Posts in "TTRPG"

The Productivity Conversation I Didn't Expect to Have

I sat down to write about productivity. Instead, I accidentally solved my productivity problem. It started with a simple request. I wanted to turn my struggles with overwhelm and chronic illness into a blog post. Multiple interests pulling me in different directions, dialysis eating up twelve hours a week, YouTube consumption replacing creation - the usual productivity paradox. You read more about it here. But something unexpected happened during the conversation with my AI writing assistant.

I finally have port forwarding working on my Mac mini running Sequoia. Turns out the firewall resisted my attempts to open a port. Not even when configuring APF manually. So I had to resort to turning off the system firewall and installing LittleSnitch. Sometimes 3rd party simply is best.

Why Call of Cthulhu Beats D&D at Actually Getting Played

Let’s be honest about something. How many D&D campaigns have you started that never finished? I’m talking about those epic adventures that were supposed to take your characters from level 1 to 20. The ones that petered out somewhere around level 6. The campaign notes gathering dust on your hard drive. There’s a reason for this. And it’s not that your group lacks commitment. The Year-Long D&D Commitment Problem Here’s what nobody tells you when you crack open that shiny new D&D adventure book.

Trying to get Foundry VTT V13 to run on my hosted server. The node version had a missing library that I am probably unable to install. So now it is the pre-compiled Linux version. Maybe that works better. If that fails I might revert to running a local version on my Mac. Not ideal, but serviceable.

I prepped the first one shot of Chaosium‘s new book No Time to Scream in Foundry VTT for a friend and I. We played it yesterday to great fun. Highly recommended.

It looks like Ember is a huge success! Join on in to get an expansive roleplaying world to play in.

Ember -- Kicktraq Mini