Nemo Rathwald @nemorathwald@boardgames.social

I have spent several weeks creating a new website for Magic Meeple Games. This is the test version, still a work in progress and lacking many of the photos, but it's on its way.

It's built on Jekyll. Just to prove that I can, this time I wrote no Javascript, and substituted various external services instead of hosting a backend.

I am accepting feedback and questions.

https://magicmeeplegames.github.io/

Our Charterstone players are managing their unpleasant emotions around legacy games. But each one dislikes a different thing.

- the unfairness of having plans thrown into a cocked hat by unexpected rules.

- reading off the wrong number and pulling the wrong index card.

- the wait between games, and being unable to play with some other players until then.

- the irreversable stakes of defacing a physical object if we follow instructions wrong

- the slowness of overcaution due to the above.

Plan to take a lot more time for the first game of Charterstone just to figure things out. We were only able to play once, rather than twice.

After our first session of Charterstone, we got out our calendars and tried to find our next three times to meet. All we could determine was that each of us will need to be replaced by an Automa at least once.

Any advice for getting five or six players in the Detroit area, who would commit to show up to play a "Legacy" board game (such as Charterstone) twelve times?

You need the same people to show up, or the rest of you can't continue the campaign. The rules change in ways not known at the outset, to preserve the element of surprise, but this means the players might not enjoy the game anymore. I have concerns.

Has anyone invented rules for working around attendance problems? #nemorathwald

This animated GIF is a sneak-peek at a game I'm designing and playtesting. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LayT-earvyLLuK3OSE9otxgVF5At8LVq/view?usp=sharing

Inner grown up: play a game with these animal toys
Inner child: okay your animals are dead I win
Inner grown up: but science teaches they fertilize soil and spiritually we connect the circle of life and we celebr
Inner child: that's dumb
Inner grown up: OK you win #nemorathwald

I've set up IfThisThenThat to post to my Twitter account whenever I post to my Mastodon account on boardgames.social. Testing if it works...

@robert For fifteen years I have helped to run Penguicon (named after the Linux penguin) in the Detroit area. It's a convention of open source, science fiction, board games, and all other geeky interests. Are you within traveling distance? I would love to have a talk (or a meetup) about Mastodon at Penguicon.

Hello, boardgames.social. I'm a published board game designer ("Overworld"). I do layout work for rulebooks, cards, packages, even animated Kickstarter videos. I prototype die-cut game components on a laser cutter. My day job is web development. The games I'm currently playing most often (other than my own playtests) include Royals, Dice Forge, and Eminent Domain.

Testing out connecting to people I know on other instances... @merhaskell @craigmaloney

Any advice for how I would communicate with whoever runs mastodon.social about how to restore my account from a 2-factor auth lockout? It appears that every single way to communicate about a Mastodon instance is to send a message through Mastodon, which I'm locked out of.

As you can see, I have now created an account on another instance, boardgames.social, but so far I have not found any way for me to use this to communicate over the Mastodon protocol to the admins of another instance.

I'd like to participate in #mastodon as an alternative to Facebook. Apparently it's mostly an alternative to Twitter, which don't like and barely use. I still want to be reachable through Twitter and Mastodon.

A year ago, I created an account on mastodon.social with 2-factor authentication (2FA). But the phone on which I used 2FA started boot-looping, and I'm on a new phone. So I'm locked out of mastodon.social.