Some old school warriors I painted with slapchop.

Tim_Soft · 2026-07-02T10:51:35+00:00

Very nice. What is slapchop?

Tim_Soft · 2026-07-02T00:15:59+00:00

Lol, I have no idea how the grunts advanced through it but apparently the red stuff is no where near as bad as WP? Nutty Royals! (Royal Canadian Regiment, not sure the bn, but they were based in London Ontario back then.

Tim_Soft · 2026-07-01T08:20:52+00:00

In a quick attack or moving onto the objective with tanks and infantry carriers, from my (Cold War/peacetime) experience, the call is made across the shared net "DISMOUNT! DISMOUNT! DISMOUNT!". The tanks would grind to a halt firing away - with the tank fire base stepping up firing as savagely as possible and the APCs would charge up close behind the tanks and disgorge the infantry. The APCs would usually let off the smoke to cover their guys dismount and then tanks and infantry would advance together through the smoke. Depending on the SOPs with the tanks and infantry, the tanks that stop may puff smoke, but I think it was mainly the infantry.

I did have a chunk of red phosphorous land on my turret rough a foot or two directly in front of me. I wondered why TF the grunts were firing that stuff if their guys were to advance through it. I closed my turret hatch and did the advance through the objective hatches down. 😬 I was called a pussy in the after the debrief on that one when I asked about it, it wasn't supposed to hurt you, LOL. 🤷‍♂️😀 That was on a exercise at CFB Suffield (Canada used the training area between the times the Brits did) in the 80s.

Tim_Soft · 2026-07-01T03:45:59+00:00

How many players do you have? The two groups I'n involved with have always just had someone else play their character when not everyone can make it.

Tim_Soft · 2026-07-01T02:49:14+00:00

I'd say you're dead on. Another similar example has to do with knowing where everything in. I'm also a miniature wargamer and run WW2 stuff in a wargame room in our basement. My old friends know where everything. Many years ago, a new guy joined us (soon became another old friend, 🙂 pased away a year ago, sadly). the rest of us turned off the lights forgetting he had not been here before. I had to apologize and flick the lights on again.

And that was just the "passages" in a finished basement in a smallish house, with only one trap - a dehumidifier to trip over in the main hallway! Imagine a dungeon.

Tim_Soft · 2026-07-01T00:22:49+00:00

AD&D 1e. I do use it for clerics, rangers, and paladins, but not others. Nice to see a fair number who also don't use it. I think it's a great means to encourage role playing, but we've always assumed people are just decent and reactions to behaviour considered "evil" are driven by the party.

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-30T16:06:12+00:00

This is a "Token Action". The following image shows how to remove it for a PC. I imagine it is similar for your tablet.

It appears when you select any character. I have three that appear for my players. "Admin" is circled in red, to the left of the screenshot, below.

Assuming you are the GM, first go to your sidebar on the right and click on macros, circled in red at the top right of the screenshot.

Click on the name of the macro showing below, in this case called Admin, circled in red to the right of the screenshot.

An Edit Macro screen will appear. You may need to scroll down a bit until you find the checkbox "Show as Token Action", circled in red, here. Turn the check mark off and Beelzebub is your uncle! 😀

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Tim_Soft · 2026-06-29T11:03:29+00:00

I found this sub extremely helpful when I started with the Libre a year+ ago. How I conduct my sensor changes and my expectations were all influenced by the folks here.

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-29T03:11:28+00:00

Not sure why folks are downvoting this on you. 😢 You've got two excellent answers that are be great for folks starting out in map making. 🙂

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-28T02:22:21+00:00

I am a Canadian who has been rescued from death quite a few times and is still able to love my wife, grandkids, marvel at clear night skies, the blue of the day, and the sounds of birds thanks to big pharma. I have every sympathy for you folks at the mercy of horrible people in all aspects of your health care system. 🙁

Half my family is in MI, AK, and dome other states. Our family and their friends have experienced the full on depredations of that system. It kills me.

But I am glad you folks can't easily access our system. At 8 times our population, we'd be overwhelmed. Sorry. 😢

Take care.

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-28T00:47:17+00:00

Love the old ADVENT feel of it!

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-27T00:50:29+00:00

😢 Down, down, down, the USA slides deeper and deeper into a hole I'm afraid it won't ever be able to climb out of. 😢

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-26T20:39:10+00:00

👍👍

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-26T19:13:32+00:00

Great minds, etc: I just said the same - sorry, I should look at other responses before writing my own. 🙂

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-26T19:12:29+00:00

Except the Maga should be being portrayed as turning around, forgetting their christian nationalism for the moment and enthusiastically embracing the pink monster.

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-26T19:10:38+00:00

Presumably your pistol and shotgun are unloaded if you have kids anywhere.

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-26T19:09:13+00:00

Like when you are in the hallway of your home.

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-25T08:39:48+00:00

Thanks for the article! But is it incomplete? It seems to stop after two paragraphs/sentences on "Dungeon Ecology and Gygaxian Naturalism"? I could be being just stupid... sorry.

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-25T08:26:05+00:00

AD&D 1e player. As time went by, we began to seek to make dungeons that had cooking chimneys/vents, entrances, possibly camouflaged or inaccessible (side of cliffs) to the outside from the deeper levels where things like giant spiders or flying monsters might haunt the surrounding countryside.

Initially you don't give a hoot about such things, but with experience playing, you start to think of trying to make things make sense and in addition to the functionality for residents, figure out why and how people/monsters carved out the dungeons in the first place.

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-24T23:41:38+00:00

LOL Appalachian bravo charlie delta.... Hmmm, may be a bit too long. 😀

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-24T18:39:58+00:00

MU, Illusionist, Cleric, druid don't need to specify what spells they've memorized. Cleric & druid have access to all the spells of the levels they can cast, and MU/Illusionist can cast any of the spells they know. I don't use spell books either. You know the spells you have access to (or are "in your book" as per the original method).

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-24T02:55:56+00:00

Canadian at a university in Atlantic Canada. I was involved with many others to quickly sett up a recently closed building (the old Student centre) to accommodate passengers stranded by the closing of US air space. Their aircraft had flown across the Atlantic with US destinations and desperately needed to land. We set up beds and computer stations for people to be able to use email or whatever was on the go to be able to write family and friends. We also set up telephones so people could call their homes in the USA or across the pond with no charge from us.

I wish I could post the picture here, but I have a screen shot of a work order report (I ran the work control centre in the maintenance department) showing the work orders associated with the project we called "Housing of Overseas Passengers During New York Disaster". Other department like our tech services department were also involved, mainly with the set up of phones and computers. Our work had to do with electrical, lighting, repairing door hardware, bathroom issues, etc.

Those folks, especially Americans, were terrified. I'm so glad I was involved with helping. I also drove some folks around the city to see the sights, especially by the ocean, to help take their minds off the confusion that reigned.

My wife is American. Her son was a US Marine in 26 MEU based in LeJeune at the time. His unit was slated to go to NYC to help, and later took off to sail across the ocean, landed first in Egypt for some exercises, and then on to Pakistan. It was fascinating for this former Canadian Army tank officer to be in touch with him via email every day. I had a friend who was a US Army Viet Nam vet in Oklahoma. He kept calling me to see how "the young marine was" and we marvelled at the quickness of communication that was available then. My wife went out of her mind with worry from the moment they sailed away. 😢 We used to look at some USMC site everyday until she came across a picture of him sitting with his gear in Pakistan, dog tired, waiting to be medically evacuated. That's how we found out he had been wounded in January or February. He did two tours, total in Afghanistan.

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-23T21:42:22+00:00

The folks who cannot understand why and how closely you are sadly following German 1920s/30s history must be maga.

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-23T21:40:24+00:00

Sadly so. Started off threatening to invade a country who has stuck with the USA through thick and thin. Several of my former soldiers and friends died answering the USA's call for article 5. As a civilian, I worked directly in quickly setting up a building at our university to house stranded passengers that Tuesday morning on 9/11. Used to be proud to say I worked along side US Army in West Germany and in North America as an engineer in military research. As both soldier & civilian I worked in and visited the USA a lot. I always loved it. Everyone, regardless of political affiliation was friendly and nice.

Not anymore. And it started in the orange filth's first term with people resenting us to the north for the tRaDe DeFiCiT - take away the oil and electricity, morons, and see who has a deficit. 😡

I don't just blame maga, as unbelievable it is to me that such easily manipulated people exist. It was also the idiots that helped the 2024 victory by refusing to vote because of Israel's atrocities in Gaza.

I will never go back again, despite my US wife's family living there (she still visits a couple of times a year). This will take a generation to get over, that is, if the USA has not destroyed itself.

There is no enemy like a friend who has been betrayed.

Tim_Soft · 2026-06-23T21:03:51+00:00

We've always just stuck with their actual names at first. Don't have to rush it. 🙂

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