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With the end of the year, a new tradition is attempting to be started, with a New Year’s Eve Twilight Imperium game. With a host of friends, some good food and decent drink, we are planning on a multi-hour game session of Twilight Imperium with the Prophecy of Kings supplement – allowing for 8 players fighting for victory. Currently, we have 7 players selected, and one open slot that is pending. Our game schedule will start at approximately 2 PM on the 31st, and continue until we have victory, are all players collapse. In preparation, I am preparing a trophy…
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Very solid start to our Chapter 2 of the Carrion Crown, with the group heading to Lepidstadt. Despite a short detour into the marshes around the region, they managed to make it to the town safely, and quickly found themselves caught up in the whirlwind of events around the trial of the century – the trial and expected convinction of the Beast of Lepidstadt. The group now finds themselves, willingly or otherwise, as the designated defenders of this beast, in an effort to obtain some sense of a fair trial. Overall, the group did well, despite the minimal combat, and…
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We continue our Carrion Crown campaign this weekend, with the group heading for and arriving in Lepidstadt, in time for the trial of the century – the Trial of the Beast. This is the second chapter of the Carrion Crown storyline, obviously inspired heavily by the writings of Mary Shelley. As usual, we will be live-streaming the session, as the group faces the new challenges and mysteries, please join us for a bit if interested. Fingers crossed, the audio should be stable and workable this time. Will also be trying out some new stream layouts and automation, making it at…
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So the problem I have been trying to solve with our live streams is the ability to reliably include Discord in the recording and broadcast, and maintain the overall quality. This sounds easy, but has been a riddle for many weeks. Most likely I am just not understanding how the pieces go together. For our particular configuration, I have several mics spaced around the room, which pick up group audio and pipe it into a Zoom H6 recorder. That is then USB (or audio cable) connected to a laptop as a line-in input. I need the line-in audio to go…
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Not planning on a Wednesday Warfare game this week, due to a conflict with our Eagle project efforts. We finally have funding and supplies, and the project has now been tackling the tasks item by item. Over the weekend, we chopped up the panels into the various parts, the next step is for the volunteers to do the painting and cut the pockets for the pocket screws. Painting will be a two-day effort, due to a lack of space and the amount of time needed for drying. Paint one day, let it dry, then paint the second side. At the…
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Opted to go ahead and start re-streaming our Extinction Curse campaign, with the game just yesterday. Since I have everything set up for the Carrion Crown campaign, it is pretty simple to repeat the same process for Extinction Curse, or any other campaign, so I figured why not. Plus it gives me an alternate option for testing and fine tuning with additional content. As an update to the story, we are now in Chapter 4, and the group is adventuring near the town of Willowside. There are rumors and indications of Xulgath in the region, attacked settlers and otherwise massing…
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Entirely new side project, I am working on a way to auto-stream 3d printing progress via Twitch. Not that there is a big audience to watch a printer run for 24 hours, but there might be some curiousity. Really, it is just an exercise to see if I can do it – I already have the equipment and software, the project is really just turning it on (and troubleshooting). Currently, using a combination of Home Assistant, smart plugs, and OctoPrint, my configuration will automatically turn on and off a light at the printer, so that I can monitor it inside…
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Another Wednesday, and a new Star Wars Legion game pitting the Republic Clones against the CIS Droids. Mission selection ended up with a “Intercept the Transmissions”, during “Clear Conditions”, and a “Roll-out” deployment. I was playing my unmodified Droids, while Thad was playing George’s standard Clone force. Terrain was decidedly “fantasy”, utilizing a fair bit of rpg terrain instead of the industrial city and technology pieces of before. Per prior feedback, we trimmed down the amount of terrain, which made the overall game feel more open. The battle ended up rather even with regards to kills, though the CIS managed…
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