Yes, the headline feels very disingenuous. They are working with composers from those games… I don’t feel they are going to have the same influence some game designers would have had.

I have heard good things about logseq and the other obsidian alternatives but in the end I never had the opportunity to try them

Looks great. How did you attach the bottom shelf?

I mean, with the time they took for the first a segond dlc would have been released for the next console cycle. It would definitely be too many systems to support. /s

Not really both Krita and GIMP works mainly on raster images like Photoshop. Illustator is a vector graphic software. The closest foss relative of which would be Inkscape.

The thing is, Photoshop was born as a photo manipulation tool but the drawing functionality has become an industry standard (I think mostly because they give free licenses to students). GIMP is a photo manipulation tool and Krita is a digital painting software. They have overlap but neither of them aim at replacing Photoshop as a whole. GIMP may be the closest match. Krita is more comparable to ClipStudio or Corel painter imo.

I may be old fashioned, but I love to start in a tavern. It’s a place that can have a lot of npcs hanging around that can be introduced and then reappear later in the adventure.

Usually I prefer to start with the party already formed, or have the characters have a connection between each other from before the start of the adventure. Imo it speeds up the initial stages of the game and gives everyone a preexisting reason to be in the party.

I had some pain in the past with players that didn’t want to find a reason for their character to join the party, and asking them to have one as a prerequisite can help to filter too mich edginess from the scene.

I also like to start with combat or some other dangerous situation. I start with some talking and a breef introduction to the aim of the adventure, then have something unexpected interrupt the talking, a fight, then back to the talking.

That’s fair. To each their own.

I’m not sure I agree. DoS2 mechanic are cool, but the combat becomes way to chaotic for my liking. Also you do one mistake and now half your party is dead and the other half is on fire.

I love starting in a tavern and having some run in in a panic screaming “UNDEEEEEEAD!!” and just drop a horde on the table. No time to think, no time to explain. The story starts later, right now you have to fight for your life together with whomever is able to hold at least a table leg.

I think a bullet may even be faster than a wizard casting protego.

Fork is great. I just wished there was a linux version

This article is so full of strawmans that that the DC to find a needle inside is your mother’s circumference

Does anyone know if it works with android auto?

The article is not wrong, but imo it’s seriously overplaying some of the arguments. Imo encounters were a lot easier to balance as a DM if you know your group, and the biggest issue a potential disproportionate power between an inexperienced player and one that is actively trying to break the game. Sure, you could break the game because of all the arguments discussed. Didn’t mean you had to, though.

RStudio for R and data analysis projects because it has a great integration imo. VSC for most else. I am trying neovim and considering trying emacs.

Consistency was a game saver for my group. Saing this day of the week is going to be the one we are going to play on until the end of the campaign, instead of deciding week by week. Also, not cancelling if there aren’t more than 3 people.

Min max means minimizing the downsides while maximizing the upsides.

Looks nice. What’s it for?

I really hope the nerf to sea spider is significant. I’m stuck on it soo bad that I stopped playing.

I’m loving the experience, but fuck me some bosses are a pain in the ass. I’m stuck on the sea spider, does anyone have suggestions?