u/giamb_o

Hi! Asking here because I refuse to ask a LLM.

I have zero coding experience, I would like to get started and I figured small games would be a fun way to do that (the other path I'm experimenting is electronics-oriented coding with the Arduino starter set, but that's another story)

Godot seems like a lot, even though it looks like a very complete tool it'd be eventually professionally good to be proficient at.

So I'm mostly trying to compare Pico8 and GB Studio (I own a physical GBC and a Flashcart, so I could play my games on there).

My ultimate goal is to make a working tiny game while at the same time learning about coding principles. Which way should I go? Thank you!

Hi everyone! I am Italian and in October I will be visiting the US for a whole month. I will be traveling through several states and cities but I have a very specific idea for how to conclude the whole thing: a long, stereotypically Californian cruising session next to the ocean! And I need your help figuring it out.

1. What is the best location? I know California from the movies so I’d guess Venice Beach, but is it really the best for oceanside cruising vibes?

2. I won’t be carrying my board though the States, nor I want to carry one back on the plane. The idea is to find a trusted store at the location I’ll be at, but a board, use it the whole day, then bring it back and have them ship it to Italy. Any famous surfskate stores close to the cruising location you recommend that also do international shipping?

3. What board to get? I have a Yow Pipe, I love love love it and I mostly use it at skate parks or to explore Italian cities looking for fun spots to surf, so I’m already covered on the mid-length snappy board side and I’m aware it’s not the best for long distance. If it was just me & myself deciding, I’d just get a much longer Yow, since I love the Meraki S5 so much, but before my Pipe I only had Pennys and stuff cruisers, so I don’t know. I’m open to longer surfskates but also to longboards if you have any recommendations that would give me a nice wavy feel on longer distances. I’m also curious if there’s a “classic” California surfskate/longboard, the way I’d recommend a Vespa if you asked me what motorcycle to travel Italy with

Bonus: If you’re around California in late October 2026 let’s cruise together! You’ll get a friend that will take you on an Italy tour! :)

Hi! I'm launching a mega-group with all the people I've ever played rpgs with + some friends that never played rpgs but want to get into them, so that it can be a single hub for proposing one shots, campaings, other things and whoever wants to join can do so event by event withou much commitment.

The first thing we're doing sounds really stupid but I think it will be fun: it will be a gnome themed fake gender reveal dinner. That's the whole concept. I have gnome hats for everyone and I asked a bakery to make me a gender reveal cake without telling me the gender. The idea is to have a very light and fun night (we'll be cooking together!) but to also add some soft rp elements to get the newbies into the mood.

I know each character will have a "family role" (mum, dad, friend, grandpa...), but I want each of them to also have a "rp role" that can trigger fun interactions. For example I thought about:

• The beatboxer: you are great at making beats, and every conversation or object that makes a sound is an opportunity to show off
• The rapper (1): when you hear a beat, you can't help showing off your freestyle rhymes skills. You are the best at this and you know it
• The rapper (2): when you hear a beat, you can't help showing off your freestyle rhymes skills. You are the best at this and you know it

This specific combo makes me imagine a scenario where a character starts beatboxing, two other characters start rapping and they realize they will be "rivals" through the night.

I have a total of 8 players. Do you guys have any other fun ideas?

Hi! I'm launching a mega-group with all the people I've ever played rpgs with + some friends that never played rpgs but want to get into them, so that it can be a single hub for proposing one shots, campaings, other things and whoever wants to join can do so event by event withou much commitment.

The first thing we're doing sounds really stupid but I think it will be fun: it will be a gnome themed fake gender reveal dinner. That's the whole concept. I have gnome hats for everyone and I asked a bakery to make me a gender reveal cake without telling me the gender. The idea is to have a very light and fun night (we'll be cooking together!) but to also add some soft rp elements to get the newbies into the mood.

I know each character will have a "family role" (mum, dad, friend, grandpa...), but I want each of them to also have a "rp role" that can trigger fun interactions. For example I thought about:

• The beatboxer: you are great at making beats, and every conversation or object that makes a sound is an opportunity to show off
• The rapper (1): when you hear a beat, you can't help showing off your freestyle rhymes skills. You are the best at this and you know it
• The rapper (2): when you hear a beat, you can't help showing off your freestyle rhymes skills. You are the best at this and you know it

This specific combo makes me imagine a scenario where a character starts beatboxing, two other characters start rapping and they realize they will be "rivals" through the night.

I have a total of 8 players. Do you guys have any other fun ideas?

Hi! I am in a big ttrpg group where we organize one-shots, I want to GM a PF2e one with the hope of "hooking" people to the system and starting a campaign. I want to reduce friction as much as possible but also make people taste the specifics of the system (most of them are mainly familiar with D&D5e), do you guys have any one-shot (official or not) with pre-generated characters to recommend?

Thank you!!☀️

Hello! I recently moved to PF2 Remaster coming from D&D5e.

In D&D, when talking about adventure modules you have the "recent hits" (like Waterdeep Dragon Heist) and the famous ones that have been adapted for the most recent version of the game (like Tomb of Horrors).

I am a bit confused by the PF2 / PF2 Remaster differences, so I can't figure out what adventures I can play.

Do you have any recommendations of adventure modules (not necessarily officially published by Paizo) that could be fun to play with my group?

Thank you!! ☀️

The title sounds clickbaity but it isn't, let me explain.

My group and I come from an 8 years long D&D5e2014 campaign. When we started, I was the only one that had any ttrpg knowledge at all (and that amounted only to having watched Critical Role) while everyone else had never had any contact with the hobby, so we basically discovered how to play together and have been playing a version of D&D that is very much our own.

One of the aspects of the way we play is a very weird relationship with rules. On one hand, we very much like disregarding them. I have players that have never read a manual page while away from the game table, and a famous anecdote from our campaign is that one time a character wanted to throw a healing potion in the mouth of another one from far away, and instead of rolling a check we went outside and started throwing plastic bottles at each other to resolve the situation. On the other hand, very specific technical rules have become pillars of our games (calculating how much water exactly is the "40 liters" mentioned in Create Water, the Jesus phase our druid had when she learned Water Walk, or the wonkiest teamwork strategies described to achieve Flanking or Sneak Attack).

As we began talking about starting another campaign, I started looking into lighter systems (PbtA, Daggerheart, Nimble 5e...) hoping that they would support our shenanigans better but they just... made me mad? I found it genuinely annoying when a system just said "have fun and just tell a great story together 😉" like... that shouldn't be a rule, rules need to be a solid structure and then the fun comes from people playing with them. We tried a couple one shots and felt like having less structure didn't mean more freedom, it just meant directing the improv energy toward filling gaps.

I had kept myself as far away from PF2 as I could for years, imagining it as the worst possible system for a group of players that don't do their homework and don't care much about mathematical strategy, but as I realized that most of our fun came from mistreating very technical details of D&D, I realized PF2 would just mean having a wider trove of niche abilities to interpret our way and have fun with.

We have not tried it yet, the physical manuals are arriving and a couple of us are reading the Archives of Nethys, but I am really excited about it!!

I'm wondering if anyone has experiences or tips&tricks about running PF2 with chaotic groups!!