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[–] wordman@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

This will disappoint Scott Hanson so much.

 

At the risk of triggering one or more unanswerable RPG discussions that occur over and over without end, here is a terrific post about unanswerable RPG discussions that occur over and over without end:

https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/ten-unanswerable-evergreen-discourses/

[–] wordman@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’d put down the Browns trade for Watson the same year as slightly worse.

[–] wordman@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use Leap (https://ironicsoftware.com/leap/). One of its better features is that it works great on top of any “folder system”, or even multiple folder systems. Also uses the metadata/tagging system of the OS, so plays nice with other tools.

[–] wordman@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Apparently there are mics on the tips of the goal posts.

#thunk

[–] wordman@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

As a Shadowrun player, I know that “arcology” is a much worse epithet than “hive city”. Well… unless it’s in Chicago.

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Arcology in planning stages (www.newmurabba.com)
 

If you need plans for an arcology as big as “20 Empire State Buildings” for your cyberpunk game, look no further.

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Hasbro lays off 1,100 (techcrunch.com)
 

Hasbro is shedding 1,100 jobs. SEC filing doesn’t say if they will continue renting Pinkertons.

[–] wordman@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I read this post as a question.

 

In its 2024 lineup of #stamps, the US Postal Service is including stamps commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons.

[–] wordman@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Third and long, Denver. Time for another ineffectual screen pass.

 

Researchers who recorded direct neural signals from people listening to “Another Brick in the Wall” have reproduced a recognizable version of the song from the neural data.

[–] wordman@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Mile High PA guys are seriously playing “Shake It Off” right now.

[–] wordman@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Denver can’t even tank a season properly.

[–] wordman@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Every year, I dream that the NFL will come to its senses and realize that Thursday night football sucks for everyone involved.

[–] wordman@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

You might actually want to look for RPG systems that are a particular kind of bad.

Some systems with decent math behind them fail because they are too fiddly. They might have tons of modifiers to track, cumbersome rolling, lots of traits based on averages of other traits, and so on. Those types of systems can often be great for things like MUDs, because the computer can hide most of it from the player. And, maybe a roll takes 10 times as long, but that just means the software can do it in 10ms instead of 1ms, so who will care?

If Earthdawn was open licensed, I’d suggest it as being “the right kind of bad”. It’s weird exploding pool step system is interesting because the dice for each step are set up such that the average roll of the pool is approximately the step number.

 

One of the more informative posts on the current OGL curfluffle, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, written by Kit Walsh, both a senior staff attorney at the EFF and designer of Nebula- and Ennie-winning RPGs.

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D&D "under monitised" (www.dicebreaker.com)
 

D&D's corporate overlords have "ideas" about milking more money from the franchise.

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The Whispering Deck (wordmanward.itch.io)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by wordman@lemmy.ml to c/rpg@lemmy.ml
 

A deck of many things-style artifact for Dungeon World, based on the real-world Decktet. Creative Commons and free.

 

The Indicator (a daily 10 min economics podcast) explains why Hasbro is involved in a proxy fight over its Wizards of the Coast division.

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