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  • Fil (fermented/soured milk) and musli in my opinion cannot be beaten. Get bowl, open fridge to get fil, pour fil into bowl, get muesli, add that and you are done. Pretty unprocessed, plenty of fiber and (depending on variety) lots of good bacteria. Cleaning up is also quick, water and a few swirls with the brush. Making coffee takes longer than chomping down on a bowl of fil and muesli.

  • I have recently encountered ICON and come to really like its dying mechanic. Each time a character is reduced to 0HP they become incapacitated, but stable, and gain a wound. Each wound reduces max hp by 25% and only goes away after an adventure (quest). A character can help an incapacitated character (rescuing) bringing them up and healing them to their new max HP, which after one wound would be 75% of max. Second time dropping to 0hp, a second would and new max hp of 50% of original.

    It gives good longevity in individual encounters and forces caution in the longer run.

  • Premiums they will then offload onto renters keeping their margins.

  • Larger and/or gamey games 1€/h. Here I put games such as the Tomb Raiders, cRPGs etc.

    Narrative experiences 5€/h. Stray Gods and other high quality intense experiences. Often short and with limited replayability. Like seeing a movie a second time.

  • My Swords of the Serpentine have become absence-cursed. We have had a few weeks now where we haven't been able to play. Bit sad as it sucks energy and I really want to give a GUMSHOE system a good run for its money.

    The ICON game I'm in is marching slowly ahead. Emphasis slowly. We are so very new to it that combats takes just so much time. On the other hand fighting is what it has going for it. And the combat is good, really good. So not complaining too much.

    Also playing in a Burning Wheel game where things are marching on. Good group and good play but sometimes wish we would have less roleplay and more rolls to close out scenes. Next session we do start with a Duel of Wits, possibly a three way duel of wits.

  • Think of all the new beachfront properties!

    /s

  • I love the "happy backstory" characters and love GMing for them. Having an auntie the next village over is just wonderfully quaint. A couple of siblings whose mess has to be cleaned up. Cousins that have to be bailed out of trouble. That is just the low stakes. Turn up the heat a little and put some conflicting interests in the mix and you have a recipe for character drama.

    And then there are all the larger and societal issues that become personal. Those affected by the situation are those that matter for the pc. While out killing goblins the bank took the farm. Auntie with an anarcho-syndicalist streak is accused of witchcraft.

    Or mr edgy edgelord number fifteen who cares about nothing and none. My taste is clear - homebaked apple pie and an afternoon in the hammock.

  • So you are saying that isn't already the case?

  • Considering it's the norm when you aren't doing something genre typical to take two ir more genres and just smoish the names together. This way you get things like blackened death metal (black plus death) or epic gothic power metal (take a guess). Now smoosh those teo examples together and you get something like blackened gothic melodic death metal. See that there, now we get into the transformative properties of metal subgenres. Death metal with a bit more melody and structure, which power metal has in spades, becomes melodic death metal.

    Fun isn't it? Also I may have bullshitted together half of the above. But it is a real thing

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j6WYhOHRmDs

  • Why shouldn't they be allowed to secede? Let the inhabitants of each state vote under international supervision to make sure the vote goes by according to western standards. I see no reason why any community should be barred from seeking independence and self rule.

  • Why not just communicate with the rest of the group that you want to play something else? Let the group help you "write" them out of the narrative.

  • For everyday user (browser, light office, photo management, tv/movie streaming) it is already as viable as windows as a daily driver.

    Once it is installed and up and running. But then most windows users haven't installed windows themselves so that is almost a moot point. It is first when you get into "specialty" software linux viability drops.

  • Do you by ransom you mean restrict our civil liberties and bow to tyranny? Because that is part of it.

  • NERDS!

    Jump
  • Dragon Master's Guide?

  • I should play BG3 and get out of Act1. Buuut it's starting to be so long since I last played it that I am lost in where I was and were doing. And I honestly don't like the zone designs with all their open emptyness while at the same time being soooo cramped. What does it take to walk from the druid's encampment to the goblin temple? Two minutes? Three? Cooooome on. Would have preferred the druid's having one map, then world map travel to goblin's and then zoom in on their lair. Condense the adventure while keeping distances plausible. So I'll keep on looking at my small settlers as I keep building their settlement in Farthest Frontier.

  • I would probably react as Konsi if someone came onto me like that. Skepticism. Lots of it.