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| Favorite games | DnD especially OSR Wizards and Heroes |
| Other interests | Jazz, reading, writing, and programming the internet. |
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hairylarry uploaded 1 new photo to Charles Pingus albumhttps://30doc2023.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Charles Pingus https://www.patreon.com/posts/30-days-of-2023-81072432
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ Going ForwardSince I started Gamer+ I have been running the Oxwall social network software. Unfortunately the most recent version of Oxwall was written in 2016 whi...Mar 24 '230 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News March 10, 2023 - Fantasy and Science Fiction - Beatles ParkSaturday March 11 at 11:00 AM Central join us for Inspired Unreality open game chat. The topic will be Fantasy and Science Fiction including some Scie...Mar 10 '230 0You need to sign in to comment
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Feb 26 '23Using a prompt from here - http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/jvprofile.htm
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News February 24, 2023 - Open Game Chat - AI ImagesSaturday, February 25, join us for Inspired Unreality Open Game Chat. Starting topic will be AI Art. Bring your own topic. All gaming is on topic.
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The Message Rat was good company. Silas had not bothered to undo the Speeke, Rattus Rattus command, and so the talkative rat held forth on any topic that caught his imagination, which ranged from the problem with young rats today to the rat sausage scandal in the Guards' canteen that had upset the entire rat community, not to mention the Guards.
- from Septimus Heap, Book one: Magyk by Angie Sage.Feb 21 '230 0You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their statusNightCafe now has a free tier.
Introducing free, unlimited "Stable" creations
A "base" Stable creation now costs zero credits.
This is in addition to 5 free credits a day. So, you can create for free and then upscale for a credit.Feb 16 '231 0
Feb 16 '23AI Art Generator App. ✅ Fast ✅ Free ✅ Easy. Create amazing artworks using artificial intelligence.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their statusU.S. Copyright Office Rules A.I. Art Can’t Be Copyrighted - March 24, 2022 - Jane Recker - "The U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) once again rejected a copyright request for an A.I.-generated work of art, the Verge’s Adi Robertson reported last month."Feb 15 '233 0
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An image generated through artificial intelligence lacked the "human authorship" necessary for protection
Feb 15 '23Also - "Other countries put less emphasis on the necessity of human authorship for protection. A judge in Australia ruled last year A.I.-created inventions can qualify for patent protection. And South Africa allowed Thaler to patent one of his products last year, noting that “the invention was autonomously generated by an artificial intelligence.” While Thaler owns the patent, the A.I. is listed as the inventor."You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their statusArt-istic or Art-ificial? Ownership and copyright concerns in AI-generated artwork - November 21, 2022 - By Atreya MathurFeb 15 '232 0
Feb 15 '23I think I'm safe in releasing my AI artwork into the public domain. I believe AI artwork is in the public domain. As the article referenced states "The risks associated with using models like DALL·E to generate art are still largely unknown as they have not been contested or substantially tested in any courts.".You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News February 10, 2023 - Fantasy and Science FictionWhat have you been reading? What have you been watching? What have you been playing? That's the topic for Inspired Unreality open game chat at 11:00 A...Feb 10 '230 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their status"The birth of the ORC license was driven by OGL 1.1" - Paizo’s Jim Butler discusses ORC, OGL 1.1, and more
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Q. On the topic of the ORC, what is Paizo's philosophy on open-source gaming, and what do you feel the strengths and weaknesses of the model are?
Jim Butler: There is a much lower barrier of entry for fans to become publishers. Intellectual property laws can be complicated, and the Open RPG Creative (ORC) license will allow fans to become publishers without worrying about whether a particular entry in a book is considered open content or not. Since each publisher in the license provides their own SRD, new publishers can use that material in their work to create something that’s greater than the original.
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Jim Butler, president of Paizo, has been at the center of a major topic of discussion within the tabletop gaming community for the last two weeks. With Wizards of the Coast’s OGL 1.You need to sign in to comment -
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If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.
—Joan Miró
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hairylarry commented on their statusThis artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it.
Greg Rutkowski is a more popular prompt than Picasso.
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hairylarry commented on their statusThere are two interesting intellectual property conversations going on in the fantasy RPG world at the present.
Seeking a better license for open gaming than the OGL.
Using AI programs like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion AI for generating fantasy art.
I will post links to this thread as I find them. Please add links and comments if you're interested.Jan 31 '232 0
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DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusI began playing RPGs back in 1977 when the Holmes Blue Box Basic came out. We played many other TSR RPGs that existed & new ones as they came out.
We also dabbled at least once in several other non-TSR RPGs.
I've played even more since 2014 when I attended cons regularly.
Since D&D was my first RPG, it sort of defined what an RPG was and hit harder than all the others. I was more of a science fiction fan back then, but still played more AD&D than any other RPG.
I still run and play older versions of D&D. However, I will run more non-WOTC games in the future.
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hairylarry commented on their statusIf you can have a natural 20 and an unnatural 20 how about a supernatural 20?Jan 28 '236 0
Jan 26 '23I've invented the supernatural 20 spell that can only be used once between long rests. On an important roll you can instead cast your Supernatural 20 spell and automatically roll a nat 20.
Jan 28 '23It's also a meta spell in that the spell affects the game mechanics. So maybe it should be thought of as a perfect attack spell but I love the name Supernatural 20.
Jan 28 '23So when you cast the Supernatural 20 spell the attack affected automatically results in a perfect attack exactly as if the atteacker had rolled a nat 20.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News January 27, 2023 - Inspired Unreality!Inspired Unreality open game chat will resume tomorrow, Saturday, January 28, at 11:00 AM Central. Inspired Unreality is held in the gamerplus chatroo...Jan 27 '230 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusoh, you're trying to connect two different kinds of magic?
you're gonna need an abracadaptor
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If I have a magic lute that requires attunement does that mean it will always play in tune?Jan 19 '230 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their photoDid you ever want a really remote monastery on one of your quests?
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Jan 19 '23Many more Creative Commons photos of the monastery here. https://www.google.com/...biw=1366&bih=595
Jan 19 '23Thanks to Greg Hills on Mastodon. He says, "You can see the staircase winding up to Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) in the lower middle of the picture. ... There's a cable car for use by monks and officials. Pilgrims and tourists have to toil up the steps :)"You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry created a new blog postMouse Plural - A Jupiter's Ghost Super ShortMouse Plural
If we have houses
Why not mouses
If we have mice
Why not hice
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News January 7, 2023 - New Schedule for the New YearSchedule shift for the New Year.
Inspired Unreality open game chat will be held on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month at 11:00 AM to Noon, Cent...Jan 7 '230 0You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry created a new blog postDelta Boogie Newsletter - January 2023 - New Bebop Beatniks album, "Church"We are celebrating the New Year with a Bebop Beatniks retrospective album, all originals performed live, from 2016 through 2019.
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hairylarry uploaded 1 new photo to Newsfeed Photos albumSolemn as a golem. https://www.flickr.com/photos/botosynthetic/5837348219 by smokeghost Golem (deactivated). Do not put parchment in the hole in his head, lest he come to life... CC BY-NC
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There ain't even no such thing as grownups ... They's all just old kids pretending.
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I just froze three ziplocs labeled Ham 12-25. Kind of tells a story, doesn't it?
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Merry Christmas. Just spent the evening with family. Amongst other things games were discussed. Tomorrow, on Christmas day, we're going to bake.Dec 24 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusI had a nightmare that I was awake.
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hairylarry commented on their statusI'm not horny, all that stuff in my search history is for story research!
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hairylarry » Deleted user commented on their statusStop hating on lazy people. We didn't even do anything.
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If I had a time machine
If I had a time machine I would go back to the day the inventor of the time machine invented the time machine
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusNew blog post about the Dungeon 23 challenge.
#Dungeon23
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Dec 10 '22I like this idea. It's a great way to do a lot of work over a period of time. I imagine that it would keep the brain churning with new ideas all day long, not just when working on it.
Dec 10 '22Yeah, I'm hoping I can maintain this. That's harder than smaller sprints of content the way I'm wired.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their photohttps://aiart.page/@Astrid/109482831506384619 Thanks Astrid! https://aiart.page/@Astrid
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Every fairy tale was written to tarnish the trolls' reputation.
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Next year we return to cozy adventuring in Tobbins Shire, held on the internet and around a table at Eclectic Geekery. Also guest DMs running 2 hr one shots.Dec 3 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News December 2, 2022The last Inspired Unreality of the year is on Saturday, December 3, at 11:00 AM Central. We will be discussing Fantasy and Science Fiction. We've got ...Dec 2 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusHe hasn't said the most stupid thing I've ever heard but he's said the most stupid things that I've ever heard. He's winning stupidity by quantity.
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I have been having troubles with links in the newsfeed where the see more link goes to a posted link.
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hairylarry commented on their statusReaders are the best people because they see the world through many sets of eyes. They know both that their experiences are not unique and that no one sees the world in quite the same way as them.
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusI finalized my Worldbuilding Cheatsheet on Cheatography.
https://cheatography.com/...eets/world-building/Nov 23 '224 1hairylarry likes this
Nov 22 '22We started with Milyagon, a rural village that used to be a military fort. I drew a map for the fort and the town. Wilken Woods is on the map and it became a magic forest across the river from Milyagon. Now through the woods and across another river and we're adventuring in Tobbins Shire. So definitely bottom up for our world building. And I just build as we play.
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Free RPG List: open-license
https://www.darkshire.net/...rd/open-license.html
Another list from darkshire.net.
This one is an alphabetical list by game name with a paragraph of information describing each game.Nov 23 '220 0You need to sign in to comment -
On Sunday I played in my granddaughter's 5e game at Eclectic Geekery. With six of us around the table it stayed entertaining. Mostly I tell Dad jokes and let the younger adventurers lead the party. Hat Tip to DM Lizard. She is SearchingForGryphons on Gamer+.
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Exilian says,
There's a tradition of doing Druid characters in northern European groves surrounded by bears and wolves, BUT CONSIDER:
> Shoreline druid who dances in sea-foam & spends time looking after barnacles
> Antisocial desert druid whose familiar is a golden mole and who buries themselves in sand during the day
> Pallid cave druid, pale and wide-eyed, surrounded by olms and swimming through narrow passageways
> Wetland druid who summons saw-sedge barriers on their enemies and has a bittern with a magically enhanced boom-noise
> Confused tundra druid with lemmings in every pocket who can't get over how people manage without hibernation
> Fast-running steppe druid who whistles to herds of Saiga antelope and helps lead them to water in bad years
> Portly Antarctic druid whose existence philosophy is Be A Penguin and who collects pretty rocks to give their friends
> Cloud forest treetop druid who grows a bromeliad on their shoulder & has a small cloud of hummingbirds around them
#TTRPG #GameDev
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News November 18, 2022Join us for Inspired Unreality open game chat on Saturday, November 19, at 11:00 AM Central. All gaming is on topic and the opening topic will be Fant...Nov 18 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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... all four cavaliers were gone, back into the River. Harrow found herself imagining them in her mind's eye:rising out of those turbid waters before the Saint of Duty with his spear and his sword, something looming behind him, bigger than the eye could comprehend. Bluer than death; unimaginable, advancing to greet the four dead swordsmen and the Lyctor.
She had not said goodbye. Harrow so rarely got to say goodbye.
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How To Use Mastodon and the Fediverse: Advanced Tips
https://fedi.tips/...verse-advanced-tips/
I've been using Mastodon for years and this article really clarified things for me.
If you are new to Mastodon this will be great for you.Nov 14 '220 0You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News November 4, 2022It's our fiftieth! All those family games. Fifty years of family games. What a thing to think about.
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When your time is up with the book that will keep us all out of trouble you have to send it back to the publisher.Nov 4 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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No Inspired Unreality open game chat this morning. It's the fifth Saturday of October so Happy Halloween.Oct 29 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry uploaded 1 new photo to Newsfeed Photos albumCarl says, "My 30 minute speed paint miniature from NEA Game Fest."
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hairylarry uploaded 1 new photo to Newsfeed Photos albumJust let me splain this to you at NEA Game Fest.
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"A Treasury of Verse for Little Children was compiled by Madalen Edgar, and published by Harrap in 1908. The illustrations and page layouts are close enough to the children’s books being produced at this time by Charles Robinson that I wonder whether the similarity was deliberate on Pogány’s part."
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Bound into three exquisitely colored volumes, *Fungi* features hundreds of species, collected across 42 years by a female mycologist named M. F. Lewis.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their blog postGamer+ News October 14, 2022Well ... Caper has a sketchbook. Full of mushrooms from the shire. Some of the sketches are annotated in an arcane language called English Script. Joi...Oct 14 '221 0
Oct 14 '22NEA Game Fest starts Friday. October 21 - 23. https://www.neagamefest.com/You need to sign in to comment
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Blues Fest was a blast! I have audio and video recordings to work on. Carl rapped an 18th century poem to "African Violet". Soon to be on Youtube.Oct 13 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News September 30, 2022Inspired Unreality, now on a twice a month schedule, will be held at 11:00 AM Central, on Saturday, October 1. Since it's the first Saturday of the mo...Sep 30 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry created a new blog postDelta Boogie Newsletter - August 2022 - Jazz In The Forest and Blues Fest!I'm sending this out a week early to promote Jazz In The Forest on September 26.
Jazz In The Forest
Craighead Forest Bandshell
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusToday's blog post is about the Gateway To Adventure Trilogy For Old-School Essentials Kickstarter and my involvement with a stretch goal.
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Sep 16 '22All right!!! Hope you are doing well. We've been through the grinder but I can see a distant light at the end of a long tunnel. Always good to hear from you.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News September 16, 2022As always, changes are afoot.
When we started doing Inspired Unreality open game chat every week we were younger. And yet, somehow, even though we'...Sep 16 '220 0You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News September 9, 2022Well ... we missed last week. Our water heater broke and our daughter and son in law were here helping us put in a new one and by the time we were don...Sep 9 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry created a new blog postDelta Boogie Newsletter - August 2022 - Blues Fest!Doug Butler works at Craighead Forest Park and he's a musician. When I went to Guerilla Livestream Craighead Forest Lake he talked to me about restart...Sep 5 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News September 2, 2022Saturday morning. Inspired Unreality. 11:00 Central. It's the first Saturday so our topic is fantasy and science fiction. Games, movies, books, televi...Sep 2 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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It's a little early for Halloween but Megan disagreed. Anyway we just did the Here Lies The Hatchet meme this morning. Please share.Aug 31 '220 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry uploaded 1 new photo to Halloween albumHere Lies The Hatchet. Vivian said the words that inspired this meme. I found the public domain photo by Linnaea Mallette at publicdomainpictures.net. Megan created the engraved effect in GIMP. It was a family effort.
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News August 26, 2022Inspired Unreality! Open game chat. Saturday morning at 11:00 Central. Bring your own topic. All gaming is on topic.
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hairylarry commented on their statusTHE ALLOY OF LAW
The Mistborn Saga
Book 1 of the Wax and Wayne Era
by Brandon Sanderson
Free Download before August 6.
https://ebookclub.tor.com/...7be625879862312522ea
I have read the Wayne and Wax series and they are fantastic. Fast paced adventure and a real hoot.
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Aug 4 '22I missed this part - New in November 2022
THE LOST METAL
The Conclusion Of The Wax And Wayne Era - I can't waitYou need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry uploaded 1 new photo to Newsfeed Photos albumHere I am Guerilla Livestreaming Beatles Park in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas on the 4th of July. https://youtu.be/q2n6n5y1y9M I got my picture in the paper. Then we enjoyed family game day at Eclectic Geekery. It was a good 4th for us.
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusEpisode 202 - Bits & Bobs - This & That
I'm starting a new intermittent series: "Bits & Bobs - This & That." The idea is a miscellaneous mish mash of call ins, ideas, and thoughts that haven't evolved enough for a full episode.
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hairylarry commented on their photoMr. MistMeister Ari and Caper run across Mr. MistMeister, a dangerous water elemental, on a hike outside of Caper's Shire. Before he was Mr. MistMeister he was a water sprite. One day when he was flying a potion maker, greatly afraid, threw a potion of gaseous form on the sprite. The combination of magicks locked the elemental into it's gaseous form and Mr. MistMeister was born. He used to enjoy coralling loads of fish into fishermen's nets so they became so heavily laden that they would break or even capsize the fishing boat. In his mist form he has been corraling people by showing them abandoned houses from the past and luring them into his misty form. He is not evil. He just does what he does because he doesn't know what else to do. He could be convinced to take up another avocation but he can only be destroyed with very high level magic that counters both the potion and fey magic at the same time. Pictured is Dancing Fairies painted in 1866 by the Swedish painter August Malmström. Unlike the faires pictured Mr. MistMeister cannot return to the water but is locked above ground as a mist.
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hairylarry commented on their statusVivian, Alan and I had a nice discussion at Inspired Unreality. Mostly gaming, for a change. Alan posted some of his spell books. Then we started discussing Dungeon magazine and Dragon magazine and we found this.
https://archive.org/...t=titleSorter&page=3
and this
https://archive.org/...on%20Magazine%20386/
I always want to find the issues we used to have back when we subscribed.
Dungeon Magazine : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet ArchiveDungeon Adventures, or simply Dungeon, was a magazine targeting consumers of role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons. It was first published by TSR, Inc. in 1986 as a bimonthly periodical. It went monthly in May 2003 and ceased print publication altogether in September 2007 with...Jan 22 '221 0
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hairylarry commented on their blog postGamer+ News January 7, 2022Inspired Unreality open game chat tomorrow, Saturday January 8, at 11:00 AM Central. Bring your own topic. All gaming is on topic.
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Jan 8 '22It came to me in a flash this morning. I will run Gamer+ on my home server. That way this instance can continue running until I have the new Gamer+ install stable. And this instance can remain up as a read only archive of everything posted. I will blog the project here.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postThree of Thirty-SixContinuing in The Thirty-Six, based on Georges Polti's The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, today's situation is "vengeance of a crime" in which an "av...Dec 20 '211 0
Dec 20 '21Like Hamlet, "I must avenge my father's death." A ghost story with vengeance as a dramatic situation. Definitely medieval and it ends in a TPK as a dramatic resolution.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postTwo of Thirty-SixContinuing in the series I'm calling The Thirty-Six, based on Georges Polti's The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (original version and a modernized ta...Dec 19 '212 0
Dec 19 '21Sometimes the DM has to send a rescuer to avert a TPK. This can seem like the hand of God tweaking the PC's nose. So, best if the rescuer fits into the narrative, somehow, and it's also best if the rescuer helps the party survive rather than single handedly waltz in and save the day.You need to sign in to comment
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The fantasy of Jack Vance.
Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984.
The Dying Earth features one of the greatest fantasy antiheroes of all time, Cugel the Clever. The Dying Earth setting also hosts other stories full of other antiheroes.
The Lyonesse Trilogy, Suldrun's Garden, The Green Pearl, and Madouc. Madouc won the World Fantasy Award in 1990 and contains the most delightful fey adventure ever written.
"The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated literature used a magic system inspired in part by Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, notably the fact that magic users in the game forget spells they have learned immediately upon casting them, and must re-study them in order to cast them again. The Dying Earth and The Eyes of the Overworld are featured in the "Appendix E: Inspirational Reading" section of the 1st edition of the Dungeon Masters Guide and the 5th edition of the Player's Handbook."
"A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. In the series, Martin includes a minor character, "Lord Vance of Wayfarer's Rest". In further reference to Jack Vance, the character's daughters are named Liane, Rhialta, and Emphyria for Liane the Wayfarer, Rhialto the Marvellous, and Emphyrio, respectively."
Vance won Hugo Awards for "The Dragon Masters" and "The Last Castle". Both of these novels are science fiction in spite of their fantasy sounding titles and both feature the competent hero, a staple throughout Vance's work.
Thanks to wikipedia for some of the info above.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance
Welcome to the official Jack Vance website
https://www.jackvance.com/
Grandmaster Jack Vance (1916-2013) Visit FOREVERNESS.
http://foreverness.jackvance.com/
Here's my own tribute.
I read a lot of Fantasy and Science Fiction when I was young by a lot of authors from the Golden Age through New Wave. Reading as an adult with a lifetime of honing my skills appreciating literature Jack Vance holds up the best. I still read and reread Jack Vance on a regular basis.
And the tradition lives on.
After Tais Teng explored new Alastor worlds in Phaedra: Alastor 824, and Michael Shea followed Cugel the Clever into the demon realms of the Dying Earth with A Quest for Simbilis, we are pleased to announce that renowned genre author Matthew Hughes has penned a dashing adventure among the worlds of the Gaean Reach, which has been released as the third installment on our Paladins of Vance label.
Please add your Jack Vance thoughts in the comments and join us tonight on Inspired Unreality first Monday Fantasy and Science Fiction discussion where our opening topic will be Jack Vance.
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Medieval Demographics Made Easy
Hosted here
https://followmeanddie.com/...raphics-made-easy-2/
This page has a free link to the pdf which is distributed freely. The booklet itself is fantastic not only as a guide to medieval demographics but also as an example of how to put together a fantasy supplement that is useful and entertaining.
Thanks to S. John Ross and Follow Me And Die.Dec 6 '210 1FollowMeAndDie likes thisYou need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusA new blog post about what happens to a wizard's stuff when they die?
https://followmeanddie.com/2021/12/05/when-wizards-die/Dec 6 '212 1hairylarry likes this
Dec 6 '21Very nice. I enjoyed the read. Reminded me of Jack Vance. So Jack Vance will be our opening topic tonight on Inspired Unreality. We will be discussing fantasy and science fiction.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their statusThanksgiving is in the past. I got to play in two D&D games with DM Carl and my grandkids playing. Friday and Saturday! In the same room! Around a table!Nov 29 '212 0
Nov 29 '21Same players, different game. On Friday it was Theatre of the mind at our house and on Saturday, with miniatures, visiting our Foster kids.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusTabletop Games for Thanksgiving Gatherings.
It used to be poker or Monopoly. Or maybe hearts if it wasn't a poker family.
What do you play now? Here's two of our favorites.
Apples To Apples
D&D Family Game
Please post your game suggestions for Thanksgiving in the comments.Nov 25 '215 0
Nov 22 '21TICKET TO RIDE! CARCASSONNE!
Two of the best games ever made, in my view.
(For the first, I like the Europe version best.)
Nov 23 '21Carcassonne is a tile-laying game where you try to place limited meeples to control resources that are revealed as the tiles are laid out. You have to balance playing the long game (risking losing access to meeples) against the short game (getting sparse resources but keeping meeple flexibility).
I've only ever played the base game or used "The River" expansion. Both are good, though I actually think the river does a good job of keeping things localised.
Nov 25 '21This Thanksgiving it was Doodle Dice and Qwirkle. For Black Friday it's family game.You need to sign in to comment -
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Nov 17 '21I play 0 hit points and you're out of the battle. I don't think someone at 0 should roll anything. It's up to their companions to try to save them.
Nov 17 '21This is a common topic at Inspired Unreality and should be added to our RPG Chat Topics table. Please add how you deal with death in your comments.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusI added our aggregated feed to the right column on the Main page. So when you post it hits Gamer+. If you have a gaming blog, vlog, channel, etc. with an RSS feed let me know and I'll add your feed.Nov 15 '212 0
Nov 15 '21Good to hear from you ZDL. Vivian and I agree that aggravated feed fits. I also added our tumblr feed just below the aggravated feed.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on robertsconley's statusThe one where I talked about OD&D being best viewed as a supplement but not to Chainmail.
https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/...of-dungeons-and.htmlNov 1 '211 1hairylarry likes this
Nov 1 '21I wrote this at Robert S. Conley's blog - I did play war games in the sixties but then it wasn't until the early nineties that I got into D&D. So that transition always fascinated me. Possibly war gaming led to fantasy war gaming which invited role playing which is the actual quantum shift between war gaming and D&D. Nobody was thinking about character motivation at Gettysburg but then in D&D it arrives as a full blown central feature because, of course, players are going to think about why their elf did this or their dwarf did that.You need to sign in to comment -
Thanks to Robert S. Conley for joining us tonight on Inspired Unreality. We got a quick tour of his very creative career and then launched right into some rollicking roll playing reminisces. I hope to chat with him again.Sep 20 '210 1robertsconley likes thisYou need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusFamily game tonight! We're off next Friday. Anyone up for some DND online Friday September 17?Sep 10 '211 0You need to sign in to comment
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Inspired Unreality
September 20, 2021 at 9:00 PM Central
Special Guest - Robert S Conley, Creator of Blackmarsh and The Majestic Fantasy RPG
Our topic will be the difference between writing classic D&D vs. 5e.
How to write for both?
How to convert from OSR to 5e.
I know that sounds like three topics but they are very closely intertwined.
Blackmarsh
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/89944/Blackmarsh
The Majestic Fantasy RPG
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/...tasy-RPG-Basic-Rules
Bat in the Attic
https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/
Robert S. Conley on Gamer+
https://archive.gamerplus.org/user/robertsconley
Inspired Unreality is held every Monday night at 9:00 Central in the gamerplus chat rooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. Are you new to Tenkar's Tavern? We have an invitation for you here.
https://archive.gamerplus.org/indexBlackmarsh - Bat in the Attic Games | Majestic Fantasy Realms | DriveThruRPG.comBlackmarsh - In the days when man knew only the working of stone and fought for their existence against the orc and the goblin, the sSep 8 '210 1robertsconley likes thisYou need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on robertsconley's statusThe one where I write about Chainmail Reprints and the Harn Kingdom Hardbacks.
https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/...ginal-chainmail.htmlAug 30 '214 1hairylarry likes this
Aug 30 '21My wife played a Fantasy RPG game in the early 70s at Beebe, Arkansas. Carl and I found a fantasy rule set in a war gaming magazine printed for a convention in New England about that time and I thought that could have possibly been the rule set they used in Arkansas. Or ... maybe they used the fantasy appendix from this book. Is the fantasy appendix playable without the entire book? Just curious.
Sep 1 '21When I enrolled into college many decades ago I had never heard anything about roll playing games. It never occurred to me that it might be a thing. Well other than drama students working hard to play their rolls in front of an audience. I was amazed when I saw my first play there and I was impressed by how hard the students worked to make it as believable as they could.
Sep 1 '21It takes a lot of courage to play a character with completely different ideas and interests than you have. Imagine standing on the stage and arguing with another actor as to whether you're up to it. Our director overhearing us said there was no time to hunt up replacements and to make the best of it.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on sound's statusAll you need is confidence in what you already have and the ability to find what you need.
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We had a good chat Monday night at Inspired Unreality with both Alan and Datum joining Vivian and myself. As happens with those two we drifted off of games and into philosophy.
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hairylarry commented on their statusAri and Caper started work on Caper's song of reckless spending. It will be a story song featuring Wee Will and will have a singalong chorus that goes down the scale with the words, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold. Then we were joined by Bruce Lombardo and the conversation wandered from painting miniatures to Bard's Tale, now back on Steam. We had a great time and thanks to Bruce for joining us.Aug 10 '211 0
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hairylarry commented on their blog postCaper's Song BookA bard's songbook is like a magician's spell book in that it contains
words of power, songs for wind, songs for rain, songs to make the fire
burn ...Jul 31 '211 0
Jul 31 '21Last night in the 5e game I sang a song of reckless spending on a gambling boat. I made 12 GP so it must have worked.You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on robertsconley's statusThe one I write about the popularity of RPGs and the explosive growth of digital sales. Using numbers from DriveThruRPG.
https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/...top-roleplaying.htmlJul 20 '215 1hairylarry likes this
Jul 19 '21Interesting post. I felt like the interest in gaming increased during the pandemic but I never looked for any numbers.
Jul 20 '21Here is the crux of running a game in one quote. "The creativity of the referee comes by not forcing his players to follow a predetermined story, but to develop new and interesting consequences based on the players’ actions. Use the NPC’s motivations and personalities to decide which consequences are the most likely and pick the most interesting. " - Blackmarsh
Jul 21 '21Thanks for sharing that. The feedback helps me figure out what to focus on when I write more detailed advice.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusJust in time for tomorrow's 12th anniversary of my blog, I wrote an article about Garage Con.
https://followmeanddie.com/2021/07/17/garage-con/Jul 18 '212 0
Jul 18 '21I always think it's a good idea to come up with a thing you want to make you do a job you would otherwise hate to do.
Jul 18 '21I love the idea of Garage Con especially for the ventilation. I don't think a personal con like this has to be 12 hours. 8 - 10 hrs could work fine and lower the exhaustion factor.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their statusNo game tonight so I'm going to have to work on something. First backup/media/intraweb server. Second Setting Up A Twitch Studio series about technical creative endeavors.Jul 16 '211 0
Jul 16 '21I need a good subtitle for Setting Up A Twitch Studio that implies or other technical creative endeavors.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusWe had a good chat last night about Science Fiction and Fantasy literature starting with a discussion about Science Fiction as a late nineteenth and twentieth century phenomenon where Fantasy literature encompasses all of literature going back to the earliest written words. Now they are often indistinguishable. Then we discussed the dystopian trend in Science Fiction. The Golden Age (thirties and forties) saw mostly optimistic science fiction stories but in the second half of the twentieth century starting with the New Wave through today there has been a darker trend with many dystopian and post apocalyptic stories. Then closing the chat we each discussed our first experiences in Science Fiction. Viv and I both started reading SF in the fifties. I mentioned A.E. Van Vogt and Robert Heinlein and Viv mentioned Clifford D. Simak, Andre Norton, and Ursula K. Leguinn. Megan started Science Fiction with the TV series Farscape. What a difference 40 years makes. Please post your introduction to Science Fiction and Fantasy in the comments.Jul 11 '216 0
Jul 6 '21The Star Trek (original) TV series was my introduction to SF. Then I kind of spread forward and backward from that: the New Wave stuff in one direction (as it was published) and the Golden Age stuff in the other, chiefly Asimov, Heinlein, etc. for that bunch.
Jul 7 '21Yeah, I was books first and when there was science fiction television I thought, "Oh, wow!" but it rarely lived up to expectations. Except for "The Trouble With Tribbles". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Tribbles
Jul 7 '21I was books first in general, but my parents weren't much for SF so I didn't have SF books until after I got exposed to the very notion of it via Star Trek.
Jul 7 '21I worked at the library shelving books and after I read through all the SF in the children's area I started checking out the Science Fiction they had upstairs. Now I read on my Kindle using Overdrive so still a library patron.
Jul 9 '21Books have always enthralled me. When I was approaching my teen years A well written story would keep me reading till I fell asleep with the book in my hand. Mother complained about it but she never denied me access to books. We lost my father when I was in 7th grade. It was a traumatic time for us but we survived. When I reached Jr.High School I volunteered to help with the school library. It was a great way to learn just how libraries operate and why books have to be shelved in the right place for things to run smoothly.
Jul 11 '21I still read at night until I fall asleep. Sometimes I have to reread a page or two in the morning. And what am I reading now? The new N.K. Jemisin Hugo nominee, "The City We Became".You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusNext Monday night on Inspired Unreality our opening topic will be Science Fiction and Fantasy literature. If you have favorites or opinions please comment here and I will use this thread as a resource for the discussion.Jul 7 '217 0
Jul 1 '21An alarming trend I noticed over my life—though I haven't read much recent SF or fantasy so I don't know if it's continued—is the inexorable change of speculative fiction from being largely optimistic to largely pessimistic, at least in western specfic.
Old-timey SF in particular was, even if branded as "horror", still pretty positive at least in terms of the setting. Sure THESE PEOPLE may have died horribly, but the world at large was doing fine, and the reason these people could die horribly was because the world was doing well and humanity was spreading out to the stars!
Slowly, but surely, across the '70s and into the '80s and '90s that positivity faded. The world was going to be obliterated in nuclear suicide. The world was going to be an unremitting corporate-driven Hellhole of crime and corruption. We were all doomed and the protagonists of stories were the unlucky ones who'd survived.
Like I said I haven't kept up, so maybe this trend eventually reversed itself (though the popularity of shows like Rick & Morty suggest to me that existential dread and straight-up nihilism still rule the roost). But if it has, that's still nigh-on 50 years of social depression so serious it mimics clinical depression in its feel and its impact.
Is that something worth discussing?
Jul 3 '21N. K. Jemison just won three Hugos in a row for her Broken Earth trilogy which was deeply dystopian. So the trend hasn't reversed. I do think there is more variety today then at any time in the past but mostly post apocalytic and totalitarian corporacratacies rule.
Jul 5 '21Do you find this as troublesome as I do?
In our superheroes we've moved to anti-heroes and psychopaths (I consider post-Dark Knight Returns Batman as a psychopath). In our visions of the future we only seem to be able to picture dystopias.
There doesn't appear to be hope for anything in popular entertainment. It reminds me of the endlessly depressing post-holocaust fiction of the '80s.
Jul 6 '21I'm not sure "realism" is a net good in this genre. SF used to be a vision of hope. Unrealistic hope, yes, but it gave ideals to strive for. When (not "if"!), in the process of striving for said ideals you fell short, you still made the world a better place in the process.
We've lot ideals. We're wallowing in cynicism and self-pity. And it reflects in the world around us: people are more self-involved, nihilistic, and short-term focused.
Jul 7 '21Yes, Megan brought this up in the discussion. This isn't just happening in Science Fiction. Comedys used to be funny or they wouldn't last. Now cringeworthy is a goal that somehow is supposed to have humor embedded in it.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postDeep Dive: OSR CritiqueOur little hobby is filled with intriguing oddities. One of the most persistent such oddities is our weird tendency to take what is already a fr...Jun 29 '2121 0
Jun 28 '21Without going into a lot of the detail. OD&D was written for the miniature wargaming community of the early 1970s. This was a community used to running sophiscated multi-session campaign. As there was almost no commercial rulesets, people made their system cobbled together from existing games like Diplomacy, miniature wargames, and above all their own experience in coming up with rules for a specific scenario based on historical or in case fiction.
What rules were written were usually typed and mimeographed. Mostly used as a reference (charts, tables, etc) relying on the referee or players of the campaign for the explanations of how to use them.
OD&D was written as a set of guidelines to explain to miniature wargamers how they could run similar campaigns to what they heard was happening in the Twin Cities and Lake Geneva. It was not intended to be for novices picking up a game for the first time off of a bookshelf.
It subsequent popularity outside of this wargaming community caught Gygax off guard and he and later TSR recognized the issue and started correcting it once they had the resources to do so. For example the Holmes Basic Rules.
I recommend reading books like Playing at the World, Hawk & Moor, and the Elusive Shift to get a sense of what was happened and why OD&D was what it was.
Jun 28 '21This is also important why there are big fans of OD&D. It not because of nostalgia or because it was first. It because it represents that early mindset of the hobby. When people understood that there was great fun to be had with gaming but because of the lack of commercial products* had to come up with their own to play.
OD&D is represent that for tabletop roleplaying. A set of guidelines to be used as foundation for one own campaign. It was understood by its initial buyer in 1974 and 1975 as a starting point for their own campaign. Hobbyists like that idea and build on it for themselves and love how OD&D enables this.
For example how one weaves a basket in a campaign? In a more recent edition or currently published RPG, likely there is an answer in the system. In OD&D, you would have to come up with your own take. Decide which factor the system already has that is important, attributes? class? level? Or perhaps come up something new for characters like a skill system or my own ability system for the Majestic Fantasy RPG.
OD&D by its nature forces the referee and players to come up with their own answers. Gygax when writing used his experience running wargames campaign to put in what he felt would be the most useful material. Most of which are lists of stuff (monsters, items, etc.), tables, and charts.
The characters mechanics were bare bones because wargame campaigns relied heavily on either how reality worked or how it was described in fiction. So if somebody wanted know how far they could jump, then they would look at sports statistics and knowing that a 10 Strength was average figure out what a 15 strength character could do from there. This can be seen in the attitude that Gygax, Arneson, and other referees of the era have about the trend of ever more complex system. One of common answer "Why don't you just look it up in a book or encyclopedia?" Which reflects what they did back in the day.
Overall my view that this is a style of play, not THE style nor a worse style. Some folks don't have the time to the research like they had to circa 1970. They don't have the leisure time and appreciate authors that take the time to do the work and lay it out nicely in a rulebook. Bonus points if it also straightforward and quick to use and find.
It helpful to have a through rulebook when the players and referees are novices as well.
But it doesn't change the fact that for many OD&D does work 'as is'. But it helps to understands the early 70s wargaming mindset to better understand what OD&D does and does not do as a system. In that context OD&D is fine 'as is'.
*One of the few commercially available ruleset for wargaming was Chainmail. Because of that it will well-known among the small wargaming community of the early 70s. Because it focus on medieval combat, along with the fantasy addenum, and also because Gygax was one of the author. It was mention for use with OD&D as a resource to use.
Jun 28 '21"I have played at tables running B/X or Holmes and, like always if the DM was good the game was good."
There is an element of truth to this that, however, obfuscates an important fact. I'll illustrate by way of analogy.
I know a person here who does magical things with wood to the point I call him "the wood whisperer". I have seen him create wonderful works of art with a pen knife and a repurposed screwdriver. So obviously that's all you need for woodworking, right? Because in the right hands a pen knife and a screwdriver are great woodworking tools!
Wrong.
He wouldn't even agree with that. His workshop has about, conservatively guessing, 50 gazillion chisels alone: not one of which is a repurposed screwdriver.
The fact that a good craftsman *can* make miracles with subpar tools doesn't mean that a) they should, or b) they'd want to.
Yes, some truly great campaigns have been run with Gary Gygax's dross, whether that was OD&D, AD&D, or even ... I don't know ... Cyborg Commando. But every time I hear of these, I wonder inside (and sometimes vocally) how much better they could have been had the GM been using tools that aided him in success instead of gaining success despite the tools at hand.
You're a musician. Imagine being told "a good enough musician can get by with a penny whistle" and as a result being forced to only ever do music with a penny whistle. That penny whistle is the OSR as it presents itself in my eyes.
Jun 28 '21Core takeaway. " I think there is room for the OSR concept: simple, fun-focused, hack-and-slash or exploration-oriented, pick-up-and-play games that also have room for depth and soul but that don't have a need for the millions of pages of rules for every contingency." My OSR experience starts with Rules Cyclopedia. I have earlier rulesets but only to collect and browse. I have played at tables running B/X or Holmes and, like always if the DM was good the game was good.
Jun 28 '21I think part of the thought process behind love of OSR is players remembering their early experiences and how much they loved the game when they started playing. The problem is that each of these players is remembering the game as it was played at their table and it was played differently at every table.
Jun 28 '21I've never actually used the full Cyclopedia, but I did follow the Basic/Expert/whatever the next level was called stack up to that point and found it pretty decent. It was a bit limiting and had some things that really grated on me (like "elf" being a class, or "dwarf") but the information presentation was good and the system was mostly clean, if limited in scope.
It did lack, however, things that other games had (like elves who weren't 100% fighter/magic-users!:D), like that coherent framework for governing situations not specified in the rules. I understand that was finally added on much later, but by then I was already tearing through dozens of other games and really had left D&D behind entirely.
What I really want from an "Old School Revolution" is something that has that simple, pick-up-quick vibe of the Basic/Expert/whatever chain but informed by nearly half a century of subsequent game design. Something with a single core mechanism, say, that covers combat, social situations (like hiring henchmen, or bargaining), physical feats, etc. in a single unifying mechanism.
Like, say, the Cepheus line of rules. Those are looking pretty nice these days.
Jun 29 '21@ZDL
1) My overall thesis is that the initial release of OD&D was sufficiently coherent for its audience. And unlike 15 years ago, we have folks like Jon Peterson who done the research and documented what was going on. Which is often at odds with what people remember.
The problem with OD&D is that it quickly escaped the confines of that audience. Gygax and TSR played catch up throughout the 70s as a result.
2) I am not sure how you read "Rules for everything" in my comments on what good for novices. But I think we can agree that if you want to write a book that teaches people who never gamed how to play tabletop roleplaying, then you have to more than just be a concise reference for a system however simple or complex it may be.
Original OD&D was not written for novices to the miniature wargaming hobby at the time.
Jun 29 '21@ZDL
As for the format of OD&D, of course it could be better. We are fifty years in and as a hobby and industry we learned a lot about how to explain and present OD&D.
THE issue of OD&D is that it assume the reader is part of the miniature wargaming community of the early 70s. If the reader wasn't then it a lot of important context was lost.
For that audience, OD&D was a superior presentation compared to what was currently available. It far more coherent than the other rulebooks for miniature wargaming that I read from that time period.
To say that Gygax should have done better assume that he had knew or planned for his game to spread beyond the miniature wargaming community.
Nor is comparing it to publishing standards outside of the wargaming community valid. The wargaming community of the time was it own world and publisher did what they could with the time and budget they had.
And today in 2021, we know so much more about what happening and what was being done. Thanks to collectors zines, games, and other material from the era has been found and documented.
As a result OD&D wasn't some poor first attempt but an important step and revolutionary in its own right. And because we have things better documented we can fill in the missing context and enjoy the game 'as is'.
And to clear there is no "lost' manuscript of missing rules out there. No additional rules. What documented that referee of the time used the rules as a framework and added their own research.
Jun 29 '21@Hairlarry
"Do you have any handle on pre D&D rules sets, scans or text files? Thanks."
I would sign up for the OD&D discussion forum or one of the old school facebook groups. There is https://www.acaeum.com/
Also the Comeback Inn for Arneson and Blackmoor.
https://blackmoor.mystara.net/forums/
Prepare to be disappointed if you are looking for rules. The pre-D&D manuscript are pretty much what in the 3 LBBs of OD&D but specific details added or omitted as Gygax tried out things in his Greyhawk campaign.
Or in some cases some enterprising playtester got a copy and make their own take.
Don't get me wrong it is interesting and worthwhile to read and discuss about. But in the end in my opinion it all amount to what I outlined before. They thought of something to play, did the research, assembled or wrote some rules, played, tweaked and played again. Then repeat for something else.
Because of that most of what there are references, charts, and tables that supported this stuff. Everything else was word of mouth or ad-hoc inspiration.
Dungeons and Dragons RPG collectible database. Printing information, cover scans, estimated values, etc for the D&D collecting hobby.
Jun 28 '21"It helpful to have a through rulebook when the players and referees are novices as well."
More helpful is a coherent core system upon which people can hang consistent decisions.
I mean I EXPLICITLY SAID that "having a rule for everything" was insanity.
There is a huge difference between "having a rule for everything" and "having a rules framework that can cover everything".
Perhaps it might be best to read what you're replying to before you churn out two responses almost as long each as the original piece? You might not then feel the need to 'splain history I mentioned I was there for most of. Or to answer issues already addressed in the piece.
Jun 28 '21(I note also that you utterly failed to address another key point: that even within the milieu of the time, OD&D's writing was INCOHERENT ROT. It was crap writing just from straight information presentation perspectives.)
Jun 28 '21Thanks to everyone for their comments. Looks like we've got a hot button issue here. All opinions welcome. Please share.
Jun 28 '21Specifically for ZDL. I started on Rules Cyclopedia and a mix of that with AD&D. Do you think that Rules Cyclopedia, the whole game in one book, accomplished it's task? By the time it was published everyone knew there was mass market potential.
Jun 28 '21robertsconley - I played Gettysburg and other war games in the sixties but I was never in a club. Then I skipped forward to Rules Cyclopedia and AD&D because, life. Vivian aka sound played fantasy role playing with miniatures in the early seventies from some of the mimeograph sheets you mentioned. This was in Beebe, Arkansas. Carl helped us research on the internet and we found a war gaming club with a zine that had three or four pages about fantasy role playing. This was pre D&D. Do you have any handle on pre D&D rules sets, scans or text files? Thanks.
Jun 29 '21@robertsconley "Thanks to collectors zines, games, and other material from the era has been found and documented." This is what interests me. Do you have links, book titles, ...?
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I recommend right off
Playing at the World by Peterson.
Warning: Very Academic and very through.
Hawk and Moor by Kelly
Gets more into the personalities not as academically rigorous as Playing at the World but far more readable and approachable.
The Elusive Shift by Peterson
Documents what happened to the hobby after the introduction of Dungeons and Dragons. It charts the emerging concept of tabletop roleplaying as something distinct from wargaming.
Also more relevant to how the hobby is today than the pre-D&D era because of the fact that D&D was written with an audience of miniature wargamers in mind. As a result everybody outside of that like hex and counter wargamers and science fiction fandom developed their own interpretation of what the game meant. And the consequences of these interpretations remain to us this day.
And it documents those who have some of the exact same objection about OD&D that that ZDL's article has. As well responses to those objections.
Jun 29 '21No problem, I don't expect folks to always agree with me but folks should be aware of the wealth of documented history we now have. That it is there for folks to read and draw their own conclusions if interested.
Jun 29 '21> Original OD&D was not written for novices to the miniature wargaming hobby at the time.
Again, *I KNOW THIS*. This is why OD&D is *NOT* a good thing to fall back on for "simplicity". It is literally a set of guidelines written for a very small group of people in a very narrow area who'd been presumed to know certain things already (like Arneson's long-running proto-RPG campaigns), who had access to specific rulesets (Chainmail, chiefly), and thus knew what Gygax was talking about once you got through his absolutely terrible writing.
My thesis wasn't "OD&D was a bad thing for its time and place". It wasn't (Gygax's writing notwithstanding). It's a bad thing for *NOW*.
The goals of the OSR are laudable. Their weird worship of an incoherent mass of lore is not one of those laudable things. That is the point.
Jun 30 '21Thanks that clarifies the thesis of your original post.
As for folks and OD&D in the present, what you are not taking into account is that w now know about that "small group of people in a narrow area".
It not a mystery to the OD&D community and more than a few folks including myself wrote out about it.
For example Philotomy's Musings.
http://www.grey-elf.com/philotomy.pdf
Or Finch's Old School Primer
https://www.lulu.com/...age=1&pageSize=4
Folks talked to folks who ran successful OD&D campaign from back in the day and the few that continued to present.
It not 1995, when people only had the 3 LBB to go by and scratched their head at what looked like a incoherent mass of lore. By 2005 those who didn't dismiss OD&D found out there was more to its story, including myself.
By 2015 that story had become well known enough that folks figured out and expanded on the different ways to approach OD&D and it had regained some popularity and was supported again. Largely because OD&D did not turned out as incoherent as people thought.
So unless what had happened for past 20 years is addressed I don't see how a thesis that OD&D is a bad fit for *NOW* can be supported.
Jun 30 '21I think I'm going to just start replying by quoting things already said that you apparently didn't bother reading.
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I know a person here who does magical things with wood to the point I call him "the wood whisperer". I have seen him create wonderful works of art with a pen knife and a repurposed screwdriver. So obviously that's all you need for woodworking, right? Because in the right hands a pen knife and a screwdriver are great woodworking tools!
Wrong.
He wouldn't even agree with that. His workshop has about, conservatively guessing, 50 gazillion chisels alone: not one of which is a repurposed screwdriver.
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's statusOne of the interesting things that has been brought up is "aulde skoole" gaming and its fond veneration in some memories. It's my opinion (as someone who started in 1977 with the "blue book" edition) that a lot of people are using seriously pink-tinted lenses when thinking back to those early days.
Which sounds to me like a new kind of blog entry: a historical deep dive.
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hairylarry commented on their statusMixed parties.
D&D games today tend to have parties where all the PCs are at the same level. Often the whole party takes an evening to level up.
In earlier times parties were often mixed. Leveling up was done per person based on XP and XP was doled out by the DM at the end of the evening based on PC performance. Players took notes to remind the DM, I killed that troll or I cast that spell trying to maximize XP earned. Also different classes leveled up at different XP so there was almost never an entire party leveling up at the same time. This took a lot of bookkeeping but that's the kind of geeks we were.
Also when a PC was killed the player would roll a new character at level 1. So a party of four could have a level 3 thief, a level 4 fighter, a level 2 wizard, and a level 1 cleric. (Who used to be the best fighter until he died.)
I like this. It adds a certain grittiness to the game and it certainly affects battle tactics. But when I wrote Just Quest as a minimal rules OSR I wrote, "The characters level up on successful completion of a quest". A simple rule for a game designed to be easy to play.
Where do you stand on this? Do you enjoy playing in mixed parties? If you're a DM do you try to keep your parties at about the same level or do you embrace the idea of mixed parties?
We may discuss this on Inspired Unreality Monday night or we may just drink some tea with the Milyagon witch and see what happens next.Jun 20 '2110 0
Jun 18 '21I think this is a cool aspect of old school games that isn't common anymore. I love the grittiness of it, and the mixed levels never bothered me when I played. I remember even having some guest players over who brought over their level 9 character to our 5th level campaign. It never bothered us.
That said, for a dungeon master it's much easier to do milestone leveling and have all the players be the same level. It's a lot less to keep up with, and certainly for writing adventures I think it takes a load off the DM if they only have to worry about writing it for 4-6 players of 3rd level, than 4-6 players of 2nd-5th level.
Jun 18 '21Less bookkeeping for players too. Pencil and paper used to be required. And tasks were assigned. Map making, accounting, ...
Jun 18 '21There are several aspects of old school games I like, most notably the increased diversity that randomness tended to cause.
The wildly divergent capabilities of characters, however, was not one of them. In the presence of most GMs, having the weakest character meant a) dying, or b) not having anything to do. Neither of these is really conducive to enjoyment.
There are a handful of GMs I've met in my life who could give equal "screen time" to characters of wildly divergent capabilities, but those are few and far between.
Mixing levels amplifies this already-existing problem tenfold in my books. (Never mind that levels measure nothing meaningful in D&D; that's a rant for another day.) If you're the first level magic user in a group of 3-5th level other things, your entire gaming session consists of cowering in the corner and hoping you don't get noticed. You have nothing you can do that helps anybody (unless you're lucky enough to have gotten Sleep -- in which case you got to do one thing that might have slightly contributed), and this will also very badly impact your ability to level up to a point where you can be useful.
Jun 19 '21Points well taken. (and I really want to hear your rant for another day, that levels measure nothing meaningful in D&D.) Some things a DM can do to address your points are to start the new character at second or third level but still in the bottom ranks of the party. Level the character up quickly by adjudicating extra XP for doing well in spite of the low level disadvantage. Help the low level character out with found spells or magic armor/weapons.
Jun 19 '21And then there's the whole non combat side. The role playing, puzzle solving, exploration part where characters of all levels are more equal and the results depend more on the player than on PC stats. And DMs can award XP for good performance in non combat situations.
Jun 19 '21There is a built in premise in OSR games. PCs need XP to level up. You get XP by killing monsters. So, let's go kill some monsters. At a lot of tables that is the game. To me, it's a side show and as I get older I run more games that are all exploration and role play without any combat at all.
Jun 20 '21Liz wrote: "Just wanted to add something since I'm not sure i can even make it Monday. Mom at one point started a drop-in drop-out/open play DCC campaign (it didn't last very long due to where we lived) so I have a little experience.
What she did was give each player that was there their 4 level 0 characters for the funnel. After that, we all picked a character to level to level 1. The idea would be that it took 1 game to get to level 1, 2 additional games to get to level 2, 3 games for level 3, etc.
If a player was to have their character die, they'd start again with either 4 level 0s or a level 1.
So figuring out when you level is easy, since you only have to count the number of games you were able to play in. But you would still eventuality get level differences, as players die or miss games (again, this was supposed to be for open play)"
Jun 20 '21I'd like to add that in the oldest of old school most of your XP came from earning treasure not killing monsters. Which means two things 1. You don't have to fight that big bad monster if there was a way around it to get the treasure behind it. and 2. Your lower level character would level very rapidly because of the amount of gold the higher level party was able to procure.
I appreciate the comments about mixed level parties being difficult to adjudicate for. But one thing that is different for old school (unless I am mistaken they changed this in later editions) is that any magic user could use any scroll. Even if they are not high enough level to cast that spell. So if you have a low level wizard among your 5th level parties dropping a few scrolls changes the whole dynamic.
Jun 20 '21I didn't know that. When I mentioned scrolls I was thinking of more spells per day not stronger spells. Also when I was first playing D&D we got almost all our hit points from killing monsters just because the game wasn't treasure oriented. Generally speaking group XP is always the lion's share and will help low level characters level up fast.
Jun 21 '21You may level up quicker sure.
Provided you don't get instakilled by the first creature larger than a kitten that takes a swipe at you.
Provided you don't get BORED being relegated to the sideline for multiple grueling hours of watching OTHER PEOPLE have fun.
I mean my calculus is simple: I play games for fun. If I'm not having fun, I don't go to that game anymore. I don't plan fun on spec. It's fun out the door or I move on.
The non-combat things that hairylarry mentioned can ameliorate this, but in my experience those tended to be few and far between in most campaigns. You'd have a short time in the village talking to the villagers and then it's the next fifteen sessions in the dungeon.
There are a great many things to praise in the old school. The way mixed-level parties worked was not one of them. Some GMs could figure it out. Most couldn't, leaving the low-levelled character's player bored and/or frustrated and, very likely, absent next week.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their blog postChicken Scratch NotesI've been working on the chicken scratch for Ari's book of teas and potions.
m = ^
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v = v
t = +
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d = /o = ou = uw = w
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Jun 11 '21I checked on Discord. The ingredients for the second tea blend are lavender, rose hips, rose buds, and mint. Maybe it's a mood elevator and maybe it's a love potion.You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusWow, just realized that this month marks 38 years since I graduated high school....
I started playing D&D 6 years before that, so 44 years of D&D and I still can't get enough.May 24 '213 1sound likes this
May 26 '21I started roll playing in the early 70s which was very different than Gary Gygax's D&D. We convened in the Arkansas State Beebe Student Union when we had the time and picked miniatures from whatever was available. The rules were typed on letter paper and were mimeograph or Xerox copies.You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusThis week I took the plunge and tried my first serious effort at solo RPG play.
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Apr 25 '21We've discussed solo play here before. I guess I'll have to try it to get it. I am definitely into 1 DM and 1 player. Viv and I did that for an Ari and Caper adventure. Ari, the PC, had a smart wild cat, Tude, for a pet. Her sidekick, Caper, was an NPC so I ran the game and 1 NPC in the party and Viv ran Ari and Tude. That really worked well.
Apr 25 '21Just had an interesting listen. Gamers chuckdee and Peter_R are both into solo gaming. https://archive.gamerplus.org/groups/7
A group to discuss solo tabletop gaming.
Apr 26 '21I use a system called "Mythic" as a capstone system to do solo RP. It works quite well, the really cringe-inducing illustrations notwithstanding.
Apr 26 '21(I reviewed it here: https://archive.gamerplus.org/blogs/218)
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hairylarry commented on their statusMegan and I shared our twitch experience, to date, last night on Inspired Unreality.Apr 25 '211 0
Apr 25 '21My twitch experience is broadening. Mostly technically. I got a newer tablet and two lights for the studio. I've also put into place post production work flow and backups. I ordered 2 4TB drives cause I'm gonna need them.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's photoI got this new game on Sunday last, got a chance to play it today. And, unlike most strategy games I play against SO, I won! 😂
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Apr 12 '21The game is a prettier version of the game Gobblet, it turns out. (https://www.boardspace.net/gobblet/english/gobblet_rules.pdf) Each player has three stacks of nesting cylinders (12 pieces total) and the board is 4×4. In alternating turns each player may choose one of:
1. Take the TOP piece of an off-board stack (i.e. the largest) and place it on a blank space.
2. As #1, but place it over (any, regardless of colour) SMALLER piece already on the board.
3. Move any showing piece of that player's colour to a blank space on the board.
4. As #3, but place it over a smaller piece.
The goal is to get four in a row of your own colour: horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. If you touch any piece in play that you can play (on the board, not in your stacks), you *must* play it. If lifting up a piece reveals a line of four of the opposing colour, and your move doesn't stop that line of four from completing, you lose. (In other words there's a memory component to the game.)
It's fast (a long game is 15 minutes) and it's simple to learn. It may be a perfect "we've got a few spare minutes, let's play!" game.
Apr 13 '21It's suited to fairly young children, yet has depth that kept two adults playing a few times on the first trial.
Apr 14 '21Or maybe a grandparent and grandchild. In our hopefully soon post pandemic world.
Apr 15 '21Hi ZDL, how are you? Sounds like you have been busy. We have been doing a little rearranging here. Seems like we do it every spring. Makes the house feel enough different that we enjoy the effort. Hope you have some time to enjoy the rest of the week.
Apr 17 '21I'm less busy at work now (back to five day weeks) so much more busy over weekends finally. :DYou need to sign in to comment -
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Apr 10 '21I liked it too. Looks like we're going up against a Frost Giant. Gonna have to be clever. The direct approach doesn't seem wise.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their blog postFour WebcomicsHere's four webcomics that I like and some of them even have something to do with gaming.
I don't like rom com movies much. In fact I don't like movi...Apr 4 '218 0
Mar 28 '21I used to read OOTS almost compulsively. It's been around for a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.
I'll check out the other ones starting with Gunnerkrigg.
Mar 29 '21Do you have any other favorite webcomics? I love that part where you're going through the archives and it seems like the goodness will never end. But before you notice you're waiting for the next episode and you only get to enjoy one or two episodes at a time.
Mar 29 '21There was one I enjoyed (Sluggy Freelance) until it went a bit too far off the rails for my tastes.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on ZDL's photoMy last set of literal gem dice. This is my favourite semi-precious stone: bloodstone. This gives me a full set of unakite (selected because it's basically indestructible, being essentially granite), a full set of bloodstone, and a "mongrel" set of a variety of stones (shown earlier). And a full set of dice made from dichromic prisms.
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusIn last Sunday's game the party assaulted a castle full of hobgoblins and goblins.
Emulating Battle In Roll20
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Mar 20 '21We just took on the Black Knight in Heroes and Wizards who came out of his tomb to fight us as both a wraith and a zombie skeleton. Needless to say our party of both Heroes and Wizards dispatched both of them and then discovered that in his library were documents proving the King's specious claims to the throne!You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their photoHere's my icosahedron. It's part of my recording studio, acoustic room, vocal booth, out of control room. I'm going to make a sign that says Roll To Hit. A double double-entendre.
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Mar 15 '21I know it's counter intuitive but dodecahedrons are 12 siders and icosahedrons are 20 siders.
Mar 15 '21But you mentioned "icosahedron with the hieroglyphs" in my gem dice picture and that's a 12-sider.
Mar 15 '21My mistake. Glancing at the photo I thought it was a 20 sider. So what are the hieroglyphs for, anyway?You need to sign in to comment -
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Mar 14 '21That's an astrology d12: those are the sun signs or whatever those are called. The stone for that one is "blue sandstone". In person the stone has odd depths. The gold flecks are such that they give the illusion of being layered. Quite nice.
The d4 is a stone I can't find the English term for: it's literal translation is "natural black wood grain gemstone". It *might* be a petrified wood, but if it is it's smoother and more amorphous than any of those I've ever seen.
The d6 is blue turquoise (sintered, obviously: a real chunk that size would cost more than a car!), the d8 is a brown tiger eye, the 0-9 is lapis lazuli, the 00-90 is something that translates as "red sandstone" -- it's gold-flecked like the blue one -- the d12 is opal, and the d20 is green malachite.
The d6 with the weird glyphs in the foreground is something translated as "colourful jade" and that's one half of a pair of Tibetan divination dice. (The other half is still being etched. It will be made of "egg yolk opal".)You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their blog postGamer+ News March 8, 2021After a couple of fun chat sessions we are returning to Ember tonight for some more actual play. The Chronicles Of Ember is set in a unique role playi...Mar 9 '214 0
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hairylarry commented on Aqualith's blog postAn open invite!Hi all,
I know I've been a bit absent from Gamer+, but hoping to change that in the near future starting... now!
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Vivian, Liz, and I were joined by Alan and Dice Master last night on Inspired Unreality. Besides the importance of NPCs we also discussed AI, WOW, and Minecraft. Not surprisingly, everyone had opinions.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusRelated To Geeks Podcast
February 15, 2021
What players love. What players hate. What DMs love. What DMs hate.
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Feb 26 '21Well, 2020 was a year of two months of terror followed by 9 months of 6-day workweeks, so glad to see the back end of that year going away.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusWe weren't able to play Chronicles Of Ember Monday at Inspired Unreality so Liz and Viv and I had a nice visit. Some of it about gaming.Feb 25 '212 0
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusThe newest video in my series, Roll20 For The Absolute Beginner.
Roll20 For The Absolute Beginner No. 23 - Making Links
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's photoSometimes the crystal is dark and inspiration hard to find. Keep trying, ideas will flow again.
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Feb 24 '21Sometimes the muse is amusing. Sometimes you've just got to do something else for awhile.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusMy thoughts on Getting Started with Science Fiction RPGs.
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Feb 23 '21I used to have real trouble with SF as a gaming genre outside of space opera. The solution turned out to be in the very problem statement.
As you identified, there's just so much bewildering *variety* in science fiction in terms of genres, tones, scales, et al that it's almost, but not quite, a useless term.
Once I figured out that the reason I had problems with the genre outside of space opera was precisely because space opera is a very specific subset of science fiction, the rest fell into place: now I don't play science fiction games. I play "space exploration". Or "world settlement". Or "interplanetary trade". The key was always in my hand, without my recognizing it: focus.
Nice article that brings back so many years of frustration and its eventual resolution for me.
Feb 24 '21I didn't really understand SF gaming until I played in RoboG's game. I went for a computer technician and loved making up all kinds of stuff with cyber jargon. It's like you get to be a hacker without having to do all the work. Essentially every computer, data jack, cable, or robot became a path to more information. I enjoyed that.You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's photoHurray! Not sure what time this happened, but thank you to all you re-tweeted and especially to all who subbed. I took the day off work, so I'll put out a video later today.
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Feb 6 '21I think I recognise this place out of a book I read. It's an abandoned haunted city with these exact monsters. Now if I could only remember the book. Maybe in Wheel Of Time? I know, that doesn't narrow things down a lot.
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Shadar Logoth, (Old Tongue: Place Where the Shadow Waits, or simply The Shadow's Waiting, pronounced: SHAH-dahr LOH-goth), was once Aridhol, a great city which destroyed itself during the Trolloc Wars by becoming as dark and evil as the Shadow against which it fought. Now Mashadar, a shapeless...You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusI'm interested in feedback.
I'm working on a master spreadsheet of gear & supplies price list for D&D and other fantasy RPGs.
I copied all the items from most/nearly all of the RPG PDFs I have to get the most common items.
I plan to add links to explain what some of the more obscure items are.
It will have things like the standard name of the item and price, but also size & weight, capacity for containers & wagons, and range and damage for weapons, and AC for armor.
All the things that always come up in play in one spot so players can see it
Availability, how common it is, prices for varying quality are also things I am considering.
The idea is a tool that the players will use to free up GM time, and will be a tool the GM can use in Session Prep.
If there is something you think should be on here, please let me know.
For example, something you've needed to buy in game and the GM had to come up with it.
One thing I just thought of that I should consider, is the price of bulk goods, like grain, flour, lumber, ore, furs/pelts, etc. That would make it useful for planning various forms of treasure/wealth to be gained.
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Feb 7 '21Would you post this as an online reference or maybe a pdf file. Also would be good in spreadsheet format so it's easy to add/modify for a specific game or campaign. If we could only regain all the time we spent at the table paging through books looking for a niggling stat. Or you can just do like me and make up crap on the spot. The most common origin for house rules is making up crap on the spot and then it sticks.
Feb 8 '21I plan to put up a PDF & spreadsheet on DTRPG when it's "done". A spreadsheet will make it so much more user friendly.
Making stuff up is great, if you can remember it or write it down for later.
I want this to also spur creativity in players and GMs to come up with their own things.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusI don't know why my brain comes up with game related acronyms so easily.
BASIC:
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hairylarry commented on MyrddinWyllt's statusI've been running a game of Lords of Olympus for the last 5 months. If anyone here likes Greek Mythology and enjoys the idea of playing Gods and Demigods in an infinite Multiverse I would highly recommend it.Feb 7 '2111 1hairylarry likes this
Nov 15 '20I suppose it could work as a One Shot... But the game seems to work better as a campaign.
Feb 6 '21Nope. It has two strikes against it: first it's based on Amber which is really not my cup of tea, second it was made by someone who I would never wish to support financially in any way.
I like Precis Intermedia, the publisher, but one of the authors Brett Bernstein champions leaves me absolutely cold.
Feb 6 '21There was (ages ago!) an RPG based on Zelazny's books. This is the same system, just retooled for Greek mythology.
Feb 7 '21So I guess it's the Amber game system you don't like. The Amber books are great. SF/Fantasy adventure narrative. One issue with the book is that the protagonist is actually Hitler or should I say was Hitler since the series starts just after that unfortunate episode (from the point of view of the Amberites). The reason I don't think the magic system is good for RPGs is because walking in shadows and walking the pattern are solitary endeavors so it's diffiucult for a party when every time the magic system is invoked they go their seperate ways. Maybe ok for a single player and a GM.
Feb 7 '21Yes, I meant the Amber game specifically, yes. I really didn't like it at all, and this game is that same game with a Grecian skin.
Feb 7 '21It's actually somewhat different. The Magic is different, the setting is different and the rules are based more on the unpublished Amber 2e. As to Pundit, I agree with not liking him, like at all. However I really like his games which by and large are divorced from his idiotic nonsense.
Feb 8 '21I have no opinion on the quality of his games because no money will ever leave my hands to buy them, nor will any of my valuable time be wasted on examining them.
I generally don't buy from people I despise.You need to sign in to comment -
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Feb 5 '21There's a whole poem about things that should and shouldn't rhyme that don't and do respectively.
http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
English is a failed experiment. We need to find a better language!
Feb 6 '21That's cool. I got to the second verse and I had to express my pet peeve about the Wheel Of Time books. There is a major city called Tear. But how is it pronounced? How hard world it have been to spell it Teer or Tare? What was Robert Jordon thinking? How can I be nitpicking such a fantasy classic? Well ... I can.
Feb 6 '21Synchronicty is running strong this morning. Anyway I added Chaos to MixRemix. https://mixremix.cc/...erard-nolst-trenite/
Feb 6 '21When I was teaching oral English (16 years!) I had a standing challenge: if you could recite The Chaos (reading or memorized, I didn't care!) without a mistake you got an automatic A and didn't have to come back to class ever.
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Feb 6 '21This also is so cool I'm trying to derive the origin. Openings to the center of the Earth at the North Pole and the South Pole. The Bermuda Triangle. But what are the two cliff formations?You need to sign in to comment
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Feb 6 '21I love the stonework defenses. Is this a photo or a painting? I see the warriors on guard but then I see a couple of people in modern dress. Do you know the origin?You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on MyrddinWyllt's statusSo I have bee roped into running Hollow Earth Expedition. Luckily I really like the game. I just hope that I have a better time running it than that aborted attempt years ago.Feb 6 '213 0
Feb 6 '21I had it (in its first edition, I think?) and liked it and couldn't get anybody else interested in playing it. :(
Feb 6 '21Is it based on "Journey To The Center Of The Earth" or is it just inspired by it?You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusIf you have data on your computer you consider important, now is a great time to back it up!
I use Backblaze online backup for $6.00 per month. If my PC dies and the hard drives fail, I can get my data back.
All my RPG stuff in electronic format, including my blog backups are all safe!
You can get a free month and help me get a free month if you decide to buy the service using my link:
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Jan 31 '21Good backups are essential. My brother uses a similar service called Carbonite and he swears by it.
Feb 1 '21I'm never sure so I back up all of our home directories. We mainly use Xubuntu Linux so that's all of our personal data. I back up in house to two backup servers. I rsync everything to one server with 11 TB. I am working on my second server using a backup program called Restic. I recommend this approach only if you are a retired computer consultant who builds machines for fun and is always looking for something to do with them. I'm literally surrounded by computers. To my right is the Hairy Larry Rocks server running Yunohost. https://hairylarry.rocks To my left is my HP workstation where I do most of my work and my MixRemix server running a LAMP stack. http://mixremix.cc And in front of me is my proxy server directing web traffic for my server subnet and an extra big UPS to keep things running when the lights go out. If you don't really understand everything I'm talking about here you might want to use an online backup service like Follow Me And Die does. (I'm not just a gaming geek, I'm a computer geek too.) Cheers!
Feb 2 '21SO has set up something that backs up my personal stuff onto a network thing every hour and that thing itself backs up the critical stuff to Baidu Cloud daily.
He did this the day after he had to spend three weeks painstakingly recovering a decade of pictures from a hard disk that broke... :-/
Feb 2 '21Yep, the only thing harder than making good backups is not making backups. It's not if you lose your data it's when. I don't know how many times I've preached this. When I would take on a new client the first thing I made them do was put a backup system in place. And then I would check it. I wouldn't do anything until then because I have been known to make mistakes too. The last thing I wanted to happen was them telling people that their new computer guy lost their data.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusSome musings on solving challenges with less combat.
https://followmeanddie.com/2021/01/26/non-combat-solutions/Feb 2 '2111 2ZDL and hairylarry like this
Jan 27 '21I like to write non combat modules or combat light modules where there is a possibility of combat but it isn't baked in.
Fortunately Vivian likes to play non combat.
For many players the combat is the game. I'm with you. I avoid combat. And when I do combat I prefer tactics, plan B, tricks and general sneakiness.
But if I'm at a table where the players love combat. Roll for initiative.
Thanks
Jan 27 '21I had my Great Awakening in the early '80s, and that actually led me away from the D&D family because so many people not only just assumed combat, but assumed combat to the death with no quarter, no fleeing: just grinding down hit points to 0 on one side or the other then moving on to the next hit point grind.
Jan 28 '21And D&D doesn't have to be played that way but it is common. And more common in 5e with more powerful characters out of the box and death saves.
Jan 29 '21Yes, I know it didn't have to be. :( My "great awakening" was the realization that there was more to life than rolling d20+d<damage> non-stop. But I couldn't find others who thought that way in the AD&D circles I frequented, so I moved on to DragonQuest (where I knew players who did non-combat).
Jan 30 '21As a DM who got involved in the early days of roll playing I tried to prohibit the idea that if you were in combat it must end with somebody dead. The thought that maybe this situation could be resolved by talking through it rather than hacking and slashing wasn't usually employed. I often docked points from those who just wanted to kill without any other choices made available. Real life sometimes seems to follow that route now and then and I think using it as entertainment is just asking for increasing bad choices in our youth.
Jan 30 '21I think the problem was that a lot of early role-players stepped into it from the world of war gaming. (I didn't.) I'm positive a lot of the people I gamed with in the early days just viewed the characters as complicated playing pieces to optimize the movements of, not as characters in a setting.
Jan 31 '21And that's the kind of combat I like to play. Where you use strategy and work as a team to win the combat. If that means they run away or surrender you still win. But I prefer avoiding combat most of all and as a player try to roll dice as least as I can.
Jan 31 '21Yeah, figuring out how not to use all your resources in one fight so you have enough to accomplish your goal. Less fighting leads to less time wasting healing up and going back to town empty handed.
Feb 1 '21Especially if there is a time element. You must retrieve the potion before the full moon to keep your friend from turning into a werewolf ... Can't waste time fighting and healing. Let's figure out a way to sneak around those kobolds.
Feb 2 '21I agree and I build it into my modules when I can. For instance the party was tasked with gathering medicine and with the people in the neighboring village sick they needed it by tomorrow. In my latest quest the party has to get a branch off the ancestor tree in a magic forest with about a bajillion hills and a big old tree at the top of every one. The catch was the ancestor tree glowed with a fey glow when the moon was full. So you know that only happens every 28 days so they had to be in the right place at the right time.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on sound's statusWinter is upon us and it's a good thing to have distractions like Gamer+ to help us keep busy and active. Hope all of you are staying warm and content. ... Sound.
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Jan 28 '21It snowed here last week. But it didn't stick. Anymore we go through a lot of winters without snow. And then there was the ice storm where everybody lost electric for weeks.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on sound's statusFairy tales have always drawn my interest. They can be so far out there that I just shake my head or on the other hand they can garner not only my interest but my desire to participate in the story.
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Jan 17 '21Fey fantasy has a different feel than medieval fantasy but still the two worlds interface quite well. In the "Lyonesse Trilogy" Jack Vance writes of a medieval civilization with enchanted woods where the fairies live. The heroine, Madouc, is a changling who is half fey by birth.You need to sign in to comment -
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Jan 17 '21This is a rather head scratching pic for me. The robin seems to be perfectly calm or maybe it is just so stunned and perplexed it can't move.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's status古琴电音，赛博朋克！《大夏2049》时运多艰，人力不弃！天真·自得3.0——自得琴社跨年音乐会live - YouTube《大夏》原是上古时期歌颂夏禹治水之乐舞。昔洪水天降，生灵罹难。禹治山河，以利黔首。而今临时疫，万力同心。苦雨终晴，斗转尽昼。枯木前迹，万木待春。生生不息，是谓大德。今以此为感，重拟新声。作曲：唐彬 编曲：梅卓、郑琳电古琴：唐彬 电子音乐：梅卓 原声古琴：白无瑕 古筝：蔡珊琵琶：古津宁 ...Jan 9 '213 1hairylarry likes this
Jan 9 '21This group does recreations of ancient works, new works done in ancient styles, modern-style orchestration with ancient instruments, and off-the-wall stuff like one of their orchestral pieces where a didgeridoo is a prominent instrument.
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hairylarry liked sound's statusAs Winter approaches I think about how I can best use my time. I am house bound and if it weren't for the Internet expanding my walls I think it might become even more tedious. I miss getting to visit with my kids and grand kids and with friends far and near. Thanks to phones and other communication devices I have managed to stay in touch. Hoping Covid becomes a thing of the past soon and we can enjoy the company of family and friends once again.Jan 5 '210 1hairylarry likes thisYou need to sign in to comment
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Jan 3 '21Wow! Powerful writing. I experienced similar things. Vivian fell and broke her leg and knee in December, 2019. Just when she was in therapy covid hit. We went immediately into voluntary quarantine. Our Friday night family game run by my son Kier turned into a Friday night virtaul game. Then we started a Tuesday afternoon game run by my son Carl. This probably wouldn't have happened without the quarantine. When your only chance to interact with your grandkids is by playing D&D on Discord then you play D&D on Discord. For a long time we didn't know anyone who got covid. Then I heard about friends of friends and then a girl that used to play drums and sing in my band. Megan has been locked down a couple of times, this last time because a child at the shelter where she works tested positive. One of my grandsons got it and that family was quarantined. They're all ok now, we had a Zoom gift exchange today. Earlier in the year Megan took over the food pantry at the church. Little did she know how needed that service would become. So everybody's experience with 2020 is different but all the echoes are the same. Reading your post brought my year back to me. Thanks so much.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusSince 2020 was the year of disappointment, I'm not bothered by missing my goal of 1,000 YouTube subscribers.
I made it to 969, and today it is 970.
I think I can manage 30 subs in 12 months.
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Jan 2 '21Unless whatever 2021 has in store for us depopulates the planet to under 2000 people. But, I mean, that goes without saying.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry liked FollowMeAndDie's statusMy worldbuilding Cheatsheet just reached 300 views!
It's only been 8 days since I mentioned it hit 200 views.
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World Building Cheat Sheet by Larry Hamilton - Download free from Cheatography - Cheatography.com: Cheat Sheets For Every OccasionBuilding a world for RPGs (Role Playing Games) has several steps to consider and two general approaches for how to implement those steps. The general methods are top down and bottom up.Jan 2 '210 1hairylarry likes thisYou need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on their blog postGamer+ News December 28, 2020Inspired Unreality open game chat, tonight at 9:00 Central in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. Our opening topic will be "And Wh...Dec 30 '202 0
Dec 30 '20Well we brought the past into the present and pushed the present a little bit into the future but we still can't wait for that screen door to hit 2020 on the ass.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusI made a Worldbuilding cheatsheet on Cheatography. I didn't realize that a draft was visible until I started getting emails that it was seen 50, 100, and now 200 times.
Let me know what you think.
I've got edits in mind, but the Cheatography interface is counterintuitive
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World Building Cheat Sheet by Larry Hamilton - Download free from Cheatography - Cheatography.com: Cheat Sheets For Every OccasionBuilding a world for RPGs (Role Playing Games) has several steps to consider and two general approaches for how to implement those steps. The general methods are top down and bottom up.Dec 28 '206 1hairylarry likes this
Dec 26 '20We played Microscope on a Related to Geeks video. It is a world building RPG where you play out scenarios to build the world. Surprisingly it is top down and bottom up at the same time. And fun to play too.
Dec 28 '20Yes. The very first thing you do in a proper (non-prefab setting) Spark game is build the world. It's glossed over in my review.
Dec 29 '20How To Build a Dungeon is world building related to dungeons, but is more a mental exercise for the GM than a stand alone game.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their blog postGamer+ News December 21, 2020Inspired Unreality tonight! Open game chat. Our starting topic will be the importance of tradition in life, literature, and games.
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Dec 22 '20Ok, Dirty Santa is a new tradition in our family that we weren't able to give up so we had to play it virtually. Horsengoggle is another favorite Christmas game that I learned first divvying out extra desserts at summer camp. We ended up talking about the Girl Scout camp where Vivian helped when she was at ASU. So, good times all around.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their blog postVirtual Dirty SantaWe played Virtual Dirty Santa on Discord yesterday. We all passed the wrapped gifts around on a gameboard and then we opened them in order.
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hairylarry commented on their statusInspired Unreality open game chat tonight at 9:00 Central. Chat every Monday night in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord.Dec 15 '201 0
Dec 15 '20We had a good time last night discussing our recent family game weekend and what worked best for us. The highlights for me were the Dirty Santa game and the DCC game. Vivian like the Saturday morning chat. She's really old school.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry liked ZDL's statusSo yesterday I posed a "wrong answers only" challenge (https://archive.gamerplus.org/newsfeed/3068?ft=site) on a picture. I said that there was a gaming-related point that I'd explore later.
Later is now.
That is something that is pitched as an "eternal pen" (or sometimes "eternal pencil"). It writes like a pencil, but is about as difficult to erase as an ink pen, hence the inconsistency in names. And while not "eternal", it will outlast me. If I wrote a lot daily using only that pen, in a decade's time I might start noticing a bit of wear at the tip. If I rotate the tip as I use it—say between pages—I may not ever notice wear over the rest of my lifespan.
So how is this potentially gaming-related? This "new invention" that got a lot of press a while back (like ... 2015 or so?) is really just the latest rendition of something called "silverpoint" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverpoint) What's old is new.
Before pencils existed, metalpoint did. The metal used could be lead (hence "pencil leads" – the first pencils used lead for the core), copper, brass, or, as the name suggests, silver. The technology and tooling fell by the wayside over the years as pens that carried their own ink (instead of requiring inkwells) and erasable pencils showed up. The former were more flexible than metalpoint while the latter had the advantage, from the seller's standpoint, of constantly requiring updates. You didn't buy one and use it for decades. You bought one and used it for a few weeks and bought another. And another. And another. Also metalpoint required tough papers and was rough on the hands. (Writer's cramp is a very real problem with silverpoint...)
But now, with newer alloys, the writer's cramp angle is going away and with a cultural shift away from environmentally-hostile disposable culture, silverpoint, or a close kissing cousin, is making a comeback.
Past technologies are a gorgeous ideas mine. A lot of amazing things were made in the past that fell by the wayside for a variety of reasons, not all of them having fallen to superior alternatives. (I'd argue that silverpoint is one of these: I like my metalpoint devices like this one better than pencils. Erasure is a non-starter for me. I don't make mistakes…) As a GM, part of doing good world-building is to look at alternative courses of technological evolution. What would the world look like if metalpoint were kept as the foundational writing/drawing form? What would the world look like if shipping had expanded from junks instead of caravels? There's a huge mine of ideas in history just waiting for someone to go spelunking through it.
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hairylarry commented on their statusOpen game chat tonight in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. Opening topic Family Game. Bring your own topic. All gaming is on topic.Dec 9 '201 0
Dec 9 '20We spent an hour talking to Megan and never talked about family game. So I guess I get to recycle that one.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on sound's statusThis is my second day leading my horse Tango who has injured his leg. I am hoping this next town will have a blacksmith that can fix his shoe and hopefully knows what needs to be done about his hoof. It's been a tedious journey so far and we're both tired and hungry.Dec 9 '205 1hairylarry likes this
Dec 7 '20I'm heading to some place called Birkenstock. Not real sure where it is exactly. The guy that gave me directions told me to get on this trail and follow it till I got to the town and then to ask for the local blacksmith. Tango stepped into a hole and fell. I was sure his leg was broken but after I examined it I decided he had just injured his hoof.
Dec 8 '20Well that's convenient. Can you give me directions to his shop? Or does he call it his forge?
Dec 9 '20His forge is in Birkenstock. You can't miss his forge. Unless you miss Birkenstock.You need to sign in to comment
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Dec 8 '20There is a point to this, gaming-wise, that I'll expound upon after laughing at some of your suggestions.
This falls into the realm of "lost inventions" and those are a treasure trove of ideas for gaming.You need to sign in to comment -
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Dec 5 '20I am in the middle of my first reread of the trilogy. I read it in the late sixties so it's a wonder I can remember it at all.
Dec 6 '20Yeah, I've read it perhaps a dozen times and still find "new" things. Most likely I missed rather than forgetting since there's so much there.
Dec 6 '20Since I read the book and then over 40 years later I saw the movie some of the stuff in the movie replaced the book in my memory. Now that I'm rereading it I notice those things. The movies are a visual joy but the book tells a much better story.You need to sign in to comment
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Nov 30 '20:D I was wondering if anybody would. Some call my jokes "too subtle". Those not trying to be polite call them "terrible".
Dec 1 '20My idea of the perfect joke is one that goes over everybody's head except for one person who is Rolling On The Floor Laughing His Ass Off.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on sound's statusIt's been a while since I have run a quest. The older I get the more I forget.Nov 29 '202 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on sound's statusI need some zippity dodaday, but it hasn't shown up yet. Maybe it's dragging it's appearance in the hope I will miraculously come up with some without help.
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusBrief article using a lot of illustrations of Dave Trampier.
I had the thought, what if your next campaign only used monsters illustrated by DAT? Or build an adventure around those monsters. Something similar could be done for creatures by other artists.
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Nov 25 '20Take your inspiration from where it comes. Although it seems like a limitation to take ideas from a single artist it actually frees the DM from having to pick from everything. And during the quest your art will have consistency which is as important in a game as it is in a book.
Nov 25 '20We have the Players Handbook and the Monster Manual at the link. Really cool books. A lot of DMs took their inspiration from these books.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on sound's statusGood morning, just watched some of your feed. Which game do you think I would enjoy the most?
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hairylarry commented on their blog postThe Archive Of The White Master - basic D&D - Session 6Session notes for November 18, 2020
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Nov 23 '20Ari, curious as usual, walked over to the bed and began poking around with a walking cane she uses for many purposes including prodding things she doesn't want to touch with her hands. When she lifted the pillow at one end it puffed out a cloud of mist that had Ari jumping back quickly.
Nov 23 '20What kind of glamour is that? Lets leave till it dissipates we don't need any hocus pocus to deal with right now.
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusI published a new podcast episode.
Episode 193 - Catching Up The Story
I catch up on the story of the party for the seven sessions that have occured since the last episode.
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Nov 13 '20Our family drama is down to just me and Vivian so, fairly tame. We're playing a virtual game with kids and grandkids tonight.
Nov 16 '20Tonight on Inspired Unreality our opening topic is NPCs. 9:00 PM Central in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their blog postGamer+ News November 2, 2020Gamer+ News November 2, 2020
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Nov 2 '20Looks like I sent this out with the wrong date. No, we fell back only one hour not almost a year.You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusI've just updated my Silver Seller PDF, Locks, Vaults, and Hiding Places with a second edition that is revised and expanded.
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Oct 19 '20I bought it! Looks great. Can't wait to use it in a game. Far better than you can/can't unlock the door/chest/etc. Variety is the spice of D&D.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postFringe Review: The Terran Trade Authority Roleplaying GameThis one is a weird one folks, so strap in and get ready.
Today's game is The Terran Trade Authority Roleplaying Game (henceforth TTARPG ...Oct 9 '206 0
Oct 8 '20Probably not as bad as you say. Most people don't read most of the rule books anyway. And they're going to page forward to character generation. I agree. They shouldn't have to. And given the book I would likely give up before I found character generation. But that's me.
Oct 8 '20I think the real unanswered question is who's going to play this game? There's no established fandom or compelling feature set.
Oct 8 '20That's a mystery to me too.
In the '70s and '80s there would have been a HUGE fandom based on the popularity of the TTA books. Those books were DYNAMITE and probably helped set the feel of SF gaming despite never being directly used. (You can see a lot of TTA look and feel in Traveller...)
By 2006 there was no demand for this book and, as their attempt to rejuvenate the series would have shown them, there was no way to make demand. Anybody who wanted to game in the TTA universe was already doing so with other games--a task rendered simple by virtue of the fact that the books were almost ruthlessly focused on SPACESHIPS and installations, not people. You could fit almost any game system and it would work. Add in the terrible editing on the new book, plus the terrible information design of the game itself, and, well, there's a reason why this is a fringe game.
And believe me, it is as bad as I say. Stuff players need to make characters and actually play is mixed in with setting information and fluff in ways that makes it difficult to find. And, indeed, so difficult to find that even if you do use the ToC to get to character generation, you'll still need information in the info dumps to proceed ... with no cross-referencing nor easy stand-out way to spot it.
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hairylarry liked FollowMeAndDie's statusEpisode 192 - Death of an Anti-Paladin
Session before last was a near TPK, this session was revenge!
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Oct 3 '20The blue in the background is the cat house. I wish I had cats in the background too.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusWow! My latest episode where I explain the origins of "Follow Me, And Die!" reached 134 total listens. It's now my 4th most listened to episode. My first three episodes are my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd most listened to respectively.
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Sep 27 '20That was good but I actually liked the near TPK better. I guess I'm just hooked on D&D action.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on Yourbuddy75's statusAlso, we had our Searching For Destiny stream today. Not that we are great thespians, but I think this link could be added in and maybe you’ll like our game. https://youtu.be/T88_2rdisKMSep 23 '204 1hairylarry likes this
Sep 20 '20Anyone can add links. I already have your youtube feed on our list. Thanks for all you do. Always let me know about any projects you are working on and we will promote them at Gamer+.
Sep 22 '20Also, there are times where I probably upload a video where I’m ranting about non-game related items. It may be best where my whole YT channel isn’t echoed here.
Sep 23 '20Same with some of my RSS feeds. Not entirely game related. And some of the others. So no problem with that. If it's important to you you can add all your game vlogs to a playlist and we can follow that. But it doesn't matter to us. Everyone has more interests than just gaming.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News September 21, 2020Gamer+ News September 21, 2020
Happy Autumn. Fall is here. Summer is over. Winter is coming.
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Tomorrow night, Monday, September 21, at 9:00 Central, we will be playing Milyagon Treasure Hunt on Inspired Unreality. If You Play You Win, actual play open table.Sep 20 '200 1MyrddinWyllt likes thisYou need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry » MyrddinWyllt commented on their statusI added your blog to our list and now you are appearing randomly in the footer under Blogs, Podcasts, Videos and always at the Gamer's Homepages link.Sep 20 '202 2MyrddinWyllt and Yourbuddy75 like this
Sep 20 '20Thank you. We have so many creators here. The only way to keep up is by aggregating an RSS feed made up of all their feeds. Be sure you checkout the View Last 60 Items here link. It is the hidden gem of Gamer+.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry » MyrddinWyllt commented on their statusHi, Good to see you here. I followed you over to your blog which is really cool and clearly follows your selection of games. So ... nice.
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Sep 20 '20Yeah, I've been reading some of your posts. And they're not all about horror which is great because I'm not really into horror. Now my kids, they love horror. But they mostly play D&D.You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postFringe Review: Story EngineToday's review is going to come from the weird side of game publishing. The game is Story Engine and it has a fairly convoluted history tha...Sep 19 '202 0
Sep 19 '20Everything is imperfect. Sounds interesting. The only similar game I have played is Microscope which is world building a scene at a time. I enjoyed that a lot. I also find the dice pool interesting. You get curves and you get to roll a lot of dice at once which is always fun.
Sep 20 '20The dice pool mechanism in *Engine* (not *Bones*) with its aspects and rolling ones thing is actually very nice. It's quick. It's easy to explain and understand. The "auto ones" thing for skills is a clever way of having skills make you more reliable at certain jobs instead of playing the escalation of difficulties and penalties game.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's photoI received my copy of the zine, Hunters In Death from the Kickstarter by Gothridge Manor.
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Sep 16 '20So I take it that this is your green screen at work and you're not actually out in front of a desert village. I'm into zines. Let me know what you think of Hunters In Death.
Sep 17 '20Correct. I didn't quite have the lighting right, so I couldn't just delete the greenscreen. I used a photo editing app to put the ruins in the background on a new layer. I used my webcam in photo mode. It works better in video mode using OBS since it masks out the greenscreen.
Sep 18 '20Thanks. I'm thinking about getting a green tablecloth to DIY my own green screen.
Sep 18 '20Yeah, I have a green bedsheet. I may try it as it covers more of what's behind me easier than the one I paid $70.00 for.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postFringe Review: Starships & SpacemenWe're reaching deep into the wayback machine for this review. Today's fringe gem is another game from the (in)famous game publisher Fantasy Game...Sep 16 '202 0
Sep 16 '20Interesting. I don't know about dramatist but i am more interested in role playing a story with character development than I am in fighting. This is still a minority position. Most games I play in seem to be one combat encounter after another which I can enjoy even though it's not my preferred play style. Thanks again for sharing this history with us.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's photoFinally have my new LEDs up, plus a hook for my headphones. Next to run a wire to easily set up my green screen. I hope to have the oomph to do a video tonight. The third picture shows how out of square my nearly 100 year old house is. The last picture is me testing the setup before getting cleaned up to do a new video.
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Sep 13 '20So are you using this for livestreams? Screencasts with picture in picture? What are you using for a green screen? I am very interested in this type of video production. I am planning on setting up for something like this in the Icosahedron.
Sep 13 '20I use it to record YouTube videos, and also for livestreams. I bought a greenscreen that hooks on the back of a chair, but it leans, so I ran a wire to hang it from.
I use OBS to control the camera and the stuff I show. I can do any kind of video production that my computer can handle.
Sep 13 '20Yeah, I use OBS to record podcasts on Discord so I'm set up for that. I do a lot of video production but lately it's all been audio so I'm looking forward to getting set up kind of like you so I can make videos without having to do a bunch of post production.
Sep 13 '20Yeah, a good setup with the right conditions and remembering to turn on the microphone, and speaking clearly and to the point makes it a lot easier to edit with fewer takes.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's photoHad to do a picture for something at work to show a bit about us. Promoting GaryCon and showing off a print of my brother's art should be good. Yes that is all stipple.
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Sep 10 '20I love the dragon. Do you have a scan or a photo you could post to take it out of the background.
Sep 10 '20Anything I'd post online would be tagged with my brother's name and copyright, plus, I'd need his permission. I wish he'd sell prints of some of his stuff online, but he doesn't do art for the money.
Sep 11 '20It can take the fun out of it. Art for money. I am always in favor of attribution and a copyright notice. Maybe he would like to join Gamer+. Thanks
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Sep 10 '20I just went and checked and I'm already subscribed. I did notice you are already up to 902. 1000 is just around the corner.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their blog postToo Much Information Or Maybe Not Enough?Some D&D players meet a stranger on the road and start into talking and just blurt it all out. I mean, "He seems nice enough." is not a good excus...Sep 10 '203 0
Sep 10 '20Only if I'm the DM. And when I'm the DM I hate to have the NPCs lead the PCs. I have played in games where the DM just said it outloud. I can't answer questions you don't ask. Worst come to worst the NPC can just blurt out the important info for no reason but I don't like that either.
Sep 10 '20If only every player at my table knew exactly what I was hoping they would do. Wait. That's not good either.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry liked FollowMeAndDie's statusWow! 39 of my episodes are over 100 listens each. With an average of 81 listens each episode. The most listens is episode 0, at 171 listens.
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusToday on the blog, I write about Session Summaries.
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Sep 2 '20I took your advice - https://archive.gamerplus.org/newsfeed/2416?ft=my&fi=1
hairylarry I read FollowMeAndDie
Sep 2 '20I really think awarding XP at the end of the session is great. It helps keep the players on top of what they've done and take a few notes so they can claim xp. And after being "in game" you get a nice meta break to talk about "the game".
Sep 2 '20Yes, I normally do that if they get back to town. My rule is, you have to get the loot to town to live and tell the tale to level up.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's photoThis made my day. From the Discord for my Sunday Game:
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I read FollowMeAndDie's blog about Session Summaries and I decided to do as he suggested on our If You Play You Win actual play campaign. So here goes.
Week one - August 31, 2020
Ari, Caper, and Tude (Ari's wildcat) got a message from Kendricks to go see the witch at Milyagon. The witch gave them their quest, to bring back an owl's tail feather, some squamish mushrooms, and a branch from the ancestor tree in the Wilkin Woods. She also mentioned that no one knew more about Wilken Woods than the woodcutter.
The party went and talked to the woodcutter who drew them a map and gave them sage advice about the fairies.
They entered Wilkin Woods and traveled nearly all the way across it on Woods Way. About halfway across they ventured south and found the first marked owl's eyrie. Returning to Woods Way by traveling due north they found a landmark, a tree with a burl on it that looked a little bit like a face with knotholes for eyes.
Continuing along Woods Way they realize they must have passed the second marked eyrie. Caper leads the party back, leaving the road to the west of the eyrie which they also find. It is now evening so they eat supper and prepare to camp hoping for more luck with these owls in the night.
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group XP for surviving a day in Wilken Woods - 200
for getting the quest from the witch - 50
for getting the map and advice from the woodcutter - 50
Ari - finding the first eyrie - 50
Caper - finding the second eyrie - 50
- climbed two trees successfully - 20 + 20
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusI started a new blog to document my prostate cancer from diagnosis to prognosis in hopes of helping other men.
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Aug 28 '20It's great that you're doing this. I hope things go well and you continue in good health.
Aug 28 '20Thanks! I honestly expected to be in more pain. I've only had one dose of acetaminophen today. Most pain is just fleeting, like if I move wrong or bump my abdomen.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry » Joshua commented on their statusHey, Josh. Was that you who logged in at the end of our podcast? We start every Monday night at 9:00 Central and usually run 60 - 90 minutes. We use both the gamerplus text chat and voice chat so you can participate even if you don't have a microphone. It is always open game chat. Everyone is welcome.
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Aug 19 '20Yep, that was me, tried messaging you all to say I couldn't unmute my mic but could only listen in but you all didn't see it, I didn't know you all use the chat here.
Aug 20 '20No, we use the chat on Discord. We use both the gamerplus text chat and audio chat at the same time so we can share pics and links while we talk. Please come again to our Monday night open game chats. It's fine to not use your mic. We always have both available.You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry liked FollowMeAndDie's statusToday is my brother Robert's birthday. He's the one who got me started with Holmes Blue Box. I had money from mowing lawns, so I bought it. He was the first GM. He is my favorite GM. I emulate many of his methods as GM.
It's also the 55th anniversary of me becoming a big brother.Aug 2 '200 1hairylarry likes thisYou need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on Alan's statusI don't know if this is the place to do this, but if I'm wrong Larry will delete/move it and give me a stern talking-to.
The Chronicles of Ember Starter Set launches in THREE DAYS (That's Aug. 1st, 2020 for the non-calendar minded)! Check my profile for more information on this EXCITING and NEW product! It's... cool. :DJul 30 '201 1hairylarry likes thisYou need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry uploaded 1 new photo to Ad Banners albumThe Chronicles of Ember RPG. Cold. Savage. Fuzzy.
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Please welcome Alan, the creator of The Chronicles Of Ember, a unique role playing experience.
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Jul 20 '20The first picture is my dice tower/dice tray combo. The second is these things stacked for storage (held together by magnets top and bottom). The third picture is the trays deployed for use (held in whatever configuration you arranged them in by magnet again).You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusToday on the blog I talk about my recent Point Crawl-Like Session Planning. This is my blog's eleventh anniversary post!
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Jul 18 '20Nice ideas here. How much planning is enough? How much is too much? Congrats on your blogiversary.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry » chuckdee commented on their statusHi, I saw you promoting Gamer+ at mastodon.social. Thanks. I don't get over there as often as I used to. I started a free culture Friendica site and I followed you from there. https://curators.mixremix.cc
Jul 9 '20Since the great G+ diaspora, there's been a fragmentation of gaming communities, and I just wanted to make sure that people knew where some of these great places were. I'm actually on Friendica more than Masto - chuckdee@rpg.pbem.online.
Jul 9 '20I like Mastodon esp. because it weaned me off of facebook. I chose Friendica because it fit my server better than the other options, Apache, php, mysql.You need to sign in to comment -
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Jul 6 '20I'm going to call mine Arthur. Arthur is king, see, and kings wear crowns. Corona means crown so...You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusMy thoughts on RPGs, Alignment, and Race.
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Jul 5 '20Deep. Change is good but change is hard. The Drow are evil but the most celebrated adventure hero of all time, Drizzzt, is Drow. When you have an evil species or type the most interesting character among them is the one who fights nature and does good. As in "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postFringe Review: MythicMythic is, to quote the game's introduction, "a universal, improvisational role-playing game". Designed by Tana Pigeon, a name you've likely nev...Jun 25 '203 0
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hairylarry commented on their statusWe're supposed to start a campaign at DnD Beyond Friday. We already made characters. Has anyone used DnD Beyond?Jun 25 '204 0
Jun 25 '20It's an online system for playing 5e. https://www.dndbeyond.com/D&D Beyond - An official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) Fifth Edition (5e)An official digital toolset for Fifth Edition (5e) Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).
Jun 25 '20Me either. My son, Kier (Draklorx), is DM. We just go online and play, I guess. So far we made characters. We played a 5e campaign in person for about a year (which I prefer) but now we're going to play online so we can all stay home.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry » chuckdee commented on their statusHi. Do you do 3D printing? Miniatures? Carl and I are both into it.Jun 18 '204 0You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusI just posted some Battle For Wesnoth pics over at Tabletop Inspiration.
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hairylarry commented on their statusMore info from Circle of Worldbuilders on the Master Class.
"This Masterclass is an intensive course for both seasoned and new Game Masters who want to hone their worldbuilding skills and create a better experience for their players."
http://www.circleofworldbuilders.com/
This is where you sign up. The class is this Saturday and Sunday.
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's photoMy longest running AD&D character, Griswald Stewart, AKA "The Wolf." Half-elf Cleric/Fighter/Magic-User. A high priest of Isil-Nar, Lord of Helmsdale, Wizard. Original PHB, dice, & dice bag. Nth iteration of character sheet. Namesake of Follow Me, And Die! Started Nov. 1983.
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Apr 23 '20I remember this book but I don't think I ever owned it. I do have some of my character sheets and notes from the early 90s.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's photoWIP and final art for one of the cards in my card game..... #cardgame #dragon #FollowMeAndDie!
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hairylarry commented on JesseQ's statusSince I have a great deal of unwanted free time (much like a notable chunk of the world), I've decided to take a bit more of my gaming online, so I'm starting off with a Wushu-driven convention favorite.
https://www.reddit.com/..._fri_417_the_bespin/![[online][other][1pmEST/10amPST, Fri 4/17] The Bespin Diamond Heist (AKA the Tatooine Paperweight Job) : lfg](https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/img/renderTimingPixel.png)
[online][other][1pmEST/10amPST, Fri 4/17] The Bespin Diamond Heist (AKA the Tatooine Paperweight Job) : lfgr/lfg: LFG is a place for tabletop gamers to organize groups for the games they love to play.Apr 19 '201 1hairylarry likes thisYou need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusTableTop simulator has a sale on steam. You can get a 4 pack of licenses for $30. One for you and 3 to gift to others later.
I'm testing it out to see how well it runs on my PC. It should work, but not sure how snappy. Checking into it for RPGs and my card game. Not sure how far I'll get with it. Just installed and ready for the tutorial.Apr 12 '2011 0
Apr 5 '20Digging into the tutorial and skimming I think it will work for playtesting the latest iteration of my card game, which is really exciting.
I've got some ideas. One could do miniatures battles, like Chainmail, RPGs, and various boardgames. For those alone in their living quarters, it would be worth it to be able to have variety in gaming, or play their favorite category of game.
Apr 5 '20Yes, it has a standard poker deck and poker chips. I'm not sure how many card games come with it. You can add any game others have added, or figure out how to add them yourself.
Apr 6 '20Yes, there is a way to upload my own deck, that's one of the reasons I bought it. Now to make time to do it with all the other projects on my list....
Apr 7 '20I've noticed that you stay busy. It's good to be busy. I'm retired and trying to slow down but I don't always do that.
Apr 7 '20I see something cool and all too often I jump in. I work from home, so without a commute I've got more time than years ago when I had one. Just not as organized as I need to be to keep on top of it all.
Apr 7 '20I was looking at 10 or 12 years til retirement. If my 401K comes back that may work.... At least go to a part time job so I have more time for fun.You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusI am starting a regular Twitch stream on how to do things in Roll20. I will be making things that I can later add to my Roll20 YouTube Series, Roll20 for the Absolute Beginner. The first session will be tonight, Friday, April 3, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT (-4 UTC).
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Apr 5 '20Nice post. Helping others is what it's all about and there's always a creative way to do that.You need to sign in to comment -
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Apr 5 '20So are these from Thingiverse? I love how you're scaling them to match historic miniatures.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on Aqualith's blog postA refusal of shorthand
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Mar 25 '20I love the word zine because of the connection to underground zines in the sixties. To me a zine is a labor of love and a magazine is a way to sell ads. To each their own.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postFringe Review: CORPSToday's review is gong to be from the person I consider the James Brown of game design. Which is to say the hardest-working man in game design.&...Mar 23 '204 1hairylarry likes this
Mar 23 '20//In exchange you're a "hobbyist" grade in all liberal arts, "professional" grade in art, and "world class" in sculpture// I think you meant world class in art and professional grade in art. If I understand the system,
Mar 23 '20RobboG: Not in the way I splayed that tree, no. Liberal arts is the primary skill and that's at 3 (hobbyist). Art is the secondary skill and that's at +4 for a total of 7 (professional). Sculpture is the tertiary skill and that's at +3 for a total of 10 (world class).You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postFringe Review: High Adventure Role Playing (HARP)Rolemaster
No history of RPGs would ever be complete without discussion of Iron Crown Enterprises' Rolemaster line of game products. Despite ...Mar 23 '204 1RobboG likes this -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusPodcast 175 - Building The Deck For A Card Game
I discuss what I've learned building the deck for my card game and ordering a play test deck from two POD services GameCrafter and DriveThruCards.
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Mar 10 '20There's a company I buy things from (pre-made card decks) that will do very high quality bespoke PVC cards. This pic is an example of their work (not bespoke). The cards are a good thickness, basically indestructible, and have a slightly-pebbled surface to keep them from slipping against each other when held (a problem I have with some of my other PVC cards).
Mar 10 '20Their name is 妖风道骨桌游. :) I deal with them through https://wohstudio.taobao.com/search.htm
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Mar 10 '20And this is the link for the bespoke cards purchase: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=574541237352
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Mar 14 '20That's a cool looking website. Too bad I can't read anything on it except DIY.
Mar 14 '20Chrome has an auto-translate mode that does well enough for figuring things out (along with some really funny mistranslations).
Mar 17 '20Be aware that Taobao is a huge time sink. You'll find the weirdest things there, and they'll link to even weirder things until you're in the dark corners where people sell live giant hornets in bulk.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on DragonMac's statusI'm proud to announce that my rpg game system Adventure Maximum is now on sale at DriveThruRPG.Mar 14 '201 1hairylarry likes this
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusWow! My series Roll20 For The Absolute Beginner is linked on the getting started page for Virtual Gary Con! @GaryCon
#VTTGaryCon #BlackwoodSociety
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's photoTaking longer than I'd like, but almost ready to order the next play test deck to take with me to Gary Con. Here's a teaser:
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's photoToday I'm going to work on my card game & try to get the next iteration of the deck ordered from Game Crafter so I'll have it by next weekend. I'm also going to attempt to format for DriveThru Cards to check their quality I've got the layout & it appears Affinity Publisher can handle the PDF so it should just take some time to do that many cards. If DriveThru Cards is satisfactory, then I've got a delivery mechanism for outside the US that will make that part of delivery simpler & cheaper. Designing a tuck box - Not sure how hard that will be, but would like to be able to figure some things out myself. I've got an artist. Should probably hire an editor & a layout person. So much to do, if I launch in the Spring..... Here's the Elevator Pitch for my card game. Does that interest you? Do I need to "punch it up" or add more "zing?" Inspired by RPGs & RPG Tropes. The goals is to build an army and survive the challenges the other players throw at you. High score wins.
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hairylarry commented on CarlHeyl's statusI'm going to start an old school B/X game at the FLGS this Saturday.
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hairylarry liked FollowMeAndDie's statusI just released my latest PDF on DriveThruRPG, Roads & Road Encounters.
I'm interested in feedback to know if a full version is worth the effort.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/...?affiliate_id=203222Roads & Road Encounters - Follow Me, And Die! Entertainment LLC | DriveThruRPG.comRoads & Road Encounters - Roads & road Encounters is an overview of information about the road, what is near, and fellow travelers. This can bFeb 25 '200 1hairylarry likes thisYou need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusInteresting about Roman era trade routes going all the way to Bali.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/...gy/bali-gold-0013306
Bali Gold Hoard Reveals Untold Links With Roman Empire | Ancient OriginsThe largest gold hoard of its kind has been unearthed at Pangkung Paruk in Bali, Indonesia, revealing ancient connections with the Roman Empire and Southeast Asia.Feb 19 '201 1hairylarry likes this
Feb 19 '20That's interesting. I checked the maps. Bali is an island province of Indonesia. Way East.You need to sign in to comment -
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"Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusKirk Douglas Dead at 103 | PEOPLE.com | PEOPLE.comWith over 92 acting credits, including some 75 movies, Douglas became a superstar even before the term was coinedFeb 6 '201 1hairylarry likes thisYou need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry liked ZDL's statusSo, I've made a decision.
Once this virus plays out here, I'm going to start the process of negotiating a locally-licensed brewing of Corona beer called Wuhan Corona.
The slogans write themselves! The ads will go viral!
Wuhan Corona: Killer taste!
Wuhan Corona: Catch it while you can!
Wuhan Corona: Spread the … word!
Wuhan Corona: Convalesce with a glass!
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hairylarry liked RobboG's statusNew from Surreal Estate Games: Universe Unleashed!
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's statusSo, because of the Wuhan Plague I'm getting an extra week of holidays! (Maybe even more!)Jan 28 '203 0
Jan 27 '20Well that's good news. Kind of. I mean I never root for a plague. But I'm glad you're getting some time off.
Jan 28 '20More time off. I was on holiday starting the 18th. :D I was due to go back on the 3rd, but now it's the 10th.
Jan 28 '20Well, I hope you get to go back to work soon. And I hope they find an innoculation.You need to sign in to comment
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Sep 19 '20I have two of them. The goal is when I move into an actual house, is to have two of them in every room. I find them great for what I want.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on RobboG's photoHey all, I've not been active here because I was relearning publishing–layouts, editing and all that. I also redid Universe Unleashed. I'm pretty happy with the new version for publishing and I'm ready to run some more stories on Main Mission as they hurtle out of the Solar System!
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hairylarry liked FollowMeAndDie's statusEpisode 171 - Happy 45th Anniversary D&D!
D&D was published towards the end of January, 1975 making this the 45th anniversary of D&D.
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hairylarry commented on their statusCheck out this new game from Gamer+ gamer, Peter_R.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/...Grown-Ups-Cannot-See
He says, "The newest release is a game specifically aimed at younger gamers, 8-12 years old. It is called The Things That Grown Ups Cannot See and has the players playing children who can see into the fey world. If you have children you would like to introduce to role playing or young role players at home you can give the game a spin. It is available as Pay What You Want."You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's photoSo, I've opened a new branch in my musical instruments collection. Hitherto limited to woodwinds, reeds, and members of the ocarina family, this is my first foray into plucked instruments. Woohoo! More money sinks!
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Jan 8 '20Yep. If you want to sharpen you hammer on the long end. If you want to flatten, you hammer on the short end. That shifts the little tine through the clamp.
Jan 8 '20When tuning a marimba you can shorten the key to make it higher in pitch. To make it lower in pitch you carve out more from under the bottom of the key.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusI just released my latest PDF on DriveThruRPG, Arctic & Glacial Terrain & Encounters.
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Dec 31 '19I just scanned through this excellent document. I'm from Chicago and now I live in Arkansas and I won't drive on the ice if I can avoid it. In Chicago I drove on ice all the time and I can deal. It's all the other drivers on the road I can't deal with.
Dec 31 '19Larry covers a lot of ground in this short pdf and as far as I could tell it's all based on actual knowledge of wintry conditions. So if you're pulling wagons across an iced over river you can test the thickness of the ice, see if you're near a fork or other turbulent area. Do a visual examination for ice clarity or cloudiness and then if you feel safe proceed with caution.
Dec 31 '19If you don't do these checks the DM is going to roll for them and your wagon and supplies may end up at the bottom of the river. I hate when that happens. don't you?You need to sign in to comment -
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Dec 31 '19I still have almost 3 hours to go. And I'll be asleep by then so it won't matter. Since the end of the sixties the decades seem less importantYou need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusWe had our family Christmas yesterday with lots of food and many games as gifts. Kids, In-laws, Grandkids, and Foster kids. There were 23 of us total.Dec 29 '191 0
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hairylarry commented on their statusFollowing in ZDL's "Footprints" I will tell you my joke.
What's worse than Christmas Music?
Jazz Christmas Music.
I made up that joke after recordings two excellent jazz Christmas concerts. So it's not always true.
For example.
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hairylarry created a new blog postGamer+ News December 23, 2019Gamer+ News December 23, 2019
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's photoMy younger son asked if he could buy some D&D books off me as he wanted to start making his own adventures. We haven't had a home game in years. I gave him duplicates of the main AD&D books plus a copy of Delving Deeper. The books are the ones I set aside last time he said he wanted to do this a few years ago. He's finally more settled at almost 23. I'm interested to see what he comes up with. He and his girlfriend have a table that can seat 8, and she's interested in trying D&D.
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Dec 21 '19LOL, I read each of the AD&D book as soon as they came out back in the day.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry liked ZDL's blog postFringe Review: 1PG/Hero ForceUnlike my previous, starkly negative review I'm switching back to the generally positive again. Today's fringe game is actually a game line, one...Dec 21 '195 2RobboG and hairylarry like thisYou need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postFringe Review: Powers & PerilsIn my last, third, review I waxed reminiscently about the "halcyon years" of RPGs in the '80s, using Psi World, one of my favourite games ever, as an ...Dec 18 '192 1RobboG likes this
Dec 18 '19Ok then. That was hard to read and it's just the review. I think you convinced me not to download it. I am way to unruly for a game like this.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry created a new blog postd6 Dirty SantaFrom Inspired Unreality December 16, 2019
Starting topic - Party Games
At the NEA Gamers Guild Christmas Party they played Dirty Santa using a d6 ...Dec 17 '190 1DarthDuke likes thisYou need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their statusI'm going to the NEA Gamers Guild Christmas Potluck tonight. And I'm taking peanut butter fudge. Everybody gonna like me.Dec 15 '192 0
Dec 15 '19Except the people with peanut allergies, but that goes without saying. ;)
And the people not there who are now dying of jealousy. (MAIL ME SOME!)
Dec 15 '19It was a cool party with a dirty santa game where your rolled a d6 and then took an action from a table.You need to sign in to comment -
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If I were ever to open an RPG themed restaurant I'd have to call it "Follow Me, And Dine."Dec 15 '190 2hairylarry and ZDL like thisYou need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on JesseQ's statusSince I have trouble getting folks together to play any sort of western, I will now be changing my game pitches to include "like _The Mandalorian_, but in 19th Century North America."Dec 12 '195 2ZDL and hairylarry like this
Dec 11 '19I want to play Wayne and Wax. Riftworld Magic in a gun totin steampunk era. And I never thought I would want guns in DnD.
Dec 11 '19I occasionally get the urge to play in a western game, to be honest, though I'd likely lean in the direction of playing Cat Balou which would probably upset the GM. :D
Dec 12 '19Unless we can get a Nat King Cole impersonator to GM, I'll have to warm up my singing voice.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their blog postGamer+ News December 9, 2019Gamer+ News December 9, 2019
After we recorded the Related To Geeks Podcast last Monday Vivian (sound on Gamer+) fell in the house and broke her kn...Dec 11 '192 0
Dec 11 '19The mobile site is very close to being useless. You can't read blogs from it. You can't go to groups. The dashboard only gives you messages and such, not what the dashboard desktop gives. The only really usable spots are Main and Photos and Users.
Dec 11 '19Exactly. Blogs should be easy to improve. Click a link and read a block of text. It could have more features than that but just being able to read the text would be great compared to getting a two sentence teaser and then being told to use the desktop app.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on ZDL's photoI don't know if this pin is advertising or mockery. It makes me laugh either way! I will never unsee this interpretation of the Adobe Reader logo.
Dec 9 '19It is bizarre. It is somewhat scandalous. And it is on my wool coat's lapel right now.
At the office, the only person who noticed was our designer and he started laughing so hard I was concerned for his continued breathing. I suspect he's ordering one.
(He uses a million Adobe products every day, so he's both a fan and a hater at the same time, which makes this pin perfect for him!)
Dec 9 '19I started my video editing career with Premiere years and years ago. I have since migrated to open source solutions mostly Blender and Open Shot. My daughters, Megan and Gretchen, use Adobe products all the time for journalism and design. So I get the fan and hater at the same time comment.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postFringe Review: Psi WorldThe 1980s were halcyon years for RPGs in many ways. There was insane diversity of subject matter as every conceivable niche and sub-niche was ex...
Dec 1 '19Another excellent commentary on an interesting game. I'm thinking if you do 10 or 12 of these you've got a book. Especially if you can get permission to use some of the artwork.
Dec 1 '19I dread my next one, however. Because it will be starkly negative (which I'm not a fan of doing) and because to review it I'll have to read it again (which I REALLY don't want to do! :D)You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on RobboG's statusHere's wishing everyone a Happy thanksgiving, whether you celebrate it or not! Have a great day.Dec 1 '192 2hairylarry and ZDL like this
Dec 1 '19We did play family game yesterday before my gig at the library. New Jazz In Jonesboro is now done for this year. As far as next year goes, that's in the future. Do you think I have 2020 vision?You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusI just released my latest PDF on DriveThruRPG, Caves, Caverns, and Underground Encounters.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/...?affiliate_id=203222Caves, Caverns & Underground Encounters - Follow Me, And Die! Entertainment LLC | DriveThruRPG.comCaves, Caverns & Underground Encounters - Caves, Caverns & Underground Encounters is an overview of caves and caverns. This can be used on the fly at the tablNov 30 '192 1hairylarry likes this
Nov 30 '19Nice short brochure with good ideas and many tables. I will use this at the table.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on DarthDuke's statusLong time no see. Sorry it's been a while. Just wanted to wish all my friends here on Gamer+ a Happy Thanksgiving!Nov 28 '192 1hairylarry likes thisYou need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postFringe Review: Mazes & MinotaursContinuing my little experiment in reviewing little-known RPGs, past and present, I'd like to go in a direction directly opposite of my last review.&n...Nov 26 '194 0
Nov 26 '19Thanks for a very thoughtful and detailed review. I'm a fan of M&M and I'm going to break out my pdfs.
Nov 26 '19I fell in love with that game ... sometime in 2005? The jokes were funny, the game charming, and yet oh-so-playable. It was a joke, but not ONLY a joke. (Unlike Hackmaster which is only a joke and playing it is ... performance art?)
Nov 26 '19I have heard of this game and I seem to remember the cover art but I have never played it. I go for the militantly free.
Nov 26 '19I posted at MixRemix and included a link to this review. https://mixremix.cc/2019/11/27/mazes-and-minotaurs/You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their blog postGamer+ News November 25, 2019Gamer+ News November 25, 2019
If You Play You Win Monday night!
Swords and Wizardry - Lost Lands
DM SD Houston
Monday, 2019-11-25 6:30 pm
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's blog postFringe Review: SparkThis is an experiment. I'd like to start reviewing little-known RPGs, past and present, as a way of introducing concepts and ideas that are not ...Nov 23 '192 1hairylarry likes this
Nov 23 '19Sounds interesting. I'm into collaborative fiction and this sounds a bit like that. The world building part reminded me of a game I played called Microscope where you play out scenarios to answer questions about the history of world you are building. The scenarios are a lot like role playing but in every scenario you play a different character. I enjoyed playing it and would be glad to try it again but like Spark, probably not for everyone.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's statusSo I'm trying out play-by-post for the first time at https://rpol.net. I was trying out two games: one by our very own @DavidVC, and another by someone else.
DavidVC's game is a 20s-era Gangbusters B/X game (made by our very own @Mark) and, despite my newness to the genre *and* my lack of knowledge of the actual game, the process of getting a character made has been largely smooth and comprehensible.
The other game...
Well, note that I said I *WAS* trying two games out. Past tense. Despite this game being unusual even for play-by-post, and despite the rules that state people must post at least once daily, the owner of the game was largely absentee. Questions asked about process were given vague answers and finally, once I figured out where I thought I should begin (I'm still not clear on whether or not I was right!), I got no feedback at all for five days.
But boy was the game owner quick to respond with booting me from the game when I asked to be removed from it! :D
Somehow I don't think that game will be doing very well. In the meantime, I think DavidVC's game is already doing quite well if the posts are anything to go by.
RolePlay onLine! Welcome to RPoLRolePlay onLine is a custom made, free web based message board community that anyone can create a game on. It supports internal private messages, groups and multiple aliases, character sheets and descriptions, plus a game map, intro and url. Your email address is kept private and is only used for verification.Nov 22 '191 1hairylarry likes this
Nov 22 '19I've never done play by post. In the early 90s we had a bbs with a DnD game area but it wasn't playing DnD. Just collaborative fantasy fiction in a DnD setting. Which was pretty cool but not play by post.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusMy latest blog post is a quick preview of some of what I'll be doing at UCon this weekend.
Now to pack clothes and game stuff so I can get driving while there's daylight!
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hairylarry commented on their photoI just read "The Variable Man" by Philip K. Dick. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32154/32154-h/32154-h.htm
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Nov 20 '19It's an interesting story but very early and not as good as the Andre Norton book I'm reading now.
Nov 21 '19Yes, it is a genre piece written for the pulps with competent protagonists and an evil villian.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on their statusI added feeds from HexedPressman and DualClassic to our RSS collection in the footer.Nov 14 '192 0
Nov 14 '19HexedPressman - https://archive.gamerplus.org/user/HexedPressman
Chat with HexedPressman at Gamer+.
Nov 14 '19DualClassic - https://archive.gamerplus.org/user/DualClassic
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hairylarry commented on Mark's photoTwo weeks out and Gangbusters B/X is still a top 10 bestselling title on DTRPG! Thank you for all your support!
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hairylarry commented on RobboG's statusMount up you rannies! You're 'a burning daylight!
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/...eweed-Tales-Volume-3Tumbleweed Tales Volume 3 - Surreal Estate Games | DriveThruRPG.comTumbleweed Tales Volume 3 - Welcome to the Four Color Western. Inspired by the garishly colored and fast paced comic books of the 40Nov 13 '193 3 -
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Nov 11 '19I got to play in this game for about an hour before I had to leave and it was great.You need to sign in to comment
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Nov 11 '19This evil tree is the embodiment of a forest fire and was killing the forest. Drawn by my grandson Conner, age 6.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on RobboG's statusIs there any interest in me running more Universe Unleashed?
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's statusSo, post-62% ABV malfunctioning brain seizure idea: a campaign genre called "cyberfae" or perhaps instead "feypunk".
Stupid idea? Has it been done before?Nov 10 '1921 1RobboG likes this
Nov 3 '19So fairies on the internet? Or urban fairies? Both? I read a book where a fey based computer game would take the players to the other side. It recreated the whole Tam Lin story. I found it, "Feyland". Kind of like "Ready Player One". I haven't seen any games on this theme.
Nov 3 '19Well, now that I've had a night to dream on it, I picture an alternate history where WWII blew apart the separation between the fey lands and the world of humanity and a far larger war broke out: faerie vs. human. At first humans lost at tremendous costs in life, but technology, being more reliable and available to anybody to use instead of only those "Gifted", turned the tide and the war was taken to Fae itself.
Now, a century later, we live in a world where higher-than-current tech and magic interweave. A great number of fae have embraced technology. Humans, naturally, don't trust fae and have made them an underclass, and deep in the thickest bowels of the darkest corners of Fae the greatest of the old-time powers sit and brood and gather their forces to return battle to the humans.
This would give us a few interesting social classes: humanity (in two subclasses: the ruling powers and the underclasses), the subsumed (fae who've embraced technology, interacting primarily with the underclasses since their way into the ruling classes is blocked), the unsubsumed (fae of weak to middling power who refuse to embrace technology) and the Powers (the ancient Fae nobles scheming to get back on top).
I should write this up somewhere.
Nov 3 '19I am actually fascinated by this idea. I keep running through my head about how to incorporate the Wild Hunt which would be more feypunk than cyber fey.
Nov 3 '19Well, if a tipsy brain outpouring generates interest like this, maybe it's worth writing up!
Nov 4 '19I've started writing up the background story and am researching where in history this could come down (I'm aiming for very late in WWII). I'm also picturing the Fae outbreak picking up the flavours of where they break out, so the first batch breaking out in Nazi Germany adopted all the Nazi symbolism and paraphernalia, because part of my dream that expanded from a stupid name for a genre involved a being with alien beauty and grace doing a Hitleresque speech to a horde of humans and things, along the lines of "Power of the Will" and such.
Nov 4 '19I am fascinated by the Wild Hunt. In a Western setting I am writing for I introduce the Riders in the Sky -spirits that stay out of Hell by getting bad men to change their ways.
Nov 4 '19I am incredibly weary of the geek obsession with pseudo-Japanese tropes. I have something else planned for that region…
Nov 5 '19How about a near future where the sleeping fey awake and reveal that they, via proxy, are the actual 1% that own most of the worlds wealth. Now that they are awake they begin flexing their influence and wealth, dividing up the world despite governmental interventions.
Effectively, you get a cyberpunk style world with incorporated fey courts instead of Megacorporations controlling everything. Those working for the fey are bound by more than contracts, thus making "free" mercenaries much more rare and interesting as PC potential. Perhaps the PC are all fey blooded humans. Just human enough to be "free" but still magically empowered by fey ancestry.
Nov 5 '19@Reidzilla: I'm shooting for the fey being the underclass, though, because usually games have the fey (or their stand-ins like elves) be some kind of revered or feared overclass.
And because I want the image of a brownie (or equivalent) in cybergear. :D
Nov 6 '19@hairylarry: So, I was originally going to put the court of the Yellow Emperor in this part of the world, but then decided it would be here … just in time for the Mongol answer to the fey to take them out of the picture and send them packing. :D
Nov 7 '19The heavenly court being sent packing by the Mongol powers has led me down a path where some of the fey powers actually allied with humanity against their fellows. This makes for an even more convoluted set of factions.
Nov 8 '19I feel that especially in the underclasses having mixed parties sharing common goals would be cool.
Nov 8 '19That is part of the invent. I'm also looking at similar strained alliance potential in the upper crust like the Mongol spirit-displaced Xianren having worked with the human world because of their hatred for the Mongol horde that hit them from behind while they were eradicating the Kami.You need to sign in to comment -
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We discussed:
Universe Unleashed by RobboG
Star Wars: Edge Of The Empire
Dread
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Nov 8 '19Megan has been promoting the idea of a Related To Geeks Book Club where we all read a book and then do a podcast of discussion about that book and related literature. Book selection will be up to the club but will be predominantly fantasy. Please respond with your ideas.You need to sign in to comment -
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Nov 8 '19ARPGCON this weekend in Little Rock, AR. Looking forward to some convention style role playing.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their blog postHow to link to a Newsfeed story.When you get notified about a Newsfeed story there is a link to that story in the email. It looks like this.
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Maybe I'm being thick as a whale sandwich here, but ... I always just right-click on the time stamp (within 1 minute, 2 hours ago,
Yesterday, 10:57AM, etc) and "Copy Link Location" from my browser. Like this one:
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hairylarry commented on their statusIf You Play You Win - actual play podcast
Star Wars: Edge of the Empire - Escape From Mos Shuuta
In the gamerpus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord.
Tonight at 6:00 PM Central Time.Nov 1 '194 0
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hairylarry commented on FollowMeAndDie's statusDriveThruRPG is under attack and re-set all affiliate & publisher account passwords as a precaution.
I was trying to get into my account and it wasn't working. There's a link on the login page that explains it.
A PITA, but a smart one to protect your earnings.Oct 31 '191 1hairylarry likes thisYou need to sign in to comment -
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Oct 31 '19Oh, these aren't mine! Had I known about this trick earlier they could have been, mind… so I guess RobboG isn't far off the mark.
Oct 31 '19And we're going to celebrate Halloween with freezing temperatures in Arkansas. I guess the joke is on us.You need to sign in to comment
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Initial topic - Keeping it real. all gaming is on topic The yeep is an alien pet. Very affectionate. When RobboG described it as being l...You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on ZDL's statusSometimes in the dashboard messages have "comment here" entries under them and sometimes they don't. I have no idea how or why this happens. Are there any clues?Oct 30 '193 0
Oct 30 '19Do they have the grey box with the black speech balloon? Clicking on that opens the 'comment here' box.
Oct 30 '19Not sure but I think Wall posts don't have comments and Newsfeed posts do. Sometimes a picture doesn't have a comment but if I click on it and go to the Photo Gallery there's a place for comments. If there is no place for a comment try clicking on the header or the user or the picture. Thanks for asking. I will be looking for posts without comment boxes and see if I can come up with a better answer.You need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their blog postInspired Unreality Redux - October 28, 2019Initial topic - Keeping it real.
all gaming is on topic
The yeep is an alien pet. Very affectionate. When RobboG described it as being like a ferret...Oct 30 '194 1RobboG likes this
Oct 29 '19The trick I use is to describe a creature or whatever in several different -related ways.
Oct 30 '19Oh you did. I'm writing a blog on Yeeks, or what I have about them so far. You can read it but it has spoilers.
Oct 30 '19Maybe I'll wait until after I play some more. O would rather discover about Yeeks in the game.You need to sign in to comment -
hairylarry commented on jdaylett's photoOur latest playtest of a dungeon-crawling tile-laying board game I am creating.
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Oct 28 '19So is the dungeon created with square cardboard cards? Are the shuffled and drawn? That is, is creating the dungeon part of the game itself?
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Oct 28 '19You should have it in your email. Also here - https://archive.gamerplus.org/blogs/73
Gamer+ News October 28, 2019 Open Game chat tonight. Inspired Unreality is every Monday night at 9:00 PM Central Time. Join us in the gamerplus ...You need to sign in to comment -
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hairylarry commented on DualClassic's statusOne last day of prepping before the first session of my Delving Deeper game on Monday. Ideas have been pouring out like water down a mountain. Haven't been this inspired in writing up an adventure in quite some time. It's gonna be an interesting first session for sure!Oct 28 '194 0
Oct 27 '19Absolutely! It's always a thrill when you hit that one idea that just keeps spawning the next, and the next
Nov 2 '19Awesome! Just saw that lol. Looks like first session is just gonna be a clip mine for the podcast intro which I'll use on the second session aka episode 1You need to sign in to comment
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Oct 27 '19I will point out that dogs can use litter boxes or pads to do their business mine do (... usually). If the base has cat(s), it has dog(s).You need to sign in to comment
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Thanks to RobboG for running his game, Universe Unleashed, for our If You Play You Win actual play podcast. I was totally absorbed in the story about asteroid bases and an alien invasion. My first ever SF RPG. It was great fun.Oct 25 '191 1RobboG likes this
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hairylarry commented on DualClassic's statusFinally getting ready to run my Delving Deeper game on Monday, which will also be recorded and uploaded as a weekly(ish) podcast series. Also of note, Just received my Dungeon Crawl Classics rulebook, judge's screen and one of the adventure modules in the mail today!Oct 24 '192 1hairylarry likes this
Oct 27 '19Oh awesome! I'm wanting to run the quickstart adventure soon just to sink my teeth into the systemYou need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on their statusFriday night RobboG will be running Universe Unleashed on If You Play You Win. Here's a link to the pregens and support files.
http://guitarshowdown.com/hll/public/e015bf
If you want to play message me.
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Oct 24 '19Great. I think we have four players here. And then we might have some surprises but at least we won't have too few players.You need to sign in to comment -
NEA Game Fest 2019 raised $5,418.72! Thanks to all who came out and supported The Children's Shelter!
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Yesterday afternoon I ran Caves Of Doom, a Milyagon adventure, at the NEA Game Fest in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The players had a good time finding treasure and managed to leave the Caves Of Doom without killing all the monsters. We still had a half hour of play time left so the Mayor of Milyagon paid the adventurers to go back and clear out the remaining monsters. Magus (pronounced Magoo) showed a predeliction to setting the furniture afire that the monsters were hiding in. Smokey but effective.
Then I played Just Once at the fancy dress gamer party. This is a word game and a guessing game and it's really fun. Recommended.Oct 20 '190 1CarlHeyl likes thisYou need to sign in to comment -
Just did the Breakfast Club at Tenkar's Tavern. We talked about conventions, movies, and character death. It was a good chat. Craig was recording so I think it will be a podcast.Oct 20 '190 1CarlHeyl likes thisYou need to sign in to comment
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hairylarry commented on CarlHeyl's statusMy six year old son Connor is designing a town and dungeon both named Caldea. The dungeon is directly underneath the town for reasons unknown. Secret entrances to the dungeon can be found throughout the town.Oct 20 '191 1hairylarry likes thisYou need to sign in to comment
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