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Post by dark on Nov 8, 2005 9:02:46 GMT
Hi.
I've just found this page in my ever ongoing search to find fun Rpg style things to do online. Being a blind person, I use a speech synthesisor on the internet and can't read normal text, so any sort of online Rpg type thing is extremely good for me. I had a running battle a few years ago with the British Braille transcription service about producing Fighting fantasy books in braille and they catagorically refused, so it's great that these things are available in an accessible format.
Is Flight from Darkness the first book? should I start there? Any advice upon starting out would be appreciated.
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Post by Al on Nov 8, 2005 9:31:31 GMT
Hi Dark! Yeah, flight from the dark is the first one, and then they go from there, in the order that they appear. thier are 28 lone wolf books in total, of which project aon has reproduced 16. They are working on the rest. They have also produced the spin-off to lone wolf and will be working on the freeway warrior series. If you are looking for other on-line roleplay forums, I would suggest www.towerofthesun.com , which is another LW fan site were everyone takes an online persona for the forums, (I play the leader of the Dwarfs, and we are looking for new members if you are intested) and we collectivly write the story of magnamund (the world lone wolf takes place in) in the future after the lone wolf books. the tower of the sun forum and the project aon forum are very complimentary, and many of the most active posters are the same on both. i hope you enjoy your time here at project aon! Al
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Post by dark on Nov 8, 2005 10:49:33 GMT
Hi.
Thanks for the suggestion about the Rping forum. I'll have a look through some of the Lone wolf books to get an idea of the world, then maybe I'll have a bash at some online Rping.
speaking of the books, one minor problem I've found is the random number tables, both for combat results and random number generation at the back of each book. My synthesisor doesn't seem to like reading them, are they illustrations?
I'm guessing both tables work in a fairly logical way, and I wonder if I can get the same effect by using dice. I have a programme that will simulate a role of as many dice as I want with as many sides as I want, so generating random numbers isn't a problem.
would it be possible for someone to please let me know how low and high both tables go? and what the ratio of plusses and minuses to Lone Wolf's and the enemy's endurence are?
Sorry to be a pest, I can't wait to play through the books, and this is the only obstacle in my way as far as I can see (which is not far!).
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Post by Al on Nov 8, 2005 11:27:35 GMT
Hi Dark
the random number table is simply a ten sided dice, going from 0-9. The combat results table is a little more tricky. I am not sure if someone has it in a readable format, as both are in picture format in the books.
There was a discussion in another thread about whether or not this table had a logic to it, but no one knows what this, which would make reproducing it easier.
If you still have problems, let me know, I will slog though and reproduce the table the old fashioned way if you need help.
Al
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Post by dark on Nov 8, 2005 12:04:06 GMT
Well rolling a D10 shouldn't be a problem using my dice programme. About the combat results bit, I'm sorry, I thought there was some kind of formula I could apply when calculating what happpens in combat.
If you wouldn't mind, a text version of the combat results table would be really useful to me --- and anyone else with site problems who want's to play Lonewolf books. Does the table change for each book or series? It'd make my life easier if it didn't.
apart from this everything else seems fine, i can reccord all the stats and such in a standard word processor (as I used to do when I played tabletop D&D), and flip through the pages of the books using the online Html versions which this site has.
From reading the rules, there don't seem to be any other issues whatsoever.
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Post by Al on Nov 8, 2005 12:32:06 GMT
Hi the table remains teh same for all the LW books and for the Grey Star books (I am not sure about the Freeway Warrior books though) I will put the table on a simple word document then, is that cool? Al
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Post by dark on Nov 8, 2005 13:18:24 GMT
that's great! to be honest you don't even need to worry to much about formatting it as a table, just as long as the numbers are there that's fine.
You can mail it to me if that's okay, but it'd probably be helpfull to other blind players, so it would probably be useful to have up on this site somewhere, maybe with a link to Gma games who make the free, dice rolling programme I mentioned as well, sinse as far as I know nobody produces tactile D10 dice.
thanks in advance for all the evil coppying.
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Post by Al on Nov 8, 2005 13:29:37 GMT
No prob, I will email you the table, and let a site admin determine what to do with it here, once it is done. Al
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Post by dark on Nov 8, 2005 14:05:41 GMT
Yep, I've got it, thanks a lot for that, that means I can now play all these books! though now it seems I must abandon all hope of getting any! work done at all today, oh well, never mind.
LEttting the site admins handle stuff is probably a good idea, if anyone wants to ask me anything about accessability, just E-mail or Pm me, or just start a topic.
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Post by outspaced on Nov 8, 2005 15:05:23 GMT
Hi Dark The Freeway Warrior Combat Results Table is different, I'm afraid, and is somewhat more random than the one used in Lone Wolf / Grey Star. As far as the link, I don't see a problem with it. If you could post the URL link to the actual site, I'm fairly sure that we would link to it under the Other Links heading, helping visually impaired Lone Wolf fans everywhere. That said, it might take a while to add the link since the Project Coordinator might be out of town for a few days.
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Post by dark on Nov 8, 2005 15:41:40 GMT
Well, I'll worry about the Freeway warrior stuff when I actually get there! I've just finished the first Lonewolf book, and fun it was (though I'm sure I missed some items somewhere along the line).
Okay outspaced, I'll mail the link for the dice programme to the site.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Nov 8, 2005 15:59:32 GMT
Welcome to Project Aon, Dark. I like the name--very clever, considering the circumstances.
Since Al already did his recruiting bit for Tower of the Sun, I won't lean too hard on the subject (usually I PM newbies to recruit them), but you should consider joining once you've got a feel for Magnamund from the Lone Wolf books. While PA has a very cool forum here with some great conversations and people, it really is a forum for the books themselves rather than for the Lone Wolf community as a whole, so you'll find a bit more going on over at Tower of the Sun (with a lot of the same people, as Al said--Outspaced is really the only one who doesn't post there but is active here).
I'm sure someone'll beat me to it, but if no one transcribes the combat results table into text for you, I'll do it tomorrow. It shouldn't be too difficult to do, since you don't really need it formatted; you just need the breakdown of results.
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Post by dark on Nov 8, 2005 16:38:22 GMT
thanks Dusk fox. Al already sent me a very nice Ms word copy of the table, and using it I was able to get through the first Lonewolf book. I'll certainly pop over to Towerofthesun.com as soon as I've played through a few more Lonewolf adventures.
As to the name, It's not actually to do with my site ---- though I do agree, it would make an amusing Irony. I can actually see a bit (though not very much), enough say to play most 2D platform games on the Snes or Mega drive (genesis), but not enough to play the hugely 3d stuff that comes out nowadays (accept for the odd beat-em-up), also not enough to read printed text, one of the reasons I'm nerely always scouring the internet for new Rpg games.
Dark was actually the main charactor of a novel I started about six years ago, I used it as an online alius for quite a while. now of course the Dark novel is long ago difunked in favor of other projects, but the alius stil remains!
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Post by Zipp on Nov 8, 2005 17:41:06 GMT
Welcome Dark, and I'll be the third person to reccomend Tower of the Sun to you. I used to work with the blind to reproduce books in brail, and I know how some publishers simply refuse to support it.
In any case, I'm glad you will get the chance to enjoy Lone Wolf.
By the way, I'm working on an addition to the books you might be interested in, it expands the "boss" fights, such as the fight with the gourgaz (not sure if you fought it or not) in book 1. It adds in strategy alongside the dice rolling, to make it a more memorable fight. If this one goes well, I'll be expanding fights in the other books too. I'll make it available as a PDF, do you have the program to convert that into brail?
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Post by dark on Nov 8, 2005 21:44:01 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!
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.
the problem of publishers and putting things into braille or on tape is a minor pest, but not half as much of a pest as two other problems.
1: In britain, the government doesn't subsidise the conversion of any books into braille or tape. This is different in the states though.
2: At least in Britain, the people employed by organization like the Rnib to decide what books to convert into braille or tape are extremely stuipd as far as Science fiction and Fantasy goes. Sinse most blind people are over the age of 70, Science fiction and fantasy aren't high on the priority list anyway, then, libruaries have a nasty habbit of not looking at what they're recording or transcribing, so they'll record the first of a series and no more, the last of a series, or even random books mid series. this! drives! me! ballistic!!
Mmm, I'd better stop here before this turns into a wrant ---- oh damn! too late! Oh well, all praise to the internet, and further praise to Projectaon.org for accessible books.
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