Mal wieder was für die #BastlerInnen da draußen:
Ein #Asus Z9200 (genauer Z9225G) Notebook. 100GB IDE HDD funktioniert und ist blank. Was der Akku noch kann, keine Ahnung? Netzteil? Nope.
Tierfrei, Nichtraucher ;)
Falls also noch jemand etwas mit #elektroschrott anfangen möchte: DM
(falls ihr das hier für unangemessen haltet und ich das Ding lieber direkt ins Recycling geben sollte, sagt es)
Love #Tinkerwell for those that have used it you’ll know why. But… sadly, I find the direction it is going in for my uses is not a good fit. Too many features, and AI… ick. Yeah I know, just don’t use those.
There is also 3v4l Integration from JetBrains, but I can’t help think… why?
I have several PHP versions running locally, why can’t I run test code locally? In VisualCode I used to do this a lot. Perhaps time to just go back to Tinker in my #laravel projects?
Perhaps answered my own question. There is a #PHPStorm plugin for #Laravel#Tinker. This has the option of running on 3v4l.org or locally. Appears to run locally just fine right from within PHPStorm. Perhaps good enough?
TIL To easily enter multi-line code into #tinker without trailing slashes at every line, you can enter the string "enter" into your terminal window and then press ENTER. This will open an editor (e.g. nano), where you can edit your code just like normal. When you are ready, you can simply save and exit. Thereafter, tinker executes the entered code ✨ 🚀
🤯 #laravel#amProgramming#codingTips#webdevelopment
We've been living off this little #solarpower pack for 2 years now. It's made me a fan of #lowtech#tinker goodies and making do with what's available, rethinking what basic necessities we even need and what we can use in lieu of typical appliances.
Also It's absolutely ridiculous to me that Nova Scotia Power is both a for profit organization and the enforcer of safety regulations.
🔌🔋Power + internet should be #collectivelyowned and managed. The consolidation of power grinds my gears.🔋🔌
My little computer board that I am hoping to make a Pi-Hole out of will arrive today. So that's this evening's tinkering sorted. Always best to do those kind of things when she's away anyway. https://pi-hole.net/ #PiHole#Tinker
Spelljammer is already on printing two. That’s because they need to make some changes to the Hadozee for reasons of insensitivity. They’re good changes and Wizards of the Coast is changing the processes that allowed the culturally insensitive material to appear first too. This new printing has other errata too.
The one that sticks out is the addition of Feats to every Background.
“These backgrounds each give a feat. If a character takes a background from elsewhere and doesn’t get a feat from that background, the character gains one of the following feats of the player’s choice: Magic Initiate, Skilled, or Tough.”
Dragonlance will have something similar. For Dragonlance this was because these are characters in a war. They must be stronger, tougher, etc. In Spelljammer it kind of makes sense. Normal people aren’t space halflings and asteroid dwarves.
Similar to the Dragonlance decision my world has an additional feat at first level. In the case of the World of the Everflow these choices are;
Kin get a Bonded Companion.
Ken get a feat that grants a cantrip.
Kon get Artificer Initiate and the Rock Gnome’s tinker ability.
Similar to the Dragonlance decision to add Feats this was done to add flavor, speaking to the types of powers that people from various continents have.
With One D&D’s playtest we know there’s a chance at adding Feats for everyone at 1st level.
What if the One D&D system of 1st Level Feats was added to 5e now?
You could add Feats to any character in the current game with a minor, but not overwhelming, increase in power with a few simple guidelines.
Only allow Feats that don’t have a +1 to an attribute.
Don’t allow the +5/-10 Feats.
Don’t allow Lucky.
Don’t allow Polearm Master
That’s it.
Now you can have flavorful feats in your 5e game at 1st level.
Instead, attach Feats to Backgrounds
Now, my current world attaches Feats to racial choices, but one could choose to go the path of Dragonlance, Spelljammer, and Strixhaven. Each of those books assigns their unique Backgrounds specific Feats for flavor.
A more flexible system would be to attach Feats on a small curve. Those Feats would be selected to emphasize specific stories typically told regarding that Background.
Actor reminds me of Paden Fain. Artificer Initiate seems obvious. Linguist fits the wanderer mold. Ritual Caster makes sense to capture the one who picks up hedge magic.
Putting those on a chart with a curve using two dice can influence the commonality of the Feats.
Roll 2d4 or choose your favorite.
Magic Initiate
Tough
Linguist
Actor
Skilled
Ritual Caster
Artificer Initiate
Since it looks likely that Before We Were Heroes won’t be ready before the 2024 edition, I’m thinking of adding that Feat guidance to each listed Background.
Have another Background you’d like a Feat Chart for, ask in comments.
The clattering of tin as they come over the hill; a belly laugh as the tinker learns of some gossip from mother; the circle of enraptured youth as a tale that is at most half-true is told; the fussing over a minor repair for a family that has no goods to offer in service.
In fantasy the Tinker is a trope that captures a travelling fixer who knows news, rumor, and myth. Their wealth rides a donkey or canoe with them and every community on their circuit is home and an unknowable set of peoples. Now, you too can play a Tinker.
Maybe you grew up in a family of smiths, or were raised by bards, or maybe you were kind of good at a lot of arts, but not really good at one in particular. Whatever your past you decided to leave the ‘civilized’ world and help those families on the frontier. When things break you fix them.
When communities break you share that information with others who need to hear it. You carry as much information as you do tin. Your donkey is your only friend on the trails throughout the wilds. Everyone you meet trusts you, even the bandits, brigands and raiders. They need your services too.
Skill Proficiencies: Performance, Insight Tool Proficiencies: Tinker’s Tools, Vehicle (Land or Water) Languages: None Equipment: Donkey/Mule/Pony (if water vehicles chosen a canoe, rowboat or skiff is appropriate), Tinker’s Kit, 1 Pound Each Tin, Copper, Iron, Pack Saddle, 3 Pots, Traveler’s Clothes, Pouch with 5 Gold
Feature: I Can Fix It
Facing a mundane device that is broken you are able to fix it, even if you don’t have the proper supplies and parts. This repair may only last a few minutes or a few hours, though it is enough for the device to last through it’s next use. You may wind up using a copper coin, or a bit of string, or a knife during this repair. This feature can be used to fix ammunition, traps, broken wheels, or other adventuring equipment. The repair is not permanent.
Tinker Design Goals
Throughout the literature that inspires Dungeons & Dragons are tales of itinerant workers who travel the barely civilized wildernesses drifting between villages. Primarily they are fixers, using bits of tin, copper, iron, leather, etc to repair farming tools or kitchen utensils in the homesteads too far from smithys.
The fiction also has these tinkers as storytellers. They aren’t bards, as their magic is just the magic of carrying tales of other households, villages, and empires to people who long for information, but don’t want to live in places where information is common. The Tinker tells their tales around a fire or a meal, informing the group through storytelling. At their next stop they will share what they’ve learned. Every encounter is a bit of knowledge to share in an attempt to connect the frontier lands despite weather and monsters that keep those connections broken.
For these reasons the Tinker has Performance and Insight. Consideration was made for History. That would seem to indicate an intellectual rather than a tale-teller. Insight made sense because of the way the literature has the Tinker connect to the families year after year.
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Custom Backgrounds for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons