Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition Ruleset

I'd like to split off the Creatures, Creature Groups and Nemesis Groups off to a separate library so I can control visibility to the players. What is the best method?

I've tried two ways, and am not sure which to use. First I exported a module and simply cut and paste in the library entries.
Second, I opened up a 3.5 module and changed its definition.xml to point to wfrp rules set and gutted out most of the db.xml and replaced with what I wanted. Both methods seemed to work though I'd like to know if there is a best practice.

Cheers!

Oh BTW is this a bug, or something I have done wrong?: The skills, once drag and dropped to a character all revert characteristic type STR, so all rolls from them are strength

hmm nevermind, working fine now...

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Originally Posted by Thete

I'd like to split off the Creatures, Creature Groups and Nemesis Groups off to a separate library so I can control visibility to the players. What is the best method?

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I would split your library into two seperate library modules, a players library and a GM's library. Simply take your current library, copy it, and then strip out the items from either library depending on if you want to visible to the players or GM.

The only other change you would need to make is to edit the definition.xml file in each library in order to give them a unique name.

Using this method the GM would be able to load both the Player and GM library in order to have access to both, but only set the player library to be loaded for the players.

Neil, Just want to say thanks for keeping things updated, I love it.

I haven't upgraded to the latest yet (scared I am going to screw things up), but I'm wondering if you noticed this bug and already fixed it:

I was making new creature groups and noticed when I reopened the module, the pre-made beastmen that were in the "Day Late" addition were being added to my monster groups. I have to keep that library shut in order for them not to be added.

Yes, enjoying the ruleset very much, i've even started to reskin it and add minimized icons of all the action card types s to add to that tabletop feel. Also helps visually remind players if they have wound cards on the desktop, rather than bured in a tab. Actually, one bottle neck i have found in play is clicking through the action card types on players char sheets, maybe a window that lists all the characters and their actions regardless of type would be usefull. let me know if you are interested in a mock up.
In a blue sky ideal, the window would represent the players as a schematic with all cards as nodes for easy click access, but a simple list would suffice :)

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Originally Posted by TFWoods3

I was making new creature groups and noticed when I reopened the module, the pre-made beastmen that were in the "Day Late" addition were being added to my monster groups. I have to keep that library shut in order for them not to be added.

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Apologies for the slow reply, Ive stopped recieving email updates from these forums for some reason!

Are you exporting your own module using the export facility? If so, then you will need to ensure that the "Day Late" module is not loaded otherwise its details will get merged into your own module.

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Originally Posted by Thete

In a blue sky ideal, the window would represent the players as a schematic with all cards as nodes for easy click access, but a simple list would suffice :)

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I agree that the little radio buttons for cycling through the different action cards/conditions/etc is slow. Perhaps something similar to the library screen would work better? A list of the different card types down one side and the ability to drill down to specific cards?

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Originally Posted by neilgfoster

I agree that the little radio buttons for cycling through the different action cards/conditions/etc is slow. Perhaps something similar to the library screen would work better? A list of the different card types down one side and the ability to drill down to specific cards?

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In my mind I picture something you don't have to drill down too much. A window that shows a list of all the cards associated with a character at a glance, ideally with the current recharge displayed too. Actually it could be a tab on the character sheet. But I think what you're suggesting could be cool for the GM, a library, drill-down style list of all the active characters, npcs, party sheet with sublists of attached cards. I think it would be important that it just listed cards that are actually in play in someway.

Btw I've been playing around with the format of the Action Cards in an attempt to reduce the number of tabs to three, I find players get a little lost on the four tabs, will shoot you an example when I get it looking ok

So I purchased the ultimate license based on Doswelk's excellent tutorials for savage worlds and Neil's excellent work on WHFR ruleset.

As is common, my group is far flung and difficult to pin down and I really wanted to play WHFR badly!

So I got the ruleset loaded and I am making my entries into the library .mod file. It is going slow but well, only adding the actions and entries etc. that I am using at the present time.

Some of questions:

1. Is there a way to make a dice pool from an action card? Ie. I choose to use Melee Strike and it makes the appropriate dice pool that I can drop into the pool creation box? (the brown box above the dice). There are entries for misfortune, challenge, fortune and expertise for each action card entry.

2. Can you make new action card types like teamwork, basic, defense that are attributes of an action but not currently in the ruleset?

3. How does slotting a talent work? Maybe I missed something along the way. There is an area on the character sheet, but I cannot seem to make it work? The party sheet allows it by clicking on the talent slot type, it generates an empty slot. On the career card there are talent slots that you can click to change, but they don't affect the character sheet, at least mine doesn't.

I'll probably have more, but I just dove in today for the first time. Excellent work on this ruleset! I'm looking forward to running some games.

Thanks!

monkey

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Originally Posted by AMonkeyWithAFez

1. Is there a way to make a dice pool from an action card? Ie. I choose to use Melee Strike and it makes the appropriate dice pool that I can drop into the pool creation box? (the brown box above the dice). There are entries for misfortune, challenge, fortune and expertise for each action card entry.

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Not at the moment. It is something on my list of things to add in a future version of the ruleset.

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Originally Posted by AMonkeyWithAFez

2. Can you make new action card types like teamwork, basic, defense that are attributes of an action but not currently in the ruleset?

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Unfortunatley not as the action types are coded into the ruleset. The supported action types are Blessing, Melee, Ranged, Social, Spell and Support. The only way to add new action types would be to create an extension for the ruleset.

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Originally Posted by AMonkeyWithAFez

3. How does slotting a talent work? Maybe I missed something along the way. There is an area on the character sheet, but I cannot seem to make it work? The party sheet allows it by clicking on the talent slot type, it generates an empty slot. On the career card there are talent slots that you can click to change, but they don't affect the character sheet, at least mine doesn't.

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Make sure to select your characters active career. In the characters career list, the small tick box to the right of a career name allows you to select which one is the characters current career. This will then cause the careers talent slots to appear on the rest of the character sheet, as well as updating the characters stance with the career stance.

Glad to hear you are getting some use out of the ruleset. If you have any other questions then just ask!