hi been away again...life of a pipeliner...if you need artists I may be able to get a few of my pals interested...from age 15 to 72 they are all artists to...
hey all, I like the idea of a period look for the artwork, instead of modernized maps. It seems there's still a question of what specific period to set the...
Well, the time we set on the vote is in, and we're calling the setting Germany circa 1400 AD. Note that this is only the first module - the game engine will...
Sign on over at the sourceforge page, man. Then, we'll get a thread started about the map, and figure out what the programming guys need. I'm sure they have...
Hey Bro, Sounds like fun, like the time I "aged" a piece of glossy typing paper to look like a treasure map when I was kid. If only I had some computer...
... I thought so. ... Probably should e-mail me directly with this sort of thing - but since you posted it... ... Three study groups are typical in comparative...
Ahhhh....but it was so very interesting and informative. Thanks for the lesson. Elizabeth "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must...
... for the ... Glad you enjoy the most obscure bit of comparative civ and education theory I could have possibly pulled out of my head. My students love it...
first to ron --- thanks for the redirect to source-forge site will proceed with support there. And yes i can probably give you a fairly good (poor?) map from...
... I would even go further and suggest that the party only has a vague idea of what the rest of Germany looks like, outside of where they've been. Your map...
Inaccurate maps sounds pretty interesting--I loved the way it was implemented in Machiavelli. Presumably, though, you would be able to get directions from...
I like the idea of maps that become more accurate over time for the regions you visit. It is a way of making local knowledge more tangible. Perhaps the parties...
... I wouldn't randomize the cities. Mines, dragons, etc could be (but you would want to flag what areas they could be in -- mines in the ocean are a bit...
You guys are talking about fog of war. I've been thinking about it for some time. I'm trying to decide how to balance actual knowledge (i.e. line of sight)...
... Well... kind of. You haven't seen Machiavelli, I assume? (if you have enough bandwidth, you can d/l it from the-underdogs (although I have no idea what...
... bandwidth, you can d/l it from the-underdogs (although I have no idea what the legality of it is) -- about 5M) ... small area around your starting city....
... Nothing prevents this, just like there's no way to stop players from looking online for cheat codes or walkthroughs. Although, to be honest, few people...
Welcome Adam The point was that most people in the 13th century are illiterate or functionly so including most Knights, the exceptions are bankers, clergy,...
... I get the feeling that we should probably put medieval cartography on the list of things to research. I downloaded Machiavelli, and it's interesting. Now I...
... Right. If people want to cheat, they'll cheat. We're eventually going to need debugging tools that allow cheating for playtesting purposes anyway. Many...
Another option to make maps "historical" is to have a 'real' map that is not visible and an 'apparent' map that is displayed. On the apparent map, distances...
... Very cool! Kind of like needing to maintain weapons, one needs to maintain the map, and occasionally get it "fixed". And woe unto the party who picks a...
... to maintain the map, and occasionally get it "fixed". And woe unto the party who picks a low-quality cartographer... ... Yeah, I forget where I saw that...
... Right now i'm using 2 melee chars. One is somewhat religious. One charismatic thief with throwing weapons. One alchemist. Its not the ideal group, but...
i have kind of lost interest in alchemists but i do trade in materials sometimes...crashing castles is the latest ploy...unfortunately i seem to be in the...
one of the wizardry games from Sir Tech in Ottawa had something like you described, and there was also an English D&D game i forget the name of that had a...
off subject again. I find that I need a brute force group. Otherwise I struggle to begin with and chars die. So each man can hold his own. Well, I have a ...
... Contrary to what the text reads when you stay at an inn, you can stay there for years and years with no drop to your rep. Probably you're bumping into the...
Your rep gets hit hard every time you ask to see the local Burgermeister (or whatever variant he is called) and get rebuffed by the guards (to the point where...
... Ah, good point. Yes. I never go there unless my rep is above 30. And usually I pray for entrance. It's not worth the hit. Seems like local rep should...
