It’s interesting how a relatively simple change in the message on the alert (as you describe here) could dramatically reduce the effectiveness of this scam.
@baldur I read the article and the title seems a bit misleading - it isn’t that the writer is locked out of their google docs (which would be a nightmare) but that they were stopped from sharing them with reviewers - very awkward for sure, but not what that headline is warning about?
I've written up a short review of the Alien RPG by Free League publishing, including a summary of the adventure which I ran. Bottom line? I love the atmosphere this game creates! #ttrpg
@nickdrawthing It’s pretty crunchy but not too crunchy. That seems like a rubbish answer so I’ll elaborate.
Much less crunchy than D&D. The character sheets have quite a lot of detail on, but the basic mechanics are fairly straightforward. I’ve been very rules light in recent years, so I wanted a test run of the game and it went better than I expected.
Rules organisation isn’t top notch, there are some bits which you have to look up in several places and consequently can miss.
@nickdrawthing Having some quick reference tables is important for running the game (e.g. stunts for each skill, panic table, critical table, alien attack tables)
I’ve not seen or played Mothership to compare.
The rulebook for Alien is big, but there is a lot of space given over to images so it isn’t very dense (and it is pretty). There is a lot of background flavour text (a bit too much for my liking because it makes it hard to find stuff, but that’s a matter of taste)
@robindlaws
That’s interesting - I wonder if at one time, a long time ago, it was recommended that you brought the snake in for identification? I’m sure I’d heard that in the past, and it feels a bit like ‘folk knowledge’ that has stayed over time rather than lots of people just ‘thinking it might be a good idea’
Working for a big business that allows facebook login, it is also frustrating that you can only associate the businesses facebook stuff with personal facebook identities
Nightmare to manage with people coming and going at a company over the years.
Starting to see news sites that ONLY allow me to login by sending me an email link. Wasting my time -- not much, admittedly, but adding steps to a simple process is annoying to the user -- is part of the business model.
@dangillmor It’s a good security measure from their point of view - ensuring that you have control of the email address associated with you account and not relying upon you choosing a nice strong password that doesn’t get breached.
They can get in lots of trouble if customer credentials are breached, so they hate the friction but do it for safety (customers and theirs)
Casual observations about my Mastodon feed:
-Lots of tech/coding posts I don't understand. Not sure how I plugged into that world.
-Lots of cats. This is, of course, the internet.
-Not nearly as many #TTRPG posts as I would have expected.
-Very few art posts.
Now, part of the reason for all this is I still am not good at finding and following folks over here. I just haven't put in the work. #mastodon
@taichara@bwebster@JVWest I post ttrpg stuff on Twitter, Bluesky, here, and threads. The amount of interaction from people I get follows in that order. I’m going to drop threads as I get nothing there. I’d love mastodon to be better for me, and am considering changing server to see if that helps.
My favourite film of his seems to be one hardly anyone else has seen. He was under full prosthetics and still gave a stellar, heart-rending performance.