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Sadly, at this point I've had to shelf this game idea due to a number of RL reasons. I do hope to restart it, but I couldn't fathom when I'd be able to within the foreseeable future.

SPEHSS is Space. Spelljammer isn't really sci-fi... more like Treasure Planet, with open top boats and such. Buuut.... yeah. Plus, Mind Flayers are canonically from the distant future. So timey wimey.

@lavit2099 said:

I wouldn't want to ruffle feathers and it sounds like asking those running Tenebrae would do that. If @Ashen-Shugar would like to give me a copy, that would be great.

How soon would you need something like this?

The reason I'm asking is I can of course get you a copy, though it's pretty tied into Rhost, but -may- work with PennMUSH as well. Due to the regexp requirements, MUX or TM3 are right out. Not without either some significant rewriting of the softcode (which I wouldn't suggest on an enemy as Dahan softcode is... something that requires consistent and significant amounts of Absinthe) or requiring dropping in the missing regexp functions into the hardcode of the codebases. So using Rhost (or likely Penn) shouldn't be an issue, but it needed to be put out there.

The second issue is, frankly, as it stands right now Dahan code is at best 3/4ths cooked. The workbench has missing features, the space system is a danging incomplete void, it's horribly documented, and sections should frankly be a rewrite. You can likely pull SAGA like was suggested, but I wouldn't be the one who did it 🙂

The other option is wait for SW:DoD to finish their rewrite of the Dahan code. Ysalamir is currently reworking the system, finishing up the space system, reworking a lot of the dangling WTF points, and making the documentation a bit cleaner. And when finished Ysalamir fully intends to release all the systems openly and publicly (at least as he told me). I'm thinking it may be done in 6ish months, but you'd need to reach out to Ysalamir on this as he holds the schedule on this and I do not.

So, end story, it is available. There's not any 'installer' per say which makes it more difficult and likely the one Ysalamir will be providing will be a fully featured installer.

So if you want the Dahan code now, I'll have to clean it up, so it'd likely take me a few weeks as I try to build around it a lame-ass jury-rigged installer.

Let me know your time schedule and if you want to move forward with this and I can look to make it happen.

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin Yeah, staff would have to be willing to define what an acceptable background was, and give examples for both backgrounds and One Unique Things. It shouldn't be as much of an issue for a D&D game as for, say, the way people play WoD/CoD in MU*s, since ideally it SHOULDN'T be PvP-focus, and PvP tends to be where the most arguments about that kind of flexibility come in.

Yeah. But you'll still get the occasional person who will complain that someone else's Background allows them to do "everything mine does and more". People's One Unique Thing would also be tricky because to keep the actual feel, you would need an ever growing list of unique things that can't be repeated.

You will get the occasional person who will complain about everything. Any version of D&D you run is going to have something that can potentially create an exploit of the rules. That's presumably why staff aren't robots, and it's not impossible to pull someone in even after approval and tell them to Knock That Crap Off.

Obviously. I just think that the level of ambiguity inherent in backgrounds will create more problems than usual; not unmanageable, but more.