Quote from: Jim D. on September 08, 2010, 12:03:04 PM

But if we don't care about caliber, why should we care about that either?  Grenades are thrown, go boom, and hurt lots.  Good enough for me.

Indeed.

Excellent point! I couldn't help myself :)

Yeah, this one activated all of my latent "rules should model reality" urges, and I had to smack them down and tell them to shut up, that was important was their use in the story and so forth. As an MC, I'm not gonna stop a character from throwing a grenade because of the tag in the line (breaking the rules! oh noes!) but I won't complain if an MC is like "you have to get closer in, where he can attack you too, if you want to use that".

Two quick asides: 1) grenades (the typical fragmentation kind, anyway) are way heavier than you think they are, and a 100 yard throw would be pretty freaking amazing, good on you if you can do that, I throw like a girl that can't throw well, 2) their effective range/deadliness is also more than the most movies would have you believe. If you tossed one casually into the other room and hid behind an interior wall, you're probably in a bad way.

But again, that stuff is not important unless you think it's cool

So, over in the "Organizing NPCs" thread (and elsewhere) there's been lots of talk of printing out pictures of apocalypse people  to put faces to names. I know lots of people might balk at having their imagination constrained so, but I find the idea great!

Unfortunately, I have no idea where/how to find images of appropriately apocalyptical people, so this is my cry for help:

Please post links to collections of AW-useful pictures of people! (Photos, drawings, whatevs)

Or else just tell me what to feed the Google, and I'll be on my way.

Thanks, very cool! Do please post as you figure more of that out, cos like I said, I'm working on something similar and want to steal any good ideas you have :)

This is exciting to me! I'm working on tiered scaling for my Ice and Fire hack, so I'm wondering how you're three scales are going to work.

Is it like, at the personal scale, a guy, two guys, small gang, medium gang, et cetera just like in AW? But at the tactical scale a "small gang" is like 100 dudes, and a medium gang is 300?

The other way I could see it working is just saying "medium gang = tactical scale" (in the hundreds of dudes range) and "large gang = strategic scale" (in the thousands of dudes range).

The former is closer to what I'm going with, but the latter could have a crazy, sweeping Dynasty Warriors like thing going on.

Howdy!

   Well, my only online experience with AW has been in Wave, but I've been playing in some other games via more traditional fora. Here are my recommendations:

1) If you can, schedule a regular 'live' session via your instant messaging program of choice or skype if you can swing that. Obviously, one of the draws might be the asynchronous nature of play by post, but you get sooooo much more done in a live chat, and the whole dynamism of interaction and table talk is a lot closer to the real thing

2) Barring that, or in addition to it, in this other game I'm playing, we've used a private message back and forth between GM and player, then post it publicly when it reaches a good chunk of stuff, but our storylines are all pretty independent. For more public storylines, you might just go with a regular forum post format, but I'd a) be super anal about organizing the fora and subfora, and b) establish some pretty clear ground rules about how much you ought to post in a chunk to avoid stepping on any other player or MC toes

3) pretty minor, but make a decision about how dice will work. Will people just roll and post their own results, will the MC roll everything and post it, will every roll be linked to some online roller, or what? With a group of established real life friends, this is probably not a big deal, but it'll be good to have everyone on the same page.

4) For supplementary docs like relationship maps, real maps, character portraits, whatever, having some file-hosting space would come in real handy. Maybe google docs? I know some other suggestions have been made in other threads.

5) A wiki can come in handy for presenting character and NPC write ups, details about the world, et cetera, and might be a handy way for you to keep track of fronts and triangles and all that good stuff

I'm sorry my advice here is so vague, but I hope it helps.

Aw, shucks

I totally agree! Cool.