Posts made by Bob

Very interested in an Old Republic game.

Any good crunchy games about at the moment?

I'm only aware of Tenebrae as an active D&D game but it doesn't precisely connect with me.

Last good Star Wars game I was on was Generations of Darkness which seems,mostly devoid of players (ripe for soft reset?)

Beyond those. Any recommendations?

@Roz Good point. Added.

@Ninjakitten Thanks. I did not even know that was a thing.

Greetings coders. After a fifteen year hiatus I've been plugging away at someone's project with pretty good success.

Working in: PennMUSH version 1.8.7 patchlevel 0 [08/10/2018]

My next task is to code a +roll/+check system that will call functions in the +sheet to grab and calculate skills. This part seems manageable but I did have a question about arguments.

The system in question is 5e based so I anticipate players doing things like:
+check strength
+check ranged+1
+check melee-1

QUESTION 1:
Is there a way to code a command so it evaluates the formatting without having to switch everything?

And what I mean is my knee-jerk is to do: "$+check *:" Then have it look for + and -. Evaluate as appropriate but is there a way to do a command like that is basically: $+check *[maybe +/-][and if one of those *]? To not have to take a single argument apart and re-assemble it?

QUESTION 2:
Optimally I'd like to be able to do something more complex like:
+roll 2d8+5+1d4+2-3

Where people can roll dice and chain dice rolls and integers together to infinity. Is there an easy way to do that without having to take a huge string and trying to chop it up since there's not a standard delimiter?

Thanks.

@Sunny You're welcome.

Agree with @juke and @Altair.

The best way to gain traction is to do a bit of lurking. Find out who might have RP that excites you (read wiki, logs, char info).

Then page them. Query availability. Set a date.

Spend the time between now and your date germinating a scene you can set that hooks in with their character vibe.

If you did even a passable job you now have a RP ally. Rinse. Repeat.

Echoing whats been stated I think its harder to to find /meaningful/ RP by throwing out an undirected solicitation to the entire game/lounge or to host a me-centric meet and greet event for the entire game/lounge.

If you are gonna do an event at some point make sure it's setup in such a way the people you really want to attend are available and desiring to join in. Glorify your attendees by not making it a rail shooter to a predetermined outcome.

Show people you appreciate the nuances of their style and they'll return the favor and soon you'll have a clique of your own.

@lotherio said in A New Star Wars game? (Legends of The Old Republic (Name pending)):

@bob said in A New Star Wars game? (Legends of The Old Republic (Name pending)):

As someone who staffed in Age of Mortals

The Age of Mortals/Krynn joint from 98 to 2000-2002'ish? I never played (I migrated from original DL Mux to some SW places then), but I was under the impression each arch was a set of chars, and it was new chars for the next arc, just the plot and meta was determined by what happened in the prior arcs of time? I thought it was a great idea, but hadn't read the War of Souls at the time and thought that was part of the pre-game canon.

Yes, that theme. This was around 2005/6. It may have been originally conceived as new characters but at that time it was executed as carrying people forward OR creating new with a continuous story.

@seraphim73 said in A New Star Wars game? (Legends of The Old Republic (Name pending)):

@mr-johnson No no, I think setting it at the end of the Mandalorian Wars is kind of brilliant. Give it like 6 months there, and then skip ahead a year to the return of the Revanchist. Gives 6 months to make connections between PCs and to get the L3-4s up closer to Prestige Classes. Then you get the fall toward Sith Apprentice of those with Revan, and the 'but we didn't really want war,' and 'what the heck happened to our friends' from those who stayed with the Order. As @GirlCalledBlu noted, it's storytelling gold.

As someone who staffed in Age of Mortals which did implement the time skip/new plot location a couple of times I will say that I don't think its ideal. Overall it disrupts personal stories (so most MU) and the handing out of levels, gear, and such due to timeskip sounds logical but it further disrupts things and then adds the administrative headache of people wanting to redo portions of the advancement because they wind up not liking their initial choice (yeah you can make a policy against this but people will forever complain and if you let just one person change one thing its curtains for you).

I liken that last bit to using console commands in Skyrim. Suddenly the natural story/char progression is out of whack and you'll be forever trying to smooth things out rather than running events.

KotR is a good setting though. Giant sandbox for fantasy SW play. Just be mindful of who you let help out. Certain parties have already ruined or nearly ruined a game or two because of their "enthusiasm". Looking at you, Vaapad.

At the risk of being viciously impaled by those who would like Wheel of Time by way of Firan (admittedly, like GoT, its written as way more social fantasy drama than fantasy action) I submit the following as a basis for a system (love it or leave it the time that went into this just for the sake of doing it is neat):

http://blackmoor.mystara.net/pdfs/wot/WheelTimeRPGSagaConversion.pdf

The Saga System adapted for Wheel of Time.

Status?

@Tempest Yeah. I'm not in the Risi clique but my perception is that the group hasn't changed fundamentally since Trakata took over the game (in terms of abuse/crowding others out). They were always a group of "movers and shakers" but its because they were active and Risi ran a lot of plots (which is part of the reason the game was passed to him/her).

I earlier qualified myself as a lurker on the game so more recent experience may have more weight but they seem to be as ridiculously powerful and involved in stuff as they've always been -- so far as I can tell.

That said, Malacia runs bounty hunting stuff and Trakata runs Mandalore stuff regularly for not-their-chars. Which isn't to say the game is equal opportunity but I don't view the situation with the venomous exclusivity that often seems to arise in games. "Gold of my own" or otherwise.

I'm more of a lurker than a current player these days but for all the drama involved with staff-exodus (Djem So, et al.)/staff-secession the (Vaapad split)/staff hand-offs (Ataru to Trakata) from someone without a "MUSH clique" this game has always been fair to me. I've always had the impression that as long as you're active they're willing to work with you on character goals unless your concept really goes off the rails.

Sure there's been good plots and bad global plots but at some point you've just got to appreciate a consistent experience that manages to survive for 4 - 5 years without reboots.

I do wish chargen was a bit more "open" but such is the theme and I guess it's worked so far. Try this game out if you want a space-fantasy table-top experience. It's generally a pretty good experience.

@golgoth suspense is killing me

Interesting. This game is old as dirt though or is based off of a dirt old game? Been hankering for some trek that's not just a report filing simulation.

So I went through last night and subscribed to all of the mods in the steam workshop.

When I attempt to join via the IP it states: 'Unable to query server info for invite' under the heading of network failure.

It's also not showing up under an UnOfficial server search. This is with the 'ARK Remastered' total conversion activated.

And just to clarify I'm trying to connect via:

Steam://connect/158.69.26.227:18616

EDIT: I turned off the 'ARK Remastered' conversion and it found the server. So it may not be activated? Dunno. Thanks for hosting.

Is this a fresh game that you just started?

I have put up a Conan: Exiles server for those who want to a "gritty" survival game experience. Currently it uses the default settings but these are likely to be tweaked towards a more "casual" play style eventually.

I invite whoever wants to play to join in and invite friends if you want. If we should hit the "player cap" I would be willing to increase it.

Server name is WORA Exiles
IP:Port is 192.198.81.134:4000

Cool. Keep posting preferences. I'll look at pricing a server out of we get about 5
people.