Lacking Natural Simplicity (Posts about openrpg)https://tkurtbond.github.io/categories/openrpg.atom2024-01-23T18:49:43ZT. Kurt BondNikolaRecent Reading; OpenRPGhttps://tkurtbond.github.io/posts/2004/03/22/2004-03-22/2004-03-22T00:00:00-05:002004-03-22T00:00:00-05:00T. Kurt Bond<section id="recent-reading">
<h2>Recent Reading</h2>
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<li><p><em>Trollslayer</em>, <em>Skavenslayer</em>, <em>Daemonslayer</em>, by William King;
Games Workshop Publishing, 2000. I finally got around to reading these
<em>Gotrek and Felix</em> books set in the world of Games Workshop's
<em>Warhammer</em> games. I don't play any of Games Workshop's miniatures
games, but I do play <em>Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay</em> when I can, and it
is set in what's more-or-less the same world. (WFRP was published in
1989 and GWs repeated revisions of their <em>Warhammer</em> games and the
world they are set in has increasingly diverged from the grimmer,
grittier, low-powered world seen in WFRP.) They're ok for gaming
fiction, and have a few interesting glimpses of the world in them. I
tend to leave the steam tanks and flying machines out of my version of
the Warhammer world, though, and judging by <em>Skavenslayer</em> and
<em>Daemonslayer</em> those elements are increasingly common in the stories
of Gotrek and Felix.</p></li>
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<h2>OpenRPG</h2>
<p>I've been playing around with <a class="reference external" href="http://www.openrpg.com/">OpenRPG</a> a
little bit lately, and it seems to work reasonably well. It provides
multi-user text-based chat, a shared map with miniatures, an a few
other things useful for people playing pen-and-paper adventure games
online. On problem that the current 1.6.1 release has is with the <a class="reference external" href="http://forums.rpghost.com/showthread.php?s=ce2507f5746e01fe771a62e8b99dea52&threadid=14758">fog</a> feature: in 1.6.1 there is a bug that causes
massive instability when the fog feature of the map is used. However,
there is a <a class="reference external" href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=887790&group_id=2237&atid=302237">patch</a> for it that fixes the
problem.</p>
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