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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 05:35:17 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   Putting together your Talents and Flaws for your RPG character sheet is not entirely different from putting together your Objectives and Key Results for the upcoming corporate year. Especially when your Narrator goes "we need these finalized by Friday". 🤣
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 13:11:26 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     I'm super giddy over this. I'm meeting (over video) friends tomorrow, good friends, that I haven't met for years. And a whole week of preparations with background and stats, reading up on rules and even watching the movie is just building up the excitement even more. We're gonna have so much fun!
     
     We'll be playing Mophidious's John Carter/Barsoom, which we game-tested, goodness, six and seven years ago, which is when I last met half of them.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 13:13:51 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     The movie didn't get much praise, but it's not half bad, even if you've read the books. It's a pretty fun adventure story and a road trip on thoat across the Barsoomian desertified sea floors.
   • Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃 (mdhughes@appdot.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 16:15:38 UTC Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃

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     @clacke I love the first half or so of John Carter movie. The Zodangans in the book are a little harder than the Helians, but still peaceful & generous mostly. They aren't crazy planet-wrecking steampunk spider-city freaks like the movie; no Red Martian would behave like that.

     If they'd made the film focus on Carter's survival story, and not mix in that fantasy junk and bits from 2 other books, and made sure to say "A PRINCESS OF MARS" as the title, it would've done better.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 08:59:44 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Downloaded six die-rolling apps to evaluate. I have some rules to read and some renown points to spend. We'll start the call in four hours.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 09:03:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     I hope one of the apps allows "d6, but the sides should say 1, 2, blank, blank, boom, boom", so I don't need the translation table.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 16:29:24 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • f.rift :fire_blue:
     @feonixrift Cool app, thanks!
     
     It won't allow me to roll 4d6 at once, so I think I'll tolerate to translate the common d6 values instead.
     
     I'm using f-droid.org/en/packages/net.pe… . I supports the d6 and d20 I need, it supports first choosing how many dice I want and then roll, and it even supports selective re-rolling.
     
     Sadly no rolling animation or sound, which seems like a silly thing to have, but which I would actually like.
     
     The other five apps failed on:
     - only d6
     - text UI and yet felt cluttered
     - too complex and yet not advanced enough
   • f.rift :fire_blue: (feonixrift@hackers.town)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 16:29:25 UTC f.rift :fire_blue:

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     @clacke
     https://f-droid.org/packages/com.minar.randomix isn't billed as doing d&d dice, but its roulette mode let's you do custom labels...

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 12-Mar-2022 12:34:59 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     We played two sessions so far: One referenced above, one two weeks ago. Our third session will be in two weeks.
     
     For the first session we used MS Teams, because the Narrator has an account and it was convenient for him to set up and by the time I suggested Jitsi Meet instead a URL had already been mailed out, so we went with that.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 12-Mar-2022 12:34:59 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     For the second session we used Meet, and apart for the freedom and privacy of supporting free software and not needing a Microsoft account for setting anything up, we saw the following practical advantages:
     
     - Trivial to set your display name when you join. We all had display names in characters, which really helps atmosphere![0]
     - Trivial private messaging.[1] Great for Narrator and Character to have a quick aside without having to use a breakout room.[2]
     - No person is Host and needs to let others in, people can join as early as they like and just hang out until the announced start of the adventure.
     - You can share screen as your background picture, so people can see both you and your desktop! Well, maybe not practical, and we didn't make use of it, but I think it could potentially be used for some cool stuff!