Alex Schroeder

@HeyeBodo@rollenspiel.social I wrote a ludens vita in 2021 … https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2021-04-05_The_things_I_learned Perhaps I should upgrade it one day! Edited to add: https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2026-05-02-lessons-learned

I'm playing two games of #AdvancedSquadLeader at the moment. In this second game, an online acquaintance wanted to play Starter Kit 1 only, and "as fast as possible". We're failing at the "fast" part but sometimes we still push ourselves and try to cut conversations about rules and tactics short. The goal here is to get into the groove and get faster because my opponent is trying to convince some of their offline friends to start playing face to face. And in a face to face game, things should move quicker than they often do online. Makes sense to me.

@dnddeutsch@mastodon.pnpde.social Hi! Für deutsche Blogs habe ich leider nichts im Angebot, weil https://rsp-blogs.de/ das schon abdeckt. Wobei ich gerade sehe, dass es etwas anders aussieht als noch letztes Jahr. 😨 Und jetzt finde ich sogar noch eine Erklärung auf Tanelorn. Ui! Aber im Moment scheint der Planet noch oder wieder zu funktionieren. Um so interessanter ist dann der Planet D3.

@dianaprobst@mastodon.art Done! It'll be live in a few hours.

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Oh no what will I do? I'm running the Japanese and I get double victory points for reaching the top edge of the map. So now I wonder. Perhaps I can split the enemy party even more and run along the road with my two units at the bottom? It's a squad and a half squad, worth three victory points; in this scenario reaching the top edge gives double victory points, so six, which would in fact be enough. Hm… Also next time I will have spotters in the jungle looking across the gap with one mortars in the back, in the open, ready to fire. Will that make a difference? I don't know. Another mortar is still in the jungle, unable to fire. I need to tie down the Brits so that the middle remains clear, I guess.
#AdvancedSquadLeader

@TimmyMac Refill cartridges are cheap, practical, clean, quick to change, and leave a bit of plastic. The piston converter implies an inkpot made of glass, fancy ink, a messy blow out and washing of the fountain pen, a messy refill procedure, and all of that. So if you want to just write, use the cartridges. Currently I use a piston converter and I am not convinced.

@frotz@mastodon.sdf.org Haha, a fate narrowly avoided by yours truly. But then, the years of my life lost to mapping elfgames …

A buddy of mine wrote a massiv blog post about using GIS software to make maps for elfgames: 2026-04-19 Technical Tutorial: Using QGIS for fantasy maps.

@BaronessWinter All the best and speedy recovery!

@tomasino@tilde.zone the world is unbelievably small, some times 🤯

@tomasino@tilde.zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper_(2008_film) had an interesting idea in that you could jump back and change the present. So criminals do it a lot. As far as the idea itself, however, I guess it’s Back to the Future style (or I’m misremembering the details).