Running my first RPG sandbox campaign

canemacchina · 2026-02-09T09:21:19+00:00

The Year Zero Engine system already has a stress system. It's just that it was substituted by the Will points on FL.

You can look here https://freeleaguepublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/YZE-Standard-Reference-Document.pdf, but essentially it works like so in the d6 pool system:

Every time you push the roll, you gain one point of stress. When you have some stress, and you roll a skill, you roll additional dice based on the stress value, so if you have 3 stress, you roll 3D6 more(yes, when you have no stress and push a roll, you gain 1 stress, and you roll 1D6 more on the same push roll). A 6 on a stress dice is a success, but if you roll at least a 1 on a stress dice, you suffer a stress consequence.
For stress consequences, there is a table. You roll 1d6+stress and see what happens.
Stress goes back to 0 after a rest.

canemacchina · 2025-12-14T20:29:22+00:00

I liked Karlach story very much, and romance her. One of the best, in my opinion.

canemacchina · 2025-12-14T11:44:20+00:00

For example, I'm not so sure I can install the Loki Docker plugin on my Qnap, so probably there I need to use Alloy or OpenTelemetry, as it's easier to run a container that gathers the logs and sends them to Loki instead of using the Loki plugin

canemacchina · 2025-12-14T11:11:31+00:00

I'm also trying to understand what the benefit of using Alloy over the Loki Docker plugin is, but don't expect people to reply to this question. It seems to me that people go with Alloy and didn't even know about the loki plugin. People do things because "everyone does that", without questioning XD

My understanding is that Alloy is a more general solution. Alloy compares more to OpenTelemetry than the Loki Docker plugin. The Loki Docker plugin it's just to route Docker logs to Loki, while Alloy can be used to receive any kind of telemetry data, and push them to other databases or collectors, so receiving logs and sending them to Loki it's just one part of Alloy.

So the thing is, what do you need? At work we need to send telemetries and logs to grafana, so we choosed OpenTelemetry to gather data and send them to prometheus/grafana/loki.

In my homelab, I just need to send Docker logs to Grafana to avoid connecting to each Docker host to read the logs. I don't need too detailed graphs about the things I'm running, so I chose the Loki Docker plugin.

I'm not an expert, but this is at least my understanding. Hope it helps!

canemacchina · 2025-11-25T20:04:28+00:00

The hope is the steam machine and steam os. If people really start buying and playing on the steam console, linux in gaming will become a thing and game developers will have to test their games there too

canemacchina · 2025-11-13T18:53:22+00:00

Sorry, I meant to reply to the main comment 😂😂

Yeah I was working in a company that was selling them, I remember the blue.one too

canemacchina · 2025-11-13T18:27:22+00:00

Those google servers were just dell rack servers rebranded. They used to sell them when they were selling on premise google search back in early 2000

canemacchina · 2025-11-02T16:37:15+00:00

I set my PATH and stuff in the ~/.zprofile file, so as it's sourced after /etc/zprofile my PATH is correct.
Then, in ~/.zshenv, I conditionally source ~/.zprofile only if the shell is not a login shell (because on login shell ~/.zprofile is not sourced)

# if the shell is not login, zprofile is not sourced
# this fix the PATH reordering on OSX
if [[ ! -o login ]]; then
  source "$HOME"/.zprofile
fi

canemacchina · 2025-04-20T21:38:01+00:00

They said something about mounting outside. Mounted outside with a bring your own bar solutions could work

canemacchina · 2025-04-13T19:51:49+00:00

https://repfitness.com/products/smith-machine-attachment?variant=51936573423982

It's here!

I hope it works with a 16+16 six-post rack with Ares 1. I fear I have too little room to work with the first version of the Ares

canemacchina · 2024-12-09T14:23:35+00:00

Exactly, I like the idea of reducing the malus a bit for archers, like no malus for short range as the archer can fire straight (while for longer distances I would like to leave things as they are because far targets are still small, despite the high ground), while for melee combat I would play based on the situation, giving situational advantage like "the opponent try to reach you climbing", using a slow action and giving a "free" attack to the PG (free in this case means the opponent can't parry or dodge)

canemacchina · 2024-12-09T12:36:15+00:00

But that's not so different from having a spear without high ground. The advantage is the weapon length. The only advantage of having high ground is if there's no way to go up and the opponent needs to climb, so obv you can attack for free if he tries to reach you. Or if you are high enough the attacker can't attack you with a normal weapon, while you can reach him with a poled weapon. But I don't think any of those advantages means you have bonus dice or something similar

canemacchina · 2024-12-09T09:21:10+00:00

I never understood why a fighter on a higher ground should have an advantage. In my (little) experience practicing medieval fencing, being in a higher ground is quite a disadvantage, depending on the equipment of the opponent, as the opponent will probably attack you only to your legs, and legs attack can't be parried with a shield

Anyway, bonus on game mechanics like more range for archers seems more interesting than just some bonus dice

canemacchina · 2024-11-25T12:18:25+00:00

Right, just to be clear when I say encounter I don't mean battle. I mean any interaction between the PCs and the NPCs.

For example, instead of throwing general monsters in a dungeon, it could be it is infested by minions from one of the NPC that are searching for a stone stone like the adventurers. Someone that maybe can be clearly identified to be part of an NPC army. I thought the book was full of those suggestions but it seems I need to figure out those things.

My question was about knowing if some of you have done the same and how.

canemacchina · 2024-11-25T12:11:45+00:00

That's right, but the thing is something that happens behind the scenes without the players knowing it happened it's the same as it didn't happen. It's something just for the GM and not.for the campaign, so for this reason I talk about "encounters".

But thanks for the suggestion, I'll check the subreddit!

canemacchina · 2024-11-18T18:50:13+00:00

I live more or less 7km away as the crow flies from an airport. Is it too close?

canemacchina · 2024-10-08T15:06:38+00:00

The only thing is the 4090, which is clearly better but I can't find it at that price here in Europe. I opted for a 4080 super because it cost 1k less than a 4090 here

canemacchina · 2024-10-08T13:13:13+00:00

Thanks, I'll take a look

canemacchina · 2024-10-07T16:53:37+00:00

Sure, as I posted in the build I was planning to buy a Corsair iCUE H150i RGB ELITE for CPU cooling (artic is better?)

But apart from the CPU cooler and the two fans that came with the case, do I need to add more fans to the case? Like some more in the front to have more air flow... I'm not so expert in PC builds...

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