{"id":300,"date":"2015-02-20T19:41:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=300"},"modified":"2015-02-20T19:41:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:41:36","slug":"iced-in-friday-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Iced-In Friday Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ice<\/a>Longest…week…ever.\u00a0 A massive wave of snow and ice here in TN has made things rough this week.\u00a0 Deliveries are slow or not happening, driving is treacherous. The warehouse is getting cramped as I prepared a bunch of large orders for a customer, but they haven’t sent routing instructions due to the weather.\u00a0 Most of the supplies I ordered for this week haven’t shown up on time, including a desperately needed mouse for my home PC.<\/p>\n

I haven’t been avoiding DDM, but I have been working on different things than the Skirmish I want to play (Team Underdark vs. Lightning Arms).\u00a0 If folks don’t know the ‘Official’ owners of DDM is DDM Guild (Their home is currently here; I’m working to get it fixed so it shows up on the proper URL<\/a>).\u00a0 They are the folks making 2.0 new cards for miniatures that are released, and they are tentatively in charge of any organized play.\u00a0 The goal of the organization is noble (keeping DDM alive), however they’re struggling with essentially everything.\u00a0 Plus, they’ve made some odd choices that have only split our very tiny community even further (Breaking off the 1.0 players to their own website is one of the more mysterious)\u00a0, when they should be doing whatever they can to keep everyone in one place.\u00a0 I’m trying to work up a ‘kick in the butt’ action plan to revive the site and interest in the game, but there’s so much that needs to be done I’m afraid I’ll offend folks with my laundry list of challenges and proposed solutions.\u00a0 Still, I think it is an important endeavor…if you haven’t been to the DDM Guild site, you should go and participate!\"ice<\/a><\/p>\n

My other DDM project, the Pathfinder\/3.5 Conversion<\/a> is coming along well.\u00a0 A couple of my players have started their characters in Roll20<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s been pretty simple to go through the first chapter of the Shackled City Adventure Path and convert each of the monsters to DDM format.\u00a0 For spell-casters, I’m taking their best combat spells and converting them to DDM-style, though so far many of the spells already have equivalents in DDM (Bless, Magic Weapon, Color Spray (Nebin has it, though I had to use Bifur to look it up and find it)).\u00a0 We also decided that we would be using DDM-style initiative, as keeping track of initiative individually is for the birds.\u00a0 (One more rule in favor of DDM over D&D).\u00a0 It’s taken less time than I would have guessed to covert the entire chapter’s worth of monsters, at probably 2 hours.\u00a0 Plus, it did take another couple of hours to set up the new card template I demonstrated 2 posts back.\u00a0 Overall though, the more I work on it, the faster it seems to go.\u00a0 I’ll let you know how I feel when I get the characters to level 8-9, which is where the troubles usually began when I DM’d years ago.<\/p>\n

I’ll try to finish up my project list for DDM today or tomorrow, and get to the skirmish Sunday!<\/p>\n

As always, thank you so much for stopping by; feel free to offer any questions, comments or suggestions in the comments section or via email at tobias.truman@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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