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Cyberpunk RPG Hackers & Carbon 2185

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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTb7NIUpqRo]) Shadowrun [https://rpg.niduroki.

Shadowrun 6 – What did Pegasus change?

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

Session 0 is very important!

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 [https://www.

Same Page Tool in German/Deutsch

Same Page Tool in German/Deutsch

The English original from Deeper in the Game [https://bankuei.wordpress.com/] can be found here [https://bankuei.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/the-same-page-tool/] . 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

Review: PbtA is a great system

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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-lX8IFKJD0]

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

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

Hello everyone, recently Matt Colville released a video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKN0xPyxu2Y] 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

Review: Inhuman Conditions

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

Rant: Looking for GM sucks

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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj1LY2QCUes] I

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

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

If you have read my [https://steemit.com/story/@niduroki/the-sprawl-campaign-diary-1] The [https://steemit.com/story/@niduroki/the-sprawl-campaign-diary-2] Sprawl [https://steemit.com/tabletop-rpg/@niduroki/the-sprawl-campaign-diary-3-gm-insights] campaign [https://steemit.com/tabletop-rpg/@niduroki/the-sprawl-campaign-diary-4-gm-insights] diaries [https://steemit.com/tabletop-rpg/@niduroki/the-sprawl-campaign-diary-5-gm-insights] on steemit, you will already know some of my problems with

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

[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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30PQSTg6W-I] for it already. Fun fact: In German

The Quiet Year – First Impressions

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

Talking RPG settings with my group

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

[RPG-Review/First impressions] Fiasco

[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 [https://steemit.com/@lextenebris] encouraged me to play it sooner, rather than

[RPG-Review] Lasers & Feelings

[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 [http://onesevendesign.com/lasers_and_feelings_rpg.pdf] Just one page of rules, and freely

Rant: Shadowrun: Anarchy is bad, too

Rant: Shadowrun: Anarchy is bad, too

Everyone liked my Shadowrun 5E [https://rpg.niduroki.net/rant-shadowrun-5th-edition-rules-are-garbage/] 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

Running The Sprawl: First impressions

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

Rant: Shadowrun 5th Edition rules are garbage

Rant: Shadowrun 5th Edition rules are garbage

Based on a German video I published on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxKL88T4_BE] – differences to the original are minor. Now it's English though! These will appear a lot less frequently from now on. The DnD-Rant [https://rpg.niduroki.net/rant-dnd5e-isnt-good-for-everything/] and this rant have already been

Rant: DnD5E isn't good for everything

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: 1. DnD isn't good as a TTRPG-System for everything (even though it's used for everything … knowingly or not, that's another thing) 2. DnD isn't good as

Docker Gem: Gitea

Docker Gem: Gitea

Today something completely unrelated: A quick look at a neat Docker Image I found: Gitea [https://gitea.io/] (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 [https://about.gitlab.com/] before,

Low-Level Package-Management Cheat-Sheet

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 [http://haxit.blogspot.com.es/2013/08/hacking-transcend-wifi-sd-cards.html] rooted, making it pretty "insecure", but also pretty interesting for

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

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 [http://supybot.sf.net/]. A list of what's wrong: Anyone can crash Supybot: Just do something like this: !misc last