man i love these kinds of stories. you have so much fun ahead of you. what is the app you are using on your ipad in that picture?

We've gotten a pretty good idea of what's lying ahead of us. Can't wait to explore all of it

The app is simply called "Paper" (I think the developer is called "Fifty-Three" or something like that). I designed an adventure that revolves around the PCs exploring an Arcology of the Shipwrights-guild on Fondor and I drew a layout of the different floors with the app. Gotta say it has really served its purpose well ^.^

I have many tables. It's just wherever we happen to be. Either at one of the fold out tables at out FLGS, or at a large booth in ihop.

I ran my first ever RPG today for a group of friends that had no experience with RPGs either. It was just plain awesome and I'm happy to say that we're gonna do this a lot now ^.^

Here's a picture of how I set up the table before we started playing:

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I couldn't have run this game without the fantastic hints and tips from all the guys in this forum. So to anyone that reads this: consider yourself rocking (should you not already do so anyways)!

Greetings from Germany!

Looks fine! I hope you got an awesome experience!

Grüße aus München!

Gargi

What is the advantage of the drawing app that paper & colored pencils couldnt do quicker & easier?

I'm not trolling, just curious. I like the idea of more digital apps but want to know more.

What is the advantage of the drawing app that paper & colored pencils couldnt do quicker & easier?

I'm not trolling, just curious. I like the idea of more digital apps but want to know more.

i have a white board on the table and use that for off the cuff maps. but an app allows me to prep a series of maps ahead of time and not have to pause the flow of the game to erase an old map and redraw another. i could achieve the same thing with paper i suppose but i don't like wasting paper.

from our latest session. Did a minor encounter at some cantina. decided to pull out a lot of mini's for it, just because i could

Looks fine! I hope you got an awesome experience!

Grüße aus München!

Gargi

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What is the advantage of the drawing app that paper & colored pencils couldnt do quicker & easier?

I'm not trolling, just curious. I like the idea of more digital apps but want to know more.

I simply used it, because at the point I had already put together tons of paper (cheatsheets, character sheets, etc.) that would be flying around the table. Since the maps were of such importance, i wanted them to sorta stick out =)

Pictures of my table can be seen at my flickr site

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zippee/sets/72157633554453675/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zippee/sets/

Wow. I have dreams of such a place....

I'll try it to explain

First you have to print the map like I placed it on a A4 paper here in order to meassure the correct distances between starting point and your target:

So we travel from Rodia to Gamorr. Rodia is in the Mid Rim and Gamorr in the Outer Rim. The direct Connection is 4,5 cm. BUT! 3,5 cm in the Mid Rim and 1 cm in the Outer Rim. Travel time in the Inner Rims is much longer due to more star systems, planets, higher gravity fields and so on. So you have to use the ring modifier for every part within every ring you are crossing:

3,5 x 1,1 = 3,85

1 x 1 = 1

Together: 4,85

Now the cm into lightyears using the LY modifier:

4,85 x 6977 = 33.838,45 lightyears

A factor 1 Hyperdrive makes 5707 lightyears per hour:

33.838,45 / 5707 = 5.9 hours ( 6 hours)

Since my players have a Factor 2 drive, it is

6 x 2 = 12 hours.

On this map you see Hyperspace routes. Using a hyperspace route, this would be the time it will last. But between Rodia and Gamorr there is none, so it will be 8 times longer on an external route:

12 hours x 8 = 96 hours

And now the astrogation check: The better it is, a better route is found and can be shortened by an additional factor. So the distance is below 50.000 lightyears, roll an easy astrogation check (for hyperspace routes, count the amount of rings you are crossing). So as an example you got an successful roll, count the advantages (not successful count the threats) . In our example maybe 2 advatages. The modifier is 0,8:

96 hours x 0,8 = 76,8 ( 77 hours)

That means travel time is 3 days and 5 hours.

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Gargi

I got one question regarding that map/calculations: I like the idea very, very much and will my players encourage to do their own calculations. I printed the map (made it myself with your links) and to test it, i used the "route" you set as an example to verify it. Unfortunately the distance in my print between Rodia and Gamorr is much larger (5,3cm) so i will definitly have different travel times.

How do you come up with the LY factor and the HD Divisor? Do you have a reference i could use to calibrate my map?

This works too: http://d6holocron.com/astrogation/index.php

This works too: http://d6holocron.com/astrogation/index.php

ha, my players went from Tatooine to the minos cluster and just an educated guess i said 15 days without measuring calculations and fiddling with maps. you links says 16.3 days. Close enough for me especially since time was not an issue.

This is Star Wars, not science

Wow. I have dreams of such a place....

I had a dream - build it and they will come...

And now there's 60' of broken and shattered tree bough strewn across it all, shattered fences and railings but fortunately no structural damage or smashed windows just a large clearance bill

Thank the maker, Zippee. I'm a carpenter, if I lived near you, I would come help. For the low, low price of a seat at your table.

Pictures of my table can be seen at my flickr site

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zippee/sets/72157633554453675/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zippee/sets/

This is unmistakably a suburb of London (or at least it looks like it). What part? I was born in Harrow...live in California now. Game room looks phenomenal, I'm completely green with envy.

My table feels inferior to the likes of you ('you' meaning all of you other people.).

I just have a desk downstairs, where I do all the GMing, and my players sit on a couch. My GM screen is cardboard. My dice are my brother's from the Beginner's Game, so our gameplay is actually at his mercy.

But it's better than the old table. The old table was a Thomas Train table with the boards upside down. And we still sat on the couch.

...

*Averts eyes in shame* Don't look at me!

This works too: http://d6holocron.com/astrogation/index.php

ha, my players went from Tatooine to the minos cluster and just an educated guess i said 15 days without measuring calculations and fiddling with maps. you links says 16.3 days. Close enough for me especially since time was not an issue.

This is Star Wars, not science

I just like the site because it's like a nav computer and it's easy and quick. No science involved in putting in the names and finding the travel time. A few

My table feels inferior to the likes of you ('you' meaning all of you other people.).

I just have a desk downstairs, where I do all the GMing, and my players sit on a couch. My GM screen is cardboard. My dice are my brother's from the Beginner's Game, so our gameplay is actually at his mercy.

But it's better than the old table. The old table was a Thomas Train table with the boards upside down. And we still sat on the couch.

...

*Averts eyes in shame* Don't look at me!

what? you saying I wouldn't want to sit in a couch? Couches are comfy

My table feels inferior to the likes of you ('you' meaning all of you other people.).

I just have a desk downstairs, where I do all the GMing, and my players sit on a couch. My GM screen is cardboard. My dice are my brother's from the Beginner's Game, so our gameplay is actually at his mercy.

But it's better than the old table. The old table was a Thomas Train table with the boards upside down. And we still sat on the couch.

...

*Averts eyes in shame* Don't look at me!

Don't feel bad, we game in our living room around our couch. Nothing special about it. Although, I do have a Kegerator in the living room. Which is usually stocked with homebrew, and often gets a few of my players in trouble. If you catch my meaning.

Hi people!

This is my/our personal Factory of Dreams corner. A small and comfortable place where we where playing the same session above 6 or 7 years plus a a few ones (up to year 1.999) in another home, with the same story and the same character.

Ha passed through D6, d20, d20 Heavily MOD, Saga, Saga + M&M, a personal game that we created, with no system just narrative XD and awaiting to embrace a full Edge experience.

We have a Dolby, a Fridge, a Laptop conected to the TV and... a player needs anything else? The bathroom is upstaris XD

Hope you enjoy it

My table feels inferior to the likes of you ('you' meaning all of you other people.).

I just have a desk downstairs, where I do all the GMing, and my players sit on a couch. My GM screen is cardboard. My dice are my brother's from the Beginner's Game, so our gameplay is actually at his mercy.

But it's better than the old table. The old table was a Thomas Train table with the boards upside down. And we still sat on the couch.

...

*Averts eyes in shame* Don't look at me!

what? you saying I wouldn't want to sit in a couch? Couches are comfy

Well, I have to sit at the desk that's cluttered with game papers while the players sit on the other side of the room, and one always tries to play the computer. At least, they did the first time we played, but now I've rearanged the room, and it might be easier to manage them (We still have the same stuff, but the couch is shoved right up to the desk and the computer is farther away and harder to get to).

I'll see if I can post a picture up here some time to show you the full matter of this equation...

My table feels inferior to the likes of you ('you' meaning all of you other people.).

I just have a desk downstairs, where I do all the GMing, and my players sit on a couch. My GM screen is cardboard. My dice are my brother's from the Beginner's Game, so our gameplay is actually at his mercy.

But it's better than the old table. The old table was a Thomas Train table with the boards upside down. And we still sat on the couch.

...

*Averts eyes in shame* Don't look at me!

Don't feel bad, we game in our living room around our couch. Nothing special about it. Although, I do have a Kegerator in the living room. Which is usually stocked with homebrew, and often gets a few of my players in trouble. If you catch my meaning.

I'm supposing that your games include a good deal of bar scenes with realistic roleplaying.

Only supposing.

Don't feel bad, we game in our living room around our couch. Nothing special about it. Although, I do have a Kegerator in the living room. Which is usually stocked with homebrew, and often gets a few of my players in trouble. If you catch my meaning.

I'm supposing that your games include a good deal of bar scenes with realistic roleplaying.

Only supposing.

Sometimes a bit too realistic. But those instances are few and far between. We use gaming as our primary excuse to hang out, so usually we're knocking a few back as we do so. One of these days, I might re-arrange the living room so I can actually do a bar scene and it not be me running around the furniture to start dispensing beverages.

This is an old picture of my last campaign using d20 Saga, but it hasn't changed much. Replace d20 dice with Edge dice. Replace laptop with Ipad and the GM Screen. Less occurences of large graph paper.

This is unmistakably a suburb of London (or at least it looks like it). What part? I was born in Harrow...live in California now. Game room looks phenomenal, I'm completely green with envy.

You have keen eyes young padawa - Walthamstow, in the eaves of Epping Forest looking down to the City. The room has been an excellent investment, the 8x6 table doubles as a cutting table for my wife's dressmaking interests. Yesterday we played out the Battle of the Yellow Sea 1904 with space to spare, Thursdays is SW night, next weekend more D&D. It's good to have everything on hand, even has its own network but it's a long walk to the loo (which as we're getting older is more of an issue that it should be ). All in all it's been £10k well spent, good added property value, extra space (whatever it's used for) sells and the rear garden looks far better than it did. Well worth the couple of years of toil