Yeah… these are all such absolute fire. I’m not usually invested in DnD fiction, but this is so, so, SO good.

Thanks. I appreciate your guidance in order to try and achieve the highest bar for open-source practices.

I understand. I’d prefer to share an editable file, but I don’t know if Google Docs has a native editable downloadable file, so I’ve just been sharing links.

I’ve added links to the original documents on our website so that folks don’t need to request that I share them. If there’s anything else you’d recommend that I do to make it easier to share and edit, let me know.

https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/ai-free-resources/

It was composed in Google Drive, so if you’d like an editable version let me know and I can share it.

The download contains a PDF of the adventure and some maps in various formats.

Thanks. I hope you get some use from it!

Ultimately, I really hope this just clicks with some people. I feel like there is a huge well of potential here, and if some better game developer took this idea and ran with it, I’d be thrilled just to have these ideas seeing larger audiences. I really think this is a fantastically fun setting to play in.

The game’s core manual is on Itch (https://fully-automated-rpg.itch.io/fully-automated-solarpunk-rpg). I haven’t uploaded the playable adventures yet, though they’re available on our website, where you can download them for free without an account.

I’ll add them to itch eventually.

Also, we just released the third adventure of the four-part starter campaign: https://slrpnk.net/post/10660226

I’ll cross post it here, but I need to wait until Wednesday to keep it under 1 per week.

Can you give any examples, either good or bad?

That’s totally fair. I think the main system provides a heavy dose of what people associate with DnD, which is rolling dice, adding them to something and shouting out a number and then it’s either big (yay!) or small (oh no!) without having to think about it any more than that. But we understand the subjectivity, and really tried to make the content as portable between game systems as we could.

I’m still curious to hear others try out combat. I know it’s a wild claim, but I think our combat systems is genuinely kind of next-level. I know that sounds totally braggadocios to say, but I really think there’s something there.

Listen, all I can say is that one of us doesn’t know how to use the internet. Which one? Impossible to know. It’s a mystery.

On an unrelated note, since you pointed this out I’ve edited this post to include a link. Unrelated, though.

Oh wow: 350 items?? I’ve never seen a bubble that big!

Thanks for sharing.

No, I’m not familiar with this bundle, but I’m going to go looking for it now! Also, that’s a great cause.

If you find a link, drop it here!

I said the opposite: I said that I think he’s anti-vax, and I’m pro-vax, and so I don’t want to be like him… but I bungled it. The message is unclear, and that’s on me.

so all I see is delicious irony. He’s been demonising doctors and medical professionals, he doesn’t get to complain now that nobody’s paying attention to them.

I get this viewpoint, but it reminds me of conversations I’ve seen about people bodyshaming Trump.

The same logic applies: he has definitely lost any ability to complain if someone ridicules his obvious physical shortcomings. BUT: that’s not why we shouldn’t ridicule his weight or terrible appearance or bad health (or supposed terrible smell).

We shouldn’t do that because publicly mocking people’s appearances and ascribing a moral failing to bad health perpetuates harmful social behaviors that are borne by everyone other than Trump who happen to be overweight, or disabled, or have terrible diets, etc… If one suggests that he’s worth less as a person because of his age or weight and so on, they’re not actually doing anything to Trump. They’re just communicating to anyone who sees those comments that they think it’s appropriate to bully or discriminate against others based on these traits.

Bringing it back to RFK: we live in an era of a LOT of dangerous medical misinformation. We should not share that kind of misinformation against RFK, even if doing so is funny (and deserved), because ultimately we’re still just adding more shit to the same pile of shit that we’re mad at him for piling up. Does that make sense?

Also, that’s a good point about RFK and Israel. I don’t tend to pay attention to RFK, so I sometimes forget how absolutely dogshit his opinions are. I appreciate you reminding me. He’s definitely the second worst.

Vaccines are safe and effective.

His previous parasitic infection is not a present day health concern. (He’s an idiot, but by all accounts he was an idiot before, so we can’t blame the worm for the shit he says.)

My point is that we should not promote unfounded suggestions about someone’s cognitive health or promote unfounded speculation on the effect of a procedure or condition based on our preferred ideological beliefs. It’s wrong when RFK does it. And it’s wrong when the media does it to smear RFK. It’s hypocritical and it’s dangerous. “Follow the science” doesn’t have a carve-out for when you want to smear people we disagree with.

It’s an okay meme, but I have to admit I’m conflicted on these jokes.

First, lets just point out that Vanity Fair and everyone else who reports on JFK’s brain worm but won’t cover his rallies or policy announcements – let alone Jill Stein or Cornell West’s – is just doing a political hit job on a candidate challenging the hegemony of our two terrible political parties.

Second, although I think that JFK acts like a guy who had his brain eaten by a worm, it’s not really appropriate imo to propagate this impression that this is a legitimate medical concern. This parasitic infection isn’t actually any more debilitating than vaccines, so I think there’s a perverse hypocrisy to dwelling on it when most of us decry his irresponsible spreading of medical misinformation and conspiracy theories.

Anyway, fuck RFK, but let’s be real that he’s definitely not the worst candidate in the race, and it’s honestly not clear whether he’s even the second worst at this point.

I second this.

The problem is that investors are no longer tolerant of ‘We made money, here is some money you get for doing nothing’.

They demand ‘We made more money than last year! And not only did they money go up, it went up more than the last time it went up! And next year, we expect it to go up again, and go up faster than it went up this year! And go up more and faster each year until our product is the primary commodity of all people, at which point we’ll create new life and make that our emerging market.’

Nothing is enough for these people.

I came to ask what it is.

That sounds great! Let us know how the next ones goes if you feel like it.

Sweet. What is your group’s prior experience, and how’d it go?

I don’t think the problem statement has been clearly articulated.

Have players complained about events which they felt were unfair and unjustified? Are you concerned that they’re missing out on the background that would improve their enjoyment?