PBP advice/discussion

[Thanee]

Last (and only so far ) combat, from which that map linked in the above-linked post was taken, was 15 rounds, which were done in only one week. That was running pretty smooth.

Of course, I do one round at a time, with payers declaring actions at the beginning of the round, and I put them into context then in a summary.

I had opened an extra topic for combat action declaration (I do the game in a german forum, where every game has its own subforum) and in the IC there only are my one round summary posts (plus the regular out-of-combat IC, of course), this way the IC is very well readable still (there is no OOC in the IC thread at all (except for a wound status at the end of each combat round)).

Bye
Thanee

 

[Krug]

Whoa Thanee.. very nice!

 

[Creamsteak]

Not right now (it's 5:30 AM here, tired more than I've been in a long time), but when I'm able to access the boards regularly I can clear combat rounds really fast. That has a lot to do with me being impatient though, I like to handle 3-4 rounds of combat at a time once I'm comfortable with what the players are each going to do.

I don't have much to speak for right now though, my updates have been slowed down pretty bad for the past two weeks or so, and a week before that it wasn't too good either. But once I get back to my better PC and connection, I think I'll be going on a crazy updating spree (I'm REALLY excited by my dragonlance game and the two LEW adventures I have going that should end in a month/month and a half).

 

[Thanee]

Whoa Thanee.. very nice!

I like those maps, too. S'pose you're speaking of that.

They are fairly simple to do with some minimal understanding and a decent gfx program (like photoshop, paintshop pro, or the gimp (free)) to do the tiles (using existing pictures and just scale them properly, edit some, and that's it) and offer a great tactical overview. And once you have the icons, it's just some text editing to change positions and such, so updating the maps is a process of 1-2 minutes only.

And the script is free.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Orvallon]

Here is an example of how I'm doing my mapless combat. I keep pretty good track of what's going on, movement wise.

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=94425&page=4

The post is Round 5 - The Cleft Chin

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

(Hey, Brother Shatterstone. Just realized you've never been in a solo fight. We need to change that

Oh I have my own solo campaign where I'm the only player... I've hard lots of solo fighting so don’t do me any favors...

I make simple, ugly maps using Paint Shop Pro; useful since everything can be done as layers and with objects, so things can be moved around easily when you make updated maps.

I never thought your maps where ugly, but it doesn't matter there functional so what could one need?

Oh for all the mapmakers that uses attachments... The board is set up to limit you to 1 meg of total attachments so eventually you'll need to pull your old ones down...

People who use webspace and simply use the insert image tool will not encounter this error.

 

[Telsar]

Oh for all the mapmakers that uses attachments... The board is set up to limit you to 1 meg of total attachments so eventually you'll need to pull your old ones down...

I guess you do that by editing the original message? Hunting all those down will be a pain... I might switch to putting my maps on my webspace then, unless there's a quick way to 'clear' your attachments.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I guess you do that by editing the original message? Hunting all those down will be a pain... I might switch to putting my maps on my webspace then, unless there's a quick way to 'clear' your attachments.

Well I found it out the hard way the other day... When you run out of room you get an error and it gives you an option to click on a link and it will display all of your previous attachments…

Of course it may not work for normal users, I honestly do not know, because it could be tied into the search feature… :\

I’m at home right now and suffering the indigently of dial up so it will be a few before I can overload my attachments and get that link for you… (it’s in progress.)

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Okay... That didn't take to long, then again I think I made to posts in the mean time...

Anyhow looks like good news, I think it will work for the normal users.

Link

 

[Telsar]

Okay... That didn't take to long, then again I think I made to posts in the mean time...

Anyhow looks like good news, I think it will work for the normal users.

Link

Thanks. Cool and useful, except... it doesn't seem to have appreciated that I uploaded half a dozen maps each with the same name (round by round). It will only let me delete one of the six. But now that I know to use different names each time, it shouldn't be a problem. But I'll still need to track down those other 5 and try to delete with 'edit message'.

Edit: Correction, there are links to the messages on the page, so I don't need to track them, but... they're in a closed thread, which I presume is why it won't let me edit.