Curiouser and Curiouser said Alice.
Its working now with the second Crestar in there. I added the .net in to.
I think I should take a nap and try to figure it out tomorrow.
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The second crestar doesn't need to be there. I copy and pasted the above url into Firefox and it showed right away. Ah. The index file for the
My Crestar site is a sub-domain. I used the [url format, and it looks good when I hover my mouse pointer over it. But when I click on it, a www is added to the front of the url. It doesn't lead to my site. How do I get that corrected ? What can I edit in there to fix it ? Thanks ! The correct url is: http://crestar.drivein-jim.net/crestar/
I typically make large continent or nation maps with a few things on it like the majort rivers, sea ports, borders. Then I take a small rectangular area and make a detaield area of it.
I remember watching the space launches live. Apollo 11 thru 17. Wonderful times.
Sorry, I've been busy. I see the map today.
Not there now, but it looked okay to me.
As I said above, our fridge was open to guests. Including gamer guests. I wouldn't tell a hungry person 'tough luck'.
In my campaign, many of the evil attackers into the good areas typically comes from one mountain pass. So any activity, even good people, in that pass is quickly passed along to the frontier forts on that side of the kingdom. The pass is 10-15 days away, depending on method of travel. i.e. fast horse or several wagons. Most everyone in the good area just needs to hear the warning from a messenger riding by, 'Activity in the Pass !' to get food and water into their homes, flee to the local castle or walled town, etc. So they know where the mountains are, and the ocean direction where trade comes from. Geography comes naturally to them.
Carry messages due to an overload on the local messenger service. Various factions are manouvering to gain status over other factions, or gain knowledge they can hold over other factions.
I've never worried about game ballance for my players' characters as each character class, and sometimes the character races, each have their own strong points. Without a range of skills, the character party is doomed.
On the treasure chest lock, and it explodes skunk odor all over the nearby characters.
Some years ago at a game store someone asked me a question... a long drawn out question seeming to have no purpose. Lots of adjectives, superlatives 'what ifs', etc. Then I realized that he was trying to add gunpowder to my campaign, after I had announced it wasn't in there just 5 minutes earlier. So I smiled at him and said, 'gunpowder doesn't burn or explode in my campiagn as that isn't the explosive compound for Crestar'. And just as he started to say something else, I said, 'and not the jeweler's rouge like in Amber'. I apparently ruined his day as he got up and left my game session. I've mangled a few rules in the books, but then I go by the DM's Zeroth Rule. If it fits my campaign, the rule is okay. If not, out it goes. Like the gold fish for Identify. Naaah.
I've been asked if i watch 'Level Up' ? No, I replied. I've told a few peope at work I also play Everquest and collect dice. Only 3000 dice so far. I'm not the guy in the Guiness book. Mostly I get glazed looks. A few people have told me they are gamers, the rest want to talk about getting drunk at football games. I just tell them after killing two dragons and saving a village from orcs, football seems so... ordinary.
I've DMed for as many as 12 people when I ran games in a local game store. I used a note pad divided up into combat rounds, and rows for each character's name. I went around the table starting on one side, and went around to my other side. Each player got a chance to speak, their characters got to make decisions, etc. As each round finished, I turned a page. The narrow column with each character name stayed put, just the columns marking the combat rounds moved. I wrote on it using wipe off markers. each page was covered with clear shelf contact plastic. link to a photo of it:
My sisters play both male and female characters, who all have several basic attitudes. 1) polite, but able to fight 2) no prisoners ! 3) party treasure will be, yes will be, divided equally. 4) see number 2.
I'm sure I'm not in the only group to use 'Are you sure?' as a red flag that something is incredibly dangerous/stupid. My players hate it when I ask that... they feel they don't do anything rash, but plan everything out. But they don't.
I still feel it is about communication. I hosted gamers in my house for years. Never had a problem because we talked to the gamers each time about what was allowed and what wasn't allowed. Not everyone attended each time. If we were short of something, we let everyone know. Even put a sign on the fridge 'the potato salad is for a barbeque tomorrow, please don't eat any of it'. The hosts got mad, but apparently didn't verbally communicate. They sohuld have. It is very easy to do so. Don't presume everyone knows how you want your home to be used by guests. We tell guests, there is the fridge, help yourself, with the above exception. We even cooked food, or ordered pizza, for when all of us gamers were short of money to bring snacks. No one was expected to go hungry while the rest of us ate. That would be very rude. Edited a typo on one word.
I told one player in my campaign, he was out of work, if he was hungry to help himself. He said he couldn't cook or anything. So one of my sisters called a game break, went into the kitchen and made spaghetti with meatballs. Made sure he ate his fill. My mother told him to not worry about it. She gave him a box of crackers and a jar of peanut butter to take home so he could look for work and not pass out. It is all about communication. If the hosts never said anything, then they should have. Otherwise, their guests don't know if the hosts are upset. I put this situation one hundred percent on the hosts.
'run away ! run away !' from Monthy Python. When the player character party realizes they are way in over their heads and should never have engaged in that particular combat. Or someone starts humming the Twilight Zone theme music... sometimes me, and we all know someone just made a really really really really bad game decision. 'Is this a wind up toy moment ?' based on the time a guy's character wound up, oooh, as Asmodeus' wind up toy.
They should have said something. If I have a problem player, I tell them within minutes, or seconds, of what I feel they did wrong. I don't let it go on for months. As for snacks, we each bring our own. When we did order pizza, we never asked anyone to contribute who couldn't.
Interesting subject. I DM, seldom play. One of my players, a woman, takes no prisoners. She has been told she plays her female characters as if they were men. Of course, what she does is play them like adventurers, not quiet and shy townsfolk who never leave town. One of the other female players is a quiet player. But has more than once made a male player back off and properly share treasures found. She wouldn't allow him to take all of them for his player character. He evidently thought my sisters would be push overs and go along with what he wanted the game to be. :-)
I have no personal experience with Hexmapper. I use Profantasy's Campaign Cartographer. I started with version 2 and now have version 3. Along with all of their add-ons. I am not a mapping guru, but if you want to see what I have drawn, they are about two thousand maps drawn with CC2/CC3, along with dungeons, cities, towns, etc. maps at Crestar, Crest of a Star The Cosmographer add-on has a hexagon planet mappping ability. I've used it for quick hexagonal maps.
Back on my desktop so the battery in my asus can charge. I like this app. Very easy to use. Yeah, I couldn't wait until next weekend. I had to change my settings so non-Android apps could install.
I'll check into the ezPDF and see how well it works on this tf300.
downloaded to my asus, I'll check it out next weekend.
One thing I wrote years ago for my Amiga computer kept track of how long the adventure had gone on, moon rise and set, and sun rise and set. I would like such ability added into any GM program i use these days. The rise and set times could be configurable to take into account for local game world settings. (typed and posted via my asus tf300t. yeah.)
Ah... I have to let it charge for 8 hours before first use. urk. Anyway, deltas I have pmed you. Thanks.
My tablet doesn't arrive until Monday. I don't have wireless at home, I'll have to buy a new device.
Is there any way to download it to my home cmoputer and put it on my tablet later ? The link wants to install only.
I feel good after my purchase of an ASUS tablet. Here is the link to my site: Crest of a Star Continent, nation, city, and town maps. With a few interiors of buildings. Most all info is generic.
I've ordered a new ASUS FT300T 10.1" Ice Cream Sandwich with 32 gigs, $399. It will be here at my home next week. Since I am very busy at work until mid-June, may have to weekends, I may have to wait for deep explorations of it.
Okay, if 1 gig is okay, then I won't angst about it. Uhm, my first home computer was a Sinclair ZX-81 with a 1 kilobyte chip, with the OS in a 8 Kb ROM. I later bought the 16 kilobyte ram pack. The audio cassette player/recorder method of loading and saving programs was a bit painful though. I found an ASUS TF300T 32 gig for $399, refurbished. Not sure I'll get it though. Probably wait for the October new hardware holiday releases to buy a slightly older one.
Not any wireless where I game like the local game store or the local sf/gaming convention. Don't have it at my apartment, but then I would use my ISP connection as I have a nice WIndows Vista desktop, 3 gigs of ram. Since this is a big purchase, I'll likely keep looking. One of the computer techs at work suggested I wait until October, as that is when the new gear comes out for the holiday sales.
I looked some more today at Asus Transformer and Samsung Galaxy 10 reviews. If the keyboards were cheaper, it would make for an easier decision. I noticed a few reviews state that some tablets are top heavy and can fall over with a docked keyboard. It kinda bothers me that here is only 1 gig of ram. Does that afect performance ?
I'm still thinking about which one to buy. Not going to make a snap judgement on this one. As for keyboards, small ones... don't like small width keyboards, left to right width I mean. One I saw on walmart's web site, for the iPad, had the sd card slot, and usb ports... I just don't see the 180 dollars being worth it.
For me it will be price of the device and a keyboard. Weight isn't an issue for me. Evidently the local Wal-Mart carries neither, but the closest Best Buy has the Asus Transformer. Speed that it loads a pdf is important. Page turning speed and number of bookmarks available is also.
I want to learn how to use Maptools as my players have told me they want to game again. Probably just need to sit down one day or two and go over it and learn how to use it. I have a web site of close to two thousand maps if anyone would like a link to them. About 200 of them from my old earlier d&d campaign. All of them are free. They come in pngs and campaign Cartographer 3 fcw files. I'll post the link if anyone is interested. Note that I do have some google ads on my site, but no popups nor huge banners. There are no stats on any of the monsters on the site, and only a few characters have partial stats. So they are very generic.
This might get me to buy an iPad, and I could use sompething like this to run my campaign without carrying all my books and maps.
It is just for my use. I haven't written an app, but I would like to know if a particular ereader would work best for bookmarking and getting around in the Pathfinder pdfs I bought and downloaded. I have an Astak 5" EZReader, B&W only. Pandigital Novel 6", B&W only. And a Barnes and Noble Color Nook. I loaded the 500 plus page pdf onto my nook to read it. I noticed the pages load rather slowly. Appears to be the background page edge graphics. I'll be using it in game as a player. Probably the individual chapters would work better, they were also part of my paid download. Anyone know if those would work, or is there a better, inexpensive ereader ( under 200 dollars US), that can handle quickly moving from page to page via bookmarks ? Thanks.
I would love to find a Word, or plain text, version of the basic character sheet like the one I downloaded as a pdf when I bought the pdf version of Pathfinder rpg. I have Open Office 3.3, EditPadLite, and NoteTabLight. I searched the forums, and couldn't find one. Thanks ! |