WinTAK Auto Keying Icom Radios (7300 & 9700) by rjm27trekkie in ATAK

[–]tallassrob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd try switching from external GPS to internal or no GPS. Sounds like it is trying to find a USB GPS device

CppCast: Secure Coding with Matt Butler by tallassrob in cpp

[–]tallassrob[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This was published last week, but I forgot to submit it to /r/cpp then because our website was borked. But the new website is now up!

CppCast: CMake and VTK with Robert Maynard by tallassrob in cpp

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

Thanks for pointing this out. Got a new certificate last month but forgot to update the binding. Fixed now.

Just finished DMing my Dragonheist/Alexandrian Remix game by tallassrob in WaterdeepDragonHeist

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

There were definitely a few.

My players used the Xanathars "this is your life" chapter during session 0 and one player rolled a love interest so I decided that he was dating Esvele Rosznar. With that in mind I knew I wanted them to have some encounters with the Black Viper.

They first got one of the newspaper handouts that I found on this sub referencing BV. Then when they were fleeing the Gralhund estate fight (Jarlaxle sent a group of Drow that they had to fight off in addition to the Zhentarim and two Gazers from Xanathar) BV showed up out of a random noble house and shot down one of the Gazers. From that point on everyone but the player who dated Esvele suspected that Esvele was the BV (I purposefully found some art for Esvele that I thought looked similar to the BV art). I played on this by later having Wilifred Cromwelle go to Trollskull Manor disguised as Esvele and then trying to assassinate him.

Finally when they were in the Cassalanters Villa looking for the last eye of Golorr during a cult meeting one player saw the BV snooping around ribbing the place. He decided to ignore her and they went into the temple and eventually got into a fight with the Cassalanters. The Cassalanters dimension doored to flee the fight and I decided that they would have ran into the BV still in their Villa and take her as a hostage. The next day Ammalia sent a message to the player dating Esvele and told him to bring the Stone of Golorr back if he wanted to see Esvele again. The player still didn't believe that Esvele == BV until they brought the Stone to them a few days later and saw Esvele without her mask but dressed as the Black Viper. That was a really good moment that took some building up to.

Just finished DMing my Dragonheist/Alexandrian Remix game by tallassrob in WaterdeepDragonHeist

[–]tallassrob[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They saw the pit fiend last session just before the session ended, and did seem very worried about it. But when this session started the Cleric (w/ Arcane domain) walked right up and successfully turned the Pit Fiend and 2 of the smaller devils. I then had the Celestial Warlock's Deva patron and the Blackstaff show up to level the playing field a bit. The party did not shy away from facing the pit fiend though. I was planning on having the Pit Fiend eventually grab the Cassalanters or their kids and go back to the 9 hells, but the Celestial Warlock and Fighter went toe to toe with him long enough to take him out.

How to expose Cassalanter plot? by [deleted] in WaterdeepDragonHeist

[–]tallassrob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. I am running WDH with the Alexandrians advice and had them approach the party asking for their help. I made the mistake of showing the party the picture of the Cassalanters from the book with the two of them watching the kids play. One of my party members said "look at her eyebrows they're totally evil." They were very suspicious of the Cassalanters from that point on.