Alex Schroeder 🧞‍♂️ @kensanata@tabletop.social

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

Jitsi sounds great!
https://jitsi.org/

As for dice rolling, we could all join a dice room on rolz, “special chat rooms designed to facilitate pen&paper roleplaying online, in groups - here you can have joined sessions with other players.”
https://rolz.org/

The latest podcast episode by @Judd on learning about your character reminded me of two old blog posts of mine:

«when my fellow players look at me quizzically as I write down a word or two after a scene I explain that I am adding personality elements to my character and writing it down so I won’t forget.»
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-03-07_Character_Backgrounds

«where I, as a player, realize that this particular character would never or always do something particular»
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2013-08-05_Character

Done! https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Halberds_and_Helmets_Podcast

Editing podcast. Not sure what to feel.

Running Just Halberds on Saturday, playing D&D 5E on Monday, running Halberds & Helmets on Wednesday.
(JH is a simple 2d6 system. H&H is a house ruled B/X D&D.)

Regarding characters contributing to something larger than them as discussed in @Judd’s podcast, the one such project I remember was the party building a castle. They were level one in a B/X game and got XP for gold – so building the castle meant getting gold and spending it on the building, on guards, it meant delving for gold and beating back orcs, it was cool. 75,000 gold is a lot of money when you’re starting at 1st level.

I love it when players contact me via chat and start setting up the next session. 😄

“To live by your Coppers is not fixed by accumulating more Coppers; if you want to live like a king some day, well, you’d better take more risks, explore deeper dungeons, accept the kind of job that you’ve been scared to try but will start earning you some silver. And so forth. To live with gold is not just to have more wealth, but to have a different kind of wealth and a different kind of social position.”

Wealth in role playing games – learning from A Land of Ice and Blades. I like it!
https://gundobadgames.blogspot.com/2020/04/streamlining-play-rules-for-wealth.html

Strange how the mind works. Now that I have a document for Just Halberds I feel the urge to record a podcast episode. 😅

@Halfjack And yes, viruses are super cool. 😃 "We are under attack by a hegemonic self-replicating swarm."

@Halfjack I remember using POVray on a 286 back in the day! Everything took a day or two! Ahh, good times. https://vsca.blog/2020/03/31/ray-tracing/

«I’ve discovered that when writing systems for 10-year-olds, you end up writing things that are good for adults too because things are a lot clearer and faster.»

https://dreamingdragonslayer.wordpress.com/2020/03/30/ben-milton-interview-part-i-early-days-and-running-for-kids/

Got a PDF of my minimal 2d6 game!
https://alexschroeder.ch/pdfs/Just-Halberds.pdf

Source files:
https://alexschroeder.ch/cgit/just-halberds/about/

Writing up the 2d6 rules with explanations as a PDF, in English, even though my players don’t care and nobody else needs it. I guess this kind of writing is my other hobby.
#2d6

https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2d6