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@LeviKornelsen @pteryx There's definitely that whole section of the left that refuses to engage with the blue and green layers.
Which absolutely gets annoying. Like if you're missing out on that interpersonal stuff, you're missing out on how the successful movements got stuff done.
Like, as a straight guy, it's a personal encounter as a kid with someone who was shut out by homophobic family as their partner died that solidified that "how would I feel" for me when discussions happened later
Just finished a game of Oh Captain My Captain by @OneShotRPG
My group played a shift of front of house staff in a restaurant that once had multiple locations but had since closed down to one. Our shift lead was our fearless Captain, desperate to win our restaurant a Michelin star lest it succumb to the same fate as the other locations.
Turns out our worst customer ever had been testing us all along.
@baronvonj And the Exiles just beat Chicago 48-17 last week too!
Second week in a row where Denver Onyx just crush their opponents!
Loving this new league!
Just finished the latest Lady Astronaut book by Mary Robinette Kowal, The Martian Contingency.
Super good book, filled with competent people dealing with the sorts of problems that would arise from trying to set up on Mars to escape an Earth dying from runaway climate change.
Also, loved catching Kowal's usual Doctor Who easter egg reference for this book on the first read.
Really enjoyed a post this morning from Grognardia about the role of pre-published adventures in #TTRPG communities.
As a follow-up to yesterday's post about "off shelf" campaign settings , I thought I'd write a bit about a related topic: pre-packaged adven...
(grognardia.blogspot.com)
In addition to the shared cultural touchstones mentioned, I also got a lot out of DMing pre-published adventures that let me learn mistakes I was making in my first couple (heavily scripted and railroaded) campaigns. Having good published stuff lowers the barriers for new DMs.
Looking forward this weekend to the second match for Denver Onyx.
Let my daughter pick which #WomensEliteRugby team we'd root for, and she went with Pink and Denver. Watching last week's match, Erica Coulibaly is awesome!
@LeviKornelsen Also, a lot of self publishing stuff is a lot of work if you're not doing it for that hope of squeezing some pennies out.
Been trying to think through how to write up and format some stuff for my blog, and honestly, formatting it is where "I give up" comes in.
@SJohnRoss I can think of only a few across all of them I've read over the last 15 years.
Like Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master's advice to prep what you need most to handle contact with the players, knowing that you'll realistically be doing improv for exact wordings/can't plan for everything is useful for most games.
Hamlet's Hit Points was an interesting look at narrative beats and pacing that's adaptable to most things.
Most of the rest has been for D&D likes. Or another specific game.
Slightly bummed about the Netgalley change to LCPL for downloads instead of Digital Editions.
Means I have to use a tablet to read the books instead of my trusty old e-ink reader. Just not as nice for reading...
@maddler I'm a fan of my Kobo reader. I still have my first edition Aura H2O going strong, despite drops and tossing into my bag for the last ten years.
There are features the newer ones have that mine is missing (overdrive library support built in, the new color readers, the time based blue light reduction) but nothing has really been worth scrapping the one that is still going.
@ajroach42 But is the trashcan Mac Pro old enough to play Escape Velocity?
(My favorite old Mac game)
@ishambard @eniko Yeah, I think Wind Waker throws a wind switch near a raft that you'll basically find out that wind makes the raft move right before you use that to move through a section.
@cstross NaNovellaWriMo?
@tinstargames Like literally, the mention of Bruno sends the entire town into a musical number about not talking about Bruno. A kid learns quick to just not bring it up.
@tinstargames Like, "I hear him sometimes" is literally one of her lines from We Don't Talk About Bruno.
I mentioned a couple weeks ago about really enjoying the programs that my library puts on and the books I've read because of it.
Finally got around to writing some reviews on my blog talking about how much I liked each book.
The Stardust Grail:
https://alexanderkeane.com/posts/book-club-reads-stardust-grail/
The Tainted Cup:
https://alexanderkeane.com/posts/book-club-reads-tainted-cup/
@mclaindave I mean, yeah, that was pretty clear from them shouting him down when he started with "So, as a new president I signed a ceasefire with Russia after Crimea and now here we are, what else are we supposed to give up?"
@TheBrightSide The Ozone Layer and Y2K are two problems that get reduced to "it was hyped and then there was no problem" and skip over "and in the middle a whole lot of people did a whole lot of stuff to make sure nothing extra bad happened"