Bill the barbarian

That would be my number one reason right there, now combine that with the price of a shield vs broadsword and it makes it bit of sense.

That’s tom foolery to you my good sir, and alas, you will see very little of that in my quite very proper character, Illhaveyaknow!

Why does Wiley Coyote spring to mind, holding an umbrella bought from the Acme Catalogue™, of course, against the falling cliffside?

The only thing better than curiosity is an answer, so, when are ya going ta buy me my own set, huh when? Aw, c’mon... Puhleeze!

Well, I suppose, that "only answer" along with the other obvious "only answer™" given by soltakss above... Ook* ...an orang-utan librarian who is a sorcerer warped by his long proximity to L-Space. Let’s face it, as the mighty wikipedia opines, the only reason the librarian has not got his own book is that a protagonist whose entire inner monologue consists solely of “ook” might get tedious. * and on an even more tediously pedantic note... ook is associated with owls up here in the north. as befits the topic: Pedantically yours! Conan the librarian! CHEERS!

Whatchewtalkingaboutwillis?

Being OCR reproductions, do they have ToC with hypertext links and are they searchable? Ain’t I inquisitive? Cheers

As did that fine pic of the baboon troop!

Hey, all! Ya know, I don’t have a horse running in this race. But as a neutral can I say, that at 10 pages of possible bruised egos, fights and silliness this is quite a well behaved discourse. Bravo!

Yes that’s the one. That recent, eh? It’s a terrible thing when a man loses his mind at such a young age.

I got it, nice to be busy but I am surprised at how fast it happened. Thanks for the tips and I will see what I can put together. And expect that character I promised wednesday, I would be recovered from the week from hell, (ending with a 12 hour day AND a union meeting... so hard to stay awake) by then I will ask Richard S to consider the same idea for map creation with PS, and layers! (I like the idea!). Cheers

I think it is fair to say it is a little more difficult to use than photoshop but it seems to work and the price is right.

Bravo, all the maps of Notchet I have seen from the last couple of decades seem to one and the same. Old age prevents the memories from being accurate, Maybe the past decade. I first saw it on Glorantha.com and loved what I saw. The latest I have seen was a colour one from this past year. no? In any case, now I have a major request, jajagappa. The forum I created for DIY in Allastor's Inn (https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/10925-diy-your-way-to-olg-or-even-brp-bliss/?tab=comments#comment-162562) needs a bump in my humble opinion. Would you mind either describing this process of creating maps in a presentation software app there or at least let me know of any ‘net sources describing how in general terms to do this you have used as I would be attempting this in Mac’s free program and I will try to put something together for it in in my free week ahead. Cheers

Pshaw, thanks for the interest and if it causes you to run a game, that would be great! If you simply enjoy GIMP and later go on to benefit others in ways hitherto unthought of, we will want a substantial cut. Cheers

Interesting, I mean, the almost default human darkness and Uzphile cult is Argan Argar, but it is not a close fit here. An argument could be made for a hooman being almost as good as a good “Value Trollkin” and if said warrior was a spearman it would narrow the differences so there is your death and darkness... Again, interesting, I am looking forward to seeing what folk come up with for an answer to your question. Two fifty for an eyeballAnd a buck and a half for an earHappy hour, happy hourHappy hour is here Either The Tragically Hip or a great Troll cover band!

A free and near as powerful solution (with a name ya have to hide from mom) is GIMP, Graphic Image Manipulation Program. Mind you, if you are saying you are not sure of your comfort level for involvement neither of these ideas are “easy”. Which is also true of using tag formatting PbF sites, for that matter..

ook, ook!

Me too. Check the signature below... Again my good man, leave the dangerous puns for the pros, ducks and needless to say, but let’s say it anyway, the Barbarians! ROTFLMAO! Cloud64 will be along shortly, soltakss. Hi CLoud64, wassup? See the damage you have caused; you naughty, naughty Joerg!

Nice to know that not only do I know what I am talking about, but I am an optimist to boot! That is twice as fast as I thought. It makes me think of what I used to know of as old grognards when I was a young gamer. The folk that would play large sections of Napoleonic campaigns (these grognards were actually gorgnards by the etymology of the word) by real post. They would set up their tables and maps and then mail in their moves to a ref who would respond and this would continue for months with great armies maneuvering (trundling being a little more accurate, like some deranged party of bulls) until the ref determined conditions existed for engagement (sounds like RQ G, no?) If the posts were close enough they would meet at a local con and play the engagement. I got to sub in as a proxy once for a player that could not make the tourney... We were expecting a prussian column to reinforce us from the southeast when we were told a column of blue uniformed soldiers were approaching from the definite east... You guessed it, La Francais.... Retreat, we saved our forces (spending the better part of the day in the game) and the game returned to the normal long bouts of mailings. The folks loved it... bury em with their campaign boos on. and all is will with the world.

Yes but with rpggeek taking so long to format a post it is well worth it for a few paragraphs of text responding to multiple people to either know your tag formatting or be good at cut and pasting from multiple open windows. ... I suppose one could agree no formatting for the combat phases to speed things up. But even then, one will want to reply and that takes a bit of time unless one one wants to quote 7 paragraphs worth of text to say yes to a post here and a no to a point there. Jajagappa knows what I mean but for those of you not old enough to remember when tag formatting was the norm (the 70s) and who do not write html or css "Tag Formatting" is incredibly powerful in options of how the text responds to your orders, but other that a few graphics radio buttons most commands are cut and pasted from examples one likes or written in hypertext style. In real life gaming, I am map agnostic. I can play (and prefer to play) in a Theatre of the Mind suspension of reality. But damn it, the maps in RQ have always been so good. Leaving me agnostic. If I have a beautiful map I will use it. In a game of typed text I like a little bit of colour in the way of a great narrative, a beautiful pic, or a map that explains a lot, like in a "the 1000 words equalling a picture" kind of way. jajagappa balances that well and it is a skill I will have to master in order to not have a game collapse from the sheer weight of walls of text online. Anyway, jajagappa, does that explain my reluctance to running what could easily be a 5 minute running battle (5 minutes times 5 MRs equals 25 MRs or one RQ Turn) of duel, tactically move to a new spot, duel, repeat as needed, retreat due to a set back and resume duel with updated spells. In a post a day could take near a month. in a post every 5 minutes with everyone agreeing to meet up online at at the same bat time on the same bat channel. Well that could be 25 flurries of posts at 5 minutes of space between each flurry, I am seeing a couple of hours on a great day (on a bad day?) for something I described in one run-on sentence. Start having to format the text, which will be very mandatory at some points (like dialogue requiring coloured text to make it easier to find and quotes being formatted in another way) and ones post gains another layer of complexity. Give me an idea of what an RQ combat could look like online, perhaps, jajagappa. That is the one area that bothers me with RQ online and I doubt i would be satisfied, never mind happy, with an HQ like combat (opposed rolls ) to speed up an RQ game. Cheers

Forums at rpggeek do everything well, just not easily. Should I run a game it will be there (with the following caveat). My only problem with the lack of ease is it will not work for RQ combat which will need something easier and much faster to make a point in. That is why I am seeking a good chat room with rolls and the ability to place pics...

Sigh.

I have no doubts about the Imtherians and them being civilized.No as I said, this creates a different paradigm. I f one is not using Imther there are fewer folk who might claim to be paragons of civilization that one might likely find in the Elder Wilds

And here we are with the standard situation, way to many players and no one stepping up to run a game. One person who might run if he had the right conditions and players but no one is being picky. Everyone is just saying, I will play, oh what to do?

That just seems wrong, I understand Imther as a home base changes the equation from the norm it's just—those terms, civilized and Elder Wilds... seems wrong together.