https://www.allplay.com/board-games/the-defenders-almanac/

An extensive illustrated guidebook to the besieged lands of the Commonwood and a rules-light tabletop roleplaying game for collaboratively telling short stories of animal resistance to the machine invasion ~ from T.L. Simons, creator of Defenders of the Wild and Bloc by Bloc with fantasy author Margaret Killjoy, game designer Henry Audubon, illustrator Meg Lemieur, and writer Patricia Noonan

Anyone played it? Got any tips? I realise it's pretty recent, so maybe not..

I'm about to start a session with a new gaming group (of old friends). I'm new to DMing and TTRPGs in general (have played one session of pathfinder), two of my 4 players have a fair bit of experience playing and DMing.

I realise this is way more rules-light than pathfinder, though that's probably not saying much - it also seems a fair bit lighter even than some PbtA based games I've looked at..

General advice for DMing rulse-light RPGs also welcome :)

Some games are complicated - they have really complex rules. Examples of this are games where you have to track many different types of tokens, with different rules for each.

Other games have really simple rules, but still manage to produce extreme complexity in they way they are played.

Go is the perfect example of this. It literally has 2-3 rules, but because you can play anywhere, the complexity it can produce is wide and deep, to the point that tomes have been written on how to play it.

What other boardgames exist that have very simple rules, but produce complex and interesting game play?

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Would anyone else be interested in a "making hip-hop" community?

Considering how small Lemmy still is, I reckon it would be best to include multiple aspects - music production, rapping, freestyling, turntablism/scratching, beatboxing. Could always split some of those out into separate communities later if needed.

I would see it as a complement to the !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz community, but more focused on how to make, rather than sharing cool stuff others have made.

If you're not middle aged, pick a younger age, IDK

I often come across ideas for new communities (sometimes I even have them myself), but I'm not always sure whether they would get traction.

How about a "suggest a community" community, where people can post suggestions, and get feedback on the idea, maybe tweak it a bit to be more useful, and also look for co-moderators?

It could act in parallel to !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Anyone have any ideas for how this could work better? Anyone want to co-moderate one?

I'm generally a fan of pretty shit beer (XXXX is my day-to-day). But even I have my limits.

Back in the day, it was clearly Tooheys Red Bitter, but I think these even Red is getting a run for it's money, e.g. from Byron Bay Premium Lager, which is something like James Boags but with all the soul sucked out through the nostrils. Obviously Foster's fucking sucks too, but I don't think you can even buy their lager in Australia, the only place I ever drank it was on a Singapore airlines flight out of the country, and once in Paris. Though I just realised that "light ice" was theirs too, and my Grandparents somehow always had one bottle of that in their fridge in the 90s, and it was shit too.

Anyway, there's about a million types of beer produced in australia these days, and heaps of them suck, but I want to know if Red has been knocked off it's podium for the worst beer ever.

Red drinkers: fite me.

!complexity@lemmy.world

I've been a linux user for 20 years (mostly on KDE). I just started at a new job, and they gave me a mac. I found out later that I could have got a linux machine instead, which is a bit annoying. Still, I know there are some nice things about a mac, and I figured I'd give it a try for a while.

I'm pretty quick moving around my desktop environment, and I'm finding picking up the mac is not too bad. BUT I use keyboard shortcuts a lot, and they are all every different on a mac. So whenever I switch back and forth between my work machine, I end up stumbling a bunch and wasting my time, and getting annoyed. It's mostly keyboard shortcuts, but the trackpad buttons and scrolling are annoying too.

So, question is: is it possible to regularly use two OSs with wildly different control surfaces, and be comfortable with it? e.g. either MacOS + Linux, or I guess MacOS + Windows? Or will it be annoying forever?

When you're reading or listening to verbal material ( e.g. fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry, lyrics, etc.), what kind of imagery has the most impact?

Imagery in the broad sense (including all senses, not just sight).

"Kind" can be whatever categorisation you can think of, e.g. genre, sense, place, scale, human/non-human, etc.