At GenCon they announced that one of the core deities was going to die. What deity do you think it will be and why? Please try to avoid spoilers in your explanation.

I sincerely apologize for the server issues as of late.

Unfortunately, the instance is inaccessible until a reboot, which purges the logs that I might use to troubleshoot what was going on. I will hopefully have enough time this weekend to either dig into the issues or to set up some log aggregation to identify what might be causing the issues.

For the time being, I have upgraded the server again in the hopes that throwing some additional power at it might improve the stability.

Some better news, though, I've been working on setting up a copy of this in my homelab and testing out getting it accessible from the outside world. While I definitely don't have as stable of an environment as AWS provides, I can throw a lot more server power at it without incurring a ton of costs and I already have monitoring and logging set up in my homelab to be able to troubleshoot issues more easily.

Again, I hope the server issues haven't been too much of an inconvenience and I hope that in the near future I can provide a much more stable service to everyone.

Thanks again for your patience and for being a part of the community!

Apologies to the community for the server instability this morning. I've resolved it and we shouldn't see any more issues, however, I'll have to figure out getting this on a more stable setup sooner rather than later.

Personally, I think a dungeon crawling ARPG is the right way to go for AV. I'm not so set on the game being an exact replica of tabletop play, there are other APs that are better suited to that.

Typically I use pen and paper, but I've been interested in a tablet or similar device for a while and am interested in what other people are using.

The reMarkable 2 seems like a really cool option to play with, but also pretty pricey for trying it out to see if it would even work well.

While it's not directly related, when playing in games, I usually use a paper character sheet for reference, a notepad for consumables, story notes, and HP, and Pathbuilder on my phone for spells.

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I have identified that accounts that have not verified via email are unable to login. Email verification is impossible because something is up with the Postfix container. I have temporarily disabled email verification so I have some time to troubleshoot the Postfix issues. At least as far as my testing has gone, this has resolved the login issue. I appreciate your patience.

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A couple of people have reached out to me about issues creating an account and logging in. After a busy week, I'm finally getting some time to really dig into the issues and I think I've figured it out. There may be some instability this afternoon while I work on it, but otherwise there shouldn't be any problems.

I would really appreciate anyone letting me know if they can or cannot create accounts, login, or make posts.

Thanks everyone!

Lately I've been using AI to generate character portraits since I'm terrible at art. This actually came in really handy for PaizoCon, since everything was on VTTs. Here are a couple of ones that I've gotten that were good enough to keep. They're definitely not perfect, but you can upload them back into Nightcafe and have the AI keep working on them later

Hokgnath Bladegnawer (Battle Oracle/Mindsmith)

Matu'uk Bladegnawer (Giant Barbarian)

Jerhyn Skorn (Throwing Magus/Rogue)

Welcome to the Pathfinder and Starfinder Lemmy Community.

As a response to Reddit's recent changes to it's API costs, I've decided to move towards using Lemmy as a link aggregation website. In doing so, I found that there was a lack of Pathfinder and Starfinder communities, so I decided to start one.

Right now this community runs on a t3.small instance on AWS because I had the terraform to spin that up ready to go. In the future I'll be looking to move it to my homelab and hosting it from there.

I have a lot of respect for Paizo as a company, so I strive to stay within their community site guidelines. Please let me know if you notice anything that would violate their terms so I can resolve it immediately.

I'm also not very accustomed to running online communities. If anyone has suggestions or wants to help out, please let me know.