'Arkham Horror' on FG?

[willquestion]

Has anyone tried using FG to play this board game? Seems that you could use a general ruleset to get by and most things are already scanned on www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com.

[Hector Trelane]

Not I, but a friend of mine might be interested in playing with you if you make the attempt. He has the board game at home, I think still in shrink wrap for lack of a gaming group.

[willquestion]

I'm in the process of putting the graphics and info into the software right now so definitely let him know. It's a great game.

[viresanimi]

Just curious: Have you seen Vassal yet?

Vires Animi

[willquestion]

I noticed it's available on it. I tried the software but I'm not a fan of how it works. It's not very refined like say OCTGN.

[Zeus]

Has anyone tried using FG to play this board game? Seems that you could use a general ruleset to get by and most things are already scanned on www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com (https://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com).

I've not played that particular game but I have used FG to play Talisman, Dragons of Glory, Risk and a few other types of boardgames, its very easy to do. Just scan your board in as a JPG. Any tokens, cards or player pieces as tokens. For games with scoreboards you can use a simple image or if your feeling adventurous create an extension for CoreRPG. You can then export everything to a module for easy portability. I've even used FG to play online chess with a few friends.

[willquestion]

Just wanted to show a sample of what I've got so far. I still need to switch out some graphics for newer ones I've made but you get the idea from this.
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[Taelock]

Looks good. I had the same idea but never came around to do anything about it.

[Tiqon]

But how do you handle the fact that you often will have a stack of card that you have to draw from, that is face down? You mention you play Talisman... I can't wrap my mind around how but is really interested :).

[damned]

i wonder if you could use Tables for drawing cards... thats easy from a full deck - i wonder how hard it would be to modify it to remove cards once dealt....?

[Zeus]

Have a look at my older 4E Fortune Card extension. It extended the 4E char sheet with new controls for drawing cards into a hand. DM can manage different card sets, allowing specific sets/cards to be used/not used.

https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6188/6144638864_079ced0626_s.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/drzeuss73/6144638864)

Also, my old 3 Dragon Ante extension for the older preCoreRPG 4E ruleset might be relevant as would the SavageWorlds ruleset card handling functionality. For 3DA, I implemented a new window class which mimicked the CombatTracker but was used exclusively for managing 3DA turns. Cards were implemented as tokens, double clicking a card token revealed a larger card image with all the card details. My groups used it on many occasions during tavern stays.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4102/4746994601_622e476ea4_s.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/drzeuss73/4746994601)

[Tiqon]

Hmm thanks I will :).