It's perfectly natural to go from, "I should sit down and roll up a Traveler character," to, "I should sit down and write a text mode app for Traveler character generation to roll up said character in a mere many hours." Right?
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mastodon 4.7.3My prior home instance fell over, so as I had been intending to make accounts other places I've made one here. Used to write regularly, trying to start again. Occasionally taking a stab at Inkscape and trying to transfer three and a half decade old experience with Aldus Pagemaker in school to Scribus. Occasionally convincing ideas to get out of my head into paper or pixels. Profile picture by Inspector Caracal.
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@deinol@dice.camp whoa, I'm so used to the D&D-but-better-I-swear fantasy heartbreaker that a GURPS (and I suppose HERO system) heartbreaker takes a moment to not feel unnatural.
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@anakin78z@mograph.social it's not D&D, but there was a PDQ system RPG called Dead Inside which I heard summarized as, "An anti-D&D. Find monsters, heal them, and give them your stuff." It is about people who have lost parts of their souls going on a quest to find or replace that missing bit. With helping others as a party of the journey.
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@mathzy just barely, I ran from the vampire back to the starting room with only one health, then managed loop around the vampire and ran for the exit. Luck, pure luck.
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Huh. Apparently both the Textual and Prompt Toolkit python modules have some degree of support for Sixel and/or Terminal Graphics Protocol graphics. It would be kind of cheating and no longer a pure text mode app, but could be fun to play with.
As mentioned a little bit ago on Art, I was reminded of Pauli Kidd's Lace and Steel and from there her novel Mus of Kerbridge which was an influence on my thought that any RPG where you can have tiny PCs would allow for tiny PCs. For Mus as their name suggests is a mouse, but also a hero who doesn't let their tiny size stop them from striving to do right.
I bought a d100 some time back (90s I think) because do you really have a dice pool if you don't have at least one d100? (Also multiple d30s) But, if I need a d100 roll I'll be doing it the right and proper way: one regular d10 and one 10-to-00 d10.
*glances over the timeline* Ah, I see. A very happy May You Stub A Toe Every Morning For The Rest of Your Life Day to everyone who answers questions with answers to totally different questions and then is offended that the questioner pointed out that wasn't the question asked. (Hey, it's much more polite than what I originally considered saying)