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@wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net I own most of Avery Alder's games, but I've never had a chance to try them - I need to get a regular RPG group going again...

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@Wayril@octodon.social That's cool!

But most of those systems are very similar to D&D – if you want to broaden your palate, I'd recommend trying to run something very different (like Fiasco or Apocalypse World).

It sounds like you'd run the kind of D&D games that I'd enjoy, though!

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@wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net that sounds really awesome - I'm a big fan of Apocalypse World, and some of the half-finished games that Baker has made (and his thoughts on Ars Magica reflect a more sympathetic version of my thoughts), so I really have to give it a try!

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@lizardsquid fully agree. D&D is a good toolkit for starting out with GMing and tabletop roleplaying, but not the best. It's a very robust framework but it makes it very hard to fudge things. If you're an experienced GM and want to run anything but high fantasy dungeon crawls and combat heavy adventures, then you're constantly going ot be fighting D&D's systems; all of them, no matter the edition. it's doable but it's a LOT of work and there's better systems.

That reminds me, I need to read Night Witches, so I can run that at some point soon

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@wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net the forge is very good.

I really want to try Dogs in the Vineyard, I've yet to have a chance

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(also this is technically a subtoot, and I'm sorry to you for doing that, but I think this is important to say to a wider audience, rather than just to you – I don't want you to think I'm trying to attack you)

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also I've heard lots of D&D DMs say something like "oh, but you can customise the rules and the DM can make it as story-telling as they want"

And.... that's not really true. If I invited you to D&D, and you came over and found out we were playing a diceless game where the story was based around budding romance in a countryside post office, you would be very confused and feel lied to.

That's a story you could tell! But it's not one you could tell with D&D.

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@Wayril@octodon.social do you run any other games?

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@Troasta I like Fate too, although it's harder to do right than I would like...

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@popefucker@cybre.space setting the IP address changed nothing (and yeah, they're both on the same wifi network)

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@popefucker@cybre.space where do I set the static IP, though... do I set it for my phone on my computer, or for my computer on my phone?

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@popefucker@cybre.space I didn't know syncthing used LAN, it's never done that for me before

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@popefucker@cybre.space ✨Australian Internet Speeds✨

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transferring at an incredible speed of 50MiB an hour

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