I just got my first turn results.  I'm playing a Bard in the Brokenlands module.  I am now thinking that this was a poor choice.  I did not have any intention of playing multiple characters.  Just wanted to try out the game for a while.  The Bards ability bumps other players ability's.  I probably could have chosen a better class for a solo character. 

Also, on my first turn, I was not on a marketplace/trader square.  It also did not state that there was a trader in my starting position.  There was, however, some question marks on the map in the next room.  So I thought, first turn, I will look around and move to the next room.  My character is now in the next room in a space right next to a question mark.  I have no equipment.  I  recently read in the rules that the character always starts at a trader.  I think I may have missed my chance to equip myself and will soon be facing monsters with nothing but my Lute to hit them with.

This could be an interesting slaughter.

Hi everyone,

I have Far Horizons compiled and running on a Linux server at Digital Ocean and I am starting to wrap my brain around the rules and the GM tools to get a game started. Ramblurr from the PlayByMail.net Forums added some useful Python tools for the GM that I plan to use, as well. My plan initially is to run a very small test game to see whether all orders will be processed properly by the server code. Any failures I'll attempt to fix in the C source code and recompile. This will also give me a chance to test the GM tools with actual player data instead of me making fake accounts to validate, which is actually a lot of work for one person to do alone.

Based on the postings in this sub-forum, there was a game at some point many years ago and some of you who are reading this may have been involved. I need your help...

1) Did any of you keep the files you downloaded from Ramblurr's Far Horizons server? In particular, he had a Beginner's Guide and a Strategy Guide to Far Horizons that were lost in a hard drive failure. These guides were not included in the GitHub repository because they were lost in the hard drive failure before Ramblurr put the code on GitHub. Any files you may have for Far Horizons other than the standard GitHub source code files would be greatly appreciated. I'll take anything. I'm trying to piece as much knowledge of this game back together as possible.

2) If you are interested in helping me test the orders and processing in a pre-launch test game (it's really an order submission test more than a game), please let me know and I will get you added. The good news is that there will be no pressure to submit orders. I will run orders probably once a week and whoever has orders to submit and test the code, I will process. Those that don't will get skipped over that turn and they can submit orders the next turn. At some point, we'll have tested all the orders over the course of some number of turns, identified the problems, and be prepared to fix them before starting a real game.

3) If you are interested in playing Far Horizons once it's up and running for the real game, but you don't want to participate in the test game, please let me know so I can get you on the waiting list for when that is ready.

You are welcome to participate in the test game and/or the real game even if you were not part of the original Far Horizons game organized on the PlayByMail.net Forums many years ago. I'll take anyone. The games will be free.

For any of the items above, please email me: raven@rinzai.com with Far Horizons in the subject line so it doesn't get lost in the sea of inbound email. Feel free to reply to this Forum post, too, with any information if you prefer.

For those are you who need a refresher on Far Horizons or have never heard of it before, I am linking to the rulebook here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nAgH4ir...sp=sharing

Thank you.

PS: I believe that Ramblurr had some web tools for players when the game was run before. My plan is for this to be email-only initially. Should there be a strong interest, I could add web tools later, but this is not a short-term goal.

Here's the final format of turnsheets we'll be using for PBeM players - PDF seems the most generic document formats that I can find and you can embed graphics etc into the pages. They also seem to compress down to a good size

Found here:: https://the-isles.com/2021/04/22/sample-...pril-2021/

I've just about got enough Players for the next few months - I've had nothing back from the 3 or 4 people on the PBM.net who expressed an interest - If you're wanting in it needs to be soon as it'll be a good 4-6 months after this before I take on any more.

www.the-isles.com << Very much a work in progress - I'll be chucking a load of stuff on there over the next few weeks

Yes .. It's true. After feedback and input from our players and the use of technology we're altering our location graphics from boring old photos to (wait for it) Watercolour Pictures.

We've been using graphics we can drop onto a Players Turnsheet for a long time - usually a graphic and an explanation of what a player sees on their travels without the GM hassle of having to type it all out every time for each player

Attached is one of our images we use for a regularly visited place close to the main town of Ilanthor, now amended to a watercolour 

Next month? Maybe audio attachments in the PDF...?

Attached Files

  Sunrise Tree.jpg (Size: 339.18 KB / Downloads: 9)

We've just about reached our quota of players so will be closing new player enrolment in two weeks

Even with dot matrix printers 25 years ago we always tried to make our turns more presentable for players, so they weren't just a computer printout - With PDFs The Isles is able to give pretty good quality turnsheets these days, and I've found a stash of more artwork so we can vary even more what we can put on them - Its all eye-candy, but it looks nice.

BTW - Does anyone struggle to see these PDFs? An ex-player gave the reason for not playing after his short few turns in the game as being that he didn't like PDFs because they always looked funny when viewing on his PC

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  Capture.PNG (Size: 146.22 KB / Downloads: 6)
  Results Sheet TemplateGrev54.pdf (Size: 486.14 KB / Downloads: 7)

I've just posted on The Isles Facebook page asking for anyone who might want to play to browse to where the Game materials are ion Dropbox and have a browse
The Isles Facebook Page

Attached is page 2 and 3 of the latest Islander (19)

Attached Files

  Islander pt 2.pdf (Size: 439.68 KB / Downloads: 5)

Front page of the latest game newsletter attached - Its mainly rumours about events happening around the Ilanthor region

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