KJ Addams

Ugh. So many people I know got the axe today from my biggest client.

If you got hit in the layoffs, you know what I do and I'll be glad to support whatever you do in the interim while looking for work. Need a map (or a crappy B&W illo) for an interim project to keep you going? Drop me a line.

Frankly I just dread converting my stuff to it. It's supposedly "fully compatible" but that just means the places it breaks will be the unpredictable little things.
Would rather wait a year or so for the early adopters to figure out the problems.

Think about the premise of the game or the campaign your GM is offering. Make a character that wants to live in *that* story and develop in it, rather than bending a preconceived idea into a game where it may or may not fit. You'll have a better time that way.

100%. The inverse actually good advice is that you start off your pitch or s0 by establishing what the party's shared goal is. Which is an OOC conversation and not some emergent property of whichever hooks they happen to grab onto while stumbling around at random.

YES. I came to D&D after years of playing a lot of objectively better-designed games and I couldn't explain the appeal as well as you just did. I only "fix" it for my own games, but it's a *project* and it's fun to graft modern design sensibilities onto the old messy thing.

*well, actually...* the dragon and the sweets manufacturer just share a namesake, Wawel Hill is a real place in Krakow and it's more famous for its castle than for the dragon.
Sorry :(

It's the laconic little "Ok" that makes this one really.

DMing rules. it's like playing a video game with my friends except I alone have access to console commands, and also they plug the controllers into my mouth and eyes, and instead of a computer it's my perfect wet electric brain

Bluesky feels weirdly luxurious and that makes me sad because it's just... the internet before it was a place for bots to show each other ads for other ad bots. Which was like ten years ago. It's really hitting me how much we got *used* to being drowned in dehumanizing attention-economy garbage.

One of the great things about the D&D aesthetic is that period appropriate usually just means "vaguely old-timey anachronism stew drawing on roughly 900-1900 ce irl, go wild", so this neat fancy fit probably doesn't look out of place regardless

When I read Peter Watts's Rifters series, his vision of the Internet failing due to being taken over by viruses and becoming unusable to humans seemed like one of those missed SF predictions.

Turns out it was close! But the computer viruses we worried about in the 90s at least were kinda *cool*.

I'm super stoked about this project but admittedly kind of wary of the proprietary VTT stretch goal. It's a big technical challenge compared to just officially supporting r20 or foundry. Hope it doesn't end up becoming a bind for MCDM and the release of the game proper!

I never used Twitter so I don't really know how to competently use this platform, but from looking around... maybe "twitter being a horrible cesspit is inherent to its format" was wrong. Bluesky seems pretty cool.