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Hey folks!

TL;DR: PM rmblr if you're interested in playing tabletop RPGs with a focus storytelling over power gaming, online, on weekdays at 17 GMT.

You're tired of hack-n-slash? Sick of running dungeon after dungeon? Tired of games that are just tedious combats separated by cutscenes? Can you attend games online in an EU timezone on weekdays? Read on!



I've started a little group, which for lack of a better name is called EU Roleplayers. The goal is to build an online gamer group with dedicated players who meet regularly. Our focus is on collaborative story-telling and immersion over combat and power gaming.

Why? I've put together lots of online groups for roleplaying over the past few years, but they were premised on a campaign, a game, or a system. Once the campaign ended (or fizzled out) the group fell apart. Just because we game online doesn't mean we can't get the same benefits of "traditional" RPGing groups: the same people, meeting regularly, hanging out, having fun. Generally speaking it's easy to find D&D or Pathfinder games online, but if you're like me and want to play other games, it can be difficult to round up enough interested people who are also a good fit.

When? We're tentatively scheduled for Mondays at 17-21 GMT. The day may change, but only to another weekday. The time may go forward or backward by an hour.

Where? We're using Roll 20 / Skype / Hangouts. Voice is required, but a camera is optional. We aren't playing text based games.

Ok, but what are you playing? Fair enough! We're starting with a Cthulhu / Delta Green adventure or two to get acquainted. Then we'll collectively decide which game to run as our first campaign. So far people have expressed interest in:

• Call of Cthulhu / Delta Green
• Deadlands and Savage Worlds
• Star Wars the RPG (from FFG)
• Trail of Cthulhu and other GUMSHOE games (Night's Black Agents, Mutant City Blues)
  
• FATE games (Dresden Files)
• Firefly RPG w/ Cortex Plus
• Mouse Guard
• Numenera
• Indie Games (Ryuutama, microscope, lady blackbird, etc)

We have no interest in playing D&D or Pathfinder, so if you're really itching to play one of those, then we won't be a good fit. That said, we've nothing against the fantasy setting, just the mindless combats and dungeon delves.

So "collaborative storytelling", that's like some free form thing? No. This is "normal" tabletop RPGing. We use dice. We use rules systems and mechanics. But we want to have fun role-playing not roll-playing.

Does this interest you?

Glad to hear it. Send me a PM saying hello and we'll get you going.

On Linux since 40.16 my worlds never leave the Age of Myth. I've genned Large, Medium, Small and pocket, with vanilla and custom world gen params. The longest gen I did was a 9999 pocket world. It's not a case of leaving and coming back (e.g., Second Age of Myth), rather the worlds never exit the Age of Myth.

Has anyone else seen this?

I love a good LP. DF is a hard game to LP for, as it has a lot of down time or repetitive tasks that don't make for entertaining viewing.

That said, a good DF LP is gold.

I'm looking for a good list of DF LP videos. They could be tutorial videos or not, as long as they:

• are entertaining
• have good editing
• are of a recent version (34.11 or 40.x)

Anyone have any suggestions?

Would it be possible to setup an automatic redirect to the latest namespace version of an article under certain conditions?

For example:

• user comes from a google search
• user ticks option in profile

Hey folks,

I got sick and tired of the PITA song and dance that must be done whenever you want to install Dwarf Fortress + friendly utilities on Linux, tired of chasing down missing libraries, updating symlinks, battling compile errors, copy/pasting commands from a forum thread that's years old. All that blows.

Dwarf Fortress has never fit well within the constraints of distro packages. The game is malleable. We love to edit our game assets. But running software outside the package model is a PITA. We continue to press on however. Us Linux-folk have looked on at our Windows and Mac brethren as they frolic about in if-not-gorgeous-then-functional UIs with bundled one-click installers.

I'm here today to take the first steps to deliver us from mockery.

df-bootstrap is a simple tool that installs DF and assorted tools. It aims to support multiple distros with zero fuss for the user.

It currently installs:

• Dwarf Fortress
• dfhack (form source)
• splinterz's Dwarf Therapist fork (from source)
• Soundsense

Supported Distros:

• Fedora (my distro)
• Ubuntu (untested)

It's not pretty yet. If you're completely allergic to the command line, well this isn't for you. I do have grand plans for a GUI launcher ala LNP and Dwarf Builder for Mac, but, well, the distro specific kinks need to be worked out first.

This first beta version is only available on github. You'll need git to checkout the sources and run the script. This is in order to elicit the help of technical users (and devs!) who can submit bugs and contribute fixes. Please use github's issue tracker and pull request.