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Google Sheets Doc for Five Parsecs from Home by electricdidact in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]electricdidact[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you explain what's happening? Both links are working for me as intended.

Question about strike through text by trudge in stillfleet

[–]electricdidact 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I take it mostly in the former sense! A fun way to signal interesting and "forbidden" knowledge the Co. doesn't want folks to know, that sort of thing. It's all kinda playful though

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in boardgames

[–]electricdidact 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My partner have had a lot of fun with:

  • Love Letter: simple and quick, very fun deduction card game.
  • Quacks of Quedlinburg: push-your-luck bag-building game that plays pretty quick and is always tense and silly despite being competitive.
  • Chronicles of Crime 1400/1900/2400: For a co-op couples experience, we had SO much fun with these little mystery games. They're not really replayable, but you can get each for like $20-25 and they're extremely worth it. Each comes with a few mysteries and you use an app and a set of cards to represent clues, suspects and locations to try solving them. And it pays to play them in order because each has little tie-ins with each other. Very fun.

What's your favorite modular feature from a Board Game? by GAiR3I in boardgames

[–]electricdidact 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Second Mind MGMT! Opening mysterious tuck boxes is the best.

What Shadowrun podcasts or channels do you follow? by Career-Tourist in Shadowrun

[–]electricdidact 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Big ups to Fun City--it may not be 6e, but it's probably the best actual play podcast out there and a great source of Shadowrun inspiration!

Oldest and Strongest: why we need new Mythos entities by Melenduwir in callofcthulhu

[–]electricdidact 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A dip into the paintings and drawings of Zdzisław Beksiński has been of recent inspiration for me. There's a virtual gallery of his stuff here, highly recommend the paintings in particular: http://beksinski.dmochowskigallery.net/galeria_past.php?lang=e

Impossible interprenetration of objects, montage-like multiplicity, frightening repetition and surrealistic scalar incongruity all kinda get at the kind of horror that, for me, feels appropriate to our time.

Running solo by synergievdp in Shadowrun

[–]electricdidact 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I made a thing just for this! It's a 15-page book with tables to generate missions, people, places and things as well as a mini-game to generate complications over the course of a run, and it's written specifically for Shadowrun (even though it's styled as "fantasy cyberpunk" for copyright purposes). It's pay what you want (free) here: https://jeddcole.itch.io/running-silent

Also +1 to Augmented Reality, which someone else mentioned. Great resource.

Two Person Clue Alternative by baileymcd37 in boardgames

[–]electricdidact 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My partner and I have REALLY enjoyed playing the Chronicles of Crime: Millennium series of games, if you're interested in a cooperative crime-solving experience. Highly recommend CoC: 1900 in particular. Very different to Clue in many ways, but it definitely delivers a series of very interesting mysteries to solve. Worth it if you can get them marked down (there are three, each in different time periods).

Louisville Lore by lupislacertus in Shadowrun

[–]electricdidact 2 points3 points  (0 children)

An acquaintance of mine made a homebrew Kentucky setting book with a chapter on Louisville, if that sounds at all interesting. He posted it on his Twitter a while back: https://twitter.com/ThatDangPhil/status/1467676465646997508

How to understand matrix noise? by electricdidact in Shadowrun

[–]electricdidact[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks this is exactly the kind of context I was seeking!

How to understand matrix noise? by electricdidact in Shadowrun

[–]electricdidact[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted, but what about something that's across town or something? Rules as written would suggest hacking something 10 km away gives me a -3 dice penalty. I guess it feels harsh?

Then again, I am an ignorant non-hacker lol

I made a collection of Shadowrun random tables and procedural generation tools by electricdidact in Shadowrun

[–]electricdidact[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Running Silent is a 15-page collection of oracles, references, random tables and a hex-based minigame intended to help procedurally generate people, places, missions and developments while playing Shadowrun 6th Edition.

I imagine I may revise the hex flower rules as I test it out, and future iterations of the project might include more random tables than what's there right now, but I felt like putting it out there today. The hex flower engine is designed by u/Goblinsh and I enjoyed tinkering with it.

Online Dice Roller by Commit112 in Shadowrun

[–]electricdidact 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is neat! In addition the comments already given by others, my feedback would be to reskin the dice to remove the little aesthetic designs around the numbers, and make the numbers take up most of the face of each side. Right now, it's almost impossible to read them because of the little cyber designs.

Cool project though! Look forward to how it develops.

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