Wandering Adventure Party

@mkb @shauna I'm pretty sure that's the reason, or at least I've read it too. You can get some quite fat bubbles if you skip it.

Whether it makes any actual difference though I don't know.

Have this joke table about #osr #domainPlay that I found while tidying my Obsidian

Finally got around to uploading scans and notes for the last weeks of my #dungeon23 project - yes actually from 2023. It's been a while.

I was thinking of doing an actual megadungeon #dungeon26 but I'm still not sure. I've been reading #Stonehell and playing #ArdenVul recently which has made me think of megadungeons. The theory is that it will make the "blank days" easier by letting me fill in corners but I dunno if that's realistic.

The rest of my Dungeon23

After a long pause I've finally uploaded the remaining scans of my #dungeon23 project. I'm free! It's all on the internet now!

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I went on the free trial of Apple News Plus briefly and it's just a bigot parade. It's 90% Telegraph, LBC, and some of the Times, all endless stories about immigrants and trans people. There were a few interesting stories from other publishers, and you can block some people or "show me less of this", but if I wanted to spend hours every week curating a news feed I could just go to the news sources that I wanted.

You can't cancel the free trial without immediately dropping it but that's fine.

@webmink Wow, blocking both the pavement and the cycle lane at the same time is an achievement.

@tezrak.bsky.social I did this in a PF2 game set in the middle of the forest. "Nobody really uses money here and they're not interested in yours, no there aren't any shops and there's no inn, but they will be hospitable to travellers if you're not an arsehole". Some PCs got rewarded with custom-dyed clothing for helping out.

I've been trying to write a city-related Flux Space recently to run in NSR Camp in two weeks' time, but it's not really going anywhere. I expect I'm overthinking it.

Flux Spaces are described here btw https://www.paperspencils.com/flux-space/ and in Knock #5. One issue I'm having is that I want to run the procedure straight for the first time but only very weird cities would have 4h "exploration turns", or ones with very hard-to-find destinations.

"Nationalism is great, just not your sort" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/20/uk-and-st-georges-flags-should-never-be-used-to-intimidate-and-terrify-says-senior-lib-dem can anyone else see the problem here

I'm very much up for a return to the 80s where anyone waving a flag was at best thought an out-of-touch retired colonel and generally just a racist.

I pre-ordered a Moflin and I'm not at all embarrassed about it. As far as I'm concerned I am well into the dystopia where my close connections are limited to robot pets, so I might as well have a robot pet as opposed to nothing at all. Also it doesn't have 5G or any other mechanism to spy on me as far as I can tell.

My combat-free B/X hack #osr was quite quick to do - it mostly just meant deleting stuff. No AC, weapons, armour, combat spells (including the "non-lethal weapon" ones, sorry no Sleep). A lot of OSE is stuff like travel rules.

I did leave weapon-like tools and protective clothing, but there are no rules for fighting with them.

Adventures might be more significant in terms of exploring this thought experiment - they more specifically indicate what the game might look like with no fights.

"Fighters are adventurers who are defined by nothing more than their persistent struggle against fate. With no special abilities apart from their toughness, in a group of adventurers they may be overshadowed by other classes, and so it is recommended they be treated as a challenge class, for players who relish trying to make their way through adventures with little more than their wits to help them."

I did start writing up that zero combat #osr version I was talking about but think I may do it in B/X now, as the entire OSE SRD is available in #obsidian ready markdown https://github.com/Obsidian-TTRPG-Community/Old-School-Essentials-Markdown - still under OGL but whatever.

Fighter is still going to be in there but as more of a challenge class. They do still get more HP I suppose.

By the way, just now I forgot I had my VPN set to a UK location (of course I use a VPN constantly) and I tried to search for a solution to a problem with Obsidian, and found a Reddit thread, and got blocked because somehow that Reddit sub contained adult content.

I'm now a digital citizen of Europe constantly. On desktop I'm from Brussels now, on my phone I'm from Norway, I think I'm from Sweden on my iPad.

One is not properly #osr until one has written a hack of some rubbish old version of D&D to "fix" it, so I decided that mine would be a hack of white box with no combat. Not just some alternative method of resolving fights but literally never mentioning combat at all, any more than it mentions cheese making (actually much more likely that will do a cheese making subgame).

I like all the exploration and adventuring stuff but am bored of the combat bits. So no combat.

Played the first session of #NimbleRPG last Monday and will be playing the second one tomorrow. I'm just running the adventures in the book - they are pretty "straight" but I always weird everything up without meaning to anyway.

Generally response has been good. One player even said he had a lot of hope for the system already. People _like_ the heroic fantasy #ttrpg thing, it's just nitpicking complexity and pointless choices they tend not to like, and Nimble is good at getting rid of those.

Reading the default setting in the #NimbleRPG #ttrpg book today and I was impressed that:

- it has one at all; many RPGs don't even come with an adventure, or maybe just a tiny one;
- it's designed to teach someone new to sandbox play how to do that. The setting is made up of hooks and there are several short adventures if players expressed an interest in an area - both usable and also examples. If you've only read 1-20 campaigns you would have no examples of writing for your own game.

Surprisingly impressed by the #NimbleRPG in its second edition. I originally wrote off the first as just a #dnd5e hack, but this pulls together a lot of #PF2e as well as other games plus its own special sauce. It does seem like it would work as advertised ie quickly and slickly, and it's written with a lot of energy (reminded me of Black Hack 2e).

Tragically it may fall by the wayside what with Daggerheart and Draw Steel coming out but so far I prefer it to either.

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Speed up your 5e or other TTRPG game nights! Slay the slog and have more fun with your RPG sessions!

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@clive I find they have the same issue as voice interfaces but worse - you can't rely on them and so checking and correcting the results takes more time than just writing it yourself, increasing hugely the more complex the thing you ask for. Generating large quantities of boilerplate so you don't have to is why we have frameworks already. So basically I (senior dev btw) do not use them at all apart from the IDE autocompletes that I can't be arsed turning off.

I don't know if I mentioned it but we put the #Grimwild game on hold. While I like a lot of things about it, in the end the basic action structure wasn't gelling with players, particularly in combat ("you aren't rolling to do a specific thing, you're rolling to achieve a goal"). Also it feels like a collaborative approach to consequences and world building is part of what makes the game work, and that part wasn't popular.

Not knocking Grimwild, we enjoyed it and I saved loads of prep time.