I’d really like to know if there’s any practical guide on testing backups without requiring like, a crapton of backup-testing-only drives or something to keep from overwriting your current data.
Like I totally understand it in principle just not how it’s done. Especially on humble “I just wanna back up my stuff not replicate enterprise infrastructure” setups.
This sounds like a good way to have multiple sessions of players playing lawyer and looking for the most ridiculous loopholes LOL. Take a shot every time a PC interjects with “WELL, technically…!”
It sounds like it could be really satisfying but REALLY complicated setting up a plot involving a contract with these things hahaha.
But I suppose they don’t have to be a source of lawyer drama at all. They’re a great tool for the DM to say “I prepped this quest arc and you agreed to it so you’re damn well going to do it or else!” Lol
What a fascinating concept though. Woe betide the party who doesn’t read the entire contract!
In a lot of modern guides on dungeon design, they stress thinking this stuff out. Yeah you should definitely have some idea why the inhabitants are here and not elsewhere, where their supplies come from, and how they interact with whatever else calls this place home.
They should have a place to sleep, eat, maybe recreation even. While the PCs poke around, the dungeon denizens shouldn’t just be waiting around in preset rooms, fully ready to fight like MMO mobs. They could be on patrol, raiding their neighbors, sleeping, arguing, partying, whatever.
There’s even fun things you can do with this like inter-faction conflicts between floors or other regions. Do the Orcs fear the dragon at the bottom of the dungeon?
Do the bandits have an uneasy non-aggression pact with a lich? Or are they constantly embattled with seemingly limitless undead because they’re struggling for a legendary artifact?
Somebody’s gotta reset all those traps, too.
Players should definitely feel like trespassers in a living place. Few people enjoy that ancient style of dungeon delving anymore, where you slay a band of kobolds, answer a sphinx’s riddle, then bust in on a vampire who’s as confused about why they’re there as you are!
Where are the toilets?
Maybe the hallway but the local gelatinous cube roombas it up. (Eeeeeww) … Or a room has holes dug dropping into an underground river. Or just a really deep pit, or a convenient portal to the Abyss LOL.
You can have fun with this stuff.
“You can set up your own email server at home, for fun!”
– The 90’s, Probably.
Lol. I’m kinda sad I missed out on that expressive time of making websites when I was growing up. You’re right, now everything is very homogenized and there’s a billion botswarms just waiting for you to be 3 seconds late to a security update so they can zombify your site for…
(Flips papers) Crypto somehow… it’s always crypto.
Internet crime isn’t even cool anymore. Lol
Positively whimsical. I guarantee you I’d have laughed like an idiot way longer than necessary. XD
The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.
Normally I’d agree, in that it’s not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.
Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I’m not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.
Oh this is REALLY cool. I’ve been using Daylio for a long time, and this seems like it’s aiming to be a great self hosted replacement!
So, multiple users can journal on their own accounts, or can you control who sees your entries?
This is such a neat idea. As a soon to be parent, I 100% understand the motive behind building it too. I can’t wait to try it! :)
I think the story is only part of specific mysticist beliefs within the Abrahamic religions and not in any of the main texts
GM: Ask, and it shall be given unto you.
Solomon: I just wanna flip through that collection of splatbooks you’ve got back there.
There’s also a Manga Bible, which is a pretty rad artistic interpretation as well. :D
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That’s AWESOME. I hope Nextcloud gets better at this soon. So far I’ve been needing to spend some time renaming the files from 64 character CDN hash names to tags like
"Monkey,gibbon,spin,woop,reaction.gif"
It’s worked somewhat well so far if I try to keep it as simple and obvious as possible.
“Research really hard and you’ll get an arbitrary higher number on a paper so your parents don’t yell at you.”
“Research really hard and you’ll get to bring history to life for your friends, and even throw in some werewolves for good fun.”
Gee I sure know which one would motivate me too! LOL
Also, yeehaw, Deadlands!
Oh it’s okay I don’t need cyan :)
You’ve met a bugbear. Now get ready for BORG BEAR.
LOL. That one’s really clever!
I’m sure there’d also eventually be a raging debate at the table to whether pigeon poop, whilst technically being a “projectile”, counts as a “missile.” Then something like “Was the pigeon aiming for something?”
…In which case you could set that shield up in the town square and all the statues would be squeaky clean!
Band of Gorilla Repair: Once per day, can repair anything, or rather, will summon 1d4 (can be modified depending on the size of the job) massive gorillas who show up seemingly out of nowhere whenever anything near the wearer breaks or is heavily damaged. The gorillas can repair anything.
Those not expecting to see a bunch of repair-happy gorillas must make a fear check.
These mysterious gorillas are actually friendly and fix whatever thing was broken, but beware, their patience quickly runs out for anybody intentionally causing disrepair or destruction in their presence!
I hope while they were walking around, a projectile would just donk right into their shield on occasion, just to keep them on their toes. :)
Imagine if they rolled the whiskey thing whenever they tried to use it. Then at the local tavern “SHOTS! SHOTS! SHOTS! SHOTS!”
(Dice clatter)
TPK.
Obsidian and Bitwarden self hosted alternative that can be run in docker container.
Well not 100% sure about Docker but Tiddlywiki is pretty easily hosted! It’s got some quirks, but in the end it’s just an HTML file (or slightly more complex if hosted as a website), so it should stay relevant for a long time. I enioy making notebooks with it for various things!
Nextcloud has a pretty decent passwords manager and I think firefox plugins for it. I personally use SyncThing to sync KeePass databases and use the nextcloud passwords app for low-risk things we share, like streaming service passwords. :)
OpenMediaVault is pretty rad. I run it in a VM on a ProxMox machine and it ended up doing all the Docker lifting because the GUI management is just so nice.
I do need to get more CLI-ninja with Docker eventually, but in my experience it’s a very cumbersome and fiddly process.
Unless something breaks and needs more hands-on, I feel like OpenMediaVault’s container interface completely replaces Portainer and smooths the on-ramp for newbie self-hosters.