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Making tabletop RPGs easier and quicker to play...

Started by Yorick Tome, September 10, 2012, 08:07:18 PM

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Novastar

#15
September 11, 2012, 10:02:52 PM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;581692So long as these devices do not have an active internet connection they might be ok at the table.
I have a tablet, that I commonly am attached to the internet via wireless.
But...I don't surf while gaming. I look up rules, sometimes pull up Wikipedia to look at an article relating to a question in-game, and otherwise play the damn game.

Maybe I grew up in a different age, but it was considered rude to read a book or newspaper when you had a guest, when I was growing up. Like, pulling your dick out of your pants in public, rude.

Just saying.
Quote from: dragoner;776244Mechanical character builds remind me of something like picking the shoe in monopoly, it isn\'t what I play rpg\'s for.

StormBringer

#16
September 11, 2012, 10:03:47 PM
Quote from: Novastar;581816Like, pulling your dick out of your pants in public, rude.
Wait, when did that start being rude?  :)
If you read the above post, you owe me $20 for tutoring fees

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Novastar

#17
September 11, 2012, 11:00:44 PM
Quote from: StormBringer;581817Wait, when did that start being rude?  :)
Since it made the menfolk jealous, and the ladies swoon.

i.e. Never in MY lifetime. :p
Quote from: dragoner;776244Mechanical character builds remind me of something like picking the shoe in monopoly, it isn\'t what I play rpg\'s for.

flyingmice

#18
September 12, 2012, 12:03:15 AM
Quote from: StormBringer;581814DungeonDelver piqued my interest in 're-creating' the old DOS DM Assistant program.  All those things are almost perfectly suited for databases (pretty much everything a GM does, actually), it's just a matter of getting a good interface and making it customizable.  But if Yorick can't get around to it, I might just get a hold of you when I have some of that mythical 'free time' all the kids are talking about these days.  :)

That would be awesome, Stormy! I firmly believe this "Free Time" malarkey is purest myth!

-clash
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Peregrin

#19
September 12, 2012, 01:04:48 AM
Who has free time with all those Gordon Ramsay shows on TV lately?
"In a way, the Lands of Dream are far more brutal than the worlds of most mainstream games. All of the games set there have a bittersweetness that I find much harder to take than the ridiculous adolescent posturing of so-called \'grittily realistic\' games. So maybe one reason I like them as a setting is because they are far more like the real world: colourful, crazy, full of strange creatures and people, eternal and yet changing, deeply beautiful and sometimes profoundly bitter."

Marleycat

#20
September 12, 2012, 02:40:27 AM
I like things that make my gaming simple.  Color me intrigued especially if it would be cellphone friendly.
Don\'t mess with cats we kill wizards in one blow.;)

flyingmice

#22
September 12, 2012, 10:46:46 AM
Quote from: 1989;581887Nipples again!

Yeah, most mammals have them.

-clash
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Doctor Jest

#23
September 12, 2012, 01:45:06 PM
Quote from: flyingmice;581889Yeah, most mammals have them.

-clash

All of them do. Except the Platypus. You can say alot of things that go something like "all mammals _________ except the platypus".

Freaking platypus!

flyingmice

#24
September 12, 2012, 01:52:28 PM
Quote from: Doctor Jest;581932All of them do. Except the Platypus. You can say alot of things that go something like "all mammals _________ except the platypus".

Freaking platypus!

Don't forget the echidna, also like the platypus a monotreme. Thus the "most mammals" bit.

-clash
clash bowley * Flying Mice Games - an Imprint of Better Mousetrap Games
Flying Mice home page: http://jalan.flyingmice.com/flyingmice.html
Currently Designing: StarCluster 4 - Wavefront Empire
Last Releases: SC4 - Dark Orbital, SC4 - Out of the Ruins,  SC4 - Sabre & World
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Doctor Jest

#25
September 12, 2012, 03:02:12 PM
Quote from: flyingmice;581933Don't forget the echidna, also like the platypus a monotreme. Thus the "most mammals" bit.

-clash

WTF was up with evolution in Australia, anyways?

flyingmice

#26
September 12, 2012, 03:26:14 PM
Quote from: Doctor Jest;581971WTF was up with evolution in Australia, anyways?

Not many people know this, but Mother Nature was experimenting with LSD when she designed the specs for Australia. It's kept hushed up, of course...

-clash
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Currently Designing: StarCluster 4 - Wavefront Empire
Last Releases: SC4 - Dark Orbital, SC4 - Out of the Ruins,  SC4 - Sabre & World
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Spinachcat

#27
September 12, 2012, 04:14:11 PM
Paper and pen is being phased out in business and at home by increasing reliance on electronic devices.

It only makes sense for RPGs to adjust to modern realities.

I don't see much difference between the guy who flips through rulebooks throughout the game vs. the guy who dorks around with his laptop throughout the game.

TristramEvans

#28
September 12, 2012, 05:23:31 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;581988Paper and pen is being phased out in business and at home by increasing reliance on electronic devices.

It only makes sense for RPGs to adjust to modern realities.

I don't see much difference between the guy who flips through rulebooks throughout the game vs. the guy who dorks around with his laptop throughout the game.

A rulebook on a tablet is no different than a pen & paper one, as far as ease of reference during play, but I don't think a cellphone app will ever be able to reproduce the visceral experience of rolling funky dice.

flyingmice

#29
September 12, 2012, 05:56:53 PM
Quote from: TristramEvans;582004A rulebook on a tablet is no different than a pen & paper one, as far as ease of reference during play, but I don't think a cellphone app will ever be able to reproduce the visceral experience of rolling funky dice.

Actually, most pdfs are searchable, and much easier to look up stuff in.

-clash
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Currently Designing: StarCluster 4 - Wavefront Empire
Last Releases: SC4 - Dark Orbital, SC4 - Out of the Ruins,  SC4 - Sabre & World
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