If you want a really simple ruleset, try matrix games. It is only 70 words.

Doesn’t come with a setting though.

Just started with it on a Hetzner host. Only one lesson learned so far: Memories is awesome and better than the default Photos app.

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That is Jason Cordova wrote at least.

I consider it “short-term positive but long-term negative”. Using it occasionally is nice just like having a drink. If you do it every day however, it will bite you eventually.

Like any fiction, roleplay requires some suspension of disbelief from the players. If they become aware of the quantum ogres it breaks that and ruins the fun.

It hate it when computer games advertised something like “8 different endings!” Eight endings means there are only three meaningful yes-no decisions to make. All the other thousands of tiny decisions I make in the game will have no impact on the story. They only determine if I make progress or get stuck or maybe the order of scenes. The beauty of (sandbox) ttrpgs is that every small decision can actually matter.

Morally, the difference is for what purpose you rehost stuff. The great thing about archive.org is that it has a clear purpose of preservation. If someone does it on their homepage where they also sell other stuff, the purpose might be to increase traffic and sales, so the purpose becomes murky.

I hope Lemmy will become this. Here is my strategy:

1. Create a Lemmy community (for example !automotive@discuss.tchncs.de).
2. Submit something every few days. Not much quality control. Quantity over quality for now.
3. Hope for a community to form.

Electric Bastionland is weird fantasy in an age where they just invented electricity. Very simple rules.

By mindset I assume stuff like “don’t be too attached to your character because death is likely” and “GM is impartial referee and must never fudge a roll”.

What do you mean by “OSR”? Not just asking what the acronym means, but what does OSR mean to you? E.g. only D&D versions older than 20 years? What about Traveller (SciFi, not D&D compatible)?

I generally agree. The problem is you probably never know in advance if a new group will have enough action to sustain itself or if it will die.

My assumption is that the primary reason for a split is that some group is invisible in add larger group because it is smaller. For example, in a general „rpg“ group it will be mostly about D&D 5e. Everything else is barely visible. So someone will try to create another group. Zero problems:

• How to split? There are multiple dimensions and „not D&D 5e“ is a stupid name. One could split by system, by genre, by publisher, or whatever. It is effectively a random choice.

• Due to the invisibility in the large group, nobody knows how many will follow into the splinter group. That is the risk.

Ironsworn: Delve free today. Ironsworn itself is practically free anyways. This is the dungeon crawling extension.

I’m happy with Feedbro.

The big lesson I learned from the demise of Google’s feedreader was that people are using them very differently. The solutions that sprung up were so different, it was amazing that they all were happy with Google feedreader before.

If understood Chris in the video correctly, he doesn’t use a feedreader at all. Essentially, the blog roll on his own blog is his feedreader.

PbtA needs more love in the Fediverse, so a hearty welcome to the Dungeon World people especially!