Digital Arcanum 2.012

Epic Table - First Impressions

Recently I heard on Jennisodes, that there’s a new virtual gaming table available, but it’s still in Beta.

Epic Table

The interview sounded promising and since this recently gone into open Beta I downloaded and installed it.

Installation was fast and easy, everybody who ever installs something on a PC can do it easily.

It takes some time to start up (at least on my PC), but that is about consistent with MapTool.

More later

Setting rules for Guild Wars D&D

Unlike any houserules modifying characters, these rules are a basis to emulate the “Guild Wars effect”.

• Rests during travels
  Travel through the “wilderness” doesn’t allow for long enough rests to actually take an extended rest, so you can only take short rests outside outposts/towns.
• Maptravel
  Once you reached an Outpost/Town you learn the information of the place’s Teleport Circle, so you can travel with a simple Teleport Circle ritual from place to place. Some towns are situated in the middle of some conflicts and don’t have a Teleport Circle, which means no maptravel to these places.
• Sigils of Return
  I’m thinking of prividing PCs with some special symbols which they can use once per day to teleport themself (but not any other party members) to any already explored Outpost/Town

More later

Guild Wars for D&D 4 - basic design decisions

Another year, another try at playing D&D Guild Wars style.

Before I get into more details, here are some basic design decisions:

• No houserules that affect the character sheet.
  You still should be able to use the Character Builder for your characters
• No PvP, just PvE
  I don’t really like the PvP parts of Guild Wars, so I don’t really use them unless I am “forced” to.
• At first, humans only
  The nonhuman races from Eye of the North I’ll keep out of the plan for starters.

I guess I will expand these guidelines in the future.

New year, new try

Today it’s too late, but tomorrow I’l hopefully post something sensible I’ve done this day.