GameMode_Microlite20 development - [Tabletop RPG] ALPHA TESTERS NEEDED

[Lugnut]

GameMode_Microlite20
Alpha testers, click here or go to the bottom.

http://microlite20.net/ // official site, bitch to navigate
http://arthur.jfmi.net/m20/ // 'pocket' sized rulebooks, easiest to find the rules, includes main rules as well
https://github.com/Tungul/GameMode_Microlite20/ // follow progress here

What is Microlite20? Microlite20 is a tabletop pen and paper RPG designed around the original AD&D.
This thing is really lightweight - the core rules fit on one side of a sheet of paper, everything else is resources.

The other day, I had an inkling to DM a game, but I didn't have a good system and I was just gonna do something simple like roll to dodge, but luckily for you and I, my players weren't frigging ready for a week so in that week I discovered Microlite20.
I made some web based calculator tools for microlite and then I realized: this would work spectacularly in Blockland! Chat, dice rollers, macros, or at least the scripting language to make them, and my target players all had Blockand, so why not?

That's what this sets out to achieve.
Features:
Built in character creator, as well as import/export function for sharing Just join and follow some instructions. Your character is created live.
Built in character sheet manager (no guis, sorry) You join the server and your data is there.
Built in dice roller Why leave it to your DM to roll all the dice offline? Take some initiative and roll them yourself, where everyone can see! Credit to M for the script.
Casual save, designed with a peaceful atmosphere in mind A custom build (or a modified default one) with a table with evented gameboard, with low lights for atmosphere.
Some as-of-yet undecided DM utilities
The DM does not have to be the host Much like the DM does not always host game sessions, the host will not have to be the DM.
I'll be testing this on my server.

What I need:

• Suggestions for features
[0]Beta testers (Currently have a DM, me, and one player. Microlite supports four classes, but has an expansion. I'll shoot for four.)

• Beta testers to actually host the damn thing (later, not right now)
[0]A build. The default cottage is too small. I'm also really bad at building. Seriously.

This mod is currently in an unusable pre-alpha state. ETA of usable state is exactly 52 hours, 35 minutes Valve time.
So why am I posting about it already? I wanted to test the waters to see if anyone would even be interested in such a thing, plus scrounge up some players. I've discovered 3 people on my skype+steam friends list that have D&D experience, but that's not a good test to see if the blockland community as a whole has a crapload of TRPG players.


Oh yeah, and it all needs to be playable before school starts for me, which is pretty fast.
Alpha Testers
Basically, I'll be running a game tomorrow (saturday the 7th) with this mod.
We need two people provided MARBLE and my other guy come through, possibly only one if the stars align properly. I'll DM.

Prerequisites to join:

• Greater than no intelligence
• Has read this at least once, but the grunt work will be handled by the system
  
• Not illiterate
• Understands the difference between a RPG and a Tabletop RPG [hint: no actual swords]

pm me

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[Lugnut]

Should I be posting these things somewhere else? The development discussion board is pitiful for ideas and responses I guess.

[alex dude]

I don't know if general discussion would be a good place to put it, it sounds great and I'd love to see what the character creator looks like.
I can help create a build and test for you if you'd like.

[Lugnut]

yes please, we need a build.

I'm picturing a kind of a bigass table with chairs around the sides. The table should be large enough to contain a 8x8 grid. It should have dim lighting, perhaps with a spotlight over the gameboard and one particular chair....

I dunno, be creative. The important part is space for the gameboard, but that can be positioned elsewhere, not necessarily on the table.


I was thinking of putting just a little sort of an advertisement in GD: "Is anyone interested in a tabletop rpg gamemode for Blockland..?" then a link to this topic, just to stir up discussion.

[MARBLE MAN]

make this faster
I seriously want to play this right now,
if anything, I want to help

[Lugnut]

There's an issue tracker, pick something and work on it, I've claimed the stuff I already have plans for.

Which is most of it, but the leftover stuff needs doing.

[MARBLE MAN]

There's an issue tracker, pick something and work on it, I've claimed the stuff I already have plans for.

Which is most of it, but the leftover stuff needs doing.

Cool, I'll get right on it

[MARBLE MAN]

I fixed all of your syntax errors, and added the commands to the !DM help
Edit:

Ok, I've made about 6 commits, that's enough for tonight

I can code you other stuff if you want, just send me a pm

[Lugnut]

Push the dang thing so I can merge it

[MARBLE MAN]

Push the dang thing so I can merge it

I thought I did?

[Lugnut]

nope, I have no idea wtf you do

I think you made a spare repo in your own account which is empty

cloned the thing

edited it

ran git commit

then here we are

long story short it's not in my stuff anywhere on https://github.com/Tungul/GameMode_Microlite20, like pull requests

[MARBLE MAN]

nope, I have no idea wtf you do

I think you made a spare repo in your own account which is empty

cloned the thing

edited it

ran git commit

then here we are

long story short it's not in my stuff anywhere on https://github.com/Tungul/GameMode_Microlite20, like pull requests

windows is being stupid
I think I did it now
windows is still being stupid
It removed a chunk of what I did ;-;

[Lugnut]

windows is being stupid
I think I did it now
windows is still being stupid
It removed a chunk of what I did ;-;

ur doin it wrong

[Lugnut]

link

do that

its ok if you push the whole thing as one blob as opposed to pushing a commit per issue cause you didn't know what you were doing

git is hard

or this one, it's good too

[MARBLE MAN]

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GetInvolvedInOpenSourceTodayHowToContributeAPatchToAGitHubHostedOpenSourceProjectLikeCode52.aspx

do that

its ok if you push the whole thing as one blob as opposed to pushing a commit per issue cause you didn't know what you were doing

git is hard

I did push a commit per issue ;-;

It just said "unsynced commits"
Then I synched
and it removed most of what I did