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href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/10/30/glimmermark-glimmermarkische-zeytungen/" rel="bookmark">[Glimmermark] “Glimmermärkische Zeytungen”</a></h2> <div class="post-info"> <div> <span class="comments-meta"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/10/30/glimmermark-glimmermarkische-zeytungen/#comments">5 Comments</a></span> Posted by <span class="author"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/author/gmkeros/" title="Posts by Geoffrey" rel="author">Geoffrey</a></span> on <span class="time">October 30, 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/zeytung.png"><img data-attachment-id="6700" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/10/30/glimmermark-glimmermarkische-zeytungen/zeytung/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/zeytung.png" data-orig-size="652,922" data-comments-opened="1" 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<p>This is one of those things I did for campaigns before: a small newsletter/zine with infos, hints, and used rules about the campaign. It isn’t strictly necessary, but I always liked the idea to have a physical reminder of the campaigns I ran, even though the campaign itself has a <a href="https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/MontagInZ%C3%BCrich/Glimmermark">wiki-page on campaignwiki.org</a>. </p> <p>Despite the font and the title (in antiquated German to boot), the newsletter itself is half-German, half-English, which I found more reasonable as I am not completely set on running only German-language games in this campaign. The crunch part of the newsletter is in English. Which in my opinion makes sense, as the reference rule book we use right now is Labyrinth Lord Revised from 2009, and not the German translation that came out beforehand. The revised version has some errata in there that make more sense. So as we already use the English rules when playing, additional rules and rules clarifications are also written in English. </p> <p><strong>If you want to do something like this for yourself, here’s a few hints:</strong></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>don’t do game reports yourself. If you want game reports get the players to write them. Doing them yourself does not give the player perspective that you want (you want to know what they got from the game, not what you remember, of course you know what happened), and it’s way more work than is enjoyable</li> <li>hardly a hint: you don’t have to redo everything all the time. It’s not a proper publication, it’s a just a campaign update. Just give a few new rumors/hints, update any characters and their levels, maybe remove bigger articles with rules so you don’t have conflicting versions floating about. Less is more.</li> <li>Get your players involved to write stuff if they want. Let them interact with the zine. You want to advertise for new hirelings? Put an ad in. Maybe the scribe will pay a small amount for new stories and curiosities brought to him. Try to think how the rest of the world will react to what the characters did. </li> <li>Print it out, staple it together or put them into a binder. Refer to it at the table. These are parts of your campaign material now. 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rel="author">Geoffrey</a></span> on <span class="time">April 17, 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-16-130258.png"><img data-attachment-id="5897" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/labyrinth-lord-tomb-of-the-serpent-kings-session-1-also-maptool/screenshot-2024-04-16-130258/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-16-130258.png" data-orig-size="1880,1015" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="screenshot-2024-04-16-130258" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-16-130258.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-16-130258.png?w=630" width="1024" height="552" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-16-130258.png?w=1024" alt="view of MapTool vuirtual tabletop, four tokens marked as dead, two tokens still alive" class="wp-image-5897" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-16-130258.png?w=1022 1022w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-16-130258.png?w=150 150w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-16-130258.png?w=300 300w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-16-130258.png?w=768 768w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-16-130258.png 1880w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure> <p><strong>[Labyrinth Lord] Tomb of the Serpent Kings Session 1 (also MapTool)</strong></p> <p>A while ago I started playing with some people on an online server. That was about the time when I decided that I should maybe be playing more often than just GMing. Unfortunately life intervenes a lot, and lately there haven’t been that many games in the main campaign to keep me busy. I am also co-DMing a <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/shadowrun-session-1-silver-angel-pt-1-a-nights-work/">Shadowrun </a><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/shadowrun-session-2-silver-angel-pt-2-bellevue-sewers/">game </a><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/11/07/shadowrun-session-3-silver-angel-pt-3-perfect-run/">lately</a>, so there’s that, but I am missing the OSR fantasy fare. So I decided to run a game on the server, specifically with <a href="https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/maptool/">MapTool</a>, which I have been hovering around for a while, but never actually used. In fact I never used a proper VTT to play, so this would be a first. </p> <p>I decided to use <a href="https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2017/06/osr-tomb-of-serpent-kings-megapost.html">Tomb of the Serpent Kings</a> for it because it’s nicely done and available for free, and I already had it played before, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_Lord">Labyrinth Lord</a> as a game system because that has been my basic system for a while (yeah, I never updated to <a href="https://necroticgnome.com/products/old-school-essentials-basic-rules">OSE</a> even though I use some of the material for it).</p> <p><strong>Game Report</strong></p> <p>The group consisted of 2 elves (Damion and Eltariel) and a MU (Frondo) with his torchbearer/muscle (Big Boris). They originally were rustled up by the local bailiff to apprehend the bandit Wild Man Roberts and his two not-so-merry-men, who were seen digging somewhere at a hillside a short way off.<br>The bandits were easily located inside a hole they opened in the hillside. This turned out to be a hallway going into the dark, with the bandits lying dead just a short way in. Having determined they were done in by a simple poison trap in the ceiling they decided to investigate a bit further (and do some not-graverobbing) when they encountered sarcophagi with clay statues of snake-men inside. Inside the statues were small amounts of treasure and snake skeletons (turning it to actual graverobbing). Also poison gas.<br>A large door at the end of the hallway was trapped by a mechanism, which they devised to disable with various methods, giving them access to a larger room with three wooden coffins. Soon enough those turned out to have skeletons of snake-like beings inside that started attacking the newly minted graverobbers. Unfortunately a series of good attacks cost the life of two of the party (both elves), and the unlife of two snakes, while Frondo and his torchbearer took off almost immediately.<br>Out of sight of the skeleton the two decided to rearm the trap outside and trigger it after baiting the last skeleton into it’s area. The giant stone hammer coming out of the ceiling took care of the last opponent.<br>Frondo returned to give his companions a proper burial (and loot their bodies), then turned back to civilization to collect the bounty on the bandits.</p> <p><strong>Notes regarding MapTool</strong></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>MapTool worked great until it didn’t. At the end we had some issues when two of us got disconnected while the others still could see things move around. I think I should have restarted the server in that case, but as it was in the very end of the 2-hour time slot we just played out the rest without it.</li> <li>MapTool now has a function (marked as experimental) that allows to create a server and connect to it directly from other clients. No more futzing around with port forwarding in this case. Unfortunately maybe not as stable as it could be (see above). Still, the lack of such a function was one of the reasons I did not use the software before, as it would have been too much work to get it running with my network setup. Now that problem is gone, it literally has become a matter of creating a server, having players connect (they are prompted for a PIN), and their computers downloading the media files from my computer.</li> <li>Speaking of media files, MapTool allows to use media files from the players computers to use in the game. Those are also added to the campaign file automatically. In fact it even allows to run a remote server where the campaign file is stored, I just haven’t been able to try that one yet. But other than that? Want to have a new token? Drop a picture in the related <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/25/tools-token-tool/">TokenTool</a>, make a <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/download-pd-token-collection-170-tokens-for-fantasy-games/">suitable token</a>, then just add it in a folder and use it as you will. Nice.</li> <li>I do find the use of MapTool surprisingly convenient. There are a few things that one can’t do in the tool (e.g. animated maps would be nice, but can’t be done in the current architecture), and some stuff that can be done but needs to be configured properly (no one has bothered to create a script framework for OSR games yet it seems), but I have a lot of options to show the players exactly what I want them to see. Still there are a few things that I still have to figure out.</li> <li>The dynamic lighting in the dungeon is of course the star of the show. One can add a vision blocking layer and have PCs walk through the dungeon and have them see whatever it is that they have a) lit and b) what they can see. This can make for some interesting tactical gaming where some monster or character can see some things, but cannot see others. I noticed that it also takes a lot of mental strain from me as a DM as I don’t need to track either light or walking order in this case.</li> <li>The other thing that helps a lot is the way one can organize a scenario here. Players can generally see 3 layers on the screen: tokens, objects, and background, and they can interact only with the first one. Another hidden layer is present, but is only available to DMs. This is useful, as it allows you to drop information (e.g. attached to a numbered token) at the appropriate places, and just call it up by going over it on the token layer. As it’s hidden it is not actually visible for players, and you can have your whole adventure in there, slowly following along as the PCs explore. Incredibly useful.</li> <li>That said, there was an annoying issue with players moving tokens over specific (invisible to them) GM tokens with information, and me not being able to access them then. I think this might have a button that allows DMs to get a hold of tokens under others. but if it has I haven’t found it yet.</li> <li>Not every part of the lighting system is perfect though. I still can’t make head nor tails out of elevations and depressions. I don’t quite know what to think about them. They don’t update in ways that I would expect from either. I would for example depressions with a light source inside expect to be lit inside, but they aren’t. The lighting system also takes a little to register someone has updated settings. More than once we got stuck in a place with a newly lit lantern not lighting anything because we didn’t move.</li> <li><strong>Doors </strong>are one of the things I will have to get into more. It is possible to create movable doors, but how is still a bit of a mystery to me.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Notes regarding Labyrinth Lord</strong></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>we were playing by the book, but that might have been a mistake. The game might need to become a bit less deadly, so next time we should use the <a href="http://trollsmyth.blogspot.com/2008/05/shields-shall-be-splintered.html">splintering shield rules</a>, a <a href="http://trollsmyth.blogspot.com/2008/06/playing-with-death-and-dismemberment.html">death and dismemberment chart</a>, and some rule about helmets I should first figure out (stock LL doesn’t seem to have a bonus for helmets</li> <li>one house rule I already used for XP is XP for exploration: every new room discovered/mapped gives 50xp</li> <li>I do wonder if I should have used Labyrinth Lord or maybe have gone even more minimal with <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/05/24/i-just-bought-another-copy-of-white-box/">White Box Fantasy</a>.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Notes regarding Tomb of the Serpent Kings</strong></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>I already played this one with another online group at the beginning of the pandemic. Unfortunately that didn’t last long, and we never managed to get to some of the more interesting parts of the dungeon. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Note</strong>: I did post a previous version of this article on the <a href="https://campaignwiki.org/news/article/campaignwiki.games/86">campaignwiki.org newsnet forum</a>.</p> </div> <div class="post-meta"> <span class="categories"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/labyrinth-lord/game-report/" rel="category tag">game report</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/labyrinth-lord/" rel="category tag">Labyrinth Lord</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/stuff/" rel="category tag">Stuff</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/tools/" rel="category tag">Tools</a></span> <span class="tags"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/dnd/" rel="tag">dnd</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/labyrinthlord/" rel="tag">labyrinthlord</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/maptool/" rel="tag">maptool</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/osr/" rel="tag">osr</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/totsk/" rel="tag">totsk</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/ttrpg/" rel="tag">ttrpg</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/ttrpgs/" rel="tag">ttrpgs</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/vtt/" rel="tag">vtt</a></span> </div> <div class="sep"></div> </div> <div id="post-5545" class="post-5545 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-roleplaying category-stuff category-tools tag-dnd tag-dsa tag-dungeons-and-dragons tag-gaming tag-newsgroup tag-newsserver tag-role-playing-game tag-roleplaying tag-rpg tag-thunderbird tag-ttrpg tag-usenet"> <h2 class="title"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/the-oldest-ttrpg-forum-on-the-net/" rel="bookmark">The Oldest TTRPG Forum on the Net</a></h2> <div class="post-info"> <div> <span class="comments-meta"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/the-oldest-ttrpg-forum-on-the-net/#comments">15 Comments</a></span> Posted by <span class="author"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/author/gmkeros/" title="Posts by Geoffrey" rel="author">Geoffrey</a></span> on <span class="time">January 12, 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dnd-newsgroup.png"><img data-attachment-id="5567" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/the-oldest-ttrpg-forum-on-the-net/dnd-newsgroup/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dnd-newsgroup.png" data-orig-size="1456,690" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="dnd-newsgroup" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dnd-newsgroup.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dnd-newsgroup.png?w=630" width="1024" height="485" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dnd-newsgroup.png?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-5567" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dnd-newsgroup.png?w=1024 1024w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dnd-newsgroup.png?w=150 150w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dnd-newsgroup.png?w=300 300w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dnd-newsgroup.png?w=768 768w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dnd-newsgroup.png 1456w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure> <p>Did you know there is an online forum for tabletop role-playing games that has been around since the early 80s, and which still is active and operating? </p> <p>Admittedly in a much diminished state than at it’s heyday.</p> <p>I don’t know if you ever heard the term <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet">Usenet </a>before, and even if you did, if you don’t just connect it with data piracy. Because that’s what it is mostly used for nowadays.</p> <p>What it started out as were discussion forums. </p> <p>Back in the late 70s, after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET">ARPANET </a>had been created and email had been invented, a few programmers came up with an idea for an electronic bulletin board that could be read asynchronously. This was the time when computers still were only in big institutions like universities, big companies, and the military, and the whole idea was to create “a poor man’s ARPANET”. Connections between computers were rare and expensive , but possible. So these “news” started as a way to propagate articles and messages along servers that were not constantly connected to the internet. Some of the servers involved would only connect once a day to the network to transfer messages in and out (often at night because charges were lower then). A message might travel for multiple days before it reached all nodes in the network, and some of the earliest were messages about a nascent hobby popular among the people using this network: <strong>fantasy role-playing</strong>. </p> <p>From what I can see the first <a href="https://article.olduse.net/126%40Awhuxlb.UUCP">two messages </a>on the brand new group net.games.frp were sent out on the 12th of January 1982.</p> <p>To give you an idea just how early this was: it was before the abbreviation RPG became common, people were still talking about <strong>F</strong>antasy <strong>R</strong>ole<strong>P</strong>laying instead, so even today the group-names use the abbreviation <strong>FRP</strong>. </p> <p>It’s quite a fascinating system that over time has become ever more complex and popular, before the ascent of html, hyperlinks, and the world wide web pushed it into the seedy corners of the ‘net. </p> <p>Instead of having websites, Usenet is organized in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup">newsgroups</a>, and those groups are organized in hierarchies. There are the so called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_8_(Usenet)">Big Eight</a> that have a certain standard for group creation and posting (e.g. <strong>rec</strong>. for recreational topics, and <strong>comp</strong>. for topics concerning computers), and there are others, organized in one way or another (famously <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.*_hierarchy"><strong>alt.</strong></a> which had lower standards for the creation of new groups). </p> <p>Messages are sent to one or more groups (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting">crossposted</a>), distributed around the network, and people respond to these posts. Interesting discussions and arguments ensue, people get angry, flame wars ensue, other people learn something new, weird in-jokes develop, stuff happens. </p> <p>All that can be read via archives, the biggest of which is <a href="https://groups.google.com/">Google Groups,</a> which both is a boon and downfall of the service: Google purchased the old newsgroup archives of DejaNews back in the 90s, and integrated it in it’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups">Google Groups </a>service. In a picture-perfect example of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish">Embrace, Extend, Extinguish</a> the users of Groups had a web interface that allowed them access to their old newsgroups, access to new groups that only existed on Google, but also allowed spammers to flood the connected newsgroups with loads of unmoderated spam. Spam that recently was quoted by them as a reason to cut the connection with Usenet, bringing this phase of the network to an end. </p> <p>But Usenet still is running, and most likely will be running as long as there are people willing to run servers for it. But the biggest Usenet servers nowadays are piracy servers that keep the text-part of the Usenet as more of an afterthought. At one point someone came up with a way to use the text-only format of Usenet in a way to distribute data that was binary, i.e. not purely text. And this took over most of the system. </p> <p>But I am not really interested in that and never was. What I am interested in are the fantasy roleplaying parts of that network. </p> <p><strong>rec.games.frp.*</strong></p> <p>I said that the forum has been running since the late 70s, but that’s not quite correct. The original structure of Usenet grew organically from the beginning. People were creating new groups when it suited them and it seemed logical. Which soon caused some hierarchies (specifically the <strong>net</strong>. hierarchy) to swell with groups that could barely be maintained. In a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Renaming">great upheaval in 1987</a> all the groups were renamed and restructured. </p> <p>Some old hands are still angry about it and will bitch about it for days. That also is Usenet.</p> <p>One can argue that the fantasy roleplaying group has existed since before that time. One also could argue that it only exists since 1987. Which still is older than the World Wide Web. </p> <p>Usenet is divided into hierarchies, and the frp-hierarchy is part of the <strong>rec</strong>. (recreation-hierarchy) and <strong>.games.</strong> sub-hierarchy. </p> <p>There are currently 11 <strong>.frp</strong>. groups in that hierarchy:</p> <figure class="wp-block-table"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>rec.games.frp.dnd</strong></td><td>of course… it’s the hierarchy for Dungeons and Dragons. Always one of the biggest topics of the whole FRP forums this one got it’s own group.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>rec.games.frp.misc</strong></td><td>for basically all other kinds of discussions about roleplaying games</td></tr><tr><td><strong>rec.games.frp.cyber</strong></td><td>for cyberpunk systems (e.g. Cyberpunk 2020 or Shadowrun). </td></tr><tr><td><strong>rec.games.frp.super-heroes</strong> </td><td>for superhero games</td></tr><tr><td><strong>rec.games.frp.live-action</strong></td><td>anything LARP goes here.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>rec.games.frp.announce </strong></td><td>announcements and news about products go here</td></tr><tr><td><strong>rec.games.frp.industry</strong></td><td>for all kinds of discussions about the rpg industry</td></tr><tr><td><strong>rec.games.frp.storyteller</strong> </td><td>yes, this was created when the World of Darkness was big enough to demand it’s own forum</td></tr><tr><td><strong>rec.games.frp.gurps</strong></td><td>For GURPS, this part was created because while never the most popular game, it’s fans flooded the main group with so many messages about builds that it was decided to give them their own place.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>rec.games.frp.advocacy</strong></td><td>all kinds of discussions about roleplaying games as such and how they work. This is where the Forge came from back in the day</td></tr><tr><td><strong>rec.games.frp.market</strong></td><td>I guess this is for selling stuff. I have literally never seen a message in there.</td></tr></tbody></table></figure> <p>Most of these lay fallow right now, with me and a few others being the only ones posting there every once in a while. I do have to admit part of it is because I don’t want to lose the that part of ttrpg history to a random deletion request for non-use.</p> <p><strong>Other TTRPG groups</strong></p> <p>The main hierarchies are not the only ones. Most normal Usenet servers carry at least the Big Eight, but most also carry others. The big other hierarchy is <strong>alt</strong>. (…definitely not named for <strong>A</strong>narchists, <strong>L</strong>unatics, and <strong>T</strong>errorists, all evidence to the contrary…), which makes it easier to create groups. This means there are a few other groups here that might be of interest, if they ever would get someone to post in them. Their structure though is not as organized as the ones in the Big 8.</p> <figure class="wp-block-table"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>alt.games.frp.adnd-util</strong></td><td>about utilities for playing ADnD. I would say, a general groups for RPG utilities.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>alt.games.adnd</strong></td><td>for ADnD. I am not sure why this exists, maybe because the main one was too stodgy, or it was created because someone thought ADnD was sufficiently different than DnD to warrant it’s own group</td></tr><tr><td><strong>alt.games.earthdawn</strong> </td><td>for Earthdawn. Remember Earthdawn?</td></tr><tr><td><strong>alt.games.x-files.rpg </strong></td><td>For the X-Files RPG. Remember that?</td></tr><tr><td><strong>alt.games.whitewolf</strong></td><td>I guess a group for White Wolf games, which is also already covered in rec.games.frp.storyteller</td></tr><tr><td><strong>alt.games.tolkien.rpg</strong></td><td>a group about playing in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth</td></tr></tbody></table></figure> <p>There are also local and language dependent groups around. Many languages and regions have their own hierarchies for exchanges between locals and/or in other languages.</p> <figure class="wp-block-table"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>uk.games.roleplay</strong></td><td>group for roleplaying in the UK</td></tr><tr><td><strong>de.rec.spiele.rpg.misc</strong></td><td>general group for discussions of RPGs in German</td></tr><tr><td> <strong>z-netz.freizeit.rollenspiele.dsa </strong></td><td>originally this was an Echo in a mailbox network, by now <strong>z-netz. </strong>is a small alternative German Usenet hierarchy. This particular one about Das Schwarze Auge/The Dark Eye</td></tr><tr><td><strong>pl.rec.gry.rpg</strong></td><td>Polish-language group </td></tr><tr><td><strong>es.rec.juegos.rol</strong></td><td>Spanish-language group</td></tr><tr><td><strong>se.spel.rollspel</strong></td><td>Swedish-language group</td></tr><tr><td><strong>dk.fritid.rollespil</strong></td><td>Danish-language group </td></tr><tr><td><strong>fr.rec.jeux.jdf</strong></td><td>French-language group</td></tr><tr><td>i<strong>t.hobby.giochi.gdr</strong></td><td>Italian-language group</td></tr><tr><td><strong>hr.rec.igre.rpg</strong></td><td>Hungarian-language group</td></tr><tr><td><strong>aus.games.roleplay</strong></td><td>Australian group</td></tr></tbody></table></figure> <p>There are more, some of which I might not even find that easy because they are not on the servers I frequent (not all servers carry all groups) or are so specialized they might not be of interest to anyone but locals (e.g. <strong>saar.rec.rollenspiele</strong> exists, but I doubt many people in Saarland (the smallest of Germany’s federal states) still know Usenet exists)</p> <p><strong>Ok, ok, but how do you actually ACCESS this Usenet thingy?</strong></p> <p>That’s a bit more difficult, but not much. It used to be ISPs were all running their own news servers, this was actually the REASON you might want internet access as a private person, but that isn’t the case anymore. Google Groups is also going away, so that’s not a real option.</p> <p>An easy way to check out what is being talked about on the FRP-hierarchy is <a href="https://campaignwiki.org/news">campaignwiki.org/news.</a> This server makes it possible to read and post on his own small server via a web-interface. The server is only running roleplaying-related groups, including the global FRP-hierarchy, and a few local ones that do not get carried in many other places.</p> <p>Another way to access it via web browser is via web gateways. There are a few around, e.g. <a href="https://www.novabbs.com/interests/">NovaBBS</a>. There are a few of those around, but they might not carry all the groups (NovaBBS e.g. only <a href="https://www.novabbs.com/interests/thread.php?group=rec.games.frp.dnd">rec.games.frp.dnd</a> and<a href="https://www.novabbs.com/interests/thread.php?group=rec.games.frp.misc"> .misc</a>, because those are the ones with most activity).</p> <p>The proper way to use it is of course by getting an account on a news server and adding it to your feed reader of choice. True hardcore users use terminal-based readers like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_(newsreader)">tin </a>or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus">Gnus</a>, but many Email programs like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird">Mozilla Thunderbird</a> <a href="https://kb.iu.edu/d/arrn">allow you to subscribe to newsgroups</a>.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/thunderbird.png"><img data-attachment-id="5571" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/the-oldest-ttrpg-forum-on-the-net/thunderbird/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/thunderbird.png" data-orig-size="1641,967" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="thunderbird" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/thunderbird.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/thunderbird.png?w=630" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="603" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/thunderbird.png?w=1024" alt="View of rec.games.frp.dnd on campaignwiki.org in Thunderbird" class="wp-image-5571" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/thunderbird.png?w=1024 1024w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/thunderbird.png?w=150 150w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/thunderbird.png?w=300 300w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/thunderbird.png?w=768 768w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/thunderbird.png 1641w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure> <p><strong>But where do you get a news server? </strong></p> <p>Well, there are multiple free options (these are all technically text-only, although a few have some basic binary groups that allow pictures):</p> <figure class="wp-block-table"><table><tbody><tr><td>c<a href="http://campaignwiki.org/news">ampaignwiki.org/news</a></td><td>(Switzerland) very small server, focused on ttrpg groups, also has simple web-portal</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.eternal-september.org/">Eternal September</a></td><td>(Germany) popular free access server with wide range of groups</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.i2pn2.org/">I2PN2</a></td><td>simple text server</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/index.php">NovaBBS</a></td><td>text server, as mentioned above also has web-portal</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://solani.org/">Solani</a></td><td>(Germany) server</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://dotsrc.org/usenet/">dotsrc</a></td><td>(Denmark) focused on Danish users</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.news.bbs.nz/">Agency News</a></td><td>(New Zealand) server</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://news.chmurka.net/">Chmurka</a></td><td>(Poland) basic server focused on Polish users</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://csiph.com/">CSIPH</a></td><td>basic server</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://open-news-network.org/node/5">Open News Network</a></td><td>(Germany) focused on German users</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://news.gegeweb.org/">Gegeweb</a></td><td>(France) focused on French users</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://news.hispagatos.org/">Hispagatos</a></td><td>(Spain) focused on Spanish users</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://pasdenom.info/news.html">Pasdenom</a></td><td>(France) focused on French users</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://news.nntp4.net/">NNTP4</a></td><td>(Germany) basic server</td></tr></tbody></table></figure> <p>Most of these have instructions on how to connect on their websites. </p> <p></p> <p><em>Note: This is a redo of an <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/tools-how-to-use-usenet-a-biased-introduction/">article I wrote 13 years ago</a>. Originally I thought I could just let that one stand like that, but just briefly reading through it I noticed things had changed dramatically in some areas. So I rewrote the whole thing from scratch.</em></p> </div> <div class="post-meta"> <span class="categories"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/roleplaying/" rel="category tag">Roleplaying</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/stuff/" rel="category tag">Stuff</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/tools/" rel="category tag">Tools</a></span> <span class="tags"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/dnd/" rel="tag">dnd</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/dsa/" rel="tag">dsa</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/dungeons-and-dragons/" rel="tag">dungeons and dragons</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/gaming/" rel="tag">gaming</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/newsgroup/" rel="tag">newsgroup</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/newsserver/" rel="tag">newsserver</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/role-playing-game/" rel="tag">Role-playing game</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/roleplaying/" rel="tag">Roleplaying</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/rpg/" rel="tag">rpg</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/thunderbird/" rel="tag">thunderbird</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/ttrpg/" rel="tag">ttrpg</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/usenet/" rel="tag">Usenet</a></span> </div> <div class="sep"></div> </div> <div id="post-5165" class="post-5165 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-roleplaying category-tools tag-character-portraits tag-roleplaying tag-rpg tag-ttrpg"> <h2 class="title"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/tools-free-character-portraits-redux/" rel="bookmark">[Tools] Free Character Portraits Redux</a></h2> <div class="post-info"> <div> <span class="comments-meta"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/tools-free-character-portraits-redux/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> Posted by <span class="author"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/author/gmkeros/" title="Posts by Geoffrey" rel="author">Geoffrey</a></span> on <span class="time">October 30, 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <figure data-carousel-extra='{"blog_id":18215083,"permalink":"https:\/\/gmkeros.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/30\/tools-free-character-portraits-redux\/"}' class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-medium"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-troll-2.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="5171" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/tools-free-character-portraits-redux/tcp-troll-2/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-troll-2.jpg" data-orig-size="835,1050" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"Copyright 2011, Jeff Preston.","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="tcp-troll-2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-troll-2.jpg?w=239" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-troll-2.jpg?w=630" loading="lazy" width="239" height="300" data-id="5171" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-troll-2.jpg?w=239" alt="character portrait, troll" class="wp-image-5171" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-troll-2.jpg?w=239 239w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-troll-2.jpg?w=478 478w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-troll-2.jpg?w=119 119w" sizes="(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" /></a></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-pirate-5.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="5169" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/tools-free-character-portraits-redux/tcp-pirate-5/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-pirate-5.jpg" data-orig-size="914,1050" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"Copyright 2011, Jeff Preston.","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="tcp-pirate-5" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-pirate-5.jpg?w=261" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-pirate-5.jpg?w=630" loading="lazy" width="891" height="1023" data-id="5169" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-pirate-5.jpg?w=891" alt="character portrait, pirate" class="wp-image-5169" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-pirate-5.jpg?w=891 891w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-pirate-5.jpg?w=131 131w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-pirate-5.jpg?w=261 261w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-pirate-5.jpg?w=768 768w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-pirate-5.jpg 914w" sizes="(max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px" /></a></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-mad-scientist-2.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="5170" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/tools-free-character-portraits-redux/tcp-mad-scientist-2/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-mad-scientist-2.jpg" data-orig-size="889,1050" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"Copyright 2011, Jeff Preston.","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="tcp-mad-scientist-2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-mad-scientist-2.jpg?w=254" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-mad-scientist-2.jpg?w=630" loading="lazy" width="867" height="1024" data-id="5170" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-mad-scientist-2.jpg?w=867" alt="character portrait, mad scientist" class="wp-image-5170" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-mad-scientist-2.jpg?w=867 867w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-mad-scientist-2.jpg?w=127 127w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-mad-scientist-2.jpg?w=254 254w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-mad-scientist-2.jpg?w=768 768w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-mad-scientist-2.jpg 889w" sizes="(max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px" /></a></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-ithilid-1.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="5172" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/tools-free-character-portraits-redux/tcp-ithilid-1/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-ithilid-1.jpg" data-orig-size="906,1050" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"Copyright 2011, Jeff Preston.","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="tcp-ithilid-1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-ithilid-1.jpg?w=259" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-ithilid-1.jpg?w=630" loading="lazy" width="884" height="1024" data-id="5172" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-ithilid-1.jpg?w=884" alt="character portrait, mindflayer" class="wp-image-5172" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-ithilid-1.jpg?w=884 884w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-ithilid-1.jpg?w=129 129w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-ithilid-1.jpg?w=259 259w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-ithilid-1.jpg?w=768 768w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tcp-ithilid-1.jpg 906w" sizes="(max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px" /></a></figure> </figure> <p>A few years ago *cough*eleven*cough* I made a <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/tools-free-character-portraits/">small post</a> about free character portraits available on the net. As was pointed out to me all of the links on that post are dead by now. And to be fair, 11 years ago it was harder to find stuff than nowadays. Now there are online generators and friggin’ AI art generation applications that were just not there 11 years ago. Back then it felt like there was a sudden dearth of resources after the d20 boom went bust and all those publishers went out of business. </p> <p>But anyway, I decided to work over that post again and repost it with corrected links:</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080221235735/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/pc">Wizards of the Coast PC Portraits Archives</a></p> <p>A few hundred pictures from the old Dragon magazine. Some good, some bad, very mixed batch. This goes to the wayback machine archive of it because after a long period of hiding them away on their website Wizards finally got rid of the old edition stuff a few years ago. </p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://opengameart.org/content/60-terrible-character-portraits">108 Portraits from Nevermet Press</a> (also on <a href="https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/91360/108-Terrible-Character-Portraits">drivethru</a>)</p> <p>Pretty good ones. I definitely like those. The page says 60 portraits, but it was a kickstarter that went up to 108 in the end, all of them released as Creative Commons</p> <p><a href="https://opengameart.org/content/public-domain-portraits">Public Domain portraits</a></p> <p>Might be too small for a lot of uses, but definitely free because sourced from old paintings</p> <p><a href="https://opengameart.org/content/30-painted-portraits">An addition to the former, with 30 portraits from Diego Velazquez</a></p> <p>Well, same as before, but a more unified look</p> </div> <div class="post-meta"> <span class="categories"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/roleplaying/" rel="category tag">Roleplaying</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/tools/" rel="category tag">Tools</a></span> <span class="tags"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/character-portraits/" rel="tag">character portraits</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/roleplaying/" rel="tag">Roleplaying</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/rpg/" rel="tag">rpg</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/ttrpg/" rel="tag">ttrpg</a></span> </div> <div class="sep"></div> </div> <div id="post-4902" class="post-4902 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-stuff category-tools tag-software tag-token tag-ttrpg tag-vtt"> <h2 class="title"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/25/tools-token-tool/" rel="bookmark">[Tools] Token Tool</a></h2> <div class="post-info"> <div> <span class="comments-meta"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/25/tools-token-tool/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> Posted by <span class="author"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/author/gmkeros/" title="Posts by Geoffrey" rel="author">Geoffrey</a></span> on <span class="time">October 25, 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tokentool.png"><img data-attachment-id="4906" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/25/tools-token-tool/tokentool/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tokentool.png" data-orig-size="733,761" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="tokentool" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tokentool.png?w=289" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tokentool.png?w=630" loading="lazy" width="733" height="761" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tokentool.png?w=733" alt="" class="wp-image-4906" style="width:412px;height:auto" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tokentool.png 733w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tokentool.png?w=144 144w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tokentool.png?w=289 289w" sizes="(max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px" /></a></figure></div> <p>There is something to be said about an application that just does exactly what you expect from it. <a href="https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/token-tool/">Token Tool</a> is the second of applications from <a href="https://www.rptools.net/">RPTools</a>, who are mostly known for their free virtual tabletop tool Map tool. There used to be a few more tools around they made, but Map Tool and Token Tool are the ones that are left over. </p> <p>Anyway, Token Tool is a tool that allows you to make tokens for VTTs or maybe to print, from basically any image file you put in there. </p> <p><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/download-pd-token-collection-170-tokens-for-fantasy-games/">It’s what I used lately to make those tokens from lots of public domain sources.</a> It takes the image, gives you an option of various frames you can use (and you can add your own) and lets you zoom in and out until it fits. It’s incredibly simple. </p> <p>It also does PDFs, by just using the PDFs as series of image files. It is dreadfully useful for such a simple piece of software. </p> </div> <div class="post-meta"> <span class="categories"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/stuff/" rel="category tag">Stuff</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/tools/" rel="category tag">Tools</a></span> <span class="tags"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/software/" rel="tag">software</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/token/" rel="tag">token</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/ttrpg/" rel="tag">ttrpg</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/vtt/" rel="tag">vtt</a></span> </div> <div class="sep"></div> </div> <div id="post-4604" class="post-4604 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-stuff category-tools tag-fediverse tag-mastodon tag-microblogging tag-ttrpg tag-twitter tag-wordpress"> <h2 class="title"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/12/the-fediverse-and-the-ttrpg-sphere/" rel="bookmark">The Fediverse and the TTRPG-sphere</a></h2> <div class="post-info"> <div> <span class="comments-meta"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/12/the-fediverse-and-the-ttrpg-sphere/#comments">5 Comments</a></span> Posted by <span class="author"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/author/gmkeros/" title="Posts by Geoffrey" rel="author">Geoffrey</a></span> on <span class="time">October 12, 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fediverse_logo_proposal.svg_.png"><img data-attachment-id="4612" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/12/the-fediverse-and-the-ttrpg-sphere/fediverse_logo_proposal-svg_/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fediverse_logo_proposal.svg_.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="fediverse_logo_proposal.svg_" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fediverse_logo_proposal.svg_.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fediverse_logo_proposal.svg_.png?w=630" loading="lazy" width="800" height="800" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fediverse_logo_proposal.svg_.png?w=800" alt="" class="wp-image-4612" style="width:312px;height:auto" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fediverse_logo_proposal.svg_.png 800w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fediverse_logo_proposal.svg_.png?w=150 150w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fediverse_logo_proposal.svg_.png?w=300 300w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fediverse_logo_proposal.svg_.png?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></a></figure></div> <p>This morning I received the message that<a href="https://wordpress.com"> WordPress.com</a> blogs now can activate themselves to be available via ActivityPub. Which means they can be followed and commented directly from fediverse applications like <a href="https://joinmastodon.org/">Mastodon</a>, <a href="https://firefish.social/">FireFish</a>, <a href="https://pleroma.social/">Pleroma</a>, or <a href="https://fediverse.info/">any of the other dozens or hundreds applications activated on it. </a></p> <p>That’s actually quite cool, I have been on there for a year or so now, ever since that mess at twitter started, and I have enjoyed my time there a lot. Unlike twitter the fragmentation of the whole experience into many smaller communities that can mostly freely interact with each other makes for a very relaxed experience. When I started people claimed that it was not important which server to start on, because you could just follow people from any other server, but let me tell you, having for a local community makes for a stark difference.</p> <p>It’s not like I disliked<a href="http://toot.community"> toot.community,</a> where I started, but I felt like I was missing a lot of tabletop-roleplaying discussion. And I was right, moving to <a href="http://dice.camp">dice.camp</a> put me right into a community that was talking about the things I was interested in and wanted to talk about. And yes, technically there should be no difference, but there is a local feed and a federated feed on Mastodon, and having access to all those other ttrpg people right there on the local feed did in fact make a difference. </p> <p>But that’s something I really like about the experience, interacting with people who are interested in the same things as you, who are also interacting with people on other servers that have the same interests, making for interesting clusters of thematically close interest groups.</p> <p>There are a few other great things about it, which I noticed when I quickly tried out tumblr last week. I was so used to Content Warnings on the fedi for example that I inadvertently stumbled into an area of tumblr with hardcore gore and porn. I got so used to these things blurred out and tagged appropriately that I forgot other sites don’t have that. </p> <p>Now to be fair, the fediverse is not ideal. There are issues. Instead of a faceless megacorporation now a faceless person with an unknown agenda has your account on their server. And you are dependent on them. </p> <p>You also can mute and block people, but that does not keep them from responding to comments to your posts, but now you are left out of the discussion. </p> <p>The whole structure seems much more geared for that smaller kind of network it was before the great twitter migrations happened. </p> <p>As people have put it: the great thing about the fediverse is that everybody can start their own server, the bad thing about the fediverse is that EVERYBODY can start their own server. </p> <p></p> <p>Anyway, there are different services that are available on the fediverse. They all can interact with each other, sometimes to varying degrees.</p> <p>My main account is on<a href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi"> dice.camp</a>, a roleplaying game focused Mastodon instance, but I also have an active <a href="https://pixelfed.de/kyonshi">Pixelfed </a>account where I share photos I made. Both also can be followed by rss feed, which is neat.</p> <p>Sometimes I post stuff to <a href="https://kbin.social/">KBin </a>or <a href="https://diyrpg.org/">Lemmy</a>, but all of them can be interacted with from my other accounts.</p> <p>Here’s a short overview of a few apps, all of them have different servers with different target audiences (if interested, check more under <a href="https://fediverse.party">fediverse.party</a>):</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><strong>Mastodon</strong>: microblogging service, the biggest service right now due to the mess at twitter, although has a different vibe</li> <li><strong>Pixelfed</strong>: image sharing service a bit like Instagram.</li> <li><strong>FireFish</strong>: microblogging/image sharing</li> <li><strong>Pleroma/Akkoma:</strong> more lightweight microblogging (often more for shitposting)</li> <li><strong>KBin </strong>and <strong>Lemmy</strong>: link share applications, similar to reddit.com</li> <li><strong>Bookwyrm</strong>: book review app, similar to Goodreads</li> <li><strong>WriteFreely </strong>and <strong>Plume </strong>(and, well, <strong>WordPress</strong>): blog platforms</li> <li><strong>Friendi.ca</strong>: more Facebook-like interface for the fediverse</li> <li><strong>PeerTube:</strong> video sharing platform</li> <li><strong>CastoPod</strong>: podcasting platform</li> </ul> <p>And here are a few ttrpg related servers:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><a href="http://dice.camp">dice.camp</a>: Mastodon instance focused on ttrpgs</li> <li><a href="http://pnpde.social">pnpde.social</a> and <a href="http://rollenspiel.social">rollenspiel.social</a>: German language Mastodon instance</li> <li><a href="http://ludosphere.fr">ludosphere.fr</a>: French language Mastodon instance</li> <li><a href="http://chirp.enworld.org">chirp.enworld.org</a>: Mastodon, ttrpg-focused</li> <li><a href="http://tabletop.social">tabletop.social</a>: tabletop games focused</li> <li><a href="http://diyrpg.org">diyrpg.org</a>: lemmy instance focused on making things for ttrpgs</li> <li><a href="http://ttrpg.network">ttrpg.network</a>: lemmy instance focused on ttrpg discussions</li> <li><a href="http://wandering.shop">wandering.shop</a>: sf&f focused, for writers and fans</li> <li><a href="http://warhammer.social">warhammer.social</a>: wargamer-focused</li> <li><a href="http://miniature.photography">miniature.photography</a>: miniature painting Pixelfed server</li> </ul> <p>There are more. I had a whole list down when I started a year ago, but if you want to check it out, this should help.</p> </div> <div class="post-meta"> <span class="categories"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/stuff/" rel="category tag">Stuff</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/tools/" rel="category tag">Tools</a></span> <span class="tags"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/fediverse/" rel="tag">fediverse</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/mastodon/" rel="tag">mastodon</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/microblogging/" rel="tag">microblogging</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/ttrpg/" rel="tag">ttrpg</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/twitter/" rel="tag">twitter</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress/" rel="tag">wordpress</a></span> </div> <div class="sep"></div> </div> <div id="post-4543" class="post-4543 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-roleplaying category-stuff category-tools tag-battlemaps tag-dnd tag-download tag-foundry tag-maptool tag-role-playing-game tag-roleplaying tag-roll20 tag-tokens tag-virtual-tabletop tag-vtt"> <h2 class="title"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/download-pd-token-collection-170-tokens-for-fantasy-games/" rel="bookmark">Download: PD Token Collection (170+ tokens for fantasy games)</a></h2> <div class="post-info"> <div> <span class="comments-meta"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/download-pd-token-collection-170-tokens-for-fantasy-games/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> Posted by <span class="author"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/author/gmkeros/" title="Posts by Geoffrey" rel="author">Geoffrey</a></span> on <span class="time">October 9, 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <figure data-carousel-extra='{"blog_id":18215083,"permalink":"https:\/\/gmkeros.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/09\/download-pd-token-collection-170-tokens-for-fantasy-games\/"}' 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class="wp-image-4553" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/harpy-1.png 256w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/harpy-1.png?w=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px" /></a></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/knight-5.png"><img data-attachment-id="4558" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/download-pd-token-collection-170-tokens-for-fantasy-games/knight-5/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/knight-5.png" data-orig-size="256,256" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="knight-5" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/knight-5.png?w=256" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/knight-5.png?w=256" loading="lazy" width="256" height="256" data-id="4558" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/knight-5.png?w=256" alt="" class="wp-image-4558" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/knight-5.png 256w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/knight-5.png?w=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px" /></a></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/troll-1.png"><img data-attachment-id="4557" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/download-pd-token-collection-170-tokens-for-fantasy-games/troll-1/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/troll-1.png" data-orig-size="256,256" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="troll-1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/troll-1.png?w=256" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/troll-1.png?w=256" loading="lazy" width="256" height="256" data-id="4557" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/troll-1.png?w=256" alt="Six tokens made from various public domain pictures " class="wp-image-4557" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/troll-1.png 256w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/troll-1.png?w=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px" /></a></figure> </figure> <p class="has-text-align-left">The last few weeks I started getting interested in using VTTs for my next few games. I seem to have slept through the rise of those for the last few years, mostly because my kids were not at an age where playing online regularly was feasible.</p> <p>So when I was looking for tokens I found a lot of options, many of them free. What i didn’t find though was stuff that had that OSR kind of charm of reusing old public domain sources, which I think might fit beautifully with, e.g.<a href="https://rpgcharacters.files.wordpress.com"> Dyson’s</a> style of maps. </p> <p>So I went and spent a few hours with <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikimedia Commons</a> and <a href="https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/token-tool/">TokenTool</a>, making a small collection of tokens sourced from public domain illustrations. </p> <p>I also found a few new artists that I should look more into, so even if I never get around actually using many of them I have at least that. I think I need to expand this thing though. It still is missing a lot of the monsters and NPCs I think I might need for my game. </p> <p></p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/example.png"><img data-attachment-id="4560" data-permalink="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/download-pd-token-collection-170-tokens-for-fantasy-games/example/" data-orig-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/example.png" data-orig-size="935,616" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="example" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/example.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/example.png?w=630" loading="lazy" width="935" height="616" src="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/example.png?w=935" alt="Example of use with a map from Dyson " class="wp-image-4560" srcset="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/example.png 935w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/example.png?w=150 150w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/example.png?w=300 300w, https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/example.png?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 935px) 100vw, 935px" /></a></figure> <p><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xEkI1PwheLqlels7QT0tIMWs3_LrZW01/view?usp=sharing">Download: Stuffed Crocodile PD Token Collection (GDrive, 7zip, 18mb)</a></strong></p> <p></p> <p><strong>Note</strong>: the map above is the <a href="https://dysonlogos.blog/2023/10/05/desert-clanhold/">Desert ClanHold from Dyson’s Maps</a></p> </div> <div class="post-meta"> <span class="categories"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/roleplaying/" rel="category tag">Roleplaying</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/stuff/" rel="category tag">Stuff</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/tools/" rel="category tag">Tools</a></span> <span class="tags"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/battlemaps/" rel="tag">battlemaps</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/dnd/" rel="tag">dnd</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/download/" rel="tag">download</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/foundry/" rel="tag">foundry</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/maptool/" rel="tag">maptool</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/role-playing-game/" rel="tag">Role-playing game</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/roleplaying/" rel="tag">Roleplaying</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/roll20/" rel="tag">roll20</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/tokens/" rel="tag">tokens</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/virtual-tabletop/" rel="tag">virtual tabletop</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/vtt/" rel="tag">vtt</a></span> </div> <div class="sep"></div> </div> <div id="post-2672" class="post-2672 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-roleplaying category-tools tag-sound-effect tag-soundscape tag-star-trek"> <h2 class="title"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/tools-science-fiction-soundscapes/" rel="bookmark">[Tools] Science Fiction Soundscapes</a></h2> <div class="post-info"> <div> <span class="comments-meta"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/tools-science-fiction-soundscapes/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> Posted by <span class="author"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/author/gmkeros/" title="Posts by Geoffrey" rel="author">Geoffrey</a></span> on <span class="time">January 19, 2014</span> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <p>I just found the youtube channel of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ender4life?feature=watch">Ender4life</a>, who put together some videos with background noises from various Star Trek and Star Wars series/movies. I think this stuff might be really good as a background for any science fiction RPG, or maybe if you yourself want to just relax and pretend to be somewhere in the future.<br /> Some of them are a bit very Star Trekish (ever noticed how these beeps they have don’t show up too often in other places?), but a lot can be used to create a nice Science Fictiony feel.</p> <p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="630" height="355" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3RbuXquTzeg?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p> </div> <div class="post-meta"> <span class="categories"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/roleplaying/" rel="category tag">Roleplaying</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/tools/" rel="category tag">Tools</a></span> <span class="tags"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/sound-effect/" rel="tag">Sound effect</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/soundscape/" rel="tag">Soundscape</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/star-trek/" rel="tag">Star Trek</a></span> </div> <div class="sep"></div> </div> <div id="post-2676" class="post-2676 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-roleplaying category-tools tag-freeware tag-linux tag-soundscape tag-soundset tag-syrinscape"> <h2 class="title"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/syrinscape/" rel="bookmark">[Tools] Syrinscape</a></h2> <div class="post-info"> <div> <span class="comments-meta"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/syrinscape/#comments">2 Comments</a></span> Posted by <span class="author"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/author/gmkeros/" title="Posts by Geoffrey" rel="author">Geoffrey</a></span> on <span class="time">October 11, 2013</span> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <p>I liked <a href="http://syrinscape.com/">Syrinscape</a> when I last was looking for a soundscape program. It wasn’t the nicest looking of programs, and it had some bugs when running it over <a class="zem_slink" title="Wine (software)" href="http://www.winehq.org/" target="_blank" rel="homepage" rel="nofollow">Wine</a>, but it was functional, and most importantly, it allowed for the <a title="[Tools] Creating soundscapes with Syrinscape" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/tools-syrinscape/">easy creation</a> of my own soundscapes.<a title="[Tools] Tavern Soundset for Syrinscape" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/tools-tavern-soundset-for-syrinscape/"> So I did.</a> I even had a few unfinished soundscapes ready that I was thinking about posting at one point. I was even in contact with it’s creator and he told me that the new version of the program would be even better. So I decided to wait with posting these extra soundscapes.<br /> Then came the update.<br /> Well, the creator advertised it as a vast improvement, as making it easier and better, and providing even better ways of creating soundscapes for games.<br /> I noticed a few comments lately about the program and how great it is. So I guess it is actually a good program. I wouldn’t know though.</p> <p>I didn’t have time to check on it though, even though I was aware that the new version was out. Then someone commented on <a title="[Tools] Tavern Soundset for Syrinscape" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/tools-tavern-soundset-for-syrinscape/">my entry for the Tavern soundset</a> today, wondering how to actually import this thing.<br /> So I checked out the new version.</p> <p>Some notes regarding this:<br /> <strong> Note 1: it now costs money.</strong></p> <p>Not for the core version. That one has two soundsets and is free; but the soundsets which previously were available for free now cost money. Okay, I can live with that. He wants to make money with a software he put some effort into. And $3.99 per soundset is not so bad. I can’t say anything against that. After all I prefer making my own soundsets anyway.But…<br /> <strong> Note 2: it’s not possible to create custom soundsets anymore.</strong></p> <p>After installing the core version it turns out that the files for the soundsets included seem to be hidden in a file I can’t open, making it pretty impossible to create new soundsets. According to that comment on my entry there isn’t any way to load new soundsets in either. The <a href="http://syrinscape.com/faq/">FAQ</a> on the website now states <em>“Once we get the the next version out, and the Tablet versions are stable we will move onto making the Syrinscape SoundSet Creator, which will be a fully fledged sound creator, arranger and conductor. Very powerful, and very easy to use.” </em>But I might not hang around actually waiting for that, because…<br /> <strong> Note 3: This new version of the program doesn’t work on <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Linux</a></strong></p> <p>I only get an empty window when starting it. This isn’t a new problem. The reason I used Syrinscape in the first place was because I managed to get it running. All other similar programs ended up like this as well.</p> <p>So, considering that I mostly was fond of the program because it worked on my system and allowed for easy creation of new soundscapes… well. Not happy here.<br /> Does anyone know a program like this that might work on Linux?</p> </div> <div class="post-meta"> <span class="categories"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/roleplaying/" rel="category tag">Roleplaying</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/category/tools/" rel="category tag">Tools</a></span> <span class="tags"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/freeware/" rel="tag">Freeware</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/linux/" rel="tag">Linux</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/soundscape/" rel="tag">Soundscape</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/soundset/" rel="tag">soundset</a>, <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/syrinscape/" rel="tag">Syrinscape</a></span> </div> <div class="sep"></div> </div> <div id="post-2633" class="post-2633 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-board-games category-stuff category-tools tag-arkham-horror tag-board-game tag-card-sleeve tag-fantasy-flight-games"> <h2 class="title"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/card-sleeves-and-other-scourges-of-the-common-gamer/" rel="bookmark">Card Sleeves and other scourges of the common gamer</a></h2> <div class="post-info"> <div> <span class="comments-meta"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/card-sleeves-and-other-scourges-of-the-common-gamer/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> Posted by <span class="author"><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/author/gmkeros/" title="Posts by Geoffrey" rel="author">Geoffrey</a></span> on <span class="time">October 4, 2013</span> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <p>I bought myself <a class="zem_slink" title="Arkham Horror" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_Horror" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Arkham Horror</a> last week and right away noticed that there will have to be some special measures. Both my cats decided that the trial first game I set up was the most interesting thing since pigeons started nesting in front of our windows (there are few things that fascinate both of them equally as much as tasty flying rats and, obviously, eldritch horrors in cardboard).</p> <p>So I decided to invest money into <a class="zem_slink" title="Card sleeve" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sleeve" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">card sleeves</a>, something I never did before. Most of my gaming is roleplaying, and even when I was playing Magic the Gathering (back in 3rd edition times) I never really was into it so much as to sleeve my cards.</p> <p>Now, <a class="zem_slink" title="Łódź" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Łódż</a> has this tiny problem with games as such: there just aren’t any places to actually buy games that are not mainstream. I am not kidding, there was one shop that opened a few months back on Narutowicza, which was more of a Warhammer place from how it looked, and as for the last few months the the complete area around it is more of a wasteland than anything else, the last thing I heard was that it closed again. No, the local authorities don’t give a shit about small local businesses. They also don’t give a shit about normal people having to go to work, transit traffic that has to go through the city, or large companies that want to settle in this city. The traffic authorities have had plans since the 1970s, and right now they think it’s the right time to execute exactly those plans. Which were intended for a communist country where the cars, if there were any, were glorified shoeboxes…</p> <p>Aaaaaanyway… there is another shop in one of the shopping centres (Galeria Łódzka), which doesn’t even have a proper shop space but is rather a kiosk in front of the Tesco’s there. And there is always the possibility of going to <a href="http://rebel.pl">rebel.pl</a>, which is where I got the English version of Arkham Horror to begin with.</p> <p>Now, I wasn’t going to order a delivery from <a class="zem_slink" title="Gdańsk" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Gdańsk</a> again, mostly because it’s a pain in the ass to be at the right time at the right place to receive the package (I only ordered it because I had two weeks of holidays and knew exactly where I would be for two or three days). So I went to the small kiosk in Galeria.</p> <p>I asked the guy there for card sleeves for Arkham Horror (at least I think I did, sometimes I am not sure what I actually say), and he promptly presented me with the right size of Mayfair Games sleeves. They are cheaper than the <span class="zem_slink">FFG</span> ones, but I read on BBG that there might be problems with them. Well, I thought, if they don’t fit they won’t be so much of a loss and I have a few other games that I could sleeve as well.</p> <p>Turns out most of them fit. Two of the three packages of larger sleeves I bought, and two of the smaller ones fit perfectly. Which made it weird that the other package… didn’t. Oh, I managed to force the cards in, after a while, but they didn’t quite fit, were awkward to hold, had air pockets, and sometimes just ripped apart. I find this specific incongruity a bit strange. They seem to have produced a batch of a hundred sleeves just half a millimetre or so too small.</p> <p>But Arkham Horror is sleeved. Now I can start playing it. Most likely with the doors closed though. 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There is something to be said about the way the newer edition (now even with a refreshed look for this 8 year old game) doesn't have the stark black and white art and design that made me fall in love with the system back in the day.https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/traveller-reaction-rolls-and-morale-for-mgt-2e/">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 28, 2024 3:57 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">[Traveller] Reaction Rolls and Morale for MGT 2eReaction Rolls and Morale for MGT 2e I am prepping for a Pirates of Drinax campaign right now, and as the current version of that is for Mongoose Traveller we are going to use that edition. There is something to be said about the way the newer edition (now even with a refreshed look for this 8 year old game) doesn't have the stark black and white art and design that made me fall in love with the system back in the day.https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/traveller-reaction-rolls-and-morale-for-mgt-2e/</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113553856252483270" title="I know coffee technically just covers over the symptoms of tiredness, but I suspect my son's kindergarten teacher notices the difference between the days when I bring him without having had coffee, and days like today where I had at least half a cup.She's the only one I have to communicate with in Polish so early in the morning, and lately there were a few days when I just did not understand what she was trying to tell me.">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 27, 2024 7:58 am</span><div class="rssSummary">I know coffee technically just covers over the symptoms of tiredness, but I suspect my son's kindergarten teacher notices the difference between the days when I bring him without having had coffee, and days like today where I had at least half a cup.She's the only one I have to communicate with in Polish so early in the morning, and lately there were a few days when I just did not understand what she was trying to tell me.</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113551463310021402" title="Unfortunately their no-kill-like-overkill approach also got the one wild psion I had rolled up for that cave without them ever giving them a chance to do anything.">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 26, 2024 9:50 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">Unfortunately their no-kill-like-overkill approach also got the one wild psion I had rolled up for that cave without them ever giving them a chance to do anything.</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113551453653031549" title="Session 13 of my Glimmermark game: they decided to go to the caves again, tried to find the goblins, found hobgoblins instead. Some successful reaction rolls later they and a troop of hobgoblins went to attack the orcs that had shot at them the week before.It was a massacre. (They did get careless though and didn't search properly, leaving most of the orcs treasure in the cave)#ttrpg #osr #dnd">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 26, 2024 9:47 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">Session 13 of my Glimmermark game: they decided to go to the caves again, tried to find the goblins, found hobgoblins instead. Some successful reaction rolls later they and a troop of hobgoblins went to attack the orcs that had shot at them the week before.It was a massacre. (They did get careless though and didn't search properly, leaving most of the orcs treasure in the cave)#ttrpg #osr #dnd</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113546047423737692" title="Actually that's not quite true, it DOES have a reaction table for animal encounters according to their species classification.">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 25, 2024 10:53 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">Actually that's not quite true, it DOES have a reaction table for animal encounters according to their species classification.</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113546023109905793" title="Anyway, I just realized that Mongoose #Traveller 2nd ed. Doesn't seem to have reaction rolls or morale rolls, which were in fact in Classic Traveller. And as they are one of my favorite tools to use in my games I think I need to houserule them in again.">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 25, 2024 10:46 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">Anyway, I just realized that Mongoose #Traveller 2nd ed. Doesn't seem to have reaction rolls or morale rolls, which were in fact in Classic Traveller. And as they are one of my favorite tools to use in my games I think I need to houserule them in again.</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113545989240985784" title="Checking some stuff in today classic Traveller rules and found this interesting tidbit: if using rules as written there is a 1/3 chance of having a (meaningful) encounter with humans a day, independent of any chance for animal encounters.It doesn't specify what happens with different kinds of planets though, so according to the table you might stroll around the surface of an airless moon and encounter a bunch of peasants with cudgels and clubs. #traveller #ttrpg">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 25, 2024 10:38 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">Checking some stuff in today classic Traveller rules and found this interesting tidbit: if using rules as written there is a 1/3 chance of having a (meaningful) encounter with humans a day, independent of any chance for animal encounters.It doesn't specify what happens with different kinds of planets though, so according to the table you might stroll around the surface of an airless moon and encounter a bunch of peasants with cudgels and clubs. #traveller #ttrpg</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113543275907650803" title="sometimes you just don't feel ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIKbHSP_eVQ">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 25, 2024 11:08 am</span><div class="rssSummary">sometimes you just don't feel ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIKbHSP_eVQ</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113534037109901052" title="Today I am trying to figure out how actsync works on my INN2 installation. And it would all be easier if the man page was written in a way a human could read instead of... this...Considering the tool is supposed to sync two files with one another, the whole man page is written as if the only way to do this is via network. Nearly no text or examples in the page even mention local sync.Most people are likely not interested in local sync at all. I am though.#usenet">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 23, 2024 7:58 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">Today I am trying to figure out how actsync works on my INN2 installation. And it would all be easier if the man page was written in a way a human could read instead of... this...Considering the tool is supposed to sync two files with one another, the whole man page is written as if the only way to do this is via network. Nearly no text or examples in the page even mention local sync.Most people are likely not interested in local sync at all. I am though.#usenet</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113525771650310552" title="this morning the whole outside was covered in a thin layer of snow, but by now everything seems to have melted away already">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 22, 2024 8:56 am</span><div class="rssSummary">this morning the whole outside was covered in a thin layer of snow, but by now everything seems to have melted away already</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113523604786407132" title="TIL Pickled Walnuts exist and they look... daring. like a test of courage about to go down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled_walnuts#food (debatable)">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 21, 2024 11:45 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">TIL Pickled Walnuts exist and they look... daring. like a test of courage about to go down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled_walnuts#food (debatable)</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113517085046047523" title="I really need to document this stuff somewhere. This wasn't the first time I had to go through the hoops of solving the exact same issue multiple times, just how fast it happened this time is new. The worst is always when I find some forum post where someone asked the same question I have right now 4 or 5 years ago, and then I realize I was the poster (and never got a reply).">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 20, 2024 8:07 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">I really need to document this stuff somewhere. This wasn't the first time I had to go through the hoops of solving the exact same issue multiple times, just how fast it happened this time is new. The worst is always when I find some forum post where someone asked the same question I have right now 4 or 5 years ago, and then I realize I was the poster (and never got a reply).</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113517072425925460" title="I solved an issue with getting Minecraft to run on my windows computer three days ago. Do you think I remember what I did?Now I have the same issue on a Linux machine but I am drawing a blank on the solution.I would blame covid or my age, but I've always been like that. (As for the problem: the sign in to minecraft dialogue only shows black, I think it was something related to display resolutions, but what was it?!)">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 20, 2024 8:04 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">I solved an issue with getting Minecraft to run on my windows computer three days ago. Do you think I remember what I did?Now I have the same issue on a Linux machine but I am drawing a blank on the solution.I would blame covid or my age, but I've always been like that. (As for the problem: the sign in to minecraft dialogue only shows black, I think it was something related to display resolutions, but what was it?!)</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113512593923553494" title="Hmm... the 3.5 SRD and Players Handbook don't have any language regarding banned weapons, neither do later rules">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 20, 2024 1:05 am</span><div class="rssSummary">Hmm... the 3.5 SRD and Players Handbook don't have any language regarding banned weapons, neither do later rules</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113512557127484382" title="#ADnD clarifies it in Gygax' overly exacting style, and at the same time makes it worse: it bans edged and pointed weapons (that draw blood)...Do vampires actually bleed when you stab them? That opens a whole other can of worms. Technically your cleric might now be banned from stabbing vampires right after their meal.You might want to ask first.">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 20, 2024 12:56 am</span><div class="rssSummary">#ADnD clarifies it in Gygax' overly exacting style, and at the same time makes it worse: it bans edged and pointed weapons (that draw blood)...Do vampires actually bleed when you stab them? That opens a whole other can of worms. Technically your cleric might now be banned from stabbing vampires right after their meal.You might want to ask first.</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113512537040517717" title="Labyrinth Lord and Old School Essentials both add a ban on pointed weapons, so don't have quite the fidelity they want to have in this question.">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 20, 2024 12:50 am</span><div class="rssSummary">Labyrinth Lord and Old School Essentials both add a ban on pointed weapons, so don't have quite the fidelity they want to have in this question.</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113512530027939346" title="#OSR question I never thought about: you know Clerics, yes? Generally not happy with the undead.Can they stake vampires?The answer depends on the rules you use and how you interpret them. Basic DnD doesn't say they can't. It bars Clerics from using weapons with an edge. Is a point an edge? Who knows. Is a stake a weapon? Arguably it might be a tool.#dnd #ttrpg #vampires">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 20, 2024 12:49 am</span><div class="rssSummary">#OSR question I never thought about: you know Clerics, yes? Generally not happy with the undead.Can they stake vampires?The answer depends on the rules you use and how you interpret them. Basic DnD doesn't say they can't. It bars Clerics from using weapons with an edge. Is a point an edge? Who knows. Is a stake a weapon? Arguably it might be a tool.#dnd #ttrpg #vampires</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113512104306070104" title="Hey, don't mind me, I have a theory and wanted to see something.STARSHIP TROOPERSIs it...#movie #sciencefiction #sfa good movie because it's a satire of a bad booka bad movie because it's a satire of good booka good movie, no matter the booka bad movie, no matter the book">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 19, 2024 11:00 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">Hey, don't mind me, I have a theory and wanted to see something.STARSHIP TROOPERSIs it...#movie #sciencefiction #sfa good movie because it's a satire of a bad booka bad movie because it's a satire of good booka good movie, no matter the booka bad movie, no matter the book</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113511695217591634" title="I do have to say it's just not as enjoyable as Odyssey. I had some misgivings about the production quality of Odyssey in the beginning, but it grew on me. Valhalla so far moves slow and never really feels as interesting or joyful. it doesn't help that Kassandra felt like an actually fun character that could be played in various ways, while Eivor is like... I dunno.... crispbread with cheese">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 19, 2024 9:16 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">I do have to say it's just not as enjoyable as Odyssey. I had some misgivings about the production quality of Odyssey in the beginning, but it grew on me. Valhalla so far moves slow and never really feels as interesting or joyful. it doesn't help that Kassandra felt like an actually fun character that could be played in various ways, while Eivor is like... I dunno.... crispbread with cheese</div></li><li><a class="rsswidget" href="https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/113511202256529531" title="Ok, interesting statistic about Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Steam tells me that about 30 percent of players finished the main quest in Origins, and 33 percent of players finished the main quest in Odyssey, and yet Valhalla has 8.3 percent of people doing their first raid in England. Which is one of the first things you do in the 2nd chapter...What does that tell me?#gaming">Untitled</a> <span class="rss-date">November 19, 2024 7:11 pm</span><div class="rssSummary">Ok, interesting statistic about Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Steam tells me that about 30 percent of players finished the main quest in Origins, and 33 percent of players finished the main quest in Odyssey, and yet Valhalla has 8.3 percent of people doing their first raid in England. 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