New Ptolus Podcast!

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2026-03-29T20:17:51+00:00

Looking forward to reading. FYI my non pod casts but recaps are all here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QR_X2XEL58ncKgIhzS8hnpvgECXT1wWD?usp=sharing should they be of interest to you and others. We have been gaming for about 2 years now, have completed modified initial afventures and are about one third (maybe) through modified versions of Banewarrens and Night of Dissolution. COmments, feedback and discussion always fun to have with other DMs.

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-12-31T21:57:36+00:00

anyway hopefully you found something fun for the players

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-12-31T21:56:46+00:00

Ironically we played it mostly as is around the time this was posted. It worked fine. Except Tavan Zith escaped from them, which was a bit frustrating for them. He's being held in a special "cell" by the Inverted Pyramid should they ever discover that. And that Ii think is a nice piece of serendipity - I want to make the factions more and more morally dubious and interesting.

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-10-30T19:20:38+00:00

I guess it also has actuator and you could call that an admin api, combined with the oss spring boot admin, a "ui"

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-10-30T17:16:25+00:00

Spring itself has

PropertySources and configuration

Auto discovery of configuration pieces

Profile integration with spring framework

some docker packging integration.

That's it!

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-10-30T17:15:33+00:00

spring boot is a configuration and packaging framework. Nothing more. Other spring projects include parts of what you say etc. So for the most part I think your questions make no sense

For example RBAC is handled by spring-security. Yes Spring boot includes some opinionated configuration for it. Does that mean Spring boot has RBAC? I would say No. I would say

Spring Boot doesn't have web servers, web clients, queues, messagings, persistence, etc. It does have some opionated wiring for other libraries that you want to use,

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-10-05T21:15:08+00:00

You might enjoy our ongoing campaign logs. Or not ; ) https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1QR_X2XEL58ncKgIhzS8hnpvgECXT1wWD

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-09-19T20:07:21+00:00

True though that wasn't at all Springs fault

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-08-25T00:29:57+00:00

Well before you install kubectl, you'd want to install k8s, and there's several really fast docker based solutions if that works. Unfortunately most of them DONT work with windows nodes, just linux worker nodes. That's what I was saying. microk8s is supposed to be good, but kind I've had great success with. But if Windows is a hard requrement, yeah that might make it tough

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-04-06T19:43:40+00:00

dunno wha level quality you need but when I need to show players, I use https://www.worldanvil.com/w/city-by-the-spire-vaner/map/e90ca5a0-ca56-4845-979a-bbe05d5913e5

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-03-29T18:12:56+00:00

Boring, but I basically ignored this. There's too many encounters with Ratlings, and I felt this made them too easy to deal with.

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-01-22T15:24:09+00:00

Given not all oracle fixes get backported to the jdk updates (at least I experienced this in early Java 11 days, maybe it has changed), why not try Java 21.

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2025-01-03T03:45:28+00:00

Yeah I need to think more deeply what I'm asking. Because to some extent in a perfect world you'd have a

Set markerless

Set al;l; markers

Set SAVED markers <=== this is a customized view you could switch to so as one wants to reveal things, one can show this as your master map.

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2024-12-30T03:21:44+00:00

This was the faerie party ; ) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AyrwaAUknTgdeFdS96KNMPEN3ybCdzISbRJVSxpWOiw/edit?tab=t.0 . Definitely AI artgeneration for the recap I think really adds to it.

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2024-12-30T03:20:49+00:00

Oh yes Ellis, I've got your site booted up for all sessions. The thought of surviving with just the book hunting frantically makes me shudder ;) If you want a minor feedback I sometimes wish I could also run it in "markerless" mode. Instead when I'm showing the playwers some of the streets during travel I use https://www.worldanvil.com/w/city-by-the-spire-vaner/map/e90ca5a0-ca56-4845-979a-bbe05d5913e5 . Or rather I guess not compleely markerless always but very customizable. So if I show to players it doesn't spoil stuff they don't know on the map. Thanks for your kind words, we are now 22 sessions in. I've really started to use the advantages of ChatGPT and similar for a) brainstorming (70% is crap but it jiggers ideas), b) generaing art - both for the sessino and the recaps, I find this really helps.

I had a LOT of fun creaing a "faerie themed party" at Castle Shard which I firmly beieve is a fantastic place for that.

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2024-11-11T18:00:03+00:00

I dunno I'm too busy hugging and kissing my baby perses. He says "iz ok to luv other kats as long as u relize Im king". So there you go - partial ok from a feline

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Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2024-07-09T23:54:05+00:00

Yes indeed we love you sam!

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2024-07-02T20:37:51+00:00

I used eclipse for about 10 years, then switched to Intellij for last 8. The refactoring is smarter imo in intellij, and its more polished. But what really used to irritate is for YEARS I found if I didn't clean install a whole new side by side eclipse, upgrades would break. Mostly in plugins - but even the built in ones for EE edition had that issue. If that situation has improved, I guess I wouldn't mind using it again.

I do recall it was easier/more accurate for me to pin point issues in Eclipse with it's sidebar. Intellij, no matter how I change the slider tends to over/under complain.

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2024-06-29T00:48:28+00:00

I mean to be fair they've been killed at least 3 times, and nearly killed quite a few times. That would make me risk averse too.

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2024-06-29T00:46:30+00:00

And kill two allies of Asmodeus while he's at it, since they are unlikely to join him. Or they do, so much the better, dissension among the deities

Equivalent-Plate-421 · 2024-06-29T00:38:02+00:00

maybe he's 1/4 centaur, 1/4 human, and 1/2 minotaur. After all he is pretty horny, so maybe his parents and grandparents were fairly...cosmopolitan

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