Great stuff! Fully customizable misc. attributes will really open up the possibilites for customization. There's
a lot of things that can be done with it, like Karl already wrote above. Excellent, most excellent!
The new character record looks very good, not counting the (yes, I know it's only for example purposes) mishmash of color that almost makes my eyes bleed.
I'd still like to see ability modifiers after the attribute values, but if the attributes box will be open for customization too, then I can always squeeze them in myself (something like "STR: 12 (+1)" shouldn't be too difficult to pull off, even with my anemic coding skills).
I think a bit of "padding" (i.e. space) between the window border and the text ought to be put in the Description window. The text looks a bit cramped when it squeezes right up to the window borders, as it does now. At least IMHO.
Regarding the black no LOS squares and the softening to them (talked about above), the border could also be represented with semi-blocked squares of 50% visibilty with a black 50% raster/overlay, or something. This raster could also show poorly illuminated areas, having it go from 100% visible/lighted (0% raster), to 75% (25% raster), 50% (50% raster) and 25% visible/lighted (75% raster) would be cool. SOmething approximately like e.g. in Ultima 6. Here's an extreme example of it in action, the screenshots on that page show the effect (do note that it is very extreme in those screenies due to the player wandering inside LB's castle at night with no torch or other source of illumination - stumbling around in the dark, in effect). The linky:
http://lparchive.org/Ultima-4-5-and-6/Update%2035/ .
youngneil1 wrote:all the other stuff I played over this incredibly fast passing amount of time, dominantly Warhammer, Middle Earth Roleplaying System, Midgard (another German system), Ars Magica (very cool, you play a covenant of mages and their fellows, each player usually has multiple characters), glorious Cyberpunk (think Shadow Run but without fantasy creatures and without magic) and Legend of the Five Rings (Rokugan campaign, though I did more reading on that one than actual playing).
I'm not familiar with Midgard, but all the other games mentioned above are excellent games. Very good list! Heh, good old Cyberpunk RPG, I remember it well. I was a GM, running a campaign with it back in the early 90's (when it was easy to get together with friends every week or every other week for a game session - nowdays would be lucky to do a session once a month). Good memories. I'm cautiously hopeful of the Cyberpunk CRPG now in development by CD Projekt Red (makers of the Witcher CRPGs) with the original author Mike Pondsmith.
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