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DFRPG / Re: Kindle 3
« on: December 21, 2010, 02:40:07 PM »
Yes it is. I can also zoom in on sections and navigate around a page if I find I can't read a particular section. It's also working nicely with my HERO, GURPS, D&D 4e and other RPG PDFs.

This will certainly save me lots of packing room for my upcoming vacation.

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DFRPG / Re: Kindle 3
« on: December 20, 2010, 04:34:40 PM »
Okay, I got my Kindle 3, and loaded up the PDFs (official release version) onto the unit without converting.
Man, it looks sharp! I can read the print without too much difficulty. I can always zoom in if I have an problems.
So far, other RPG PDFs also look good on it.

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DFRPG / Kindle 3
« on: December 14, 2010, 02:18:08 PM »
Now that it's been out for a while, has anyone tried reading the DFRPG books on a Kindle 3? I have it on high authority that I'm getting one for Christmas, and I'm planning on uploading them (along with a few other RPG PDFs... and eBooks, of course) onto the Kindle, which will really save me some space for my annual Christmas road trip.
I know DFRPG is graphics-heavy... some of the other PDFs I'm loading up might be as well... and I don't care about the grey scale. I just need the info carried within the books.


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DFRPG / Re: Using DFRPG to stat your favorite non Dresden characters
« on: August 19, 2010, 07:48:35 PM »
Good points on both...

Guns: Since that was a one-off, I'm willing to drop it, unless I can say that at this point in the series, he's had a few milestones and can therefore afford Burglary in addition to Guns.

Trouble: Good wording on it, I can alter that in the next iteration.


This is a work in progress... wasn't sure where in the series I would place him. If I did it as of last night's episode, he'd definitely have some milestones behind him...

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DFRPG / Re: Using DFRPG to stat your favorite non Dresden characters
« on: August 19, 2010, 07:15:04 PM »
Okay, here goes then... Feel free to comment as needed...

Shawn Spencer
Origin: Psych
Template: Pure Mortal
High Concept: "Psychic" Detective
Trouble: I'm a Fraud -- Prove It!
Other Aspects: Police Consultant, Eidetic Memory, Random Stream of Consciousness1, Dad's a Cop, <insert fifth aspect here>2

Skills
Great (+4): Alertness, Investigation
Good (+3): Rapport, Empathy
Fair (+2): Deceit, Scholarship, Presence
Average (+1): Burglary, Conviction, Endurance, Stealth

Stunts
Corner of My Eye
The Big Picture
Read the Surface
Listening
Quick Eye
Scene of the Crime
Honest Lies
Takes One to Know One

Stress
Mental = 3
Physical = 3
Social = 3

Total Refresh = 1

Notes:
1. This leads to the random leaps in logic that he makes that end up paying off. I'm also lumping in his odd behavioral habits, his love for pineapples, infatuation with people's hairstyles, and his ability to come up with bizarre yet humorous aliases for Gus in this Aspect.
2. Couldn't come up with anything at the time. It'll come to me, I'm sure.

Edit 20 Aug 2010 -- Removed Guns, added Burglary. Changed wording on Trouble.




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DFRPG / Re: Using DFRPG to stat your favorite non Dresden characters
« on: August 19, 2010, 02:53:30 PM »
Quote from: Jeckel on August 18, 2010, 08:34:16 PM
Deadmanwalking wrote up the Burn Notice trio, I gave those sheets some web-pages here.

I'd love to see someone do Shaun and Gus from Psych. The crew from Leverage would be awesome, as would Cal Lightman from Lie to Me and the team from Warehouse 13.

Well, poo, there goes my weekend activities then... :)

I'll work on the Psych crew, and maybe even tackle the Leverage gang.

Hmm, I should sit and watch the new Scooby Doo series with my son... could do writeups on them if no one's tackled that already...

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DFRPG / Re: Using DFRPG to stat your favorite non Dresden characters
« on: August 18, 2010, 04:13:01 PM »
I'd be willing to try such characters as Michael Westen and Shawn Spencer... However, my other current favorite, Edwin Drood, would be a bit of a challenge. (And yes, I've read the Drood thread already...)


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DFRPG / Re: Writeable/Safeable Char. Sheet?
« on: August 13, 2010, 02:54:52 PM »
Also, are you sure you enabled the save? I keep getting the warning that the filled data is not savable to a file.

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DFRPG / Re: Programming Character sheets
« on: July 30, 2010, 12:15:07 PM »
I'd rather not work with Wingdings... guess I like to muck about with the toys Excel puts in.

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DFRPG / Re: Programming Character sheets
« on: July 29, 2010, 08:29:33 PM »
Okay... I was thinking on handling this a little differently, rather than looking for Wingding characters... perhaps actual checkboxes, or at the very least an "X" or "x" in the selection column...
What would happen when that skill, stunt or power is selected is:
1. Selection will go bold to denote that the item has been selected.
2. In a hidden column, there is a hidden counter that numerically increases with the selected item, and the skill name is copied into the next cell on that same row. Mind you, these are all in hidden/grouped cells, so it's all in the background. Then the summary/character sheet just does a vlookup function (based on cell row number in the final sheet) on that range, and boom, it prints.
Where did I get this idea? A character sheet for HARP done in OpenOffice. I'll be drawing on a fair amount of influence from that sheet for this.

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DFRPG / Re: Writeable/Safeable Char. Sheet?
« on: July 29, 2010, 12:47:52 PM »
Okay, looking good.
This may be a bit of an aesthetic thing with me, but I'm thinking that instead of lots of little cells inside a section, I would consider merging all the cells within a section. You can adjust the text alignment afterward, because merging cells always centers the contents.

I'm still working on the mechanics and data entry for mine. This may take a while.


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DFRPG / Re: Writeable/Safeable Char. Sheet?
« on: July 28, 2010, 03:28:59 PM »
Not bad with the Open Office one either... but a fair amount of room for improvement...  plus you have cells that are too small for the text contained within. Slight design issue that can be easily fixed, I would wager.

What I'm considering is this:
A page to choose character options, such as Power Level.
A page for each Aspect, such as Concept and Trouble, one for each story, etc.
A page for Skills
A page for Mortal Stunts
A page for Powers

Last page would be the actual character sheet.

I started working on this a while back. Maybe it's time to dredge it up again...


Edit:
I pulled it up from my USB thumbdrive that has my DFRPG material.
Right now, it's an Excel file with all the page tabs figured out. Right now it's more data entry before I work the data manipulation, then design the final character sheet.

Once I get this done and working (and then perhaps port it into OpenOffice), perhaps I'll work on a City Building workbook.

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DFRPG / Re: Anyone in the Springfield, MA area
« on: July 27, 2010, 09:15:58 PM »
I wasn't thinking of gaming in Amherst... I was thinking on how the area would look Dresden-ized...

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DFRPG / Re: Anyone in the Springfield, MA area
« on: July 27, 2010, 06:41:56 PM »
Nice to see another one in-state... however I'm a bit east of you in Worcester.
Been trying to Dresdenize the Worcester area since the PDFs came out. Some luck, but not a lot.

Wonder how Amherst and vicinity would work?

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DFRPG / Re: Writeable/Safeable Char. Sheet?
« on: July 27, 2010, 06:29:09 PM »
Interesting...
If I may, at some point I may want to improve on this a bit, make it a bit more automatic, throw in some drop-down boxes for selections, and the like...

Good work on it though.

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