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Post by sztrave on May 26, 2019 11:12:45 GMT
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Post by atomicfloozy on May 26, 2019 11:55:13 GMT
I liked it. Did you play all of the chapters in one session? I'd forgotten how quickly the story can advance with Larger Than Life.
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Post by sztrave on May 26, 2019 12:21:23 GMT
It helped that the random goal was only to solve 3 clues. But I did not play them in one session. It is run in a spreadsheet and it took about 3 weeks to run the whole thing. The first two weeks was the most intense as I was madly adding formula to the spreadsheet to run the game! I have played solo for a long time and with a minis games can happily play for 10 minutes here and there and not play for a week or two, sometime taking months to play a game. I am finding that harder to do these days. After the first 2-3 chapters I think I did a chapter a session. All the rolls are automated so the automatically generated narrative almost directly aligns with the scene generators! I could not tell you how long it would take to play a scene/chapter - maybe 20 minutes? But it is fast and fun. And I really like the way LTL has a fixed number of scenes.
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Post by Slorm on May 26, 2019 17:30:23 GMT
Very interesting, I have read your adventures, and they llok very useful to play in a more RPG no-minis way.
In that way I have discovered Black Hack, that no only is very lite, but also, focused in solo gaming.
My porject is to mix it with THW, to have the option of playing when I don't have miniatures at hand.
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on May 26, 2019 19:09:37 GMT
Yep, THW is slowly going to being able to be played with minis counters, or paper and pen - or Power Point in most of my games.
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Post by atomicfloozy on May 26, 2019 19:20:58 GMT
Heretics one and all!
There are factions in this hobby which insist a decent rule book should cost $85 & a starter set at $290 & true adherents of the faith, er hobby, should spend a minimum of $800 a year.
The next thing you know, you heretics will be advocating free thought, equal rights for women, and the abolishment of a 12 hour work day for children!
Viva la revolution!
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Post by Slorm on May 26, 2019 23:13:19 GMT
Yep, THW is slowly going to being able to be played with minis counters, or paper and pen - or Power Point in most of my games. Count with me for playtesting the dice and pencil version! Please |
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Post by sztrave on May 26, 2019 23:41:31 GMT
I am simplifying combat as I want to run it all in a spreadsheet and secondly, I did not necessarily want combat as a main focus. I did consider using the spreadsheet to run combat as per the new streamlined mechanisms and it would not be too hard. AS Ed says, you can run it in PowerPoint and so could run it in Excel similarly. Strangely enough, it I did use something like LTL to drive a miniatures campaign, I would likely go back to using a battle board - I do like playing NUTS! with only 3-10 figures a side on a 2'x2'. I am considering 3" or 4" grids (for a 8x8 or 6x6 grid, leaning towards 6x6) for NUTS! though just to make everything easier (short version - used to dislike them, getting old, finding them easier to use). The body of rules is large and thus makes it easy to cherry pick what you like!
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