Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Twelve: Play

    From 2008 through around 2015, my preferred medium for tabletop roleplay was the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. At the start, I loved the modular and (comparatively) stripped-down approach from the bloat of what 3.0 and 3.5 amassed and appended in attempt to unify a fractured hobby in the protracted edition mess of BX, BECMI, and AD&D. In previous editions, I always felt like I had catching up to do, like I couldn't adequately approach the game as a player or a referee without total knowledge of the options available in the officially-sanctioned modules and rulesets. This was often reinforced in the games I played (always as a PC in those days, never as a ref) where my approach to character creation stemmed from fairly mundane thoughts like "what if I had a couple of hand crossbows where I had different sets of magical bolts, and I could be a sort of trick-shot alchemist" that mechanically translated to a Very Bad multiclass mish-mash, while the others who had system expertise seemed to get their ideas from how to squeeze the most juice out of the rules. These were my very first introductions to the concept of TTRP from the table itself. When 4e came out, clean slate, I wanted to become the expert and, as it happened, nobody else in my group wanted to referee.

  • 🔤SpellBinding — BDHIMRO Wordo: TRESS

  • Terrace Workbench

    Rex Krueger published a video many years ago on how to build a $30 workbench, essentially a version of the "roman workbench" but using materials which are easily available today.

• Politics and World Events

  • Down down down

    Fanscesca Albanese is saying all the right things but people keep arming and Israel.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Spellcheck in LibreOffice on FreeBSD

    From the `note-to-self' department:

    After a fresh install of FreeBSD on my Thinkpad X270, the spell checking in LibreOffice for the Dutch language didn't work.

    Installing the package `nl-libreoffice' which contains the "nl language pack for libreoffice" didn't help.

    Installing aspell and nl-aspell also didn't help.

    After installing the packages `hunspell' and `nl-hunspell', the spell checking in LibreOffice works ;)