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  • GhastOPtoRPGHelp me save a darling system
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    1 year ago

    That’s a really clean solution, and works well with the Side Quest system in the book (there’s an explicit system).

    Of course it’ll mean a boat-load of additional Story Points: 7 quests completed = 7 Story Points, but I think the plot can handle all the side-characters and locations as long as they’re small boons, rather than a full Deus Ex Machina.





  • GhastOPtoRPGHelp me save a darling system
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    Could do, but that’s a little foreceful, and seems to punish the quiet players.

    I’m aiming the make the system engaging. Nobody gives players a bonus to hit, then strips them of it if they don’t hit anything - the combat system is simply engaging.






  • GhastOPtoRPGAI RPG images aren't great
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    1 year ago

    The mood is an important aspect I hadn’t covered. I think at best, I’d name an artist whose style fit the mood, and an ML artbot could imitate that style. I guess that’s better than nothing, but it wouldn’t really be made for the setting - it’d be borrowed fashion.



  • Anthropology books taught me that humanity is more fantastic than all the fantasy races.

    • The Mbuti sang and danced as they walked, to scare away snakes. They had no words for ‘good’, and ‘bad’, so Christian missionaries couldn’t translate their teachings.
    • The Azande believed in a predictable universe, and ascribed all misfortune (including death), to magical bad intentions (translated as ‘witchcraft’, but I’m not sure that’s a great translation)
    • The Piraha language needed you to say how you learnt something inside the verb, so rumours are grammatically impossible. Their language had four modes, including ‘whistling’.

    I’m putting everything in the past tense as my info is about 50 years out of date.







  • GhasttoBeehaw Support@beehaw.orgOn Politics and Forking
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    1 year ago

    I just made a lemmy.world account after hearing about the mods on lemmy.ml, but when I posted a picture of winnie the pooh, the comment was deleted, and I was marked as a bot. And it sounds like beehaw’s not open for new registrations.

    Oh well, guess I’ll be a tankie now. :/

    EDIT: Looks like this was just a mistake from an auto-mod tool. lemmy.world’s been fine so far.



  • People who want near-perfect distribution of power often talk about the serverless model. It’s sounds like it might work for something like e-mail, but I don’t see how it’s possible for something like Lemmy. This comment it cached on every instance with one person who follows it.

    Atm, keeping Lemmy going for a couple of days might require 50 Gigabytes and lots of bandwidth. If you put that on a mobile phone, it’ll be a 50 Gig app, which will drain all your data in minutes.

    But I think chatboards work well with servers, so it doesn’t seem like a problem.