Returnal (PS5), TaleSpire (PC), Fortnite: Rift Tour (PC), Death Trash (PC) GWJ Death Trash Key Contest, GWJ Announcements, and more!
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00:01:46 Returnal
00:12:30 TaleSpire
00:22:40 Fortnite: Rift Tour
00:28:40 Death Trash
00:39:07 Giveaway Contest
00:47:22 GWJ Announcements
00:53:05 Thread of the Week
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"You've got to go on without me. I'm stuck for the next 2 turns."
Mobile posting is weird
Just wanted to say I’m so happy that the community has enjoyed my
blatant thefthomage of Farley3Ks Name That Movie thread."You've got to go on without me. I'm stuck for the next 2 turns."
I appreciate the love at the end of the call, folks. I just wanted to clarify that AUs_TBird started that gigantic spreadsheet of Name that GAME games; I've just been helping to keep it updated over the past 10 or so pages. AUs_TBirD is the real MVP of the thread.
GWJ Action Game Club
I hope Blaseball is back in time for us to call another game!
I ask no favors for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks. - Sarah Moore Grimké
Mix has the right of it. - Stengah
Hello!
Talespire: To address something Glendon mentioned, it may seem like a lot of work to build the maps... and you're absolutely right, it's a huge undertaking to build from scratch. Luckily early access has been out there for a time and people have built and shared their amazing creations. And like all the GMs before me, I am continuing the longstanding tradition of riding the coattails of other people's labor and ah, "claiming" it.
You can find entire maps or build chunks called "slabs" here: https://talestavern.com/talespire-slab-archives/.
Go to any map or build in the Tales Tavern archive, and the page had a button that reads either, "Load in Talespire" or "Copy to Clipboard" and ... it just does it. It just puts it in your game, whole cloth. I'm easily confounded by... things. This is easy.
Preparing the encounters in dndbeyond, plotting the pace, figuring out stories & npcs, scaling the difficulty, and XP allotment per story chunklet, etc is what has me up at night. So far, not the maps. I'm hype about these pixels. But we'll see, I definitely had a moment in the test-battle for session zero where I panicked and forgot how to use the entire UI, but I'm hoping the time I've put in since then will make that occur less. I absolutely needed the week off between session zero and session one, and have stolen/modified/frankensteined enough maps for the first 4 chapters, and each chapter is easily 2-3 sessions. Maybe more?
Someone just up and put Rivendell in here.
A scene from Rime of the Frostmaiden, another D&D 5e campaign.
I'm not sharing my frankensteined maps here because my players are mostly gwjers.
My only criticisms are things that will be built & remedied as development progresses. The selection of minis is veeerrry small, you have to make do with what you get. There will be a whole lot of "pretend that hawk is a giant insect" and "there is only red dragon, pretend it's blue" for a bit. They are fixing things all the time. I can't wait to see where this game goes.
The worst thing I experienced in a game was in Spec Ops: The Line. I will put it in spoiler tags despite it being very old...
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