Gemini 4 was the first to be guided from Houston, with Mercury Control as a backup. I started a new proof of concept set of random tables, beginning with starports. awesome incremental search I’d like to have a patron generator. Oh, excellent writing advice from Jacob Hurst: don’t write and then A happened, and then B happened, and then C happened. There are so many things to consider. Their turret has missile racks mounted. Peter Vernigorov also wrote a Gemini to Wikipedia proxy, which looks quite different from mine. All Gemini flights were launched from Launch Complex 19 (LC-19) at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida. . Unrefined fuel only! Their turret has a pulse laser mounted. They are often underused and disorganised, but have potential to be useful. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. That’s how I started to run. I’m not sure that’s how I’d like to run the game. There are other similar categories to be found on the SiteMap. Who is sabotaging their work? Occasionally I’ll ask my wife for a roll. I have a bunch of “murder case” templates, and these don’t show up too often. The navigator is Dawit Zinga. → Launch Complex 19 → Cape Kennedy Air Force Station → launch vehicle → Titan II → Intercontinental Ballistic Missile → Mission Control Center → Manned Spacecraft Center → flight control. What’s the game going to be about. No hunting on Fleflu! Alex P Schroder, age 46, Saint Peters, MO 63376 Background Check. Retrieved from "https://fargofilmmaking.fandom.com/wiki/Alex_Schroeder?oldid=36945" I’d like to have plot ideas using the above. I develop Oddmuse and run the Emacs Wiki. I sometimes post links to my RPG Mastodon account, @kensanata. The problem is that the map is based on the Universal World Profile (UWP) list, and the UWP list is pretty austere. So now I’m using the info in The Traveller Book (TTB) and in Merchant Prince (MP). The medic is Dai Xueman. We need reference and permeable media across the board. All you need to do is edit new pages, correct typos, add categories, rework pages. It is all work in progress, but here’s the current state of affairs. I went back to Text Mapper and tweaked the output so that the textual representation of the map also included suitable tokens for Hex Describe (such as “starport-A”) which I could then refer to. Using bullets would be no problem at all, for Hex Describe. My own personal approach is 1d6 damage for all weapons; but with strength bonuses and magic items you can still make killer melee fighting characters. It’s the effect of the invisible audience. – Sandra 2020-09-14 21:44 UTC. Nearly 100 rooms: “Enchanted gremlins made of cherry pits, trapped devils with whom to deal, treasure to steal, a wizard’s corpse to loot, creatures frozen since the ice age to battle, dinosaurs to let loose, factions to fall into, and at least two rooms where it’s snowing all the time.” – The Cherry Crypts: a big ol' dungeon, by Linden, on Lapidary Ossuary. Why is it that if I do a thing for money – for any extrinsic reward, probably! Alex Schroeder is known for his work on Virginia Minnesota (2018), Ghost Adventures (2008) and Destination Fear (2019) The settlement is so small that none of them have competition. The fourth gunner is Yaw Sayyid. You can edit the comment page if you need to fix typos. @wandererbill recently said that “hex descriptions are the haiku of adventure writing”, and I agree. What I like about Gopher and Gopherpedia Vs Wikipedia is easier keyboard navigation. Its free to download and he has a great way of using short snappy sentences. Perhaps. 9786A3 Engineer-1 Admin-1 Fwd Obsvr-1 Gunnery-1. 7B4866 Vacc Suit-1 Engineering-1 Jack-o-T-1 Gunnery-1. How to make sure that my works survive me. The fourth gunner is Yaw Sayyid. Their turret has missile racks mounted. Since 2015 70% who join are adults. Jaquaying the Dungeon – Addendum: How to Use a Melan Diagram, by Justin Alexander, on The Alexandrian. Thanks, @Whidou, @specter, @craigmaloney. 429845 Engineer-2 Foil-2 Jack-o-T-1 Vacc Suit-1. Right now, that’s a bit too abstract for me. The text description is a bunch of paragraphs like the following but I’m just using the table on page 37: if there’s a positive modifier, it’s a trade route, independent of direction, for distances 1–2. Furthermore, the Traveller Subsector Generator also generates multiple colour-coded “spheres of influence” with their own “languages”. What now? The ship has two pulse lasers and two missile racks mounted. What drives customer wish-lists? Now, many people don’t read an encyclopedia like that. I bet some of the tables and resources in there would be helpful for this type of solo play. See my About and my Contact pages if you need more information. And I decided upon the following: on a small starport, they are looking for a ship to bring a murder suspect to a nearby big starport. Sure, why not. I had ceded my muse to an algorithm.”. 8488A8 Gunnery-1 Shotgun-2 Laser Rifle-1 Cutlass-1. 797C84 Gunnery-3 Vacc Suit-1. If the end effect is that for most situations violence is a 50% chance of a one-shot death (or at least heavy wounds that take a long time to heal), then we can use that for role-play: everybody is afraid of a fight and ready to negotiate. If you’ve come here from an RPG blog, you might want to head over to RPG. I’d like to have a table that generates actual ships, with crew and loads. Here’s an example page: Project Gemini on Wikipedia. So either I had to adapt Hex Describe so it parses the UWP of my Traveller Subsector Generator (and other UWP generators), or I’d change Text Mapper to produce output I could use in Hex Describe. 2021-02-10 How much generated information? 9786A3 Engineer-1 Admin-1 Fwd Obsvr-1 Gunnery-1. 477368 Engineering-1 Cutlass-1 Electronic-1 Mechanical-1; ensign Kayla Seabaugh. When is this Gemini posting finally going to stop‽ I don’t know. Random Subsector with map and descriptions, Age of D&D new joiners jumped ~5 yrs since 2015, Backgrounds, Adventures and but therefore, 2021-01-19 Listening to Burning Wheel Actual Play, Jaquaying the Dungeon – Addendum: How to Use a Melan Diagram, 2021-02-02 Skip the first two files in the shell, 2021-01-30 Traveller Subsector Description, 2021-01-24 Traveller missions for solo adventuring, Alex Schroeder (@kensanata@octodon.social) - Octodon, click the link to load random Traveller data (which gets the from Text Mapper), click the radio button to use the Traveller tables, click the radio button to “only use the data provided below”, paste your modified tables into the text area. Carrie Schroeder is an Australian actress best known for playing Sigourney Gaines on I Am Frankie. See Info for text formatting rules. Vibes of the Mandalorian, season 2, and of the storming of the capitol on January 6, 2021. In doing so, it allowed the United States to catch up and overcome the lead in human spaceflight capability the Soviet Union had obtained in the early years of the Space Race, by demonstrating: mission endurance up to just under fourteen days, longer than the eight days required for a round trip to the Moon; methods of performing extra- vehicular activity (EVA) without tiring; and the orbital maneuvers necessary to achieve rendezvous and docking with another spacecraft. A small frontier style Galactic Corporation installation is here for small repairs. I have a folder full of mp3 files and want to start playback with the second file but all I know is this: mpg321 *.mp3. And Giki is ever so light and airy. But it does make me want to add a scene where the party follows a well known criminal to the system…. My current pet projects are the wiki software Oddmuse and a few wiki sites such as Emacs Wiki and Campaign Wiki. Fleflu has a class C starport. I like to play role-playing games and I’m interested in mapping programs that generate maps, and programs that allow me to modify maps without being an artist. I think that’s as far back as my posts go, the rest is archived offline... On my Windows box, when I’m not using Emacs, I often listen to music using Cygwin and mpg123.exe... Yikes, but also yay‽. Or do we assume that there is some sort of underground life form that is adapted to the vacuum. I love that idea. Currently, they’re holding murder suspect Alimah Khatibi, but capital crimes are usually judged in Wifema (_0204_) and the harbour master needs a ship to transport the suspect there. 27C6A9 Navigation-2 Ship’s Boat-2 Electronic-1 Engineering-1 Admin-1; ensign Betty Farrow. The medic is Dai Xueman. Banta might be interested in a security operation against Firik’s cult, and Aam’s angry mob. And in a way I wonder how we can talk about all these things with our friends, our class mates, our family – our community. Tanner Wiseman is known for his work on Ghost Adventures (2008), Trail to Terror (2016) and Destination Fear (2019) BB58A2 Gunnery-3 Vacc Suit-1 Ship’s Boat-1. And then, during the session, we’re all interested in pushing the story towards these beliefs. Apparently from a Trey Parker and Matt Stone interview where they talk about how they structure their South Park Stories. “I’m innocent, I swear!” they say. The mining opportunities favour the construction of underground settlements. The steward is Kalila Shariq. I sometimes wonder whether there’s a link-to-word ratio that we shouldn’t exceed when writing text for humans to read in a linear form, like a Wikipedia page section. A bunch of water tanks nearby tell you all there is to know about the fuel situation. → NASA → Gemini 8 → Gemini 9A → Cape Canaveral Air Force Station → NASA → human spaceflight → Project Mercury → Apollo program → low Earth orbit → Moon landing → human spaceflight → Soviet Union → Space Race → Moon → Extravehicular activity → orbital maneuver → space rendezvous → docking and berthing of spacecraft → Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19 → Cape Canaveral Air Force Station → launch vehicle → Titan II GLV → Intercontinental ballistic missile. So you can’t write descriptions assuming normal gravity, atmosphere, or land mass. The harbour master’s office is probably there as well. More Genealogy Tools. Electronics-1 Medical-1 Engineer-2. I wish Community Wiki would be the place, I guess. If you look at the first result of the government-5 table, however, you see that it doesn’t make sense: The entire system has been divvied up between a handful of tech giants that provide civil full services for their customers. Their turret has a missile racks mounted. 3947B8 Medical-1 Electronic-1 Jack-o-T-1. I still wonder about the reason, though. I still think about that a lot. All you can see is the toll house. Did he compete? In my first attempt to render this Wikipedia page with links I had appended all the links at the end. Or, looking at it from the other end: is dense hypertext maybe not a good idea? I can’t replace orcs and goblins with pirates. Knowing Your Players and Their Kicks, Lich van Winkle, on his blog. Again this is bias here but I really like the bullet point format Winters Daughter by Gavin Norman uses. You could see more if you want it but the unique things are highlighted? In fact, if this is another “front”, then we should perhaps write it up as follows: two wood and spice transports have been disappearing and the clans are angry. For example a Traveller character death. There’s the universal world profile (UWP) to provide a starter, and bases, but I also generate ships, and ships have crew, and I generate characters for the crews, they have names and characteristics, and appropriate skills… where does it stop? It’s that two player game I’m listening to as a podcast. You just get the replies. On the other hand I love the functionality of hyperlinks too. If you’re interested in the source code, take a look at the source repository. Education is costly and nobody wants to do it. Also, potential allies are more interesting they are individualised, so perhaps spending space on navy seals is better than spending it on pirates. So, for this Traveller game, where the two scouts, Lux and Louis are stranded on a backwater planet with a starport in a jungle, with dense and tainted atmosphere, I’m thinking… OK, so here are my thoughts as a referee, based on what’s been happening on the planet, in another campaign, and what the current situation might be. I indicate good trade routes based on what it says in Merchant Prince. The first one is about scheduling. The length never feels too long to get into your head at the table. It has grown quite a bit in this time, and so the promise of fractal nature has caught up with me. I roll for surprise, for encounter distance, I roll for all the things, trying to learn the system as I go. I mean, cool, right? Government-7 means “Balkanization. 34. answers. , Referrers: Diary Diary Diary Diary DIY & Dragons Alex Schroeder (@kensanata@octodon.social) - Octodon Alex Schroeder Backup Blog. The current Text Mapper code does not. I think I like it. If you follow it, you’ll see the page content as plain text. Traveller has a subsector generation system where about half the hexes have a system, then you roll 2d6 for the characteristics of the various worlds, with the numbers influencing each other, generating a list of Universal World Profiles (UWP). This is what disturbs me about Star Wars these days: all the stormtroopers dying left and right, the senselessness of all the massacres. I find the former much more interesting. And Lady Luck is fickle. The companies were formed over a six year period with the most recent being incorporated five years ago in January of 2015. Instead, I release what I write when I’m done with it.” – Jeremy Friesen. Simerik Firik is a cult leader among the new settlers. My preferred system right now is Labyrinth Lord. It’s small, it’s local, but he’s a rallying point for the unhappy old settlers, that is: poor farmers. 675784 Ship’s Boat-2 Jack-o-T-1 Gunnery-1 Vacc Suit-1; private Baron Mpho Gnabry. 754676 Engineering-1 Ship’s Boat-1 Bayonet-1 Gunnery-1; private Táng Xiaobo. What drives this complexity? “This case is as good as decided!” says Tajeddigt Tonui. Bryce always says its always better to give less first. All … Alex Schröder (en: Alex Schroeder), a software developer from Zürich, Switzerland, was involved in MeatballWiki and CommunityWiki, and is the creator of the Oddmuse wiki engine. I’ve run into many of the same issues. » – Age of D&D new joiners jumped ~5 yrs since 2015 , by Xaosseed, on Seed of Worlds, Free Kriegsspiel… «I ran a one-shot over zoom last weekend with characters that looked like this: “You’re a paladin. It happens on blogs, and on the fediverse! So how to make money? It’s a small wiki that serves its pages via Gemini. How to learn – and how to teach others – not to be a reply guy, not to be sea-lioning, how to decolonise my writing, the intricacies of muting, blocking, archiving and expiry – I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of the idea of record keepers, a blog post that I keep linking! Thinking about play styles… I dunno, I used to be a lot more interested in these things. And thus I will happily accept a gift freely given but I don’t want to get paid. I’d say, rampant xenophobia. The Silver Gazelle is a type T patrol cruiser (400t, streamlined). The first gunner is Adannaya Oyiakwan. Cov has a class D starport. I recently added patrol cruisers. Therefore, this isn’t somebody who’s out to change business practice, it’s somebody who’s trying to drive them out of business. It’s my semi-solo Traveller campaign. I don’t know whether I like it. If you’re a writer and you want to change your habits, if you’re not a writer and you want to work on being a writer, then this seems like a good idea. There is nothing I have to add. They’ve been missing their payments.” Whatever. If you can generate a description of a hex, you can generate the description of a town in the hex, you can generate the people in the town, you can generate the character’s equipment, their stats, some words about their personality, possible missions they’re on, quests they might be willing to hand out, their friends and enemies… where does it stop? Jack-o-T-1 Vacc Suit-1 Steward-1. But then my take is that enjoyment is a multifaceted thing that I enjoy all the things, some more so, some less so, some more when I do it, some more when others do it. BB58A2 Gunnery-3 Vacc Suit-1 Ship’s Boat-1. The body has been found and the evidence is overwhelming. Does it work? Please login. And by that I don’t mean to say that we should expand the following to “Starport class A, 3200km diameter, no atmosphere, no water, a few ten thousand people, representative republic, weapons of a strict military nature are forbidden (machine guns, automatic rifles).” The trade codes are derived from the numbers given. Demimondes like SDF provide a respite from all that, and a forum for some resistance and development apart from the bloat and blather. The locals are rich and well off. Their turret has a pulse laser mounted. When terrorists on Wifema (_0204_) turned out to be locals, it didn’t take long before the navy showed up, overthrew the old order on Cov, and installed a puppet government, currently led by Lan Gen. Curfews, patrols, interrogations, allegations of torture, and occasional revelations thereof provide fertile grounds for more shootings, more bombs, more assassinations. Words have rhythm, sentences want to be read. Alexandra "Alex" Hook is a Canadian actress, best known for playing Frankie Gaines and Eliza on I Am Frankie. Better skimming! There is a naval base called Superior Warlocks in the system under captain Lokni, 47788A, Body Pistol-3 Ship’s Boat-2 Pilot-2 SMG-1 Admin-1 Electronic-1 Engineering-1 Jack-o-T-1. BitChute is a video hosting service known for accommodating far-right individuals and conspiracy theorists, and for hosting hateful material. Hello Alex, I notice the problem with the talk pages as well. Backgrounds, Adventures and but therefore, by Jacob Hurst, on Swordfish Islands. 9B3A87 Navigation-2 Ship’s Boat-1. You have good fighting skills, full armor, a sword and shield - and you can choose either the ability to try healing wounds through prayer, or to try turning the undead. Both of our attempts seem to illustrate that it’s hard to shoehorn a dense hypertext like Wikipedia back into a simple text with separate links for references. And one day you’ll be sitting inside and the weather is lousy and you’ll feel the urge to go for a run. Economic refugees from neighbouring systems are welcomed for the internal labour marked needs plenty of new hands. I’ve been reading “Solo” by Zozer Games, but I’m not yet convinced. I’m interested in all these political topics not because I want to discuss the actual topics but because I feel I need to better understand them as symptoms of underlying social, political, or even economic issues. The system has fallen apart into multiple polities: each urban centre claiming sovereignty, involved in border disputes, internal squabbles, unable to deal with the imperial order in the subsector. The code in Text Mapper does not. 9B3A87 Navigation-2 Ship’s Boat-1. If you’ve come here from an RPG blog, you might want to head over to RPG. Maybe some sort of click to expand function? I’m not immune to this myself. A starport must have some buildings that indicate the presence of fuel tanks and refineries, shipyards where new ships can be constructed, dockyards where ships can be unloaded, landing panels, names of companies involved, a building for the administration, be it a harbour master or a toll station, security, and so on. BAM was founded by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder and Taylor O'Malley in 2001. It was based on Mongoose Publishing’s Traveller 1st ed., because that’s what I was using at the time. As I wrote previously, I have bought all this old stuff on PDF. A bunch of ship captains calling themselves the Friends of Fleflu uses the forum to deliberate on rare policy decisions and enforces them, using the surveillance systems of satellite network to identify trespassers. From the documentation: This server serves a wiki as a Gemini site. If I knew that the target was a browser, then I’d think about little CSS and JS tricks to fold stuff up, you’d see ship type, pilot, and mission; “show me more” gives you the crew positions and ship weapons, and the existence of a navy squad, with the lieutenant; a second “show me more” gives you the details of either crew stats or navy squad stats?