Patrick Joannisse

It's the Laravachian Trail

Kind of wild that on a Monday I was let go, on Wednesday a recruiter reached out and before I had time to figure out what to do with my spare time I got a job offer. And it’s a promotion too. I feel very lucky to say the least.

Is it even a boon to smaller creators? Seems like a single one had a positive take on it. I'm in that Reddit thread and I am excited about better quality prints from DTRPG but this is not the right way of doing it. Shopify doesn't take a 35% cut on your sale to email you a spreadsheet. Cmon Rascal..

To me that was the issue coming in. They had a box with small books. Then books. Then Advanced books. Someone posted a flow chart to decide which one to get and the answer for me was mostly: just get the Advanced books.

I use Advanced but I keep the ancestry as classes.

Black slipcase of Dolmenwood showing the Player’s book, the Campaign book and Monster book

Side of the slipcase showing an ornate goat in silver over a black background

The back of the slipcase showing “Dolmenwood” in silver on my shelf with the rest of my impulse Kickstarter games

Front cover of the campaign book

Dolmenwood by Exalted Funeral made to Canada 🇨🇦

I have no idea what Over/Under is at this point. Someone help!

After basically 20 years Steve Jackson Games is reportedly working on a GURPS 4th Edition Revised with major changes.

In this economy anyone who’s been around for this long doing this is amazing. Not a GURPS man myself but SJG are OG

So I love Obsidian and don’t mind paying for the sync feature but editing a table on mobile to then go on my PC and the rows have duplicated a few times is not great. I’d rather not go back to Notion if I can avoid it

Wtaf is wrong with people

I’m sure DHH is not rubbing it in anyone’s face right now

Come for the org charts, stay for the “they asked us to edit this part out and we put it first”

Would love to see that list 👀

I remember in school when I started learning programming that English was a terrible programming language and somehow AI coding made it its whole thing. And when things go wrong, developers are told to fix the prompts but keep using the tool instead of just...do the thing. It's baffling.

I’ve been running OSE for a bit now. I also enjoyed Shadowdark before. Great games and they are vastly different.

I swear if this is a Game Changer episode…

After 7 sessions of OSE with my group, a full TPK and a partial one I had a good conversation with the players. I came out as poly-game-ist and asked if they would be willing to see other systems every now and then. Everyone agreed AND we'll be rotating GM.

What a freaking dream group.

I’m the kind of person who would run a lot of stuff but this operation is just…a lot.

So I was just laid off. Let’s just say software engineering roles right now are a bit scary.

If we could skip to the part of the Microscope game where we add a light period that would be great.

DURF Expanded An updated and expanded version of DURF, the acclaimed rules-light dungeon-fantasy RPG.

I just backed DURF Expanded project on Kickstarter and I hope people check it out. I’m not super familiar with DURF but I know it’s a darling of the OSR community. I’m also a sucker for cool hardcovers. www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...

I don’t know but lire that was fun

"We're definitely in a bubble" confirms CEO of soap manufacturing company

I’ve been using their beard wash and shower gel for years but that’s new 👀

HBO executives are waiting for a name Nilay

Shadowrun Anarchy 2.0 in Kickstarter right now but oof. The physical tiers comes with a GM screen (eh) but PDF is €30 extra. The tier that includes it is more expensive by another €10 because it comes with the PDF for the GM screen.

For that money you can get a lot of good indie games and zines.

Revisionist and feminist? Double woke!

I’ve seen both. Obviously closer to Ottawa but my favourite things from Calgary are the Plus 15 network and the free train zone. If we had those in Ottawa it would make too much sense.

And having to use it for work is not fun