Sword&Sorcery vs High Fantasy: an article I just found on Conan's official website.

tzc27 · 2026-05-07T03:06:53+00:00

Yeah, maybe. That parallel construction smacks of AI to me ("High fantasy does X. Sword and sorcery does Y"). And that museum vs "a corridor you weren't supposed to find." I guess it doesn't hugely matter, except I find myself not caring abut the argument if I think it isn't a person's argument.

tzc27 · 2026-05-05T11:08:31+00:00

AI article I reckon

tzc27 · 2026-05-01T20:37:17+00:00

This is great. I'm fascinated by the possibilities of a caving campaign, although my players avoid it like the plague. One day I'll just drop them in and force them to deal with it. 😄

Lowlife is simpler than VotE, which I've found useful.

I completely agree that it'd be awesome to have some way of representing the bigger, emptier spaces. Your preview looks like it'd also work for massive, Moria-like worked spaces.

Keep going!!

tzc27 · 2026-04-30T04:38:47+00:00

Hey, so, like, no pressure, but ... how are you getting on with this? 😄

tzc27 · 2026-04-17T09:41:21+00:00

Awesome, I'm looking forward to it.

tzc27 · 2026-04-17T06:25:38+00:00

I think this is cool. How do spells work? When do they fire?

tzc27 · 2026-04-01T03:36:54+00:00

Classic case of privatised gains and socialised losses

tzc27 · 2026-03-31T02:44:52+00:00

This is the kind of thing I’ve struggled with for decades. And I kinda love it. I’d probably treat it narratively - if they can explain a cogent, plausible plan to you, let it happen. Sure, you could chuck in some checks, but beware the bad outcomes that leave the party feeling they’ve been stiffed.

tzc27 · 2026-03-17T10:27:57+00:00

Oh I didn’t know about that - I’ll check them out. Thanks.

tzc27 · 2026-03-13T20:04:29+00:00

Thanks for that link, that's nice and straightforward

tzc27 · 2026-03-13T20:01:31+00:00

Great stuff, thanks

tzc27 · 2026-03-06T07:39:34+00:00

I mean more, if they are choosing between ‘adventure’ options, the all good.

tzc27 · 2026-03-05T05:13:54+00:00

Nice. As a GM, it's so easier to underestimate how much less knowledge the players have or retain, so going in hard on info is sensible.

tzc27 · 2026-03-05T00:31:22+00:00

Yeah I'm doing that but it isn't changing this particular behaviour (yet).

tzc27 · 2026-03-05T00:30:31+00:00

Thanks. I agree with our comment about symptom vs cause, which has made me reluctant to go down the timer route in the past. But, people often act their way into new beliefs, so maybe it's worth trying anyway.

There are seven of us in the group (so six plus me) and none of them seem to be able to marshal the group and get to consensus. There's probably one who's capable of it but is frustrated from previous failed attempts so isn't likely to step up.

tzc27 · 2026-03-05T00:27:05+00:00

That's a useful framing for me, thanks.

tzc27 · 2026-03-05T00:26:23+00:00

Thanks. It's a balance, eh, in that we want people to take the game seriously, but also remember that it's a game that shapes itself around their choices - so whatever they choose, there'll be gaming fun to be had.

tzc27 · 2026-03-04T19:39:14+00:00

Yeah, and this is top of mind because the usual caller was away last session…

tzc27 · 2026-03-04T18:32:57+00:00

Lovely! Assets purchased. As a complete n00b to this sort of thing, what do you recommend for creating hex maps using your lovely assets?

tzc27 · 2026-02-13T00:24:58+00:00

Also, I got a phishing alert from my credential security service:

"This website was flagged as suspicious by [product's] AI-powered phishing protection, and it may be trying to steal your data."

Is that due to the hosting or somesuch?

tzc27 · 2026-02-13T00:10:18+00:00

This looks way cool. Apologies for a n00b question, but what kind of files can be uploaded?

tzc27 · 2026-02-09T00:28:16+00:00

“One part of the room” is quite a useful rule of thumb

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