Confrontation?

[Slave to Darkness]

Downloaded the file, phone won't open 'bin' files. What the hell's a bin file? Ooooh you kids with your new tech and hippity hop music...

 

[ManicMan]

bin is an old format now still in use, its a binary file but I don't see why it would be a bin file.

 

[MichaelStockin]

Downloaded the file, phone won't open 'bin' files. What the hell's a bin file? Ooooh you kids with your new tech and hippity hop music...

It is a PDF when I go to the link... ?

 

[Slave to Darkness]

Yea pdf when I go to the link but bin file as it downloads. Confusing the hell outta me.

 

[ManicMan]

huh.. should be PDF. you're downloader doesn't seam to want to download it right.. probebly an issue of what happens when you use a phone for computer work ^_^

 

[Slave to Darkness]

Yea probably the phone, cheap bag o crap.

 

[Fimm McCool]

I wish someone would write an app for confrontation calculations, then we could actually play it!

 

[Slave to Darkness]

Don't look at me, I'm retarded, I still suck my paint brushes.

 

[ManicMan]

I wish someone would write an app for confrontation calculations, then we could actually play it!

.... android? pc? I'm not an expert but they aren't too hard..

 

[Fimm McCool]

Android of course. And I'll have a Woods one whilst you're at it.

 

[ManicMan]

Already thinking about a woods one and working on planning bits.
First job is always to write the project scope. What it HAS to feature, what it would be NICE to feature etc. Woods is far easier to work on that bit for then Confrontation but I think can I rough out a list

 

[dieselmonkey]

I wish someone would write an app for confrontation calculations, then we could actually play it!

I playtested it back in the day and did some store demo games, we just scribbled on bits of paper, lol.

 

[Brother Meredith]

Android of course. And I'll have a Woods one whilst you're at it.

On Saturday’s TWITWU game, the objective was the sacred runic calculator (i.e. an Excel list to figure out our stats…)

 

[Brother Meredith]

On Saturday’s TWITWU game, the objective was the sacred runic calculator (i.e. an Excel list to figure out our stats…)

NGL something like an attractive app would totally transform the accessibility of the game?

 

[Fimm McCool]

NGL something like an attractive app would totally transform the accessibility of the game?

I have been asking around for a few years. I don't think it's actually that inaccessible, but the presentation of data is key.

 

[Brother Meredith]

I have been asking around for a few years. I don't think it's actually that inaccessible, but the presentation of data is key.

Please don’t take that comment as a criticism. I was simply rather overwhelmed by the presentation of the stat calculations when I started, it made more sense as we started to play. Am sure that automating some of the (admittedly simple!) mental arithmetic would make the game a little easier to pick up.

 

[Eric]

.... android? pc? I'm not an expert but they aren't too hard..

Progressive Web Application (PWA) is the easiest path - you can then run it on any "mobile/tablet" type platform as long as you have Internet access and it's just HTML/JS so nothing out of the ordinary.

Doing "sums" (and me not being that gifted) was always one reason I quite liked the idea of dice pool style mechanics where you always needed say 5+ on D6s and modifiers simply added or removed dice from the pool thereby increasing or decreasing your odds of getting at least one 5+ (for instance). I wonder if that 3rd party online WFB rule set recently discussed had anything automating some of the sums?

 

[Fimm McCool]

Please don’t take that comment as a criticism. I was simply rather overwhelmed by the presentation of the stat calculations when I started, it made more sense as we started to play. Am sure that automating some of the (admittedly simple!) mental arithmetic would make the game a little easier to pick up.

No offence taken. That's kinda what I meant. If you're presented with the stats in a visual way that shows how they fit together it makes sense. Presented with them as a list they look far more cryptic and scary mathematics!