queuedog

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EN 🇺🇲 & ES 🇲🇽 I like roleplaying games quite a lot. I write about them at length sometimes: https://queuedog.bearblog.dev/ Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️ He & him mostly but whatever floats your boat is probably cool

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.

I've been trying to cook up an Into the Odd version of Vampire: the Masquerade (for my table only) when I should have been trying to make a Mothership hack for it...

Coming Soon in Fall of 2026: SPACER, my personal rewrite and expanded version of Classic Traveller designed to be released under the Creative Commons sharealike license for FREE. This means people can make their own content for Spacer or design a new game using it!

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the turn tracker is kicking my ass. it's a full terminal UI now but there are so many little things that keep cropping up and more experienced people keep advising me on how to fix it in ways that are so time consuming! but one day it will be good

apple raising their prices because of component shortages feels like checking the canary and seeing a pile of bones in a cage

Quiet changes at Bitwarden: - Longtime CEO stepped back in Feb. w/o announcement - New CEO's LinkedIn touts experience in mergers, acquisitions, and working w/ private equity. - Career page replaces "Inclusion" with "Innovation," "Transparency" with "Trust" as tentpole values. (1/2)

Working on a capsule game that I am calling Urdland (working title), it is a viking game informed largely by my reading of the Poetic/Prose Edda and a couple of history books. I think it's gonna bang.

sucks that google is definitely reading your google drive stuff. i dont want to train gemini. it's also very annoying to set up a local word processing stack. still havent gotten beyond writing everything into obsidian

Published a new version of my OSR Terminal Turn Tracker which is mostly under-the-hood improvements, but also lets you save your progress! It will take a bit for me to compile it for Itch but you can find it on github now: github.com/queue-dog/os...

GitHub - queue-dog/osr-terminal-turn-tracker: A terminal-based turn tracker for Old School RPGs

A terminal-based turn tracker for Old School RPGs. Contribute to queue-dog/osr-terminal-turn-tracker development by creating an account on GitHub.

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second stonehell session was also fun; a surprisingly hostile note from the other party led one PC to try to drink green slime (dying horribly). otherwise, empty rooms

I agree largely with Hodag because he is smart and good at drawing; to my taste I let my players pick just about whatever they want, but we do OSE with race-as-class. If they aren't a human, it's because that's their "thing" which still lets me falsely believe my setting is human-centric 😅

HODAG RPG@hodagrpg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

An Explanation Thread, to clear it up once and for all ( I've had a few people discover this independently in the last week, so I'll risk another firestorm to explain):

A height chart of and heritage that reads:
Alot of dms are are afraid to tell their players no.

Don't  be. 

Sometimes, Always, Never

Sometimes 
-Drow

Always
-Humans
-Elves (wood=high)
-Dwarves
-Halfings
-Half Orcs

Never
-Teifling
-Dragonborn
-Goliath
-Half Elf
-Gnome

An Explanation Thread, to clear it up once and for all ( I've had a few people discover this independently in the last week, so I'll risk another firestorm to explain):

A height chart of and heritage that reads:
Alot of dms are are afraid to tell their players no.

Don't  be. 

Sometimes, Always, Never

Sometimes 
-Drow

Always
-Humans
-Elves (wood=high)
-Dwarves
-Halfings
-Half Orcs

Never
-Teifling
-Dragonborn
-Goliath
-Half Elf
-Gnome

next stonehell sesh today, first for the meatspace group. excited to uncover some secrets and maybe make a few characters past tense

Play tests of Vaults of Vaarn 2E are underway! Two PCs delved into the ruins of Ulfaar, the Last Autarch’s Palace. The hypertext mega dungeon and draft rulebook were both put to the test in a 3 hour session

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