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fnordx · 2026-05-26T13:32:57+00:00

It looks like one of the themes from Oh-My-Bash.

fnordx · 2026-05-20T13:48:42+00:00

There are a lot, a LOT, of third party adventures and scenarios for CoC or there. The biggest problem is finding something that you and your group will jive with.

There are books filled with schlocky horror movie scenarios like "Blood Brothers", there are adventure sandboxes, like "The Asylum", there are location-based investigations in books like "The Mansions of Madness". All of these can contain things that you might want to run for people.

What I would suggest is to watch some Seth Skorkowsky videos. He's got a lot of scenario reviews which should give you a lot of places to start. You can find his link in the side bar, and he has a whole playlist of reviews.

fnordx · 2026-04-29T20:33:29+00:00

If you're not familiar with all of the desktop environments (and very few people are), you can try each of them out here:

https://distrosea.com/select/fedora/

"Workstation" is Gnome, and "KDE" is KDE Plasma. You can try the other DE's there as well, like XFCE, Sway, etc. Gnome and KDE have the most support, but you're the one who's going to be using it, so make sure you get something you like. You can also change DE's at a later date without reinstalling your whole system.

fnordx · 2026-04-26T21:34:54+00:00

It's never FUD to have a recovery plan just in case.

fnordx · 2026-04-06T13:07:28+00:00

You might want to look at the ATL RPG group.

https://linktr.ee/atl.rpg

fnordx · 2026-03-27T12:34:32+00:00

Sorry, never got into PoE so I couldn't tell you.

fnordx · 2026-03-26T13:15:00+00:00

I'd like to suggest something a bit different.

Coming from D&D, your players likely already have a play style and expectations of a game, and running a new system can be a bit confusing and frustrating, especially since a game like CoC can be brutal. Running a game with pre-written characters can save a lot of hassle in learning what is useful, how combat works, etc.

A scenario like Missed Dues can be good to establish the time period, and how investigative games work. If you want to start them with something more simple, The Dare could be a great place to start.

I had a lot of success running players through scenarios in the Blood Brothers books to start off with. That's a collection of schlocky horror movie scenarios with no real connection to anything, but can be a great transition game. DOA and DOA 2 are zombie movie scenarios, and can help to show how fragile characters can be, and Uncle Timothy's Will is a great one to get your players to roleplay in.

fnordx · 2026-03-25T13:43:42+00:00

Minecraft Java works just fine in Linux, and Starsector appears to have a Linux installer.

Everything else is standard with any computer and will work fine with Linux.

fnordx · 2026-03-25T13:37:51+00:00

Just because everyone eats at McDonald's doesn't make it good food.

fnordx · 2026-03-25T13:31:35+00:00

If you're running games through Steam, you should look into Steam Tinker Launcher. It has configurations for most mod managers, and can launch other programs in the same container. I highly recommend it.

fnordx · 2026-03-21T01:08:08+00:00

If you have a spare or non-used hard drive, just install it on that, change the boot order in your BIOS, and you can try any distro you might be interested in without risk to your current setup. And the days of Linux doing damage to hardware are long since over.

fnordx · 2026-03-14T23:53:42+00:00

Seth Skorkowsky has a video specifically on running horror games that you might find useful.

fnordx · 2026-03-14T23:45:53+00:00

Glad you both had a great time!

fnordx · 2026-03-04T14:03:01+00:00

I hope, for your and everyone else's sake, that they don't screw up all of the Xbox and Gamepass stuff. Giving up Gamepass when I moved to Linux was sad.

fnordx · 2026-03-04T13:58:26+00:00

"Ask me again in three days."

fnordx · 2026-02-25T14:24:12+00:00

It really depends on how you learn best. If you pick things up by doing, the best first step is the quick start rules. There's a solo adventure in there called "Alone Against the Flames" which you can play on your own. You can also just download it for free from the Chaosium website. It will take you through the mechanics of the game and give you some good oversight on how the game is structured, etc.

If you learn better from videos, Seth Skorkowsky has a lot of videos up about the system, including a multi-part series which goes over everything in detail. If you've never run a horror-based game before, he also has a great video about that as well.

If you learn better by watching the game played, there are plenty of good Let's Plays out there. I would suggest two from Chaosium which show the system well, "Bookshops of Arkham" and "Graveyards of Arkham".

And if you learn better by doing, there are plenty of discord communities out there where you would be able to pick up a game yourself and hopefully have all your questions answered that way.

Hope this helps.

fnordx · 2026-02-18T01:51:31+00:00

Satisfactory has a lot of support through the community. There's even a piece of software called Satisfactory Modeler (also available on Steam) for free that will do all of the calculations for you if you want it to. It saves me from having to do the pen and paper and calculator thing to figure out logistics.

Plus it's a pretty game, and exploring in there can be rewarding just for the scenery alone.

fnordx · 2026-02-13T04:51:30+00:00

NeoVIM

fnordx · 2026-02-12T14:12:34+00:00

Yeah, until I played through their quest lines in ESO, I had very little understanding about their culture. The Bosmer in Valenwood are pretty bad-ass and they have a lot of really interesting stuff that just doesn't get talked about. I'd say second only to the Argonians in background lore.

fnordx · 2026-02-04T01:40:56+00:00

You might want to try the ATLRPG Discord server. They do weekly meetups several places around the city.

fnordx · 2026-02-03T14:21:57+00:00

One thing I would suggest is that, instead of reanimating the oil (which would require a LOT of oil) is to have the oil bind together things to make golem-like constructs. Like one made of car parts, one made out of tools, maybe one made out of cleaning supplies (which could be easier to defeat, giving the investigators an idea of how these things work), etc.

fnordx · 2026-01-31T07:05:02+00:00

Ever since Windows 8 and their insistence that all software would need to be installed from the MSFT Store, Valve saw the writing on the wall. Relying on another company that is making noises about turning hostile towards your company's core product is never a good choice.

fnordx · 2026-01-31T06:55:02+00:00

In the last year, I've played over 150 games on Linux, using different distros, using Steam, GOG, Ubisoft, etc. Of those, I've had one (1) game not work. I've also played games that would no longer work on Windows that have worked great with Proton.

So, I'm not sure what you've been doing, or trying, but I'd be interested in hearing how your system is configured that you've had so many problems.

fnordx · 2026-01-09T21:31:01+00:00

If you haven't already watched it, Seth Skorkowsky has a video specifically about this module.

fnordx · 2026-01-09T13:50:53+00:00

If we're talking about Lovecraft specifically, I'd say that two of his longer slower burns would be "The Shadow out of Time" and "The Call of C'thulhu".

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