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RPGs / Re: My own Trail of Cthulhu character autogen for Numbers

« on: April 16, 2011, 06:52:12 PM »

Thanks! Yes, I wouldn't call this dev, it's just like a spiffy excel sheet.

@Joe, Pelgrane wouldn't be able to tell me much, it's all in the books but just a difficult thing to make random because there are so many choices.

If you like this one then I'll show you my CoC sheet which doesn't do any skill spending, but looks nice too. Maybe I'll put my spending system back on that one next.

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RPGs / Re: My own Trail of Cthulhu character autogen for Numbers

« on: April 16, 2011, 04:02:44 PM »

Oh, and how do I account for all the sub-classes of the military without skewing the probability? That one makes my head hurt.

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RPGs / Re: My own Trail of Cthulhu character autogen for Numbers

« on: April 16, 2011, 04:00:46 PM »

You've scared me... now I have to make it perfect! Were there ever any male nurses in the 1920's? Should I include females in the military? Is that sexist? Are my points spent exactly correctly? Should I do the basic pillars of sanity or should I expound on them? Argh!

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RPGs / Re: My own Trail of Cthulhu character autogen for Numbers

« on: April 10, 2011, 09:47:24 AM »

Thanks! Yes, it all works splendidly now, but I still want to add the drives etc.

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RPGs / My own Trail of Cthulhu character autogen for Numbers

« on: April 04, 2011, 10:46:30 PM »

Hey all.

I've only had sporadic time on my hands since the birth of our son, so I've been studying how RPG's roll up characters. I decided to use my iPad to make neat and tidy sheets in Apple's excel knock-off called "Numbers". I started with Traveller, and the Judge Dredd supplement, and decided to make it auto-roll the base characteristics. Didn't take long, and was a fun task. Next I did one for Call of Cthulhu, which auto rolled many more characteristics and this time I thought I'd make an auto name and profession generator too (profession loosely based on characteristics rolls for realism). Keep in mind I'm doing this all on the iPad! I was pretty proud of that. So then I wanted to make one for Trail of Cthulhu... but there wasn't any rolling for that, just spending. That's an entirely different problem! But, after nearly two weeks of an hour or two a day, I've finally got it doing what I wanted. It was no easy task, a bit mind bending at times and you should see some of the calculations! Here's a screen, making it look all too easy:



All you have to do to get a new character is change the seed number under the health stat. Next I might make it auto choose drive and pillars of sanity. If there's interest, I'll post the whole doc when it's fully complete.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: The RPPR AP podcast site is now up

« on: April 02, 2011, 07:26:46 PM »

Nice work Aaron! I think you did admirably. I've read the Haunting, and you stuck to what they gave you, which is all I think can be asked of you for your first game. I know this was from a long time ago and you've done great stuff since then too.

Ross, you're one of those kind of teachers that punches a guy in the face and then asks him what he learned (Kung Fu styl-ee). But I guess everyone gets something out of that! Caleb must have been "WTF!" I'm glad he stuck around though!

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General Chaos / Re: Happy Fun Time.

« on: March 28, 2011, 09:48:36 PM »

This was a test to see how quickly we would degrade into primitive actions, wasn't it. And Cody won!

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RPGs / Re: Trail of Cthulhu

« on: March 22, 2011, 11:46:01 PM »

Sweet, I'll check it out! Thanks!

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RPGs / Re: Trail of Cthulhu

« on: March 20, 2011, 10:05:51 PM »

Heya, when is this community game going up? I'm intrigued.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: The Heroes of New Arcadia - RPPR Superheroes campaign - Wild Talents

« on: March 16, 2011, 10:09:25 PM »

Has anyone read the book Candide? It's actually a short, funny read.

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General Chaos / Re: Photoshop request form

« on: March 14, 2011, 10:38:23 PM »

Here you go dude, two for you. But just because you're awesome and make me laugh.

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General Chaos / Re: Del Toro Climbing the Mountains of Madness?

« on: March 10, 2011, 09:56:59 PM »

Shoot the messenger, shoot him, shoot him!

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General Chaos / Re: Del Toro Climbing the Mountains of Madness?

« on: March 10, 2011, 06:00:13 PM »

Hehe. Thirteen Monkeys. I guess I was thinking about the Thirteenth Warrior.

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RPGs / Re: Trail of Cthulhu

« on: March 10, 2011, 04:29:10 PM »

Thanks to you two ^, that's a nice summary and some good info.

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General Chaos / Re: Del Toro Climbing the Mountains of Madness?

« on: March 09, 2011, 10:03:40 PM »

It's funny how some of the actors you love to hate actually do some good work every now and then. I don't like Brad Pitt, even though I love movies like Se7en. I wasn't into Fight Club as much as most, but for both of those movies their success wasn't necessarily from his acting (same director I guess). But the one movie I'll watch him in again and again for was Thirteen Monkeys. Absolutely brilliant.