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Andonome Jan 14

Hamlets in Fenestra gather around towns. Outside, walled Baileys spread out like satellites.

The research isn’t mature but it’s good enough for basic logistics.

Baileys · Wiki · BIND / Adventures in Fenestra · GitLab

A campaign setting for the BIND RPG.

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Andonome Dec 16

Those are both manual tagging. One uses tag: sultan, the other uses [[sultan]].

And you can word-search both of them for Sultan.

Of course, if you have use for a WoD wiki, feel free to convert it. I assume Logseq will let people collaborate just as well with git.

Andonome Dec 16

Choose-Your-Own Screen-Zines

https://lemmy.world/post/40276045

Choose-Your-Own Screen-Zines - Lemmy.World

In my quest for ever-easier RPG introductions, I present: - Choose-Your-Own-Trial is a CYOA[^1] where you’re in jail, then on-trial. It introduces the system and gives you a tiny character sheet. - Induction at the Temple of Beasts is a mini lore-dump in a short story (set after the trial). - Another CYOA follows, where you hunt an albino basilisk who’s definitely not Moby Dick. - The ‘Halfshots’ are tiny modules which take about two hours to run. Everything was made to be printed (so you can score through HP boxes with a pencil) but reading should be fine. [^1]: A ‘Choose-Your-Own-Adventure’ book was a short book disguised as a long one, popular in the twentieth century. You make a choice at each paragraph to have the hero fight or flee or whatever by selecting the next paragraph you jump to.

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Andonome Dec 16

would allow for more connectivity between notes

Databases don’t have an upper limit of connections.

I’m sure both work fine, but this thing’s database-first, as it’s meant to deal with queries like ‘Events in Belgrade, between 1200 and 1450’, or ‘random male name from Catalan in 1520’.

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Andonome Dec 16

Isn’t that a notes app?

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Andonome Nov 9

I forgot that gitlab makes everything private by default. Thanks for pointing that out!

Andonome Nov 9

A Database for WoD Queries

https://lemmy.world/post/38543612

A Database for WoD Queries - Lemmy.World

This little database has historical events, battles, names, and population totals, because those things are the boring research questions you need to answer for Vampire campaigns and similar. The database is in plain-text, so you can edit it with notepad or vim. But it’s also a relational database. Make of that what you will. Right now it mostly focuses on Belgrade. PRs very welcome.

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Andonome Oct 22, 2024

The licence doesn’t appear on the page.

Itch lets you select a licence, which will help people search. Under the game, Edit --> Metadata, and select which creative commons licence (there are many).

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Andonome Aug 14, 2024

I don’t know if Google docs count as a ‘source file’. It’s clearly the source. Is it a file? I guess everything’s a file if you go by the UNIX definition, so ‘close enough’?

Licensing riddles aside, it looks great, and it’s nice seeing a fast-paced intro that gets straight into what the game’s about.

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Andonome Aug 14, 2024

That’s never been the case with any of the open source movement. If someone says their project is open source, then they give out files which are not the source, we would normally say that’s not open source. We don’t ask Microsoft if they feel that X, Y, and Z are ‘the core components’ of VSCodium. It’s just not open source.

Providing text is good, and you might say the text files are ‘open source’, if they have a licence which allows modifications and so on. But you can’t make closed-source pdfs out of them, and say ‘this has text, which is open source, so I feel like it’s open source’.

I get that it seems like a small distinction to some, but it’s been an important distinction since the inception of the open source movement, and without it, we won’t be able to tell open source projects from projects that have open components which people ‘feel’ are core.