Peter I was wondering if you could summarize how the skill cost system for FFRE works, as I am working on the skill cost system for my game. Currently I have...
... OK. FFRE has 12 primary attributes, of which one never affects skills (Hardiness - abreviated HA). They are: Athletic category A Agility S Strength D...
Hi guys...I just joined the list a few days ago after browsing through the directory. I'm a fan of PA RPG's and have had an on-going campaign as GM for years....
Anyone do any gaming in the non-normal areas of RPGing? I mean, not magic, or very little. Not fantasy (early medieval), but more later such as c.1500 during...
Abrigon Gusiq wrote... ... Is there any area that is "normal" for RPGing? :) ... I suspect that without the viceral and easily understood context of the ...
Sorry for the confusion about the last part of my post. The First Part, understand to well, people want to escape, and anything that smacks of their normal...
... A lot, if you know where to look. Obviously the traditional genres dominate, but that's for obvious reasons. ... There is no appreciable market for this,...
Brian Hook
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Apr 12, 2004 4:52 pm
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From: "Abrigon Gusiq" <abrigon@...> ... Yes. My Theshaar campaign is currently centered around a blended psuedo-Egyptian/Arabic pharonic monotheism that...
... BH> A lot, if you know where to look. Obviously the traditional genres BH> dominate, but that's for obvious reasons. ... BH> There is no appreciable...
... I stand by my statement -- if there was an appreciable market, people would be in it. Economies abhor a vacuum. ... You're illustrating my point. Again,...
Brian Hook
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Apr 13, 2004 1:48 pm
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So you have to create a market for African or Native American or even much of Asia (including India), as well as Middle east modules for D20 or other game...
After reading the post on game evolution at rpg-create, I've tried to extrapolate the next stages in RPG evolution. I would appreciate it if people could...
Signature is a generic RPG. It uses neither point-based nor random character generation.Instead, you simply describe your character and assign appropriate...
The main evolution has been from specific fiddly rules for every little thing, and vast areas that are just plain outside the rules, to general-purpose rules...
So, I wanted to ask all you geekazoids for some advice. Let's say that you're me - you've had a sold basic foundation in computer science (i.e., math through...
... Encryption requires big number packages and lots of bit twiddling, so some languages (like Lua) are out because they don't provide bit twiddling. ... The...
Brian Hook
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... I would recommend PLT Scheme, available for free (no cash, LGPL) at <http://www.plt-scheme.org>. It works on Windows, Mac Classic, Mac X, Linux, and a...
... Python or Perl would both be good. Perl is less intuitive (Python is probably the easiest-to-learn language I've ever seriously used) but faster than...
... Depends on the OS and what *specifically* you wanted to do. For miscellaneous small stuff, I usually use Perl. For miscellaneous big stuff I usually use...
... Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the info, guys. Python looks pretty good. I'm downloading it now. :) - -- Nathan E. Banks "My friend saw what I writing and says what...
question: let's say you're modeling a battle between large sailing ships, which in real life could take hours. how many rounds do you think this could be...
... You misunderstand. At level 9, it's not 'fudge everything.' Perhaps I didn't make that clear. You have a number of Principles. Out of Principles come...
You know, if we're going with Darwin's theory of evolution, then it strikes me that the answer is as simple as it is unsatisfying: there isn't one single plan ...
From: <dharper@...> ... strikes me ... plan ... And there's GNS in a nutshell. And I'm curious as to why you find the above answer unsatisfying? Not ...
Sunday, April 18, 2004, 11:02:06 AM, dharper@... wrote: dgn> You know, if we're going with Darwin's theory of evolution, then it strikes me dgn> that...
Monday, April 19, 2004, 12:28:45 PM, Abrigon Gusiq wrote: AG> Anyone doing a like product, or already done? In White Wolf's opinion, they certainly did......
... For small combinatorial problems (e.g., dice-roll simulation etc.) I use Hugs, a small Haskell interpreter (see http://www.haskell.org). As it is an...
According to internet movie data base the movie had a budget of 23 million and grossed in the US alone 52 million. I'm not an expert on movie finance, but I'd...
