Foen Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 (edited) I have been working on documentation for the forthcoming BRP conversion to the Fantasy Grounds platform, and I thought it also works quite well as an overview of the product. I've finished the first of three sections (the players' guide) and attach it below. The remaining two sections are a GM's guide and a section on adapting the ruleset to work with your own BRP campaign. EDIT: The Gamemaster's Guide is now finished, and this gives a bit of a better oversight into the capabilities of this ruleset, including the treatment of hit locations. EDIT #2: The Adapting the Ruleset guide has been added, and this gives the full flavour of what can be achieved with this product. FoenBasic Roleplaying for Fantasy Grounds II - Players' Guide.pdfBasic Roleplaying for Fantasy Grounds II - Gamemaster's Guide.pdfBasic Roleplaying for Fantasy Grounds II - Adapting the Ruleset.pdf Edited February 8, 2010 by Foen Added Adapting the Ruleset Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies2720 Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 I have been working on documentation for the forthcoming BRP conversion to the Fantasy Grounds platform, and I thought it also works quite well as an overview of the product. I've finished the first of three sections (the players' guide) and attach it below. The remaining two sections are a GM's guide and a section on adapting the ruleset to work with your own BRP campaign. Cheers FoenWow, thanks for the document. I've skimmed through it & it looks great. I'll definitely check this out. Quote Bathalians, the newest UberVillians! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 I've added the gamemaster's guide to the initial post. It includes a bit more detail on hit locations. Foen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosenMcStern Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Really nice. You had several good ideas, I think this ruleset will turn out to be rather useable. Quote Proud member of the Evil CompetitionTM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 I've now added the final instalment in the User Guide, Adapting the Ruleset, giving details on how to modify the ruleset to work with different BRP genres and options. I'll separately post the full User Guide (including a correction to the way wounds operate). Cheers Foen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 I have been unable to upload the completed User Guide, with corrections to date, as the site refused to accept the pdf Foen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogspawner Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 I have been unable to upload the completed User Guide, with corrections to date, as the site refused to accept the pdf Over the size limit, perhaps? Quote Britain has been infiltrated by soviet agents to the highest levels. They control the BBC, the main political party leaderships, NHS & local council executives, much of the police, most newspapers and the utility companies. Of course the EU is theirs, through-and-through. And they are among us - a pervasive evil, like Stasi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 I don't know what the size limit is, but the file also failed to upload on another vBulletin forum (the Fantasy Grounds one) which has a PDF size limit of 3.8MB. The file is only 2MB. Oh well. Foen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atgxtg Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 This is looking really pretty. I wonder if it will be possible to tweak this for Pendragon? Quote Chaos stalks my world, but she's a big girl and can take of herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 IIRC Pendragon uses a D20 mechanic rather than a D100, in which case it would take more than a tweak to make it work. Other than that, I'm not sufficiently familiar with Pendragon to know how difficult it would be to implement. Foen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trifletraxor Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 I have been unable to upload the completed User Guide, with corrections to date, as the site refused to accept the pdf Foen Strange. What kind of error message do you get? It's usually around 8 Mb the files have to be uploaded by me manually, 2 Mb should go fine. SGL. Quote Ef plest master, this mighty fine grub! 116/420. High Priest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted February 10, 2010 Author Share Posted February 10, 2010 Apparently the file size exceeds the PDF limit for the forum. I attach a screen shot. Stuart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atgxtg Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 What extension does the file have? Quote Chaos stalks my world, but she's a big girl and can take of herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atgxtg Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 IIRC Pendragon uses a D20 mechanic rather than a D100, in which case it would take more than a tweak to make it work. Other than that, I'm not sufficiently familiar with Pendragon to know how difficult it would be to implement. Foen Yeah, Pendragon uses a d20 opposed mechanic for most rolls. Roll under skill, high roll wins. Some special adjustments for criticals, fumbles and such. I'm thinking that Fantasy Grounds might be a useful tool for handling solo adventures. For the most part, combat works like this: Both combatants roll against their skill, highest successful roll wins and inflicts damage on the loser.. 1) If the loser managed to roll under his skill it is a partial success and he gets his shield protection. 2) A roll of one's skill exactly is a critical, and does double damage. 3) A roll of a 20 is a fumble, and results in a broken or dropped weapon, UNLESS the character has a modified skill of 20 or more, in which case a 20 is a critical. 4) On a tie roll, a sword breaks a non-sword 5) on a 1, some weapons are dropped (flails) 6) if a character has a modified skill greater than 20 they can add the amount over 20 to their die rolls, increasing their chances of a critical. All in all, Pendragon is probably simpler than BRP, but it uses this simplicity so it can track Personality Traits and Passions. But, for the most part, once a player grasps the different die mechanic and opposed combat rolls, the rest of the system is close enough to BRP to grasp immediately. Quote Chaos stalks my world, but she's a big girl and can take of herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 What extension does the file have? The extension is .PDF Stuart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogspawner Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Does Fantasy Grounds support "Play-by-Post" style of game? i.e. where each player can log-in ad-hoc to make their moves/rolls/statements-of-intent, without the GM necessarily being on-line at the same time? Quote Britain has been infiltrated by soviet agents to the highest levels. They control the BBC, the main political party leaderships, NHS & local council executives, much of the police, most newspapers and the utility companies. Of course the EU is theirs, through-and-through. And they are among us - a pervasive evil, like Stasi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atgxtg Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 The extension is .PDF Stuart maybe you should try .pdf or .Pdf It shouldn't make a difference, but it just might be that the parameters are case sensitive. Computers are notorious for doing what they are programed to do instead of what we want them to do. Quote Chaos stalks my world, but she's a big girl and can take of herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 Does Fantasy Grounds support "Play-by-Post" style of game? i.e. where each player can log-in ad-hoc to make their moves/rolls/statements-of-intent, without the GM necessarily being on-line at the same time? Unfortunately it does not. It is intended to be a virtual gaming table, with character sheets, dice, maps, tokens etc, and doesn't have a standalone/non-GM mode. Stuart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogspawner Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Unfortunately it does not. It is intended to be a virtual gaming table, with character sheets, dice, maps, tokens etc, and doesn't have a standalone/non-GM mode. Shame. I wasn't really meaning 'stand-alone' with no GM, just that the GM/Players could visit at separate times. It is possible to do that as well as having all the VTT features you mention, e.g. RPGtonight. (NB: This is not a recommendation! Also unfortunately, that site is kludgy as heck - nice idea, though...) Quote Britain has been infiltrated by soviet agents to the highest levels. They control the BBC, the main political party leaderships, NHS & local council executives, much of the police, most newspapers and the utility companies. Of course the EU is theirs, through-and-through. And they are among us - a pervasive evil, like Stasi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trifletraxor Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Apparently the file size exceeds the PDF limit for the forum. I attach a screen shot. Stuart Could you email it to me? It would make it easier to figure out what's wrong, and I can upload it manually if necessary. trifletraxor @ basicroleplaying . com SGL. Quote Ef plest master, this mighty fine grub! 116/420. High Priest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted February 14, 2010 Author Share Posted February 14, 2010 Sent email: thanks SGL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trifletraxor Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Uploaded here. I'm not totally sure what the problem is. However, when I downloaded it from the email, the extension for the file got lost, making it impossible to upload. When I edited the filename to include the .pdf it uploaded smoothly. I don't know if this could be it, but at least it's up now: http://basicroleplaying.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=318 You're assigned the uploader, so you can edit the description as you like. The location to (I think, if not - tell me if you want it moved to another section). Cheers, Sverre. Quote Ef plest master, this mighty fine grub! 116/420. High Priest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted February 18, 2010 Author Share Posted February 18, 2010 Thanks Sverre! Stuart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foen Posted February 27, 2010 Author Share Posted February 27, 2010 Just a quick note to say that the user guide section on adapting the ruleset is actually a walkthrough for modifying it to be compatible with RuneQuest 3rd edition. Full User Guide Foen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pansophy Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 So, when is the ruleset coming out? It looks I really want it! Quote My Uploads - BRP and new: Revolution D100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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