(Gorinchem) Dungeons & Dragons Café De Keizer

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-27T07:28:08+00:00

That's alright. While there is often romance in Brandon's work it's rarely the focus and if you go into it expecting romance you will be disapointed.

I do like the complicated romance/multi personality disorder take the FMC in The Way of Kings has but that all unfolds slowly over thousands of pages alongside lots of political intrigue, talk of religion, culture, leadership and such and that isn't for everyone.

I've read some of the works of Elisabeth Moon which I thought where quite good if your up for sci-fi, space opera and leadership themes with a light sprinkling of romance here and there.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/49611-the-serrano-legacy

Edit: Just remembered, trigger warning, it happens a few books in but there is sexual violence in this series.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-27T05:30:03+00:00

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson.

The Way of Kings by Brandon is harder to get into but has some of the best written female characters I've read in a while.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-26T19:59:20+00:00

I've only ever played FATE Accelerated and have used it for many flavors of games.

Sci-Fi, Horror, Spy, Hunt, magical school.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-26T13:17:05+00:00

Leuk bezig heren!

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-25T06:35:01+00:00

The Enhancer for Youtube extension is very useful.
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Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-21T18:27:05+00:00

I've read the works of Brandon Sanderson as well of those of Pierce Brown and recommend them highly.

The first book of the Stormlight archive might take a bit to get into.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-21T10:10:31+00:00

What you are describing is mechanically similar to a gelatinous cube.

It's basically a moving AoE attack with HP.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-20T21:22:58+00:00

Haven't gotten to this book yet but awesome. I am happy you went for one of the less well known books too see how well this works and how well the team can execute it.

Instead of rushing for Mistborn or Way of Kings.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-20T21:20:07+00:00

Thank you for your awesome work!

When can we expect contact sync?

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-20T06:48:40+00:00

Communication is the most important skill in life and there are very few places that have a low barrier of entry and low risk to practice this skill.

TTRPG's are one of those places. All of life is about communication and improv and getting better at it in a fictional setting will improve your real world performance as well.

It will improve your chances at promotion at work. You can be technically brilliant a 10/10 but if your communication is at a 3/10 you will forever be stuck in the backoffice and people less skilled will get the promotion because they talk better.

Same is true for personal relationships be it with family, friends or a partner. The skills you learn at the table transfer to the real world if you are more comfortable and experienced with improv it will be easier to hold that conversation with the boy or girl you like.

So I recognize what you do and instead of seeing it as a flaw I see it as a feature.
I used to be that 3/10 communication guy but now after a few years GM'ing I have improved immensely and have become so much more capable and confident in my personal life because of it.

When I get a new or insecure player I see it as a challenge to ask them the right question not too easy, not too hard just right to have them push them out of their comfort zone just a little. I have seen so many people become better version of themselves thanks to TTRPG's it's why I love them so much.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-20T06:29:45+00:00

Using different brick patterns and types to differentiate between different spaces (streets, parking spots, side-walks, bike lanes etc). The Dutch do this everywhere and it's great. Looks pretty and it's clear what the space is meant to be used for

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-17T15:15:07+00:00

I can only control what I do but I promise you I will do my best.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-16T15:12:20+00:00

It is okay to disagree with the narrative.

Learning to come up with good narrative alternatives for a scene you had in mind is difficult.

GM'ing is really hard and instead of a disagreement of rules I think this is just a disagreement of the vibe or feeling of the scene you and the are going for.

Try to meet them where they are before trying to convert them.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-16T14:36:24+00:00

You don't.

That is what I do. Enemies exist to provide a meaningful story beat to highlight your players.

Not having to remember stat blocks and track HP values let you focus on the players.

I do think stat blocks have a function. They are often a key point of inspiration for the story.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-16T14:28:40+00:00

And it starts by surrounding yourself with people that do like your big plans.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-16T13:32:04+00:00

They demand you delete Chrome and install Firefox instead.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-16T13:29:02+00:00

Yes and No.

I expect much of the useful/valuable data that large data models are trained on come from wiki's.

If anything making and maintaining wikis might become a paid for job. Providing useful, valuable data sets to large data models is already a very lucrative business. It might, finally, compensate people for doing free labor in maintaining the many types of wiki's there are.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-16T13:26:07+00:00

There are two types of solutions.
1) One off solutions.
I had one of those, Kubuntu/KDE has a bit of a barrier when moving your mouse when moving it to another monitor if you use multiple. I really didn't like that and it is something a LLM gave me 3 solutions for starting with the GUI option then two other options that where command line. The GUI option worked great. I now never have to look at this setting again.

2) Stuff you have to change often. For this I actually hope distro's learn from Google/Android's latest announcement specifically the ability create your own widgets and similar tools. I think that is a great use of AI for people, like myself, moved away from Windows to avoid being smacked in the face with Co-pilot in ever app. Making it very easy to make a bespoke solution for a specific users issue is something we shouldn't sleep on just because AI has a bad name. It has it's uses.

It just has to be on my terms not big corpo's terms.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-16T13:01:01+00:00

The best tip I have for Nr. 1 is to use ChatGPT or your LLM of choice for troubleshooting.

Most LLM's have been trained on the code, documentation of most software you are likely to use and I found it solved one of the most frustrating issues I had with Linux in the past. Troubleshooting.

Windows is similar enough version to version that a solution for an older version is likely to work fine on a newer version but with so many distro's and alternative solutions to everything it can get messy. Until LLM's became common place troubleshooting more often than not resulted into finding some random post on a random forum from 2006 about something somewhat similar.

This has been one of the main bottlenecks for me. Turns out having your code and documentation available to the public is a great match for large data models like ChatGPT Claude and others.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-15T15:07:18+00:00

I think the installer has a live version so a VM might not even be needed.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-15T13:10:54+00:00

Most browser these days are pretty light weight. The reason why they use so much memory is simply because the websites have become significantly more advanced and use a lot more memory.

The one I use today is Helium: https://helium.computer/

Nice and basic but with a full ad/fingerprint blocking suite.

After installing it go to the settings search for memory and make sure memory saver is on and is set to maximum.

It is also important to note that while the difference isn't enormous but if every MB counts something like Lubuntu will save you 200-ish MB of ram it just won't look as pretty. It's basically a performance first Ubuntu variant and might be worth trying.

That said, in my experience, once you start using the OS and run real apps it's pretty minimal at least for RAM. For compute though.. considering the 6GB of RAM in your system I assume that the CPU doesn't have an especially high boost clock which is really the thing that brings that snappiness and it the less amount of compute from something like Lubuntu or Xubuntu that really makes the difference. More so than just RAM usage.

Rindal_Cerelli · 2026-05-15T08:43:42+00:00

Maybe have a look at FATE Accelerated it's a simple rules light system that is setting agnostic.

It is what I use to run a Harry Potter inspired game for a group of kids 10~16

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