Winchell Chung @nyrath@qoto.org

Man. Really good play test of Eyes Wide to the Stars tonight. The fiction was OK — it was characters meeting each other for the first time. But most importantly we started to canonize the core themes of the game:
Consent, compassion, connection; and their antagonistic counterparts of coercion, detachment, and abandonment.

I’ve started seeing how to design Actions parallel to Bronze, where the title is what the character’s doing and the consequences are what the players are doing.

Ready to draw a starship but don't have an inspiration? Have a crack at the Stella Sciuri, the PC's ship in my #FateCore campaign. It's made from two surplus submarines (from the water planet Ceto) with a structure connecting them, something like a catamaran. It can transform among several different modes:

For underwater travel, the subs travel side-by-side in the usual orientation.

For drifting in space, the subs rotate so their conning towers are pointing toward each other. The entire craft then spins, generating "gravity" that points "down" within the subs. (We are waving our hands furiously about the nauseating Coriolis force that would result from this.)

For accelerating in space or landing, the subs again have their conning towers "up" and the fusion engine (in the central structure) thrusts upward (exhaust downward), so "down" is correct inside the subs.

For launching, the fusion engine rotates to fire forward (exhaust abaft). In this configuration only, "down" is toward the aft of the subs.

#MastoArt #prompts #art #starships #scifi #submarines @nyrath

A successful Session 1 of my #FateCore space campaign. The party has become involved in a 10,000 km ice rally (think Dakar) to win money to buy fuel.

Other fun tidbits:

They arrived on this planet with a cargo hold of alcohol to sell ... but it turns out it's illegal on this planet.

The uplifted capybara enginer has been convinced to take part in the race with the promise of installing a hot tub on the ship.

Another race team comprises the son of one character and the nephew of another. They were embarrassingly confronted at the pre-race brunch by their older relatives (who don't yet know what these young mean are *really* up to).

Multiple organized crime families.

"Are we space drug dealers?"

As a cliffhanger, an attack by ice ostriches.

#ttrpg

This is the best sentence I have read in a good while:

"Their proposal seems to be that the Great Filter is that Capitalism is a death cult: either you reach for the stars and explode, or you get a little cottage in the country and don't bother disassembling Jupiter."

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/05/today-in-fermi-paradoxes/

One thing I love about my life is that, when I say something like “A person made of stained glass”, I then have to draw it to show people.

That’s my job.

This character is a so-far mute, psychic alien from our ongoing playstorm of Eyes Wide to the Stars who needed help escaping from the mine bosses that found their spacecraft(?) buried in millions of years of strata of soil. A miner and a medic wound up escaping with them.

*on the xenophilia Discord of my Patreonfolx: https://Patreon.com/Joshua

One of the player characters in my #FateCore game now has the aspect "space Karen", after she delayed some attacking law enforcement ships by demanding to speak to their supervisor. #ttrpg

If I can convince myself to stop writing space adventures and drawing spaceships and spaceguns and space robots and space aliens this game is gonna be awesome.

The Howling Passages (named for the atonal howl of the winds blowing through these caves) have been used on-and-off by smugglers for years.

Someone else built the understructures, and there are no hints remaining today as to their purpose or builders.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2022/05/16/howling-passages/

#dungeonsanddragons #dnd5e #dnd #dndmap #dndmaps #rpg #ttrpg #rpgmap #rpgmaps #osr #osrmap #osrmaps

Finally launched my #FateCore space campaign. I'm the GM, but it seemed appropriate for me to make a character too. My high concept: passive-aggressive uplifted capybara. Also involved: two disgraced scientists, a stowaway underage bartender, a cyborg assassin, a space accountant, and a starship made by strapping two submarines together.

#ttrpg

I asked the players in my upcoming #FateCore space campaign to tell me about their ship. One suggested a converted wet navy freighter, echoing the Yamato. I proposed a #submarine, which would open up the possibility of underwater adventures. Of course, since "down" would now be the stern of the ship rather than the ventral side, some interior redecoration is in order...

Naturally, @nyrath has already passed through this territory:

http://www.projectrho.com/SSC/submarine.html

#ttrpg

Hey everyone. I've created another Mastodon account over at @DaveOfThings@mastodon.technology.

It seems qoto.org, my first home on Mastodon, is cut off from much of the Fediverse, so I had to find an alternative.

I've tried to re-follow everyone from the new account. Unfortunately, I can't see some of my new qoto.org friends from there. Anyway, give the new account a follow if you'd like to stay in touch.

Oreney’s Watch

Old crumbling stoneworks around an ancient bridge and watch tower on a small tributary of the Alaric.

Known as Oreney’s Watch after the ranger who saved countless lives reporting the Brightbone Ravagers moving into Pantesh.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2022/05/05/oreneys-watch/

@peterdrake @trinsec

This has to do with the Content Security Policy interfering with self-hosted scripts. There are good reasons for doing this - in particular, some types of files users upload, like SVG images, can contain arbitrary JavaScript. I think the MathJax code just needs to be added to whatever whitelist exists for necessary scripts, but I'm not sure how to do that (and it's probably @freemo who has to make the change anyway).

I tested this by disabling CSP in my browser (Waterfox preferences security.csp.*) temporarily - but I do not recommend this as a permanent workaround for reasons outlined above.

We were given a pretty e6b mechanical computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B

Looks like this server is blocked by a number of other servers for being federated with fascist or unmoderated servers. ugh.

Setting up a new account at:

@oskay@mastodon.technology

So, if one were crazy enough to build a mobile forward operating base, what might one call it?

Flying citadel? Floating fortress? Hoverdreadnought? Why-the-fuck-don’t-we-just-land-this-on-the-enemy?