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Wonder Boy
There are video games that I've spent many years playing (sometimes on-and-off) before finally beating them for the first time. I spent three years playing Dune II before I finally beat it as every house. It took twice that to reach the end of Ultima Underworld II. But today, I can add a new christmas, game, games, arcade games, video games, nostalgia, travelEasy FoundryVTT Cloud Hosting
Foundry is a wonderful virtual tabletop tool well-suited to playing tabletop roleplaying games with your friends, no matter how far away they are. It compares very favourably to the market leader Roll20, once you get past some of the initial set-up challenges and a moderate learning game, games, technology, debian, linux, roleplaying, dungeons and dragonsHave Fun with Missions, Visions, and Values
I just spent a lightweight week in Rome with fellow members of Automattic's Team Fire.
Among our goals for the week was an attempt to strengthen the definition of who are team are, what we work on, and how and why we do so. That's basically a team-level identity, mission, vision, and values, automattic, board games, games, work, rome 2023, travel, dungeons and dragons, game, published on geminiNightmares & Noggins
Last night I had a nightmare about Dungeons & Dragons. Specifically, about the group I DM for on alternate Fridays.
In their last session the party - somewhat uncharacteristically - latched onto a new primary plot hook rightaway. Instead of rushing off onto some random side quest threw game, published on gemini, rpgs, games, roleplaying, dungeons and dragonsSisyphus: The Board Game (Digital Edition)
I'm off work sick today: it's just a cold, but it's had a damn good go at wrecking my lungs and I feel pretty lousy. You know how when you've got too much of a brain-fog to trust yourself with production systems but you still want to write code (or is that just me?), so this morning I threw board games, games, web, javascript, video games, maths, illness, open sourceBeating Children at Mastermind
This blog post is also available as a video. Would you prefer to watch/listen to me tell you about how I've implemented a tool to help me beat the kids when we play Mastermind?
I swear that I used to be good at Mastermind when I was a kid. But now, when it's my turn to break the code that onePrinting Maps from Dungeondraft
I really love Dungeondraft, an RPG battle map generator. It's got great compatibility with online platforms like Foundry VTT and Roll20, but if you're looking to make maps for tabletop play, there's a few tips I can share:
Planning and designing
Dungeondraft has (or can be extended with)Taking a Jackbox Zoom Party to the Next Level
A love a good Jackbox Game. There's nothing quite like sitting around the living room playing Drawful, Champ'd Up, Job Job, Trivia Murder Party, or Patently Stupid. But nowadays getting together in the same place isn't as easy as it used to be, and as often as not I find my Jackbox gaming withTick Tock
Looking for something with an "escape room" vibe for our date night this week, Ruth and I tried Tick Tock: A Tale for Two, a multiplayer simultaneous cooperative play game for two people, produced by Other Tales Interactive. It was amazing and I'd highly recommend it.
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