Recent content by Cynicide

A legal way to get PDFs of the Alternity books would be great.

Hard agree here. I want to get back to what made the hobby fun for me when I started.

Yes, what you're saying makes a lot of sense. I guess I was also thinking back to my 2nd Ed AD&D days where we got by with scribbled maps that roughed out positions. Although to be fair there were a lot less "clicky" abilities with ranges and durations then and I'm probably looking at it with...

I thought I'd weigh in on the subject of battlemats and VTT's. In 2020 my group lost their in-person play space, we moved online and I have been running games in Foundry ever since. I've used battlemats almost exclusively but I'm thinking that I'll ditch them for theater of the mind after the...

Sunday was a 24km run before a half-marathon race this weekend. Usually I'd be tapering before an event, but this weekend's race is just another training run before a marathon in August. This weekend is a chance to try out some fueling and hydration strategies in a live setting before the real...

Traveller can be setting agnostic but it's probably best known for it's Third Imperium setting. I remember reading in Shannon Appelcline's Traveller history that it started out without a setting but gained one over time. If you want to create your own setting just look at the rules for creating...

It's a bit old now, but maybe Grey Ranks Grey Ranks (role-playing game) - Wikipedia

I'm a recreational runner training for a marathon in August. While I'm not the fastest I've ever been, the volume of endurance running I'm doing at the moment is far higher than what I've done before. I run Tue/Wed/Thu with distances from 5 - 11km at the moment. Sunday runs are the long runs...

Yes, she's getting better as she gets older and we figure out what toys are appropriate. We will occasionally buy toys like the one in the photo knowing she will destroy it in 30 minutes, but also knowing she will have a good time.

This is my dog Popcorn (Poppy for short) she's a Kelpie cross and needs a lot of exercise and stimulation. I'm currently marathon training and she comes along regardless of the distance. She does have second thoughts if it start to rain though.

I'm knocking on the door of 50 and the biggest problem has been eyesight slowly going. I'm pretty physically active so that's not an issue. Probably the biggest thing for me is social isolation. I don't interact with online communities anywhere near as much as I used to and tend to lurk a lot...

I used to watch one of those Youtube channels. I got so sick of the clickbait, the 10 minute videos and the worthless tips I unsubscribed. Sly Flourish, Seth Skorkowsky, Willy Muffin and Mastering Dungeons are all I watch/listen to these days. I get more value from an amateur youtuber with a...

The real TSR was the friends we made along the way. Or maybe it's like Planescape where every door leads to a different TSR.