The derpy horses.

Seriously though, the sense of action and movement that they convey. Medieval art tells a story.

Long term stability. I love knowing that I can just keep upgrading the same system for years on end and experience few if any disruptive changes.

ZFS and jails are pretty rad too. Oh and boot environments.

Sounds like you'd fit well at our table.

I don't have any unwritten rules, so to speak. But generally players can choose to do anything allowed by the game's logical reality, and if there's a chance of failure we use the best matching stat or skill check. That suits most situations.

BTW, I'm just genuinely interested in this. Please don't take me as confrontational. 😊

But don't you have a sense of what your character would do given certain situations or how they would react?

The stats and such aren't hidden. They're still there, and can be checked if needed. Out of curiosity, why do you think you'd not know what you're good at?

Oh, we still use them when we need a number that's not memorized or that I have down on a sheet (I keep track of essential character info like AC, etc).

But I find that my players think outside the character sheet much better. The character abilities extend far beyond the character sheet.

Most of them are taking notes, mapping or looking at the map, or just planning, plotting, etc.

They know the rules, but I just provide a single page handout that has most of what they need to know. Attack roll, saving throw, skill check and combat order. Eventually they don't need that either.

I have players turn their character sheets upside down unless they truly need them.

Oh, I like this idea.

Thank you! I intend to make this soon.

What is this soup called?

Everything went to shit when David Bowie died.

We need the return of Blinkenlights, rotary knobs and key switches.

It would be cooler if it were running 2.11 BSD. 😎

Seriously?

That's like saying you'd love to be a great painter because of the visuals in your favorite movies, but not studying great works of art.

This is why I have a Windows gaming PC for the handful of games that don't work well on Linux. It sits in a lonely corner when I'm not playing those games.

I use Linux and BSD for literally everything else, including most of my gaming library.

The only things that AI can do are things that bring me joy and challenge me in rewarding ways. Writing, programming, drawing, creative thought... I'm not handing that over to the Plagiarized Information Synthesis Systems.

A replica front panel of a PDP-11/70 minicomputer from the mid 1970s. It has a white outer case and the front panel shows a row of purple and red switches below a series of blinking red LEDs, like any good computer should have.

Modern computers are mostly pretty boring, so I'm tapping into the glory of the 1970s minicomputer. This is a PiDP-11, powered by a #RaspberryPi but running an accurate simulation of the PDP-11/70. It's currently running 2.11 #BSD

#retrocomputing #unix

I use this every time players actually get horses to ride in the game. Everyone has so much fun with it.

Those are incredible!

Man, I haven't seen one of those since I owned one. I used it extensively for Super Street Fighter 2.

Carefully balance every encounter against the makeup of your players' party so that unless they make terrible mistakes they can be assured they can kill everything, every time. After all, you can't afford to lose a character when they are so important to the pre-written narrative.

I'm reworking this one right now myself. There's so much good material to work with in there.

Are there more important things happening in the world? I'm not so sure. In the face of all the... *gestures wildly*... Anyone who is creating art is doing something of incredible importance.

Congratulations. You've accomplished something.

This is practically baked right into the BECMI rules, and it's such a game changer.

Ahh, magnificent.

Yours are some of my most often consulted random tables, and I always look forward to new ones. Keep up the fun and fantastic work.

The Mystara setting has a version of this in its cosmos. Two of the 5 Spheres of Power are Time and Entropy (the sphere of Death, devils and fiends). Time's opposing sphere is Matter. So perhaps Time makes a deal with Entropy to foil the building of an Indestructible Ziggurat of the Ages.

Share a great male villain.