[ddo] PnP

[Diarmuid Reidy]

In response to El Presidente for Life

I'd be on for both ddo and this also once we can get agreement, not get 
too frustrated with technology or can cobble together some one/few 
programs that work well enough that we can get back to being proper 
rules lawyers again... 8-)

I've been doing a little poking around and there's a few downloads that 
caught my eye...

http://dh.abomb.info/
http://dh.abomb.info/DH1.gif
http://dh.abomb.info/DH2.gif
Looks interesting, the screen shots seem to show what you'd want in a 
combat sort of situation, downloading it now to see if its any use 
outside of that...
First impression is that its a lot of work with creating anything, also 
the interface seems a bit clunky and basic.


The next one is:
http://www.battlegroundsgames.com/
http://www.battlegroundsgames.com/screenshots.html

Claims to be more of a display system with maps, dice roller, fog of 
war, grid and turn system. Looks pretty but isn't D20 specific so it has 
no rules, books or resources like that...
Looks pretty, good for map based combat possibly, not tried out that 
yet, but I think it abstracts any combat system, just showing the 
effects while you work out any rule/results on a different system...

ciao,
diarmuid.


Leigh Murphy wrote:
> OK, so lets get the ball rolling on this one then, I like the fantasy
> grounds but at the end of the day it's pretty much up to Brian IMO as he 
> has
> to DM and therefore use the software most.
> It's "pretty" but has the advantage of having the rules to hand and a 
> pretty
> ok system.
> We could just go with a sketch pad and a dice program but the pad would 
> have
> to be pretty accurate as from what I understand, 3.5 is all about the
> positioning. I've never played but am going on what Chop has told me.
> So who is *really* interested? I am, and will have to drop DDO, but that's
> ok if we get a good game up and running.
> Thoughts on numbers? Min/max, Brian? Bit about the ole campaign? A
> taster...mmmmm..
> Ca we get a separate mailing list set up a little later?
> Are there others who may be interested? I know you said Bren Joe but what
> about Conor/Chopper as well for instance?
> 
> I propose for next week, by the time we are on DDO, if we have not reached
> an agreement yet we should at least have
> 1. Which tabletop system we will use
> 2. If not an existing one, have parcelled out the work to the computer 
> gurus
> to write a dice generator/whiteboard with grid
> 3. Have a basic idea of who would like what if we do go ahead with the game
> 
> deadline Mon Feb 12. ( I always feel giving time constraints helps :p)
> 
> Your friendly dictator, Leigh.
> 
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