So Dungeon Door has become a full blown gaming obsession. I am well into my second play through. This time with human warrior Suban and her faithful companion Plink, a fairy spellcaster.
It's been a little dicey, because neither of their attribute rolls were all that stellar, and I had to fudge a point just to get Plink's IQ high enough to let her cast 1st level spells.
I've yet to find any Exceptional Items, but I also haven't died yet so I'm calling it a wash. I've managed to avoid a fair number of trapped doors with some quality Saving Rolls vs IQ though. And an extremely fortuitous SR vs SPD by both of them got me away from a Giant Scorpion with a nasty special move and a MR50 when I was down to my last couple of Constitution points. They aren't gaining XP as fast as my previous game, in part because I decided not to award points for room or door searches. Technically I could, but since I'm searching every door and room for traps and hidden doors/containers, I decided it would get a bit silly
I also decided to use Mythic to check for quests from the Fighter's Guild and Wizard's Guild in Delverton. The Wizard's were game, so I used the Unusual Item table to see what they were after. Apparently it's a Magical Talking Mouth. A few more rolls, and the reward turned out to be 24GP and 50XP. I haven't found it yet but it's another reason to keep digging deeper.
As I was laid up in bed I also took the time to create a fairly descent framework for both Tunnels & Trolls and Dungeon Door inside of Maptools. The tiles have macros that let me generate halls or rooms on the fly, and token tool tips have let me mark locked doors i didn't want to break down and traps I spotted in time but wasn't willing to risk disabling.
Now, I have to go see about a scorpion..
You can't leave us such an awesome screenshot without a link to the software! (Unless, of course, it's only for commercial OSes, in which it's not interesting!)
ReplyDeleteWhat is this thing?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rptools.net/toolbox/maptool/
ReplyDeleteIt's called Maptool. It's free, and runs on any OS. The screenshot is running on an Ubuntu derivative.
It's free and open source software designed for running tabletop games online. It's like roll20, but better in my oppinion. I use it often for solo games and for group games.
It does a lot of things, but in my opinion the best feature is the deep macro capabilities. It has support for custom tables, dice cslculations, and much more. Macros can be assigned globally, per campaign, or per token. In the image you can see that I've programmed all of Plinks Saving rolls, with adds derived from her character sheet. I've also set her up with macros for her most commonly used spells and weapon. Through the use of macros I can also adjust her Constitution, Wizardry and XP. The dungeon tiles are all copies of a token, with macros referencing images on a table which will randomly select the image for s room or hallway when clicked. And so on..
It runs as a local client, but you can also run a server to allow others to connect to your session.
The image assets are from my own collection that has been growing over the last decade. The dungeon tiles are from the Dindjinni forums. If you guys are interested I can share the campaign file, but it will only have the dice macros and such. The image and asset library lives on the host machine, so those don't get transferred with the packaged save file except for those placed on the play area.
I'm using the 1.4 bets, and it's been mostly stable. However they have downloads for all of the previously releases as well.
I forgot to mention, there is a learning curve. I've been using it for about 5 years and still reference the wiki regularly. The more so now that JavaScript is supported in macros. It's worth it, but I thought it worth mentioning.
ReplyDeleteWow I’ve looked at maptool before but never really dug into it too much. Looks super cool though.
ReplyDeleteI do use their tokentool all of the time though.
I could never get mapmaker to work for me. Token tool works great thouh.
ReplyDeleteI think I downloaded MapTool about a year ago, ran it and scratched my head, and removed it from my system. Now that I'm looking at it again, I can see how it would be a really nice tool to work with on dungeon delves. Have you used it to map out any hexcrawls, Geoff Osterberg?
ReplyDeleteDan Davis I haven't. Maptool does support hexes, but I prefer Hexographer for that type of project. It cost a bit, though I forget how much, but it runs on any system and is great for wilderness and overworld mapping.
ReplyDeleteI love maptool, it's the only tool I can find that lets me make complex random tables, draw multiple maps, and keep track of character sheets and stats all in the same program.
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