u/finley-rivers

I'm a female college student who's been playing and DMing for the past 10 years, and I'm looking for 4-6 people to play a few one-shots and/or a mini campaign. I host almost exclusively homebrew and am open to suggestions, although my current mini-campaign is a more traditional high fantasy setting. My play style tends to be very character and story-driven, where choices matter and creative solutions are encouraged. My games are roleplay heavy, but combat's a big part of it too.

I prefer to keep things PG to PG-13, so any interested party should be looking for that as well. I use D&D Beyond and Discord and use VTTs only when absolutely necessary. I prefer theater of the mind generally, but more intense battles deserve maps. Beginners are more than welcome.

My Discord user is finleyriv, so please reach out if interested!

I'm a female college student who's been playing and DMing for the past 10 years, and I'm looking for 4-6 people to play a few one-shots and/or a mini campaign. I host almost exclusively homebrew and am open to suggestions, although my current mini-campaign is a more traditional high fantasy setting. My play style tends to be very character and story-driven, where choices matter and creative solutions are encouraged. My games are roleplay heavy, but combat's a big part of it too.

I prefer to keep things PG to PG-13, so any interested party should be looking for that as well. I use D&D Beyond and Discord and use VTTs only when absolutely necessary. I prefer theater of the mind generally, but more intense battles deserve maps. Beginners are more than welcome.

My DIscord user is finleyriv, so please reach out if interested!

As the title says, I made a Google Sheet for my writing group that gamifies daily writing for a limitless number of people, including a log for word and minute counts, streaks, goals, statistics, achievements/milestones, leaderboards, etc. It's basically Duolingo for writing, which my writing group has found to be incredibly useful. If anyone is interested in playing around with it or using it for your own group/class, etc, here's the link. It uses an Apps Script for dynamic color on the dashboard, but if you'd rather not copy that, it isn't necessary.

Hope this can be helpful to someone else!

I’m a visually impaired college student currently working on a double major in editing and programming. My vision loss is progressive, so I’m working on building a workflow that I can maintain at any vision level, even as my sight diminishes. I’ve been pointed to emacs because of its keyboard-driven setup and customizability, but I’m wondering if anyone has any advice for me. I’m happy to take on the learning curve (which I’ve researched enough to know it’s intense), but I don’t know where to start. On top of that, I want to be able to navigate without any sight. I know there’s a screenreader called emacspeak, but I don’t know if it will work with my Braille display, and just playing around with VoiceOver (I’m a Mac user) revealed that it doesn’t work with emacs really at all.

For now, these are my questions:

1. How can I modify my interface to have larger text each time I open it? I’ve learned how to increase the font size within a buffer, but I want it to be permanent and universal.
2. Are there any resources to help me learn emacs? I want to be able to start small with the basics and then upgrade to more advanced features and packages.
3. Can I use a Braille display with emacs? As far as I know, Braille displays only connect with the native screen reader VoiceOver, but that could be wrong.
4. This is a silly question, but I was playing with Dired (the file explorer, I believe that’s what it’s called), and I’m trying to figure out if there’s a keyboard shortcut for going back to the previous directory (i.e. exiting a folder on my Desktop to go back into the Desktop).

If you have any other tips/advice, that would be much appreciated. If I’m wasting my time on something that won’t be accessible in the long run, that would be great to figure out now. Thanks for your help!

EDIT: I’ve figured out most of my questions at this point. I would still love any advice/experience with the screen reader emacspeak or Braille displays, as well as any useful accessibility features. I’m grateful for all the help I’ve gotten already—you guys are so helpful.