RPG ⁽³⁾

Day 1: Joplin Inspired by @, each day until the 24th, I posted about one piece of open source software that I use, under the #FreeSoftwareAdvent hashtag on my fediverse account. All 24 entries are included here. When I decided to do that, I immediately…

Back in the 2000s and 2010s, I played in some tabletop RPGs online, with geographically disparate players. We didn’t use Roll20 or any sort of video chat. We played on IRC, then later XMPP, using real time, text-only, chat rooms. I think more people should…

Some time ago, I read a story about a GM running a pre-written adventure. This GM decided to tweak the adventure as written, by gender swapping every NPC. His (exclusively male) players found it odd that they only met one man. As the game went…