RMS has never stolen my personal data and sold it to criminals, or deprecated my hardware by deliberately throttling its speed. The worst things you can say about him that he’s a wierdo and a bit of a fanatic. But, he’s a fanatic about personal and societal freedom, which is something everybody should be a fanatic about.
Wow, this is the first time I’ve seen a reference to Talislanta that wasn’t made by me! Do you know of a d&d version, I only encountered stand alone versions with their own rulesets?
What a a pointless, ad ridden mess of an article. The popularity of Forgotten Realms stems from the fact that it was aggresively market ed during the 2e era, since the creator of the setting was on board, unlike Gary and his Greyhawk. The author mentions the (terrible) tie in novels that were also a major factor in its omnipresence, but they also drove the metaplot which diluted the setting into its curent “generic fantasy kitchen sink”. Personally, if you’d put a gun to my head and told me to run a game in it, I’d probaby avoid the Sword Coast in favor of the east/southeast, Dalelands or The Sea od Fallen Stars being the most likely canidates.
I play OSE which is B/X DnD with the serial numbers filed off - 2+ years of “Grand Campaign” (West Marches in modern parlance) gaming, and a folder full of dead characters, most of them from the early days when we were still accustomed to the new school gaming style.
To be honest, prompt wrangling is too time consuming for me, its much more simple to grab an image from Pinterest and call it a day.
Here are some of the introductory one shots/starter adventures I have run:
Winter’s Daughter - originally for OSE, there is a 5e version available. Very fairy tale oriented, might not be best for hack&slash oriented players.
Village of Hommlet - A classic, can be used as a basis for a long term campaign if you bother with learning the backstory of every villager.
Against The Cult Of The Reptile God - best played as a mystery, with the BBEG revealing itself at the most innoportune moment. Don’t event mention the cult, let the players figure it out themselves. May take 3-4 sessions at least.
A litany In Scratches - Don’t have a lot of prep time? Want to scare the pants of your players? ALIS has almost no combat (at least not until a certain part) and plenty od spookiness.
Broodmother Skyfortress - Out of the box thinking and weirdness galore, this will certainly upend their (and your) expectations.
Oof, I have a huge boner for roguelikes, and most of them are open source. My biggest time sink is still Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, playable online at https://crawl.develz.org/
What about games inside of games? I remember hunkering down in some random medibay in System Shock 2 to play some OverWorld Zero on my GamePig.
Hotline Miami - When I need to work out like hell. Stardew valley - When I feel like chilling out. HOMM III - When I pretend I’m on am epic quest while commuting.
I was one of the original refugees from digg.com. This feels like R*ddit of old - simple layout, techie userbase, friendly community. Feels like home.
The stall is obviously not installed yet, but whatever, funny picture on the internet, gotta get those points.
Oh look, it’s almost as Meta is an untrustrworthy actor that plans to EEE the fediverse. I consider any instance that federates with Meta a lost cause, to be defederated as well.