Sly Gryphon @sgryphon@qoto.org

We like it when you buy our games.
We LOVE it when you play them.
So next week we're launching Dice Pool to help you run a great session of Blades in the Dark, Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, and Fate.
Run a great #ttrpg session with confidence!
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🆕 blog! “The complexity is the attraction - reflections on trying to use crypto”

A few weeks ago, someone wanted to send me some crypto. After spending months studying for a Blockchain exam, I usually avoid such things. But, hey, $20 is $20. So I signed up for a wallet, installed an extension, verified my credentials, saved a seed phrase…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/the-complexity-is-the-attraction-reflections-on-trying-to-use-crypto/
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#bitcoin #blockchain #crypto

I fell down a rabbit hole this evening reading old blog posts about The Forge, Ron Edwards, and GNS/Big Model #TTRPG theory.

Reasons why Matrix can be better for diversity than closed platforms:

* Wide variety of implementations
* Public accountability
* Low cost

Our openness makes us stronger!

https://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2024/06/23/elected-to-the-matrix-foundation-governing-board/

#matrix #diversity #opensource

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison this morning, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK for Australia.
After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.
~ Wikileaks

Just a note saying how my #Fediverse experience has been made immeasurably richer for being able to take in and engage with carefully curated #Threads users, #BlueSky bridged users, #WordPress ActivityPub enabled blogs, Federated #Podcast episodes, #PixelFed photos, and Peertube videos. All from one Mastodon account. This works.

And I'm grateful for the moderation tools to mute, block and curate all of this, and the Mastodon lists to make them all digestable and not just info overload.

They say everyone's a critic.

If you are everyone, here's a rough draft of an RPG oneshot, in need of a critic.

It's all fantasy, and slightly horror.

https://ttrpgs.com/share/aif.pdf

#TTRPG #NSR #RPG

To all TRPG developers, Fabula Ultima released their third party license today in a surprise drop. It was shockingly nice to developers: you can copy rules text, unrevokable, you own your work, no fees, commercial.

https://need.games/fabula-ultima/#license

#trpg #ttrpg #thirdparty #developer #tabletop #tabletoprpg #roleplayinggame #fabulaultima

Authenticated Media, progress on native sliding sync, and Neko on Flathub. That, and more happened this week in Matrix!

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/06/21/this-week-in-matrix-2024-06-21/

I just went on a follow-fest for women with a PhD, but realized I'm already mutuals with almost everyone who shows up in the limited search results 😋

If you're a Dr. Gal or other female science communicator type, pop into the thread, say hi!

I'd love to learn about what you do 💜
(and I'm sure lots of others would too)

#WomenInStem #FollowFriday (on Tuesday) #WomenInMedicine #Dr #PhD

Also, shout-out to @letsencrypt for dramatically changing the security landscape of the Web for the better over the years.

Rarely is there an example of a project so effective and so directly improving everyone's lives, while at the same time keeping the original engineering mindset and just Doing Stuff Right™ humbly in the background.

Next November it will have been exactly a decade since LE started. We all owe them a huge 10th birthday party.

RPG tip from the archive: If players stall in a scene, lay out the decisions and give each one a chance to choose.

#dnd #ttrpg