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Orks, Höllenhunde, Balrog
Orks, Höllenhunde, BalrogIch leite im Moment Spiele in zwei Megadungeons (Stonehell und Arden Vul) und eine Wildnis (Hinter den Riesigen Riesen).Auf der Hexkarte hat es natürlich auch unterirdische...
View ArticleWeb mentions vs. referrals
Web mentions vs. referralsThinking about web mentions because of a post by @hbuchel I just read. I remember having added them to my wiki so that it would basically just post a comment. Then I started...
View ArticleGenerating forward indexes for Oddµ
Generating forward indexes for OddµI find myself working on forward indexes and feeds for Oddµ. Or perhaps I should say: outside of Oddµ. I’m still holding off because it seems to be a very particular...
View Article50% GDP destruction somewhere between 2070 and 2090
50% GDP destruction somewhere between 2070 and 2090I’m still trying to process this. The situation might be so much worse – and I always thought I was a pessimist. This is from page 26 in “The...
View ArticleLinking fediverse accounts in Oddµ
Looking up alex@alexschroeder.ch Linking fediverse accounts in OddµI’m still enjoying working with Go. I’m still working on Oddµ. Here’s what’s been on my mind this morning: How do I link fediverse...
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How to index pages for OddµThese last few days I’ve been working a lot on Oddµ. It’s weird. I stopped programming at the office. I write documentation for programmers, now. But at home, it’s code code...
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Oddµ wiki syntaxWhen I started writing Oddµ, I thought I might not need any wiki syntax at all. I don’t particularly like Markdown links but it seemed that they were good enough.When the focus isn’t so...
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How to manually curate a feed for OddµRecently, I wondered whether to have a feed or not?. I decided to manually curate a feed. When using a wiki like Oddmuse, every edit can be flagged as a “minor”...
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I have no faith in demonstrationsTomorrow’s the #ClimateStrike demonstration, here in Zürich is at 15:30, at Central. Sadly, I don’t think it’ll do us any good. I guess I’m waiting for some sort of...
View ArticleOddmuse to Oddmu conversion
Documenting how I converted my existing Oddmuse wiki to Oddmu. Three Perl scripts are linked.
View ArticleTo have a feed – or not
Thinking about the benefits of having a feed and when having a feed sets up affordances to write a blog when really you want to tend a digital garden or grow a wiki.
View ArticleOddµ memory consumption
I'm trying to figure out whether an in-memory trigram search index would be a worthwhile thing to have for my wiki. Surprisingly, 15 MiB of text seem to generate 70 MiB of index data and that's not good.
View ArticleRandom generators on wiki pages
Here is another one of my many attempts at bringing back a public random tables wiki like Abulafia. Sadly, Abulafia has been broken for years. If by any chance you are the Abulafia person, please let...
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Turn Tracking
Listening to @3d6DTL announce calmly and clearly when a turn has passed made me set up a turn tracker, too.One line per hour. Adventuring starts at 8am and ends at 6pm.Each hour gets six boxes to tick,...
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Defending a village against raiders
A week ago, as the party was passing through Springmills, they had heard about a nearby tribe of orcs and decided to wage a war of attrition against them. See 2023-08-02 Orc camp mechanics for how...
View ArticleThe nature of treasure
Recently, Seba wondered about xp-for-gold and considered xp-per-session instead. My take is this: As a player, I do like the feeling of having achieved a difficult thing. Ideally, if the game has...
View ArticleHonour
I’ve now read two blog posts about honour but neither really strikes me as a great idea and the problem – for me, at least – is that I suspect that the material doesn’t make for a great game in the...
View ArticleOrc camp mechanics
How do I run a war of attrition of the party vs some orcs? This is what I had:0902: It’s colder up here and the Thorny Vine Wood is dominated by junipers. At night, the orcs of the Finger-breaking...
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MapTool
Recently I started running an Arden Vul campaign. You know the one: 1122 pages of PDF + maps. For my Stonehell game, I let players map and they’re using Gridmapper, at the moment. I need to be precise...
View ArticleMixed-level parties
I like to write short single-post summaries of our game sessions in addition to the regular session summaries on our campaign wikis. Recently I mentioned the makeup of our party:Running Arden Vul for...
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