Playing GURPS with Fantasy Grounds

[Ronnke]

Many of you are aware of the several avenues to play GURPS online using Virtual Tabletops, such as Fantasy Grounds, Roll20, etc. Those of you in the Fantasy Grounds camp will be aware the GURPS ruleset hasn't seen updates in a while which take advantage of the more recent features of Fantasy Grounds. A new ruleset update is almost ready and I have created the below video demonstrating the character sheet features. If interested, then please take a moment to have a look and post your thoughts, feedback or suggestions.

Playing GURPS on Fantasy Grounds

Side note: The ruleset complies with the SJG Online Policy, but if any of the powers that be are reading this, I would like to get permission to include some features which probably sit in a grey area of the Online Policy. I'm in no rush, but I'll draft a formal request at some point. Fantasy Grounds is a powerful virtual tabletop for online roleplaying and we GURPS players are sometimes envious of the ruleset capabilities players use for other systems.

[TorgSmith]

Looks pretty cool. I have the Ultimate license and will be interested in using this. The skin for the character sheet you have now is fine to me.

[Engurrand]

This is work that has been much anticipated and will be appreciated.

Thoughts:

• A simple way to float skills to other attributes would see some use.
• Duplicating common modifiers between skills without retyping would be handy.
• Shouldn't the "powers" tab be called "advantages" and the "other" tab "disadvantages"? Is that a license thing?
• Inventory management: It would be really handy to be able to pass items and their notes between characters, and to or from the GM. And even more handy for items to talk to your attacks and defenses pages when they're carried (wishful thinking perhaps, but if there's one thing I've learned sitting next to a programmer, it's that it's no good guessing what might be easy or hard to implement).

Really great work. A huge step forward.

[Rigil_Kent]

Looks fricking awesome, man.

[Ronnke]

Originally Posted by Engurrand

A simple way to float skills to other attributes would see some use.

Noted as a possible feature for future.

Originally Posted by Engurrand

Duplicating common modifiers between skills without retyping would be handy.

Drag and drop from one to the next. You also have the "global" modifiers list you could use for those modifiers which

Originally Posted by Engurrand

Shouldn't the "powers" tab be called "advantages" and the "other" tab "disadvantages"? Is that a license thing?

Advantages and Disadvantages appears under Traits, which is where the actual powers would be defined. The Powers and Others tab is there so you can setup a roll for such things, if they have a roll.

Originally Posted by Engurrand

Inventory management: It would be really handy to be able to pass items and their notes between characters, and to or from the GM. And even more handy for items to talk to your attacks and defenses pages when they're carried (wishful thinking perhaps, but if there's one thing I've learned sitting next to a programmer, it's that it's no good guessing what might be easy or hard to implement).

You can drag to the chat window to share with other players and you also have the ability to drag from the "global" items list. Being able to drag and drop to player avatars and such could be useful. I've noted this for future features.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[mook]

OOH -- very, very cool! I look forward to the update.

[Engurrand]

RE:

Originally Posted by Ronnke

snip... Thanks for the suggestions.

Straight great, mate.
I can't wait.

[fantell]

Still all ah-quiver about getting my hands on this... PLEASE tell me how I get a copy of whats done? I just want to play with this sheet! It hurts to know its out there and this awesome and unavailable :(

[Berdryn]

not directly related to the sheet (which looks great) but if you are able to make changes to the ruleset, can you modify the chat window?

I am really looking for a way to make whisper tabs. Leaving the main window for the main scene and you type /w NAME to whisper to someone, but instead of that whisper text line being displayed in the main chat, have it go to a new tab of chat.

I used to do this in OpenRPG and it really allowed for a lot of organization and helped me keep players busy because I could RP in the whisper tab with a player in another area of the gameworld while keeping the main chat for everything 'going on now'

[mook]

Originally Posted by fantell

Still all ah-quiver about getting my hands on this... PLEASE tell me how I get a copy of whats done? I just want to play with this sheet! It hurts to know its out there and this awesome and unavailable :(

Seriously. I just made the mistake of rewatching the video, now I'm all sad again.