gromnar 6mo ago • 100%
Hi! Thanks for your reply. I work with databases and I don't need to correct anything, just thank you for devoting a bit of your time to my question!
gromnar 7mo ago • 100%
Well said... Thanks for spelling it out!
gromnar 7mo ago • 100%
Thanks for these pointers!! Will look into those.
gromnar 7mo ago • 100%
I agree with this message: in fact I am not against doing it by hand. It could be a nice life project. I will look into all the advice that you have given me, thanks everyone!
Hello! I would like to catalogue my library (I estimate in the low thousands but I am unsure of the precise number). I would like to keep tracks of several things, from the "obvious" like author, title, publisher, edition, to more personal like "when"/"where" did I get it. Was it a gift? Is a lucky find from that one trip to Paris, etc. What's the best way to go about it? A physical collections of cards ? An app? I would like it to be selfhosted (maybe using sqlite as a backend?) Any idea, suggestion or anything (including your experience doing something similar!) is welcome!
gromnar 10mo ago • 100%
The Malazan book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson would be my recommendation. Start from Gardens of the Moon and go ahead... It keeps getting better and better!
gromnar 11mo ago • 100%
Your last one is a good question. I don't have an answer but I was leaning towards some sort of conservation law (e.g. normal stars have magnetic fields, when they get squeezed down to a neutron star those fields must go somewhere and it will be very much "concentrated"). Apparently this is a bit too easy (didn't expect to be nothing different). Wikipedia provides a reference to a not too recent (2003) survey, namely this one: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307133 . I don't know if it's the state of the art but it surely is interesting.
gromnar 11mo ago • 100%
How much I do love those fonts. That proper spacing and balancing... It will always a place in my heart and I fear the day that I will fail to recognize it!
gromnar 11mo ago • 100%
I may well be wrong and too naive, but I think the hate is in many cases rooted in the scary idea that they could find them attractive. And so they signal that "it could never happen to them" and that they are doing it to protect other, weaker people.
gromnar 1y ago • 100%
Same for me. I have been reading Linus (Torvalds) posts since decades and it really seemed out of character to me. I even clicked on the link but I admit that I haven't yet understood what is going on. I have decided that it's not for me...
gromnar 1y ago • 100%
So long, and thanks.
gromnar 1y ago • 100%
What is an "Analogue pocket" for those of us ... Out of the loop?
gromnar 1y ago • 100%
There is an optional Ocr pass, from what I understand
gromnar 1y ago • 100%
Good job on making the right call and preemptively shutting the server down. Thanks for being alert!
gromnar 1y ago • 100%
I hope you will enjoy it :-)
gromnar 1y ago • 100%
One wonders how they market their services : "come to us, we are the best fake reviewers you can find on the web and these 5-star reviews prove it!"
gromnar 1y ago • 0%
Hey, an entire move by oneself is on my personal definition of "big things"!
gromnar 1y ago • 100%
I think that the best one is Arkham Horror LCG by MJ Newman. It really blends together game mechanics and narrative feeling (ludonarrative harmony, as she describes here fo example: https://www.bewaretheblackcat.com/post/behind-the-curtain-enemies ). In short, you are not simply moving cards or pulling out tokens, but you are really living an adventure.
Then there is War of the Ring, really conveys both for the Free People and the shadow player a super thematic experience, while being a tight and ruthless wargame.
Those two are the peaks (for us). But I can name many other which we enjoy. Among the new ones, there is a very nice pirate game, forbidden waters. I also enjoy the games by Jerry Hawthorne (mice and mystics, comanauts, stuffed fables, ...).
And many, many others (dune conquest, for instance, or star wars: imperial assault, ...)
gromnar 1y ago • 100%
Hi! I play a lot of RPGs (with the exception of DND, for some reasons)... And I mainly enjoy thematic/narrative games (so, no "Germans" for me, even if the distinction is losing meaning day by day!)
gromnar 1y ago • 100%
Our favourite: Arkham Horror LCG, Hero realms, Lord of the rings Journey in the Middle Earth, seven Wonders duel. We are currently playing Earthborne rangers. I also often propose war of the rings/twilight struggle/ other war games but they are tougher to sell :-)
gromnar 1y ago • 100%
Great news! And looking forward to take part in some of these new communities.
Hello! I hope I am not off topic, this is literally my first day here (ok, maybe I should wait and know the community a bit better but I 'll try to be slightly bolder...if it's not ok just let me know). I understand that by choice there are no super focused communities to avoid an excessive fragmentation. So I wonder: is this the good place to discuss about tabletop RPGs? Coop/solo modes, too. I am thinking about Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds, Gurps, Fate, ... And not only the usual super famous one! I am a long time GM and sometimes player, both IRL and online, and currently I am playing a lot in solo mode (with the help of the mythic GM emulator).