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Post by outspaced on Nov 8, 2005 22:17:57 GMT
As much as is possible, Project Aon attempts to make all words actual text in PDF documents. This gives a greater level of editing for one thing, and allows us to fix spelling mistakes that would otherwise go unfixed. It also allows Acrobat to read the documents, though it doesn't always select the text in a sensible order if text boxes were used in the creation of the document (e.g. many of the Club Newsletters).
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Post by Zipp on Nov 8, 2005 22:29:41 GMT
That certainly does sound fun Zip, I did fight the Gourgaz, but owing to my high combat skill it wasn't exactly the most dramatic of battles. As to Pdf, I generally read everything with my speech synthesisor programme, I could buy a braille embosser to print things in braille, but speech synthesis is much quicker and less tiring, not to mention that storing hard coppies of braille would take several trucks! I was thinking one of those little brail computers. Those things are so cool. As to Pdf's if it one' of those pdf's that actually contains text my speech synthesisor will be fine with it, but if it's one of those that's more like a photograph of a text page there might be a problem. Very well, if you provide me with an email address, I'll send you a texted version of it. Do you have a Mac or a PC (more specifically, do you have Appleworks or Word)?
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Post by dark on Nov 8, 2005 22:45:42 GMT
Yep, braille displays are good things, though horribley horribley! expensive.
I've got a standard Pc with windows Xp and would probably be reading in Ms word, so any standard text file would probably be fine. Thanks very much for mailing it to me, it does sound like a fun addition to the Lone Wolf game. sorry about being a pest with Pdf's.
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Post by Zipp on Nov 8, 2005 23:26:05 GMT
No problem! It's as easy to make PDF as it is to make .docs (I'm on a Mac). I'm glad I found another interested person. I'm about two weeks away from completing it, so you'll have to wait a small bit.
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Post by dark on Nov 9, 2005 12:49:04 GMT
Certainly I'm interested. My one minor gripe with a lot of fighting fantasyesque things, either online or not, is that if they have good writing and descriptions and a huge world to explore, battles are usually slightly dull: "Roll a D6 and add your skill, do the same for the enemy then deduct two staminer points from the person with the least, rince repeat until death!"
On the other hand, a lot of the internet games that pretend to be fantasy Rpg's are nothing but highly complex stat crunching with no description or background or anything that makes the game fun.
the only thing I've found that hits the balance thus far is the online Gamebook style Rpg Sryth the Age of Igtheon (www.Sryth.com).
it'd be really nice if there was a way for Lone wolf to hit the balance as well, particularly with all those cool Jedi type powers.
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Post by Runeheart on Nov 10, 2005 11:33:28 GMT
"Roll a D6 and add your skill, do the same for the enemy then deduct two staminer points from the person with the least, rince repeat until death!" Not hard to see where this little bit of gaming genius was inspired from... and welcome to Project Aon! - no need to point the finger at PA's resident Fighting Fantasy Fanatic, hey outspaced ;D-
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Post by dark on Nov 10, 2005 13:01:08 GMT
Please don't think I'm complaining at Fighting Fantasy, the one's I've played through (with friends reading them), have been great fun, and have involed some interesting puzles with items and lots of getting totally lost! Even the Dungeon crawling is really good fun!
My only feeling was that from the one's I've seen (which is by no means a huge amount), some of the actual combat could have been a litle more strategic, and reflected the situation a bit more ---- after all, fighting a club wielding ogre probably requires very different tactics from fighting a huge tenticaled monstrosity.
I hope I haven't irritated Outspaced or anyone else here.
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Post by Al on Nov 10, 2005 13:12:13 GMT
I do not think you have to worry about upsetting any one here, we are a pretty thick skinned bunch! There is this online as well, if you are interested, I have read a few, and they are not bad, www.ffproject.comAl
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Post by Runeheart on Nov 10, 2005 13:18:36 GMT
I strongly doubt that you could offend anyone too much with game related stuff, and if the truth be known you just provided opportunity, you were certainly not the cause, outs just likes to let us know how many FF books he owns (brags really) by asking obtuse questions in the trivia quiz about books no one else has...
In all honesty it's quite difficult to irritate outspaced (small o, there is a reason I don't remember) and plenty of others will vouch for his good humor (I once claimed he was a darklord, the green stars are actually doom stones, or so I heard) and to quote someone else,' outspaced is about the most chilled out person I know' it's on the boards but you'll have to find it yourself
Anyway, I think you already know that Zipp is looking at the very issue you have highlighted.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Nov 10, 2005 15:02:01 GMT
I tweaked outs off once, but I have a nasty habit of doing that to people. I'm also the one who claims his stars are Doomstones.
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Post by outspaced on Nov 10, 2005 15:59:39 GMT
Hmm, a discussion about me. I've been meaning to set up a forum board devoted to myelf and my own inherent greatness for some time now. Strange how people over here consider me a big FF fan, whereas elsewhere people seem to think I'm too pro-Lone Wolf. So no, I'm not irritated in any way, merely a little bemused. Incidentally, FFProject is really very good, one title in particular. ;D The small o is just because. And I don't brag about my FF collection. I've been a fan for something like 18 or 19 years, so I'm bound to remember lots of useless trivia about the series! For instance, book 16: Seas of Blood contains a combat in the style that Dark and Zipp are talking about, with the end boss, a towering Cyclops. You don't fight him in the usual roll-to-hit manner, but you must weaken him by choosing options of where to punch/kick him, and each successful attack reduces his STAMINA slightly. DF has a talent for being both insulting and abrasive, probably without meaning to be. I sometimes wonder just how he does it, but it's probably best not to think about it. So anyway, earlier I was looking through my copies of Steve Jackson's The Tasks of Tantalon and Ian Livingstone's Casket of Souls, as well as the ultra-rare Fighting Fantasy Poster Book . . . What?
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Post by Al on Nov 10, 2005 16:09:05 GMT
Strange how people over here consider me a big FF fan, whereas elsewhere people seem to think I'm too pro-Lone Wolf. So no, I'm not irritated in any way, merely a little bemused. Incidentally, FFProject is really very good, one title in particular. ;D Did you write one of them?
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Post by longhairyuppiescum on Nov 10, 2005 17:13:13 GMT
Not one but two: Bodies and Yeti are by outspaced though under some synonym apparently..
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Post by dark on Nov 10, 2005 18:06:14 GMT
Well I'm glad I didn't cause offence, sorry, as a philosophy student I've too often seen arguements turn sour. It's quite odd you should mention Ff project, sinse that's the site that lead me here! I'm afraid I haven't tried Curse of the Yetty or Boddies in the Docks yet, I've finished The Black Lobster and Impudent Peasant, and am just trying to get through Hellfire ---- though I've tried three times now and each time ended up meating a very toasty end at a wall of flames! the Combat in Seas of Blood with the Cyclopse does sound like it approaches the kind of thing I was thinking of. Btw, if anyone wants to try an online game that's basically a gamebook with over five thousand pages of content with new stuff being added every couple of days and a fairly complex stats system, I highly Recommend Sryth. www.sryth.com/Don't be put off by the subscription bit, there's 2000 pages worth of free content in the game to play through anyway, and at twenty dollars a year (which was close to eleven pounds last time I checked), it's not exactly expensive to subscribe anyway.
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Post by longhairyuppiescum on Nov 10, 2005 18:39:53 GMT
... Don't be put off by the subscription bit, there's 2000 pages worth of free content in the game to play through anyway, and at twenty dollars a year (which was close to eleven pounds last time I checked), it's not exactly expensive to subscribe anyway. What's that? - On the site it says 'it's FREE'.. ?
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