Wandering Adventure Party

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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 fussIn 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.

Cars are like pets: if you can’t afford to the medical/mechanical repair costs, you shouldn’t have one. But people have choice.

“Have you checked the coolant levels?”“I don’t know how”You’ve been an adult for 20 years, how do you not know?For those in a similar position: your cars owners manual is your friend.

It’s always interesting how in media reporting, the mistakes of other political systems are unavoidable and independent of historical and cultural context. In the same breath, we are somehow always able to argue for “fixing” capitalism, even though we’ve been trying and failing in every context for the better part of two centuries.

Something that’s missed with all this trade tariff nonsense is that it plays into the hands of the global right wing. Snubbing every nation left and right is stoking nationalist indignation and right wing movements by proxy. Especially for neoliberal-lead nations that just want the chaos to end so they can go back to quietly bureaucrating, old people social clubbing, and making money.

I like hitting things in TTRPGs. A good game for me has some hitting stuff and some good deal not hitting stuff. But I can never find a system that balances it. Most games with satisfying hitting systems treat their characters as war gaming units with window dressing. This being all the D&Ds for example. They may contain some abilities and skills for when not hitting stuff, but they must be purchased at the expense of hitting stuff, and to players the stakes of combat always seem higher even they they are not, so that’s where the build points go. That’s even if it’s plausible - most games have extremely weak non-combat skill systems. That and these systems give their combat abilities far more control over the combat situation than noncombat abilities give them over the non combat situations. They’re just worse value. I feel like we should separate these aspect of character development and work in better ways to give the players more control in non combat scenes so the GM doesn’t have to carry the whole thing… and still keep a decent hitting things system when we do it. #TTRPG

If any part of me is dead, that makes all of this a ghost story.

The beer clone I made turned out to be somewhat hilarious. Whoever wrote the clone recipe was completely off their knocker and did zero research. They called it Cascadian Dark, when the original (after I visited the brewery) is an English Brown. My choice to replace all the cascade hops with a Hallertau derived hop on a whim was a good one - because that’s what the original does. Because you know, they advertise their main hop, which the clone author completely ignored. Cascades in a sweeter beer like this would have ruined it. The main mistake I made in this beer is that I didn’t sparge enough and get enough product, which caused me to also over carb it. Not the worst, but it’s a bit too heavy and it bubbles out of the bottle. If I’d cut this with another gallon of water it’d be a pretty sweet beer. As it stands it’s ok. A bit boozy. Got some of that home brew flavor.On to the next one I guess.

There’s always the possibility running GURPS dungeon Fantasy and GURPS Mysteries ​​ but last time I looked at GURPS it seemed wildly complicated. #TTRPG

@joe@social.jifish.co.uk thank you for suggestion though. I think after this campaign I’m going to sit down and hack out something of my own since this niche seems … barren.

I spent some time reading though Palladium Fantasy RPG just to get a sense of it. … well, this is by far the craziest organized rule book I have ever read. We’re in step 2 of character creation why are we talking about death rules and resurrection? Why are we talking about that, and character classes are a hundred pages away? The author is like a squirrel with bad memory; he just shoves his nuts where ever he wants and forgets about them. Central mechanics are all inferred, not explained. The skill list is insane. Why is BREEDING DOGS a skill? Why is it different from animal husbandry? Why are athletics, forced marching, and running separate skills? Why is mathematics two different skills? Do we really need falconry? Why is tracking humans different from tracking animals? When do I call for acrobatics, and gymnastics? Why do we get pages of inane highly specific side rules, but for core rules we need to read between the lines? WHAT KIND OF GAME ARE YOU RUNNING, author!? Why are there like, 6 different ways to kick someone? Why does every paragraph feel like I’m being taught the system by my uncle bob? Why do we keep talking in acronyms before they’re introduced?I am not sure how anyone plays this game. #TTRPG

Fun fact: I don’t have an active crunchyroll subscription and don’t use the site. They informed me today that last season, I watched 123,456 episodes, totaling 123,456 hours. That’s 14 straight years of anime for those keeping track. They have some hot shit programmers over at Crunchyroll. Though this isn’t as bad as when they issued my friend an electronic and expired gift certificate. #anime #crunchyroll

And my friend is still asking me to do reviews on their LLM generated game system. ​​ ahhhhh