omnis we've been playing in Long Beach, are you ever free Monday nights?
Uh, are we gonna fight, or is there just gonna be a monster sarcasm rally?
Stoner Vamp ,'Lessons'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
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Laga - May 15, 2008 1:16:04 pm PDT #545 of 26132
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Sean K - May 15, 2008 1:16:29 pm PDT #546 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm not sure, but don't the DM licenses come with a couple of player licenses? Worth checking.
We'll need at least one DM license on this coast. I think I'll actually need one myself, so I can fiddle with programming too. I may already have one, though, on my old XP box. Sometime in the next week, I plan on firing it up one last time to retrieve files off it before I wipe it and turn it into an Ubuntu box. For fun.
(Yes, I had previously set up one Ubuntu box, but I eventually took it down again)
NoiseDesign - May 15, 2008 1:20:38 pm PDT #547 of 26132
Our wings are not tired
No, they have Full and Lite. Full allows you to do everything including DM, Lite is pretty much just for players. They don't include any extras with a full, but if you buy multiple licenses as a pack then you get a discount on the bundle. That's why I'm thinking we all get together, figure out how many of each we need and then I'll place one big order.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - May 15, 2008 1:24:05 pm PDT #548 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Okay, I'm missing something here. FG? What is FG? That's the thing you're talking about licenses for, right?
NoiseDesign - May 15, 2008 1:31:40 pm PDT #549 of 26132
Our wings are not tired
It's Fantasy Grounds. Basically software to allow us to play pencil and paper RPG's through the internets.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - May 15, 2008 1:40:54 pm PDT #550 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Oh, cool. See, so much of the license talk sounded like the thing that D&D is doing with 4th edition but the terms 'license' and 'FG' just didn't fit.
So, what are you thinking of playing.
P.S. I'm not really here; I'm actually hard at work painting.
NoiseDesign - May 15, 2008 2:25:29 pm PDT #551 of 26132
Our wings are not tired
I suspect we will initially try it out on a D&D 3.5 campaign since that's what it comes set up for by default. We really want to use the customizing features to use it on a Serenity campaign that Joe was running before he moved away from Los Angeles. I'd also like to see a game of Shadowrun get going.
Sean K - May 15, 2008 2:33:53 pm PDT #552 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Yeah, by default, it's set for D&D 3.5 but it's supposedly customizable through XML or scripting or some such.
I wonder if I could even eventually rig it to run Republic of Rome. I bet I could. That would be downright awesome.
Sean K - May 15, 2008 2:35:20 pm PDT #553 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Okay, I may go plug in my old XP machine now and start looking at how to get stuff off of there.
I think it has a firewire card. Can I use that firewire card to start XP in target drive mode, like I can with Mac?
NoiseDesign - May 15, 2008 2:36:22 pm PDT #554 of 26132
Our wings are not tired
I don't believe the XP has a target disk mode.