Niduroki's RPG Blog

Cyberpunk RPG Hackers & Carbon 2185

What do Shadowrun, Cyberpunk 2020 and The Sprawl have in common? Hacking rules that take forever to resolve, meaning the other non-hacker players have nothing to do for a while. (As usual: Based on one of my German YouTube-Videos) Shadowrun and Cyberpunk 2020 are very well known Cyberpunk RPG systems.

TTRPG

Shadowrun 6 – What did Pegasus change?

Working on my German review of Shadowrun 6 I of course also bought the German version. Not only because everyone keeps saying the German version will be better, but also because … it is a German review, of course I am going to review the German version. The German review is

TTRPG

Session 0 is very important!

Hello everyone, today I am going to write about one of the most important things in TTRPGs, next to roleplaying, and the rules themselves: Session 0. What is it, why is it so important? As is usual, this post is based on one of my German YouTube videos. If you

TTRPG

Same Page Tool in German/Deutsch

The English original from Deeper in the Game can be found here. Hallo, heute ein Deutscher Artikel von mir.‌‌ Eine Übersetzung des Same Page Tools; ein nettes Werkzeug, um alle Spieler in, oder vor, einer Sitzung 0 zusammen auf die "Same Page", also einen gemeinsamen Nenner, zu bringen. Wenn ihr

TTRPG

Review: PbtA is a great system

Hello everyone, today I want to talk to you about one of my favourite TTRPG-systems: Powered by the Apocalypse, or short: PbtA. I will tell you how PbtA works, and whom it is great for. This video is based on a German video from my YouTube-Channel. PbtA is no actual

TTRPG

IMHO: Fudging Dices is bad! – A DnD-Problem

Hello everyone, recently Matt Colville released a video talking about fudging dice rolls, i.e. the GM setting the dice as he thinks fits the story most. I have some things to say about that … I seriously recommend you to watch Matt's video first though, because this blogpost is 50%

Review

Review: Inhuman Conditions

Today something completely different from me. I will review an actual "board"-game today, instead of a Tabletop RPG. The game I want to talk about is called Inhuman Conditions, made by some of the guys who worked on Secret Hitler. At the time of me posting this, this game

TTRPG

Rant: Looking for GM sucks

This post will not be about RPG-Systems, nor rules, nor dice, but about looking for GM posts, and the reasons I – as someone who GMs a lot – dislike them, even find them disrespectful. This video is, again, based on a German video I published on my YouTube-Channel, with some slight

TTRPG

[RPG-Review] The Sprawl is a bad PbtA game

If you have read my The Sprawl campaign diaries on steemit, you will already know some of my problems with The Sprawl. If you did not: There are problems with The Sprawl, and I do not like the system. Why is that? That is what we are here for! This

[RPG-Review] FATE Accelerated (and sort of FATE Core)

Hey everyone! Today another review/ramble from me. This one is about FATE Accelerated Edition (or short FAE), FATE Core's simpler version. If you're interested in how FATE Accelerated works, I made a rules explanation video for it already. Fun fact: In German FATE Accelerated is called Turbo FATE … Because

TTRPG

The Quiet Year – First Impressions

Oh, this blog still exists … Uhm, hi! A lot of stuff has been happening recently, and time has been sparse. I took some time to write this though. Soon I will also write a recap of my The Sprawl campaign for sessions 3.5 to 6, plus the usual GM

TTRPG

Talking RPG settings with my group

There has been a break in my posts. I blame the Mass Effect Trilogy. Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2: Awesome! Mass Effect 3 … pewpew? Red, Green, Blue? I really want to run a short (4 sessions or so) campaign now, set around/just before the Mass Effect 2

TTRPG

[RPG-Review/First impressions] Fiasco

Last saturday my The Sprawl group played Fiasco, because one player wasn't available. A great chance to tell you my experiences with Fiasco. Fiasco was on my list of games to play for a while now, but @lextenebris encouraged me to play it sooner, rather than later. The group created

TTRPG

[RPG-Review] Lasers & Feelings

It's me again! This time I will speak good of a tabletop RPG! The RPG I will speak good of today is a small system made by John Harper called Lasers & Feelings. Also available here Just one page of rules, and freely available. Great! Setting The first paragraph of

TTRPG

Rant: Shadowrun: Anarchy is bad, too

Everyone liked my Shadowrun 5E rant. Let's do it again! Last week I told you that Shadowrun 5E's rules are garbage. But Catalyst listened to everyone shouting "The rules suck!", so they made Shadowrun: Anarchy. A rules-lite version of Shadowrun, distributing the GM authority around the table. Shadowrun:

TTRPG

Running The Sprawl: First impressions

Yesterday I had my first (gameplay-)session of The Sprawl, as a Game-Master. Even though I feel very comfortable with Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) games, I am having a hard time with The Sprawl, and my players do, too. I will not say too much about the mission I

TTRPG

Rant: Shadowrun 5th Edition rules are garbage

Based on a German video I published on YouTube – differences to the original are minor. Now it's English though! These will appear a lot less frequently from now on. The DnD-Rant and this rant have already been on the internet, I just translated them (adding a bit of stuff here

TTRPG

Rant: DnD5E isn't good for everything

Hello Internet, today I want to rant about something. This something is Dungeons&Dragons 5E. There are two things I want to rant about: DnD isn't good as a TTRPG-System for everything (even though it's used for everything … knowingly or not, that's another thing)DnD isn't good as a

Docker

Docker Gem: Gitea

Today something completely unrelated: A quick look at a neat Docker Image I found: Gitea (This post was originally posted in 2019, by the way - just dated back to 2018, to keep a sensible order for this blog) I knew Gitlab before, as a solution for self-hosting your git

Reminder

Low-Level Package-Management Cheat-Sheet

Before all my mirrored TTRPG-Posts will go on this blog, I'll quickly release this post. Another reminder for me about Low-Level Package-Mangement commands I stole collected from the internet. I only need the rpm versions, since I'm using openSUSE, but eh, if this post actually helps anyone but me: Hurray!

Mobile RPi and Wifi-SD-Card

I've build this quite a while ago, but I think it's definitely worth sharing this with the internet! There is a SD-Card with Wifi on the market, which can be easily rooted, making it pretty "insecure", but also pretty interesting for me. [broken image] It by default supplies

Reminder

Extract pages from a PDF

And another reminder for me – now on how to extract pages from a pdf: If we want to extract, say page 5 to page 9 from book.pdf to extract.pdf we can do this: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dFirstPage=5 -dLastPage=9 -sOutputFile=extract.pdf book.pdf

SFTP-Chroots

Yet another little reminder for me on how do to chroots in sftp (so an user does not see /bin, /home, and other internals/user directories – say in webhosting): In my example, my users should get a direcotry in /srv/sftp/. Create a new group, I'll call it sftponly: groupadd

Python

Supybot + Security

To be fair, the latest supybot release (0.83.4.1) is from 2005 … Since that release everything (as little as that is) happens in a git repository at SourceForge. A list of what's wrong: Anyone can crash Supybot: Just do something like this: !misc last --regexp m/(.*\w){500}