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As an update to the GURPs Warhammer campaign – I am posting a copy of the custom character sheet I created for the game. In truth, any GURPs character sheet or tool will work, but this one filters the skills, advantages, and disadvantages down to the list used for the group. Consider it a rough draft, and subject to further alteration.
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Its been a very long time, but I have decided on yet another shift in traditional tools – dropping Chrome in favor of Mozilla/Firefox. I recall way back in my college days, Firefox was the upstart browser compared to Internet Explorer (along with Opera), but never clicked with me. After college, I used Internet Explorer for a long time, before finally jumping over to Chrome perhaps 20+ years ago. And Chrome has always worked well – with a good set of tools and addons, and without the bloat and slowness that IE was always troubled with. Although the newer Edge…
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Its the end of a long week, and we have a big snow storm supposedly coming in this evening. Initially, the prediction was for 8+ inches of snow on top of a layer of ice – that has since been reduced to only a few inches. Of course that doesn’t stop the locals from panic, and stocking up on milk and bread. My computer migration efforts are wrapped up now, the website is running comfortably on the hosting site, and Nextcloud is purged from the environment. A reboot of FreeNAS, and the HTPC is working well also, with everything responsive,…
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Heading home again today from Toledo, following yet another work trip. Always nice to get home, though admittedly there are times when it is good to be able to focus on work. In this case, it will be nice to get home before the “big” snow storm supposedly comes thru and hits, the current prediction is lots of snow, ice, and sleet by Friday. By then, I will be safe and sound, warm in the house, and not have to go anywhere again for a while.
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As commented yesterday, I have been undergoing another shift in my home server and the capabilities, to try to improve the overall performance and reliability. As part of this, I ended up trying to rebuild the Nextcloud personal cloud server, so that it would be more efficient. Previously, it was sharing a 300 GB VM with WordPress, for which I was only using the 15 GB of stored files (and barely anything for WordPress). So there was a lot of unused and wasted space. On the other end, my home theatre server (which holds the VM) has been squeezed for…
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Spending some more time, re-juggling my website configuration and features, this time to move back to a hosted service. I have found that recent activity on my home server has fundamentally overwhelmed my little WordPress server, so I have had frequent registered outages. Of course, traffic is almost non-existent, so outages are not a big deal, but if I ever hope to grow an audience a reliable site is required. By the time this is posted, the WordPress site will be fully migrated and functional (it already is as I write this), and I am working on the Nextcloud portion…
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Held our first GURPs Warhammer session yesterday, focusing on character generation and teaching the new players how to operate in the GURPs mechanics. Overall, I consider it a success – the Warhammer setting converts readily to the GURPs system without much difficulty and the players seemed happy with their options. There was a bit of data confusion – the only prior experience most of the players had was with Pathfinder – so all the math and details was overwhelming. But GURPs is pretty straightforward, once you get past the basic math, and makes a lot of logical sense. Of note,…
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Despite great plans to the contrary, I ended up not being as productive over the holidays as I had intended. Initially, I had lots of plans for getting caught up on videos and podcasts, painting miniatures, gaming, and various other activities. I actually ended up barely touching the video content, only painting a fraction of the zombie hordes, and doing minimal gaming. Much of this was due to over-confidence in my planning, but much was also due to simple procrastination and other distractions. It is so much easier to sit and watch TV or hang out with the family, than…
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