Orkpiraten

Orkpiraten

Schematische Darstellung eines Netzwerkdiagramms mit Text und Bildern. Alle Elemente sind aber verpixelt

Ein Abenteuer mit KI fertig stellen

KI kann mir das Schreiben von Abenteuern definitiv nicht abnehmen - aber sie kann Ideen anreichern und meine eigene Fantasie anregen.

a brick wall with the text: "Not responsible for fire or theft"

Security Issue at Mango3D / Lychee Slicer

A month ago, I found a way to take over any Mango3D customer account, provided you know their name and account email address, maybe also their country. I realised this when I asked support to change the email associated with my account: This is done via a web form that

a tabby cat sitting on a lasercutter, touching a 3D printer with one paw

H2C4TW

About 10 months ago I splurged and ordered the Bambulab H2C 3D printer, and for 9 months it's steadily chugging along here. It's not printing non-stop, but it feels pretty close to that sometimes. I've printed mostly PLA, but also TPU, ASA, PETG,

Leverage The Roleplaying Game

Ein gescheiterter Heist

Ich habe eine tiefe Liebe zu dem Leverage RPG. Zum einen weil sich das "Heist" Genre schon seit "Der Clou" einen Platz in meinem Herzen ergaunert hat. Zum anderen weil das Regelsystem der gleichnamigen TV-Serie auf den Leib geschrieben wurde, und dabei eben nicht nur

How to handle a responsible disclosure you get from me?

How to handle a responsible disclosure you get from me?

(this is mostly cribbed and then adjusted to me and my style from https://blog.literarily-starved.com/2025/06/how-to-handle-a-responsible-disclosure-you-get-from-me/. Thank you Martin for giving me the go-ahead!) Let’s assume you run an IT service or deliver some

Raiders of Arismyth - another year later...

Raiders of Arismyth - another year later...

Last year in August, I declared the rules of my new own RPG to be done. Hah. Turns out, I still had a few ideas and thoughts in me: * I tinkered with how Armour and Shields work * The whole system moved from "here's a skill list with

Kinopolis? Lieber nicht mehr

Kinopolis? Lieber nicht mehr

Wir waren kürzlich im Kino, und weil das Savoy (unser Stammkino) schon recht ausgebucht war, versuchten wir mal das Kinopolis in der HafenCity. Die Buchungswebseite versprach zwar nicht wörtlich, aber schon vom Eindruck und den Schlagwörtern her (Bar, Relax-Sessel, etc.) ein Erlebnis wie das Odeon in London. Wer das

Once more onto the breach!

digital lifestyle

Once more onto the breach!

I did like WriteFreely in general, but there were a few drawbacks: * Very limited layout * no comment functionality at all * not really a good support for displaying tags * and a some minor quibbles Over the weekend, I finally got Ghost to work properly, and the Discourse integration to boot. There

Prepping for a game session

Prepping for a game session

As much as I love being an “improvise first” game master, I do fair bit of preparation ahead of planned game sessions. At the very least, I have a decent diagram that shows me the different factions, events and locations. For example, here's two graphs that I set

digital lifestyle

My journey to Write Freely

Ok, story time kids. Once upon a time, I decided I needed a blog. That time was 1996 or so, and I hosted it on whatever I could, posting whatever came through my mind. The whole thing moved from hand coded html to hand coded active server pages, to hand

Kleine Briefumschläge

Schätze, Wert und Management

Am Wochenende war Bastelstunde! In meinem Spiel Raiders Of Arismyth ist jede Sitzung in sich abgeschlossen. Das bedeutet, dass alle Sitzungen zwar in einer fortlaufenden Geschichte und einer zusammenhängenden Welt stattfinden, die Gruppe sich jedoch nach der Sitzung auflöst und zu Beginn der nächsten Sitzung aus den regulären Charakteren neu

Block B Bespielt

Block B Bespielt

Am Wochenende haben wir mit unserer Stammgruppe mal zur Abwechslung nicht Pathfinder sondern einen Ftaghn One-Shot gespielt: Block B Der Klappentext verspricht da einiges: Dieses Szenario führt hinab in die tiefsten Abgründe der eigenen Seele und ist düsterer, als der lichtlose Raum deiner Einzelzelle. Du wirst dir wünschen, dass

Cruising

Let's talk about Cruise Ships. Due to a combination of my dads bucket list, my moms aversion to flying and the general wish of families to occasionally do things together, I've found myself on one of those, because the alternative was a very long road trip

Obsidian as static site generator for my roleplaying game

Obsidian as static site generator for my roleplaying game

For a while now, I've been tinkering with my own roleplaying game, Raiders of Arismyth. One of the things I realised early on was that I need a good way lookup rules and other information quickly. Find the proper tables, skill descriptions and so on, and to be

Langes Rollenspielwochenende in Bielefeld

Langes Rollenspielwochenende in Bielefeld

Es war mal wieder soweit, diesmal allerdings in anderer Zusammensetzung: Ein paar Dutzend Leute trafen sich und spielten. Insgesamt hat es bei mir zu drei Runden gereicht: Raiders of Arismyth als Zufallsrunde Ein Programmpunkt war das Rollenspiel-Blind-Date: Zufällig wurde so Gruppen zusammengestellt undu Spielleitungen zugeordnet. Als sich abzeichnete,

Writing a roleplaying game

As you might have noticed, I've been busy in my free time with my completely self-written new roleplaying game "Raiders of Arismyth". Unlike "Mail Order Apocalypse", which was me applying a wild hair setting idea to an existing ruleset, this project has a

Eine Lanze für Orks

Danger Zone und dnalorsblog schrieben vor einiger Zeit über das Für und Wider bezüglich der Orks, in Reflektion auf einen der Essays in Roll Inclusive. Und auch der Deutschlandfunk spricht über das Thema. Im Endeffekt gibt es folgendes Spannungsfeld: * Othering ist Mist, macht Empathie kaputt und sollte eigentlich nie eingeübt

My 3D printer wishlist

3D printing things is one of my hobbies. And while I am reasonably happy with the printer I currently have,there's always a new and shinier resin 3D printer around the corner. But they rarely manage to really excite me in the way that I actually want to

I'm not a Warhammer player, but...

...I unironically like the old Warhammer 40K universe depictions and canon. You know, the Rick Priestley, John Blanche era. Where everything was bad, grimy, gloomy and evil. This is peak Leman Russ, as he should be: Not this: Warhammer 40,000, as depicted and conceived in the 80ies absolutely was

Living in the suburbs

Slightly more than a decade ago, I moved from one of the more out there parts of Hamburg back into a more central part. And I loved it. I gained about one to two hours of free time thanks to a shorter commute, I had all the shops and places

I'm writing another game!

It is a few months since I finished Mail Order Apocalypse, and apparently, writing games is a tiny bit addictive: I'm already about 70 pages into writing the next game. (For comparison: MOA clocks in at 106 pages, a lot of them being random tables) So, the next

Management books you should read, and what to learn from them

I've been on a small bender on this, and this is what I learned, in short. Reading my summaries could spare you the time of reading the actual books, but I don't recommend it - they are chock-full of useful language and terms to describe situations,