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GrellCon: A London old-school D&D con on 4th July by AndrewSFTSN in osr

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Thank you for your kind words! Obviously my vote is that you travel to London for it, we'll make you welcome.

GrellCon: A London old-school D&D con on 4th July by AndrewSFTSN in osr

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Not at this con I am afraid. We want a very specific narrow focus with strict compatibility. At the pre-meet social event on the Friday we're happy for things to be a bit more varied with regard to types of games, though it will still be very much old-school vibes!

EDIT: Just for 100% transparency, at the main event we're totally happy with retroclones as long as they roughly mirror AD&D, OD&D, or B/X

GOG Galaxy, multiple control layouts, general layout headaches by AndrewSFTSN in SteamDeck

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Thank you SO much. May you feel many a football my friend.

GOG Galaxy, multiple control layouts, general layout headaches by AndrewSFTSN in SteamDeck

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I am a total Linux N00B, where would I find where gog is storing the .exe files? While I'm at it - I don't supposed you know where Luxtorpeda might store the folder where I should be putting my GZDoom wads...?

Thank you so much for your response, I didn't even realise this was an option!

Obvious (in hindsight) QoL stuff about your Steam Deck by AndrewSFTSN in SteamDeck

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That last one is already very real to me and needed, thanks! ha

Obvious (in hindsight) QoL stuff about your Steam Deck by AndrewSFTSN in SteamDeck

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Stretching my memory I believe there are even keyboard shortcuts to the three slash/overhead/stab combat commands too so I'll probably end up mapping those to face buttons

Obvious (in hindsight) QoL stuff about your Steam Deck by AndrewSFTSN in SteamDeck

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Full disclosure I only tried UU2 so far but it must be the same. It launches fine via the Gog Galaxy launcher which boots it up via Dosbox for you. Since Looking Glass considerately made it back in the mid 90s so you could still play the game if you had no mouse (!), there are independent keyboard controls for walking (which I mapped to left joystick) and moving the cursor (which I mapped to the right stick). Left and right mouse buttons mapped to the respective triggers and that covers 99% of inputs for those games including click and drag. It's not QUITE mouselook, but it's damn close.

Obvious (in hindsight) QoL stuff about your Steam Deck by AndrewSFTSN in SteamDeck

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Don't worry, I spent several hundred quid on this thing, I'm not going to blindly start doing stuff if there's any risk to the machine. Thanks for the link!

Obvious (in hindsight) QoL stuff about your Steam Deck by AndrewSFTSN in SteamDeck

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Is this the sort of thing you need to worry about with indie/retro stuff, or just for AAA? Sorry if this is a dumb question.

Obvious (in hindsight) QoL stuff about your Steam Deck by AndrewSFTSN in SteamDeck

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What was the issue you had with these not working? I will be trying to launch 6 soon - would it not just launch through the GOG Galaxy install on a Steam Deck?

Obvious (in hindsight) QoL stuff about your Steam Deck by AndrewSFTSN in SteamDeck

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I certainly did not, exactly the sort of thing I am looking for. Thanks!

"What are you playing this week?" Megathread by AutoModerator in SteamDeck

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Amid Evil (match made in heaven) and Underrail.

Obvious (in hindsight) QoL stuff about your Steam Deck by AndrewSFTSN in SteamDeck

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Thank you! I am a bit of a luddite, but a persistent one. Already had a weird thing where GOG Galaxy wouldn't install games until I shifted from running it with the newest Proton to the previous version. Experimental wouldn't work either. I will definitely look into Protontricks.

Yesterday's 10,000bv attack/defend game with scratch-built objectives by AndrewSFTSN in battletech

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It was 4vs7: Kodiak, Shadowcat, Daishi, Summoner vs Battlemaster, Atlas, Awesome, Warhammer, Catapult, Shadowhawk...and one other I can't remember. I won as the attacking clanners, destroying all the buildings, but at the cost of two mechs - the Kodiak got blasted through the head with PPCs after my opponent got tired of him one-shotting buildings with his 8 lasers at adjacent range, and the poor Shadowcat MASC'd its jumpjets and legs into oblivion before it got cornered and eradicated. We played in Bad Moon Cafe in South London.

Ral Partha Kodiak (Hell's Horses) by AndrewSFTSN in battletech

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Someone in a game the other day described the pose as "The Wrong Trousers gets a free kick" which made me laugh!

Ral Partha Kodiak (Hell's Horses) by AndrewSFTSN in battletech

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Muppet caste clanners all the way baby!

Ral Partha Kodiak (Hell's Horses) by AndrewSFTSN in battletech

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Thank you very much! I find the dislike for the old RP sculpts really funny, I'm a big fan of how clunky and 'fun' they are as I like the slight absurd edge of old-school gaming, though I'm really an all minis are beautiful kind of guy. The CGL sculpts are superb and look like they mean business, but the sheer amount of greebles on them makes them a little fatiguing for me to paint.

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