Mastodawn

I agree that many seem to have a narrow view of combat outcomes. I’ve seen in a couple of threads that Basic Roleplaying, for example, is described as a “lethal” system unless player characters get double the hit points. This is in spite of the game engine document stating that characters can surrender or flee from a fight. Granted, death is mentioned far more often in that document than surrender, and it’s a long document, so I’m not sure I can blame anyone for missing it. Fleeing is mentioned more frequently and there are several pages dedicated to chases.

I wonder how many tables would benefit from the game master simply asking players if they want to run away.

flavonol Mar 15

Storypath Ultra Core Manual Finalized PDF Published

https://lemmy.world/post/44306087

Storypath Ultra Core Manual Finalized PDF Published - Lemmy.World

The Storypath system is descended from the systems used in Vampire: the Masquerade, World of Darkness and other stuff from White Wolf publishing. There’s already games published by Onyx Path that implement Storypath (such as Trinity Contiuum & Scion), but this is a generic version with example settings included. This finalized version actually came out over a week ago, but today I noticed that despite the apparent interest in Storypath on Backerkit, nobody on r/rpg or here had posted about the announcement. I haven’t played it yet myself; does anyone here have experience with or interest in Storypath? Note: While the PDF is available now, it’ll be some months before the hardcover ships.

græy

Truly excellent GNOME slander. Who made this?

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flavonol Apr 10, 2025

What is meant to be accomplished here?

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flavonol Apr 5, 2025

Tried the demo! Plays great, runs great, looks good & is pleasing to the ears.

flavonol Apr 2, 2025

Is there any technical reason for some memory bus widths only showing up in cut-down GPUs?

https://lemmy.world/post/27701009

Is there any technical reason for some memory bus widths only showing up in cut-down GPUs? - Lemmy.World

There are some bus widths that are used in full discrete GPU dies and some that I’ve only ever seen in cut-down GPUs. Full-die GPU memory bus widths seem to always be: 64-bit × 2n × (1 or 0.75) where n is a whole number. Cut-down models can feature pretty much any multiple of 32 bits. ## Examples: - 128-bit bus: common in entry-level GPUs (RTX 4060, RX 6600 XT) - 160-bit bus: occasionally shows up in cut-down designs (Arc B570) - 192-bit bus: common in midrange & entry-level GPUs (RTX 5070, Arc B580) - 256-bit bus: common in midrange GPUs (RX 9070 XT, RTX 3070 Ti) - 320-bit bus: occasionally shows up in cut-down designs (RX 7900 XT, RTX 3080) - 352-bit bus: Appeared in the RTX 2080 Ti, which was cut down - 384-bit bus: common in upper-midrange & high-end GPUs (RX 7900 XTX, RTX 4090) Any insights into why this is? As a layperson, it seems like having a full die with perhaps a 160-bit bus for the entry level or a 224-bit bus for the midrange would at least occasionally make sense.

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flavonol Mar 14, 2025

I originally had an open-access PDF linked. Not sure what happened to it. Maybe it was overridden when I added the image?

Edit: Brought the link back.

flavonol Mar 13, 2025

Photonic Network-on-Wafer for Multi-Chiplet GPUs (2023)

https://lemmy.world/post/26799575

Photonic Network-on-Wafer for Multi-Chiplet GPUs (2023) - Lemmy.World

If you think GPUs are big today, you ain’t seen nothing yet. This baby (theoretically) scales all the way up to a 300mm wafer. Abstract > This paper introduces the Photonic Network-on-Wafer (NoW) GPU architecture to overcome fundamental limitations in electrical interconnect scaling by implementing the inter-GPU network in a wafer- scale optical interposer. We argue that the photonic-NoW GPU is a scalable architecture, delivering significant performance benefits in a power-efficient manner.