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I don't bookmark anything, I manually navigate the forums and click any threads that interest me and keep an eye out for the unread posts notifications by their names.
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Can anyone recommend a brand of wet-erase markers for drawing on your bog standard wet-erase trpg mats? The crap ones I can get at the supermarket around here are not cutting it.
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Lemon-Lime posted:There's 40 pages of core rules, 40 pages of player options, 15 pages of GM advice, 65 pages of pregens and scenario seeds, and everything else in the book is setting information. At this point in my life, I have no idea what actually makes a ruleset complicated anymore. I played MF0 Rapid Assault with two friends a few weeks ago and I think the core rules to that can fit onto about 3 index cards, but we still took 2 hours to do just barely 2 turns. That said the core rules to BITD is 50 pages and I've taught the game in like...under 20 minutes? Like I said I have no idea. Nothing is certain dice reigns etc. Tsilkani posted:I don't bookmark anything, I manually navigate the forums and click any threads that interest me and keep an eye out for the unread posts notifications by their names. The OSR of posting.
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Tulip posted:The OSR of posting. What did I ever do you to, that you would wrong me so?
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Apr 23, 2021 00:36
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Browse the forums is what I do when none of my bookmarked threads have new posts.
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Apr 23, 2021 00:51
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tokenbrownguy posted:Can anyone recommend a brand of wet-erase markers for drawing on your bog standard wet-erase trpg mats? The crap ones I can get at the supermarket around here are not cutting it. I think I got mine at a teacher supply store fifteen years ago.
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Apr 23, 2021 00:54
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How does everyone take notes for games? Obviously my phone is RIGHT HERE IN MY HAND but putting ideas down in it doesn't feel as real and solid and jotting them down on paper. Am I alone here?
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Apr 23, 2021 00:55
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Len posted:How does everyone take notes for games? Obviously my phone is RIGHT HERE IN MY HAND but putting ideas down in it doesn't feel as real and solid and jotting them down on paper. Am I alone here? I run online so I use a Google doc. I shared them when I was a player. Can't do it any other way besides text editors.
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Apr 23, 2021 00:57
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When playing or running, always with pen and paper, I have a stack of post its and old envelopes at my computer for less permanent notes and keep a notebook for more important game notes and in person games, when they were a thing. Notes for things to do next game I just use whatever is closest.
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Apr 23, 2021 01:02
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When I was running in person, if I sat down right after the session, I was able to type down pretty good notes, even if during the session I'd only scribble or write down small highlights. Remotely I do more typing during, otherwise I forget.
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Apr 23, 2021 01:10
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SkyeAuroline posted:I run online so I use a Google doc. I shared them when I was a player. That's how I relay information to my players and since we've been on discord I set up a channel specifically with relevant things to copy and paste for what's hopefully that session. But when I have just like a random idea if it doesn't hit paper it gets forgotten
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Apr 23, 2021 01:10
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I take game logs on my laptop and keep them in a wiki with the semantic extensions, so I can easily cross-reference which NPCs showed up in which sessions.
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Apr 23, 2021 01:28
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Zorak of Michigan posted:I take game logs on my laptop and keep them in a wiki with the semantic extensions, so I can easily cross-reference which NPCs showed up in which sessions. Goddamn, I'm jealous. I have...multiple different google docs and spreadsheets and struggle to coordinate them.
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Apr 23, 2021 01:31
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Zorak of Michigan posted:I take game logs on my laptop and keep them in a wiki with the semantic extensions, so I can easily cross-reference which NPCs showed up in which sessions. Yeah, any advice on how to set something like that up would be much appreciated.
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Apr 23, 2021 01:47
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It's a bit of a labor of love for me, and I used to be a UNIX sysadmin, so it starts with getting a web hosting provider that will either let you hop in and install your own software, or a MediaWiki hosting provider that includes Semantic. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services has a few links. From there it's all about careful use of MediaWiki templates and queries. It's, um, kind of a learning curve, and having set it all up many years ago, I tend to just copy/paste old code into each new campaign page. I've got poo poo like this: code:code:
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Apr 23, 2021 02:06
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I just use Obsidian.md. It's a smooth app. It stores my files locally in markdown. I can see what files link to other files (and it uses wiki linking syntax). I can tag files. So I can easily see for a given organization when the organization was first mentioned and when a member of the organization first interacted with the PCs. It does templates, random files (for those deep cut references), images, everything I need.
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Apr 23, 2021 02:19
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TiddlyWiki is an effectively-semantic wiki with an expressive query language that doesn’t need messing about with hosting as long as you can install node.
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Apr 23, 2021 03:06
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Here's the wiki page for my favorite of all the AW games we've played: https://aafnrp.cipul.com/wiki/index.php?title=Brink
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Apr 23, 2021 04:13
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D&D campaign concept: survivors of the gender reveal locate city
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Apr 23, 2021 07:36
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Resident Evil: Gender Survivor
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Apr 23, 2021 15:44
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Blue and Pink Markets
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I started using Fly Slourish's notion template as a DM for notes and it's really nice. Lets you keep databases of NPCs and a crosslink them and stuff, notion's really nice in general. I also use notion for campaign notes as a player, but I don't have a particular template for it, I started with the DM one and ripped most of it out and just use it to track notes on NPCs and sessions. You can also use it for writing or handouts or whatever and link individual pages for your players.
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Apr 23, 2021 16:26
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tokenbrownguy posted:Can anyone recommend a brand of wet-erase markers for drawing on your bog standard wet-erase trpg mats? The crap ones I can get at the supermarket around here are not cutting it. The brand I've always used is Vis-a-Vis by Expo. https://smile.amazon.com/Expo-16001-Vis-Erase-Markers/dp/B00006IFGQ/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=visavis&qid=1619192709&sr=8-5 https://smile.amazon.com/16078-Wet-...19192709&sr=8-3 Just be sure to throw out the red ones, those will stain loving everything. The purple stains if left on for more than twelve hours or so, but I like purple so I just put up with it 
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bbcisdabomb posted:The brand I've always used is Vis-a-Vis by Expo. I use those and I'm happy with them. I haven't had any staining but now that I think about it, I don't think I've even used the red or purple ones on a map.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Here's the wiki page for my favorite of all the AW games we've played: https://aafnrp.cipul.com/wiki/index.php?title=Brink Wow. This layout is really nice. Thanks for all the wiki advice all.  On a completely different note, I like randomizers for world building and adventures. I recently got recommended a 100 page zine called Rakehell which describes a contested land between two kingdoms filled with fantasy weirdness, strange cults and adventure. It was only $3 as well. https://goatmansgoblet.itch.io/rakehell-1 quote:The Rift of Mar-Milloir will always be contested between two kingdoms, though neither will ever have the means or desire to enforce that claim with true rulership. Each year, the representative courtiers will send spies and assassins to one another’s court, to beguile, berate, and suffer further insult to see the conflict never ends. No one goes to Mar-Milloir who has a choice, it is a wretched and perfidious region of serpent-haunted mountains, wayward nephilims, and heretical holdouts who refuse the reformation of the Grand Heliopapacy of the Cathedral Tempestuous. Here are some of my favorite bits from the random tables: quote:What have I heard about this wretched place? In addition to the above, Rakehell also has details about strange factions, a black market, a brigand fort, a Wyrm's lair, giants, fiends and the ruined First-Men's crypts. All of these include random tables to ensure no encounter is the same twice. Here are two of the factions:  
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This loving rules.
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Apr 24, 2021 15:20
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Well the fish are magically contaminated without exception but on the other hand ugh wild garlic fish so good look. One small fillet every now and then can't possibly do any harm, right? Yes yes we all know the dragon spume story listen just try this fish it is seriously loving amazing
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Renegade Game Studios. Anyone got a feel for their output? PDX now has them on WOD duty apparently. StratGoatCom fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Apr 24, 2021 |
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Apr 24, 2021 20:26
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Of their output I've only played Clank and Clank in Space, which are deck building board games. The former is interesting but suffers from a lot of bad balance and under-tested elements. The design definitely improved with the latter but it's heavily random.
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StratGoatCom posted:Renegade Game Studios. The game that runs my local game parlor has been on a few of their streams with the upcoming vampire game. James really seems to enjoy it, but he's also a big card game guy so there's a bias
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They've got Justin Achilli heading the Vampire dev, so I expect it's going to go back to its roots a bit.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:When I was running in person, if I sat down right after the session, I was able to type down pretty good notes, even if during the session I'd only scribble or write down small highlights. Remotely I do more typing during, otherwise I forget. Yeah, definitely take notes right after the session if you're GMing. You'll never remember half the stuff that happened in the session if you leave it a week.
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Gort posted:Yeah, definitely take notes right after the session if you're GMing. You'll never remember half the stuff that happened in the session if you leave it a week. This is good advice for basically anything in life that benefits from notetaking.
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Yup. I've gotten to the point of taking notes mid session whenever possible (as mentioned, online games, so keyboard and screen at hand). Could never manage a biweekly game otherwise.
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https://twitter.com/HardWiredIsland/status/1386292612265517059 /chef's kiss
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Should be charging $45.
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StratGoatCom posted:Renegade Game Studios. They make Fox in the Forest which I really enjoy. They also sent a representative and a few hundred bucks of free merchandise to our tiny rear end convention.
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slap me and kiss me posted:Should be charging $45. At least! It’s a LIFTS-grade gem.
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Hey speaking of DTRPG comments sections, what's going on with our good friend Venger Satanis recently? 
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His output over the last few years has been extremely sad. A middle-aged man trying to capitalize on Internet phenomena like "thot audit" to sell bad D&D homebrew to college-age anime Nazis. Pathetic!
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