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With the websites now stable again after all the updates, I have been able to refocus in our on our ongoing Legion content. After the conclusion of our house tournament, we switched over to a slightly different format, and started live streaming our battles. Participation has been reasonable, though low, which is to be expected, but the new format also changes the editing process. It also sets a specific time frame for the releases, since we have a steady flow of new games being recorded. Right now, for any given battle report, we play on week 1, and then publish…
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Latest episode of our Carrion Crown campaign, using the Pathfinder 2e setting goes live this Friday. The group continues thru the final chapter of the campaign, rather close to finishing the campaign. The group has been exploring the catacombs beneath Renchurch for many sessions and struggling against waves of undead. After this last session however, they managed to get a break, both in terms of recharging abilities and finding a safe space to rest. Next time, they continue further into the dungeons, dealing with the worshippers of Urgathoa and the cult of the Whispering Way. Catch up on all the…
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Spent a bit of time updating and adding a bunch of content to our custom Warhammer/Rolemaster fantasy mechanics, used for our existing Enemy Within campaign. The game has been going strong now for several years, despite originally thinking it would only last a few months. As a result, the details have evolved quite a bit – somethings have worked, and somethings have not. It continues to be a living system, but so far it is fairly well liked by the group. Given the length of the campaign, the group has admittedly leveled and advanced much faster than planned. For a…
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Continued to work on the website and mastodon server but managed some breakthroughs late last week. My challenge was self-hosting both sites, but from a single internal internet connection. This is much more challenging than it would appear, since there are two such services and only a single connection. The solution, after a bit of research was to configure a reverse proxy, which itself was relatively easy to do. However, these days sites need SSL certificates, and all the tutorials and documentation references either how to secure a specific site, or the proxy server, but not how to blend them…
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While reviewing the recent Patreon adjustments, I realized that we probably have been overly restrictive on our Discord server. This is intended as an open forum for gaming related discussions, and visibility at the schedules and behind the scenes activities. There have always been a few links available for open invitations, but none really openly published. Going to make a change with that, and push the public invites a bit more. This doesn’t give a lot of rights, except to join the server, view messages, and participate in some of the conversations. You will automatically come in as a Guest…
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Related to the ongoing website changes, I have made a few fundamental changes to the website itself. Over the last many years, while this site has operated, I have only had myself as a registered member, which is fine, there really isn’t much benefit to anyone to actually register. However, I have had several hundred spam accounts created (and likely many thousands blocked from creation). As a result, to avoid that overhead, I have purged all the excess accounts and disabled registration. That should prevent the spam and keep the site running cleaner. The obvious question is how does someone…
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Making a change on my postings to Patreon, to take advantage of some new features. Specifically, I am going to start posting our video previews as Video links rather than Text articles. In the past, I would create the post, then provide a link to the unlisted YouTube video, with a screenshot from the video. It worked but was really a poor match. Halfling13 Patreon Support Patreon added in 2023 the ability to upload videos instead, so there is an option to do a Video posting instead. Originally, I planned to upload separately to Patreon, but it also provides the…
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Over the last couple of years, our YouTube presence has steadily grown, and our various social media platforms have received some traction. As always, growth is good, and I am very much appreciative of all of our audience. However, over the last month or two, the slope has decreased, and we seem to have stalled out. Not sure what the reasons are, could be a lack of interest in Star Wars Legion, a problem with our content, or just over saturation of the content. Regardless, we are close to the magical numbers needed to start to self-sustain, and I am…
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