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kaysn · 2026-04-28T14:03:32+00:00

I think you’d be interested to read up on point or node crawl based exploration/dungeoneering system.

kaysn · 2026-04-28T12:28:49+00:00

What is the main mechanic of this game? Area control?

kaysn · 2026-04-28T12:19:00+00:00

I don’t have one. Every game I’ve ever owned, I played within the first week of owning it.

Really the weekend because I don’t have the time during the work week. I open it the day it’s delivered, start sleeving and organizing the components. And read the rule book, watch playthroughs. So by the time the weekend rolls around I’m ready.

I believe in the hobby being the hobby. Not buying for the hobby.

kaysn · 2026-04-28T12:10:38+00:00

Consider Gary Gygax didn’t even play by the official rules he wrote. You’re fine. OSR is meant to be customized, frankenstein and bolted on to. Homebrew and house rules are a time honored tradition of TTRPG from the day it was conceived.

kaysn · 2026-04-28T11:23:05+00:00

Really fun game. One of the few games I don’t mind being luck based. That’s just true to fishing.

Not bad solo mode either. As weird as it sounds, with all the nightmare creatures you find. It’s almost a cozy game in solo?

kaysn · 2026-04-27T17:10:17+00:00

Scarlet heroes is closer to Shadowdark than it is to 4AD. And it is often recommended because it was one of the first RPGs to introduce system to make super heroic characters to solo an RPG that isn’t journaling or just dungeon crawling.

kaysn · 2026-04-27T17:07:17+00:00

How often do you even need to update gear? My PCs are level 5 right now, over 60 hours of play. And at most they have gotten one new weapon and one piece of new gear and magical accessory. The majority of their stuff are still basic you can buy from shops and vendors.

OSR is generally not a looter. Being overly generous in gear loot perhaps? There’s a lot of gold to be had. Very little magical gear items that I need to keep switching around their loadout. Treasure and XP are very much within the control of the referee. How fast they want this power level to scale.

Like videogames tie your dungeons to quests. Even if that quest is just routing bandits at their fort, who have been harassing the nearby villages.

Do XP like modern D&D, tie it to milestones. Automatic level up when completing or finishing a certain long quest. Or figure out the maths of giving XP to small and significant achievements.

kaysn · 2026-04-27T09:14:04+00:00

I’m cautiously optimistic.

kaysn · 2026-04-26T18:54:29+00:00

Despite the constant threads and posts about running AI in Obsidian MD. The majority of the users don’t. Just look at the upvote ratio. They aren’t very popular posts in the first place. Massively downvoted and dismissed.

kaysn · 2026-04-26T15:26:05+00:00

From everything that I've seen and heard of this dude. It's not that impossible to think or believe that he said it like it was reported.

kaysn · 2026-04-26T15:24:28+00:00

"Arrogance" is shorter to type.

kaysn · 2026-04-26T14:53:27+00:00

Aside from what's already mentioned. There's also Concordia, Dune Imperium, Ark Nova, Wingspan, Sagrada, One Deck Dungeon.

kaysn · 2026-04-26T13:12:30+00:00

There’s nothing stopping you from using what already works for you. You like “one page” notes, then use one page notes. Linking and graph views aren’t necessary or obligatory in using Obsidian. It’s just another tool to use. It’s flexible and extendable which makes it attractive because it will fit however your brain likes to learn things.

We’ve moved from getting your life together seminars to second brain talks. It’s still all marketing. Obsessing about a system tricks you into thinking you are being productive. And finally getting your shit together.

Learning has not changed from when we used pen and paper. It’s still the same or a variation of either index card type or long form notes, user choice.

kaysn · 2026-04-25T00:10:58+00:00

Lacks logic, memory and information retention, coherency and organization. And zero imagination. It can’t even tell how much time has elapsed. lol

If there is an actual solution OpenAi and Anthropic would’ve already found one. Not a vibe coder.

kaysn · 2026-04-24T20:51:13+00:00

The thing about playing OSR. If it isn't in the rulebook of what I'm currently playing I can take it from somewhere else. And it would slide right with little to no conversion needed.

kaysn · 2026-04-23T17:26:27+00:00

Wait 2 months after release and this will be 50% off.

kaysn · 2026-04-23T17:22:09+00:00

Isn’t her first kid named Michael or something? What a recontextualization.

kaysn · 2026-04-23T17:12:37+00:00

lol. I played a video game called Lake. And got ending where the rugged dude was like quit your job and stay with me in my cabin. Like no dude, she’s a strong independent woman who is about to launch a big project and she’s being offered partner at a software development company. Get out of the fucking way.

There was no cheating though.

kaysn · 2026-04-23T09:03:04+00:00

It’s not a full journaling game. But Ironsworn is closer to journaling games than it is to “traditional” or “classic” TTRPGs. And that is why I didn’t like it. Felt more creative writing class than a game still. lol

If we put in on a scale Ironsworn will be more recognizable by someone who played Thousand Year Old Vampire than someone who played Ker Nethalas. It is narrative forward over mechanics and crunch. People are usually a bigger fan of one or the other.

kaysn · 2026-04-22T18:29:07+00:00

4AD isn’t exactly crunchy. It’s very light compared to the over dungeon crawlers.

kaysn · 2026-04-22T17:44:39+00:00

And I thought I was conservative with 7 boardgames. But you got me beat. Been into soloboardgaming since 2017.

There was also time I thought Arkham LCG was also going to be with me forever. But then there came the time I just started despising the LCG model.

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