Wandering Adventure Party

It’s wild how small the TTRPG world is, even with its large base. I think of Chaosium as a big player and they employ like … 20 people. Somehow no one makes money in this industry.

Debt is terrifying. Fo a normal person with all their needs met, you can’t outright pay them to do horrible shit. But if you get that same person in debt, suddenly they’ll do genocide for peanuts.

I ended up buying a pass at a local preserve and walking out where there was no coverage. It was wet and cold. But nice.

…so why do we share screen shots of articles and not the original link?It’s more work. It’s less accessible. It removes information. It often removes citation. Why do we do this? Don’t boost this shit. Someone is doing it this way to mislead you or make you angry. Stop it.

Anyone who says things “just work” on a Mac can kiss my ass. I’m having screen, audio, and software issues that I never had on my work Linux machine. Also, Tahoe sucks.

This kind of player passivity is antithetical to me as a GM and player ​​ as a GM, I like to drop players into a rich situation and see what happens. As a player I have the opposite problem. I’m always doing something, whether running a scheme or making my own fun. I don’t play much because a couple of GMs have expressed that I’m Henderson force in their campaigns.

@ramsey@phpc.social @Xenograg@dice.camp no, not at all. But we’re currently working through them not being such … adults as characters. By which I mean: they’re very much in the mould of “let the authorities handle it, let’s not risk it, etc”I’ve been playing with them for a bit. They’re one of the most risk adverse groups I’ve ever met, even when I almost always reward them for being daring. It’s a source of much pain.

This is my problem with prewritten scenarios. I love the idea of being able to pick up and run something, but in practice each time it ends up a being a exercise in raiding a tomb and cobbling the maps and NPCs into something that I feel will actually work, as I feel like this will be a total goose egg if I run it straight. I wonder if other GMs are doing the same thing, or if other groups just like this stuff.

There is also not much to "investigate" here. ​​ They can ask around, learn about the the characters, but ... still. It's a pretty weak investigation. I feel like the players will just be going Scripted-scene -> Boat life -> Scripted Scene -> Boat life ...

@nullnowhere@sakurajima.social Prof. DM is hyping up Deathbringer by saying it’s 5e with some streamlining and harshness. He also has spoken about it in the same breath as the OSR. And it’s now officially a Shadowdark hack. OSR just means it’s printed in monochrome and looks like the art was done by Rorschach.

…I should find a movie time anyways and make it into a tradition.

Good morning, everyone ​​

Well, see, the thing is, if you actually review the output, you suddenly start becoming very critical of the technology, and nobody who desperately wants to be excited by it is going to do that. I’ve been using LLMs to tailor my resume to various job postings, and the amount of editing I have to do each time is not insignificant. It’s only marginally easier than updating my resume by hand.

Right, I’ve done everything I need to prepare for the coming work week, now I can finally relax-11PM Sunday nightfuck.

It beginning to look like the phone I sent may have disappeared into the shipping system. That would make it the second cell-phone shaped item to go missing. I’m starting to think the shipping system has a phone theft problem. We’ll see. Hopefully it pops up I took out insurance on it…

It’s not a question of whether we can come back from this; it’s really a question of whether we can host and ultimately survive the reckoning that such a return must include.