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Favorite old timey roguelike?

Favorite old timey roguelike? - The TTRPG network

Rogue likes usually run on a toaster. What’re people’s favorites? I have a huge soft spot for Crawl: Stone Soup. Runs in a browser, or probably even lower requirements if you download it. The game’s design goals want to minimize tedium and gotchas, so it’s pretty respectful of your time. Auto-explore and auto-travel are real nice. So is the global search for when you’re like “is there anything in this run with resist poison?” https://crawl.develz.org/ [https://crawl.develz.org/] I’ve played a little nethack, adom, and angband, but I always go back to crawl.

jjjalljs Sep 9, 2025

Fractal Incursions Bonus Event!

https://ttrpg.network/post/25405632

Fractal Incursions Bonus Event! - The TTRPG network

Anyone else playing with the new fractal incursion bonus event stuff? I did a bunch of quickplay fractals this afternoon, and it was pretty okay. The rewards look nice, though. Bought the omnipotion right away. The wiki as of this writing is still pretty sparse, though: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Incursion [https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Incursion] Hopefully someone will put up timers for the open world incursion events.

jjjalljs Aug 5, 2025

Memorable character deaths?

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Memorable character deaths? - The TTRPG network

Do you remember your first character death? Was it memorable? I usually GM, and NPC deaths don’t hit as hard. I don’t even remember my first. I lost a warlock in a D&D 5e game, but we were high level so raise dead was just right there. Not very impactful. Last night, I had a player’s first character death ever in a game I’ve been running. It’s sort of Shadowrun + World of Darkness, using Fate for the rules. The player had learned a kind of magic I stole from Unknown Armies: If you take big risks now, you can do more powerful magic later. Blindly crossing a busy street might be a mild charge, but russian roulette would be a major charge. The players were trying to investigate a warehouse for plot reasons. This player ends up by himself in the basement while the ground level is on fire (for player reasons). He finds an armed goon, a guy dressed like a doctor, and several unconscious people wired up to a machine. The player goes, “I’m going to russian roulette for a charge.” I go, “Are you sure? It’s all or nothing. No take backs. You get a major charge, or you die. You’d roll 1d6, and on a 6 you lose.” They go, “Hmm okay.” The player tries to threaten the goon, but the dice don’t favor them. Now they’re in a slightly worse position, mechanically. The player goes, “I’m going to roulette” and just rolls the die. No more discussion. It came up 6. The rest of us are like, “Wait, what? You just…? Right then? That’s so… anti-climactic.” I wasn’t sure what to do. I hadn’t expected them to so casually go for the big score! I thought it’d come up in a big climax scene, not a fully escapable conflict with an unarmed goon! We talked a little about ways forward that keep the character but don’t cheapen the mechanic, but the player was like, “No, I rolled the dice on it and lost. His brains are all over the floor now.” The player had to go sit on their own for a little while. They’re thinking of rejoining as an NPC they’d worked with, but said they absolutely do not want to use magic again. This is one I’m going to remember for a while.

jjjalljs Aug 1, 2025

Linux on a 2014 macbook air?

https://ttrpg.network/post/23286620

Linux on a 2014 macbook air? - The TTRPG network

A friend of mine has an old macbook air. It still works, more or less, but the OS isn’t getting any updates anymore, and updating to the latest OS seems dicey. Has anyone had experience installing linux on an old macbook? From a quick internet search it looks like you can just make a bootable USB and have at it. Thinking mint because it’s popular and my friend is a pretty basic user. The laptop will be mostly used for like youtube/netflix and basic web browsing. Edit: a little extra context: I am moderately comfortable with Linux. I ran mint for a while on my desktop, and I’ve done software development for a job. I can install docker and start a python project fine, but I’d use a GUI for like partitioning a hard drive.

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jjjalljs Sep 7, 2024

Managed to eke out a 2nd win. Ghoul of Ru. Ru’s probably my go-to god because apocalypse and power leap are very strong and very simple.

Weirdly, my friend isn’t showing up in my clan in the tournament. Might’ve messed up the config?

jjjalljs Aug 31, 2024

Who's playing in the .32 tournament?

https://ttrpg.network/post/9598627

Who's playing in the .32 tournament? - The TTRPG network

Not sure if this community is dead, but here we are! I kind of stopped playing new versions around .28 because I really disliked the opportunity attacks mechanism, but I thought I’d give .32 a try. The new shapeshifter things look cool, but in fussing with it a bit it’s harder than I expected. But now the tournament is live! Who’s playing? https://crawl.develz.org/tournament/0.32/ [https://crawl.develz.org/tournament/0.32/] I currently have one win with ye olde MiBe. Got lucky with good armor early on, and then cruised to a 3 rune (shoals + snake + vaults) win. There was one dicey moment in the lungs where I went around the corner to reveal 4 orbs of fire, some draconians, and a lightning golem all waiting for me. Hasted + Fog’d my way the hell out there.

jjjalljs Aug 21, 2024

how do people feel about spears?

https://ttrpg.network/post/9271387

how do people feel about spears? - The TTRPG network

I tried it a bit with my reaper in pve and it seemed okay, but I wasn’t doing anything challenging that really put it to the test. I haven’t tried the others classes yet.

jjjalljs Jul 29, 2024

How do you find other poly people?

https://ttrpg.network/post/8559141

How do you find other poly people? - The TTRPG network

For me there’s a bit of a network effect where the polycule sprawls out into the distance. Partners have partners who have partners. But for disconnected folks, it’s mostly been tinder (yuck), and a local meetup. (Also this might be the first post? That or nothing federated yet)

jjjalljs Jul 16, 2023

What's up with memes suffixed with "rule"?

https://ttrpg.network/post/135729

What's up with memes suffixed with "rule"? - The TTRPG network

Like I saw one that was titled “I wonder why rule” and had a picture about overpaid CEOs or something. Why “rule”? What’s the origin of this format?