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| − | + | So, Kib's only a level and a couple thousand XP from Field Marshall. Given the area-of-effect stuff of the Field Marshall, we might want to seriously think about making the transition to d20pro, with its vastly superior effect handling. -[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]] | |
| + | :Whoah, cool-- another d20pro consideration. Did you guys get to play with it some? I have a call in the next few days with the developers of it so I can convince them to give me a source license so we can make some tweaks to it. -[[User:Mattie|Mattie]] | ||
| + | ::They'll do that? Holy cow, I am all over this. -[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]] | ||
| + | ::Anyway, I haven't coordinated with Jones to play around with it much, I've just heard through the grapevine that certain parts of it are vastly superior. -[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]] | ||
| + | ::: I ran half a mini-game with it and it's better in some ways and worse in others. Biggest issue is that players can't change their own character sheets. 2nd biggest (related) issue is that the GM ends up doing a good bit more work (since the game is setup as having the GM be a control freak). After that, I think pretty much everything else is ultimately superior or equal. Many things make the GM's life easier, but in the end I think there's slightly more work for the GM and less work overall for the players. (Rather than overrun poor Kib's Talk page, I made a [[d20pro]] page with more of my thoughts/feedback.) - [[User:Mattie|Mattie]] | ||
| + | :::: It's ok, Kib's tough. But yeah, this probably deserves its own page. -[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]] | ||
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| − | + | So, how long had the Absold's held title before it was revoked/the arrest? How long before Our Present Time (1401) was the arrest? Trying to make a go at working on Tana's story. -gm | |
| + | :I was figuring that Kib was basically raised with the title, maybe Garn getting it when he was five or six, making it eighteen years ago. The arrest conceivably could have happened a quite a while after Kib was dumped at the Bandit Kingdom, but probably didn't considering the timing with Tana, so make that maybe a month before game time, which would be, errrrm, three months ago? Four? He wouldn't have had to make it through to the Bandit Kingdom like Tana did, so that would explain why it took her this long to catch up. -[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:10, 2 April 2011
So, Kib's only a level and a couple thousand XP from Field Marshall. Given the area-of-effect stuff of the Field Marshall, we might want to seriously think about making the transition to d20pro, with its vastly superior effect handling. -Slitherrr
- Whoah, cool-- another d20pro consideration. Did you guys get to play with it some? I have a call in the next few days with the developers of it so I can convince them to give me a source license so we can make some tweaks to it. -Mattie
- They'll do that? Holy cow, I am all over this. -Slitherrr
- Anyway, I haven't coordinated with Jones to play around with it much, I've just heard through the grapevine that certain parts of it are vastly superior. -Slitherrr
- I ran half a mini-game with it and it's better in some ways and worse in others. Biggest issue is that players can't change their own character sheets. 2nd biggest (related) issue is that the GM ends up doing a good bit more work (since the game is setup as having the GM be a control freak). After that, I think pretty much everything else is ultimately superior or equal. Many things make the GM's life easier, but in the end I think there's slightly more work for the GM and less work overall for the players. (Rather than overrun poor Kib's Talk page, I made a d20pro page with more of my thoughts/feedback.) - Mattie
- It's ok, Kib's tough. But yeah, this probably deserves its own page. -Slitherrr
- I ran half a mini-game with it and it's better in some ways and worse in others. Biggest issue is that players can't change their own character sheets. 2nd biggest (related) issue is that the GM ends up doing a good bit more work (since the game is setup as having the GM be a control freak). After that, I think pretty much everything else is ultimately superior or equal. Many things make the GM's life easier, but in the end I think there's slightly more work for the GM and less work overall for the players. (Rather than overrun poor Kib's Talk page, I made a d20pro page with more of my thoughts/feedback.) - Mattie
So, how long had the Absold's held title before it was revoked/the arrest? How long before Our Present Time (1401) was the arrest? Trying to make a go at working on Tana's story. -gm
- I was figuring that Kib was basically raised with the title, maybe Garn getting it when he was five or six, making it eighteen years ago. The arrest conceivably could have happened a quite a while after Kib was dumped at the Bandit Kingdom, but probably didn't considering the timing with Tana, so make that maybe a month before game time, which would be, errrrm, three months ago? Four? He wouldn't have had to make it through to the Bandit Kingdom like Tana did, so that would explain why it took her this long to catch up. -Slitherrr
