Hey, anyone reading here?
I just posted a call to action over on mastodon:
https://tabletop.social/web/@wandererbill/108713232989174473
It's an experiment, I guess :D
Hey, anyone reading here?
I just posted a call to action over on mastodon:
https://tabletop.social/web/@wandererbill/108713232989174473
It's an experiment, I guess :D
Cheers!
Hey, anyone reading here?
I just posted a call to action over on mastodon:
https://tabletop.social/web/@wandererbill/108713232989174473
It's an experiment, I guess :D
Cheers!
lkh@sdf-eu.org (~lkh) writes:
Hey, anyone reading here?
Lurkers unite!
I starred and shared. Hope springs eternal...
(I was a GURPS GM for many years, don't think I
ever posted here though.)
I'm still reading here. Would love to see this place get more active!
I'm in the lurker camp (here, rec.games.frp.dnd, rec.games.frp.gurps,
and a few alt.games.frp groups), along with some others unrelated to games.
I'll try to post here too, instead of just on mastodon or my blog.
Hey, anyone reading here?
lkh@sdf-eu.org (~lkh) writes:
Hey, anyone reading here?
Yep, still around. :-)
Hey, anyone reading here?
I just posted a call to action over on mastodon:
https://tabletop.social/web/@wandererbill/108713232989174473
It's an experiment, I guess :D
Cheers!
--
l...@sdfeu.org
SDF-EU Public Access UNIX System - http://sdfeu.org
I was just thinking randomly I should check here. Glad to see more than
one person as I still post rarely to RGFD, but it's dead dead.
- Justisaur
Hey, anyone reading here?
I just posted a call to action over on mastodon:
https://tabletop.social/web/@wandererbill/108713232989174473
It's an experiment, I guess :D
Cheers!
On 26/07/2022 12:49, ~lkh wrote:
Hey, anyone reading here?
I just posted a call to action over on mastodon:
https://tabletop.social/web/@wandererbill/108713232989174473
It's an experiment, I guess :D
Cheers!
Oh wow, I don't read this group for like a year and all of a sudden
there's stuff here.
I guess I should try to boost that Mastodon post as well. Or maybe not, considering the audience by this point is drastically different.
On Monday, November 28, 2022 at 6:52:10 AM UTC-8, gmk...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/07/2022 12:49, ~lkh wrote:
Hey, anyone reading here?Oh wow, I don't read this group for like a year and all of a sudden
I just posted a call to action over on mastodon:
https://tabletop.social/web/@wandererbill/108713232989174473
It's an experiment, I guess :D
Cheers!
there's stuff here.
I guess I should try to boost that Mastodon post as well. Or maybe not,
considering the audience by this point is drastically different.
2 months between activity isn't exactly alive.
Though my virtual 'tabletop' gaming is about as alive. :(
- Justisaur
On 28/11/2022 19:29, Justisaur wrote:
On Monday, November 28, 2022 at 6:52:10 AM UTC-8, gmk...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/07/2022 12:49, ~lkh wrote:
Hey, anyone reading here?Oh wow, I don't read this group for like a year and all of a sudden
I just posted a call to action over on mastodon:
https://tabletop.social/web/@wandererbill/108713232989174473
It's an experiment, I guess :D
Cheers!
there's stuff here.
I guess I should try to boost that Mastodon post as well. Or maybe not,
considering the audience by this point is drastically different.
2 months between activity isn't exactly alive.
Though my virtual 'tabletop' gaming is about as alive. :(
- Justisaur
I have mostly seen usenet after it's glory days, so 2 months is like
bustling with activity here. :D
I actually haven't played a proper game since early in the pandemic.
After a few tries over Discord I noticed that just making time to be
able to play was a chore with kids around.
I really should start something again, but I might be a bit stuck in my
ways right now.
The only roleplaying I did was introducing my kid to it. He normally
tries to gang up with the orcs and steal all the treasures in the dungeon.
On Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 1:30:52 AM UTC-8, gmk...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/11/2022 19:29, Justisaur wrote:
On Monday, November 28, 2022 at 6:52:10 AM UTC-8, gmk...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> On 26/07/2022 12:49, ~lkh wrote:I have mostly seen usenet after it's glory days, so 2 months is like
Hey, anyone reading here?Oh wow, I don't read this group for like a year and all of a sudden
I just posted a call to action over on mastodon:
https://tabletop.social/web/@wandererbill/108713232989174473
It's an experiment, I guess :D
Cheers!
there's stuff here.
I guess I should try to boost that Mastodon post as well. Or maybe not, >>>> considering the audience by this point is drastically different.
2 months between activity isn't exactly alive.
Though my virtual 'tabletop' gaming is about as alive. :(
- Justisaur
bustling with activity here. :D
Usenet was 'dying' when I joined, but it was pretty bustling in the
groups I was following. RGFD sometimes had hundreds of posts in some
threads within days, and I couldn't keep up with all of it. The only
one I'm in with much left going on with posts almost every day is comp.sys.ibm.pc.gaming.action. The monthly 'what have you been playing
this month' threads are usually pretty active. The Elden Ring thread
reached over a hundred posts too. No one limits it to action any more though, any pc gaming, and even a little console/mobile has leaked in,
and even a touch of tabletop once in a blue moon. The monthly thread typically has a bit of neighbor like non-gaming updates too
Same here, kids. I tried discord with r20 with the locals, wow that
was over a year ago now! It went a bit too late and I kept falling
asleep, it was also 5e D&D which I find slow and boring which didn't
help with the falling asleep. I never used to fall asleep at games,
even in my college days when they'd go to morning, but I'm getting on
in years.
My favorite was before covid when I ran some chat D&D & Mutant Future
(Gamma World clone) games on roll20, that was voice though, and
scheduling was rough again. Getting people for text chat seems to be
more difficult now. Also my last one imploded spectacularly due to
some conflicts amongst players and playstyles.
The only roleplaying I did was introducing my kid to it. He normally
tries to gang up with the orcs and steal all the treasures in the dungeon.
Awesome! I tried a little with the kids right before covid, didn't get
very far. My son doesn't want to play, even though he was a natural.
My daughter does, but she wasn't far enough along to do much last
time. Also we moved into a small space temporarily 2 years ago, the
it's really cramped, there's nowhere I could put a battlemat down any
more, which I prefer to play with. I was going to try to run Star Wars original d6 for them, as my son reluctantly agreed to try that, but I couldn't even get through the book myself.
I have mostly seen usenet after it's glory days, so 2 months is like
bustling with activity here. :D
I actually haven't played a proper game since early in the pandemic.
After a few tries over Discord I noticed that just making time to be
able to play was a chore with kids around.
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
I have mostly seen usenet after it's glory days, so 2 months is like
bustling with activity here. :D
Well, I think that NNTP is better than mailing lists.
I actually haven't played a proper game since early in the pandemic.
After a few tries over Discord I noticed that just making time to be
able to play was a chore with kids around.
In the beginning of the pandemic, I have still played GURPS, on the
computer, using a direct connection (since I am the only player and
there is the GM, we do not need something more such as IRC). I used
a command like:
ts '%.s>' | tee -a send.log | nc -Clvt 15154 | ts '%.s<' | tee -a recv.log | sed 's/$/\x1B]0;CONNECTED\a/'
The other side just used PuTTY (since they were on Windows, while I used Linux), and sent a bell upon connection to notify me they were ready. (I could also see the window title, which is what the "sed" at the end does.)
Afterward, I used a command like the following to combine the logs:
cat send.log recv.log | sort > full.log
If you want to play by computer, this is a simple way to do it.
However, that has not been used in a while; these days I play in person,
and do not need to do it by computer. We both prefer to do it in person, rather than by computer.
I also would hope this and other newsgroups would continue to be used. I
have written some ideas before, and perhaps with communication, will be
able to work together to make them. (I wanted to make up "Scientific Role Playing System", which is fully public domain; I have already partially
done so. I use TeX for typesetting.)
The only roleplaying I did was introducing my kid to it. He normally
tries to gang up with the orcs and steal all the treasures in the dungeon.
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
The only roleplaying I did was introducing my kid to it. He normally
tries to gang up with the orcs and steal all the treasures in the dungeon.
But isnt't that what most D&D players like to do? :D
On 06/12/2022 18:23, Laurens Kils-Hütten wrote:
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
The only roleplaying I did was introducing my kid to it. He
normally tries to gang up with the orcs and steal all the
treasures in the dungeon.
But isnt't that what most D&D players like to do? :D
Most murderhobos I think murder the denizens instead of trying
to build their own little domain with orc minions
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote in
news:tmo37s$9tlf$3@dont-email.me:
On 06/12/2022 18:23, Laurens Kils-Hütten wrote:That comes later, after enough murder hoboing for it get boring.
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
The only roleplaying I did was introducing my kid to it. He
normally tries to gang up with the orcs and steal all the
treasures in the dungeon.
But isnt't that what most D&D players like to do? :D
Most murderhobos I think murder the denizens instead of trying
to build their own little domain with orc minions
(And it's not like there isn't precedent in mythology. Have you ever
read Beowulf?)
On 06/12/2022 21:13, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote in
news:tmo37s$9tlf$3@dont-email.me:
On 06/12/2022 18:23, Laurens Kils-Hütten wrote:That comes later, after enough murder hoboing for it get
kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
The only roleplaying I did was introducing my kid to it. He
normally tries to gang up with the orcs and steal all the
treasures in the dungeon.
But isnt't that what most D&D players like to do? :D
Most murderhobos I think murder the denizens instead of trying
to build their own little domain with orc minions
boring.
(And it's not like there isn't precedent in mythology. Have you
ever read Beowulf?)
I think he doesn't actually want to play the usual DnD conflict
game, he rather wants to skip ahead to the part where he builds
fortresses, or when he is the dungeon master.
Which might be good. He wants to play DnD because I got some
terrain for it and he is fascinated with that. But what I think
he might be much more interested in games that are much less
about conflict. Not that I play DnD as a combat simulator
anyway.
I have to think what sort of things might hook him into some
adventure. The rules for now are just something for me anyway.
Maybe something about exploration, or a game where he has to
build something up somewhere.
The only roleplaying I did was introducing my kid to it. He normally
tries to gang up with the orcs and steal all the treasures in the dungeon.
I cast magic missile at my brother!
Ha, I tried a quick one shot with the two teenage boys:
You're in a tavern, there's a distressed lady, lost son etc etc, what do
you do?
I cast magic missile at my brother!
I'm not sure what I expected, really.
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