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[Feature Request] A Package Manger... for Communities

The way I picture this is by letting communities have some sort of "partner communities" listing. If mods of games@xyz decide they like the content of games@abc, and gaming@123, they add those communities as "partners" (perhaps those communities have to accept which in turn adds games@abc as their partner). Then, when any user subscribes to one partnered community, they also become subscribed by proxy to the others, and begin to see posts from all 3.

This helps smaller communities piggyback on the success of willing larger communities and gain a bit of visibility as well, which should encourage growth of each partner so smaller ones don't just die out.

Communities can "unpartner" at any time, in which case users would only remain subscribed to the one they originally selected. And of course, users could explicitly block any of the partnered communities if they don't want to see the whole set.

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Yes. Actually, I think that would be lovely

Conversations with my spouse are almost entirely of the following:

  1. planning and coordinating
  2. infodumping
  3. little love phrases ("I love you." "You are a good wife." "Come give me a kiss.")
  4. listening silently while my wife shares the latest gossip and about her day
  5. spontaneous deep conversations

I love her.

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FDM Foodsafe

Others can correct me if I'm wrong, but PLA the plastic itself is food safe. As in, you can put it in your mouth and it's fine. The issue comes from the 3d printing process which tends to create small pockets and porous surfaces where microbes can hide and grow once it gets wet, kind of like a sponge. So you could print a single-use fork and eat with it, but don't reuse it later.

I think an insert for cutlery would be fine since you aren't going to be getting it wet or putting it in contact with your mouth or food.

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What is a good board game for beginners to expand in to? started with Catan, maybe looking to shake things up.

I might recommend Dominion as a great "starter" game that is a totally different feel from Catan but still has the "different every time" setup. Very quick to set up; it's just cards. No teamwork though, but lots of strategy that will change each game.

For a teamwork game, one classic is Pandemic, although once you win the game the first time the novelty wears off

Something with teamwork and betrayal I would recommend is Dead of Winter. But I'll be honest betrayal as a mechanic usually doesn't work for me in general, so I don't play with those rules when there is an option.

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Simple fantasy games?

Are you looking for separate games to play in between roleplaying sessions, or games to play "inside" the roleplaying game?

One game that comes to mind is "Love Letter". A fun little card game that involves a little bit of deduction and bluffing but only takes about 4 minutes.

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looking for something specific

Love Letter. A very quick game with just 13 cards. Games take about 3 minutes so you can play multiple rounds if you want. Suits 2-6 players (best at max 4 in my experience). Generally very popular and easy to learn.

Comes in dozens of themes as well, if you don't like the "princess in a castle" theme. You can find Batman, Cuthulu, The Hobbit, versions depending on your preference.

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this community is awesome

OnShape is my go-to. It's what I taught my students when I was a TA for an introductory engineering class at college, and they could pick it up in about a day.

Can do just about anything a "professional" cad suite does, but it's free, works in a browser, and is generally so much better designed so you don't have to fight against the UI to get anything done.

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Simple fantasy games?

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The theme is very minimal. I think the premise is "someone is trying to sneak a letter to the princess. Guess who has it? The guard? The maid? Etc." It's just a deduction game.

But there are also loads of "themed" versions if you prefer. Batman, Cthulhu, Munchkin, Santa Claus, Legend of the Five Rings, The Hobbit, Marvel, etc.

And since there are only 13 cards, you could easily re-theme it with a Deck of Many Things or something.

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join the communities!

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Since Lemmy is kind of like a bunch of small separate Reddits, its very possible that a community you are looking for already exists; its just on a different Lemmy server. But fear not! You can be the person to connect it so everyone here can see it and start to interact with it!

Use this site to search for other communities that might not yet be on this instance: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

You should find a good handful of communities around D&D, Pathfinder, Fate, etc. When you find one you are interested in, you can visit it directly, but since you probably don't have an account on that server, you won't be able to post or comment there until you connect it to ttrpg.network by subscribing to it.

Mouse over the link (it should pop up with "Click to Copy"), and copy it. Then come back here, open the search page, and search for the link you just copied. You should get a result that you can click on, but notice this time you are viewing it through ttrpg.network, so you can interact with it with your account here. Click "subscribe", and everyone here will also start to see posts from that community.

Congrats! You have just made one link in the Fediverse, connecting everyone here to a community somewhere else.