Darkwood--OOC commentary/discussion

[Menolly]

Well hello there! Nice... nickname.

If you think Khalida's nickname are nice, you should read her story and the rest of the troika's tales in the Vampire: the Requiem threads. My first attempt at a WoD game. G-ds, I miss it.

Loremaster had me eating out of his hand...
Well...being that it was Khalida, perhaps not necessarily his hand.
*Sorry Vyn...NOT*

[Annalysei]

I love that there's a mother and a son playing. It brings a smile to my little geeky heart. My six year old already pwns n00bs on video games, so it's only a matter of time before I introduce him to D&D. *sniffle*

[Kalindriel Ec'urb]

*Sorry Vyn...NOT*

I sense a "MO-ooo-OM!" moment.

[Menolly]

*Sorry Vyn...NOT*

I sense a "MO-ooo-OM!" moment.

Aye.
Me too.
I am merely awaiting it.

[Goatkiller666]

I love that there's a mother and a son playing. It brings a smile to my little geeky heart. My six year old already pwns n00bs on video games, so it's only a matter of time before I introduce him to D&D. *sniffle*

I can imagine it now:

• Ellie: Child, let me show you this pen-and-paper game, D&D.
  Child: Isn't that the game they based those ancient video games on, Neverwinter's Nights and Baldur's Gate? Gawd, that's so last millenium, Mom. do you have anything more recent?"

Just be sure NOT to try to introduce 4th edition.

<long, curse-filled rant removed, for the children>

[Annalysei]

I love that there's a mother and a son playing. It brings a smile to my little geeky heart. My six year old already pwns n00bs on video games, so it's only a matter of time before I introduce him to D&D. *sniffle*

I can imagine it now:

• Ellie: Child, let me show you this pen-and-paper game, D&D.
  Child: Isn't that the game they based those ancient video games on, Neverwinter's Nights and Baldur's Gate? Gawd, that's so last millenium, Mom. do you have anything more recent?"

Just be sure NOT to try to introduce 4th edition.

<long, curse-filled rant removed, for the children>

Don't forget "Wait, I have to ADD? And SUBTRACT? In MY HEAD?!?!"

[Goatkiller666]

That part can be done by computer, still.

I can't wait until I can buy one of THESE.

[Annalysei]

That part can be done by computer, still.

I can't wait until I can buy one of THESE.

Holy....*brain desplodes* WANT. WANT. WANT!!!

[Menolly]

*stolen for posting on Facebook with a long, drawn out "Ooo..."*

[Seven Words]

*geekgasm*

[Goatkiller666]

Hrm. I wonder if the iPad could be set up to allow for remote gaming / map stuff?

If only I were a real programmer... I saw a book at B&N for iPhone / iPad application development. It can't be THAT hard, right? Right?

Kali, that's our new project!

[Goatkiller666]

www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/Pages/H ... ToBuy.aspx

Only $12,500 for the surface, by the way. If you have a valid Tax ID. They don't sell to consumers, only companies. Not that it's hard to get a Tax ID.

[Annalysei]

Only 12,500? Why, that's pocket change! Here, let my just grab one of these white bags with a green dollar sign that I have lying around in my living room. And after that, I'm going to swim in my coin vault a la Scrooge McDuck.

[Goatkiller666]

Well, since the condo fell through, we're getting back our down payment. I could do it. It would mean we couldn't get the NEXT place we want, but... I'd have a Surface. I wouldn't mind.

As long as the spouse didn't get it in the divorce.

(Can you get a prenup, after you're married?)

[Sigrid]

No. You can't. Ass.

[Menolly]

Hyperception was telling me about the Arcos 9 PC tablet, which he seems more enthused about than the iPad. Any chance something like that can be modified?

[Goatkiller666]

If someone wrote an app for it. Probably the Microsoft Surface OS is a modified flavor of the Tablet OS that the Arcos 9 is running. So I'd imagine that it would be easy to port over.

And by "easy" I mean that it would only take a few weeks of solid work for the programmers who did that to tweek the code to make it useful on the Arcos 9.

With the iPad, I saw a thing about a group version of scrabble, where the iPad is the main (publicly viewable) board. Then, each player also has an iPhone / iPod Touch, with their own private tiles on them. And it's all networked together into one game.

I think that the iPhone / iPad architecture pretty easily allows for that kind of networking. Doing it as a Windows Tablet app would be more cumbersome.

[Menolly]

While not nearly as sophisticated as the Surface app, there is always maptool and hamachi for remote gaming, yes? That was the method Xar, Mephiston and I were going to use for the Twin Worlds campaign Xar was going to run for us off of the Watch...

[Kalindriel Ec'urb]

I'm working on a web-based app right now for better map viewing. There are probably several tools we could use, but this is more fun for me, and we'll be able to customize it for our needs.

[Menolly]

As long as Vyn can see the maps eventually.

They show up fine on the laptop, but on his netbook, in both Firefox and IE, they refuse to load. Good thing his blasts have such long range.