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10-30-2017, 03:03 PM | #1 |
MIB
Join Date: Aug 2004
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GCA and Dungeon Fantasy RPG
When can we expect the new data files to cover the new Dungeon Fantasy RPG?
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11-03-2017, 11:29 AM | #2 |
GCA Prime
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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Re: CGA and Dungeon Fantasy RPG
I'm pretty sure that there will be some, but I have no idea when that might happen. (I just got my books a couple weeks ago, and haven't had time to do anything other than quickly skim over them. I don't know about Eric, either.)
I'm not sure how much may have to change from the existing Basic Set and Dungeon Fantasy files to cobble something into a DFRPG worldbook file.
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11-03-2017, 12:09 PM | #3 |
Wielder of Smart Pants
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
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Re: CGA and Dungeon Fantasy RPG
At the risk of sounding like a complainer, and I am aware I don't have any of the facts, but I don't understand why you and/or Eric didn't get the pdfs in advance. Shouldn't this have been a priority for the new release? I think it maybe looks bad when the unofficial program had DFRPG support before the box reached stores, but GCA doesn't.
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11-04-2017, 12:34 PM | #4 |
GCA Prime
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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Re: CGA and Dungeon Fantasy RPG
I understand.
I can't really comment on SJGames, their thinking or procedures. All data files are basically written by volunteers. This time around, it seems one particular volunteer was willing to sit down and write pretty much all of the info for GCS, but nobody has done that yet for GCA. I can't control that. And when such things rest on volunteers, I'm afraid that's what'll happen at times. Armin P.S. I bought the books (but don't have the PDFs), and hope to run a DFRPG game at some point. But, I also just moved house, and 90% of what I own is still in boxes. Because my new place is rather smaller than my old one, even unpacking is rather difficult, so it'll take a long time. Plus, I still have to do the day job. Even though I would be willing to sit down and do data files, I simply don't have the time to even read the books right now.
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11-04-2017, 12:44 PM | #5 | |
Wielder of Smart Pants
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
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Re: CGA and Dungeon Fantasy RPG
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Also given that this is a new game, and they are trying to aim it for players new to GURPS, maybe this should have been a project that you got comps in advance for and even got paid, but I can understand how that may not have happened. Perhaps in the future Kickstarters of Powered by GURPS games could include the GCA files as at least a stretch goal? Last edited by sir_pudding; 11-04-2017 at 12:48 PM. |
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11-04-2017, 09:50 PM | #6 | ||
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Binghamton, NY, USA. Near the river Styx in the 5th Circle.
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Re: CGA and Dungeon Fantasy RPG
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Files in the repository, OTOH, can be uploaded by anyone and are not checked except by the original author and anybody who uses them. Quote:
This is why I couldn't be overly helpful with the Discworld RPG data files when Phil Masters was working on it, because the PDF release was delayed and I simply didn't have the book. This is also why I haven't really been able to work on the DFRPG, because the retail version of the PDFs haven't been released on e23 and I didn't buy them as part of the Kickstarter, so I don't have the PDFs yet (and I don't like working directly from printed books). I have no knowledge of why and no comment as to why SJGames hasn't prioritized getting the data files taken care of.
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