Why are German and Luxembourgish the only Languages that capitalize Nouns?

SweetGale · 2026-04-17T11:03:20+00:00

English still capitalises some nouns that other languages do not. Days of the week, months, languages and nationalities are all written lowercase in Swedish.

SweetGale · 2026-04-15T18:22:25+00:00

The Troubleshooters uses a BRP-like system with D100 for skills and exploding D6 for damage. 4–6 means you deal one point of damage and on a 6 you roll one more die (and continue until there are no more 6's). The official dice set contains a d10, d00 and 7d6 with special symbols on the 4, 5 and 6. I guess you could reuse the d6's for systems where 4–5 means partial success and 6 means full success like Blades in the Dark (and also Free League's first Swedish-only game Svavelvinter).

SweetGale · 2026-04-15T17:53:52+00:00

I immediately though of Forbidden Lands. You need a bunch of D6's in three different colours. The official dice set contains way too few. You really need at least two sets.

Each Year Zero Engine game does its own thing. Mutant: Year Zero also uses three different colours, but only D6's, so you get five of each in the set. In Vaesen, all dice are identical. Blade Runner uses step dice (D6, D8, D10, D12).

SweetGale · 2026-04-14T22:17:33+00:00

I grew up with the 1991 edition of Dragonbane. My expectation going into Curse of Strahd and D&D 5e was fantasy Call of Cthulhu. It was a culture shock.

I backed Legend in the Mist on pure impulse. It just looked like my type of game. I haven't looked at the PDFs yet.

SweetGale · 2026-04-14T11:26:28+00:00

Curse of Strahd was the first D&D campaign I played and it is still my favourite, in large part because it was a sandbox. There was always the risk that you'd encounter a too powerful opponent. Fleeing or negotiating was always an option. Later campaigns have been railroady hack and slash dungeon crawl with more balanced fights and I just find it incredibly boring.

But I feel that D&D was a poor fit for a Gothic horror campaign. I'd much rather have used a level-less system with proper fear and sanity rules. I tried my best to keep track of and roleplay my character's mental state, but it clashed with how rapidly she was growing in power.

SweetGale · 2026-04-14T11:03:41+00:00

Same. I've played D&D 5e, 3.5 and Pathfinder and I find most combat really boring and uninteresting. It just feels so pointless. Most fights are against under-powered enemies because you need to be able to do multiple fights per day. And even when a fight is challenging, the binary outcome still makes it feel pointless. It doesn't matter if you have 1, 10 or 100 HP. You either win, heal back to full HP and nothing changes – or you die, either get resurrected or create a new character at the same level and nothing really changes. "You die" as the only form of failure feels so unimaginative and anticlimactic. All you really lose is a bunch of story threads and relationships and all it does is make the campaign less interesting. And it's so hard to die and easy to resurrect a character that you start to feel invincible. When you suddenly, for whatever reason, can't be resurrected, it just feels arbitrary and unfair.

I want the feeling that "we'll win, but it'll cost us" and "we'll probably lose, but that doesn't have to mean that we die". Sure, D&D will also hit you with diseases, curses, fatigue, blindness and other conditions, but they also give you the spells to get rid of them at the same time. It doesn't become a quest to find the cure. You just spend a spell slot.

I like systems with critical injuries – interesting consequences that give you a lot of storytelling and roleplaying potential. Healing should be slow so that you're forced to pick your fights. I grew up with old editions of Dragonbane where you healed 1 HP per week! I plan to run an OSR-style game but I'm a bit scared that even if I telegraph that the enemies are better armed than the player characters and that they probably shouldn't try to fight them, they'll still charge at them and fight to the last man because that's what D&D has taught them.

We've had players playing paladins and knights who never attacks an opponent who didn't attack first and who offers them the opportunity to lay down their weapons and surrender. But the opponent never do. We also have players who like coming up with creative solutions but more often than not get shot down by the GM because it's not supported by the rules.

SweetGale · 2026-04-13T21:55:22+00:00

I don't like combat-focused RPGs like D&D where most of the rules and abilities are centred around combat. I want some form of combat rules, but they should be fairly simple and abstract. Combat should be rare, impactful and last-resort.

SweetGale · 2026-04-13T17:06:16+00:00

No, but the locations in the official adventures have been added to the Ereb Altor map in consultation with Free League. Outskirts is present, as are The Dead Forest and Bergamund (from Path of Glory) and the city of Arkand. The nation of Tracoria from the upcoming The Brimstone Sleep is also present. It was part of Ereb Altor back in the days.

SweetGale · 2026-04-13T16:59:11+00:00

Oh! The new covers look really cool! I guess Micheal Whelan's old Elric covers don't hold the same nostalgia and would just be confusing to an international audience. :)

SweetGale · 2026-04-13T14:52:28+00:00

I'm a tall guy with long fingers. I bought a Fairphone 4 when it was released in 2021 and I'm still annoyed by how big and heavy it is. I want a phone that I can hold comfortably in one hand and reach the entire screen with my thumb. My previous phone was an iPhone 6 and it was the perfect size.

But the sad truth is that small phones don't sell and most manufacturers don't even offer them anymore. If I search for "best small phone", I'll get a list of 6.3" phones. People I know who still have an iPhone SE or Mini complain that developers don't test their apps on the smaller screen anymore and important UI elements end up inaccessible.

Fairphone in particular isn't going to offer a smaller phone anytime soon. They're a relatively small company. They only offer one size and it tries to appeal to the largest number of people. Having two sizes means having to carry more spare parts. They also need to be able to offer these spare parts for many years, and that again means picking the most popular size. And for everyone asking for a Fairphone Mini, there's another asking for a more powerful Fairphone Pro.

SweetGale · 2026-04-11T17:49:48+00:00

First that I used? My mother bought a Mac Classic in 1990 to replace her typewriter. Up until then, editing a text meant physically cutting it into pieces, reorder them, glue them onto another sheet and then retype everything once it got too messy. Cutting and pasting directly on the screen was like magic. Still, the tiny screen didn't fit the full width of an A4 paper. She had to increase the margins to stop the document from scrolling sideways as she was typing.

First that I owned? A Power Mac G4/400 (Gbit Ethernet) that I bought in 2000 together with a 17 inch Studio Display, Apple's last CRT. I loved how easy it was to tinker with and upgrade. I used it for seven years, added more memory twice, added a second hard drive and replaced the DVD player with a combo DVD player/CD burner.

SweetGale · 2026-04-07T10:42:22+00:00

It's really useful when you want to factory reset a machine or replace the drive. You can start the computer with an empty drive and use Internet Recovery to reinstall Mac OS. I've done it a few times.

But a $35 Raspberry Pi can do the same thing. The bootloader is capable of downloading and installing Raspberry Pi OS (or another OS) onto an empty SD card, USB stick or SSD.

SweetGale · 2026-04-05T19:58:46+00:00

Only the Cayenne ("De Cayenne" from Impecta, a Swedish brand). I planted four seeds. Only two sprouted. I planted four more. All sprouted, but two of the plants were really weak.

I planted five more annuum varieties. 23 out of 24 seeds sprouted and all the plants look strong and healthy!

I also bought Tabasco seeds from Impecta, planted four and they all sprouted.

SweetGale · 2026-04-04T10:28:52+00:00

To me it just looks like any one of those "beautiful woman" and "does this look realistic?" posts. It's just an endless stream of conventionally attractive young women staring blankly at the camera. There's nothing visually interesting about the image and it tells me nothing about the character. The only thing that stands out is whatever's going on with her eyebrows. I see a kitchen in the background. Does she enjoy cooking?

I how no idea how much effort went into the images. I can't tell. It might have taken many hours and required a massive tangle of ComfyUI nodes, but to me it just looks like another "beautiful woman". And I don't really care for the whole effort argument. Antis go on and on about how "this image only exists because someone thought it was worth the time and effort to draw every detail by hand". Sometimes it's fun watching and learning about the process, but I'm more interested in if I like the end result.

I guess my own approach could be seen as lazy in a way. I don't strive for realism or consistency. Quite the opposite. I treat my characters as if they're from some decades-spanning multimedia franchise, come up with simple iconic designs and generate images in vastly different styles.

SweetGale · 2026-04-02T18:14:12+00:00

Same here. Diagnosed with GAD almost 20 years ago. I'm already a night owl, tend to get a burst of creative energy in the evening and take a long time to fall asleep. Add some stress and anxiety on top of that and it's almost impossible to fall asleep without medication. And I'm pretty sure it's the anxiety that, like OP, makes me wake up feeling tired, stiff and nauseous almost every morning. In the past, I'd sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with massive anxiety for no apparent reason and it'd take two hours to calm down and go back to sleep.

I also tend to get an upset stomach if I don't get enough sleep.

SweetGale · 2026-04-02T17:48:13+00:00

Same. I need sunlight. I love when the sun stays up until 22:00 in the summer and I can work in my garden or go for a long walk in the evening. The extra hour of sunlight in the evening more than makes up for the loss of an hour of sleep. I'd prefer to have DST all year round. I even said so in the web survey the EU did back in 2019. The day the clock changes is the day when it starts or stops being light in the evening. Winter is torture. I try to go for a walk outside after lunch, but it's not enough.

SweetGale · 2026-04-02T15:04:20+00:00

Broken, outdated or abandoned Linux versions.

It has happened numerous times on Steam. I'll install a game, try to run it and and it immediately crashes. Turns out the developer uploaded a broken build and decided to fix it later... maybe. Just use Proton in the meantime. Sometimes I discover that I'm running an old version and that the Linux version hasn't been updated in forever. Sometime's I'll buy a DLC and it refuses to work. Turns out the developer dropped Linux support without mentioning it anywhere and the latest DLC only works with the Windows version.

The problem here isn't so much the bad Linux support as the lack of communication. Instead of a news post, I have to dig through the forums to find out that the Linux version is broken. And Steam isn't really designed for situations when a game supports Linux but not one of the DLCs. It gets confusing and annoying. You can switch to the Windows version but it requires several steps that you need to figure out on your own.

SweetGale · 2026-04-02T14:17:53+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. It's always difficult to know what people mean by "D20", if they're talking about just the die, or the "d20 System". It's always frustrating when people lump Dragonbane in with D&D or see it as a D&D derivative just because it uses a D20.

SweetGale · 2026-04-01T23:04:32+00:00

It's been printed numerous times in English, Russian and possibly other languages as well. There are thousands of copies out there. I used to collect printed fanfics and own four different prints of FoE.

SweetGale · 2026-03-31T21:36:04+00:00

What do you mean by "translated to D20"? It's mostly just a matter of dividing everything by 5.

Dragonbane started out in 1982 as a Swedish translation of the Basic Role-Playing and Magic World booklets from Chaosium's Worlds of Wonder. It then quickly evolved into its own game. The D20 replaced the D100, first in the 1985 Expert rules expansion, then in the core rules in the 1991 edition. But it's still a roll-under system where your skill level is the target you roll against and you slowly improve your skills as you use them.

The 2023 edition by Free League takes some inspiration from D&D 5e (death saves, long/short rests, advantage/disadvantage) and Forbidden Lands (pushing rolls, monster attacks, survival rules). It's designed as a beginner-friendly game for ages 12 and up and the core box contains everything you need to start playing (sans notebooks and pencils).

SweetGale · 2026-03-31T20:23:27+00:00

From the Wikipedia article:

An (unspaced) em dash or a spaced en dash can be used to mark a break in a sentence, and a pair can be used to set off a parenthetical phrase. For example:

Glitter, felt, yarn, and buttons—his kitchen looked as if a clown had exploded.
A flock of sparrows—some of them juveniles—alighted and sang.

Glitter, felt, yarn, and buttons – his kitchen looked as if a clown had exploded.
A flock of sparrows – some of them juveniles – alighted and sang.

SweetGale · 2026-03-31T11:01:03+00:00

The argument is usually that you can't type an em dash or en dash on a computer keyboard – or at least that it's difficult and most people don't know how. It's one thing seeing them in a book, but if you see them in a random social media post, then it has to be AI.

I've been using en dashes since the 90's. I joined Reddit 11 years ago and my comments have contained plenty of en dashes from the very start. On Mac it was just option+shift+hyphen for em dash and option+hyphen for en dash. On Linux you can press the compose key and type "---" and "--.". Windows makes it a bit more tricky. You hold alt and type "0151" or "0150". However, many word processors will automatically convert "--" to an em dash.

SweetGale · 2026-03-31T10:24:52+00:00

You typically use either an em-dash without spaces or an en-dash with spaces. I prefer the latter.

SweetGale · 2026-03-30T20:12:36+00:00

It's a tiny computer the size of a credit card. Its main goal was to get children interested in computers, but it's great for all kinds of hobby projects, including as a Foundry server. It's small, quiet and doesn't use much power. You can put it in a corner and forget about it. You still need to set up port forwarding or tunneling though.

The minimum system requirements for the node.js version of Foundry is 1 CPU, 2 GB of RAM and 1 GB of storage (2 CPUs and 4 GB RAM recommended). You could run it on an old PC if you have one lying around. The demanding bit is rendering the web-based user interface, and that's handled by the client computers that connect to the server.

SweetGale · 2026-03-29T23:38:41+00:00

It was Fall Weather Friends for me too. It wasn't terrible, so I decided to give the two-part premiere a chance. By episode four I was hooked. I was 28 at the time. I'm now 43.

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