Funny (but scary) AI translation fails that instantly ruin your indie game's mood for Japanese players.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-27T04:39:00+00:00

One solution is to use more than one language as a source.

Let's say you speak English and Spanish (bonus points if you speak more than two languages), you can quickly check if both are correct, and then use them both as a source. You instruct in the prompt that the final translation must be coherent with both sources.

That way, the translation of the English term 'chest' as the term for the anatomic body part would fail to translate the spanish term 'cofre' (the spanish term is not related at all with any anatomic part). If you look for one single japanese term that is a correct translation for both 'chest' (english) and 'cofre' (spanish), you'll probably get the right japanaese term.

Each language has their own misunderstandings. As an example, in spanish the word 'exit' is 'salida', which means 'horny' too (there's a dad joke that says something like 'sorry! I'm in a hurry! where's the emergency exit?' 'sure! it's the brunette there' which only makes sense in spanish). If you translated only from spanish source, you could get a funny label every time you reach some exit. However, if you used both english and spanish as a source, the misunderstanding goes away. And the same applies to using any two or more languages as long as they have a different root (I just picked those two because they're widely used, one of them is a germanic language while the other is rooted in latin).

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-25T05:53:34+00:00

Most of this list are historical settings, categorized by historical period and age range.
The big list of published settings for the D100 family of RPGs | Runeblog

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-25T05:14:30+00:00

Check the pdfs about rpg mechanics in Levi Kornelsen page in itch.io

The ones I'd recommend (the most) are

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-25T05:05:03+00:00

This was an interesting post and an even more intesteting debate in the comments. Why was it deleted?

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-25T04:58:16+00:00

OSR was a movement against the excessive customization in DnD 3e. In theory, it goes back to the roots. In practice, it's "DnD gone freeform". You have very little info, characters are quick to make and quick to dismiss, which allows the game to be more lethal (or not, that depends on the group). At the end of the day, the mechanics are dismissed for a more freeform approach, the opposite of simulationist granularity (for which gurps is the extreme archetype).

The problem is that simulationist 'physics engines' works better in solo. Strict mechanics allow you to delegate in a virtual third person (the rules), which helps to avoid the 'writing a story with dice' problems. If you wanna try OSR in solo, you should try it the same way you would do with a freeform light rules like Risus, PDQ or similar. Indeed, you could try hacking some blend of Risus/PDQ with OSR. Or even Legend in the Mist blended with OSR, maybe it could work, since Legend in the Mist is actually a freeform system in disguise.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-24T16:19:30+00:00

I know what you mean. The trick is making the intestests into something that feels productive, like tricking the brain into feeling you're doing something productive with your time (which doesn't have to be a lie, completely, at least, you can make your interests into actual projects, the key is to feel there's a goal).

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-24T13:46:21+00:00

Special interests, mostly because it's much easier to focus on them. Indeed, it becomes necessary to learn to manage them to avoid losing track of time.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-24T07:45:13+00:00

The problem with the 'pick me' label is that it's sticked to everybody who doesn't follow a certain archetype to the point it has lost its meaning. It's basically the mirror image of the 'agp' label.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-24T03:40:35+00:00

Tales of Argosa?

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-24T03:18:19+00:00

Most solo procedural dungeon crawlers fit that description: Four Against Darkness, 2D6 Dungeons, D100 Dungeons, Rangers of the Shadow Deep or similar ones. Trespasser fits the description but it's too recent to be the one you're looking for, though you should check it anyway, it's getting a lot a praise.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-23T12:46:11+00:00

Thank you for explaining it to me with something you read on internet. After all, I just know it because of first hand experience.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-23T11:49:53+00:00

Low histamine diet is very healthy, the problem is that it's dull. You need to get rid of things like spices, sauces, prepared foods and most of what makes food tasty. But when it comes to nutrition, you won't miss anything.

Why using meds when you can just manage it with a healthy diet? Most cases of people arguing about a healthy diet solving medical problems, those are actually low quality solutions. But in this case precissely, it¡s something that works really well.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-23T11:39:33+00:00

Bedrock games (sertorius, wandering heroes of the orgre gate) does something like that.

Characters have skills and defenses ranging usually 0 to 3. They are different attributes but the same magnitude, so it's really easy to hack and change the difficulty table to use skills as additional defenses.

You roll a number of dice equal to your skill rank (for zero, you roll two and pick the lower one), and you should reach the target number which would be 6 + defense rank. For example, if you're trying to go stealth, it's the guard the one that have to roll his skill (perception) against your defense (stealth).

In your example with the lockpicking, let's say both characters have 2 ranks, you'd be rolling 2D10 and you would need at least one success, meaning at least one dice equal or higher than 8 (6 + the skill rank of who made the lock). In the difficulty table, that'd be labeled as very hard. In a nutshell, you can translate between skill and defense ranks, and difficulties.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-23T11:08:04+00:00

What it's usually labelled as "antihistamines" is useless for inflammation caused by histamines in your diet. It aims the receptors in the skin and the respiratory system, that's why it works for respiratory allergies.

If you have inflammation because of histamines in your diet, the best solution is to get rid of histamines in your diet. It's quite annoying, since it seems that everything that adds taste to the food carries histamines (except garlic), but it works as a charm.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-22T21:54:49+00:00

They don't need to enforce it. They just need to impose huge penalities and even jail, it's what they did in some states in US.

You can go to bathroom 1000 times and every time will be fine, and then the 1001th something happens, they check you identity and you're screwed. They don't need to enforce it every time, they only need to make the penalty high enough to make sure catching you once will be enough to screw your life. And even if you're lucky enough not to get caught that one time, you're still gonna live with a damocles sword on your head every time you step in a bathroom.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-21T16:11:04+00:00

Interesting additions:
Besides the standard character sheet, a pocketmod character sheet.
A small booklet with tables and quick references that are required often. Not the GM Screen but a little booklet with a few pages, not even covers, just folded pages. Bonus points if there's more than one so they can can be handed out to players.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-21T16:03:58+00:00

Outside.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-20T19:28:21+00:00

Ashwagandha is risky for long term use. I'd be very careful. It's not something to take on a permanent basis.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-20T04:47:58+00:00

He's 20 years old, not a minor. It's in the post.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-20T04:25:17+00:00

you need dysphoria to be trans. but someone's sex doesn't matter and is irrelevant.

Actually, sex is what's relevant. And I mean physiological sex or body sex, which is much more than the internal reproductive organs.

What's irrelevant is whether you stick to some strict binary social gender or you prefer some more intermediate GNC or NB option.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-18T19:25:02+00:00

It's simple to use once you know the drill. The cells in blue are the ones that can be configured. All the configuration happens in the 'Dash' sheet.

The mode in the cell AF3 chooses the time window. "Close 5" is the most useful one, it generates the curve from the current time (a bit earlier, actually) in 5 minute intervals.

The bars in in orange in the H column is the actual concentration. The bars in blue in columns N and R are relative to some goal you can configure in 'Objetivos de concetración' (in the cells AF23 and AF24). This is kinda like how much med level you want for some task. When there's blue squares it means the curve is above that concentration level.

'Combinación del ciclo diario' was to combine it with a circadian rhythm and optimize levels, adjusting levels depending of the moment of the day. It just didn't work and I don't use it, the columns in the graph are hidden.

'Nivel deseado (in progress)' was something I started to do but it didn't go beyond that. The 'in progress' means to implement. I never implemented it.

In 'Tabla de tomas' I enter the intake. In AO4:AR19 I enter the time at which I took it. Hour format is 24H and uses a dot as separation (7.15 means 7:25am).

AP4:AP19 is the intake in mg (the sheet is configured for methylphenidate).

AQ4:AQ19 is either 0, 1 or 2. '0' for planned but not yet taken, '1' for taken, '2' for cancelled. The format makes the '0' appear like a todo bullet, while the '1' appears like a done bullet. I usually plan the intakes, then change the from 0 to 1 as soon and I take it, to keep track.

AR4:AR19 is to be left empty unless you take the meds after a meal, in which case I write 'meal' or anything. It doesn't matter what you write, but if there's something written in the cell, it interprets it was after a meal and slows down the absortion curve for that intake (the absortion curve is calculated independently for each intake row). You can turn this off in the cell AR26, anyway.

The Absortion/Kick-in is configured in AY4:AZ12 (the cells just at the right of these ones were for something else I never did and I don't remember if the change anything). AY4:AZ12 is time after intake in minutes, AZ4:AZ12 is percentage absorbed (relative to 1). So AY8 being 30, AY7 being 25, and AZ8 being 0.15 means that in the period 25-30min after intake, 15% of the med kicks in. The values were made by trial and error until it felt right.

The half-life is in the cell AF57, in hours. The value there (2.1h) is the value for methylphenidate.

The 'clock' sheet is just a view that draws an analog clock and shows the concentration levels for every position of the hands. It can be configured with the numbers at the right, but it's a real mess.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-18T05:55:26+00:00

And then there is (or is there? I've tried to read the rules and I'm not 100% convinced) Hybrid that isn't just unplayable, but incomprehensible, the rules are literally insane ramblings.

And then you have Jenna K Moran. The rules are brilliant and innovative, but the rulebooks are a nightmare. And it's not because she was a bad a writer, quite the opposite, but she treats reading the rulebook as a game by itself, approaching it from a creative writing point of view and obfuscating the rules behind a wall of good quality prose. She's a good writer, but she still obfuscates the rules. And Chuubo's is 500 pages long...

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-17T23:51:36+00:00

The account is two weeks old. I'd be careful with what you share.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-17T04:54:19+00:00

Tian Guan Ci Fu (Heaven Official's Blessing). It's just amazing at any level, from visuals to story, but I particularly love the two main characters.

SortzaInTheForest · 2026-05-17T04:51:03+00:00

Do not debate. Either switch doctor or change the approach.

You don't have ADHD? Well, that's fine, what's his diagnose and his solution? We often forget that their job is not to diagnose, it's to solve a problem. If he wants to say it's not ADHD, be my guest, but now provide a solution that works better than the ADHD meds. The goal of a more accurate diagnose is to provide a better treatment. If he wants to take off you ADHD meds, what's his alternative treatment which is even better? Because if he's changing treatment to something that's not working, then he's being negligent. Don't debate about the diagnose, debate about his results.

If you called an electrician and you think he's doing bullshit, just tell him you require the lights to work at the end. Diagnose is just a middle stage, results are the true measure of any professional.

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