PDA Adventures
"Dark Deciever" e-mailed me the other day, explaining that he runs his RPM adventures from his PDA, and asking me to put some links in. Excellent idea! Wish I'd thought of it...
If you have a Palm or Windows CE handheld, but can't use a full desktop at the gaming table, you can copy your HTML "Adventure" report to your PDA, and use it by viewing in your browser!
To support this great idea, I've restructured the "Adventure" report to be more PDA-friendly. There are now lots of links for jumping between adventure details, maps, encounter groups and full statblocks.
Check out this adventure in an browser window about 3 inches across and 4 inches down to get a feel for using a PDA adventure.
Free Adventure Download
A new adventure download is available from the download section. The "Burning Sage's Demense" is a quality ENNIE winner, entered into RPM, complete with maps, locations, story plot, details, encounter creatures etc. You can use it in the following ways:
- Modify it if required to suit your own adventure campaign and play group.
- Simply print out the adventure and take your notes to the gaming table.
- Save the "Adventure" web page report to your PDA and play it from that.
- Use RPM in-game for full Battlemap and adventure lookups.
- Use RPM in-game and make full use of combat and encounter management facilities.
Adventure Builder
I've done a fair bit of work on the "Adventure Builder". The user interface for managing the tree-view of adventure detail has some issues fixed up, and is now far more intuitive to use.
Survey Results
I've done some initial analysis on the survey responses to questions about RPM. These are to give me an idea on what to prioritize for future work.
*** From 24 questions, the top 5 items are:
- Desire for improvement to reports. This has already started.
- Want downloads. This ha already started. I suspect people mostly want the copyright splatbook stuff, though.
- Speed improvements. I'm not yet sure which areas this is important in.
- Overall usefulness of RPM. Glad to see I'm doing the right things!
- Better info lookup. Addressed very clearly in the latest update.
*** The 5 lowest scorers are:
- Networking.
- On-line play.
- TileMapper improvements.
- Etools imports (big surprize here!)
- More combat features.
I've still got a lot of text replies to sort through!
Update Available
The latest update is available at http://www.roleplayingmaster.com
"Dark Deciever" e-mailed me the other day, explaining that he runs his RPM adventures from his PDA, and asking me to put some links in. Excellent idea! Wish I'd thought of it...
If you have a Palm or Windows CE handheld, but can't use a full desktop at the gaming table, you can copy your HTML "Adventure" report to your PDA, and use it by viewing in your browser!
To support this great idea, I've restructured the "Adventure" report to be more PDA-friendly. There are now lots of links for jumping between adventure details, maps, encounter groups and full statblocks.
Check out this adventure in an browser window about 3 inches across and 4 inches down to get a feel for using a PDA adventure.
Free Adventure Download
A new adventure download is available from the download section. The "Burning Sage's Demense" is a quality ENNIE winner, entered into RPM, complete with maps, locations, story plot, details, encounter creatures etc. You can use it in the following ways:
- Modify it if required to suit your own adventure campaign and play group.
- Simply print out the adventure and take your notes to the gaming table.
- Save the "Adventure" web page report to your PDA and play it from that.
- Use RPM in-game for full Battlemap and adventure lookups.
- Use RPM in-game and make full use of combat and encounter management facilities.
Adventure Builder
I've done a fair bit of work on the "Adventure Builder". The user interface for managing the tree-view of adventure detail has some issues fixed up, and is now far more intuitive to use.
Survey Results
I've done some initial analysis on the survey responses to questions about RPM. These are to give me an idea on what to prioritize for future work.
*** From 24 questions, the top 5 items are:
- Desire for improvement to reports. This has already started.
- Want downloads. This ha already started. I suspect people mostly want the copyright splatbook stuff, though.
- Speed improvements. I'm not yet sure which areas this is important in.
- Overall usefulness of RPM. Glad to see I'm doing the right things!
- Better info lookup. Addressed very clearly in the latest update.
*** The 5 lowest scorers are:
- Networking.
- On-line play.
- TileMapper improvements.
- Etools imports (big surprize here!)
- More combat features.
I've still got a lot of text replies to sort through!
Update Available
The latest update is available at http://www.roleplayingmaster.com
