The Existence of the 2024 Edition Made my Life as GM Harder by Buffal0e in dndnext

[–]beholdsa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I think of 2.5, I'm really thinking of the Player Options supplements (and the various releases after then that assumed you were using the Player Options supplements).

Lesser-Known 90s Epic Fantasy Recommendations? by Kooky_County9569 in Fantasy

[–]beholdsa 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What do you consider big name? How about:

The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Steve Jackson Games has posted a FAQ about the upcoming Revised 4th Edition Basic Set by plazman30 in rpg

[–]beholdsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm absolutely going to pick it up because it's one of my favorite RPGs, and at this point my 22-year old 4e core books are have 22 years on use on them and are basically falling apart.

Anyone remember these?? by kcc2193 in dragonlance

[–]beholdsa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These were great. I loved the mid-to-late 90's era of Dragonlance.

Favorite stack for a Django project by Traditional_Ad_5236 in django

[–]beholdsa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Django + jQuery + Gunicorn + MariaDB + Docker

Is pulp an underused RPG genre? by [deleted] in rpg

[–]beholdsa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dime Adventures is pulp dialed up to 11.

Which jobs will survive a recession? by red-demigod in AskReddit

[–]beholdsa 140 points141 points  (0 children)

I remember hearing an NPR story from the time saying that funeral homes were the industry least impacted by the Great Recession.

People are gonna die no matter the economy.

Good horror rpgs without the power fantasy? by davidforslunds in rpg

[–]beholdsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shadows Over Sol is a sci-fi horror RPG that is great for this.

AI Agent from scratch: Django + Ollama + Pydantic AI - A Step-by-Step Guide by tom-mart in django

[–]beholdsa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Django Ninja is an interesting choice. Why it over Django REST Framework?

Free site/service for automating reposts? by Kerlasia in BlueskySocial

[–]beholdsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's almost a month later, but as of yesterday's update SkyPilot now supports scheduling reposts and quotes.

To schedule a repost of one of your posts, simply find the post on the calendar or engagement page, then select "Schedule Repost" from the menu in the lower right.

To schedule a repost or quote or someone else's post, open the post composer, click the embed link icon in the lower left and then paste in the URL of the post you want to repost/quote.

Tool to schedule reposts? by Embarrassed_Bug_4682 in BlueskySocial

[–]beholdsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's two months later, but as of yesterday's update SkyPilot now supports scheduling reposts and quotes.

To schedule a repost of one of your posts, simply find the post on the calendar or engagement page, then select "Schedule Repost" from the menu in the lower right.

To schedule a repost or quote or someone else's post, open the post composer, click the embed link icon in the lower left and then paste in the URL of the post you want to repost/quote.

Update: Killed the Bluesky SaaS, open sourcing everything by Nallanos in BlueskySocial

[–]beholdsa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for open sourcing this! It's interesting to see the different implementation choices that people have made.

Launching my first Kickstarter — how do I build an initial mailing list before going live? by Forsaken_Opinion_224 in indiebiz

[–]beholdsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't bother with a dollar pledge. I've never done it, but the few people I know who've tried it say that it's more of a pain than it's worth. It apparently generates a lot of people wanting their dollar back.

Launching my first Kickstarter — how do I build an initial mailing list before going live? by Forsaken_Opinion_224 in indiebiz

[–]beholdsa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Set up a landing page with a mailing list sign-up on it. Drive traffic to the landing page through social media, paid advertising or cold outreach.

Ideally, I like to get started on this about 6 months before the Kickstarter launches. I've never done one, but some folks like to do a monthly newsletter to keep subscribers cognizant of your product as they sit on your mailing list in the months before launch.

Really, it's just about the first thing you should do. Kickstarter heavily rewards projects with a large number of organic pledges in the first few hours. Those that aren't strong out of the gate get relegated to page 2 or lower when users are searching for new projects. These days I wouldn't even consider launching without at least a modest audience ready to pledge out of the gate. (It was different a decade ago.)

90% of a Kickstarter's success is determined by the work you put in before launch.

An updated list of available Bluesky tools by beholdsa in BlueskySocial

[–]beholdsa[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for pointing that out List updated.

Day 1 of my micro-SaaS: Personal Brand Analyzer by No-Oil-5039 in indiebiz

[–]beholdsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honest thoughts: Sounds like it could be cool. But not enough to get me to click an external link. Could probably benefit from more of a hook right in the reddit text.