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Session 0 is very important!

Hello everyone,today I am going to write about one of the most important things in TTRPGs, next to roleplaying, and the rules themselves: Session 0. What is it, why is it so

Docker

Docker Gem: Gitea

Today a quick look at a neat Docker Image I found: GiteaI knew Gitlab before, as a solution for self-hosting your git service, where you can have unlimited private repositories, complete with a

TTRPG

Same Page Tool in German/Deutsch

The English original from Deeper in the Game can be found here.Hallo, heute ein Deutscher Artikel von mir.‌‌ Eine Übersetzung des Same Page Tools; ein nettes Werkzeug, um alle Spieler in, oder

TTRPG

Review: PbtA is a great system

Hello everyone,today I want to talk to you about one of my favourite TTRPG-systems:Powered by the Apocalypse, or short: PbtA. I will tell you how PbtA works, and whom it is

TTRPG

IMHO: Fudging Dices is bad! – A DnD-Problem

Hello everyone,recently Matt Colville released a video talking about fudging dice rolls, i.e. the GM setting the dice as he thinks fits the story most. I have some things to say

Review

Review: Inhuman Conditions

Today something completely different from me. I will review an actual "board"-game today, instead of a Tabletop RPG. The game I want to talk about is called Inhuman Conditions, made by some

TTRPG

Rant: Looking for GM sucks

This post will not be about RPG-Systems, nor rules, nor dice, but about looking for GM posts, and the reasons I – as someone who GMs a lot – dislike them, even find them disrespectful.

TTRPG

[RPG-Review] The Sprawl is a bad PbtA game

If you have read my The Sprawl campaign diaries on steemit, you will already know some of my problems with The Sprawl. If you did not: There are problems with The Sprawl, and

[RPG-Review] FATE Accelerated (and sort of FATE Core)

Hey everyone!Today another review/ramble from me. This one is about FATE Accelerated Edition (or short FAE), FATE Core's simpler version.If you're interested in how FATE Accelerated works, I made a

TTRPG

The Quiet Year – First Impressions

Oh, this blog still exists … Uhm, hi! A lot of stuff has been happening recently, and time has been sparse. I took some time to write this though. Soon I will also write

TTRPG

Talking RPG settings with my group

There has been a break in my posts. I blame the Mass Effect Trilogy. Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2: Awesome! Mass Effect 3 … pewpew? Red, Green, Blue? I really want to

TTRPG

[RPG-Review/First impressions] Fiasco

Last saturday my The Sprawl group played Fiasco, because one player wasn't available. A great chance to tell you my experiences with Fiasco. Fiasco was on my list of games to play for

TTRPG

[RPG-Review] Lasers & Feelings

It's me again! This time I will speak good of a tabletop RPG! The RPG I will speak good of today is a small system made by John Harper called Lasers & Feelings.

TTRPG

Rant: Shadowrun: Anarchy is bad, too

Everyone liked my Shadowrun 5E rant. Let's do it again! Last week I told you that Shadowrun 5E's rules are garbage. But Catalyst listened to everyone shouting "The rules suck!", so

TTRPG

Running The Sprawl: First impressions

Yesterday I had my first (gameplay-)session of The Sprawl, as a Game-Master. Even though I feel very comfortable with Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) games, I am having a hard time with

TTRPG

Rant: Shadowrun 5th Edition rules are garbage

Based on a German video I published on YouTube – differences to the original are minor. Now it's English though! These will appear a lot less frequently from now on. The DnD-Rant and this

TTRPG

Rant: DnD5E isn't good for everything

Hello Internet,today I want to rant about something. This something is Dungeons&Dragons 5E.There are two things I want to rant about:DnD isn't good as a TTRPG-System for everything

Reminder

Low-Level Package-Management Cheat-Sheet

Before all my mirrored TTRPG-Posts will go on this blog, I'll quickly release this post. Another reminder for me about Low-Level Package-Mangement commands I stole collected from the internet. I only need the

Back from the dead! – Or so

This blog will be back! Sort of …It will basically be a mirror of my Steemit Blog in case Steemit is down (like it was yesterday). Already existing posts I'm not too sure

This blog is basically dead.

Check out my twitter for random stuff though: https://twitter.com/Niduroki Memo for myself: Actually delete/retire this blog if you look at this again and instead of this website do a

Python

C̶l̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ Dumb-bot

I'm back from the dead (after 5 months)! Combine markoff chains with string manipulation and voila, you've got a bot to chat with. Several IRC bots like rbot and SupybotLimnoria already have this,

Ubuntu Touch on Nexus 7

Sorry for this being recorded vertically (i.e. the giant black bars), I didn't have a stand for my camera (which is my phone), so I sort of used my case for it.

Mobile RPi and Wifi-SD-Card

I've build this quite a while ago, but I think it's definitely worth sharing this with the internet! There is a SD-Card with Wifi on the market, which can be easily rooted, making

Reminder

Extract pages from a PDF

And another reminder for me – now on how to extract pages from a pdf: If we want to extract, say page 5 to page 9 from book.pdf to extract.pdf we can

SFTP-Chroots

Yet another little reminder for me on how do to chroots in sftp (so an user does not see /bin, /home, and other internals/user directories – say in webhosting): In my example, my