@CRoss Sucks to hear that, but also cool you salvaged it and had a good time. I loathe with passion people who don't even bother to call or text that they won't be there. (We've got one of 'em in my group..)
@waxeagle I thought so too. I didn't want to put it down. The only places I got slowed down was when it was from Eddard's wife's perspective.
The series is interesting, and I think it gets more so as you get more into the intrigue and realize that all of the narrators are imperfect and untrustworthy
How do you as a DM handle the transition/interaction between differing cultural level domains that live alongside (practically bordering, thanks to the Mists) one another in Ravenloft (any edition)?
I mean, for example, how do you make traveling from "Renaissance France" to "Medieval Germany" no...
Does anyone know of any free/Creative Commons sound effect library? I would be willing to pay for it as well but only if it comes highly recommended.
In particular, I am looking at gun shots, renaissance combat, weather (rain and storms), and nature effects (forests).
I plan to use two MP3 pl...
Do you know a good sound effect library?
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Where can I find artwork for my games?
So, asking for pictures is fine, asking for sound is not... Why?
From the FAQ, I believe that my question fits "Tools and equipment used while playing table-top RPGs" and "Techniques for running or playing RPGs"...
@BrianBallsunStanton I'm actually starting to get a bit frustrated with that particular user, half his qs are closed and none of his answers have been good
@BrianBallsunStanton I think at this point we may be upvoting out of habit more than quality... This is yet another only tagentially related to gaming question
As stated. I tried a few specialized mapping tools, but I feel like I'll be happiest just using Inkscape (an open source vector drawing tool).
I'm still working on getting an efficient system down for it, though, and would definitely appreciate any tips.
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this might be the best reason for gold accumulation in D&D ive seen "carve their faces on a mountainside visible from a major city they were banned from, Mount Rushmore-style. "
@BrianBallsunStanton I get that, I bought the wife a kindle so she has been picking up stuff gradually, mostly Gutenberg project stuff, but every now and then she will buy something
@GPierce crap questions, crap answers. He has one q with 15 votes and I'm not sure that one is even really on topic. All of his other contributions are borderline at best
"I know nothing of Apocalypse World but some things hold true for all post-apocalyptic settings: resources are rare. To have a resource gives you power. There's always "lost" technology/stuff to find. And, of course, defeating gangs of cannibalistic mutated punks. Try to answer the question: If I were watching a TV series/film or reading a book about my character, what would I love her/he to do? Save the world? Create a new oasis of peace? Be the Lone Gunman?"
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do I want a non-even number rep for a downvote of that?
I am coming close to playing my first ever game of Apocalypse world. This will mark my first post-apocalypse based RP, and will see me trying to transition from a combat heavy D&D 4e background into whatever this game ends up being =)
Are there any hints more experienced players might have, ...
The pitch needs to be different is you are presenting to friends, potential players, writers, artists, publishers and bank managers. But the main advise I can give you is be to point and grab their attention.
The Dresden RPG does not need a snappy pitch. If you're looking at it, chances are y...
@BrianBallsunStanton terrible question. There is a nugget of a good question in there if it was "How do I try to introduce a new game to my group" but that is so highly subjective that I don't think its a good q
@GPierce I'm sure of it. Although typically multi accounts are used to evade a suspension. I don't know of a specific case of what you are talking about.
@GPierce one of the Diamond tools is a suspicous voting patern tool. I don't know what it does at this point because gardening isn't big enough for it to tell me much, but I assume it will look for users who have only upvoted questions from a specific user
@waxeagle You can find the first book, Princess of Mars easily and cheaply in paperback at most book stores. It's really good stuff. He also created Tarzan and those are also fun and fantastic.
Burroughs, Howard, and Lovecraft as some of my all-time favorite authors, all seminal in their respective fictions. Howard and Lovecraft were contemporaries and friends who used to send stories to each other. If you read some of Howard's Conan you can see the Lovecraftian influence on his writing.
@waxeagle Bradbury.. YES. Both are fantastic, make sure you throw in his Martian Chronicles for good measure. (It's as short as the two novels you've mentioned)
@GPierce good deal, I have heard good things about him and I am excited to get into them, I just don't want to start another book without finishing my current
@GPierce that sucks. I had a very good highschool experience, I knew some of the kids from church I had been around a bunch of the rest because my dad had taught at the school for years and I was the ball boy for the soccer team
@GPierce They did their best, it wasn't perfect, but it was overall a pretty good experience. I got an incredibly good math/science base and a less good English/history base. Part of that was just me though
After my dad became a teacher they waited a couple of years because we had a good thing going.
Then it got complicated, we were leaving the country and they didn't know what school would look like, but they knew we wouldn't be homeschooling anymore, so they went ahead and had us go to school for a couple of years before we had to jump into one in a new place
@GPierce It was pretty darn good. Costa Rica was the best year of my life hands down. The high school I went to was incredible and I had a blast. Ecuador was good too although I was a lot more isolated because it was my senior year and my options were homeschool over the net and Ecuadorian school and I took the home option.
But I stuck around for a while after highschool and helped with some english clubs at local universities and some other ESL stuff, it was a very good experience overall, even though I realize now I could have made a lot better use of my time there.
@GPierce decent, another case of not taking full advantage of my opportunities. My 3 younger sisters that went to spanish speaking schools all speak perfect spanish...
@waxeagle Also, it's a huge pain trying to get anything off of my old laptop when the screen doesn't work. Hooking it up to the big tv is awesome and all, but seriously...
@GPierce lol yeah. Next time you have it hooked up to the TV, make your C drive shared on your network, then all you have to do it turn it on, then you can get files off of it
@waxeagle We'll set it up, reset the computer as per instructions, and then all of our work is gone. If we don't reset it, it doesn't work anyways, so we gave up awhile back.
And I hardly use it anyhow
My Windows 7 netbook loves sharing and networks, though
I figured slight continuity with the mega-dungeon I'm building in the custom-nentir vale would be funny, at least to me. (but also helps me flesh out my version of it for the mega-dungeon I'm building in my spare time)
@waxeagle Thus far I've created the City of Redmere. It's a highly religious city comprised mainly of a Temple District and some guild halls. Redmere lies due east of Fallcrest along the Trade Road and about 70 miles southeast from the City of Fallen Sigil.
In my setting Sigil collapsed and no one knows why. Half of the city merged with the material plane north of Fallcrest. When Sigil fell during the Collapse all planar travel became impossible and all attempts to travel through the planes became illegal and punishable by death. The Nentir Vale is ruled by the Nentir Empire, which united several of the communities in the region for protection and economic gain.
Fallen Sigil has become a major metropolitan hot spot and a cultural center for the new Nentir Empire. Whereas Redmere serves as the Empires religious community and hosts many pilgrimages.
Essentially because of the existence of Fallen Sigil, it opens up all races as playable.
@GPierce yup, its about the perfect time frame for things to adjust to a new normal. still some prejudices etc, but things are fairly balanced at that point
@GPierce yeah, not exactly sure how folks in the current Nentir vale setting would feel about our party walking around with a shardmind...or previously a Drow...
Does anyone know of any free/Creative Commons sound effect library? I would be willing to pay for it as well but only if it comes highly recommended.
In particular, I am looking at gun shots, renaissance combat, weather (rain and storms), and nature effects (forests).
I plan to use two MP3 pl...
As stated. I tried a few specialized mapping tools, but I feel like I'll be happiest just using Inkscape (an open source vector drawing tool).
I'm still working on getting an efficient system down for it, though, and would definitely appreciate any tips.
I use paint.net and paint shop pro to create fantasy cartography. Is there any better software, and why?
I am coming close to playing my first ever game of Apocalypse world. This will mark my first post-apocalypse based RP, and will see me trying to transition from a combat heavy D&D 4e background into whatever this game ends up being =)
Are there any hints more experienced players might have, ...
