Topic: Random Updates from Terry Amthor

[Terry K. Amthor]

I wish someone would run a SW game using Fantasy Grounds! I'd love to play. Unfortunately I don't have the energy/time to set up and run a game, unless I had an assistant...

I'm thinking about starting up a game using Skype as the medium.  I do have a bit of a site set up for what I intend to be my next SW campaign on Obsidian Portal (look up "Rust of Coming Ages").  If you're interested, I'd think about it a whole lot harder...

I'm not sure about skype. I don't want my camera on. Call me paranoid.

[Terry K. Amthor]

I wish someone would run a SW game using Fantasy Grounds! I'd love to play. Unfortunately I don't have the energy/time to set up and run a game, unless I had an assistant...

I think it would be a little intimidating to run a SW game with you as a player!

I played in an online demo for Fantasy Grounds a few years ago, and I thought I behaved ok. ;-) I'd never played in an online interactive game where you were connected live and could speak to the other players and the GM. I loved it!

Actually one of the other players was surprised how I got into playing my female (rogue?) character. Most of the other guys were from the UK, and maybe a little more restrained but I like to really role-play my character. It was fun.

And as far as being intimidating: I certainly would never second-guess or criticize the GM! SW is what you make it. I respect anyone who makes the effort to be a GM. It is a lot of work.

It would not be second-guessing or criticism I would worry about, it would be like running MERP with Tolkien sat at your table.

Which could be pretty awesome.

I would be worrying constantly, did I pronounce that correctly, did I describe that the way Kevin/Tolkien meant it to be and do on.

Hey I have trouble pronouncing some of my own words. K'ta'viiri, for instance 

I think you can take it as a compliment that I used the pair Kevin/Tolkien in a sentence. If I ever GM for you it would have be with you using an assumed name and possibly a false moustache.

Absolutely!

[Terry K. Amthor]

Just a quick update... I am doing some ICE/GC layout work for HARP Loot, but I have resumed work on revisions for Emer I and Emer II, along with writing on Emer IV (I really want to have complete Emer atlases all in print at once). Also Jaiman Wuliris (with lots of Taranian tech). I was stalled a bit on the Emer I maps (which sucked) but I think we have a good solution. I could also be doing work on the layout for upcoming HARP Folkways. Busy busy!

[Pazuzu]

Shut up and take my money. 

[RandalThor]

What seems to be the problem with the maps?

[Terry K. Amthor]

What seems to be the problem with the maps?

Well if you have Emer II, you know that I did very detailed contour maps in watercolor and pen. They look nice but took forever. I really want to use them again in the new edition, but it's not practical to do that for Emer I and IV, so we'll be going with something else.

[Terry K. Amthor]

A page from Emer II with a map I mentioned.

[egdcltd]

Here's one of Emer I's maps by comparison. I don't think they're bad really, although I would like to see consistency across all four atlases.

[metallion]

I wish someone would run a SW game using Fantasy Grounds! I'd love to play. Unfortunately I don't have the energy/time to set up and run a game, unless I had an assistant...

I'm thinking about starting up a game using Skype as the medium.  I do have a bit of a site set up for what I intend to be my next SW campaign on Obsidian Portal (look up "Rust of Coming Ages").  If you're interested, I'd think about it a whole lot harder...

I'm not sure about skype. I don't want my camera on. Call me paranoid.

Understandable -- if I'm not specifically using my camera, I have it covered.  But I don't mind if a hacker wants to listen in on a ShadowWorld game.

[Terry K. Amthor]

Here's one of Emer I's maps by comparison. I don't think they're bad really, although I would like to see consistency across all four atlases.

You can see there is a huge difference in quality

[Terry K. Amthor]

Ugh been sick for what seemed like forever. Doing much better now and finishing up layout of LOOT for HARP, then back to Shadow World.

[terefang]

you might want to look at this for map inspiration:
https://hi.stamen.com/watercolor-textures-15de97a4ad8b#.1ehpwland

[terefang]

you might also want to look at
http://www.qgis.org/
http://www.gvsig.com/en/products/gvsig-desktop
http://udig.refractions.net/

[Terry K. Amthor]

Going back to Emer I and paging through it. More already done than I remembered. Map issue resolved. Hope to have it ready to submit in a few weeks! I'd like to have I and II out again before finishing IV.

[egdcltd]

Going back to Emer I and paging through it. More already done than I remembered. Map issue resolved. Hope to have it ready to submit in a few weeks! I'd like to have I and II out again before finishing IV.

Good to hear. So does the revision of Emer I look promising for release next year then?

[Terry K. Amthor]

Going back to Emer I and paging through it. More already done than I remembered. Map issue resolved. Hope to have it ready to submit in a few weeks! I'd like to have I and II out again before finishing IV.

Good to hear. So does the revision of Emer I look promising for release next year then?

Definitely. I'd like to even get Emer IV and Shade out in 2017 too, but that may be ambitious.

[egdcltd]

Or confident. Confident sounds better.

What stage is Lethys at?; I don't recall seeing that one mentioned in a while.

[Terry K. Amthor]

Or confident. Confident sounds better.

What stage is Lethys at?; I don't recall seeing that one mentioned in a while.

It's moving slowly. While the content is great, it basically requires a grammatical rewrite.

[zyax1]

Or confident. Confident sounds better.

What stage is Lethys at?; I don't recall seeing that one mentioned in a while.

It's moving slowly. While the content is great, it basically requires a grammatical rewrite.

Swedes are normally very good at writing and speaking english, but it was my worst subject in school. :/

[Terry K. Amthor]

Or confident. Confident sounds better.

What stage is Lethys at?; I don't recall seeing that one mentioned in a while.

It's moving slowly. While the content is great, it basically requires a grammatical rewrite.

Swedes are normally very good at writing and speaking english, but it was my worst subject in school. :/

Hey languages are not my thing either. :-(  But I remember being a guest at a convention in Boras Sweden many years ago and most of the kids running the con spoke excellent English.