Barbarian

@Barbarian@lemmy.ml

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Dreamscarred Press Psionics (Pathfinder 1e)

Been on a binge of Pathfinder 1e 3rd party content after finishing up writing the current chapter of my campaign. What are your opinions of Dreamscarred Press' Psionics? Comments online seem to universally love it, and I think im starting to as well. Any personal experience with the ruleset?

Barbarian,

I've never played PF1, I'm interested in giving PF2 a shot much later this year though. Slightly related question: how hard is it to integrate PF1 content to PF2?

Barbarian,

If they're trying to kill third party apps, why do you think the solution is making essentially a third party app? Even if you go the web scraping route, I guarantee if this actually gets any traction Reddit will start making subtle semi-randomized changes to their DOM to make scraping as difficult as possible.

They want you on Reddit's app and site to show you ads. They will make it as hard as they can to avoid them.

The only realistic solution is to build communities here to replace the ones on Reddit.

Pathfinder 2e Remaster Changes - what do you think? (docs.google.com)

There's some really interesting changes coming for 2e! Bards have full martial proficiency, clerics can f finally get heavy armor from within their class, wizard schools of magic are gone... Then of course the big named news, like the replacement of dragons with the magic traditions (arcane/nature/religion/occult), and the...

Barbarian,

Wait, this community is for tabletop RPGs as well? Interesting. Was considering writing up a Shadowrun AAR post on !RPG (did I do that link right?), might post it here too if people are interested.

piratepost, to internet

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    Barbarian,

    Having understood the fediverse on a theoretical level but not ever actually stepping into it, it's really amazing to see the interconnectedness of it in real time :)

    Barbarian,

    For me, the big difference maker is that I no longer feel like I'm shouting into the void. Quite often, I'd see a post, I'd have an opinion/comment/thought about it, start writing a comment, and then think "Why bother? This post already has 5000 comments, and default sort is hot. Nobody will read the 5001st comment".

    Maybe it's just my monkey brain, but after a day of adjusting, it definitely feels better to have 2+ upvotes and/or 1 comment so I know somebody at least considered what I said rather than a buried comment that nobody will ever see.

    Barbarian,

    Yeah, the admin post at the start of the spike was talking about needing to stagger new registrants, presumably to avoid an eternal September like scenario where the community permanently changes character.

    If this is the case, makes perfect sense. I may be a newbie to Lemmy, but looking around the best case scenario imo is a whole bunch of instances, both existing and new, take the load. That way each instance gets to decide what they want their own communities to look like.

    Barbarian,

    Lemme give you 2 scenarios to explain why defederation is an important option:

    1. An instance with views and forms of diacourse wholly incompatible with yours. As a hyperbolic silly example to illustrate, let's say there's a community of cultists who believe in Cthulhu. They encourage a steady diet of kidnapped babies, and ritual drownings. They brigade like crazy, and their moderators encourage them to do this. Anybody who doesn't follow the great old one is an idiot, an asshole, and they express this in extremely vulgar terms. If they were a reddit community, they'd get banned. Here, they get isolated to their own little corner where they can't scream obscenities at people.
    2. An instance with thousands of bots spamming out innocuous looking links that lead to malware. Again, if they were a reddit bot farm, (hopefully) they'd be banned. Here, as it's an open source project and you can't restrict who uses it and for what, defederation is the best you can do.

    Lemmygrad seems to be a bit of a target of defederation by many instances, and there's probably some history there that I'm not aware of as I'm also new to Lemmy. Even though I may not agree with some of their hardline views, the users seem to be respectful when commenting over here on lemmy.ml, and the very few times I've commented over there, they've been cool. Consequently, I'm glad lemmy.ml federates with them.

    EDIT: I should probably state that even though I'm cool talking with the respectful users, had to block a few communities there. I don't want to see the Death to NATO community cheerleading the Russian invasion, for example.

    Barbarian,

    As a shadowrun GM, I really like those games. Rules-wise, they have very little in common with the tabletop RPG apart from using a few of the same words, but they capture the lore and the feel of the world really well.

    Barbarian,

    I regularly plan to learn DF, then just play RimWorld instead. It really is DF for normies.

    Barbarian,

    You could always make one. Would be very appropriate to make a NZ instance and advertise it. I'm sure you're not the only Kiwi around.

    Barbarian,

    I tried being vegan, but it's basically impossible in Eastern Europe. I settled for just being a vegetarian trying to reduce my cheese & milk consumption and made my peace with that.

    Barbarian,

    I guess by that definition I’d be an aspiring vegan :))

    The issue isn’t access to raw ingredients, when we have the time my gf and I do cook vegan food (we made a vegan butter “chicken” just a few days ago). The issue is when we go to a restaurant or order takeaway due to work obligations and being super busy, there are no vegan options and normally 1 vegetarian option laden with cheese.

    Barbarian,

    I am definitely a hard-liner when it comes to meat. I do find it harder to be such a hard-liner with other animal products, even though I’m aware of the conditions in dairy factory farms. I do agree with you, I’m just saying it’s difficult.

    help me choose my next distro

    I'm resetting windows 10 on my Thinkpad T580 for work but would like to create a partition for linux. It's an older laptop and really chugs through games like Minecraft or RuneScape but I enjoy playing relaxing games while I listen to audiobooks at night. I grew up using windows which is why I've mostly used Ubuntu and ZorinOS...

    Barbarian,

    I'm a Linux vet who's been around the block. I've tried all the major distros, used Gentoo for a few years, Arch the same, and a bunch of smaller distros.

    Nowadays, I just want my computer to start up and run my programs with as little fuss as humanly possible. I'm far too lazy to rice or optimize anything, and I have little patience to troubleshoot the next big awesome thing.

    Consequently, I use Kubuntu with Wayland. It chugs along and does everything I need it to.

    Barbarian,

    Maybe Lemmy/Kbin/both could implement a system with upvotes working as in Lemmy, but also the option to boost a post or comment? I honestly think that'd be the best of both worlds.

    Instead of just upvotes/downvotes, it'd be upvotes/downvotes/boosts

    Barbarian,

    Hey! Glad to be part of the fediverse. Bit of a learning curve, but it's exciting and interesting!

    Barbarian,

    Such a bizarre linguistic thing that's happened with woke. It's now essentially meaningless. What was once a legitimate term meaning "alert to racial prejudice", now just means "thing I don't like".

    Barbarian,

    It's effectively the same as cutting it off for third party apps. No small-time app developer has 20 million lying around.

    They're trying to profit as much as possible from the AI companies that want to scrape user data, and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Killing third party apps are just a nice side benefit as they can get more eyeballs on ads.

    Barbarian,

    Oh, I wasn't trying to recruit for a session or anything, was more wondering if there are members of this community that like and/or play shadowrun.

    I got the PF2E humble bundle during the height of the DnD community license scandal, and the system looks interesting. Might give it a try in a few months when one of my campaigns dies down, I'm also pretty capped out atm myself :)

    Barbarian,

    The rulebook is absolutely atrocious. Absolute garbage formatting that forces you to look in 5 different places for anything.

    Once you get a basic handle on the game though, it flows really well, especially for a more trenchcoat style with lots of background plot and mysteries to uncover. The lore is what keeps me coming back more than anything else though.

    However, there's 3 aspects of the rules that I consider very crunchy and clunky, and I houserule:

    1. Grenades in enclosed spaces. Nobody has time to sit there and do linear algebra to figure out how many times the shockwaves bounces between two walls doing damage each pass. If you throw a grenade into an enclosed space, chunky salsa and we move on with our lives.
    2. Non-combat decking. If you need to hack the system while your party is being attacked by enemies, that's a cool combat encounter for everyone. If you want to get the floor plans of the building during legwork, I'm not having the decker run a solo session getting the data while everyone else stares at their phones. I make the decker roll a computers + logic test, give them info depending on successes, and we all move on.
    3. Certain spells are absolutely horrendous in terms of how they affect the game. The 2 worst offenders are mob mind and chaos. Mob mind because you roll resistances for every single goddamn person in the area. I just make a very rough average of a nornal civvie, and houserule that the more excess successes you have the more people "failed" the save. Chaos has no written spell effect. I made my own table, with random effects ranging from fire to input failure to software glitch and lots of other possibilities. Keeps things fresh.

    Jeez, that turned into way more of a wall of text than I intended, sorry.

    Barbarian,

    If you're on Android, Jerboa works pretty well.

    Barbarian, (edited )

    I'm a newbie as well, so take this with a grain of salt.

    Lemmy is a language. Different "reddits" (called instances from this point on) can talk to any other instance that the moderation team hasn't banned. Every instance has their own rules, settings and moderation teams. Every instance can make "subreddits" (sublemmies). You can contribute to any sublemmy on any instance as long as they haven't banned your instance or your user.

    What this means in practice is that if you don't like the moderators, go make your own instance or find one with like-minded people. If the moderators of an instance are not happy with the contributions of another instance as a whole, they can ban that. Assuming they're talking to (federated with) another instance, it's seamless and you can comment and post with all those people too.

    Barbarian,

    Your explanation is much clearer than mine, thanks!

    Barbarian,

    Swap from "Local" view to "All". It's on the top of the web page and in a menu top-left on Jerboa.

    Barbarian, (edited )

    Yes, that can absolutely happen. In fact, that exact situation is happening right now with !gaming and !gaming

    Not really an issue if you subscribe to both though.

    In the longer term, I fully expect duplicate communities like that to resolve themselves with people predominantly using one over the other. EDIT: Or another possibility is that they might end up different due to moderation and rules (i.e: one is the memey gaming community and the other is the more serious one)

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