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I am potentially interested. More details would be nice when you have them.

I'm going to go ahead and post the full details on this so everyone knows what I am up to. These demo's are intended to expose those interested in Fantasy Grounds who do not have a license a chance to check it out. I am leaving the option of having this turn into a regular, weekly/bi-weekly campaign if some wish to carry on. I have an Ultimate License so there would be no requirement to purchase a licensed copy in order to participate. You would need to download the Unregistered Version and install it to connect though (details for doing this will be added to the bottom of my post).

It will be based in HARN using the Rolemaster ruleset for Fantasy Grounds BUT is homebrewed to mirror HarnMaster as much as possible. I even reworked the information in the ruleset to use Harnmaster's skills.

If it turns into a regular campaign, the title will be Knights of Belsirasin and background information can be found here.

NOTE: Mature players only.

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For those who may not be familiar with it, getting involved in an online RPG game using the Fantasy Grounds II Virtual Table Top program is relatively easy.

Here are the basic steps:

1) Download & install FG from:
Fantasy Grounds II Installer/Setup File (about 50MB)

2) Watch the player quickstart video to learn the basics of the UI (ignore the portions that are specific to the D&D 4ed rules):
4E Player Quickstart

3) Launch FG sometime anytime before your 1st actual designated game night and hit the button "Check for updates" to get the latest fixes (Note: the un-registered version does not always update this way but as long as you download the latest version in #1 above you should have the latest).

4) On the designated game night and time, launch FG and hit "Join Game". Type whatever username you want to use and type the alias for the GM's server in the host address (this will either be an IP Address or a 4 word combination depending what the GM gives you).

5) Upon connection, everything you need to play will be automatically downloaded to your machine in a cache file. It could take a few minutes to download everything, depending on your connection speed and the ruleset involved. You will eventually be shown a list of characters to pick from. You would either use a character you have created earlier working one on one with the GM or if you have a full license FG copy you can select one you have created on your local machine and that has been approved by the GM. You can also choose a pre-generated character the GM has created for you if you just wanna play without the pregame character generation headaches.

All game chat is text based in an incorporated chat screen (see previously posted screenshot) however some GM's do play using text chat combined with a voice chat program like Skype. I prefer text only to avoid confusion since we are not really face to face and I would never figure out who the heck is speaking based on hearing their voice. Plus, FG generates a text file on the GM's machine of everything entered into the chat screen to be used for AAR's an such.

More information will continue to be posted here "as I get my notes together".

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Time and Timezone?

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How is this going?

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Cheers, Konnel
KoDa RPG Games Site
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I'd be interested in joining if you have room.

I ask because I've decided the future of my Harn gaming lies in virtua. I had looked at FG previously and then again when FGII was released, but I don't like having to ask players to buy licenses and wasn't willing to pop for the full license myself. But... I'd be interested in knowing if Rolemaster was too complex for the medium or if the players had difficulty grokking it given the limitations of instructing. If the existing user base is sufficiently large enough to interest 2 or 3 players in HarnMaster and if I understand you correctly and an Ultimate license allows unlicensed clients to join I'd be interested in taking another look at it and developing a HM3 ruleset. I can prolly do the soft-coding but I know I'll need to recruit someone to do tokens and images. I don't want to hijack your thread so I'll prolly start one after I do a bit more research.

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Cheers, Konnel
KoDa RPG Games Site
Featured: Kèthîra ● Tékumel ● Mystara ● Greyhawk ● Lankhmar ● Kamakura.

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XML is the easy part. They're using Lua for scripting objects which prolly is where the learning curve comes in.

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Cheers, Konnel
KoDa RPG Games Site
Featured: Kèthîra ● Tékumel ● Mystara ● Greyhawk ● Lankhmar ● Kamakura.

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I have a couple of tutorials found and saved and will get around to looking at it in more depth - but I don't think I can look under the hood in the trial version, and $150 for the ultimate version is not possible right now. A bare bones sheet shouldn't prove problematical in any case - a simple routine to compare a random value to a selected value to determine simple success/failure that triggers a second random to determine Marginal/Critical value is likely the easiest route. Just make everything else narrative decisions and keep building on the sheet. If I'm correct, Lua would allow playerA to trigger a defense roll on playerB's sheet - I just really don't want to learn a new language to do it

I'm very interested in starting a virtual campaign, but I question whether buying into Fantasy Grounds for access to a community is a better choice than starting with a few diehards in IRC. To my mind, the only advantage is I don't have to require players to have mIRC or chatzilla if they want a scripted interface (and the interface is required to insure confidence in the compatibility with campaign rules and other players). Perhaps I mean to say I am not confident I could get enough serious players to justify buying into even the basic GM-version of Fantasy Grounds. In any case, I'm 3 months away from being able to move on it.

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Cheers, Konnel
KoDa RPG Games Site
Featured: Kèthîra ● Tékumel ● Mystara ● Greyhawk ● Lankhmar ● Kamakura.