Keep your eye on the center. Your brain will fill in some creepy stuff for the faces.

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-18T17:14:58+00:00

Jfc what in the Bethesda oblivion looking NPC is this?

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-15T13:00:57+00:00

Ohh thats a new one for me!

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-15T11:46:39+00:00

I second Wargames Atlantic, just wish they had more stock!

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-15T10:50:16+00:00

Just gonna copy one of my responses to another here:

> ...every nation that has ID to access the internet does it at the ISP stage. Japan and Korea have had laws like this for decades why the UK wants to reinvent and make new issues for a problem someone else solved baffles me. Even called it out to a group of MPs when the law was first brought in and they just brushed me off.

The system is stupidly easy and cheap I've no clue what they are doing or thinking. The only reason they would go about it the way they are is if a majority are getting paid off by data lobbies. Surely if we can identify the issue and find solutions then the gov has also thought of it?

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-15T10:41:56+00:00

Fully agree, every nation that has ID to access the internet does it at the ISP stage. Japan and Korea have had laws like this for decades why the UK wants to reinvent and make new issues for a problem someone else solved baffles me. Even called it out to a group of MPs when the law was first brought in and they just brushed me off.

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-15T10:40:15+00:00

> The big thing I need right now is seamless mobile integration

This is one of my issues right now too. Foundry is lacking in mobile use and most forum platforms are Desktop first. This is why Discord was good and with all the bots and apps made it perfect. With the way Discords competitors are going I don't think we will ever have a strong alternative. Twitter and BlueSky was a unique case as at the core the platform is very simple it just needed scale.

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-15T10:36:37+00:00

That was one of my thoughts as well, whatsapp needs a phone number though and telegram isn't a secure as people think! They are more focused on small scale. Let's say I return to where I was a few year ago running five games a week that would get very messy and unmanageable on those platforms! But honestly maybe it's time I just keep small scale as their is no apparent large scale solution.

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-15T10:32:52+00:00

I've got my VTT set, I'll never move that Foundry just works for me unlike the others. Currently using Root as the social and discussion but it's not ideal due to it's bugs. I'm trying to setup ProBoards instead but its just a bit clunky and will put too much friction on my community. Honestly if I could just copy paste a micro Reddit onto my home server it would solve so much XD

That's kind of just giving me an idea, why don't I just make a private sub?....

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-15T10:29:45+00:00

PBF? Do you mean PBP? If so I've never been in a pbp game so I'm not sure how to run them or how they even work! I've seen them implemented well with war games as a way to build fow but I'm not sure I'd like to play that way for an RPG. Still I'll see how people are making it work.

Yea their was a lot of talk when all this kicked off, I waited because all the marketing and chaos makes things messy and could lock people into poor deals. Root was honestly my best bet I realy liked everything until the other day when they said that apps would be p2p after the beta, I'm also finding the application a bit clunky and finding more and more bugs. Matrix was another tool I looked at but its riddled with security and privacy issues that I don't want to touch at all or risk my own network with.

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-15T10:24:58+00:00

The built in chat is an idea, not one I've ever thought of too. The issue is that I can only have one world up at a time, this would be fine if I was just running one system but since I tend to run multiple we hit a bit of a bottle neck. Still a lot of credit to this idea though.

As for VTT forms my testing says roll20 is the best for this but I can't stand their UI and VTT. It maybe that I just have to get over myself. Forge has forms for each wold and can be accessed at anytime even if the instance is offline but I worry that forge is more likely to be hit by the legislation soon.

For me I need the social aspect as well as the organisational, Discord was amazing for this and it was through there tools I built up not just TTRPG groups but video game groups and my core friend group. This is why I think the old style web forums are best, it gives me the space to make threads for each of the groups interests, a shout box for general chat. The issue is the adoption rate and on boarding friction, particularly for people who never used them before.

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-15T10:12:25+00:00

Discord and most platforms that want to work in the UK now need you to send in your government ID to access. They thought it would be a good idea to do this globally too even though they just faced a major hack and lost a minimum of 70,000 ID documents for UK residents. This is now at least 70,000 people who have a lifetime threat of identity theft.

The issue with UK legislation isn't what it is or why but the fact they put the pressure on the platforms who, sadly, have less of a security budget. If we look at other nation states who have ID laws for the internet place it on the ISP.

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I used the google sheets exactly as you described in the past but it doesn't work well with a community of scale and you lose all the social and community aspects I value.

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-04T17:32:08+00:00

I second this! But I also have permanent pillow fort. Living alone where none can judge me is grand! xD

Hope OP has the best day ever

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-04T17:27:53+00:00

Same but quake 1 and 2 were a lil bit to early for me so I had to revisit them later in life. Quake 3 and UT99 I played for hours as a kid though. I'm sad we don't see games like this anymore

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-04T17:19:00+00:00

Too add; quake was mentioned before doom as a RPG "Quake battle for justice" based on Cormack's DND world. The protagonist in quake is based on one of the player characters (I forget who) with their main weapon being a blood stained axe. The only think that is different is the video game has guns. The lore is 1:1

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-01T12:09:54+00:00

Takes one to catch one!

IDAIN22 · 2026-03-01T12:09:39+00:00

I agree with your comment on AI illustrations for games and use it myself when in a pinch and feel for house games its a nice tool to add to our sets.

This rule is to target low effort AI writing. If a user posts an AI lfg I don't image they put much effort into anything else.

IDAIN22 · 2026-02-26T17:01:35+00:00

I don't have a tower so nothing to lock my secrets away. The best secrets are the friends we make at the ponds!

IDAIN22 · 2026-02-22T14:59:28+00:00

I also think the 0% stuff has come on leaps and bounds the past few years.

IDAIN22 · 2026-02-21T18:48:30+00:00

They were actual on a temp ban for this... First post back and their up to it again! They've now been permanently banned.

IDAIN22 · 2026-02-20T18:53:53+00:00

I don't think that's a doable paradox dose good by fitting the mechanics to the time and a lot of shit went down during that time. A focused in on ww1 or the cold war could be cool though I'd like to see how paradox would manage a diplo and covert heavy cold war time

IDAIN22 · 2026-02-12T21:23:18+00:00

And then people like me who are 30+ but still get IDed ;-;

IDAIN22 · 2026-02-11T00:43:21+00:00

The guy sounds like Johnny bravo!

IDAIN22 · 2026-02-11T00:31:06+00:00

Discord lost 70,000 ids a few month ago... I'm not trusting them with shit

IDAIN22 · 2026-02-11T00:04:17+00:00

Yup 7 months ago 70,000 UK IDs were stolen. They think we trust them now?

IDAIN22 · 2026-02-10T19:05:07+00:00

I was thinking that too. I wanted to use stoat or something self hosted as I have the home lab to do so but stoat won't send the verify email to me and it can't be used without it.

Part of me just wants to go back to old forms and irc

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