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i guess the root of my dissatisfaction was that there was such an incredibly strong contrast between exploration and combat. the wandering was awesome. we introduced our characters, we improvised, the DM worked with us in terms of using our powers to discover foot prints and platform and coerce people and have a whole lot of granularity over how we 'made our way' to the fight.
and then the fight started and it was like oh ok roll some dice, subtract some points, don't try anything fancy.
and i guess in some ways that is a sensible thing- else powergamers and obstinate jerks will make combat unbalanced and crazy and self-indulgent and all.
but i just felt like it was very boring to kill the bad guys and it soured me on the entire experience.
Umm... I think it was like, Pathfinder?
twitch.tv/tehsloth
in that you script sweet actions against enemy actions and punch them in the FACE
and you can do locks and grapples n shit
note: I am already aware of the stuff on the Smodcast network, HAWP, the old PA podcast, and History of Rome.
It'll need a core group serious about driving the project at least to a point where I can get investments or promote a kickstarter and pay people to do it full time.
in the real world a pure 'idea guy' is vanishinly rare. It's usually 'idea guy' + CEO. Or 'idea guy' + lead dev. Or 'idea guy' + being the principle investor (big bags of cash are just as good as code too).
This is the worst fucking fad ever. Bring back dubstep or something.
Like 4e combat can be cool but it's a whole thing
We'll get you in a modern FATE game or somesuch and you'll be all
"I breach the door and toss a flashbang."
And roll one standardized set of dice
And I'll be like, "Nice success. Your teammates can use your success to clear the room at +2."
Etc.
The Moth.
Way better than code even! There are way more people capable of coding a good 3D game than there are talented 3D sculptor/animators.
Have you listened to all the PA D&D podcasts?
Words words words are my thing. And I put together a respectable 60-80 quests over a couple of years, from FedEx runs up to multi-stage main plot lines.
i am just speaking tangentially
ahem
beep boop boop
crunch! slam! pow!
brrrrrrrppppppttt
"you failed to breach the door but successfully threw the flashbang
your party is now blind and disoriented"
I know! Combatting that perception that I just have an idea and nothing else is important for me to get people taking me seriously though.
ah, that is tricky. That kind of stuff is a real contribution, but it requires a fair bit of code to already exist (or at least very solid specs) so as to create the script / data files that represent things like quests.
yup. Most of those were great (they had a crappy DM for a while but Mike / Jerry / Wil carried it along regardless)
It's like 1.3 million legos. You can't tell from those photos but there are some landmarks done in colored legos.
the munitions used by your country employ depleted uranium penetrators
in 40 years your entire squad will have dick cancer
Agreed. My current plan is to cheat, using UDK.
"I kick a vase off the table into the face of the mook."
The DM never mentioned a table or a vase, but now there is a table and a vase.