tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post4956356685430982025..comments2023-05-27T11:14:02.426-04:00Comments on Some Space to Think: WhewAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216103531396452644noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-6237240246940614262010-08-26T05:20:39.494-04:002010-08-26T05:20:39.494-04:00I have used MapTool in conjunction with Skype to r...I have used MapTool in conjunction with Skype to run a pretty successful WFRP campaign. I got a load of artwork from the Games Workshop website (the stuff they use on boxes and army books) and used the TokenTool from rptools to make more tokens than I could ever possibly need. When you get the hang of the LoS stuff it gets quite impressive. Skype voice chat along side the map and die rolling in MapTool worked very well.<br /><br />I've also been running Dark Heresy on Wave for a while, that has been moderately successful. It requires a slightly different way of thinking than I'm used to as a GM. It might be worth checking out, but be aware that Google is stopping further development on Wave by the end of the year.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02095858640431375195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-3727658832557589572010-08-24T11:00:27.333-04:002010-08-24T11:00:27.333-04:00Infrno has been getting some buzz as well. Debuted...Infrno has been getting some buzz as well. Debuted at GenCon I think: http://infrno.net/base/welcomeFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08362641974657304051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-22297160107220671412010-08-20T14:24:26.818-04:002010-08-20T14:24:26.818-04:00Skype does indeed have typing indicators, and the ...Skype does indeed have typing indicators, and the bonus that you could go right to voice chat if it suited everyone involved.<br /><br />I tried Fantasy Grounds for a while a few years ago, but the sheer crunchiness of it mandated almost 2x the prep-time for my D&D games than my in-person games demanded. It's certainly pretty, though. http://www.fantasygrounds.com/<br /><br />My brother keeps pushing MapTools at me. I will have to check that out as well. I wasn't so impressed with it about a year ago, but I'm not sure if that was a lack of pretty or if it needed more somewhat else.<br /><br />Right now I'm trying to use Google Wave to run a Traveller game, but we haven't got very far yet.ZeroGainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03122409469631926274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-6009534103112948052010-08-20T13:32:28.915-04:002010-08-20T13:32:28.915-04:00Rob,
I've been lurking here for a while and h...Rob,<br /><br />I've been lurking here for a while and have been thoroughly amazed, informed and entertained. Thank you for that.<br /><br />re vtt, Maptools is great and very importantly multi-platform. i've also managed quite a few games with Vassal and Skype. I think Skype has a typing indicator also but i could be making that up.<br /><br />sincerely, eric<br /><br />ps. better acronym.Double Kinghttp://www.etagelarsen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-15431705581118961412010-08-20T12:31:25.104-04:002010-08-20T12:31:25.104-04:00My gaming group is, just this Saturday, going to s...My gaming group is, just this Saturday, going to start a DFRPG campaign. While the other existing online game (my Unknown Armies game) is run on a MUSH, we have been frustrated with the inability to tell when someone was typing. Once upon a time we could all spend eight hours at a time on this kind of thing and lengthy pauses didn't matter as much, but lately nobody has the time.<br /><br />So for the new game, the GM asked me to find a better way. I determined that MapTool was a good fit for our needs. Oh, it does 1001 things we don't need, but it is multi-platform and is not a resource hog.<br /><br />It features a chat system with typing notifications, so you know whether Player2 has just fallen asleep or is composing his nine sentence pose of doom. It supports all sorts of dice, including Fudge dice. I was able to create a little macro(/roll 4dF) and everyone who connects in gets a button marked Roll in their campaign window. They click it and it rolls 4dF and outputs to chat. Handy.<br /><br />As for the actual map part, it's a handy way to quickly draw a few squares and rectangles next to each other to sketch out zones. I created a very boring blank circle token, so every PC and NPC can be represented by dragging said token out and just giving it a name.<br /><br />Sure, the program is designed so you can run an uber-crunchy 4E D&D game where you care deeply about the light radius of someone's torch...but you don't have to do it. What I described here is what we are planning to use and it looks great. The poor map system is probably weeping that we're using it like the back of a napkin, but such is life when you are a computer program.<br /><br />About the only configuration changes we've needed are to set the option when starting up the server that players receive campaign macros (that's so that they get the 'roll' button), making the chat box bigger(we have it fill up the whole left side) and pressing control-t I believe it is to cause token names to be displayed by default so that our "all tokens are the same little circle" works.The Aliennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-29212579998562465202010-08-20T10:34:10.034-04:002010-08-20T10:34:10.034-04:00@marshall REALITY SHALL NOT TAKE MY MAD MAX JOKE F...@marshall REALITY SHALL NOT TAKE MY MAD MAX JOKE FROM ME!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14216103531396452644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-42447151991145341342010-08-20T10:27:54.089-04:002010-08-20T10:27:54.089-04:00If you check the comments on that Bermuda Triangle...If you check the comments on that Bermuda Triangle post, you'll see that that theory is not new. It's also fairly problematic in a couple of ways. The biggest being that the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon is nothing more than confirmation bias in action.<br /><br />On a related note, I heard a theory a while back that the same methane hydrate crystals were responsible for the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in 2004. Companies were drilling in the area looking for underwater mining sites, and hit a huge pocket of the crystals. When they gassed out, the pocket collapsed, causing the earthquake. I've never seen anything related to that theory that I would call evidence, but I have seen some stuff that a massive deposit causing an earthquake is plausible.Marshall Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15647111558095583028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-49741112021475772922010-08-20T10:07:51.546-04:002010-08-20T10:07:51.546-04:00I've been using IRC for online gaming for a wh...I've been using IRC for online gaming for a while. A friend recently had the idea of combining that with a Google Docs presentation to handle any maps that are needed. It can be set to let everyone edit, so players can put markers on the map to represent their characters and move them around as the game progresses. So far it's worked pretty well.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04113595852338673072noreply@blogger.com