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@BigJackBrass@social.vivaldi.net @deinol@dice.camp I don't know, younger gamers in the US could probably use a four-book HERO edition that serves as body armor.
Apart from the well-aged "Asbestos and rubber factory Hamburg", this is the first time I've seen both a proper umlaut ("ä" in "erhältlich") and the workaround writing style ("Ue" in "Ueberall/Überall").
Was that something done intentional? Did they only have the lower-case umlaut for those new fancy sans serif typefaces?
#typography
So, Germany needs a boost for its industry, and the USA is going all weirdly 19th century, health-wise.
Americans, have you considered buying a Flachspüler?
Deutsche Rollenspielübersetzungen brauchen dümmere Titel. Mindestens Untertitel.
RuneQuest - Donnerwetter im Drachenpass
Kellergefängnisse & Drachen
Wilde Welten - Wo Würfel rollen wie sie wollen
Pathfinder 2 - Jetzt erst recht
Piratenburg - Sechs abgewrackte Profis
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@HeyeBodo@rollenspiel.social @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social And then of course there was Thousand Thousand Islands and that one Swiss-based game had some "devil at the roadside" narratives, although I honestly wouldn't say that it's easier to shoe-horn folk narratives into OSR, given the issues way too many people have about just doing something for the morals, not gold pieces. Whereas gallivanting about in fairy realms seems quite popular in 5E circles. Heck, even mega-crunchy pathfinder milked the Baba Yaga for all she's worth.
I think everyone likes the elements, the packaging is the difficult topic here.
Would those tales be adventures? Adventure seeds? Just re-telling Grimm's tales in a D&D-ish setting?
I wouldn't mind something like the AD&D 2E Book of Lairs, just with less fight-centrism.
And to be honest, now that I got thinking about a string of combat encounters where you fight Venetians, walriders, then some old king slumbering under a hill, and ending up with either Frau Holle or Ol' Scratch…
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@HeyeBodo@rollenspiel.social Auf den echten Tisch kommt meine DSA Mogelpackung ("Okay, gut, ich bin neu hier in der Stadt, von mir aus spiel ich DSA. Aber wie wärs mit einem anderen System, 40 Jahre vor der aktuellen Timeline"?), sonst ist hier die Zuverlässigkeit grade nicht da. Meine Stammrunde ist ja jetzt leider zu weit weg, mit der treff' ich mich nur noch online, und da gibt's wegen Tool-Support grade nur Pathfinder. Man sieht, die Systeme sind bisher nicht die Höhepunkte meines Jahres, aber solange es die fixen Gruppen sind ;)
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@HeyeBodo@rollenspiel.social Found The Dark Eye at a church library, had a bigger issue finding a group. Was very annoying to the local comic shop owners asking about their "Adventures in Magira" game. So after sporadically playing in the lands of Aventuria, there was a big splash of terminally 90s games (Shadowrun, World of Dorkness, GURPS), and a big boost when d20 madness came along. Managed to foist GURPS and HERO upon those people sometimes. Tried story games at that time quite often, but they often are like "FMV cutscenes" to me. After moving, finding The Dark Eye groups was the only good option, so the circle closes in a weird way. Dipping into OSR territory, but holy frick, definitely not "part" of it.
I still like overly complicated settings. I still haven't properly played "Adventures in Magira".
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@kaspi@rollenspiel.social Welche Altersschiene erwartest du? Wenn da jetzt Ü40er rumrennen hat man vielleicht mehr Möglichkeiten als wenn du jetzt YT/TT-gestählte Teenager "anwerben" musst, die sich dann bei allem ausser D&D 5E fühlen wie wenn bei einem Schach-Tutorial das Shogi-Brett rausgeholt wird.
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@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
"Folk tales" that are in the end about stereotypical adventures would be great. Keeping as much of the structure as possible, i.e. not just old-timey re-tellings of murderhobo stuff.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Noted. When I finally get around to creating my ICQ-as-Fediverse-DMs, I'm going to ROT13 the heck out of it.
"memory safety pilled" 🤮
This One Album a Day thing isn't doing well for me. We started with Lynyrd Skynyrd and now went down further south, quality-wise, with Oasis' debut record. To be fair, this hasn't reached that level of cultural osmosis for me, so I actually do think I'm listening to this the first time. But novelty won't save me from the vocal disaster that is [I forgot which one] Gallagher.
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@honze_net@infosec.exchange Ich weiß nicht so recht ob ich da d'accord gehen würde. Ich bin ja eher erfreut über die "alternativen" Präsentationsformate, die die erhöhten Ansprüche professioneller Produktionen umgehen. Digitale Formate ohne Druck-Brimborium, Zines, etc.
Wenn Hobbyisten versuchen die "Großen" zu emulieren sind wir jetzt nicht so viel weiter. Hingabe allein zaubert keine Künstler oder Lektoren herbei. Ein guter Index zum Beispiel scheint immer noch Luxus zu sein.
Und wie stellst du dir die i18n-Automatisierung im Verlagswesen vor? Ist ja nicht so dass DTP und CMS hier gar nichts haben, wobei halt selbst die "großen" Rollenspielverlage im Vergleich winzige Unternehmen sind, Küstenzauberer mal ausgenommen.
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@mdhughes@appdot.net I was a user for a while, but only because I needed some hosting, not for any collaborative reasons. It was okay. Interface is simple, there's quite a lot of adjacent features if you need them (mailing lists, web hosting). I'm stopped using it in a bout of reducing subscriptions, but never had any complaints.
I see it quite often here, about the same level as codeberg, slightly more often than tildegit.
I don't want to poly-bash you, dear Cookie Popup, but 228 partners just is too much.
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@HeyeBodo@rollenspiel.social @mdhughes@appdot.net The first one was a bit idiosyncratic with its magic system, if I remember correctly, but even that works well enough. It's BRP, and one of the more forgiving variants, so it's a decent enough workhorse.
I just remember that the German version back then looked so beautiful. Never actually owned that version, though. The publisher "Laurin" had some pretty awesome layout back then, their hardcover leatherette Rolemaster books still fetch a decent price.
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@moonmoth Anderes System bzw. Genre würde mir fast als einziges einfallen das einigermaßen global gilt, sonst schaue ich eher woran spezifisch es liegt. Es gibt Leute die können sich alle Game of Thrones (oder Lindenstraße, same picture) Charaktere und deren Verhältnis zueinander hören, driften aber weg sobald das Wort "Initiative" gesprochen wird. Das kann man dann auch kleinteiliger justieren.
Aber irgendwo ist auch ein Grund-Gruppenvertrag an Aufmerksamkeit da, und einzelne Spieler sollten das nicht ganz torpedieren können. (Dies betrifft halt jetzt nicht Runden wo a priori eben geringe Aufmerksamkeit gilt, weil Kinder oder Bier im Spiel sind, aber das ist dann für mich eben ein Setting/Genre/System Fall. Lieber neuer One Shot als "Bottle Episode").
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@tewha@appdot.net @mdhughes@appdot.net Which is a bit weird, given that this means that you only Delete things that aren't properly there ;) Autosave also has some other choices one has to make, e.g. I'm rather fond of code editors saving the state, without actually saving the files, so when re-opening the changes are still there, but still not saved. But for regular users and their text documents, I'm not sure that works. Then again, I'm not sure how a contemporary Word user relates to their files in the first place.
But leaving that aside, I certainly agree that the basic dialog layout was basically "solved" decades ago…
If I remember correctly, one thing Aqua added to the old Mac dialogs was that the default icon was the app icon, so that when you had a lot of windows open you knew which one the dialog belongs to, without the need for raising or even sticking the dialog to the titlebar.
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@drj@typo.social Phew, I think when it comes to technical capabilities, the early Mac format(s) probably win (NFNT/FOND). Although that wasn't quite my timeline, so I'm not sure how well the advanced kerning capabilities were actually used.
I still have a soft spot for the Unix ASCII formats, like .xpm for images, and that includes the BDF format for fonts. Adjusting a letter for your personal needs with a text editor is just neat.
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social @SamuraiSakura@mastodon.bsd.cafe Really? I think I might even have a three button USB one in my Mouse Bucket™, the were a possibility long after e.g. you weren't able to get non-Windows-keyboards anymore (and I'm talking about just three buttons in the front, there are still some mice with three buttons and a scroll while, especially those vertical "war veteran" ones).
Probably the reason why I'm still opening links with a scroll wheel click and close tabs that way.
I still miss my PS/2 Logitech Trackman (three buttons, trackball at thumb position), but the death of scroll bars have made non-wheel devices harder to use, never mind that by now I might get a bit of thumb RSI from using it longer. (They made one with a mouse wheel, too, but that's not my nirvana model)
Ah, tilde.zone is finally back. I missed you people.
Anyone ever played or even seen the "Mortal Combat" (sic) #ttrpg that was advertised in early White Dwarf issues?
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Did anyone ever hack Microsoft Encarta to include updated and/or incorrect information?
Don't tell anyone, but I sometimes put more than one expression in a single line of code
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I checked the experience table. It's rather linear. Of course this being German, just getting treasure or killing monsters isn't enough, you need to be a good player. Really get into your "Catamite" or "Unicorn Rider" character class. If you do that, you're supposed to get 90-100 XP per session. Say you're not as good at catamiting as that, and so you need 3 full sessions for the 250 XP you need per level. This means increasing your level ages you 3d4 years. Now, the human starting age is rolled on a d10, ranging from 16 to 50(!) years. You have to save vs death each time (I assume after each adventure), with a base chance of 15% once you're 60, plus 5% for each two years after that.
We should blather about Sather.
Trying this "One Album A Day" thing. Automatic sugggestion started out with Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Myh.
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Good news everyone, eine Lustknabe/Einhornreiter Multiklasse ist erlaubt!
Maybe I should jump on the bandwagon and write a Hopecrystalsolarpoppunk system/setting/adventure.
Wenn ich das richtig verstehe hat man korrekterweise mal erkannt dass es zu wenig Psychotherapeut:innen gibt die gesetzlich versorgen. Und dass die Tatsache dass jede:r hier einen "Kassensitz" für zigzehntausend Ommen kaufen muss, wenn überhaupt einer vorhanden ist (in Städten selten). Nach einer Ausbildung die schon zigzehntausend Ommen kostete – also für den Abschnitt den ein Arzt schon bezahlt bekommt.
Also hat man eine "salomonische" Lösung erfunden und es gibt halbe Kassensitze, die man überbedienen darf.
Beziehungsweise durfte. Denn mit der neuen GKV Reform die wir am Freitag aufgedrückt bekommen war das mal so. Klar, weniger Stunden bedient, weniger Stunden die man bezahlen muss. 🤦♂️
Die Situation wo man jetzt also 6 bis 18 Monate auf einen Therapieplatz warten darf ist also bald Luxus.
Und achja, vor ein paar Tagen hat man dann auch noch das Mindesthonorar gestrichen, damit die Kassen dann sagen können "Klar dürft ihr wieder 30 Patienten/Woche machen, wir zahlen euch halt nur das gleiche wie wenn ihr 17 bedient".
Ochnö, gibt nun eine Slop-Alternative zu Avespfade für #dasschwarzeauge . Das Fandom ist hier schon arg unkritisch.
Are regular people still doing that "I'm the mayor of my local pub/supermarket/bubbletea place"?
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@mdhughes@appdot.net @tewha@appdot.net Isn't this the usual "closing application with changed documents" dialog, i.e. "Don't Save" means "close app, fuck the file changes", and "Cancel" is "Shit, forgot that I still had some changes?!?"
With the recent OS race to the bottom of OS X, this is also sometimes "Delete" instead of "Don't Save".
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@bwebster @mdhughes I think the only game where this is actually RAW (besides this MM&M), is Pendragon, but there it's actually diegetic, and as a lordly knight, heirs do make sense. As a mandatory borderline between adventures, it makes little to no sense, never mind the wide definition of "adventure". The first sample adventure is a, well, let's call it a mystery, and takes 5 days to resolve. 1d4 years later, our young heroes are apparently still together, but go on another short adventuring vacation… Meh.
I'm okay with a "LFQ" action that takes random roll of dice months to perform, at which point you add some time to get the characters together, unless they invest in a HQ, and then add some travel time (without necessarily going hexcrawly), and you got a duration cooking. There's something twixt level 10 Cohen the Barbarian and Pathfindery "adventure path speedruns"…
She's being felt up by angel guys again now…
I really should prune my personal software according to a few totally arbitrary parameters, e.g.:
- Nothing by a big evil corporation
- Nothing that prominently features slop-shovelers
- Nothing from game dev circles