Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org

I'm feeling an urge to run a #ttrpg next semester, while I'm still on sabbatical and have the time to make this plausible.

Genre? Probably space opera or fantasy.

System? That's the question. I recently ran FATE and I think I want something a little crunchier, more on the "players face the challenge placed by the GM" end than "collaborative storytelling". I'm interested in a good pre-written adventure.

Candidates:

Savage Worlds. I like the level of detail, as well as the use of polyhedral dice, but the settings and adventures I've looked at (Seven Worlds, The Last Parsec) seem dry and vague.

GURPS. Maybe too heavy? The focused Dungeon Fantasy box is intriguing and has good reviews.

Traveller (Mongoose). Again, the adventures out there look very dry. It sounds like you might get through the first two Marches adventures without any combat. I'm not saying I want a mercenary campaign, but action/adventure works better than extended wandering.

D&D 5E. The obvious, easy answer, but overdone and a bit too Hasbro-y. All other things being equal, I prefer skills over classes.

Dungeon Crawl Classics. Fun to be had from the 0-level funnel and spell misfires, but the 1970s-era worldview is borderline problematic.

Nudge me, Mastodon!

#SavageWorlds #gurps #traveller #DnD #DungeonCrawlClassics

Prediction: Republican state supreme courts will start disqualifying Biden because ... well, they're pretty sure he must have done some kind of crime or other.

Every Unity GameObject has an associated transform, which comprises three vectors: position, rotation, and scale.

If you want to change the rotation, you use the Rotate method.

If you want to know what the rotation is, you'd think you'd access the rotation field. There is such a field, but it's not the one you want. You need to use eulerAngles.

🤦‍♂️

#unity #unity3d #GameDev #naming

Behind the scenes, rotation is actually a Quaternion. I understand there are reasons for this, but displaying it in the Inspector as Rotation (with three components), and setting it using Rotate (with a Vector3 and an angle) made me expect that rotation would be a Vector3.

@cheribaker Let me bring this to your attention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVvm8YMz6z0

Worth it for the opening credits alone. Also the inspiration for the tabletop game The Awful Green Things From Outer Space.

Pupdate: #Violet sees a squirrel out the back window. #DogsOfMastodon

I'm seeing numerous surveys that most people are now "using AI" in their everyday work. I *think* this means generative AI, but I'm not sure.

1) Are you? How?

2) Should I be using it, and teaching my undergraduate students to do so?

3) Is my resistance just a later-generation version of "calculators will make us stupid", or am I correctly smelling an enshittification trap? It's not gonna stay free once we're all dependent on it.

#ai #ChatGPT #GenerativeAI

Vigilant dog is vigilant. #Violet #DogsOfMastodon

Neat -- the artist who illustrated my Siva Afi card game is selling some of the art:

https://www.redbubble.com/people/uc3wave/explore

#SivaAfi #fireknife #samoa #fire #dance #CardGames

Here's what Redbubble is selling as "Mastodon Social Media Magnets":

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/mastodon+social+media+die-cut-magnets