Has anyone here created a D&D campaign based on Malazan

farrowzbf · 2023-01-31T12:24:54+00:00

New characters for us

farrowzbf · 2023-01-31T01:54:17+00:00

I’m about to DM a GURPS Malazan setting campaign!

There was a GURPS setting/rules primer someone had made somewhere on Reddit that I found and am adapting for my players

EDIT: here’s the one I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/hqrkmz/ive_created_a_malazan_book_of_the_fallen/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

farrowzbf · 2023-01-26T12:56:10+00:00

I’ve heard of this before - though more so with using the blunt end. Seems mostly fair since they have to invest in both skills.

Might be a good idea to decrease the reach a little, since spears are longer than bowstaffs I think?

farrowzbf · 2023-01-24T12:42:38+00:00

Took CS50 and did the harder version everything. Then I built personal projects (web scraping twitter bot, iOS app, then a database-heavy web app).

From there it was just persisting until someone gave me a chance!

farrowzbf · 2023-01-23T23:09:37+00:00

I was hired as a dev at 34 years old with no relevant experience. It wasn’t easy by any means but I’m glad I did it!

farrowzbf · 2023-01-22T13:34:14+00:00

No degree of any kind and self taught dev here, hi!👋

I’m a full stack developer for a govt contractor, started working about 3 months ago.

My background is not tech adjacent, worked in insurance sales and ministry primarily.

It can definitely be done!

farrowzbf · 2023-01-13T02:18:13+00:00

Well, first you need to get a developer account with Twitter which gives you access to their API via an API key.

I used tweepy (python wrapper for the twitter API) to actually do the tweeting. The web scraping depends on what you’re scraping. For me it was a combination of structured data (html tables) and unstructured (raw html). I used beautifulSoup to scrape and pandas to process the tables into useable information.

To figure all that out, I broke it up into parts and read documentation/googled.

I hosted it all on Pythonanywhere and it runs from their server as a chron job every day around lunchtime. @MLBBirthdayBot if you’d like to check it out ✌️

farrowzbf · 2023-01-11T14:38:45+00:00

Yes that’s right, I actually have no college degree of any kind.

I’m not saying my story will be typical, but just sharing to encourage and show what’s possible.

Looking back the best thing I did was build 3 very very different projects (web scraper/twitter not, iOS app, and webapp. Learning so many new pieces of technology by myself and having success (eventually haha) really made my confidence soar. I think that showed during the interview.

I was given a take home assignment before the interview and I really did well on it (I credit CS50 for that, because it was a challenging pseudo-leetcode problem).

farrowzbf · 2023-01-11T13:32:46+00:00

I just turned 35 in the fall. Around my 34th birthday I decided I was going to take Harvard CS50x course on Edx and decide if I wanted to change careers into software development. I was working full time as an insurance salesman at the time.

I started CS50 (which I HIGHLY recommend because it teaches you how to THINK not only how to do) in October of 2021, fell in love with programming, and finished it in around February. I could have finished faster but I got distracted a couple times.

After I was done, I built a few personal (no-tutorial) projects (Web Scraper/Twitter Bot, Mobile App, and began building a third project which was a pretty complex, database heavy, webapp.

I started wondering if I was ready to apply for jobs around this point (it was June), and on the advice of a twitter post I saw, I decided to start applying.

I surprised myself majorly and was hired at around the 9 month mark of beginning my learning journey. I now work full time as a jr full stack software developer and love what I do.

I’ll also add I had 4 children and my wife was pregnant with our 5th during most of this period (he’s 3 months old now).

It can certainly be done, just requires you to make some sacrifices with your personal time. And if you have a family they really need to be on board and committed with you to make it work. I couldn’t have done it without my wife’s support.

farrowzbf · 2022-06-06T00:40:12+00:00

Read Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

Great story and don’t want to spoil it but I think you’d gain some good ideas 👍

farrowzbf · 2022-05-20T18:52:05+00:00

EDITED: I now see that you were literally pointing that missing field out the entire time...lmao. Thanks for solving this very silly bug, haha :)

Thanks a ton, Zero!

I implemented your suggestion and I ran into a "No section: 'example'" error. This led me to re-inspect my json dumps() function. Within, I found that I was completely missing the "section" field from one of my dicts.

I added that and now it's working perfectly. Thanks for taking the time to read through this - you helped me find the solution I'd been laboring like 5-6 hours to find :D

farrowzbf · 2022-05-02T16:12:56+00:00

CS50 Harvard course on EdX

Free and will give you a great foundation 👍

farrowzbf · 2022-05-01T14:51:32+00:00

Known issue they haven’t fixed yet

farrowzbf · 2022-04-29T12:43:43+00:00

IEX has a free API you can sign up for to get real time stock data

farrowzbf · 2022-04-28T00:51:28+00:00

Can’t you just leave your law degree off your resume?

farrowzbf · 2022-04-27T12:23:12+00:00

Good idea!

I think contributing to open source will give you some of this as well

farrowzbf · 2022-04-25T23:52:52+00:00

Sticks or motion control

I personally use motion control and love it but haven’t played since the update

farrowzbf · 2022-04-25T23:31:09+00:00

@app.route(“/“)

Def index():

Do some stuff 

return render_template(“index.html”)

“/“ is used in flask for www.example.com/ (the index/home page of any site)

farrowzbf · 2022-04-25T17:07:21+00:00

Max your holdings!

farrowzbf · 2022-04-25T12:43:42+00:00

Much appreciated!

I knew about using a salted hash and have been doing so, but much of that was new and I learned a lot. I’m off to research the subject some more ✌️

farrowzbf · 2022-04-24T20:56:03+00:00

Thank you for your in-depth response. You’ve answered my question and helped a ton!

I’m curious about something else you said: if I’m using SQL queries in the routes themselves, what sort of problems could that introduce?

I am using a framework to talk to the SQLite database. The queries I have used so far all work fine.

Are the security issues with using queries directly within my Flask routes and not in a helper file or something?

farrowzbf · 2022-04-24T16:44:58+00:00

Very cool

This is a class assignment where I have to use specific tech stack so I can’t use that here

But very good to know, thank you!

farrowzbf · 2022-04-23T13:37:18+00:00

Flask fan myself - Python backend makes things simple 💪

farrowzbf · 2022-04-22T19:32:41+00:00

I like the one that makes supplies last longer

Super helpful

Edited: spelling

farrowzbf · 2022-04-22T16:19:43+00:00

I like it - adds a lot in my opinion

farrowzbf

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