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General Chatter - The Boozer / Thomas the tank engine succumbed to the forces of chaos.

« on: July 14, 2018, 10:27:12 AM »

Taking the name ‘Thomas the Daemon Engine”, the newly corrupted machine will run a service between the town of Tidmouth and the dark city of Commorragh twice a day.

“It could be worse,” passengers told us. “We could have to commute by First Great Western.”

Article: http://newsthump.com/2017/09/10/commuters-express-concern-as-thomas-the-tank-engine-falls-to-the-power-of-chaos/

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Mount and Blade Discussion - Sargoth Town Square / Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord - Dev Blog 31/05/18. Recruitment system

« on: June 12, 2018, 01:53:39 PM »

Just wanted to air this in case anyone hadn't seen it

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord - Dev Blog 31/05/18. Recruitment system

I really like the sound of having specific people that you need to approach to gain troops, and that they wont always just be entry level townsfolk.

It sounds like a vast improvement on what - to my mind - were the 2 approaches in warband:

Approach 1: Have killy people.
Step 1: Go to towns
Step 2: Get lots of cannon fodder
Step 3: Ensure my army lineup is mostly cannon fodder
Step 4: Start (and hopefully win) fight
Step 5: Is my army now full of awesome people? y: hooray! n: Go to step 6.
Step 6: Is my army too small? y: Go to step 1. n: Go to step 3

Approach 2: Rescuing / capturing.

Basically the same as above except start with a club, and bash other people with clubs on the head

That log also mentions that all the lords recruit from the same recruitment pools. That should make it more realistic, but a slight concern I have with that is that warband had a lot of battles going on all the time.
It may mean you have to get inventive with where you recruit from. For example if there is a lengthy war going on and all the troop vendors are constantly low because lords are using them all the time maybe you can travel further afield to more peaceable lands where there is more of an abundance of troops.
I wonder if they will leave in the option of doing some sort of pressgang / conscription to corall pezzies into your ranks - like what would have happened historically when the population ran out of the best candidates for soldiery.

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Spamfest! / vent

« on: June 02, 2018, 02:16:38 PM »

I JUST SPENT A DAY TRYING TO FIX A THING AND FINALLY FIXED IT

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Computer Game Development - The Indie Alley / [Dev Log] Tourney: The medieval tournament sim

« on: April 13, 2018, 10:23:10 AM »

Build the ultimate medieval tournament - and lead your house to glory

Release Date: 4th November 2021

Tourney is a tycoon style simulator / simulation PC game. It will allow you to take control of a medieval noble house, and then build a tournament or "tourney" ground where you can watch your champions vie for victory, or dive in and get involved in the combat!

Gameplay features for Tourney:

* Build your tourney ground. Event areas for jousting, melee and archery; and buildings such as apothecaries, blacksmiths, stands, ale wagons, hog roasts and more
* Choose your champion. Build their skills. Buy them the best armour and weapons.
* Fight your way to the top and win the tournament
* 13 playable houses with unique heraldry, traits and heroes
* Keep the peasants and nobility happy to keep the gold rolling in
* Hire staff members such as jesters and troubadours
* Lots of parody and hidden references!



For more info on what is planned in development for the game, see here

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Musical instrument question

« on: April 12, 2018, 01:05:54 PM »

Does anyone happen to know what the instrument is that forms the main motif in this song?

Also is it the same instrument that they are using at the beginning of this song (about 10 secs in)?

My best guess is either a lute or an oud

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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / New words

« on: April 12, 2018, 12:08:49 PM »

Random cool words I've come across and either not heard before, or have heard before and forgotten.

Please feel free to add your own!

Today's word: Petrichor - the earthy smell you get after rain

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Computer Game Development - The Indie Alley / [New project] Help with names

« on: April 06, 2018, 03:22:09 PM »

This isn't (yet) a demostrable product so not sure if this is the best forum to ask this... please move if not


I'm writing a medieval sim style game that involves a number of knights from up to 16 medieval noble houses with heraldry, probably some amount of backstory but I need good ideas for house names. This would be for the house rather than an individual's name (e.g. Lancelot's house I believe was Benwick). This is because the knights can die and so will have randomly generated first names.


I was initially going to go for the pseudo-real angle, with house names like Goodwin / Redmond and that sort of thing. But then I thought it might be good fun to instead have the houses as spoofs of things pop culture or even some exilian references?! My only worry is that there aren't 16 that are well known enough.


Couple of ideas I had:


Bannister, house crest could be a ballistrade (Send up of Lannister)
Birodragon (pendragon)


So does anyone have any house name suggestions, or maybe know of a good resource I can use? What Exilian references might work?


Is my fledgeling idea of having spoof names actually a good one? I suspect that since I am asking this in a forum frequented by medievalists the answer will be a no...

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Tabletop Games - The Game Room / Gloomhaven

« on: March 23, 2018, 10:09:29 AM »

I've been playing a great deal of Gloomhaven over the last few months. If you don't know what it is, you can get some details about it here.


My top level summary of it is that it is a tactical combat board game for 1* to 4 players where you have a persistent world, so your all of your actions, especially which scenario to play has a knock on effect to everything else.


Rough list of reasons I think it's great:

• There are absolutely loads of classes. The game starts with 6 or so available - the rest are all in sealed boxes and must be unlocked. You get given a life goal and once you achieve it you unlock a class, and you must retire your character. This means things keep getting changed up - starting with the obvious fact that you have a new character so abilities, equipment and tactics need to be adapted, which has a knock on effect to the whole party make up and tactics
• Similar to the above there are loads of other various sealed boxes, envelopes, stickers and logs, so there is a continued sense of wanting to discover what the game has to offer
• The abilities are represented by cards, and to use the abilities you must "spend" 2 every turn, then once spent you get all but one back. This means towards the end of scenarios you are in danger of having used up all of your cards and becoming exhausted. Essentially this makes for a very interesting set of tactical decisions since your cards are your resource
• The story itself is well written and intriguing - embellished by some lovely card artwork
• There is a good range of enemies, and the tactics for each room often need to be thought about very carefully

Things I don't like so much

• We aren't playing this massively frequently meaning sometimes I have forgotten what happened previously in the different  story arcs, so have difficulty making an informed choice about which scenario to choose next
• Set up takes ages

We have a regular kernel of 2/3 players. One thing I like (that may be particular to our situation) is that there is a free slot that we can frequently fill with a guest adventurer which means we can see how various group make ups can shift the tactics we need to employ.


So has anyone else played this or interested in giving it a go? If so, any favourite classes / items / ability combos?


* There are a number of solo scenarios and I am aware that there are some people that play through these, and do the group ones in a pretend group but I personally would find that much less fun

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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Fantasy book recommendations please!

« on: March 14, 2018, 11:16:47 AM »

Greetings Exilians!


I'm looking for a recommendation for a fantasy book / series to move on to. I just finished the night angel trilogy by brent weeks and really liked those. Also really liked his dark materials, and the mighty song of ice and fire etc


Anyone reading anything juicy at the moment - or maybe recently completed a great book?


I'm hoping to remedy my so-seldom-its-nearly-nonexistant post schedule - so thanks in advance 

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Greetings

« on: July 24, 2015, 09:31:31 PM »

Hey Everyone,

I was encouraged to come join the forum by someone off of that there twitter, so here I am! hello!

About me: I am Rich (as in: my name is Rich. I wasn't boasting), and I'm from Brighton.   

I love computer games. I'm making one at the moment that I'm sure I'll ask peoples opinion on at some point Other than that I love fantasy, sci-fi in all it's forms and I go airsofting some weekends.

So thanks for the invite. It'll be good to join the discussion here & get to meet y'alls