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Sightseer is Now Out on Itch.io!
Sightseer is now available for download on itch.io, with the basic rulebook and an adventure: The Lost Temple.
Please remember that this game is still on development and it lacks content as of now, but the prewritten adventure should be playable.
Sightseer is a GMless TTRPG about travel, exploration and nature
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Not only was I the only one who ended up getting a ticket for my particular screening of the Backrooms... but also, besides the concessions staff, the entire theater was completely empty
I think I may have had the most appropriate viewing experience possible
ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves
back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore
if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??
don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM
so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!
this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together
and then in the end you put it together like this!!
and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy
EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!
The idea of โbut everyone knows thatโ needs to stop.
I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.
Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!
But let me tell you a story:
I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.
One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.
At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought โoh ok cool!โ And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.
I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. Sheโs a foodie and a restaurant blogger.
Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.
The shock mustโve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.
And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.
So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.
So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Donโt assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.
By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.
getting scambot messages from random accounts that clearly used to be normal active blogs is sad enough. you know that there used to be a real person on that blog until they were tricked into handing their password to the digital fae.
but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.
and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.
RIP to the blog that used to DM me to tell me they liked my new chapters. Their last known words spoken before being turned, 17 hours ago: "Ggs!" They were praising someone's deadlift.
the message they tried to get me with is probably the same message that got them, so for anybody who hasn't already been warned about the signs of a zombie account:
if you get something like this โ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."
whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,
it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yesโit might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.
they got one of my treasured followers, and they can get you too. don't fall for their tricks. know the signs.
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You know a lot of men make excuses about why they canโt be helpful but when my grandma is sick we physically canโt stop my severely disabled grandpa from trying to help her anyways. Bringing her favorite blankets to her even when she hasnโt asked for them and whatnot.
Itโs very uncomfortable for him to lie down in a bed these days and he prefers to sleep on chairs but when sheโs not feeling well he insists on lying down next to her in bed so he can make sure sheโs doing okay.
So anyways people ask me why I donโt have a fully negative view of masculinity and I think this might answer your question.
here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!
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Now, one might look at these numbers and be lead to believe that half of all tumblr users don't read posts. However, in the replies to this post you will find over a hundred users who will happily clarify to you that actually the reason why they voted the way they did isn't cause they didn't read the post but actually because they didn't bother to look at the words in the post and process them as language, a technique commonly referred to as reading the post.
#my family does this thing#when we've majorly unfucked a room or done chore that we were putting off#or whatever. Any sort of household Improvement.#'Come brag on me.'#I means come look I cleaned/rearranged/did dishes/put away the laundry#and the scripted response is 'oh nice it looks SO much better in here now'#like my mom did this when we were kids.#'girls comr brag on the garage I finally organized it so I can get my car in there'#and we go and 'ooh' and 'aah' and tell her how nice it looked and how she did a good job#and we could have her 'come brag on' us for like doing the dishes or cleaning our rooms#I do it to my wife now too#it's a dialogue that means#'I did a chore and it feels like an Accomplishment even if it objectively wasn't a big thing. Please acknowledge this.'#and#'Wow you sure did do a thing. It has improved our material circumstance even if only in a small way. Thank you for doing it.'#like yeah scrubbing the pans is my Job and it's a Little Task but sometimes it feels like a Big Task#and it's nice to have an Accepted Script where I can just demand 'I have functioned as an independent adult praise me with great praise' - by @thepioden
There are to my knowledge a few dungeon crawler CRPGs out there that make "the party got wiped on level Fuck but instead of there being a Game Over the player is now encouraged to make a new party that can then recover the corpses of the previous party for resurrection" a part of the gameplay. Same can apply for characters getting petrified and idk I guess in a theoretical example I just came up with a character could end up in Orc Jail (that's jail run by orcs, not jail for orcs) and be in need of breaking out.
And that's neat, but to me it also begs the question of: short of the game not allowing for loading back to a previous state and only having one save slot per run, what incentive is there for the player to pursue this? From a player's point of view "just reload the save and don't die this time" will always be preferable to this, especially since many dungeon crawler CRPGs assume an "everything is the dungeon" type of approach where you also kind of have to tackle the dungeon sequentially level by level. This is not like losing a single mission in XCOM where you can still probably recover and the campaign isn't entirely lost due to one loss: this is the equivalent of having to start with a fresh party who are probably squishy and will have to grind at least to some extent to be able to survive whatever it is that the previous party already had to survive to make it to level Fuck in the first place.
Anyway I don't design dungeon crawler CRPGs but I think there's some potential here for gameplay that embraces the fact that the player is unlikely to complete the dungeon on their first run and that makes this part of the gameplay. I am imagining something with roguelite elements where reaching certain objectives in the dungeon unlocks persistent upgrades for that save file that the player can make use of even when they need to replace party members. Honestly, maybe I should be designing shit like this.
This is an interesting thing to think about. So and idea I got would be to have some kind of system similar to Wildermyth's relationship system, which in short works like this. Characters can have three types of relationship: Friends, Rivals, or Lovers, which confer certain bonuses in battle. Characters who are friends get a bonus to blocking when standing next to each other, characters who are lovers will get a bonus to damage against any enemy that attacks the other character, and when a character who has a rival performs a stunt (Wildermyth's equivalent of a critical) the other will get an increased stunt chance until they perform one too; with the exact magnitude of these bonuses depending on the strength of the relationship.
So in a CRPG with a similar system, a way to incentivize the player to go through this process instead of just reloading a save could be to have each recovery event strengthen or even develop new character relationships. So for example two characters become rivals or lovers after having spent time in Orc Jail together, or a character from the old party becomes friends with a character from the new party after being recovered and resurrected, stuff like that. That way it would feel like you're getting a long-term mechanical bonus AND a little nugget of emergent narrative out of playing through these events instead of just reloading.
could be fun too if this is the only way to get new characters. sure, you can clear the whole game with your starting party (and that's a cool enough flex that people will do it), but every time you TPK and recover you now have a new set of characters to mix and match with. maybe completing certain objectives or reaching certain depths unlocks new character options, but you don't get them until a new batch of heroes venture in. negotiating peace with the giant psychic spiders on floor 3 is cool, but then it becomes awesome when your party gets taken over by a puppet wizard on floor 7 and the rescue party has a giant spider in it and gets to start their delve from Spiderberg
Thinking about fate in Beowulf and Lord of the Rings. How it involves taking a pagan concept of fate and applying Christianity to it. You're not a slave to a cruel and merciless universe, but your fate is still outside of your control. Your fate is now in the hands of an all-knowing, all powerful God. And knowing that, you still have to make good choices.
So now, sometimes you meet your fate, not because you can't see it coming, or because you can't escape it, but because you have to choose it. You know this course of action will lead to your death, but you can make no other choice--morality, virtue, honor, decency, dignity, and God all say that you have a duty to do the right thing, no matter what it costs you. You have to meet your fate with your eyes wide open, understanding that no man can live forever, but you can live as God wants you to live, and trust that you'll die when it's your proper time.
And this leaves open the door for hope. Instead of the tragedy of trying to escape fate and failing, the story can be about submitting to fate and being saved. Not always. Sometimes the story is that you meet your fate, but you died doing the right thing. But sometimes, refusing to take the selfish action, refusing to run means that something beyond the expectations of human reality can intervene and save you. Either way, you end the story as a hero, instead of as a victim or a villain.
โYou have to meet your fate with your eyes wide open, understanding that no man can live forever, but you can live as God wants you to live, and trust that you'll die when it's your proper time.
โฆEither way, you end the story as a hero, instead of as a victim or a villain.โ
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Character Spotlight: Lily
TTRPG: My own homebrewed detective version of the Anime Campaign system :) Creator: @candaru.bsky.social on bluesky, https://artfight.net/~Candaru Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/6944825.lily
Fun Facts: 1. Lily was born via magic, so the whole village raises her collectively 2. Because of this fact, she has no middle or last name 3. She is a huge fan of reindeer and My Little Pony
Character Sheet Clipping: (This game does not use traditional character sheets. Lily is an NPC, and has no special abilities.)
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thinking fondly of this meme I made for a coworker years and years ago
this is going around again and the tags are full of people talking about printing it out to put in their breakroom or cubicle or sending it to their coworkers, which fills me with great joy. vast diversity of professions represented also. zoos. labs. summer camps. restaurants. garden centers. libraries. schools. many reports from the brave warriors of assorted retail. a truth universally acknowledged: if there is a sign a customer will not read it <3 and they don't read emails either <3
I really love dnd and I'm very excited about next big campaign I'm going to take part in but I have this issue-- I can't roleplay. At all :') Which is weird because I used to rp A LOT with my friends as a kid. But now I'm struggling and last game it even led to some problems which caused other players to point out my lack of socializing with pcs and npcs. Soo any tips from fellow dnd players? ๐๐
If it helps, don't consider yourself as not roleplaying.
Interacting/talking with NPCs and PCs is only a part of roleplaying; the social and conversational one. Roleplaying itself is done by considering what makes sense in character and acting according to that, even if it may not be strategically the best option. (at least that is one way to describe it ๐ )
Wether a character decides to sneakily take someone out or to just punch their lights out โ that's roleplaying! A character with low charisma deciding to avoid facing a difficult conversation could be perfectly reasonable, if that is the character you wanna play =)
As for tips in regards to socialising in character:
remind yourself, that you are not your character and your character is not you (They might say something awful, but that doesn't reflect on you)
ask one player โ or more, if they would be alright to roleplay a conversation between your characters outside the session as practice (before, after, or even on a different day)
If the actual speaking in character is an issue, you can narrate what your character generally says
I hope any of this will be helpful for you <3 (Maybe you guys have some ideas? @sirobvious @disgruntledexplainer @thepressbetwixt )
Thank you! These seem useful :)
I think my main issue is that I'm subconsciously trying to play dnd as if it's a video game with quests (probably related to the fact that my first dnd-ish experience was baldur's gate 3). Going from point A to point B without sidetracking. I just simply don't know what to pay attention to in a location or a conversation, don't know what to talk about with pcs and npcs if it's not related to the task. It's not that I don't want to (I really do), I just can't come up with anything fun
Being used to only focusing on the main mission and struggling with "side content"; I can see how that makes things more difficult, yeah.
One or two more ideas then could be:
agreeing on a connection from before the game starts between your character and minimum one other player character โ maybe old friends, lovers, disbanded party members (one string to pull for interactions outside of the main mission, more focused on characters and their relationships)
choosing to focus on one type of detail for every location/conversation? Even if it's not related to the mission, you could decide to keep note of any Names/Colours/Outfits/Locations being mentioned in character or by the GM (similar to games children play on a car ride; "how many yellow cars are passing us?" Might help keeping the interest?)
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As an aside; I believe you don't have to come up with anything fun. Only to be open to engage with what is going on at the table at that moment. (And maybe request other players to invite you/your character into conversations/situations in session before it begins. Helps to not have to carry the conversation alone <3)
Went to mcdonalds for a small frappe. Manager took one look at me and decided i needed a medium
this is genuinely breathtaking lmao
Yeah look the weird smut comments are totally out of pocket but I really can't get over "im more into dr.seus or self help books lol"
#do you think he's actually read dr. seuss or did he just hear "doctor" before an author's name and decide it sounded smart? (Via @shellys-apprentice)
Oh my god
Found the orginal thread and lost it at this
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I really love dnd and I'm very excited about next big campaign I'm going to take part in but I have this issue-- I can't roleplay. At all :') Which is weird because I used to rp A LOT with my friends as a kid. But now I'm struggling and last game it even led to some problems which caused other players to point out my lack of socializing with pcs and npcs. Soo any tips from fellow dnd players? ๐๐
If it helps, don't consider yourself as not roleplaying.
Interacting/talking with NPCs and PCs is only a part of roleplaying; the social and conversational one. Roleplaying itself is done by considering what makes sense in character and acting according to that, even if it may not be strategically the best option. (at least that is one way to describe it ๐ )
Wether a character decides to sneakily take someone out or to just punch their lights out โ that's roleplaying! A character with low charisma deciding to avoid facing a difficult conversation could be perfectly reasonable, if that is the character you wanna play =)
As for tips in regards to socialising in character:
remind yourself, that you are not your character and your character is not you (They might say something awful, but that doesn't reflect on you)
ask one player โ or more, if they would be alright to roleplay a conversation between your characters outside the session as practice (before, after, or even on a different day)
If the actual speaking in character is an issue, you can narrate what your character generally says
I hope any of this will be helpful for you <3 (Maybe you guys have some ideas? @sirobvious @disgruntledexplainer @thepressbetwixt )
There's a tumblr post floating around somewhere that says "We think that if we get better at writing, it will someday stop sounding like we wrote it" or something along those lines.
Does anyone happen to have a link handy? I want to reference it in an advice post.
Was it this one? ๐ค
Yes, thank you so much!!!!!
[ID: a tweet by elicia donze that reads "People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art. /end ID]
