howard,
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How was your weekend? I love a rainy weekend in the Pacific Northwest corner of America, as it relieves my guilt of doing what I want to do ... staying inside. I read a little, wrote a little, hacked a little ... even played a classic #videogame from the 90s (Curse of Monkey Island on #ScummVM).

I also did a little math. Yeah, been thinking of taking the "Yes, and.." dice mechanics used for luck rolls in #rpg games (not sure who came up with it first), and fusing it with Mythic GM Emulator's Fate Chart, popular with the #solorpg crowd. Since I'm always playing with my notes written in #emacs on the screen, I hacked it in #lisp. Shared the details in case anyone wanted to do something similar in their favorite programming language.

https://howardism.org/RPG/programming-yes-but.html

jameshowell,
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@howard So much of the community's output falls under "I will never use that but I am overjoyed that somebody made it."

Our ethos is not monolithic or rigid, but an essential component is forty solid years of "Look at this amazing thing somebody made."

ctietze,
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@howard awww man that Elisp RPG stuff of yours always looks amazing but I have no use for this in my Emacs 😭

The "1 to 10" scale sounds like it was iteration zero and the text stuck because you don't enter numbers anymore, though?

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