I received my big box of Dolmenwood this weekend and haven't stopped reading. I really hope my prior prep pays off and I get to session 0 in the next week or two. Here's an overland travel cheatsheet for anyone wanting to jump in - it looks so much fun- enjoy!
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Yeah ... that couch doesn't know what danger it's in. Also, clown show from the orange emperor - a global embarrassment.
Heads up if, in addition to being besotted with table top role playing games, you're also in to photography then feel free to follow over on photofly. From a walk this morning where I got these three boats silhouetted against the incoming storm front ... seconds before they were all blown over.
To all media companies trying to bring back the nostalgia of waiting a week for an episode - stop it. We're not living in a world of simple script self contained episodes. Your convoluted arse script requires immediate continuity. Waiting a week so you need a recap is dumb. The end.
Me neither... holy shit. Got to the bit with him raping her in front of his kid and went nope, I'm out.
The court document makes some pretty harrowing reading.
Looking through Sandman again and there is some very dark shit in there (restaurant scene anyone?). Kinda leaves you wondering now whether it wasn't just some expression of his inner fantasy life. So unbelievably sad and disappointed.
Damn this Neil Gaiman situation keeps getting worse and worse. I loved his books. Such an awful betrayal for fans and people who believed he was amazing for so many years. If even a fraction of what he did turns out to be true he needs to spend a long time looking at a very small room.
It's ridiculous given how good most other things are.
Like seriously, what's the end game for the human race if hyper capitalism gets to choose AI over people? Does automation need a tax that flows to job creation? I'm not seeing the swathes of new jobs replacing the ones AI is taking.
Reading an internal case study about a customer deploying genAI agents that can do in an hour what it takes a financial analyst a week to do. Customer frothing about scale and efficiency. Nobody talking about impending redundancy for the analyst. I hate this trend.
Yeah mate. Could so happily win the lotto and be done with the pointless grind to survive. I'd full my time with creativity, interest, and RPGs 😄
Thank you Bluesky. I just don't know how I'm going to get through the next couple of years without this.
It is only fair that the great Nyarlathotep is the first output of the new printer. All hail the crawling chaos.
Kill team is good fun. Plague Marines are disgustingly resilient.
I struggle more with exploration turns turning potentially turning the passage of time into a resource management game.
You'd need a way to create urgency and scarcity in those settings. Dungeon turns as a background timer works well to drive action and risk reward decision making but agree if overly focused on and treated mechanically it breaks immersion.
After one hell of a 2024, I struggled with all the forced cheer & jolly. It's a surprisingly stressful time of year.
This. Thank you.
America is beyond a joke now.
Factorio is breaking my brain.
Nice. An ongoing influx of my tribe.
A few technical issues - VOD up tomorrow. Audio is a pain in the a$$. Any gurus out there that can help me with 1/ getting local audio back to discord and 2/ reliably capturing player cameras from discord in OBS. These are my two biggest pain points currently.
We will also be doing occasional one-shot or small campaign adventures where we delve into new systems and figure it out together on stream as we play. If a chill homestyle approach to gaming is your jam (and no we are not voice actors) then join us and hang out.
We're currently a group of Australian friends who have been roleplaying for a long time who come together weekly to enjoy various games. We're currently streaming Masks of Nyarlathotep (Egypt Chapter) on Tuesdays at 8pm AEST
Important update: I've created a 2nd channel called Roll for Sanity to focus on the tabletop roleplaying streaming content in particular. This channel will continue to focus more on the content creation, game creation, art and writing side. Follow over on bsky.app/profile/ther...
I couldn't get into this one. For me the pinnacle of solo boardgames is still Friday boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43...
I think it's the premise of "Your traveller has had an entire career in this universe for decades" vs "You grew up in a small village in a small valley and are keen to see what's over the hill". Though starting local with a one-shot and moving out into the lore and worldbuilding works for me.
Ok so have some new gear wired in for tomorrow night's stream. I've isolated out the audio sources for better control and have a decent microphone in place. Am still a little worried about the music going to the VODs as I don't feel like hitting a copyright strike off the bat. Any suggestions?
And so we begin on out tentative venturing into the scary world of online content. Join @captainrnu.bsky.social and @tssalvador.bsky.social as players in the greatest ttRPG story ever told. We continue our now year long campaign of Call of Cthulhu - Masks of Nyarlathotep. youtu.be/qmai1pFSGZQ?...