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Hello! I hope I am not off topic, this is literally my first day here (ok, maybe I should wait and know the community a bit better but I 'll try to be slightly bolder...if it's not ok just let me know). I understand that by choice there are no super focused communities to avoid an excessive fragmentation. So I wonder: is this the good place to discuss about tabletop RPGs? Coop/solo modes, too.

I am thinking about Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds, Gurps, Fate, ... And not only the usual super famous one!

I am a long time GM and sometimes player, both IRL and online, and currently I am playing a lot in solo mode (with the help of the mythic GM emulator).

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Check the sidebar - it’s a generalist gaming community so share away. As a note there is also a dedicated ttrp community at [email protected] which can be joined from beehaw.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks, I still have to get the hang of this "federation" of servers-thing. I found this beehaw community and the philosophy seemed welcoming and inclusive and so I went for this! I will check out the one that you linked above. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Beehaw is lovely and a solid choice. But remember it's just your home instance where your account and some local communities live. You can still join and interact in communities from the other instances such as the one you've just been linked :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No worries and yeah Beehaw’s great that’s the great thing about this platform, you can have a home base and still hang out elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda new to all this, I'm on lemmy.world and can't login to blahaj zone, how do I subscribe?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Figured it out! You need to search that community on your own instance and subscribe from there the links don't just work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The way it was explained to me is that the very first time a user searches from their own instance for a community on another instance and clicks it, it federates one server to the other, enabling all of the commenting, subscribing, etc. You were probably the first one from your instance to search for that, and now the link is created and everyone can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice work. It's definitely one of the things that could be made easier at some point when the devs find a minute.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Help me out here. I'm 90% sure that I should be able to get to [email protected] on my instance just by clicking that link. But it takes me to that page in its original community, which is not useful at all. Even the link I just made goes to the page in lemmy.blahaj.zone... I can search for it from my instance, sure, but it would be much easier if I could just click it. Is there any way to do that? Maybe even a browser extension or a third party mobile app?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately searching for it is probably the best way.

It is a little annoying but this is a common problem with federated social media services since links to content on different instances redirect to a whole different website.

Some apps like Jerboa have link handling for this built in for some of the larger instances, but It's a tough problem to solve since there could be an unlimited number of Lemmy instances each with their own separate URLs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also pathfinder.social has a few different community for pathfinder and starfinder

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Tabletop is and has been discussed here so you're good :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah of course.

though i dunno a thing about tabletops except the DnD movie

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The movie was quite fun! And it gave a good idea of a fun rpg session, but I prefer other game systems rather than DnD to have that kind of feeling!

Have you ever thought about trying ttrpgs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah but I wouldn't know what the fuck to do, and I'd feel a bit cringy with what kind of roleplaying I need to do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I understand. Just keep in mind that you don't need to "do the voices" or to treat it like an "improv theatre", a perfectly fine way to play is to refer to your character in third person: "so and so knocks quietly on the door and asks "is anybody in there?" Before kicking the door open with a roaring laughter"... And another player could sigh in first person, rolling her eyes: "oh no! Not again!".

As for knowing what to do, that's the job of the GM, to set up interesting scenes for the table!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So do I. But trying out DnD with a group of friends has been super fun. We were lucky to have one person who has played it for over 10 years who was able to DM for us. Try not to be a DM on your first sessions, find someone experienced, and you won't feel that cringe you're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Eyyyyy fellow forever DM

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There's "rpg" on both lemmy.ml and lemmy.ca.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes please! I was hoping to find a place for Savage Worlds discussions here somewhere

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm down to discuss Savage Worlds! Running a SWADE Deadlands campaign right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Especially if they're attached to a tabletop!

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