Wandering Adventure Party

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net I Mike have misread “who” for “what”. I can always catalog what you sent if you want.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net At your own pace. I don’t mind. There is no obligation. ​​

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net you sent some to me a while ago, but I wouldn’t mind if you sent more. I enjoyed them last time.

@yon@sakurajima.moe we actually got more than just Loddoss War.

Both _Legend of Crystania: The Motion Picture_ and Rune Soldier take place in the same universe.

@yon@sakurajima.moe I signed up for the notice. I will definitely be buying and reading it if I can. Though who knows when it will release after the crowdfunding. I’m still waiting for some RPGs that are years late.

@yon@sakurajima.moe the only reason to argue online is if you know you have an audience. You can win the audience, but yeah that’s it.

It’s not too different in person. Once someone gets defensive, you’ve pretty much lost them. If you’re lucky they’ll go home and stew and maybe realize you were right. I’ve always found the real way to sway people is to ensure they never realize that they’re in an argument. “I agree but here’s why I don't” works better than people think.

Apparently Sword World 2.5E is getting an official translation next year ​​
https://mugengaming.com/pages/sword-world-rpg-coming-soon

Given it's importance in the Japanese fantasy genre, I'm pretty excited to get a real hard copy.

#TTRPG #anime

@eri@mk.moth.zone why does the laughing hurt?

Work sent a dell linux laptop once. The webcam was broken out of the box. I was less than amused but not surprised.

There things I’d like to boost, but since they’re not CWed I have to quote boost them to add the CW, and some days I don’t have the energy.

@peachymist@labyrinth.zone Pain.

One of the quiet benefits of in person games is the ability to cook for the group.

Now it’s a pain in the ass, but I’m mildly orderly with a firm grasp on my schedule. I can manipulate things, do a little overtime, leave early, cook dinner and then everyone eats at the same time.

If I leave it to the players, it’s a total clusterfuck. People are incredibly bad at feeding themselves. Some are late, some are distracted and eating mid game, and others are starved (and distracted by the guy with a sandwich) because they couldn’t orchestrate it.

Being able to just sit everyone down and feed them smoothed out so many problems.

@sidereal@kolektiva.social wack but understandable in a realpolitik way. Alongside police brutality, I also wish people realized how much of a death grip a lot of police unions have on mayoral politics. They’re more than happy to also intimidate candidates who aren’t Pro-Police. It’s obscene.

The party, polymorphed in a herd of giant 20 tall ft mammoths, charged their way free from the combat, and desperately flung themselves from a 200ft edifice. All but one cancelled the polymorph and mounted the remaining mammoth, who was desperately working on lighting and smoking his pipe that granted flight to arrest their death fall into the sea. When they landed, the mage cast feet to fin, and they power-boated away on their giant mammoth companion to escape from the horrible fire demon that was giving them a one minute head start while it nuked their starting point.

Just normal game night. #TTRPG

After some bemused consideration, the party agreed that a summoning circle is indeed a condom for inter-dimensional spells, and that they’d been irresponsible for not using one. #TTRPG

​​ people who often find themselves embroiled in drama are themselves cultivators of drama. Very rarely has this observation not served me well.

@niko@gts.niko.lgbt make is a mad dog of a tool more than happy to snap at the hand that feeds it. ​:btr_ryo_lurk:​

For any serious compilation I reflexively specify a job integer (e.g., make -j8 or $(nproc)) because I don’t trust make to not screw me. Make cannot be trusted with freedom.

@Hydrangea@sakurajima.moe I have. It’s hard to get people to use something else but I generally tell them that I will only have certain conversations in certain environments and they can move the conversation over or not talk. You decide your own boundaries.

That and I think it’s really good to encourage having several ways of communicating with people on several platforms. Resiliency is another important if separate issue. You are not as bound to Discord if you have another way to contact and organize your friends, for example.

me: I shouldn’t do thing because it could be construed as disrespectful
other person: I think it’s fine because person won’t take it bad or make a fuss

In which I have to explain that respectful conduct is something exists outside of an individual’s specifically bled-for boundaries.

It’s not that everyone _can’t_ hear you scream, it’s that no one wants to acknowledge your scream, and that in most ways is far worse.