In my quest for ever-easier RPG introductions, I present:

• Choose-Your-Own-Trial is a CYOA¹ where you're in jail, then on-trial. It introduces the system and gives you a tiny character sheet.
• Induction at the Temple of Beasts is a mini lore-dump in a short story (set after the trial).
• Another CYOA follows, where you hunt an albino basilisk who's definitely not Moby Dick.
• The 'Halfshots' are tiny modules which take about two hours to run.

Everything was made to be printed (so you can score through HP boxes with a pencil) but reading should be fine.

Footnotes

1. A 'Choose-Your-Own-Adventure' book was a short book disguised as a long one, popular in the twentieth century. You make a choice at each paragraph to have the hero fight or flee or whatever by selecting the next paragraph you jump to. ↩

This little database has historical events, battles, names, and population totals, because those things are the boring research questions you need to answer for Vampire campaigns and similar.

The database is in plain-text, so you can edit it with notepad or vim. But it's also a relational database. Make of that what you will.

Right now it mostly focuses on Belgrade.

PRs very welcome.

With not enough space on the table for the gadgets, snacks, and flailing appendages, it's time to make the rules smaller.

To make things truly minimalist, I've made the rulebook with the assumption that people have a character sheet in front of them, so they'll see stats (and a couple of rules-hints, like the XP costs for Attributes).

If anyone has printer handy, I'd love to hear how clear the folding instructions are (they're written with the assumption that you have the printed page in front of you, and only need to make sense in this context).

I keep seeing gemini capsules without an RSS feed and whatnot, so I thought I'd share my standard setup. There's not much to it.

It's a python script which takes dates and tags from the markdown metadata, then uses that to order the RSS feed (future dates are simply not published) and uses the tags to create topics.gmi files, with a list of all the articles which have that tag.

The basic example is here:

git clone ssh://soft.dmz.rs:2222/capsule.com

It requires fortune, make (optional), md2gemini, and gematom to run.

fortune is in all the Linux repos, and md2gemini can be installed with pip. Unfortunately, gematom will need to be installed from the AUR or built from source (I have instructions in the doc, but I've not tested them very well).

But if getting gematom working goes smoothly, the rest is simple - just type make.

Give us a run-down of your last session in bullet-point format.

Does it seem to have plot, or to operate like real-world scenarios (kinda random, not crazy), or more like a fever-dream?