Mac Users Identify Yourselves!

Any more ideas on that Mac gamers group?

Right now I'm looking for some decent mapping software - I'd love something akin to Hexmapper, because I don't need anything fancy - just quick and reasonably good-looking.

I'd use Hexmapper on the older PC, but I'm going to be giving it over to Linux...

J
 

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drnuncheon said:
Any more ideas on that Mac gamers group?
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I'd sure like to have one going. Even if it starts out just here on ENWorld.

Morrus is/was selling private boards. What about getting a Mac Users forum here on EN World. We can make it viewable for everyone to see, but you have to 'register' with the group to post. Something like that. If it ever gets big enough, we could transition to on official MUG.

Morrus was charging for those, but the cost I think would come to about $1/person/year. Or maybe he'd give us a free forum... :)
 

drnuncheon said:
Any more ideas on that Mac gamers group?

Right now I'm looking for some decent mapping software - I'd love something akin to Hexmapper, because I don't need anything fancy - just quick and reasonably good-looking.

I'd use Hexmapper on the older PC, but I'm going to be giving it over to Linux...

J
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Have you tried RPGMapMaker? It's not great, but it will do in a pinch...

http://perso.club-internet.fr/fmteau/rpgmapmaker/rpgmapmaker.htm
 


A quick look at the version history shows that there have been four updates since the beginning of the year... so if you haven't used it in at least that long, there maybe some new features for you.

--sam
 

Hi all,

I just found this thread as I too am looking for Mac friendly RPG software. I have been using Macs since 93 and have about 450 at my school that I am responsible for maintaining. I don't know anything about programming but I can usually figure out what's wrong with them and get them running again.

I have a brand shiny new G4 17" Powerbook that I just bought and love. It's running 10.3 and is working like a champ.

I have not yet looked into Crystal Ball but that seems to be the program of choice. I have used PCGen as some others have and I like it but I can't add things very easily to it so I am limited by it. I have used GMGen which now comes with PCGen for running some combat and stuff at the gaming table and it has helped for keeping track of spell durations and such but it is still a bit clunky.

It is good to see all these Mac users here :-)

**Starrie
 

I'm in the middle of learning Cocoa, I might try my hand at making a program. Are there any other people with any sort of programming skills? So far all I've done is added capability for TextEdit to link to sites and othe programs/files on the disk.
 

There's no "perfect" Macintosh char-gen system. As some have noted, PCGen is clonky. I also find it slow and the interface just seems to go on holiday every now and then without warning. It can be very frustrating to use. That said, it's definitely the choice for full control and point-buy character generation.

CrystalBall is very good at maintaining characters over time. It's frustrating to use for quick NPC generation -- mainly because getting it to provide you with a properly-formatted stat block is kind of a pain. I've been ragging on the developers to improve their stat block generation system for some time and a lot of progress has been made but it's still tedious. It does have a nice interface for generating new classes and so on.

For creating monster stat blocks, you can't beat "StatBlockPaster" -- a Konfabulator widget (by me) that just lets you select a beastie and then paste the stat block into any document.

http://www.widgetgallery.com/view.php?widget=35944

Knock yourselves out.
 

barsoomcore said:
For creating monster stat blocks, you can't beat "StatBlockPaster" -- a Konfabulator widget (by me) that just lets you select a beastie and then paste the stat block into any document.
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'Core, is there nothing you can't do?
 

Added Ferox4, Laslo Tremaine, Berandor, PugioilAudacio and Starrie to the list. Welcome!

We now number 40 members, almost halfway to where we need to be to get official sanction from Apple.

Sorry I've let this thread slip for awhile. I've been so wrapped up in the awesomeness that is 10.3.3 that my head is spinning. Or something.

I'm gonna link Morrus to this thread in Meta and see if we can beg him for a freebie forum as per Dimwhit's idea. Feel free to join in the begging :D

Jay

Edit: Here's a link to my begging post...

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