@Juniper said in The great escape (from Microsoft):

Windows ran fine on it but I do wonder if it’s just so old that it needs something more lightweight. If you know any distributions that are particularly well suited to ancient shitboxes, I’d appreciate a recommendation.

Have you tried Bodhi Linux?

@Pavel said in The great escape (from Microsoft):

And because Microsoft is… well… Microsoft, you may have to check/update this setting every few updates or so. I’ve definitely had to chase up stupid settings changes that updates have made counter to my desires.

Yep. So far I haven’t had to re-enable that on my Windows machine. I’m guessing since it getting reactivated in an update would mess up a lot of business deals, they don’t touch that setting with update packages. Only time will tell though.

If you can’t escape Windows, but want to escape Copilot, you can use Group Policy Editor to disable Copilot permanently. (Microsoft is required to leave this setting in their OS by the many many many companies that either don’t want to deal with AI stuff at all, or have contracts with other AI firms for their AI nonsense, so it’s just a part of all versions of Windows.)

Just run gpedit.msc, find User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot. There’s a policy called “Turn off Windows Copilot”. Enable that, and voila, no more pesky Microsoft AI on your system.

What about turning the West Marches into a game somewhat inspired by The Last Ship? The main section of the grid is a large naval vessel with plenty of room for people to spread out and do their social RP, but the plot bits come when the ship moors somewhere, and the grid extends to include a chunk of land, or another abandoned ship, and the PCs organize to go deal with the ST plots and find resources. If the ship isn’t moored somewhere, the exits are just removed and the players have to stay on the ship.

@Ominous No. I work in IT and have to be knowledgeable about all three major OS environments for work, so I slowly have collected a trifecta.

Strangely, because of my job, I will always be on all three. I have a Windows machine, a Macbook, and two Linux systems (one on Debian and the other currently being used to test Omarchy.)

Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of the Dead or Alive game series and the modern Ninja Gaiden series. He was 58.

@labsunlimited If I were to do Vampire in ND, I’d make it where the game represented the entire state, ignore the factions (so Cam / Anarch / Sabbat for OWoD and the Covenants for NWoD) and just have it where the players are the few Vampires roaming the state, and occasionally they gather in the only Elysium in the state to resolve disputes and stuff. Maybe one Prince for the entire State if you really want some level of organization.

WoD North Dakota would be interesting for some spheres and not for others. It would work well for Werewolf and Mage, but to do Vampire there, you’d have to increase the populations and sizes of the major cities to support Vampires, and by doing so, eliminate one of the unique aspects of North Dakota as a state, namely the relative isolation and small populations of the communities there.

@Jennkryst said in PyReach:

I guess I’m finally finishing that post about one of trans ally and author of Animorphs Katherine Applegate’s other series, Everworld.

I remember that book series. I read the first book, it reminded me of that old Canadian kid’s show The Odyssey in a way, and I didn’t finish the series because the first book did nothing for me. It seemed well written, but it just didn’t hook me.

I remember a game in the late 90s that was set in a weird small town, and if anyone asked if the game was set in X state, the answer was always yes.

@Jennkryst said in PyReach:

EverWorld of Darkness crossover setting

My brain went in several directions:

1. A crossover of Everquest and World of Darkness, where players combine WoD Spheres with Everquest classes in a bizarre gothic punk fantasy world of grindy adventure.

2. A crossover of Everway and World of Darkness, where players make their WoD characters using image cards and then traverse the planes having weird adventures.

3. A crossover setting between all three major versions of WoD (OWoD / NWoD / CoD) where the three realities fight to ensure their world is the one that survives an oncoming cataclysm that will leave only one standing.

@somasatori So when is the soft launch and what California city is it set in?

@somasatori said in Multisphere pressure:

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

Classic Battletech?

Yeah, if you search this forum for Seanan McGuire or even go back and search MSB for it, you’ll understand why you’re probably not going to get an answer to that question.

I kind of like how Expedition 33 did it. Instead of New Game+, you just get a bunch of previously locked areas in the world unlocked and new challenges to explore to get even more lore about the game world.

@Prototart said in Missed Settings:

anyway there’s a dumb comic i love called IDES OF BLOOD and it’s about Julius Caesar conquering Dacia because vampires are real and then there are openly vampires everywhere in Rome and that should be a WoD game

You mean this?

@somasatori Keep this up and people are going to expect you to start a game.

@Warma-Sheen said in Missed Settings:

There’s an actual RPG for this. I haven’t looked into it cause I’m in the middle of the series and I don’t want spoilers, but this was also on the top of my list for settings/games I’d love to play.

Having just finished playing in a short run (6 games) of the Cosmere RPG (GMed by someone who regularly rereads the novels) with my tabletop group, I can say the following non-spoiler critique of the game:

It really really requires you to have a very good working knowledge of the novels or you’re just going to be confused a lot. Our group had a wide range of familiarity with the Cosmere setting ranging from never read anything Sanderson has written to people that have read all of his books multiple times at this point, and the takeaway was that only the people with the most working knowledge of the setting actually enjoyed it the most. Most of us stumbled through the cultural aspects of the story and just chose to focus on finding and defeating the bad guys and the mechanics of combat rather than trying to be part of the world.

(My knowledge of Cosmere is next to none, and I made a character that was super useful but mechanically monotonous.)

@KarmaBum said in Missed Settings:

A Dark City game would be dope, though.

You could easily do a Dark City themed game really using any system that had mechanics for horror and psychic powers in it, and just sort of handwave the abilities of the actual aliens.