Vampire the Masquerade Ruleset for FG3

To viresanimi :

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While I am very gratified that the combat tracker now works, I find it troublesome that I can't add or subtract damage directly to players and npcs...

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You can change health status on sheet page 2.

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If the discipline / Advantages dots were visible on Page 1 of the character sheet, like everything else, it would make it much easier to manage combat.

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The page 1 is full, but if page 3 is useless, i can add the "more" page on page 3 and delete the "more" page.

EDIT : What do you think about it ?

First of all. I would like to point out, that I don't find page 3 useless, and that may have been strong words and that wasn't intentional. I was merely trying to relay the feedback I got from my players.

So let me elaborate.

Page 3 definately has its uses. It is great for referencing various rolls. It really is. I have been playing Vampire on and off practically since it came out, but even I can't recall all the rolls all the time, so having a place to see them is very good. However. Mechanically the page does not take into account changes to stats based on Attributes being higher due to blood expenditure, nor if a character has potency or celerity, that effects those rolls. (We use the V20 rules by the way).

I would like to point out, that Page 3 is missing a roll option for base Firearms attacks. SUGGESTION: Rename the "weapon strike" to "Melee attack" and add a line underneath called "Firearms attack" with the option to roll that. Seems to me that there is space for it right there. Maybe with better titles than what I suggested... heh.

As regards to Health. Yes. It definately works. On Page 2. But what I would very much like to, is to be able to add or subtract damage to players / npc's on the combat tracker directly. For me it is all about "quality of life". When handling multiple NPC's in a fight, I found that I had to do a lot of "open page this, switch to page that, press the more button to see what level they had in disciplines because I am an old fart and I can't memorize them all, close it all again to open next npc - repeat".
I run FG on dual monitors with a high resolution, but it is hard to have a lot of NPC's open at the same time. I found that I spent a lot of time looking for information in various places, so my suggestions are merely here to make things easier too see and speed things up.

An example: The way that Disciplines is set up in the "more" tap is fine. But you can't see how many dots a player or npc actually has in a discipline (or background for that matter) on the frontpage. Now. IF it was possible to make the number of dots visible - nothing more - on page 1. Then I wouldn't need to open the more tap to check it out. It would be right there to see for fast referencing. Again... quality of life stuff.



BUG REPORT: I missed this the last time. We had some confusion regarding Health in the combat tracker and I only found out later why. At some point, after a few rounds, a new round of combat was about to begin and my players suddenly got a lot of errors (I think I mentioned this). What happened was that my players couldn't see how much damage they had inflicted on some of they enemies. They stated, that they were undamaged, when I could clearly see that that had taken damage.
I think I've seen the error they mentioned in another ruleset, and I believe it has also been reported. I think this is a FG problem somewhere. I will report it, if it happens again.


In regards to the option to hide GM rolls in chat, that is something I hope will get fixed. There is an option to turn it "off", but it doesn't work, so I take it as a bug.


I don't know a good way to handle temporary increases in attributes and disciplines that affect dicepools. Celerity in particular requires some handling based on what you do with it. I will think more on it, and if I get any ideas, I will post them.


As always. Thanks for the work put into it. It is much appreciated.


Vires Animi


EDIT: I forgot to reply to your question. Sorry! I don't think moving Page 3 to the More tap is the way to go. I am sure that there are players out there, that like it just fine. People use FG in different ways and having options is a good thing I feel. Unless of course other people here has opinions on the matter, I think you should leave it as is.

Got a few thoughts here on an idea. Use or laugh at it, at your leisure *grin*


I noticed that if you double click on an attribute or an ability, it will roll the corresponding number of dice at a difficulty of 6. But if the difficulty is not 6, you have to change the difficulty each time. So that got me thinking.

In the NWoD ruleset you can download from this site; double clicking on something merely added the dice to a pool, which you could then roll, by right clicking the "difficulty square".

So this was what I was thinking. What if the Modifiers (the +/- button) was redesigned:
Note: I am getting inspirered a bit from the Modifier from the D&D ruleset.

Let double clicking on stats add to a dicepool.
Perhaps double clicking on a health line (say mauled -2) would remove the corresponding dice from the pool.
Have an easy way to add or subtract dice, which you might get for rolling high numbers of succeses on an attack for example. (perhaps a plus and a minus button)

Then be able to push a button called "Roll Dice" or similar and all the dice would be rolled that way.

You could have a list with the difficulty numbers possible to one side from 10 down to .. what is the lowest again? 3? Anyhoo. It would make chosing a difficulty easy. Personally I would leave it such that whatever you have chosen, it stays there until you choose another. There are times when I don't want everything to default to 6, but that is just me.

Anyways. I am envisioning a window that would handle dice rolling in general, for players and npc's.

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On the subject of temporary increases in physical attributes, I thought about the following:

Have a couple of small + and - icons next to the physical attributes, so the attributes could be altered. I was thinking that dots added would be grey instead of black, so it was clear that these were temporary stats, and the buttons couldn't change the attribute itself (i.e.: pressing the - button would only remove temporary dots).

If these temporary dots would add to those the character had, it would be great.

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Anyways. These are just ideas that I've been thinking of. No clue if these are hard to make or too much work. I am not a coder and all that. If you don't like them, ignore it. If you do, well great!

Vires Animi

Hello,
When i drag a PC or NPC to the combat tracker, it's ok for the GM but health (bruised,injured,...) are not linked into the Client Tracker. So when GM modify health from the combat tracker, it's happen nothing to the client tracker.
Any idea ? Thanks.

Psting the latest link to the ruleset download on the first post for easier access.

Link : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...set/VtM1.8.pak

JPG

Here are a couple pieces of feedback, based on your question:

* You should choose one name for the ruleset (i.e. VtM or Vampire or ...). Otherwise, the people using your ruleset will not be able to upgrade easily between different versions of your ruleset when you update. You can add a version message on login for your ruleset, instead of the CoreRPG one (see desktop.lua:onInit)

* The name field in the CT overlaps the health nodes right now. Make sure to use relation="relative" in the right anchor for the health box layout in the CT entry.

* The health nodes in the CT are currently disabled, so you can't make changes to the CT entry health unless you open the full sheet. They should only be disabled on the client CT.

* The health nodes in the CT are reflecting the changes I made in the full sheet and they are propagating to the client, so I'm not seeing the issue of the client not reflecting the changes.

Hope that helps,
JPG

it's with it : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...VtM1.9BETA.pak

EDIT : thanks for your reply
EDIT2 : how can i add a signature ?

Oh. This is nice!!!


Vires Animi

Yep but there is a bug when you delete and add entry to the combat tracker like i have say.

Can you give me more detail on the bug? How to reproduce?

I've never played Vampire, so I don't really know what I'm looking at or have any sample PCs/NPCs to use.

Thanks,
JPG