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Target Marketing — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:19:26 +0000

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Comment on WFRP3 – What’s the Verdict? by J P

J P — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:19:05 +0000

Thanks for your continued attempts to post here – last WP upgrade trashed a few things.

I know exactly where you’re coming from with what you’re saying, and I too think as far as *some* fans, WFRP 3E is indeed “Fail”, overall – as I said, some ideas seem admirable, but overall, the whole concept of just gutting everything but the name was just ruthless and uncaring.

I too haven’t played 3E, and unless I happen to find myself at a con, which doesn’t happen, nobody I know has the kind of money to keep up with buying new RPGs anymore, so I doubt I’ll be playing it either, and my views are also based on what I’ve read on it.

Comment on WFRP3 – What’s the Verdict? by in8sworld

in8sworld — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:23:00 +0000

Hey there! I guess I’d like to qualify my FAIL statement since I was
only just looking into the system and haven’t actually played it as
yet. Since most of my core group have moved on to WoW or similar a
real play test is unlikely any time soon. It may have just been a
knee-jerk reaction to how much had changed, but I agree with you that
the cards seem like a good idea to keep pertinent info at the ready.
You’re also right about those being photo-copy-able and I imagine
we’ll see custom cards on the internet soon anyway. All the other
little cardboard chits and the dice pools idea I don’t like so much.
The FAIL isn’t so much from their perspective (ie: will they sell
any), but from my perspective (ie: will I buy it)

Comment on Free Paper Miniatures, Models, Tiles and Maps by Free Paper Miniatures, Models, Tiles and Maps | Adobe Tutorials

Free Paper Miniatures, Models, Tiles and Maps | Adobe Tutorials — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:09:01 +0000

[...] Keep in mind this article concerns free paper miniatures and models and such that can be printed out on paper or cardstock, cut out and folded and glued. Also quite popular are molded and otherwise non-paper things like board game pieces and wargame miniatures, coins, dice, as well as frugal improvised stand-ins such as children’s toys, plastic animals, etc. – but those things all cost money, from a fairly small amount to what some people consider absolutely ridiculously overpriced for tiny meta View post: Free Paper Miniatures, Models, Tiles and Maps [...]

Comment on Inspiring Kids to Tabletop Roleplay? by Add Webz » Blog Archive » Inspiring Kids to Tabletop Roleplay?

Add Webz » Blog Archive » Inspiring Kids to Tabletop Roleplay? — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:16:41 +0000

[...] Long. Apologies and thanks. I and my friend and GM (I occasionally take turns GMing) were discussing the rest of our gaming group, which consist of his 14yr old step-son and 18yr old nephew and their 1 or 2 friends each. Besides Assassin’s Creed, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and shoot-em-ups, the kids spend a lot of their time on WoW, one of them is on it constantly for like 9-10 hours at a time and even had to quit in the middle of our last 4 hr tabletop session to go sleep. They “roleplay” constant More: Inspiring Kids to Tabletop Roleplay? [...]

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Inspiring Kids to Tabletop Roleplay? | Console Gaming — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:50:55 +0000

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Comment on Fantasy / Medieval RPG Wages and Money by admin

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:02:15 +0000

That’s a good question, and one that has a sort of historical lack of consistency.

I did a rethink of the coins and values here:
http://www.zanysite.com/tabletoprpgfun/2009/04/medieval-coinage-for-rpgs-up-with-role-playing-games/
Note that my weights don’t agree with some historical measures.

Gold almost necessarily (for game considerations) becomes the material for Crowns and above, because historically, Silver Crown values were usually based on their minted face value rather than primarily on their composition, and also for the most part didn’t occur until 1818. If you had a Silver Crown that was worth 5 Silver Shillings, it would (leaving debasement, shaving, etc. aside) have to weigh what five shillings do – while a Gold Crown would weigh only a fraction of that, due to Gold being worth more than Silver. Also, some pennies were struck out of bronze or copper or similar metal but that is also much later in history and their value was based on their legal denomination rather than composition.

For people who aren’t terribly concerned about each coin type’s individual weight and find it easier to have all coins weigh about the same and only one coin type for each value, Pennies could be Bronze but were originally Silver, Shillings were Silver, and Crowns were Gold. For further detail, there were Half-Crowns, Soverigns, Half-Sovereigns, Nobles and Half-Nobles, etc. – these were also almost always made out of Gold though a few were made of Electrum or other unusual and precious metal.

I found these to be great resources: http://herve.sors.free.fr/history.of.british.coins.htm and http://chestofbooks.com/finance/banking/English-Manual/Coins-Part-10.html

Comment on Fantasy / Medieval RPG Wages and Money by Ravi

Ravi — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:35:10 +0000

Hi, want to say my GM and I really liked this breakdown, especially the dollar equivalents you gave in your reply. It makes so much more sense than the D&D 4e coinage table

On a side note, where would you place the use of gold in this? I’d heard it was used as coinage, but don’t know what it’s equivalent might be.

Comment on Fantasy / Medieval RPG Wages and Money by Jason Patterson

Jason Patterson — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:38:02 +0000

That seems to coincide mainly with some of the values I got while throwing around some numbers. Definitely 1920’s pre-crash prices, at the very least!

I guess I just am intrigued by being able to somehow apply real-world equivalents to RPG stuff, to see how something would equate “in the real world”.

Interesting, thanks for the comments!

Comment on Fantasy / Medieval RPG Wages and Money by DVP

DVP — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:06:57 +0000

Actually, I realise that I had a penny as £20, the “measuring worth” site has one shilling =£20!

Still, a gallon of ale for less than £2…