u/Jebus-Xmas

I picked up nine year medallion last night. My anniversary was actually Saturday but I waited for my home group. Being of service, here and elsewhere in Narcotics Anonymous has been a large part of my success I think. I urge everyone to have a service commitment. Whether taking out the trash or taking meetings in with H&I.

I never stop doing the basics, so I never had to go back to the basics. Meetings, phone calls, sponsor, steps, and service.

Keep coming back!

I'm a huge Classic Traveller fan, and I've been running the game and writing custom rules for as long as I've been playing—which is nearly 50 years. There are a lot of things that I personally don't like about the basic game. Some are through the lens of how RPGs are now, and my views. Others have always bugged me. My house rules have evolved throughout the course of the last 50 years. In 2026 I really run a very narrative-style theater of the mind game. What is the one thing about Classic Traveller, or any version really, that frustrates you or that you don't like?

I'll start: Fighters are a terrible idea. Against capital ships with significant defenses fighters are less than useless. It is romantic and heroic or whatever but it isn't tactically sound in the rules as presented.

Personally I consider 100-150 words per day a good average. I’m not a professional so much as a hobbyist, but what do you consider a good day as far as word count?

Basic Text, page 55. “Our disease involved much more than just using drugs, so our recovery must involve much more than simple abstinence. Recovery is an active change in our ideas and attitudes.”

And some Emperor named Strephon..

One of the things I constantly see posted in this group are “what should my book…?” it doesn’t have to be a book and maybe it shouldn’t be.

In my personal experience, writing a novel can be extremely challenging. Especially for an early project. There are so many other forms that your writing can take.

Articles, short stories, novellas. There’s a reason most popular authors started with the shorter form. It can be immensely helpful to try and think of it as a 20 page idea versus 150 page idea.

Just one man’s opinion, your mileage may vary…

So today I stumbled across this Index Card RPG. I always considered myself a student of RPGs and RPG design. I’d love to hear some other opinions about the basic game, Altered State, Hard Suit, or any other supplement? I’m reading through the free version now and it’s interesting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I’m occasionally pasting markdown from other apps into UpNote and when I do so it loses the formatting. The marks appear, but the system doesn’t interpret them as bold, Italic, or anything else. If I delete the marks and re-enter them the formatting appears. Do you think this is a bug or can it be addressed by the developers?

So, I'm visually impaired and I dictate a lot of text using FluidVoice. However, occasionally, that text is not grammatically correct--well not exactly. I'd like a free and open source tool that can help me do that. Most of the paid tools are, frankly, too expensive for what they do. And I know there are some options out there. So if any of you could provide any direction or discussion, I would really appreciate it.

So, I'm visually impaired and I dictate a lot of text using FluidVoice. However, occasionally, that text is not grammatically correct--well not completely. My grammar and usage is pretty good, but it's not perfect. I'd like a free and open source tool that can help me do that. Most of the paid tools are, frankly, too expensive for what they do. And I know there are some options out there. So if you could provide any direction or discussion, I would really appreciate it.

Just a quick disclaimer: I’m a paid user and have no business or personal relationship with the developer.

I’m a writer and I really like Word processors. For decades I used Microsoft Word but frankly it’s just not worth it anymore. I also use LibreOffice, which is FOSS but honestly I have a software habit. I buy apps all the time either to solve imaginary problems in my head or simply to support the developers and some months ago. I purchased a copy of Versi Writer on a whim because I thought it had some interesting ideas.

It was interesting, but it just was not there yet. It is very close now. First of all the developer is extremely communicative and answers questions and emails very quickly. The main challenges are not composing new documents in this app, but issues with interoperability with .docx issues. The developer has found some interesting workarounds and elegant solutions, but I understand it is a pretty big undertaking. Composing a new document solves most of these issues but I primarily work in docx and odt files.

As a writer, I want three things from my word processor. I want organizational features, like styles and outlining similar to Word. I want compatibility with whatever forms my editor uses. Finally, I want a clean minimal interface that gets out of my way. Verso offers this and if you’re interested in a lightweight word processor without over-complication with a small footprint I believe it might be your solution.

It’s US$15 one-time license and available in the App Store.

https://versowriter.app

By the way, he’s also developing a lightweight Excel clone called Nought.

edit Tomasz is also developing an app called Skein for notes.

If you saw a Classic Traveler TAS product on drivethrurpg what would make it a must buy?

I’ve been using LibreOffice Writer for about two years and I really think it’s a fantastic option. I think it’s more featured than Pages, but I am running into some issues with longer documents.

Writer lacks document management features as well as outline features that can be important in longer documents. My issue is that it’s $100 for macOS and iOS combined.

Professional writers on this sub, do you feel that Mellel is worth the cost?

Trying to figure out navigation links within the document but having issues. Seems most of the documentation is previous to version 26.x

Any assistance or knowledge is welcomed.

Supply constraints and increasing prices. Looks fairly grim.

Personally I’m not surprised.

This is the new skills list for MTU, which is called Heisenberg. Feel free to comment or give notes.

Been using Alfred for a while but getting into it more and I want some ideas for great workflows and best practices please and thank you!

I haven’t seen any announcements on timeline for Alfred 6. Any scuttlebutt?