I proposed this over on the Fudge List, but it got swallowed up in the noise, so I'll bring it up over here where there's next to no chance of *that* happening. It came up in the context of the Fudge 10th Edition hardback (a/k/a "F10"), which if you haven't seen it has a rerun of the 1995 cover (for better or worse). Here's the post; since this isn't the Fudge List you can replace "version of Fudge" with plain ol' "roleplaying game". ----- Okay, here's how the train of thought went: "Yeah, there should have been dice on the cover of F10. Lots. Like, get Rene Schwietzke to do a version of the dice poster only in Fudge Dice. That would *rock*. 'Course, some people are dice-averse. What else says 'roleplaying game'? Hmm, some people call 'em pen-and-paper games. I dunno, I don't always have a pen and paper when I roleplay. Heck, right now, I play pencil-binder-clip-n-index-cards roleplaying games." So, for those of you who haven't already hit "next," here's the Index Card Challenge: make a sufficiently-complete version of Fudge that can be loaded on a PDA... a Hipster PDA. ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
Karen J. Cravens wrote: > So, for those of you who haven't already hit "next," here's the Index Card > Challenge: make a sufficiently-complete version of Fudge that can be > loaded on a PDA... a Hipster PDA. Which brings up the questions - which PDAs do people use? - what free-as-in-beer development environments are available for them? - since 'Hipster PDAs' these days are cell phones, how would that change the challenge? ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Steve Barr wrote: > Karen J. Cravens wrote: >> So, for those of you who haven't already hit "next," here's the Index Card >> Challenge: make a sufficiently-complete version of Fudge that can be >> loaded on a PDA... a Hipster PDA. > > Which brings up the questions > - which PDAs do people use? > - what free-as-in-beer development environments are available for them? > - since 'Hipster PDAs' these days are cell phones, how would that change > the challenge? See now, Karen, that's why I posted a link when you sent this to the Fudge list. :D http://merlin.blogs.com/43folders/2004/09/introducing_the.html -Bill Hamilton ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
Bill Hamilton wrote: > See now, Karen, that's why I posted a link when you sent this to the Fudge > list. :D > > http://merlin.blogs.com/43folders/2004/09/introducing_the.html Fascinating. That wouldn't work very well in the South. ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Steve Barr wrote: SB>Fascinating. That wouldn't work very well in the South. Cause after the wallet and the Skoal there's no pocket left for it? -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
Karen J. Cravens wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Steve Barr wrote: > > SB>Fascinating. That wouldn't work very well in the South. > > Cause after the wallet and the Skoal there's no pocket left for it? I was mainly thinking of the heat and humidity, but I do recall gaming with someone like that. It was not pretty to see him getting rid of the excess brown liquid which resulted into an empty soda bottle. ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Steve Barr wrote: SB>I was mainly thinking of the heat and humidity, but I SB>do recall gaming with someone like that. It was not SB>pretty to see him getting rid of the excess brown SB>liquid which resulted into an empty soda bottle. I'm in Kansas, which is far enough south for Skoal rings, so that was the first thing came to *my* mind... Come to that, we have heat and humidity here, too. That's not so much a concern for the roleplaying version, which you probably wouldn't be carrying about with you all the time... plus, I understand duct-tape covers are quite popular, and something along those lines would help with most of the humidity, at least. -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Steve Barr wrote: SB>- since 'Hipster PDAs' these days are cell phones Actually, they're not. Google the phrase... a Hipster PDA is a batch of index cards held together with a binder clip with (ideally) a Fisher Space Pen stylus. (I wouldn't know about the latter bit.) There's a bit more to it than that, but that's what's important for this purpose. At the moment, my Fudge "character sheet" is a whatever-that-nifty-Flash- character-picture-maker is picture, printed out on one card for a cover. Behind that, a card with name and attributes, then one for superpowers (it's a superhero game), then one for gifts/faults, one for skills, a couple blank ones for notes, and a semi-disposable one with a hitpoint track on it. I started thinking "put an entire game on index cards, with rules variations on different cards." But then that went to "each stack is a character sheet that contains all the rules necessary for that character (at least) right there." And then, of course, I start thinking "what happens if you scale down from 3x5 to 2.5x3.5," and that starts to get into CCG territory, and nobody wants that. -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
