Yes! Rock on! Go for it! That's exactly what the world of accessible games needs! Not that sidescrollers and first-person shooters and Shades of Doom, whatever category it might fall into, aren't great, but we need to take accessible gaming to the next level.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:31 PM Subject: Re: audyssey: Roll Playing Games. > Hi, Vaper. > Ok, we will stay on list. Actually, this thread is both computer and > stand alone related. > As you might have noticed I am doing research for a possible dnd type > game engine. I want to try my hand at something far more complex than a > simple arcade shooter, side scroller, or even a start to finish fps > title. I want something that has story, drama, and of course can be > indivitualised when loaded. > You might be a wizard, and I might be a ranger or bard. Someone else > might select to be a dwarf, elf, barbarian, etc... > That in my opinion will keep the game flexable and have replay value for > a long time ahead. > > > Vapour Wiseblood wrote: >> Stay on list!!!! Please! We need something that is more positive than >> what has come before. Even if it isn't computer game related, it is still >> game related. Let us all share in your conversation please. >> >> -Vapour >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:29 PM >> Subject: Re: audyssey: Roll Playing Games. >> >> >> >>> Hi, Allan. >>> I just downloaded all of the 3.5 rtf files, and have spent the later >>> part of this afternoon ensconced in reading them. >>> One of the problems I am having is understanding how to use all that >>> wealth of info. In fact just reviewing the monsters in the monster >>> classes I was blown away with the numbers and variations of the >>> monsters offered. >>> I also don't understand everything in the tables. How to calculate all >>> of that in to a dice throw. >>> Spells was another confusing area. i understood that some monsters or >>> creatures who could cast some spells while some could not. However, then >>> they through me by discussing level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc... What in the >>> heck are all the levels for and if you are a level 1 character how do >>> you move up to becoming a level 7 character. >>> While I realise the propriatary info in the DND guides is not important >>> for real play, Especially if the end result is to create my own world, >>> but I think I am having a huge problem invisioning a game and what an >>> average game is like, or even what a true DND world is like. I don't >>> have many frames of reference. >>> Actually, I am just coming to like fantacy and mythology, but am limited >>> do to years of other interests. For many years I only read books and >>> watched movies largely based on extreme Science Fiction themes Star >>> Trek, Star Wars, Red Planet, etc.... I never read many fantacy >>> typebooks. >>> When the Lord of the Rings movies came out i naturally read the books, >>> and that started me on a quest to read more fantacy books of that sort, >>> but experience and notions of those sorts of books is still quite vague >>> for creative writing on my part.] >>> I've got allot of catching up to do. Smile. >>> Anyway, we should probably take this off list unless others want it to >>> stay on. >>> >>> >>> >>> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
