[freeroleplay] Re: Yags update

[Samuel Penn]

On Fri, May 19, 2006 05:55, Edward Terry wrote:
>
>> Finally, I've been playing a bit with a computer game implementation
>> of Yags. The basic skill and combat resolution stuff is there and
>> working, and the idea is to use it in a web based adventure game
>> called Kingdoms. It's currently got as far as displaying a map and
>> allowing you to move a character around (and punch cows, though not
>> kill them, since the world is still a utopia and the rules for death
>> haven't been written yet). When I have something that's worth logging
>> into, I'll let people know.
>
> That sounds interesting.  Will it be possible at any point to use it in
> conjunction with the paper-and-pencil version of Yags?  I've always
> thought it would be very useful to have a hybrid between a computer RPG
> and a campaign manager, which could run by itself (subject to GM
> override) until a judgement call was needed and then pause for the GM's
> decision.

At the very least it needs a character generator/management
interface to allow players to create their characters. This
could double as a character generator for the pen-and-paper
version.

It won't be so useful for campaign management. There will be
random village generators etc as part of it, which might be
useful, though probably won't be to the level of detail I'd
like for a pen-and-paper game.


> Will you be able to use code from one of the existing open-source RPG
> projects, or are you having to write the entire thing yourself?

It started life as a few PHP pages about a year ago, and
has evolved somewhat since then into a J2EE app, so it's
been new code all the way.

I'm hoping the new Google AJAX toolkit will be of some help,
since I'll need to add in some AJAX stuff at some point.

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