11-26-2015, 01:07 AM | #671 | |
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Edit: Its also worth saying that its not reasonable to expect roleplayers to buy an expensive display and graphics card, and that those displays are unlikely to have significantly more pixels than a typical one. Again, programmers are ingenious at pretending that computer displays have enough resolution to read and view photos off, but right now the underlying technologies have serious problems.
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11-26-2015, 02:14 AM | #672 |
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Discussion moved to its own thread (Print vs screen resolutuion, and why you can't directly compare them [POD]), as per Phil Reed's request.
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11-26-2015, 02:38 AM | #673 |
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Again, discussion goes elsewhere. From this post on I will ask our moderators to delete posts about eyesight and age. This includes monitor resolutions. Please take this discussion somewhere else.
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11-26-2015, 03:09 AM | #674 | |
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It may well be that GURPS has made me instinctively selective about my purchases, and I don't actually buy that much RPG material these days, but what I have bought recently from other companies has been more than competently written and edited, and where relevant researched, to a level comparable with the GURPS standard (and frankly, usually prettier than most current GURPS production). And it's not like GURPS is the home of densely researched historical supplements these days; we still get a few, but, for example, Ars Magica may well have generated many more words of fetishistically researched historically-based RPG material in recent years than GURPS. In other words, leading with the "GURPS for text quality" line may be in danger of looking out of date as well as a little bit smug in 2015.
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11-26-2015, 03:48 AM | #675 |
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Agreed. There are several great publishers out there producing wonderful products. It's no longer the eighties or nineties, and things have changed dramatically in the last four decades of RPGs.
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11-26-2015, 05:14 AM | #676 | |
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Case in point DD and FS2 are in the same high quality band as anything SJ Games ever produces. (Plus they are hardback, colour full of art, huge etc) There is a lot of hyperbole from fans in this thread. Last edited by lachimba; 11-26-2015 at 05:23 AM. |
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11-26-2015, 08:45 PM | #677 |
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Gurps is a very precise system and judging by the 100+ people on the Gurps forum i see on every single day the precision is part and parcel of what most Gurps fan want.
That level of rules precision requires a lot of labor. In games that have a lot looser structure the GM can adjust things on the fly and as narrative systems seem to be so free form with their rules this isn't much of a problem. In a system like Gurps a GM adjustment needs to be carefully done if the game is being run with the usual precision of a Gurps game (obviously one can run a free form version of Gurps but most of the fans on these forums seem to favor a precise rule set). In other words making Gurps "GO" is expensive. Maybe Sean and PK are wringing their hands and belaboring a lot of stuff but as far as I'm concerned this is how I like my Gurps, as precise an well engineered as possible and if that means I have to get it in a "non-ideal" format, so be it as their are so few games with the level of detail that allows me to run a Dune game, Blakes7 game or a Thomas Covenant game with the crunch that I like. YMMV Sorry but this is on an iPad. And I'm not trying to put the stink on anyone here. If I did, I'm sorry Last edited by pestigor; 11-26-2015 at 08:47 PM. Reason: for clarity |
11-26-2015, 10:28 PM | #678 |
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To be clear, by precision I mean: as precise as possible while still being playable and fun.
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11-30-2015, 01:13 PM | #679 | |
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I literally bought into GURPS 4th Edition because a rival publisher failed to include the weight of equipment *in the equipment book!* And Kickstarter is no guarantee of success or a panacea for the gaming industry. For one, almost every RPG Kickstarter I've bought into has been months and months late. Though I feel confident that my books will arrive, they will be almost 18 months late. It's an odd industry where that's still deemed a "success." So, while I feel your frustration as an author whose book has yet to hit the streets, I think SJ Games's attention to detail and quality-control are still top-of-the-line and an industry-best.
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11-30-2015, 05:05 PM | #680 |
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Most of them, so far as I can see.
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