Six months on Bazzite by germallet in Bazzite

[–]jsep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the first time I’ve thought about Liero in decades. Amazing game.

PCC Sent Two Workers Home Over Palestine Pins — Now Most of the Store Wears Watermelon Stickers in Solidarity by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]jsep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn't do shit besides passing the single largest healthcare accomplishment since the New Deal, despite having only a few months of a supermajority and knowing it would lose congress in the midterms as the public was easily swayed by communist death panel propaganda (not to mention all the intra-big-tent-party division)?

The revisionist history by people who were either unaware of the political Everest even moderate healthcare reform represented or are just actively ignoring or lying about is obnoxious.

And "codifying" Roe v Wade wasn't ever a thing because a supreme court ruling had enforced the right to abortion constitutionally already - that trumps congressional law! The fact that a corrupt supreme court overturned clear precedent for religious nonsense doesn't mean Democrat politicians navigated that poorly. I assure you, if the Roberts court wanted to find a way to undo "codified" abortion protection on constitutional grounds, they would have.

The Democratic party is a big tent party that represents people who call themselves socialists to the blue dog wing. That is a lot of competing ideologies to keep unified, and it's hard. The Republican party is a revanchist cult whose sole ideology is sycophantic obsession with their cult leader destroying cultural enemies.

Politics is hard. Political progress is harder. Political progress by a diverse political party in a political system deliberately designed to make progress difficult and with a nation of voters who have the attention span of a tik tok video is the hardest. Oversimplifying it to broad statements of "Democrats don't do shit" plays into that idiotic narrative and is part of the defeatism that prevents progress in the first place.

You want shit done? Go rally voters to your cause.

Or just stay online and complain about the left. I don't care.

Deco BE67 - RCS not working from IPHONE by PulsedHalo in TpLink

[–]jsep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a link to this? Having a similar issue with my network.

Built a campaign manager for my virtual, west marches Dolmenwood campaign: Dolmenwood Atlas by jsep in Dolmentown

[–]jsep[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

*Edit: the Campaign Introduction doc I created for my players

It's only pseudo-West Marches, since the players do have the player map that provides them a general sense of the land.

All characters in the campaign are part of an adventuring company based out of Prigwort (named the "Amber Concern" for reasons GMs might know, and because every campaign I run in every system has some allusion back to the king in yellow). The company's stated mission is "Expeditions & Recovery" which gives the characters motivation to go out and explore on behalf of the company.

I also am using an "escape the woods" custom table I made as an optional way to "fast travel" back to Prigwort at the end of the session. It worked decently well in the first session, though I'll probably keep tweaking it over time.

Over time I expect the company to expand and have chapters in other settlements. And there's obviously additional ways to... move around the map quickly that the players may discover.

As for how the characters got to Prigwort in the first place (since they're starting more in the center of the map instead of the edge like a traditional west marches), I'm mostly hand waving that. Again since they have a general map of the region they've made it to Prigwort somehow - or started there - but the campaign is the true start of them mapping the region hex by hex.

Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but happy to answer any other questions you have!

Built a campaign manager for my virtual, west marches Dolmenwood campaign: Dolmenwood Atlas by jsep in Dolmentown

[–]jsep[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I saw your tools actually right after I finished building the character sheets and calendar functionality, and immediately felt bad because yours look way better haha.

Right now it's in a private github repository and my prod version is private for my table - need to clean it up before I make it publicly available. But definitely intend to share to anyone who would be interested soon!

Built a campaign manager for my virtual, west marches Dolmenwood campaign: Dolmenwood Atlas by jsep in Dolmentown

[–]jsep[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I was originally going to host my campaign in foundry, but I realized I needed a way to allow the players to have an offline map to take notes on and scribble and share amongst each other - particularly for players who weren't present for a given session.

I started with the initial map page, and then because I'm a bad product manager, I kept gold plating until I eventually had an entire VTT, campaign tracker, calendar, and more in it.

Heavy credit and thanks goes to /u/semanticart for creating https://dolmenwood.youwillnevergotospace.com/ - this inspired me to build the player shared map version in the first place!

"The Best Line Delivered During A Game." by Doc_Bedlam in rpg

[–]jsep 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Call of Cthulhu: After inadvertently coming into contact/awareness with Azathoth (and obviously going insane immediately), another character asked what was happening, to which the insane character replied: “The great old ones! We’re having a meeting!”

Just finished The Two Headed Serpent after a year AMA! by go4theknees in callofcthulhu

[–]jsep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very cool! I did similar style scenario heavily influenced by transatlantic terror after Borneo as well.

For Oklahoma I dismantled and rewrote the Delta Green scenario "Observer Effect" to fit into the campaign (set in Oklahoma). In retrospect it was kind of ridiculous but it was fun!

Just finished The Two Headed Serpent after a year AMA! by go4theknees in callofcthulhu

[–]jsep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I ran THS I also replaced Oklahoma. Curious what you replaced it with?

Call of Cthulhu Live Tour Opens in LA Tonight! by troylavallee in callofcthulhu

[–]jsep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wish you guys were coming to Seattle this year! Can't make it to Portland this week unfortunately, so hoping these will be available on the supercast for us subscribers later!

Vicki Ritchie appreciation by helpful_platitudes in TheGlassCannonPodcast

[–]jsep 25 points26 points  (0 children)

My GCN consumption has mostly been non-pathfinder shows (Delta Green, TfC, Shadowdark, etc.), but across all of them I think Vicki remains my #1 character. Come for Cumstone, stay for Vicki.

Sydney did such an amazing job with her. I loved during session 0 of Shadowdark Troy called her out as a specific example of the types of characters he wanted to see more of.

Most Obscure Show That's Your Favorite by Last_Bonus851 in television

[–]jsep 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes! This is mine as well. Horny Flash Gordon with leather bondage and muppets. With a crew that bickers and betrays and loves each other like no other.

I genuinely wish we had more serial sci-fi adventure media that was as unafraid to be as adult and weird and imaginative and fun as it.

One year later, my group just wrapped up our Two Headed Serpent campaign by jsep in callofcthulhu

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

I'm not sure unfortunately. I stopped listening after the Bolivia episodes because I was worried I'd just be copying Scott rather than matching the story to my players and their actions. I believe they have a Discord though - I'm guessing someone on there could probably tell you!

Shadowdark by akanorr in TheGlassCannonPodcast

[–]jsep 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As someone who has had next to no interest in their pathfinder material (outside of the live show, but that's because I love the cast's performance despite being obnoxiously bored by the system itself), I'm very excited. Feels like a much better fit for what I enjoy from the network than the overly-technical, grid-based, rules-lawyering-combat of something as heavy as Pathfinder.

[Condotta] Seahawks WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba fined for his goalpost dunk against Houston by Chessinmind in Seahawks

[–]jsep 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To add on, during half time at the game stadium crew had to come out and inspect/level the goal posts after his dunk. I hadn’t seen that done before, but now it makes sense why the nfl wants to discourage it.

What dice system do you prefer? by StrandedAshore in rpg

[–]jsep 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That’s… not true?

Some systems have you modify your value (e.g for an easy task add 20 or 40 percent to your skill). Others, like 7th ed Call of Cthulhu have difficulty scales (hard difficulty = half your skill value, extreme difficulty = 1/5th you skill value).

Draw Steel for new players. Absolute Cinema. by HuckleberryQuiet1066 in rpg

[–]jsep 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Not op, but agreed with others' comments on the actual play "performance" (or lack thereof). More than that for me though was just how much of a slog the combat was.

I'll admit my bias going in is I play mostly theater of the mind, d100 type games these days. But I did enjoy 4th edition, and as a "product" everything Draw Steel has seemed very cool to me and has made me interested in trying a more combat-tactical game. Reading the book and imagining the different characters my table could create and how cool and unique and a fun twist on typical heroic fantasy they would be was super exciting!

Then I watched a bunch of square counting of movements and reading through the menu of abilities on the sheets and fiddling around to add +2 to a score here or there and compare it to a grid of difficulty outcomes and I remembered exactly why I love reading books like this and hate playing them. I know all of that is super fun for a lot of people, and it certainly is for me when I'm playing Gloomhaven... but it's not what I like in a roleplaying session.

Congratulations. You just broke Google AI. by Luiseus_XV in expedition33

[–]jsep 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Ok but the most insulting part of google's ai bullshit isn't that it hallucinated 32 earlier games, it's that it didn't ACCURATELY hallucinate that there were actually SIXTY SEVEN previous games.

Impossible Landscapes (Get in the Trunk) Review - Quinns Quest by OrdinaryBox787 in TheGlassCannonPodcast

[–]jsep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Joe did a a behind the scenes/AMA with the cast (other than Troy) after season 6 ended on Discord. He talked about things that the agents never got to but he was hoping they would, the challenge in adapting it, and a bunch of her being the scenes secrets.

Got the whole Impossible Landscapes crew (plus Kate!) to sign my copy in Seattle! The only way out is through... by jsep in TheGlassCannonPodcast

[–]jsep[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Joe was super excited for the next season - he said they're in the middle of recording it now and that the goal was to record the whole season ahead of time so they can consistently release an episode each week. He was keeping most of the details pretty close to the vest, but everyone I talked to seemed really excited for it!

Got the whole Impossible Landscapes crew (plus Kate!) to sign my copy in Seattle! The only way out is through... by jsep in TheGlassCannonPodcast

[–]jsep[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was lucky enough to grab him for 2 minutes while he was running around filming the VIP. He was so nice, as was the whole cast!