Notices by Rivetgeek (He/Him) (rivetgeek@dice.camp), page 2

@JoshuaACNewman @protman

Somebody save me from the people trying to argue that #BitD has a combat system.

@silverwizard Ditto how many work phones have been lost (my count is one and it was recovered, but I had a coworker who legit lost like three).

Love people trying to pixelbitch the meaning behind "Aspects are always true" in the Year of Our Lord 2023. #TTRPG #Fate

@tezrak I think for better or worse Fate has become kind of the background radiation of narrative gaming. Nobody talks about it much because it's persistently there.

@silverwizard We migrated from on-prem to AWS into the LA local zone because it was discovered our app was very sensitive to database latency (previously everything was in Irvine). And because of available EBS volume types in LA, had to go with striping multiple volumes to get the IOPS the clusters needed. The hope was that LA would get volume types available in OR. Now we kind of want to migrate to OR for cost-reduction/simplicity. Striped volumes are a PITA to expand.

@silverwizard Oh and I forgot about migrating out of the LA local zone in AWS.

@silverwizard The latter... But "Post once we get all the other shit fixed me" 💩

@silverwizard I have a similar note but about Pulumi being broken and getting rid of multiple GP3/striped Windows volumes in our failover clusters.

@silverwizard Yeah, a non actionable firehose of useless information is the worst. It creates too much noise.

Maybe look into Netreo? I have no experience with it but an old friend is one of the founders.

@silverwizard We were just talking about how useless Datadog is. We don't use it, but we are starting to have a need for monitoring that can handle more than one or two platforms rather than adding a new product to the mix. Right now we have New Relic, Sentry One, plus the monitoring for Azure, AWS, MongoDB...logging in Splunk, CloudTrail...so many places for stuff. Datadog was dismissed out of hand from previous experience.

Today's #TTRPG hot take (I haven't had one in a while): I don't care if you are the most charismatic, smoothest talker, best public speaker, whatever. If your character does not have the same qualities backing up whatever roll they're making, your performance doesn't mean shit. Even if they do, your performance won't decide the outcome. That's what the dice are for.

@Steve98052 So should a player that gives a terrible speech but their character is a great orator be penalized if they roll great?

@silverwizard TDP magic is flashy. There's somatic and verbal components, so that would be the potential downside. And if it's dark magic there's a whole other level of downside.

@silverwizard So I'll expand on the wizard example a bit. In Tales of Xadia, for example, you don't roll to "cast" spells. Spells are a part of what you are trying to do. Mages have a small selection of "named" spells that they can add to their dice pool, but even without adding one the player can add their mage distinction die to their pool and describe how they're using magic to help get the door open. They just won't have the additional die from one of their "named" spells.

@silverwizard I do it natively in every game I run. Fiction first is the way to go for me.

@silverwizard Yup. And that affects the outcome. Sometimes if you want the door to be*intact* after opening it you include your d6 Rogue and d8 Lockpicks instead of your d12 Warrior and d10 Battleaxe in your pool.

@silverwizard In Cortex Prime (and by extension Leverage I believe), Roles are like general skill packages. It's pretty trivial to do the extra stuff in Cortex as-is.