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AndreasDavour

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I usually consider myself a #ttrpg gamer, who also likes his #boardgames.

I'm also an IT professional with a love for old computers, hacker culture and #retrocomputing.

I enjoy #wuxia in film and literature, and also books in general.

I practice #xingyi and #WingChun .

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miriamrobern , to random
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Killing time before my meeting starts by adding a bunch of trans books to BookWyrm.

Do y'all know BookWyrm? It's an ActivityPub-powered book review site. An alternative to Goodreads and other "corporations want to know what books you're reading to better profile your shopping habits."

https://books.theunseen.city/user/miriamrobern

AndreasDavour ,
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@miriamrobern I found BookWyrm to be kind of stressful. Everyone seemed to be reading so much...

Tim_Eagon , to random
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Mork Borg gets a lot of shit for it's hard to read layout and graphic design, but have you ever tried to read an issue of World of Cthulhu?

AndreasDavour ,
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@Tim_Eagon I haven't looked at those in years. Now I'm afraid to take them down off the shelf.

chgowiz , to random
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After 5 days of fevers, about 5 days of no energy and then 5 days of trying to cough up my lungs, I'm about at 80 to 90% of my normal self. Two weeks lost to this bug.

Nasty stuff. I've not been this sick probably since the mid/late 70s. Don't know if its age or just the bug, or both... but ye gods, that sucked.

I feel disconnected from social media and the like, so it might take me a bit to get back into "normal" mode...

AndreasDavour ,
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@chgowiz Good to hear you are feeling better again. That does sounds like a wringer!

AndreasDavour , to random
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The 3rd ed of actually say in the book it will be the final edition of the game. Interesting, considering there have been two more editions published, and something like a new one again being mentioned earlier this year. I wonder why they wrote that?

AndreasDavour OP ,
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@SJohnRoss I don't think I have seen that many promises like that. Promises of releases to come, on the other hand.

But, it would actually be fun to see such a list, just to get an idea of what people were expecting, and how it turned out.

AndreasDavour OP ,
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@SJohnRoss ah! Now I see what you mean. Yeah, that would be a sizable book indeed!

AndreasDavour , to random
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As I gear up to run , what do I do to concentrate my efforts? I did find a used copy of 3rd ed Ars Magica on my local eBay, and bought that one! It's a game I have never managed to figure out.

AndreasDavour OP ,
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@SJohnRoss "Dead Serious Arty-Pretentious Gaming" sounds like one player mode I think @robindlaws should have included in his list of player types.😜

AndreasDavour OP ,
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@SJohnRoss I have a very conflicted relationship with . I never have managed to play it without the covenant becoming a giant resource management millstone around our necks.

Also, I don't think I enjoy the medievalist sim part of it either.

I do love the magic system, but have not played it in such a way it ever got used more than for player enjoyment, vs. character usage.

slyflourish , to random
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tip from the archive: Instead of asking "what do you do" when the characters enter a town, give them some options. Rest? Barhop? Investigate rumors?

AndreasDavour ,
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@slyflourish that is actually not a bad suggestion in many situations. It helps to remind the players that can do more things than "the usual".

AndreasDavour , to random
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I have been reading a few scenarios, and I have been thinking about what makes a fantasy scenario feel fantastic?

Is it fantastic creatures? Is it fantastic items and artifacts of magical power? Is it old mysterious plots and conspiracies?

I'm not sure I know what I think there. Maybe all of it?

AndreasDavour OP ,
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@SJohnRoss That's a good point. How much fantastic does matter as well. I know I've seen fantasy scenarios that are basically whodunnits with a monster in it. They rarely feel fantastic to me. OTOH I know how I sometimes have struggled with Shadow World to come alive, as it's so much of everything.

AndreasDavour OP ,
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@Tim_Eagon That was something I did not include in my list, but probably should have. The environment does a lot of work to set the mood. Yeah, you're unto something key there.

AndreasDavour OP ,
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@SJohnRoss True, indeed. That's a good reference point.

Tim_Eagon , to random
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I’ve been reading way too many recently published scenarios that feature a perfunctory investigation before the Investigators board a train to creepy town that is a one way exercise in hit point and SAN attrition. Sure, some of the imagery is very creepy, but something is definitely missing, that being real problem solving and meaningful choices.

AndreasDavour ,
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@Tim_Eagon maybe CoC and D&D are the big products that demand a steady churn of products, which almost by necessity means it's easy comfort food quality.

AndreasDavour ,
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@Tim_Eagon that reminds me there used to be "suggest me some of the best scenarios" threads on YSDC. Probably useful to sort through the chaff.

AndreasDavour , to random
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I have been thinking a bit about the ICv2 report.

I never hear anyone talk about Starfinder. I am not sure I have even seen the game. Huh.

The next weird thing is Pirate Borg. If we disregard my aversion to the whole Borg aesthetic, I find it mind boggling that the pirate theme is that strong. Baffling.

AndreasDavour OP ,
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@Tim_Eagon I must have missed those months completely!

AndreasDavour OP ,
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@Tim_Eagon Hmm. Maybe you're correct about that.

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