Random stats, pick class based on that come up with a one or two sentence background, ask gm how much gold/points/credits i can spent on starting equipment and if there are any restrictions they have in mind for my background.

my last solo characters were an ex townsguard who helped his brother escape from prison, after his recruitment job for a local gang went side ways, so they fled the town and are now trying the adventurers live.

i think i’d be fine with also randomizing equipment and then coming up with a background, but i’d hate to fully randomize a character and end up with a line cook who owns nothing but a fancy suit and roller skates for some reason.

L’orm Ipsu’mlies is a well respected librarian and only got mininal eye rolls. He claims his name is old elvish, but he made it up.

i am stealing this to use it as a name of a fiend or something in my ttrpg campaign, thank you :D

I am using a german keyboard layout and if i have to name a character and dont have a name in mind they’ll become Qwert Zuiopü.

it was the nerevarines name, it was the name of the hero of kvatch and it is the name of every Dragonborn that’ll never finish skyrims main quest.

ha, jackpot now you can prep for the trip to the fae and for the use of your phylactery of phylacteries and can pretend to allways have thought of this :D

hmm in this case:

it sounds like that D would need the power of most their contractees to shatter his prison, so a fun thing could be to drop hints to a powerful artifact, that consumes powerful undeads with wich the players could bind their power before it reaches D.

that artifact could come with great costs, that makes the players want to get rid of it eventually, or atleast paint a target on your party, becaus now they carry a lot of D’s power with them and an Agent of D would love to destroy that artifact to release the power, later on it could even be a tool to trap D in if they manage to escape.

maybe it’s not an artifact but an old temple where a ritual could be performed to bind an undead to the place, if your players are into kidnapping powerful beings, that would also be a fun twist on player strongholds, because who knows what they’ll awaken when they bind to much power to such a place?

ask your players about their plan, you’ve given them atleast one obvious goal: get into the fae realm, what are their ideas how to get there? or would they like to explore other avenues how to get people out of their contracts without dieing or could another powerful entity claim that power? hell what would happen if one of those lords die and is brought back to life?

steal the coolest idea your players have and run with it ;)

you can run the installer again to either redownload the latest stable or their beta version, which might fix your issue, you can also uninstall decky this way, should the issues persist.

because thats seemingly the upper bound l.

i’d expect something a bit more expensive than the quest 3, which currently costs 550€ with controllers, because i don’t think valve will sell at cost, but with a slim margin.

just speculation.

only things valve employees said about prices is:

• they are targetting a lower price for the frame than the index (index was 1000$ afaik)
• the machine will be priced as a pc and not as a console (whatever that means)
• prices will be announced closer to launch.

i feel like most steam deck and steam machines discussions will have so much overlap, that it won’t matter.

Steam Frame might be more specialised and a dedicated community could be helpful, but i doubt it will produce thaaat much noise and a seperate community might be pretty barren, just because VR is afterall still very niche.

tl;dr: dont see why we should split communities, if something is specific to frame/machine/deck we can specify that in a posts title.

in my memory they had cleaner vocals which would distract my adhd brain so i had to listen to them while writing the list, turns out they’d work for me ;)

• Frank Klepacki (of Command&Conquer fame) might have some stuff that fits the vibe.
• dance with the dead, they are more synthi though.
• doom 1 and 2 ost is basically all metal covers, andrew hulshults version is great if you don’t want the original soundtrack and sigils soundtrack by buckethead has some bangers.
• the ost of the game dusk
• ost of the mod quake champions: doom edition.
• the band bolt thrower
• meshuggah

i’d also suggest not planning to have music for the whole session, have some for slower paced scenes and some for special encounters that way you don’t have to have a super cohesive soundtrack.

• pcs were kidnapped/tricked into a dangerous place to be sacrificed/experimented on/turned into pie, they have four hours to escape before Elvis McEvil is finished preparing whatever.
• a long lost ruin/dungeon/secret lab has been discovered, because a metorite impact/a flood/an earthquake and Elvis McEvil is allready looting the place to obtain the blade of world ending/dna samples of a killer virus/an army of mutated chihuahuas
• townspeople keep disapearing, they are kidnapped by a cult/mad scientists/crazy bakers and are used by Elvis McEvil to further his evil plans.
• Every full moon an evil sorcerer/a cartel boss/a giant squirrel demands people to be sacrificed/lots of money/hazel nuts otherwise a portal to hell will be opened/the townhall will be bombed/the giant squirrel gets sad. the demands can not be met and tonight is full moon.
• there is cool shit in a secret hidden labyrinth underneath the cathedral.
• the evil under the cathedral/the university/the cemetery is about to escape, because whoever imprisoned it can’t complete the necessary ritual/keep a highly advanced sentintent computer system running/did not have enough hazel nuts to keep a giant squirrel happy which is now rampaging through the graveyard.the pcs must enable the keeper to do his job, do the job themselves.

no extra manager, EA in this case is early access and you redeem the code on pathofexile2.com

it will be free to play, when it leaves early access. during early access you’d have to buy a supporter pack.

got 3 2 1 EA Keys lying around, whoever sends me a message with a joke gets one. if i get a lot of messages your joke better be funny :)

memes are also acceptable ;)

e: all keys have been sent.

old d&d editions or OSR-Systems can offer that feel as player characters tend to be weaker than their 5e counterparts.

the world of darkness games might also be an option, but i’ve only watched/listened to some actual plays and there the player characters seemed like pretty small fish until they established themself as a politcal force through luck and schemes.

i really like the book, especially creating the list of secrets the players might learn in the upcoming session turned out to be a great tool, so i can keep introducing new things that build upon previous discovered stuff.

this way the world keeps growing as the players experience it and i don’t have to know every last detail before it might even come up at the table.

I am playing almost exclusively in linux since 2012 (diablo3 came out, it worked on Linux, i sank an ungodly amount of hours into it.) the only thing that made me reinstall windows was to play counter-strike go on faceit, because their client did not work on linux.

proton made so much, so much easier that it almost became frictionless to play on linux. wine made huge strides before, but it never was so smooth before proton.

what often was a problem where laptops with dedicated and integraded graphics cards, or nvidia cards on rolling release distribution often having issues after kernel updates, which is why i was on fedora for a long time, because there the akmod stuff worked better in my experience.

overall: when it works on the deck its almost guranteed that it runs just as easy on other linux distributions, maybe don’t pick a rolling release distro if you have an nvidia card, and most of the time you can forget about the fact, that you are gaming on linux.