Recent content by daxos232

Exactly, instead of the UI being menus and toolbars that you often have to use the manual to figure out how to use, you just pick up the dice, move the pieces, or flip the cards with the mouse. Just like you would with your hand.

I'm not sure how you think that the "eye candy" is taking priority over the usability. Could you explain further? Which I think is great. Until now I had heard of some programs that allow you to do this, but are not user friendly or are tied into a specific system only. LegendaryJWP's post...

Indeed it is, although I had never heard of Roll20.net until now, thanks for the link. From the video of Roll20 I can see they use more menus and UI and such, where the Desperate Gods game such things are kept track of using "physical" pieces, tokens, cards, on the screen that you interact with...

Ah, but the "eye candy" is the point. The user interface is the dice, cards, tokens, and pieces you see in front of you, just like a real board game. What could be more intuituve than picking up the dice, rolling them, and reading the result, just like you would with your hand? Use a third...

A video for a new game just created by Wolfire.com called Desperate Gods. The cool thing about it is that it recreates playing a board game at a table with your friends. You have to use your mouse to move the pieces, pick up and flip a card, and even to roll the dice. Everything is...

Just had a really great game the other night, first one in several months. Had a good plot written up, lots of details and some good roleplay, and plenty of ridiculous shennanigans had by all. Except for the combat (in my opinion). It got kinda late before we got into the first combat of the...

What if there are side effects, or the magic can backfire? Some myths and legends have horrible consequences if the magic is not used correctly/in a certain amount of time/ etc. If the child is born safely with the spell it may be weak after birth and into adulthood. Future sicknesses and...

After having our previous group dissolve over time, a friend and I have decided to try and host a game at a local game shop. The store seems to get quite a bit of people who game there often. We spoke with the owner who was very polite and he said that he would be happy to try and send some...

Yes these are all important points that I don't think the rulebook really emphasizes or explains. If I go through with my idea I will limit what spells are available depending on background,profession,culture, and cult/guild. RuneQuest6 is actually addressing the issues with common magic being...

Although common magic is considered "folk magic" by many people, it still has quite a few combat spells. I was thnking that the simple utility spells may be more prevalent among the populace,and more impressive spells like skybolt would be availabe only to members of sorcery/spirit/divine...

With how many ideas that this topic has generated, I'm debating on just switching my games to only using common magic. It can cover pretty much anything, and still give a lot of variety. Does anyone else do this? How did it go? I also wrote up some really good spells of my own some time ago...

What your doing sounds a lot like what I did when I first started MRQ. My only previous experience was playing a little d&d 3.0, and I didn't understand the CA and CMs of MRQ. I wasted a lot of time messing with the rules trying to remake stuff from scratch. I can understand your concerns, as...

That's awesome. I'm looking forward to this.

All of these character sheets looks very nice. I have made my own, but its not very good looking, all I have to work with is Microsoft Word. What programs do you use to design your character sheets?

That looks very good greene, I never thought of doing humonculi through sorcery. I have used them in a few games, but I always had them made through the Alchemy skill, like a very complex recipe.