The Witcher CRPG (the first one). One of the players is in control of the music and picks appropriate tracks because I can’t multitask running the game and picking the music.

Anybody else putting out links to RPG blog posts they liked in the last few weeks? I think we need this kind of stuff.
https://ynasmidgard.blogspot.com/2019/05/excellence-from-blogosphere-march-april.html

I want to write and read and run games like Kate Tempest playing on my phone right now.