Earthdawn v128 uploaded to the FGWiki

Hey all,

I've uploaded an update to the Earthdawn ruleset fork I've been working on to the FGWiki ( https://oberoten.dyndns.org/fgwiki/index.php/Earthdawn ).

Added an 8th tab for notes.

Updated the threaded items support under adventure_items to match the character sheet's inventory behavior.

Thanks,
-kirbol

Hi Kirbol,

I haven't played Earthdawn since it's first version. Is it still D6 or have the switched to d20? Curious since am I looking to start a coding project for Open D6 and wanted to know the problems / challenges faced when working on D6 rulesets inside FG2, which is d20.

Actually Earthdawn (at least the versions I'm aware of) relies on a step based system. The higher the steps go, the more dice that are totaled together.

For instance, step 5 = d8, step 6 = d10, step 7 = d12 ... step 13 = d12 + d10, these results are then totaled and applied against a difficult number (or an opposed step roll).

I'm not really familiar with the Open d6 ruleset, so I'm not sure if it's based on successes, or if they are totaled rolls (ie West End Games' Star Wars).

I haven't done anything yet with a success based system. When using a totaled dice pools, FG2 seems fairly straight forward. Essentially just pushing extra dice into the dice array before calling the throwDice function of the chat window.

Hopefully that helps some:)
-kirbol

Awesome work. Just took a quick look at it and it makes me want to get an Earthdawn game going again heh.

I posted on the Redbrick forums that someone else has kindly picked up from where I left off and made some great improvements. I have an Ultimate license so volunteered to demo the ruleset to people.

Woot I may have to come back to Fantasygrounds now ;) I've been trying to get a maptools version working for a while (and keep getting side tracked due to work)

Thanks:) Heh, actually if you get an ED going and need a player, let me know, I'd love to play:)

I don't know when I will have time for another full blown game but I may work on setting up a one shot to test this out

Couple of quick questions. First Off I'm only familiar with the 4e sheets so these may be stupid.

Also, how does one figure Armor Defeating Hits? Shift to ignore armor? Drop it on the damage instead of the armor?

On talents that require karma when you roll them does it auto roll the karma, and subtract it?

Finally how does one get the player sheet info to the combat tracker is it something that has to be hand typed, I tried dropping the character portrait to it but it didn't populate the stats..

Armor defeating hits would be dropped on to the Damage --> Taken field on the character sheet, or in the combat tracker, you can drop it on the box in the Dmg column. Wounds are automatically tallied if the damage taken is above the wound threshold, though they are not automatically applied to roll. If I can come up with a reasonable way to apply these, I may yet add in that functionality, though I don't want to over penalize rolls... currently using the mouse wheel to add a step modifier to the roll before rolling seems to work well.

Actually, because of discipline talents, and the variability of if a "required karma" talent actually required the use of karma, talents rolled from the talent page will require rolling the karma dice separately. Though double clicking on the karma step will automatically deduct one karma from the "Curr" total for you. (This also simplified those talents that could apply multiple karma dice.)

Alternatively, you could use the combat tab's attacks areas (maybe should have called this actions...) to configure and set up any talent roll and if the sheet detects karma as required or discipline, a karma checkbox will appear to add karma to the roll. You can drag and drop talent, skill, or spell names from the lists, or type in the full name of a Attribute (actually can type in any of these, but must be exact: Willpower, Melee Weapons, etc) into the Attack or Damage source fields which will auto link that source, and will track changes to the underlying abilities. (sorry, items and equipment are not auto updated, and need to be managed manually)

There are two possibilities to add characters to the combat tracker.
1) When a player is connected, the portrait on the tabletop in the upper left can be used to drag and drop that player into the CT
2) You can open the "Characters" selection screen, and drag the portrait from there.
Unfortunately, I was unable to find a simple way to allow this directly from the character sheet.

Well I gave it a try tonight on my in house game... Feedback as follows

Like in the 4e ruleset a good way to handle bonus and penalties seems like it would be conditions.. I.E. Aggressive Attack, Blindside, Harried, Wound penalties, etc,etc. Not sure if coding wise this would be the case.

Showing Player Armor Values on the Combat tracker under the shield for easy damage dropping.

Second players being able to click the init down when they are done.

As a Gm, more detailed npc sheet. Something for more then one spell perchance? And possibly a way to name attacks.Karma for NPCS!

Other then that I think it's a great project!

Please don't take these as It sucks and this needs done.. it is great and these would improve it.. is the better option to think of!