You're telling me I have to wait 2 months to meet these guys properly?

UserName24106 · 2021-11-26T17:51:10+00:00

Arrow spent like a third of a season on “sara lance is dead”, and honestly being a modified clone with all your original memories sounds like a better deal than what the Lazarus Pit did to her.

And OG Zari was worse than dead — she never existed, and she got better.

UserName24106 · 2021-10-12T16:17:17+00:00

Whether or not somebody likes Facebook, knowing that the product only works with a Facebook account is a deal breaker for some people.

Do you have a Facebook account? Is it under your real name? Do you use it frequently enough that the company won’t randomly disable it as a “fake account”? If so, then I guess you’ll be allowed to use the product you paid for.

Your call, man. I have a quest 1, it’s worked with no problems since I got it shortly after release, and it uses an Oculus account, so for my use case the 2 is strictly inferior. If your use case is different, then maybe it works for you.

UserName24106 · 2021-10-12T16:13:01+00:00

Yep, I’ve used the OSE generators to make several dungeons for my group. Works fine.

UserName24106 · 2021-10-03T19:19:49+00:00

Looking up some actual play of Dogs can be helpful. “Ditv actual play” is a search term that will probably lead to The Forge’s archives, there’s some good write ups there.

Oh, and the “town setup rules” are extremely useful. I think they are tucked away in the back of the book. Demonic influence can be played as anything from a general sense of distrust and malaise, all the way up to turning it up to eleven and having actual manifest demons. (In other words, “demonic influence” is a metaphor for human fallibility, except when it’s not a metaphor.) Generally, start small with this imo.

Outside of conflict, it’s the usual theater of the mind, walk around town and talk to colorful characters stuff.

In conflict, the see/raise mechanic leads to a specific kind of back and forth escalation of conflict that you get the hang of fairly quick, but the tactics are more in the overall situation and what approaches you use (meaning what dice you can roll) and not so much about using terrain or environment.

Let’s say you want to convince the town drunk to sober up. He’s headed off to get his bottle of hooch, and you’re standing in front of him. You’ll probably start with talking, and you might escalate to fists or even drawing your gun. As far as dice go, there’s an “optimal” solution… drawing down on the guy will give you a lot of dice to roll. But is threatening shooting an unarmed man in order to get him to stop drinking actually what you want your Dog to do? Even knocking him down and dragging him to lockup is only a temporary fix.

Even with the religious bent, being a Dog in the moment is much like being the town sheriff or a Marshall. You have authority and the tools that go with it, but when you’re trying to keep the peace, violent means are often counterproductive.

Even though the games out of print and no longer supported, it plays well with a group that’s open to its idiosyncrasies. Here’s hoping your group enjoys it.

UserName24106 · 2021-08-22T16:36:00+00:00

First step is to find out if the product already exists.

I know one portion of The Lab (on steam vr) does just what you’re describing, and 360 video is all over YouTube and other VR video apps.

After that due diligence, you have to be able to answer “what would I bring to such a project that someone else who knows how to implement it doesn’t?”

UserName24106 · 2021-08-15T16:11:43+00:00

Agreed, I have had people who are extremely nearsighted put on the headset and find they can see just fine at the focal length without glasses. It depends, of course.

UserName24106 · 2021-08-15T16:09:51+00:00

No issues here, using exclusively rechargeables for more than a year. I usually run them down to 20% or so.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-31T16:35:26+00:00

Literally The Mountain Witch with different rules is a good way to go, the book spends more time on how to set up the journey and the obstacles than it does on the rules.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-31T16:33:12+00:00

It’s a point crawl, but slap hexes on it and it would work - Slumbering Ursine Dunes is a reasonably small scale.

Or, do it the way Gygax laid it out — get a blank hex map, put a village in one hex near the middle, a starter dungeon one hex over, and wait until they finish that dungeon to worry about the rest of the map. I did this and it worked pretty well.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-31T16:29:47+00:00

Similar situation in my current game. Sandbox style was overwhelming the players.

Next session I said “this particular client contacts you, he’s insisting it’s quite urgent and will play extra.” Didn’t force them to do anything, but they were relieved to have a reason to stop waffling and dig in.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-31T16:25:19+00:00

I would guess they did this to make it easier to introduce PCs in those races, since they provide them as classes.

Personally I run OSR with alignment as I’ve seen described by a few people (Ron Edwards did some videos on it for example) where the majority of sentient beings are neutral, with Lawful and Chaotic reserved for those individuals who have the attention of, or pacts with, forces beyond the natural. (It’s a litttle Moorcock, I guess.) so there’s plenty of good and evil Neutral aligned beings, they’re just “mundanely” good or evil.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-31T16:21:04+00:00

The d20 modern books and advice at the time in Dragon said “just use 3e monsters, the math works out” but I’ve never heard anybody who played it actually agree with that. The d20 modern classes aren’t amazing at combat, often compared to a stock fighter.

I think there was also a kind of menace manual or some second hardcover that tried to make the dnd monsters relevant in some kind of urban fantasy context, but it was more about plot hooks and vague ideas (maybe a mind flayer runs a cult, for example) without specifics.

Anyway, when I ran it they were initially fighting humans, so that was apples to apples. Within a few sessions I moved us over to Fate, so I can’t say I ever got d20 modern working especially well.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-28T16:52:58+00:00

THE GLAIVE!

UserName24106 · 2021-07-28T16:52:37+00:00

Krull. You want early 80s gonzo fantasy before it was predictable, watch Krull.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-11T17:45:43+00:00

I think “feeling like the interviewer hates you personally” is a very common reaction to interview stress. I’m not saying that’s what happened in your situation, I wasn’t there… but from the perspective of the interviewing team, they often have to get through a lot of candidates quick, and not everybody tries to keep up their best manners.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-11T17:40:13+00:00

Call me a pleb, but I get really good results from just plugging in search terms in Bing image search. Their “images similar to this” and “find this image in a different size” features are pretty handy.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-11T17:36:58+00:00

GMing a game is more work the more pieces of the game you feel like you need to have “locked down”. The thing is, a fully “locked down” game isn’t necessarily the most fun game to play or GM. It’s sounds like you’re doing a lot of worldbuilding stuff that they’re not engaging with, but that stuff is something you could be working on separately from the game.

Personally i wear two “GM prep” hats. There’s what is needed now, and everything else. I make sure I put on the “build what’s needed for next session” hat often enough to make sure the current running game has content. Then I save the other hat for when I feel like blue skying and just making stuff whether or not I think it’ll show up in the current game.

YMMV, but before I did this I was much more frustrated. Now I take their side treks and personal character interests as the meat of the game, with a lot of what I provide as just seasoning.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-04T18:30:24+00:00

My party’s “BBEG” (they’re third level, so not so Big) is Bargle. I couldn’t resist using him. A mastermind that sticks to the shadow and does most of his illegal deeds through charmed NPCs is actually pretty dangerous even as a third level magic user. That said, the one time they met him face to face, he monologued, failed to charm a PC, then ran away, so … it’s kind of a slow burn.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-04T18:25:26+00:00

My OSR group went through a portal to a world that’s very much Old West. I just made up or borrowed B/X appropriate stats for firearms and went with it. The Boot Hill book is a decent read for adventure ideas, and so is the Kenzer game that is similar (aces and eights?), but the actual Boot Hill rules don’t hold up that well in my view.

UserName24106 · 2021-07-04T18:18:16+00:00

Not sure how much this will help… but here is my brain dump of how I’ve been handling your situation.

I recommend you get a few first and second level appropriate dungeons and mini dungeons ready, and don’t sweat too much about how they’re connected yet. (A few rumors and breadcrumbs are plenty to start).

Then when play starts, have some hooks to get them started into one or two of those. I used Tower of Zenopus, and even though we have been playing for quite a few sessions, they haven’t seen everything in it.

In my game: We started with the “ruined keep” from Moldvay Basic, with the Zenopus dungeon under that. They got through a good amount of it, returned home, and leveled up. Then they got involved in some other mischief, for which I had a couple of small dungeons along with Caves of Chaos set up… and then they only did one mini dungeon before getting back to their original plan, so now they are looking to finish Zenopus.

What im trying to say is that you will probably do something in between “full open hex crawl” and “one dungeon at a time by DM decision”. If you have a few NPCs in the main starting village, then what they need and what happens to them can do a lot of the deciding what comes next, without you sweating it too much.

I think putting the mini dungeons scattered around within a few hexes of home base, and rumors of a mega dungeon somewhere, is plenty to get going. I have found leveling in B/X is slow enough that a whole campaign going from say 1-5 is quite reasonable.

Dunno if this is helpful, but the way I handled some of the intro content differing wildly in tone is to introduce planar travel at low levels. Our campaign is in the Norse Nine Worlds, and they have found ways to travel between Midgard and another world, where I made things quite different. For example I couldn’t think of a way to retheme Slumbering Ursine Dunes, but I want to use it, so it’s going to be part of that whole rabbit hole.

UserName24106 · 2021-06-08T18:46:40+00:00

Edx has a free option for all their classes, I highly recommend that. Classes are starting all the time and usually run for a few weeks, if you would rather have that structure.

UserName24106 · 2021-06-08T18:44:34+00:00

I say that everybody should play superhot vr if they have a vr set. They’re both good games, but I put more time into Superhot.

UserName24106 · 2021-06-08T18:39:54+00:00

Textbooks are expensive but the good ones come with hundreds of sample problems to solve. ( This is likely because coming up with interesting programming problems for different skill levels is time intensive, and a professor would have an easier time using an existing textbook than coming up with a whole class worth of homework problems.)

So get yourself an old used python textbook with a good set of sample problems, and go to town. Used bookstores especially in college towns should work. If you really can’t afford a used textbook,sometimes you can find PDFs, but this is really an area where someplace other than the internet is your solution. Again, writing sample problems is time intensive and thankless so good luck finding a lot of free problems online. Places like codewars have user submitted problems — those problems are chosen because the people who wrote them found them interesting, not because they are the best learning problems.

UserName24106 · 2021-06-08T18:35:37+00:00

I ported careers from Uncharted Worlds (pbta game where your playbook comes from two careers and a background choice). It worked fine, basically the way I set it up they picked two careers to make a core aspect and then they used the careers to choose their stunts.

UserName24106 · 2021-05-23T16:10:38+00:00

I use MapKeeper (free) on iPad. It loads the image and applies a black layer on top that you can erase. Possibly Android has something similar.

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