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Interesting new features. Just tried it for the first time.

I've had an Epson XP7100 for over 6 years and it's been solid. Printed a ton for my kids during the pandemic and it's still going strong. Although I don't typically recommend remanufactured cartridges, I've found the valuetoner brand to be very good and a lot cheaper than the Epson. Link to printer here: https://a.co/d/0fkEOE5f

That sounds like a great scenario. There are a few worldly games that have done a good job of combining various personality characteristics with slightly more realistic aspects of the traditional RPG 'character stats' to allow a diverse set of characters to be created that echo the strengths and weaknesses we find in ourselves and our brothers and sisters around us. Carefully picking and choosing some of these could provide for a diverse set of characters that echo the brothers and sisters we know and serve alongside and have read about in the Bible. There's a great many of the Biblical settings that provide a rich backdrop for the kind of shared storytelling that makes TTRPGs so much fun. The various cultures of the 1st Century Roman world. The times of tension and transition and movement, you mention the Exodus, there's also the time of the Prophets, the kingdom split in two, the exile to Babylon, the return to Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and even the in-between times that aren't recorded in God's inspired word but still must have had faithful servants of Jehovah striving to serve him faithfully. Most of these periods fit neatly into some of RPG tropes, the dangers of travel, the sharing of hospitality, and the random encounters with strangers. These provide a shortcut to the shared storytelling without resorting to the violence and use of uncanny powers that moves the story along in worldly RPGs.

My printer just died. Its an old Canon MX870 All in one printer with ADF scanner, Duplex printing and Fax. I'd like to find something similar without paying a lot of money and I don't want to get something cheap that uses expensive ink. Any suggestions?

They often get referred to as table-top role playing games (TTRPG) because play is often a group of people sitting around a table. That style of game has had a huge resurgence in popularity in the last decade. Most have the tradition of violence, demonic influence, and and other factors that true Christians would avoid. However, they lend themselves well to the player group's creativity and fun could certainly be had without any of those negative factors. TTRPGs are often run by a 'Game Master', who either uses a prepared scenario or comes up with one of their own. The scenario sets the stage for the gameplay, with enough of a story and some motivation for the characters played by other people to take action in line with the prepared story. Much of the fun in TTRPGs comes with the shared storytelling, with each of the player characters participating in a lesser or greater degree of improvisation with regard to their game character. While the game master may have one direction in mind for their story, the players can take things in an entirely different direction. TTRPGs nearly always use dice as an element of chance in the game, introducing a degree of randomness to the story where things don't always go as planned. Some games set up elaborate rule systems attempting to simulate every aspect of their game world with the dice and with well-specified character setups. Other games offer a looser interpretation of the game world, leaving specifics to the players and the game master. I was first exposed to Dungeons and Dragons in the early 80s and was instantly fascinated by the idea of the game. I couldn't understand why all the parents wouldn't allow it and was creative enough to draw inspiration from what little I saw of the game to be able to create my own version. I still have a bunch of hand drawn dungeon maps and remember a few of the encounters I had in mind for the players. Later the post-apocalyptic sci-fi RPG Gamma World became the game of choice because "hey, science not magic and what's wrong with mutations?". A few decades later I played some with the GURPS ruleset, which used 3 'regular' 6 sided dice and the bell shaped probability curve instead of the platonic polyhedra dice set traditionally associated with D&D. I toyed with writing a barnyard animal GURPS scenario eschewing all the traditional and negative RPG tropes for some wholesome characters but never took that anywhere. During the pandemic some young brothers I know were entertaining some Zoom D&D sessions and I made it clear I wouldn't participate, highlighting the current ruleset that has you picking a religion or favored god from their pantheon of gods. I offered to GM a sci-fi themed adventure more or less set in an advanced reality with no 'uncanny powers' but that never went anywhere and that was among the busiest period of my life between work and congregation responsibilities.

I use Obsidian as a note-taking tool. I've used others, I've got an extensive library of notes at work in OneNote. I like Obsidian because the notes are in Markdown format, a lightweight text markup language that is widely compatible with lots of basic text editor programs. I don't use many of the features of Obsidian but they are there if I ever get more ambitious or have a need for specific note organization techniques.

Jehovah will forgive as a father.

No they don't, that is why I was looking here for a Biblical options. That absolutely be can be done without violence, sex, pagan worship and the occult (although ... There is a little of all that in the Bible )

A sea turtle's gender is determined by the temperature of the sand during incubation. Warmer sand produces female hatchlings, while cooler sand produces males. This process is known as Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination

Sunday, July 19 Death spread to all men because they had all sinned.—Rom. 5:12. We may be determined to let nothing turn us away from Jehovah. Yet, we are imperfect and vulnerable to temptation. (Rom. 7:21-23) Without warning, we could find ourselves in circumstances that make the wrong course seem very appealing. To remain loyal to Jehovah and his Son, we need to follow Jesus’ counsel to keep on guard against the temptation to sin. All of us face temptation to sin. But each one of us has areas of vulnerability, whether it is to commit a serious sin, to engage in some form of unclean conduct, or to fall prey to worldly thinking. For example, one person may be fighting temptation to commit sexual immorality. Another might be strongly inclined toward unclean practices, such as masturbation or viewing pornography. Still another may be struggling with fear of man, independent thinking, a quick temper, or something else. w24.07 14 ¶3; 15 ¶5

Hello my brother! Have you read the info here: https://github.com/erykjj/traverture Set the source language that you use in your notes - either via the Obsidian settings: or via the right-click menu: Then just type a scripture reference in that language (like you see above). It will be turned into a link that pops up with the Bible text in the output language. You can also right-click -> Parse document to get a table of all the scriptures in you note: I'll leave you the rest to discover for yourself :-)

A colony ship with a crew of 1000. 500 couples. 100 year journey to colonize alpha centauri. Torous habitat with artificial gravity during the voyage. Crew spends most of the trip in hibernation. Ship carries everything needed to establish a colony. Hydroponic garden either provides most or supplements food for trip. Once at the planet the ship becomes a space station with orbital tether.

Could you please shortly clarify how to use this application? I have installed Obsidian and successfully add the Traveture addin but cannot move forward..

Think about what Jehovah hates: violence, immorality, and occultism. Yet, about 99% of video games today feature at least one of those things. This trap isn't new, though. When the ancient Israelites fell into pagan worship, they weren't just attracted to the false gods themselves —what really drew them in were the wild parties, the sex, and the magic. Just principles don't need rules.

All of a sudden, I can't send emails from NWS. I probably should uninstall and re-install the program but I am not sure how to do that. I checked with my gmail account to see if NWS had permission to send emails and it is okay to do it. Any assistance you can render will be very appreciated. thank you in advance.

thank you.

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Precarious readability temp's territorial Yuppies V Y K S T * As an interesting aside, we have a family in our congregation with the last name "Klopp"

When I saw the thread title, my first thought was that the subject was about using the Bible to shoot down false beliefs and inaccurate accusations about us. Since I haven't engaged in any role-playing games, I envisioned this type of RPG

Bro. David, where's the kitchen? Love it!!!

I have never heard heard of obsidian. Hos do you guys use it? What are the benefits? I think I need to try it out but it would be nice to know how other JWs are using it...

I considered making a game of door-to-door work that would have questions to answer as if you were talking to a householder. I found out that such a game already existed. While not actually a RPG, I thought it would be interesting to practice answering questions that were randomly selected. I actually do not play many games. I used to play minesweeper about 3 decades ago. (Still not RPG.) But games can eat up a lot of time if you aren't careful.

Just on the matter of sharing prompts to search jw.org for your own personal use, I'm not wholly convinced we're infringing on the T&C's of jw.org. I remember a year or so ago a brother sharing the steps to create a Google Programmable Search Engine, where you set it up to only search *jw.org. And it ruffled no feathers here, iirc. And AI is basically a SE on steroids But Your Conscious May Vary (YCMV) 😁

klopp Kids looked over pretty patiently. PRETTY