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Post by mattcaron on Oct 20, 2017 16:34:03 GMT
Regarding: onepagerules.com/2017/10/20/opr-is-back/I find that these are appropriate: Here's my take on it: - Glad you're back onepagerules .
- I'm leery about a 2E (which, you could also argue is really a 3E), but that's because I always fear new editions.
- I like a points system to be able to make stuff.
- I like crowdsourcing army lists.
- I would hope that we could embrace joctao 's work on the points scripts and re-cost them to use the official logic, then use them as a basis for army book generation.
- I do not like Python[1], but can program in it and will help as much as I have time.
- I believe we could get it to output army books quite nicely. I am fluent in LaTeX, and agree with joctao that it makes sense to do it this way.
- Updating BattleScribe automatically is somewhat difficult, because of the complex rule intervalidation. But, that doesn't mean we can't use the old model of doing things.
- I am okay with less frequent updates of the army books.
- Unless something is *really* broken, I'd actually shoot for quarterly updates.
- If it's all run through the github code, really all that means is that we do a regen of all the army books, tag that spot in history, and then upload the official docs to the site.
- This does not preclude folks from generating/playtesting/etc. units, posting them here, etc. - they're just not "official" yet.
- My kids are getting old enough to actually play, which has me very excited.... ;-)
[1] Any programming language without the ability to force variable predeclaration is a joke. |
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Post by masteralex on Oct 22, 2017 17:35:23 GMT
Welcome, indeed. Upgraded my pledge to 5$!
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Post by joctao on Oct 22, 2017 20:08:39 GMT
I really agree with mattcaron, and I can provide support to integrate this in the "official" releases. about 5 b) cool if you know Latex, it was my first table with latex (I've only used beamer before) and it tooks me a while to get them right, with odd rows grayed. I'm pretty sure it can be improved. [1] Any programming language without the ability to force variable predeclaration is a joke. Yeah, I'm more a plain C developer (Linux kernel) that's why my python is not as pythonic as it could be. However for this kind of stuff, I think it's where python really shine. much easier to write/test/debug. |
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Post by onepagerules on Oct 22, 2017 23:32:51 GMT
Thanks everyone, happy to be back!  |
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Post by mattcaron on Oct 23, 2017 1:37:35 GMT
joctao - Yeah, but, if you did it in Perl, then you'd be able to write code that looks like C, and you can use strict; to force variable predeclaration.... ;-)
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Post by Kris DETERMINATION on Oct 23, 2017 10:31:38 GMT
Welcome back, OPA! It's wonderful to see you around again. I'm so glad things have taken an upturn for you.  |
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Post by EvilChildren on Oct 23, 2017 22:17:13 GMT
I am too happy to see you return!
Although all this talk of programming stuff just confuses me...
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Post by mattcaron on Oct 24, 2017 12:45:53 GMT
Get used to it. Software is eating the world. ;-)
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Post by andyskinner on Oct 26, 2017 0:28:21 GMT
OPA,
What do you think the near future will look like? I assume the current games go on, and development of 2nd edition happens in the $5 forum? Is there anything expected for the public in the near future?
Thanks
andy
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Post by onepagerules on Oct 26, 2017 12:57:54 GMT
What do you think the near future will look like? I assume the current games go on, and development of 2nd edition happens in the $5 forum? Is there anything expected for the public in the near future? Since we're working on 2nd edition further development on 1st edition doesn't make sense, so there's nothing expected for the public in the near future. Hopefully 2nd edition will be done quickly enough that we can release it for everyone soon. However if you have any requests for some units that have come out since the last update that we haven't covered, I can always quickly stat them and calculate the point costs for everyone to enjoy... |
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Post by aegisgrimm on Nov 4, 2017 21:04:42 GMT
Welcome back! I've currently been pitching OPR to my couple of gamer buddies, especially Fantasy Skirmish, and they are interested. Might even get one to play both Grimdark games, too!
Will 2nd edition be a very big change from the game(s) as they are right now? Because other than a couple of small profile issues, I really like how the ruleset plays as it stands right now. I'm hoping you're talking more of an eratta, than a large change.
Either way, thanks for the work, and providing fun rulesets!
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Post by onepagerules on Nov 5, 2017 15:05:51 GMT
Will 2nd edition be a very big change from the game(s) as they are right now? Because other than a couple of small profile issues, I really like how the ruleset plays as it stands right now. I'm hoping you're talking more of an eratta, than a large change. No, 2nd edition will not be a huge departure, but it will change the game in some small but significant aspects that I think require us to call it a new edition. These changes will actually make the game a little simpler in some ways, so if your buddies learn the game now they won't have to make a big shift once 2nd edition comes out. Thanks for the kind words. |
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Post by aegisgrimm on Nov 5, 2017 19:39:13 GMT
Cool, thanks for the info!
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