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Dînadan MoMe Underlord


Main Army: Alkalabeth Posts: 962 Reputation: 7 Join date: 2009-09-02 Age: 21 Location: South Wales
 | Subject: LotR RPG Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:36 am | |
| _________________  | House wrote: | | Religion isn't the opium of the masses, it's the placebo. |
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Racssirt Resident Tech Whizz


Main Army: Isengard Uruk-Hai Posts: 109 Reputation: 1 Join date: 2009-09-01 Age: 17 Location: Sheffield, UK
 | Subject: Re: LotR RPG Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:12 pm | |
| Cool, but from the looks of things, kinda dead... 'tis a shame, I know from experience that projects like this need a real devoted team (with a lot of spare time) to make progress. Having said that, the character sheets look pretty snazzy. If I had the time, I'd try it out but alas, apathy reigns supreme  |
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Red Corsairs MoMe Overlord


Main Army: Gondor Posts: 970 Reputation: 14 Join date: 2009-08-31 Location: Market Deeping
 | Subject: Re: LotR RPG Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:51 pm | |
| I've never really had the time for RPG's but I have played a couple before and they are good fun. It's just a shame this RPG is pretty dead like Racssirt pointed out, if it weren't for that it might have been what I needed to get into RPG's. Not that I have the time for even more games... _________________ Regards, Jake.  |
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Racssirt Resident Tech Whizz


Main Army: Isengard Uruk-Hai Posts: 109 Reputation: 1 Join date: 2009-09-01 Age: 17 Location: Sheffield, UK
 | Subject: Re: LotR RPG Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:01 pm | |
| Don't knock 'em 'till you've tried 'em I say, though I'll agree about making time for them. Worthwhile for definite if you've got a good community behind it  |
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Dînadan MoMe Underlord


Main Army: Alkalabeth Posts: 962 Reputation: 7 Join date: 2009-09-02 Age: 21 Location: South Wales
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Racssirt Resident Tech Whizz


Main Army: Isengard Uruk-Hai Posts: 109 Reputation: 1 Join date: 2009-09-01 Age: 17 Location: Sheffield, UK
 | Subject: Re: LotR RPG Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:07 pm | |
| Agreed, I tried on the WoM forums with Suladan and that failed, and then again with a personal project of my own which came to no success... 'twas a good learning curve, if you can get the people for it who won't dwindle out then I'm sure its great  |
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Dînadan MoMe Underlord


Main Army: Alkalabeth Posts: 962 Reputation: 7 Join date: 2009-09-02 Age: 21 Location: South Wales
 | Subject: Re: LotR RPG Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:11 pm | |
| I have seen a method that works partially, although it's not so much an RPG as it is a collabourative storywriting exercise. That said, I've never tried it with combat and to be honest don't think it would work for that very well. _________________  | House wrote: | | Religion isn't the opium of the masses, it's the placebo. |
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Racssirt Resident Tech Whizz


Main Army: Isengard Uruk-Hai Posts: 109 Reputation: 1 Join date: 2009-09-01 Age: 17 Location: Sheffield, UK
 | Subject: Re: LotR RPG Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:17 pm | |
| Combat is awkward and requires a lot of coding/automation which you just can't do using something like Proboards as I discovered  Getting a Java turn-based system was one thing, integrating it into forum posts was a whole 'nother problem... that said, it didn't work  |
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Dînadan MoMe Underlord


Main Army: Alkalabeth Posts: 962 Reputation: 7 Join date: 2009-09-02 Age: 21 Location: South Wales
 | Subject: Re: LotR RPG Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:20 pm | |
| I suppose that combat could be done via a chatroom, with players posting their actions and then the GM rolling dice for them, but to keep things clear, you'd have to reign in the banter between the players which is half the fun of RPGs played sitting arround the table :/ _________________  | House wrote: | | Religion isn't the opium of the masses, it's the placebo. |
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Racssirt Resident Tech Whizz


Main Army: Isengard Uruk-Hai Posts: 109 Reputation: 1 Join date: 2009-09-01 Age: 17 Location: Sheffield, UK
 | Subject: Re: LotR RPG Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:33 pm | |
| Yeah, it's a social-based thing I guess which would in theory would work on a forum, but in practice you spend many days waiting for someone to reply  And like you said, you lose the banter and also the spontaneity of actions etc. |
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