Funny Things Abt Arcade Gannon That I LOVE:

Funny things abt Arcade Gannon that I LOVE:

He gets angrier when activating Archimedes than when you literally sell him into slavery. The difference between his fake-nice "Hi! Did you always mean to sell me to Caesar or was that a spur-of-the-moment thing?" And him screaming "YOU ACTIVATED ARCHIMEDES!? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING!?" is SO FUNNY.

ALSO WHY CAN YOU DO THAT?? WHY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT THE FACT YOU CAN SELL HIM TO CAESAR???

How nice he is to a low-int Courier. He feels responsible for you and tags along to make sure you don't die. There's a low-int dialog option when he remarks on ED-E also, where the player can say they don't know what an EMP grenade is and he responds: "It's... a thing. A science thing. It hurts robots. Don't worry about it. Silly Arcade's just telling magnetic field jokes for his own amusement" (the only time he's rude to the low-int Courier is when they turn on Archimedes, and even then, he just calls them a moron.)

You can make him a follower by (as prev mentioned) being stupid, charismatic, a good friend of his organization, or gay as a daisy. Male couriers flirt with him ONCE and he abandons everything. Idiot couriers stumble over their words and he feels a horrible amount of sympathy for them, to the point he simply cannot let them walk off and die bc of something stupid.

He is, to his core, an idealist. This does not work in his favor in most of his endings.

Some of his only friends are war criminals.

Obsidian can do wild shit like that??? goodbye google docs i no longer need you

Oh, I promise you, I've been using Obsidian daily for almost a year now, and I still feel like I'm only scratching the surface of what it can do. It's replaced my word processor, pdf reader, DM notes, journal... I use it for practically any application.

And because I'm still wearing my 'ask me about Obsidian.md' shirt, let me show you a few! These are some of the ones I use for TTRPGs. I have a whole other set of procedures I use for personal and professional stuff (but I won't show any of that, since it's much more identifying)

Worldbuilding Notes

This is the big one. I like to worldbuild thoroughly for my D&D campaign (not because it's necessary, but because I enjoy it). Obsidian lets me create templates for wiki-type pages for NPCs, towns, dungeons, and anything else. I have it set up so that, when I want to make a new guy, I can just press one button to go from a blank page

to a questionnaire that I fill in:

Which then immediately generates a page that looks like this:

Bam. That took 10 seconds. I can add an image (say... Fashion Santa) where the 'It is a Mystery Ghost' is and fill in this Novel Guy's profile and maybe toss in a statblock, and there you have it: Guy the Novel. The blue text denotes an active link, so you can just click on any of them to bring you to that page.

2. Statblocks

As the post mentioned, Obsidian can be made to work as a statblock holder. This takes a lot more futzing around (I only just got it to work recently) but it's pretty cool when it does.

Let's say I'm planning an encounter. I've got my notes open, and I'm writing some stuff that might come up:

But if I'm going to use these as my session notes, I better have some statblocks in here. A few clicks later:

Bam. Sea Hag stats. Editable Sea Hag stats.

I have statblocks in this vault from a number of different sources. The plugin comes with the 5e SRD monsters (you can disable them, of course) but I did not find it difficult to locate a github repository of more monsters made for Obsidian. Found a few in a few different systems, too. You can also make your own, though I won't deny that the interface is a little clunky. But if I wanted too, I could take Myrtle the Hag here, save her as a new creature, and pull her up to torment other adventurers whenever I wanted.

3. Queries

Obsidian can do some really powerful stuff with the right plugins. Have you considered, for instance... a queriable database?

Let's say I'm running a session. The party is in a location.

They decide 'hey, let's go talk to some other people outside the bar!' Now, of course, I'm quite happy to improvise stuff like that. But what if, instead, I wanted to be really sure that everyone they see outside the bar is someone who should be in this city. Well, I can get Obsidian to do that for me. I type up a little query...

And hey presto, it's every NPC who is currently marked with the correct location.

Even our Novel Guy is there!

And that's just scratching the surface of what this plugin can do. I have it set that every town automatically lists its inhabitants, every faction its members, every country its towns.

What else?

That map feature I think you were referring to in this ask? If you configure it right, it can

4. automatically measure distance

Let's say I'm looking at my map:

And I want to know the distance between Comox and the Second Narrows Fort.

Well, there you go. This one was, admittedly, a pain in the ass to set up.

And, of course,

5. Refer to rules

Let's say I'm running a dungeon. Here's some dungeon flavour text:

If I forget what the rules for 'Wall of Force' are, well, the text is in blue. I have a note for every spell in the game (that I found in some probably illegal github repository, I didn't type them all out myself) and all I need to do is mouse over it:

In essence, this productivity tool turned out to be so useful for worldbuilders and TTRPG players that there's now a huge community of plugin makers making plugins that do even more of that.

The one real downside here is that you can spend hours just playing around with this program. Even now, I have the urge to go in and muck about with the fonts, despite the fact that I really should be doing something else.

I should also note that, though I'm not a total neophyte when it comes to computers, I'm not a coder and I'm not a power user of any kind. I have no special skills. Everything I know about computers just comes from a youth spent trying to mod more mpreg into The Sims 2. The skill ceiling for this program is leagues above what I'm capable of, but I can still make something incredibly useful with just my limited capabilities.

Oh, and it's free. It's all free. I probably should have led with that. Consider this an advertisement.

That's a bingi, what do I win?

psst i made a blaseball bingo partially made off of my experiences and what i’ve noticed other people feel about it

also the commissioner is doing a great job is meant to be the free space

when programs fucking autocorrect <3 to ❤️ and :) to 😃,,,, do you have any idea what you’ve just done?? what you just fucking destroyed ?

In French they say "80 blaze it"

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