The limiting factor in 1e, discouraging long resting in the dungeon and using spells to recover hp was random encounters. The Tomb unusually does not have random encounters, but you’re not supposed to tell your players that.

Has a bit of an urban Robert Frost feeling to it.

From what I understand, players were scored individually. So those players who convinced the others to take on the dangerous parts fared better.

I scanned through the 1e DMG and PHB, but I didn’t see anything about a base chance a trap does not trigger. These two traps, the needle and the pits, have their specifics listed in the module.

The needle trap is always found if the box is searched, and always triggers if precautions aren’t taken. It harkens back to skill play, where the player is meant to find alternate means instead of rolling dice. It’s like how the west false entrance specifically says there’s no saving throw.

The pit trap does have a percentage chance not to fall in, but it still triggers. Being as the pits are 10’ square I do enjoy the idea of catching multiple PCs at once. And that was possible back in the day with how turns were organized, which I’ll cover in my next post.

I definitely agree about the the HP and other resource management. I’ll be covering some of that in my next post.

Those late 80s, early 90s network sci-fi shows are a special kind of train wreck that I love.

One of the later seasons of Earth Final Conflict. They built up the female support role to be this tough brilliant independent woman who didn’t need no man. Then when the male lead left the show and she took the lead roll they immediately had her fall into a romance with some no name character that wrecked her confidence.

On the reverse, Sliders, the male lead and female support had this will they won’t they for a bit, but then in an awkward scene later between the two support roles she relates that off camera they had “the talk” and said they weren’t an item with no real feeling about it.

This is a great read. I’ve worked on software my whole career that wasn’t designed to kill someone, but could quite literally kill someone if it wasn’t correct. There’s a weight that comes with that kind of responsibility.

We were all cheated my friend. We were all cheated.

I agree with Audrey0nne that the charm of the original has not aged well, and also not all of the episodes are available due to archive policies and legal restrictions of the day.

The first season of the reboot suffers from the same uncertainty that Star Trek TNG first season did. Nobody knew if the show was going to be a success and also they were trying to balance new techniques with old expectations. Christopher Eccleston was cast for his name recognition and star power and he already knew going in he was only committed for one season.

I say start with the season finale of the reboot’s first season to see David Tennant come in and see where that takes you.

Gumballs and Dungeons is a fun roguelike gacha. The main game loop is picking a Gumball which have different stats and mechanics and diving a Dungeon which has different enemies and mechanics. So you want to synergize your gumball with your strategy for a particular dungeon. Each floor of a dungeon is a 6x5 tile map and you flip the tiles looking for the down exit. There’s a boss every so many floors and just try to go a deep as you can. At the end of the run you keep some of the stuff you collected to unlock new dungeons and gumballs.

Another Eden is a gacha RPG from the writer and composer of sony enix dream team; chrono series, xeno series, final fantasy. There is so much content there and a ton of crossovers with other franchises. The map movement is done really well here for a mobile targeted rpg, it’s slightly elevated from a side scroll perspective and you mostly move horizontally in lanes with vertical connections here and there to switch between lanes. The writing is great, the music is great, the battle mechanics can get really deep.

It was a good read, but holy fuck did vice’s website crash 20 times trying to read the last two pages.

How should a contributor gauge whether to make big changes to “do it right” or to do it a little hacky just to get the job done?

When you work in enough diverse codebases, with enough diverse contributors, you begin to understand there isn’t one objectively right way. There are many objectively wrong ways to do something. Picking a way to do a certain task is about picking from tradeoffs. A disturbingly common tradeoff is picking rapid development over long term maintainability, but that isn’t not the right way to do it in a competitive space.

Needs change over time and certain tradoffs may no longer apply. You’re likely to see better success making lots of little hacky fixes until it’s not a hack anymore because you’ve morphed it slowly over time.

Version control, git et al, allows you to make multiple commits in a single PR, so you could break the changes up to be more reviewable.

Hear, hear! I would add that it multiplies again, again when other people are actually using the product. Engineers famously build tools for engineers which can leave something to be desired for the layman.

My experience, ymmv, the most work went into configuring everything you need or want the first time. The right drivers for your graphics card, for your webcam, wifi, acpi multimedia keys, etc. Though I don’t use a gnome/kde/DE, so some of that may automagically work for you. After that though, updates don’t tend to break the things you’ve already fixed.

One time in 5 years the names of some acpi keys changed, and I had to update the script, and that wasn’t really arch’s fault. Also Google did a funny thing with their monospaced font that xft couldn’t handle, again not an arch specific thing.

And here’s a hot take for you, I only update about every 18 months. That’s usually how long it takes Discord to become binarily incompatible with installed libraries. Update the keyring first and never a problem.

I too have had idle thoughts about what lessons to pass on and what was lacking in my own formal education.

My elevator pitch is to have a semester long project broken down by feature. You get a couple weeks to develop, but after each one is complete you have to trade code bases with someone else in the class. It’d teach both how to work in an established code base, and how to be kind to some future maintainer (who might be yourself).

Rewilding, as defined in the artIcle, isn’t about reverting a place to a previous state, but instead is about reintroducing diversity to a monoculture system. So the author isn’t saying we need to go back to self hosted small independent servers, only that the internet needs more service providers in each space. It really was a fantastic read.

I’m not going to dig into the details because I can’t convince you your experienced reality isn’t real. Paranoia can stem from delusions, a key factor in your story is that most people, even those close to you, aren’t backing up your experiences.

I’m a stranger on the internet, so take what I say with a grain of salt. I was into your story up until you said planes and helicopters were flying low over your home. It sounds like you may suffering from some level of schizophrenia or other paranoia related condition. Get evaluated, or don’t, but I hope you find peace.

Now kiss 👉👈