Another week of Tesla bashing, I guess. 😁

A single session should be doable with one or two pages. I like the style the Mausritter community uses a lot. For an example, see the Stumpsville adventure in the base game.

A larger good example is The Waking of Willowby Hall. Multiple pages describing every room in a big mansion.

• There should be a single paragraph intro which can be given to players in advance (so no spoilers!).
• An image is great to convey the mood and style.
• A map is usually useful but think broadly. The map of Stumpsville is more like a picture from the side. Still good enough to say "you are here in now".
• Offering multiple plot hooks is great to embed it into a larger campaign.
• Lots of bullet point lists and bold text parts to optimize orientation during play.
• To avoid going "off rails", just state a clear goal. If they go "off rails" then it is a short session.
• Something I miss in many adventures (especially if sandbox style modules) is a sense of urgency. Work some kind of timer into your adventure. Willowby Hall has an escalation mechanism built in which increases danger essentially because time passes. In other words, don't just "rescue the princess" but also "she gets sacrificed in three hours" and it should be possible to reach her too late.

What I don't need is a showdown scene. In general, I prefer "adventure sites" rather than "adventure stories".

There seems to be a lot of attention on WotC actions, so I guess people are concerned that it might work to turn D&D in this dreaded "lifestyle brand?" Statements like the "it won't work" in the title serve to convince yourself then.

I don't care about WotC. There is no threat to anything I'm playing. If they destroy the D&D brand, so be it.

Could it still affect me negatively? Maybe indirectly. If D&D blows up, then RPG community probably shrinks and fewer people join. The most popular game is the entry game for many after all. So it will hurt the many small indie creatives too. Maybe there will be a painful correction. On the other hand, it probably results in a more healthy and resilient community afterwards. Still, I would feel sorry for the people who live on a small RPG business now which might not survive a D&D implosion.

Nothing is wrong with just saying it. In practice, it sometimes doesn't work out though.

For a very public drastic example, look at the Far Verona rape:

The reaction of the other players at the table while the scene plays out is telling. It appears that no one expected this storyline to go where it went.

Yet, nobody said "I don't like where this is going."

To be clear: I don't blame them for not saying it. Probably, I probably would have been quiet in that situation too. I believe that safety/communication tools are usually not necessary but in rare cases they are. Thus, it is a good practice in general and worth some overhead.

Lasers & Feelings and its many hacks is such a really simple system. It is one page including setting.

I only played the hack Blood & Chrome and it worked for us: We had a glorious Mad-Max style chase and fight.

According to forecasts from Counterpoint Research, China will have 1mn cars with so-called Level 3 technology — which means drivers can remove their hands from the steering wheel — by 2026, and these vehicles will account for about 10 per cent of new cars by 2028.

Oh, here the author is not quite right. I assume he refers to SAE level 3. This is not about "remove their hands from the steering wheel". If you still have to "constantly supervise" the car, you are still level 2. Some call "hands-off" as level 2.5, but it certainly isn't enough for level 3.

So far, actual level 3 cars are only made by Honda, Mercedes, and BMW. The upgrade costs thousands of dollars and is only available in few luxury cars.

I can imagine 1mn "hands-off" cars in 2026 but not "level 3".

Oh, didn’t think of that. Thanks.

There were lots of german articles three days ago already but this seems to be the first english one. Somehow this wasn't really picked up internationally.

Nice, but what does China get out of that?

Here is a theory about the concrete problem.

Want to bet? 😉

Prediction market

Interesting contrast to the EU. Australia doesn't have any larger car manufacturers, so no need to protect anybody from cheap chinese cars.

I don't think this would work out.

• If you nationalize it, it becomes less efficient (see Deutsche Bahn). Already the second largest owner of VW is the state of Lower Saxony.
• giving money for free usually means they simply squander it.
• enacting tariffs provokes a reaction with further side effects.
• it probably cannot be done legally by Germany alone, they would have to align with EU (i.e. french car industry). This means it requires years of negotiations.

Also, how is it about the green party? Minister of transport is FDP.

Why SUVs? People feels safer and like to sit higher (especially when older). So people buy SUVs and thus company supply them. Higher cars also ease the bright LED issue (short-term, long-term it gets worse).

It's from November. How did I miss that until now?!

https://dice.camp/@SJohnRoss

They use GURPS! Interesting.

Is there any good comparison between Dark, Gold, and Loom? The website itself only features very brief descriptions.

Thanks, that was insightful. I had not seen the Hub and Spokes document so far.