[Ar-list] a few projects, hopefully

[Carter Butts]

Ira wrote:

> so far, I'll need at least rudimentary rules for:
> psychic powers,
> magic,


Karim, how much of the revised Takietei magic system is written up? 
This might be of some value as a reference....


> some extensions and reality-guide type modifications for vampire rules,


Did you see the draft Vampires MRS?  It should be on the web site, with 
the "in progress" stuff.  It's not complete, but might serve as a useful 
starting point.

> possibly a reality guide.


On that score, you've probably already seen Chameleon.  In addition to 
that, there is a mostly complete draft of a modern millenial horror RG 
called A New Religion, and there are various notes and sundries for 
several others.  (I'm not sure how complete the new Takietei is; Karim 
ran some very cool test sessions with it, but much of it may still be 
tacit knowledge.  :-))  What style were you thinking of?

(BTW, I also wrote up some conversion rules for SLA Industries and Call 
of Cthulhu at some point, if you wanted to try using either of those 
settings with AR mechanics.)

> 
> also, I'll be working on some supporting products for those lucky enough 
> to be using mac osX--these'll eventually (if I ever finish cocoa 
> versions) be worked over for GNUStep, which will make them available to 
> linuxy people.  in particular I want to do a DRF, etc., calculator, with 
> dice rolling built in, but I also had an idea for a palette based 
> character sheet generator, for producing individualized character 
> sheets, filling them in, and exporting them as pdf or postscript.


Nice stuff.  Karim already mentioned his PalmOS utilities (which are 
really quite nice), but I think that the idea of a character sheet 
generator is a very good one.  What would be _really_ cool would be a 
set of LaTeX style files for AR RGs/MRSs/character sheets/etc.  I have 
begun converting the PRG into LaTeX, but had been stalled by this whole 
"dissertation" thing....

> 
> does anyone have any ideas for me?
> 


<chuckle>  All too many, of course!  But go forth and have fun, and let 
us know what your group comes up with.

-Carter