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title: Reflection: An Evening On Mumble
subtitle: "rolling up a character for Starfinder"

author: David
date: 2019-01-20 09:30
publish_date: 2019-01-20 10:00

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Yesterday, Klaatu and I worked on rolling up a character for <b>Starfinder</b>. We recorded it for a future <a href="http://hackerpublicradio.org/" target="_blank"> Hacker Public Radio</a> episode, which he volunteered to edit. Klaatu was traveling that day, and we got ready to record once he got settled in his motel room. It was a comedy of errors at first, due to some severe port and traffic restrictions placed on the Internet access he was using, but he finally got on the HPR <a href="https://www.mumble.com/" item="_blank">Mumble</a> server, using his phone. It sounded great.
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I was using my desktop machine, with a cheap headset & mic that I found in a pile of other equipment. I was happy for that, since the alternative was to set up one of my XLR microphones. I use those in the recording booth out in my shed, when putting together audio stories and such, but it's always a hassle to do in the house. I have no microphone stand for one thing; and there's silly software wrangling required for another. This headset didn't have a good mic, but whatever.
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We recorded for over 2 1/2 hours, so there's a <i>lot</i> that will need to be trimmed. The process for rolling up a character in Starfinder was both frustrating and enlightening. There seems to be a lot of redundancy in the rules, but over all, I like what this descendant system to the venerable <b>AD&D</b> I knew and loved has evolved into.
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It was a challenging, but very fun evening; I look forward to hearing it on HPR, and I hope you will, too. We'll post a link when it's finally up over there.
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<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_microphones#/media/File:Carbon_microphone,_c._1920s,_Ellis_Electrical_Laboratories_-_Museum_of_Science_and_Industry_(Chicago)_-_DSC06626.JPG" target="_blank">Carbon microphone</a>
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daderot" target="_blank">Daderot</a>
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en" target="_blank">Creative Commons Zero 1.0</a>.
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