Is Mike aware of Matthew Cole’s Virtual Pavis project which he has been demoing at the last couple of Continuum conventions? (Can’t remember if Mike was at last years?)
I have missed the last two CONTINUUUUUUMS but I hope to make next year.
(2023 clashed with my nephew’s wedding which then clashed with my cat being very sick. This year I just decided it was the Worldcon that had first call on my spare cash and my dwindlng stock of physical energy.)
So no, I wasn’t there and I wasn’t aware. Is there a website where you can see work in progress?
I knew you weren’t here this year, I couldn’t remember if you were there last year (I didn’t recall specifically speaking to you, but that just have meant we were never in the same place for long enough, or that I had forgotten the specific conversation).
Matthew has been posting pictures taken from his 3d VR Pavis on one or more of the RQ/Gloranthan FB groups, and is planning to do a “coffee table” style art book of the city through the Jonstown Compendium on DriveThru. I’m not aware of any way of accessing the VR other than when he has demoed it at the conventions.
(Glad to here the cat is better)
I wish SJG would run a Kickstarter for Roger’s GURPS 5e. I’d back it like a shot, but more to the point I think they’d find there’s some market for a streamlined version.
I am gradually working on a system that takes spiritual inspiration from the bits of GURPS I like but ends up being a lot more like the thing I run at the table than like thousands of pages of hardbacks, but it’s a long task.
Most of all I’d like to see the skill-list pruned back, or at least converted into a hierarchy so that player-groups could decide how far they needed to drill down. 4e really was a massive improvement on 3e in so many ways, but nobody needs 300 skills. And then there’s all those special-case advantages and disadvantages; it makes little sense to have a single core mechanic for actions but then to have completely different rules for every disadvantage. Half a dozen priors can be held in the head, but several dozen forces us to keep going back to the rulebooks at crucial moments.
It’s a lot more orthogonal than it used to be, but yeah. Even things like “every 3d6 roll is low roll good, except reactions”.
On the other hand I wouldn’t want to take it too far the other way and end up with HeroQuest or FATE. My possibly unworthy FATE joke:
“This sword was made from the bones of my father after he was struck down by the dark hordes, and it thirsts for the blood of their leader!”
“OK, you get +2.”
“I do what he does.”
“OK, you get +2.”