Looking forward to beta

[higgins]

Thank you. I appreciate that.

[Korbel]

May your grandparent rest in peace.

it's good to hear that you guys like what you've seen so much that you turn up here every Thursday

Well, I check the forum and mailbox not every Thursday, but almost every day. Not only for beta, but for teasers and new topics... I discovered your project only a couple weeks ago, but I'm already VERY interested and waiting anxiously for the game.

[higgins]

Your enthusiasm is very inspiring! How did you find us, btw?

[Korbel]

Can't remember perfectly... I've been looking for TRoS successors and first found Blade, and then, after more digging, your site. I started reading all the topics and found it very interesting. So I'm here!

[higgins]

So, you're a TROS veteran?

[Korbel]

Well, unfortunately I never played so much TROS to be called a 'veteran'. In Poland it's not a tremendously popular game (kinda strange, for I heard TROS was influenced by polish game Dzikie Pola and its manuever driven, advanced and lethal combat system)... quite hard to find players, so I played mostly with my brothers.
Willy-nilly, I'm more a D20-Veteran - D&D 3 was my first RPG ever. Then I spent much time on D&D-based Conan the Roleplaying Game (and of course on Howards tales) - great memories! Later I tried some GURPS and TROS, and then... you know.
Speaking of GURPS - are you maybe thinking of extending Your Game on other eras, than Reneissance? "Band of Cavemans", "Band of Knights" or so?

BTW - I must say I'm trying to popularize TROS in Poland, and I I'm eager to do the same with Bastards. Maybe I would even translate it in polish? (I'm not a professional translator, but I have some practise - I do sometimes translate articles for a big Barcelona-fans site fcbarca.com and I have a passion and time to do this)

[Agamemnon]

Well, unfortunately I never played so much TROS to be called a 'veteran'. In Poland it's not a tremendously popular game (kinda strange, for I heard TROS was influenced by polish game Dzikie Pola and its manuever driven, advanced and lethal combat system)... quite hard to find players, so I played mostly with my brothers.
Willy-nilly, I'm more a D20-Veteran - D&D 3 was my first RPG ever. Then I spent much time on D&D-based Conan the Roleplaying Game (and of course on Howards tales) - great memories! Later I tried some GURPS and TROS, and then... you know.
Speaking of GURPS - are you maybe thinking of extending Your Game on other eras, than Reneissance? "Band of Cavemans", "Band of Knights" or so?

We've actually talked about that. We have some very specific ideas on future supplements, and the standards we have for what kind of value a supplement would have to bring in order to be worth it for us to create and to expect anyone to support.

'Bastards is billed as a renaissance game, but out of the box it isn't hard to tailor it to any other period. What we planned on doing is creating supplements that have done some of the tailoring for you, as well as introducing new options, systems, and so on that will help capture the specific feel the supplement is going for. Creating a viking-style game could be easily done just by using the core rules and dropping the gear that doesn't exist yet. A viking supplement from us instead should not only include more specific data on period-appropriate gear, but would include modified skills and proficiencies lists, information on the where and win, and both rules and GM advice on how to make a given setting 'feel' like a given setting, and not just another generic fantasy thing.

Where 'Bastards was designed to be an open tool-kit, we want future supplements to be laser-focused on creating a specific game, using 'Bastards as an engine. These supplements then can either be used as almost out of the box as a campaign and setting, or they can provide new tools to help modify a game of your own or provide insight into how we would modify X to do Y.

BTW - I must say I'm trying to popularize TROS in Poland, and I I'm eager to do the same with Bastards. Maybe I would even translate it in polish? (I'm not a professional translator, but I have some practise - I do sometimes translate articles for a big Barcelona-fans site fcbarca.com and I have a passion and time to do this)

Fantastic! That is definitely something we could look at when we have an edition ready for print. If you want to do 'unofficial' translations of the beta or whatever for personal use, I'm fine with that as well. Remind me of this conversation when the beta closes.

[dysjunct]

No love for yesterday? We need our updates!

[higgins]

No love for yesterday? We need our updates!

Sorry guys! I had ridiculous day last night and simply crashed when I got home. I've added a riddle to make up for that!

As for the game related updates, most of our work happens on weekends where we can be more lax with sleep as far as our timezone differences are concerned. I'm fully expecting that Agamemnon has got his coffee brewing already, or will have it brewing soon! We managed to get some serious work done on the armor section within the week as well and I'm trying to conjure up some more examples to fill the gaps in the skill section as I wait for my pardner to come online.

One thing is fore sure, though... I'm never taking any written example in an RPG for granted ever again. Making those thing comprehensive and meaningful is harder than it looks!

[higgins]

Just reporting in that we're still on the example train. It's the hardest kind of progress... Meaning that we don't have much exciting to show.

[EinBein]

and I hoped for a birthday present.

[higgins]

[EinBein]

Thanks a lot!

[Marras]

Higgins, sorry to hear about your loss

It has been a mixed blessing for me that the beta is not yet out as I have been super busy with pretty much no time for hobbies.

[higgins]

I appreciate the condolences.

But yeah, the summer is the busiest time for sword fighters as well, as we have numerous shows that we perform fighting demos in. I've postponed all my armor building projects just not to slow 'Bastards down.