Christer Enfors

Yes. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law is a fundamental principle for good reason. For example, we don’t actually know if anything of what we’ve read about him is actually true.

Exactly. People need to remember that this is the Internet, not their home country. We don’t know where you’re from.

I get your point, but he didn’t create Tesla, he bought it (as far as I know). So it could be argued that these things would be happening with or without him. But with him, he’s giving electric cars (at least, that brand) a bad name.

Welcome! So far, in my experience, this is a much friendlier community that… many of the alternatives.

unregulated weapons made from kids

By god I hope they mean “for” kids or “by” kids. If people are making guns from kids, we really have a problem.

Nice! I have three:

• Playing Tabletop Roleplaying Games Alone
• Hexcrawls - Map-based Exploration in Roleplaying Games
• Roleplaying Games Design

Yeah. Also, if you’re interested, you could look up the “Fronts” system from Dungeon World, which is a similar formalized system for this sort of thing.

I can’t really contribute a process, but it seems to me that during the last three or so years, there’s been a shift in what’s regarded as “good design” when it comes to TTRPG campaigns.

It used to be (I think) that new DMs and GMs were adviced to pre-plan a story or adventure that the players would traverse in one way or another. But now, the advice seems to have shifted to “don’t pre-plan a story, instead set up a situation in the world, and let the players tell their story by dealing with the situation in whatever way they see fit”.

Ideally, I would say, you could have many parallel “situations” going on at the same time. The orcs are planning to launch a war, a local guild master is plotting to become mayor, and little Timmy is lost in the woods. Players then choose what to engage with, and that which they don’t engage with progress naturally (possibly influenced by die rolls). The orcs do launch their war which changes the game world, the guild master is now the new mayor (for better or for worse), and little Timmy… well, we better not talk about what happened to him.

Hello! Reddit has basically been my online home for over ten years, but it looks like that’s about to change - so yeah, let’s be friendly to oneanother and build some great communities here in the Fediverse!

I’ve read the blog post about designing battlemaps on your blog: https://blog.apoth.org/prep-on-battlemaps-and-encounters, and it was a literal game changer (yes, literal) for me. I’ve always thought of making maps as a bit of a chore, but this blog post made me realize that the design process of making a battlemap can be an interesting tactical exercise.