So, here is my approach, in the context of a campaign. On my campaign, I tend to have a short list of NPC/Faction/Place and enjoy keeping the campaign on a shorter space rather than a whole multiverse.
So my technique would involve.
Ask the players to give me a summary of latest session, that I'll crosscheck with my notes.
Ask the player what they want to do, following these events. having reccuring NPC/Places/factions mean that I can improvise how these person react to the event (if they do). This will easily burn a hour.
While all of that happen, I have time to think about how to relaunch the story, either there is an event which absolutely makes sense in the context The local mafia isn't happy that you dismounted their drug production lab, when you come home you find a miniature coffin with a bullet inside in front of your door or, even though it's a bad practice, I throw a "randomish encounter" A big etheral cloud forms over the magic equipement store, and you can see some ethereal creature leaving that cloud and ear screams of bypasser being attacked The latter adds a combat buying me an extra hour to find-out why this shop exploded.
Then, I can let the player investigate these events, it may-not be the most complicated investigation I ran, and kinda linear, However, it's enough to keep going to the end of the session, and have new elements to develop for next time
For a one shot ?
In general, I organize them when they're ready, and I have a lot of one-shot scenario ready on my computer, alternative would be pulling a zero prep game.
Indeed, for C/W oD you can easily have some "standard stats" in mind to build NPC quickly ? Something like 3/5/7 dices depending whether it's beginner/intermediate/master (I haven't GM-it for a while so the formula may-be different) works very well at turning a one sentence description in NPC skill
In their defence, Blades in the Dark, set a trend of having a formal downtime phase which is about upgrading team, healing physical and mental wound, and advancing your side project, and IĀ heard player telling me that they've spend 2Ā (short) sessions on it.
Even on more classic games, having the player looking what to buy in the books, then finding a shop having it, negotiation with the shopkeeper and so on, can take a lot of time.
s a DM, Iāve always found it boring as hell.
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I donāt really like running them, but my players enjoy it from time to time and it always seems to take half a session.
As in, is any law that restricts peopleās freedom to do something
The problem of this approach is that in that case you refuse any law. Even anarchist would agree that a stateless society need people to agree on common rules.
Speed limit ? restrict your freedom to do something, private property ? Restrict your freedom to go where you want, does restricting your freedom to commit murder feels authoritarian ?
Now what's more authoritarian ? having the state protecing your right to have slave ? Or having the state protecting people freedom by not letting someone enslave them.
Completely random stoned hypothetical. Lets day im old as fuck and I decide I'm ready and done. Could I have the same postmortem autopsy done on me while I'm still alive? Like give me a ton of drugs and let me watch myself get dissected as my final moments. I understand there is a legal and possibly moral concern, but is it...
In general you cannot consent in being assassinated, and even in place where euthanasia/assisted suicide is legal, there is still a strict process to make-it cleanly rather than cutting down a person in piece
I got in on an earlier flight, and arrived at 6 it was a pain in the ass.. I literally had to walk around for like 4 hours until things opened, and I was so tired and weary all day.
Note that in some case, it's possible to get an earlier check-in. For ordinary customer it might be a paying service, for corporate customer and member of loyalty program it may be a complementary service.
Just give a call to the hotel. Same applies to late check-out it's sometimes possible to check-out at 14 or even 16.
The space between us this has been published during covid as a "larp through webcam" and it was super intense emotionally speaking, I am not going to give any spoiler, but the fact that it started slowly with workshop, and not much happening really helped when the tension started to rise, and the ending was just Waw, don't forget some tissues, because ninja will be cutting onion
In the same category, with a lot of bleed, the famous Alice is missing which is somehow a hybrid betqween boargaming and TTRPG. The theme isn't easy (A kid has gone missing), but it's the theme which trigger a lot of bleed, add the playlist which will put me back in the ambiance if I listen to it again. and again, expect some Ninja to cut onions in the background
I don't think that an english translation is available but anyway, let me say a couple of word about Shadow island a parlour larp in a lovecratian ambiance, about a disfunctional family making a yearly silent dinner, to commemorate the death of "patriarch". Expect long character sheet (mine was around 40 pages, only background as there is almost no rules), an afternoon of workshop before the game starts, and the whole "silent dinner" concept creates a feeling of weirdness long before the "supernatural" kicks in. Do not read it if you don't intend to play it and if it's run near you, just join.
Indeed, when PvP is well done, it can lead to pretty amazing memories, the stakes aren't the same as the player aren't trying to let you win. So even though many people would call it a "red flag" it can also be a huge "green flag" and looks like that table was ready for it.
I am pretty curious on how this new trend of SMR will evolve in 20 years, I can see how it can be simpler and faster to build than full scale plant. However, I am not sure you'd save by multiplying the NIMBY to deal with and the whole support staff.
I am curious on how school can skip the whole gender identity part considering how central it is in social science and life-science.
i like the idea in saying that boys and girls are the same and that it doesn't impact who they are more than having blonde hair or large feets. However, if you through art/litterature/history you can quickly find out that men and women aren't treated the same. If you to basic biology, you come to some "difference between boys and girls", and may want to discuss which of these difference are biology, and which one are sociology.
Then, it's not like LGBT and intersex individual are novelty, and that kids won't ask question about them (selves). So again something pretty hard to skip. To take medieval history, I don't know how much British kid know about the "acursed king" and the 100 years war, but Edward II being more sexually interested in Lord Despenser than in his wife Isabel the she wolf from France played a big role in these historical sequence of events
I see Stupeflip, get my upvote
Not sure it'll please the non Francophones but who cares Stupeflip, le C.R.O.UUn truc qui fracasse la tĆŖte Ć base de caisse claire qui claque, and the english language ending give me a fucking greek sandwich with fucking onion sounds most french than the french sung part.
I have many conversations with people about Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The idea that "it makes convincing sentences, but it doesn't know what it's talking about" is a difficult concept to convey or wrap your head around. Because the sentences are so convincing....
have you played that game where everyone write a subjet and put it on a stack of paper, then everyone puts a verb on a different stack of paper, then everyone put an object on a third stack of paper, and you can even add a place or whatever on the next stack of paper. You end-up with fun sentences like A cat eat Kevin's brain on the beach. It's the kind of stuff (pre-)teen do to have a good laugh.
Chat GPT somehow works the same way, except that instead of having 10 paper in 5 stack, it has millions of paper in thousands of stack and depending on the "context" will choose which stack it draws paper from (To take an ELI5 analogy)
In the context of the European election next month. I am surprised that the Qatargate where several elected official have been charged for receiving Qatari money against service (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_the_European_Parliament ) isn't more discussed by media....
I donāt want game night to be a second job or a mental investment. I just want to show up and play something
It's interesting, because actually this part is one of the reason why I don't play D&D. Everytime I try a D&D game, It's quickly think about how to spend your XP wisely because you're impacting a whole progression tree, and if you choose the right feats you'd get a combo or whatever and then the whole combat looks quite intimidating when you start thinking how the party should work to be the most efficient at overcoming an challenge.
While tons of other RPG are more like sit down at the table, have a laid back chat with NPC, and sometimes roll a couple of dice.
I don't say that your point of view or way to play is wrong, but find interesting that your premise to play D&D is my premise to not to play D&D
One of the most common photo taken there. But god myself a second hand Canon EOS 250D, and as I was travelling there it was a nice opportunity to do the same photo as thousands of tourists.
I wouldn't dare defile Douglas Adam's memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:...
People should grow up and take responsibility for their lives.
This is something on I don't agree at all with liberals. When people are manipulated by cult-like technique (or even (social) media optimized to give their brain a fix of dopamine) it's not about their individual responsiblity but the responsiblity of the assholes manipulating them.
Incineration, is the standard way of getting rid of non recyclable waste (a lot of plastic can be recycled) not that green but it allows to produce electricity and hot water which saves some oil
I do not know if it's true for all countries, but at least the USA and the UK require your passport to be signed to be valid. And I know that when I fly, I sometimes get checked if it is signed....
Each of the companies that we have talked to for Hot air balloon rides have said you pay for it in advance, then if there is bad weather, you donāt get your money back. You just have to reschedule for another day. We have a friend who had to make many many many trips an hour and a half each way and each time on the way there,...
Have you asked each company in details? It's typically the kind of small business who understands everyone unique case rather than a large corporation full of procedures and lawyers.
I assume they would rather reschedule to not loose the money, but a way to cancel may exists
In general, I like the vibe here, which is more laid back and relax than reddit, with people being in general nicer, less in a karma farming/troll mode.
I have an alt account on fedia (mbin) that I use when my main instance is down, following the same communities. But the more I use it, the nicer I find mbin, I might do a full switch at a point.
However, it's not yet the endless stream of new content we get on reddit and other big social media. Which is great for our mental health but sucks when you look for a fun stuff to do during your commute
The defence ministers of France and Germany, Sebastien Lecornu and Boris Pistorius, signed a memorandum of understanding that seals a 50-50 split in the industrial production of an advanced battle tank dubbed the Main Ground Combat System (MGCS)....
Great news, let's hope that both the next generation tank and the next generation plane will work.
Unfortunately, we need some weapon, and I am rather having a sovereign weapon industry than buying them to a foreign power.
I am curious about how much the AI and laser techology are a buzz word rather than a new technology. I can't imagine modern tank not using laser to measure distances or having any form of image/data processing software
I donāt do ābatch cookingā per se, but often cook something larger on saturday/sunday so I have leftover, either for Monday/thuesday lunch or for when coming back from sport, keeping food 2-3 in the fridge doesnāt worry me (Obviously, I am not gonna keep a tartare so long in the frige, and donāt even cook meat). Things...
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Note that the goal isnāt to build a safe haven for the troll banned from reddit, but a nice and friendly community independent from large corporation/advertissement/data mining algorithm.
Now, if youāre not unreasonably trolling, have fun here, the more people the better.
Also, might be worth checking alexandrite.app which provides a modern user interface whatever the instance you use
have fun
P.S. Donāt forget the language tag, a feature missing on reddit, not only it helps people filtering out the language they donāt speak, but it also make the site more accessible for people using a screen reader
Iām taking my first international flight this year. Iāve got my passport and bought the plane tickets. However, I noticed that my middle name on the ticket is missing the last 2 letters. I contacted the airline and they said that middle name doesnāt have to match passport. I just want to make sure that is correct, I...
I want to know if the car Iām renting comes with liability insurance. I just want to be sure that if I am at fault in an accident, that the other car will be covered. Lets try to ignore any personal car insurance policy and letās ignore collision insurance for now....
Not OP, But does it mean that in the US the car insurance belong to the driver rather than to the car ?
Letās say that I rent a car by myself, and donāt have a fancy credit card, travel agent or whatever exeternal insurance covering rental-car. If I donāt take the extra insurance package at the front-desk and I have an at fault accident. Do I just need to pay letās say 1500 US$ of copay ? or am I fully liable ?
Just to know for next time I rent a car in the US by myself
Pretty sure you need to touch the fine structure constant to do so. And believe me, touching fundamental constant has a lot of side effects, for example semi conductors properties would change
I would like to know if there is an āofficialā way to set an account as disabled. For now, I am plan on posting this on Asklemmy, changing my password to some random string that I wonāt remember, and then logging out. If Iād like to come back later, thereās a chance of my account being revived through the āforgot...
I know the real answer is reddit but I really donāt want to go back now that Iāve already grown used to life without it. I was hoping for Lemmy to be a viable substitute but it isnāt. I can see how this place is wonderful for the certain type of person but that person is not me. My experience during the past 6+ months has...
Iām on an large instance which doesnāt federate with Grad, so I donāt see the Right-winger playing to be leftist by supporting right wing dictators
Tons of communities donāt get that much political beside the respect basic human rights and sometimes comment the news
Even with the European election ongoing, I donāt see much political discussion on European communities
So may-be try more ācasual/funā communties than the political one.
If you use the ālocal feedā it may be worth checking another instance. I heard good stuff of Blahaj Lemmy which as no downvote and act mostly as a safe/relax space for queer but is open to non queer people
Internal alpha-therapy. Imagine attaching a radioactive atom to an antibody that would fix to a cancer, then as alpha radiation do a lot of damage, at a very short range destroy the cancer without doing much damage to the rest of the body
Politics. US is ally with Israel but notxwith Iran, US isnāt the world police but a country defending their interests which includes their allies.
I somehow hope, that this slow drone attack is also some political theatre like, we shoot some drones to protest our embassy bombing, but we wonāt go further
During the great migration, the trending communities was showing the latest being created. Nowadays, it seems to be a mix of new communities, and empty old communities....
In the 19th century sword and gun duel were not that rare, think about Mathematicianās Gallois death for example, it seems to be a thing of the past as the last duel occurred in the late 60ās....
The seats are assigned. People have been standing in line for 15 minutes now. Why on earth would anyone want to stand there, when they could just sit and wait until the line clears?...
ike if the option was to pay $100 more and get 2 checked bags, a meal, and more legroom, Iām still not going to do it.
Itās depending whether you need check bags. As soon as you need check bags, suddently, main airlines becomes competitive with cheap ones like Ryanair, especially considering the airport they desserve which tend to be better located (The difference between a Metro ticket for the main one, and a 20 ā¬ Shuttle bus to a remote one also impacts the total price
You're the GM, but haven't prep anything for tonight. How do you make tonight game a succes ?
Pretty sure it happened to everyone, you lacked time to prep tonight session, and now the first player just arrived...
Was banning human slavery an authoritarian decision?
Obviously it was a good thing that it was banned, but I'm just wondering if it would technically be considered authoritarian....
Headscarf ban not against freedom of religion right according to EHCR ( www.vrt.be )
Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive?
Completely random stoned hypothetical. Lets day im old as fuck and I decide I'm ready and done. Could I have the same postmortem autopsy done on me while I'm still alive? Like give me a ton of drugs and let me watch myself get dissected as my final moments. I understand there is a legal and possibly moral concern, but is it...
How come hotel check-in time is always 3-4?
I got in on an earlier flight, and arrived at 6 it was a pain in the ass.. I literally had to walk around for like 4 hours until things opened, and I was so tired and weary all day.
What was your most intense "game" experience ?
I'll recycle a discussion from the Francophone !forumlibre link but obviously the answer were more focused on video game....
Rolls-Royce gets Poland's backing to build its nuclear power plants ( www.euronews.com )
Schools told not to teach about gender identity ( www.bbc.co.uk )
The Offspring, The Beastie Boys, Van Halen w/DLR, and the B52s. Are there other bands that rock, but are often silly/goofy and funny?
What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say?
I have many conversations with people about Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The idea that "it makes convincing sentences, but it doesn't know what it's talking about" is a difficult concept to convey or wrap your head around. Because the sentences are so convincing....
[EU Politic] which "European party" has done the most to prevent a new Qatargate ?
In the context of the European election next month. I am surprised that the Qatargate where several elected official have been charged for receiving Qatari money against service (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_the_European_Parliament ) isn't more discussed by media....
the guy at your table who only wants to play D&D
Full post on Reddit. Final paragraphs:...
Aurora borealis (northern lights) self portrait ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15289745...
Annecy, France [OC] ( sh.itjust.works )
One of the most common photo taken there. But god myself a second hand Canon EOS 250D, and as I was travelling there it was a nice opportunity to do the same photo as thousands of tourists.
If you had to give one piece of advice that is pretty much universally applicable, what would it be?
I wouldn't dare defile Douglas Adam's memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:...
If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible?
Let me explain the question:...
To the smallest detail ( lemmy.world )
Is it greener to just burn plastic?
Just thinking in terms of compared to microplastics and toxins in recycled plastic.
Why do passports need to be signed to be valid?
I do not know if it's true for all countries, but at least the USA and the UK require your passport to be signed to be valid. And I know that when I fly, I sometimes get checked if it is signed....
If I sign up on a hot air balloon ride and there is bad weather can I get my money back?
Each of the companies that we have talked to for Hot air balloon rides have said you pay for it in advance, then if there is bad weather, you donāt get your money back. You just have to reschedule for another day. We have a friend who had to make many many many trips an hour and a half each way and each time on the way there,...
Vibe check: What are your impressions and experiences of Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and Beehaw? ( kbin.run )
Exactly what the title says....
France and Germany to develop next-generation battle tank equipped with artificial intelligence and laser technology, billed as a game changer in modern warfare ( www.france24.com )
The defence ministers of France and Germany, Sebastien Lecornu and Boris Pistorius, signed a memorandum of understanding that seals a 50-50 split in the industrial production of an advanced battle tank dubbed the Main Ground Combat System (MGCS)....
"Batch cooking" how do you store meal for the second half of the week ?
I donāt do ābatch cookingā per se, but often cook something larger on saturday/sunday so I have leftover, either for Monday/thuesday lunch or for when coming back from sport, keeping food 2-3 in the fridge doesnāt worry me (Obviously, I am not gonna keep a tartare so long in the frige, and donāt even cook meat). Things...
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Signs you're getting old?
My knee still doesnāt feel right after that hiking trip two weeks ago....
Does middle name on plane ticket gave to match passport?
Iām taking my first international flight this year. Iāve got my passport and bought the plane tickets. However, I noticed that my middle name on the ticket is missing the last 2 letters. I contacted the airline and they said that middle name doesnāt have to match passport. I just want to make sure that is correct, I...
Any restaurants you know that are reducing plastic? ( fedia.io )
Looking to see if you know of any restaurants doing anything interesting for reducing takeout plastic waste....
Is there a good source of info on rental car liability insurance?
I want to know if the car Iām renting comes with liability insurance. I just want to be sure that if I am at fault in an accident, that the other car will be covered. Lets try to ignore any personal car insurance policy and letās ignore collision insurance for now....
What would happen if every atom on earth was to simultaneously double in size?
As an extra one, what would happen if one in every 10 atoms was to vanish from existence.
Is There a Way to Officially Disable a Lemmy Account?
I would like to know if there is an āofficialā way to set an account as disabled. For now, I am plan on posting this on Asklemmy, changing my password to some random string that I wonāt remember, and then logging out. If Iād like to come back later, thereās a chance of my account being revived through the āforgot...
Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy?
I know the real answer is reddit but I really donāt want to go back now that Iāve already grown used to life without it. I was hoping for Lemmy to be a viable substitute but it isnāt. I can see how this place is wonderful for the certain type of person but that person is not me. My experience during the past 6+ months has...
Other than AI, what technology are you excited about?
For me itās quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods
Excluding the Horror genre and individual movies in a series, what movie story ends with evil winning?
How is the US able to instantly stop an attack from Iran but powerless when Israel attacks hospitals?
Iām missing something here. Admittedly, Iām making the assumption that blowing up hospitals is a bad thing to do.
How does "instance trending communities" works ? French
During the great migration, the trending communities was showing the latest being created. Nowadays, it seems to be a mix of new communities, and empty old communities....
How comes despite modern medecine, (western) society is less violent ?
In the 19th century sword and gun duel were not that rare, think about Mathematicianās Gallois death for example, it seems to be a thing of the past as the last duel occurred in the late 60ās....
Why stand in line to board an airplane?
The seats are assigned. People have been standing in line for 15 minutes now. Why on earth would anyone want to stand there, when they could just sit and wait until the line clears?...