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vdonnut
@vdonnut

I'm Marcin (he/him), ttrpg enthusiast from Poland with insatiable appetite for new ideas of NSR, FitD, 2400, Traveller and other RPGs. Vegan. On autism spectrum. Also endless homebrewer and small blog proprietor https://vdonnutvalley.bearblog.dev/

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Due to dice.camp money and data situation I wanted to check my posts deletion setting and they were quite generous. I went through my post history and it was mostly just one-off funny at that time posts or ramblings that got attention of two people. So I set up stricter rules.

But also I realised that anything I write here is very temporary. And all of the stuff I "leave behind" is my blog. Which makes sense but also shows how luckluster I am when it comes to my online presence. Huh
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Erik · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqc2ktlts7w5r2c0jl8ptl4ale4nsxv7wcn3xv2vawuw23hqetcw7qkcq5yn you can set auto delete to not delete anything that you mark as I want to keep. Anything you boost or favorite or bookmark is going to stay if you do that. I've set it to delete anythin...
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@nprofile1q... I set up stricter rules for deleting my posts but I also think remote content is not the priority.

Also maybe privately check which accounts hog the most space and ping them if they actually need all of that data. Mastodon shouldn't be anyone's primary archive or data holder, we got websites and blogs for that.
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Some time ago for like two months I supported Dungeons and Daddies podcast and I still get some newsletter when stuff happens. I like them, their main stuff is entertaining. Currently they have a backerkit campaign for a DnD sourcebook and I'm like "why?".

Not only they mostly play DnD by the rules (but changing the flavour) so you could just do what they do but also it is just another "wacky and zany" DnD sourcebook on the market. It feels so much like a money grab.
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I'm so busy recently running #BandOfBlades and catching up on other RPG stuff that I don't have time to engage neither here not on my blog. I'm also detoxing myself from short form content which means I retract even more from Discord and end up even less connected with larger hobby.

I'm quite happe though, I finally have a mind to not be bored by essays and other long form media.
Martin Rundkvist · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqc2ktlts7w5r2c0jl8ptl4ale4nsxv7wcn3xv2vawuw23hqetcw7qkcq5yn Good scenarios usually give you a very clear starting scene. Maybe what you looked at...
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@nprofile1q... starting scene yeah, but then there is like ton of information about NPCs and locations and sometimes whole scenes and ot seems hard to do. My players will poke every hole and without intimate knowledge of everything ot feels impossible unless I heavily railroad the players
Baroness Winter · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqc2ktlts7w5r2c0jl8ptl4ale4nsxv7wcn3xv2vawuw23hqetcw7qkcq5yn No module ever withstood contact from an actual adventuring party. That's why old clas...
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@nprofile1q... when I started playing we were all just poor teenagers from Eastern Europe, WFRP was more popular than DnD because it required only one book to run. From most of the time we had to came up with our own rules and settings because we couldn't buy any. I learned about adventures and themes from webcomics about RPGs.

Recently I ran Barkeep on the Borderlands sandbox and even with all this the amount of my own prep and improv it required was astounding. It it a different mindset
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I think running premade adventures in #TTRPG is like another skill I never developed over 20 years. At least some of them. Give me a sandbox-thing or one-pager and I'm on it. But more trad adventures, especially older adventures are black magic to me.

I read a post about the best adventures for Traveller, read about them and took a peak at some and... How do I start? How do I prepare it? Do I read it whole and make my own notes on everything? Running it straight from a book seems impossible
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Baroness Winter · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqc2ktlts7w5r2c0jl8ptl4ale4nsxv7wcn3xv2vawuw23hqetcw7qkcq5yn No module ever withstood contact from an actual adventuring party. That's why old classic ("basic") D&D modules were point-crawls with occasional timed / reactive bits. To be entirely ho...
Martin Rundkvist · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqc2ktlts7w5r2c0jl8ptl4ale4nsxv7wcn3xv2vawuw23hqetcw7qkcq5yn Good scenarios usually give you a very clear starting scene. Maybe what you looked at were campaign / setting modules, not scenarios? #ttrpg #pnpde
Moreau Vazh · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqc2ktlts7w5r2c0jl8ptl4ale4nsxv7wcn3xv2vawuw23hqetcw7qkcq5yn nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq5rw5s6h7eft2l40es6e7vcxcejukysfnq958nhm40hjdq4wnmynsxvww79 Yeah TP USA was Kirk's organisation.