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12:03 AM

playingcards.io now uses https. twitter announcement and request for testing

Shattered City by Mina @ UFO Press. Rebuild a war-torn city and win fame for your guild in this geomantic fantasy tabletop RPG.

Fortnightly Fiction Jam 3 A game jam from 2020-09-07 to 2020-09-21 hosted by Stacey Mason. Fortnightly Fiction Jam is a series of interactive fiction (IF) writing sprints over 2 weeks.

Journey Jam A game jam from 2020-09-07 to 2020-10-31 hosted by Meghan Cross. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

"Update #1: BOLT Supplement Showcase: FIVE! by Galadin!"

Shalvenay

12:45 AM

hey there @KorvinStarmast

KorvinStarmast

Hullo, how you?

Shalvenay

@KorvinStarmast alright here, what's up on your end?

KorvinStarmast

I have your NPC under your control, I hope. I am about to head over to Mother in Law's house. insert sad face here

Shalvenay

@BESW just as a quick test, their homepage loads just fine in Chromium over here. I can poke them with SSLLabs

@KorvinStarmast aah

KorvinStarmast

@Shalvenay if you get a chance, open the game and see if you can find and control the NPC. If so, let me know. And now, I go, since one must do one's duty.

Shalvenay

12:49 AM

@KorvinStarmast game opened, but I cannot find the NPC in question

Shalvenay

1:19 AM

@BESW ssllabs.com/ssltest/…

(feel free to pass it their way)

BESW

I'm not associated with them in any way, I just follow them on Twitter.

Shalvenay

2:01 AM

@BESW ah. just figured you could pass the link along as a twitter reply

Bardic Wizard

Did you know https is not actually a sign of security? It’s actually a signal that the website uses SSL, which can use a number of different encryption protocols, including the null cipher which is basically plain text.

4

stops with the cyber-geekiness

Rubiksmoose

2:27 AM

The Null Cypher sounds like a great Dan Brown book title

V2Blast

@BardicWizard psh, geekiness is what we do here

@Rubiksmoose "great Dan Brown book" seems like an oxymoron :P

(I'm not being entirely serious, I enjoyed some of those back in the day)

Rubiksmoose

hah! I also did, but I think I'd be a bit more critical of them now

Adeptus

2:45 AM

@V2Blast I read it as "great (Dan Brown book) title" rather than "great Dan Brown book (title)"

Rubiksmoose

@Adeptus Well I stealth edited in the "title" part

:)

Bardic Wizard

3:03 AM

Hi!

How’s everyone? I’m avoiding a discussion on my schoolwork with family

(For reference: I’m doing fine but just would like not to be reminded of the fact that I have 4 tests this week)

BESW

I'm trying to find a better font for the WWG cover.

On the bright side I think I found the font for my next project.

Rubiksmoose

Have you tried it in Wingdings?

@BESW woohoo!

BESW

This font is nice, but it's too thick for a gold leaf effect and it also overshadows the illustration.

Glazius

Can you do it just as an outline? I think it's... got an appropriate tone, just the color is intense.

Some image editors let you convert text into the outline automatically.

BESW

Hm, that's an interesting idea.

Rubiksmoose

3:22 AM

oh that is a neat idea

It would also make the letters the same basic style as the image, which could be good I guess?

BESW

Outlining text is a blind spot for me, I keep forgetting it's a thing I can do.

Bardic Wizard

3:43 AM

I like it a lot!

BESW

Urgh the G didn't drop enough.

Otherwise I think it's working okay.

I'm really happy with the 'reflection' gradients.

Glazius

You want its top to line up with the RIM?

BESW

Not quite; it's very subtle but I want the top right corner of the G curve to line up with the top of the R in RIM.

So the G's curve rises up a bit above the acender line but none of its corners do.

Glazius

Ah.

I think the illustration could also come down a little, to be centered in the available blank space?

BESW

I've still gotta add the byline and tagline.

Glazius

3:54 AM

Ah.

Rubiksmoose

@BESW That works very well I think!

BESW

So the relative positions of the different elements are probably gonna have to squash around a little, but I wasn't gonna mess with that until I've got a font that works, because changing the font would mean re-starting all the positioning.

I love that Affinity lets me swap between layout and illustration within the same app. So nice.

I do wish I could figure out a way to use non-rasterized material as a mask...

Bardic Wizard

4:13 AM

Unrelated: I was reading this question and all I can think of is 1. Don’t bother reviving him and 2. Tell him his character concept might be better served by [another option]. Is that enough for an answer?

@BESW wow. So pretty! I’d buy that from a store

BESW

@BardicWizard It's hard to know for sure, but this answer might be r🐘.

@BardicWizard Thanks!

Bardic Wizard

See, I’ve known players like this person’s player. My solutions usually involve glaring and a gentle reminder that it’s the player’s own fault for not playing a build that works for the play style they like. Also why is the player playing that way; is it the flavor of it (which is possible to deal with) or the actual mechanics (which requires either a different class or a different play style)?

BESW

4:51 AM

Okay, doing one last pass on the text. [adds footnote about using singular they]

Bardic Wizard

5:28 AM

I put up an answer on the question, did I miss anything?

Bardic Wizard

6:00 AM

@BESW good luck!

V2Blast

@BESW Looks great :)

BESW

6:48 AM

@V2Blast Thanks!

...I'm still trying to get the gold a little less green.

But also, wrestling Scriverner's compile feature into submission again.

MikeQ

If it was gold on green (instead of on red), then the gold would look less green, no?

BESW

Arguably yes, but I don't think I want the bg to be green.

BESW

8:17 AM

Aarrrrghhhh [slowly melts into a muddle of failure to understand Scrivener]
what a world
what a world

AncientSwordRage

8:31 AM

Who got BESW wet?

Own up

And if anyone fed them after midnight, I will be very disappointed

BESW

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doppelgreener

11:03 AM

@BESW that's gorgeous

BESW

Aw, thanks!

It's kind of amazing how easy a gilt-like is?

doppelgreener

You did pretty well with it!

AncientSwordRage

@BESW it's beautiful

BESW

It'd be better if I'd made a custom gradient instead of cheating by lifting the luminosity from a pre-made oil-slick filter effect, but there are Perfect projects and there are Finished projects.

@AncientSwordRage Thanks!

It's actually kind of a spiritual revisiting of an old theater poster I did for... Midsummer Night's Dream, I think?

Nope, Twelfth Night.

AncientSwordRage

11:24 AM

@BESW I prefer yours

BESW

The Twelfth Night poster is one I made... four years ago now, I guess.

AncientSwordRage

4 years has made all the difference

(the 12th night one is still very good)

KorvinStarmast

12:02 PM

@Shalvenay OK, I'll try and put that character into player folder or something. It is selected as controllable by you. Can't get to it until tonight though.

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Thomas Markov

12:51 PM

@Someone_Evil I found a question that is almost the problem I was talking about yesterday: rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8238/62294

Is the se4arch function broken for anyone else?

I just searched bonus action and got no results

AncientSwordRage

1:12 PM

@ThomasMarkov I think it's just really bad

Thomas Markov

its working now

now its giving 7171 results

RevenantBacon

One of those two numbers is wrong

try [bonus-action]

Bardic Wizard

@RevenantBacon yes, but which one??????

RevenantBacon

@BardicWizard hopefully both

I think the way the search works is it looks for any questions with the word "bonus" and then also looks for any questions with the word "action", and this site being what it is, "action" probably comes up a lot

You can also use "bonus action" (with quotes) to search up that exact phrase

Which only gives 3,531 results

Thomas Markov

1:27 PM

Meta post about the bonus-action tag

David Coffron

I got 24 results

Thomas Markov

@DavidCoffron ...on meta

David Coffron

@ThomasMarkov Oh; you linked to two other meta links so I assumed that's what you meant

That's why I was confused because there are only ~7600 total meta posts

RevenantBacon

There are 27 with the tag outside of meta

The Oracle

1:49 PM

0

Q: Why is [bonus-action] such an underused tag and should we do anything about it?

At time of writing, the tag bonus-action has only 27 questions. Searching "bonus action" (in quotes) yields 3531 results. Is there any benefit to a retagging project here? Do we just try to use it more going forward? Do we even care?

discussion tags

RevenantBacon

@TheOracle [oof]

Carcer

actions and bonus-action don't strike me as useful tags

RevenantBacon

2:09 PM

Honestly, they probably aren't that useful. Most questions that include the phrase "bonus action" aren't asking about the bonus action themselves, and likely have it from a rules text quote like this:
> **Cunning Action**
> Starting at 2nd Level, your quick thinking and agility allow you to move and act quickly. You can take a **Bonus Action** on each of your turns in Combat. This action can be used only to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.

Hmmm, markdown isn't working.

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

@RevenantBacon Multiline.

RevenantBacon

Aaahhhhhhhh

> Cunning Action

> Starting at 2nd Level, your quick thinking and agility allow you to move and act quickly. You can take a Bonus Action on each of your turns in Combat. This action can be used only to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.

much better

AncientSwordRage

2:22 PM

urge to edit the original for you.... rising

Thomas Markov

2:33 PM

Do yall think this is a dupe? See my comment for links to dupe target.

AncientSwordRage

2:47 PM

@ThomasMarkov yes and no

the main answer there has two aspects "Please no cheat. Here's how no cheat'"

Whereas the one linked only sort of shares the answer?

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