New #introduction post on changing instances: Hi all! I'm an English professor at a university in southwest #Japan. I've lived in #Fukuoka about half my life now. I'm married, with 3 grown stepkids and EIGHT grandkids, all living within a couple hours drive. I love walking and #hiking, playing #TTRPGs, #nature#photography, #dogs, #literature, #scienceFiction, and more. I've been on Mastodon for about 2½ years. Nice to meet you!
There’s some really interesting changes coming for 2e! Bards have full martial proficiency, clerics can f finally get heavy armor from within their class, wizard schools of magic are gone… Then of course the big named news, like the replacement of dragons with the magic traditions (arcane/nature/religion/occult), and the...
OK friends the Wreck This Deck campaign has launched and you can back now.
Wreck This Deck is a solo journaling and deck crafting game. Trap demons inside a deck, defacing playing cards as you go. Please check it out and reshare, that would be amazing 😊
#introductions I've never been any good at Twitter so I'm unlikely to be any good at Mastodon, but I'm happy to be here. Happy to diversify a little. I hope I picked the right server to join.
It is going to take some getting used to not having to thread things, I can tell you that right now for free.
Previously mentioned family member who has leapt into #ttrpgs with reckless abandon has decided to write their own system now. Not a campaign. A system. It's been two months.
An absolutely stunning drone light show was featured at Shenzhen Longhua Park for the Dragon Boat Festival.
The synchronized movement of illuminated objects offers neat ideas for dancing lights spells (from multiple casters) or illusion magic in #fantasy#writing and #ttrpgs.
In a couple of weeks, I'll be teaching a class on Greek mythology to 12-14-year-olds. I knew that one of our former teachers taught The Odyssey regularly, so I suspected there might be some useful materials in her old file cabinets. I did not expect to find multiple photocopied pages from the AD&D 2nd edition Monstrous Manual. #DnD#TTRPG#TTRPGs
Here's my #introduction! I'm a queer, non-binary #indigenous writer and cartoonist from Canada. My webcomic (weregeek.com) was all about my love of #ttrpgs and LARPs, and I've done writing for several ttrpg systems.
I also write comic scripts, screenplays and short stories, and am the editor on several comics anthologies.
I am obsessed with birds and have three silly parrots who love to watch me draw. Follow me for art and many bird pictures.
I need to write a 4000 word essay on how #TTRPGs can be implemented to disseminate Malay language, culture and stories worldwide. Difficulty level: In Malay language.
Wherein there is neither translations for TTRPGs nor for titterpigs.
I am an artist and professor of Creative Technologies at Virginia Tech. In my work, I focus on the ways technologies of visualization and control intersect with and threaten #trans lives.
Hello! I'm Hazel, a queer foxgirl software developer.
I'm a transfem demigirl and I also describe myself as lesbian, although its a bit more complicated than that. I care deeply about trans issues, queer life, and other LGBTQ+ topics. DMs are open to anyone questioning their gender or struggling with their identity.
I also love programming as a hobby and I babble with retro-computing. I've got a particular fondness for 80s era computers, even though they're well before my time. There's just something fun about the unique and creative computer designs from that decade! I've got a Timex Sinclair 2068 that I especially love.
Some other things I like are PC gaming and TTRPGs. You'll often find me playing Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, or D&D 5th edition. I also love trying out indie games, so please tell me about your own!
My current passion project is ActivityPub Sharp - an attempt to build a static-typed implementation of ActivityPub with full support for spec-compliant and real-world federation. I also contribute to Letterbook with the hope of sparking a new generation of safer and more private fediverse software.
Feel free to start up a conversation about these or any other topics - I love to chat!
Ein weiterer großartiger Artikel über die therapeutische Nutzung von #TTRPGs: They "have proven to be highly beneficial for their players’ mental health. The games exist outside the pressures of everyday life, where normal rules don’t apply, allowing players to reflect on what is and what might be." #pnpde#dnd https://whynowgaming.com/tunnels-trolls-and-trauma-rpgs-as-therapy/
After lurking for a bit, I've decided to finally make an #introduction post.
Quick facts: She/her, lesbian, married, #DogGroomer , #midwesterner , lactose intolerant, a bit dumb and easily distracted.
I haven't been much for social media since the small websites/communities I was a part of back in the day. I've lurked for a bit here just learning how mastodon works, and I've enjoyed even just that so far! I'm hopeful to shoot the shit, learn from/with/about people, and actually participate in hobbies and interests that I've had but have neglected.
1983: Enterprise – Role Play Game in Star Trek—A retrospective review of the first Japanese roleplaying game, based on Star Trek, published by Tsukuda Hobby in 1983.
Calling all wonderful #GenCon2023 attendees! If you want to check out some fantastic indie #TTRPGs, stop by Booth 449 and peruse the offerings that @ipr brought! They are fully masked and vaccinated too!
I pulled the trigger and jumped from (yet another) instance to this one. This seems like a cozy little part of the fedi. Here is an update introduction for all you cuties 💖
I am a #CS researcher in the midwest US. I mainly work in #NetworkSecurity and #BinaryAnalysis, particularly as they relate to critical #Infrastructure. My current project deals with re-hosting and analyzing cellular baseband processor binaries.
I also sometimes work as a contractor with a DOE lab working on critical infrastructure security.
When I can escape work, I like #diy stuff, #sustainability #Free / #Libre Software, #ElectronicMusic, #Metal, #scifi, #fantasy, #anime, and #ttrpgs. My current obsession is BattleTech and I am reading the #SailorMoon manga. When the weather cooperates I like to go inline skating.
I'm an #enby #transfem :BlobhajTransPrideHeart: and #bisexual.
I'm excited to be here and am looking forward to making some new connections around here 💖
I started out on the fediverse arooooound...I wanna say 2017/18 mebbe? My big start in social media was MySpace. Before that, I had a LiveJournal (which I miss mightily with all my heart). My very first computer was a Gateway PC, back when they shipped them to you in those awesome cow spot pattern boxes. I am trying to de-google my life.
I'm #ADHD and suffer from #dysthymia. I'm currently unmedicated. I can be damned moody at times, so there's your warning.
Religiously/spiritually speaking, I'm complicated. That will be a long post, when I get around to writing it. My general rule is: I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, and that's cool. Not everybody's thing is my thing, and that's cool. Just don't be a wanker towards those whose thing ain't your thing. OM 🕉
I'm 57 years old and have come to the conclusion that we never truly appreciate the decades we grew up in until we hit middle age.
I'm single and childless, hence my user tag: TheLastOfHisName.
If you still like D&D but don't like Hasbro, do not despair. You have options.
You can still play with the stuff you own. You already gave them your money. Hopefully some of that went to the people who worked on it (before, you know, they were fired).
Support third-party D&D d20 products. I hear there are some good things in the works for 2024.
Switch to something else. There are lots of other fantasy #TTRPGs out there, any many are great (perhaps better than D&D?).
Aaahhhhh my nerdy little heart is happy with this stuff.
Having my dice send requests to @homeassistant is an absolutely bonkers thing to do. But it's so fun and the Rube Goldberg machine of tech keeps going!
also a #videoGame enthusiast, mostly #survivalCrafting but down for anything but sports and realistic shooters, mostly. Also dabble in #tabletop#TTRPG s and other board games but it's hard to find the right balance between "boringly easy" and "so complicated I get too frustrated and give up before the first role of the dice"
#neurodivergent especially #ADHD and "high functioning" autism (I love to carry on conversations and try my best not to do all the talking, but I have a hard time reading peoples' true emotions so I default to thinking everyone's mad at me all the time 😂 )
#queer#polyamorous#bisexual , pro- #sexWorker though not a sex worker myself (despite all my videos getting categorized as "sexually explicit nudity" 🙄 )
love watching movies and shows about #fantasy#sciFi and #horror -- #psychologicalHorror and/or so-called #elevatedHorror rather than guts and jump scares. I used to read a lot of fantasy and romance also, but social media broke my brain so I have a hard time staying focused on books now 😩
also love #comics especially #webcomics and #satire . Not really into superhero type comics, unless they're the newer ones like the "New 52". I prefer self-contained series with a little bit of weirdness to them like Saga, Rat Queens, and a bunch others I can't remember the names of right now. Often I'll go to the library and check out a fat stack of whatever comics they have, mostly standalones though since they rarely have multiple comic books in a series available in sequential order.
Oops I got too wordy again, better cut it off here 😅
Basically, holler at me if you're a progressive, a gamer, or a parent who is also one or both of the other two things!
As a progressive gamer parent of progressive gamer kids, this is my holler. Nice to meet you.
My household is a mixed bag of neurodivergent, queer, creative folks who think the wondrous variety of humanity is awesome and people should be left alone to live their lives (except billionaires and nazis). We do #ttrpgs, #boardgames, #Minecraft, and long convoluted conversations on many topics. My favourite dinosaur is ceolophysis.
Pathfinder 2e Remaster Changes - what do you think? - Beehaw (beehaw.org)
There’s some really interesting changes coming for 2e! Bards have full martial proficiency, clerics can f finally get heavy armor from within their class, wizard schools of magic are gone… Then of course the big named news, like the replacement of dragons with the magic traditions (arcane/nature/religion/occult), and the...