Laptop DM - What do I need?

[DMFTodd]

I'm not sure what you mean about buffs/nerfs,

Buff: To increase or make better. "Bull's STR buff's my STR"
Nerf: To decrease or make worse. "Spider poison nerfed my Dex!"

I would highly recommend putting a stacking calculator into DMF.

I would highly recommend that we don't presume to know what is best for each other.

I certainly don't want to appear derogatory

Then you should probably stop insinuating that your competitors' products don't work.

 

[mafisto]

... I think that DMGenie has the same problem. I understand that casting something like Bull's Strength multiple times in DMGenie just continues to stack up your Str higher and higher.
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Not like I'm an official DMGenie spokesman or anything, but it doesn't blindly stack spell effects. In the case of Bull's Strength, you can have the spell as a condition or not -- no stacking.

I can't speak for every effect, but the program does seem to stack intelligently to some degree.

 

[Luke]

Buff: To increase or make better. "Bull's STR buff's my STR"
Nerf: To decrease or make worse. "Spider poison nerfed my Dex!"

I would highly recommend that we don't presume to know what is best for each other.

Then you should probably stop insinuating that your competitors' products don't work.

Fair enough. It was about 3:00AM for me, and I could could certainly have been a bit more careful with some word choices.
I certainly don't mean they don't work. As I said, irrespective of of anything else, there must certainly be plenty of users getting great use out of DMF and others.
Just trying to point out difficulties with doing partial rules calculation, and that people can easily put blind trust into something where complexity is being managed for them, without realizing whats going on.
Just trying to suggest that we developers can raise the bar for supporting the D&D/D20 community, in ways that could work very well.

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Not like I'm an official DMGenie spokesman or anything, but it doesn't blindly stack spell effects. In the case of Bull's Strength, you can have the spell as a condition or not -- no stacking.

I can't speak for every effect, but the program does seem to stack intelligently to some degree.

Okay. Somebody posted a "check out DMGenie" in an RPM fan forum, and this issue came up - along with a Bull's Strength example.
I felt compelled to check it out, and downloaded DMGenie to go through the example. Str seemed to just stack continually. I certainly wouldn't repeat something like that without checking it out myself, though I'm not very familiar with DMG and its quite possible that something could have been done. I couldn't see anywhere in the rules configuration where the *type* of a bonus was recorded along with its value. If thats the case, then its pretty well impossible to process stacking rules correctly.

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I guess that 3rd edition rules mechanics are good enough and important enough to me to have put all the effort that I have into RPM. As Todd and I have discussed before, doing RPG software about passion for it, and not really about trying to make money.
i don't want to step on anyone's toes, and kudos to *anybody* producing anything that enhances the gaming life of us all!

 

[noretoc]

Well, I have been using DMgenie at the table for a few weeks now, and like it alot. It has many features which I always wanted to keep track of, but never had the time. I love the time keeping feature, where you can keep track of the date, and time. It generate weather for you, and moon phases, and really give you the feeling of continuity. But to be fair, I just downloaded RPM and installed it to try it our and it errored on me. Wouldn't run. Now I am sure that many other people have it running fine, so it must be a problem with my install or comp setup, but it is a bit of a neg hit, when the other software runs fine and one dosen't right off the bat. I fired an email to Luke, and hope that I can get it figured out to give it a try. Unless RPM is really top notch though, it will be hard to beat out DMGenie.

 

[Malchior]

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[Malchior]

Luke keeps telling us how wonderful RPM is, and the RPM website seems to suggest the same, but there is one problem... I can't download it!

I'm running a 2.6GHz/256MB PC on a cable modem (in Canada) and whenever I try to download it from the RPM site I average transfer speeds in the hundreds of _bytes_ or low KBs. It suggests it will take 5 hours, and keeps timing out after DLing the first few hundred KB! I've tried numerous times, on multiple computers, always with the same problem.

Is anyone else experiencing this difficulty now, or is it just me (and the three computers I tried it on). Someone on the RPM Yahoo group suggested it might because of a virus on the weekend affecting internet traffic, but I don't buy that. I have no trouble DLing large files from other sites (DLed the OpenOffice suite @ 65MB).

I emailed Luke to ask if there was a mirror site to DL his prog, or if there would be, and he said no. Searches of Google turn up only his site as a host. Is there a problem with the Cyberstreet servers?

Is it possible to find this program (in it's latest release) anywhere else? Otherwise, I will have to go with a competing program simply because I can't get the one that is supposed to be the "best".

 

[Luke]

I emailed Luke to ask if there was a mirror site to DL his prog, or if there would be, and he said no. Searches of Google turn up only his site as a host. Is there a problem with the Cyberstreet servers?

I was dead slow for me too yesterday. There were numerous timeouts on the ENWorld message boards and even cyberstreet itself.

Viruses may have been clogging up pipes to certain parts of the world, without others being aware.

Seems to be okay now...

 

[Malchior]

Sorry about the triple-post everyone. Because of the problems bbeing experienced by the board it seemed like nothing was being sent. Then I saw the message about the boards being shut down for a while because of the virus.

It seems that the good folks at ENworld ere able to clear up not only the message boards, but the other parts of the site as well, and I was finally able to download RPM. I was getting frustrated, because it sounds so good, but I couldn't try it. Now I have it, I'll put it through it's paces for my demanding campaign.

IMHO, however, I think what happened to the boards annd the site brings up an important consideration. It might be useful for anyone offering a program for download to have it mirrored at another site (if possible) for just such an occasion.

NEway, let's see how this baby handles.

 

[tm80401]

Are there any DM aid programs that run on Linux? Or on a Mac?