I think Solasta felt more like a D&D campaign than BG3 to me.
I wouldn’t say it’s better than BG3, but I liked you played more as a party instead of a protagonist with companions.
Neither of those are gonna offer as much shenanigans and nonsense than a table can (or vtt).

Looks like a Microfilm reader?
As for the joke… It’s like the dungeon was so huge they had to “shrink” it to microfilm to be able to fit in “1 page”.

I wouldn’t say it’s a great joke, but that’s what I got out of that.

Well I mean, next time your party needs to escape from somewhere, book an escape room that has a theme that’s close enough.
There’d be no tabletop element, obviously no weapon or spells, although your players can still kinda roleplay in there.

Most escape rooms around here already have their own little backstory and an actor introduces you to their shtick and sometimes interacts with you through the thing.
If you call them ahead of time, they might agree to slightly alter their existing stuff to accommodate your story.

I was gonna give you advice on trapping them, but then I realized you were talking about their characters and not the actual players.
Then again, playing the odd session in an actual escape room might be fun.

Always upvote Morte, that’s a new rule I just made up.

Pretend it’s a dragonborn, giant halfling?

Your party just met up for the first time at this retro restaurant and the robowaitress asks what you want to order.
You don’t have much in the way of company credits, so it’s a bit awkward as you barely have enough for anything on the holomenu.
[…] Luckily, your new patron to be notices and says they’ll take care of it.
“5 breakfast lab-bacon sandwiches” and waives his credstick.
You don’t know much about the guy, but even if this job of his doesn’t pan out, a meal’s a meal.

The corpo ad plays loudly on the holo:
Lab grown bacon is the closest thing to the real thing, 100% guaranteed
A small disclaimer, barely big enough to be legible scrolls in and out too quick, you make out the words “purge”, “reconstructed”, “flavor”, “simulation”, befit the thing pops out of existence the robowaitress heads off on skates.
It’s common historical knowledge, so you all know that actual pigs were all purged in huge mobile incinerators more than a decade ago after a bad wave of swine flu, so who’s to say what bacon was really like…
Rumour has it that the “lab” in labbacon is actually for labrador meat, which… you’re pretty sure is just an urban legend to scare kids into eating their synth-celery.
As you wait, your new patron cuts to the chase “So, before I spill the details on this job, tell me about yourselves? I like to know new contractors”
[…] /awkward roleplay […]

He eyes you suspiciously, like he’s not quite sure what to make of y’all.
“Alright, that’s for us, I’m starving”, he says with a big smile as the robowaitress zooms across the busy room with a big platter, expertly and effortlessly zigzagging between customers, bums and other hazards.
Then there’s a loud crash and a bunch of weirdly dressed, blindfolded weirdos appear out of thin air, flailing, swinging, dancing?
They’re chanting something you can’t make out and they’re dressed even more ridiculously than in these old holomovies you’ve seen (describe your old party, focusing on how out of place they are).

The platter goes flying and crashing as they start stomping around, seemingly intent on fighting your meal for some reason.

“Fucking Glitter addicts” Fixer McFixer Face mutters, standing up.

Roll initiative

On her turn, the robowaitress shouts a much louder, recorded message: “SIRS, THIS IS A WENDYS ™, DISPERSE IMMEDIATELY”

(After a few rounds of chaotic fighting or fruitless attempts at getting the intruders’ attention… they zap out of existence like they were never there, except for the mess.)

The robowaitress resumes her programming, bringing you a mostly empty platter with sad, smashed bits of food scattered here and there.
“Enjoy your meal, satisfaction guaranteed”
As she says the word guaranteed, there’s about 3 pages of legalese verbiage that scrolls in and out of existence faster than any human can probably ever read, classic. She storms off as soon as this blinks out.

He picks at bits of thin leathery brown-greenish strips of pressed labbacon pulp, and whatever destroyed remains and sighs with a resigned look.
“Well, I don’t know what the fuck this was about, but it seems you can handle yourself, you’re in.”
Getting his credstick out, he reserves the table for another half hour and orders a new platter.

(Start explaining their first job/adventure)

It’s like when you go to an office social event and realize you only ever talk to these guys about work stuff.

It’s funny because I just got back from the office social thing and yea whenever we drift to something else than work… yikes.

Back in my day, we’d go several sessions without a rest which really did wonders to tone down spellcasting nova.

updates once a week on Monday

Which is easily the best part about most Mondays.

Also, even a fighter who dumped charisma can be intimating.

I feel like alternate abilities skill check should have a bit more spotlight.
The human 20 STR fighter PC wants to intimidate this guy by snapping this fence post in half like a toothpick?
Sure buddy, give me a Strength Intimidation check.
Other people might intimidate through words and sheer personality, but this guy’s as strong as a Glabrezu, yet half the size, and can just bend a sword with his hands. (Oh shit, that’s where all these bent swords are coming from)

While STR Intimidation is specifically mentioned in the rules, there’s a lot more combinations that could make sense depending on the situation.
The problem is it relies mostly on DM fiat instead of neatly and explicitly described spells, so it’s less obvious, less reliable and less used.

My guess would be a bug in connect for users coming from different instances.
Most likely, @Metriximor@lemmy.world was taken to https://lemmy.world/post/837105 instead of https://ttrpg.network/post/837105 …
If that’s the case then that would a bug in how the Connect app deals with absolute vs relative URLs and not something you can fix on your end.

For linking to communities, we can use this format which should work fine regardless of which instance you’re coming from !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

I do not know of a similar way for linking to posts.

I’m not an expert on the subject, but you can kind of force a sync by using the search option.

I just put the url from a part over there https://diyrpg.org/post/246 in the search box in our insurance and it started showing up here (without any of the comments)
Presumably, older comments could be synced manually with a link too, but that sounds like a lot of work and I haven’t tried it.
If there a specific comment you wanna interact with is not too bad, don’t this manually for all comments doesn’t sound fun.
I think there might be browser extensions to “open this in your preferred instance” but I haven’t tried any.

Silver lining is that stuff that happens after you first added the community should be more seamless.

If you add a community from another instance, future content should sync, but not the old/existing content.

Moonbeam to turn back non magic shape shifters?

You apologize about as much as Konsi.
It’s fine, we love you.

I clean the scanner regularly, it’s just surprisingly hard to clean it 100%

The trick I think is finding a good solvent for your media.
Coloured pencil would be mostly waxes and oils.
My go-to is usually a high % isopropyl alcohol, it cleans up pretty well, dries fast (you don’t want leftover solvent touching your next scan). Next up, if it’s really persistent would be odorless mineral spirits. (Odorful?) mineral spirits work too I guess, but given the choice I much pretty prefer the odorless stuff.

I very much prefer kimwipes over paper towels which usually are a bit too scratchy and can leave some fluff behind. Microfiber cloths are reusable, but once you load the fibers with waxes, it doesn’t really work as well.

Do check that your scanner top is glass and not cheap plastic before using mineral spirits.
As with anything, try it out in an inconspicuous spot first to be sure.

Otherwise, isn’t Scan without trace is a third level spell available to trickery domain clerics?

For Karl! Rock. and. STONE

Whoops, wrong place, carry on.

For a tenth of the price too

FWIW, I really like these as they are.
I’ve binged through them a while ago and they feel like a wink to an actual campaign, genuine.
Little windows offering glimpses of things that could have happened during actual play.
Like… this doesn’t need to have happened as is during a session, but it feels true enough for the characters that it could have happened during or inbetween your actual D&D sessions.

Countless forgettable series on streaming sites have writers, didn’t do them any good.
Even if you did hire a writer, it would just lose focus.
Do they even know the campaign? Probably not. Even if they somehow did, they’re notorious for not sticking to source material because they too wanna get creative. I don’t have anything against writers, but you’re doing a fine job yourself and I don’t really see how someone else could write these without losing touch.

I’d rather hear it from the goblin’s mouth, so to speak.
I love Konsi and the work you’re doing.

You can also install it on the android version of Firefox