Old School & Other Games

[RavenX]

Originally Posted by Paragon

An argument that I've seen to get you just nowhere with OSR proponents.

You can be opposed all you want, but I don't care. I will eventually finish the data for 2e but it will be done on my time table. You can feel free to code it yourselves from scratch if you want though. I work on what I feel like working on, and I am not paid to do this, so I will stick to what interests me at any given time. I do this for fun in my free time, because I enjoy tinkering with the source code. I hit some walls with it and stopped working on the 2e files a long time ago. I will get back to it when I am ready to do so.

[Paragon]

Ah, Raven, that was a comment about the "Vampire is Old School by now" line, not anything else. Man, I have absolutely no concern or really interest in how or when you finish a system that has no use to me.

Don't take this wrong, but I think you've gotten a little touchy about this.

[RavenX]

I understand many people want me to finish data files. I am not in the best of health and don't like being rushed on things. Yes I am a little touchy and irritable. I cannot dedicate the long hours I used to for coding right now. Four hours a day is a blessing if I can manage that. I get a lot done in those short hours, but I don't like feeling pressured to do these things when my health isn't 100%. Two years ago I nearly died and a lot of things changed. I had to stop coding altogether for awhile.

I have been running Vampire the Masquerade since it first appeared and I still have my old first edition book for it. I do what I do for fun, if the source code gets finished, so be it. If not, oh well. I don't think you guys and gals realize how many hours I've put into these structure files over the last seven years of my life, or how much work I still have yet to finish. The 2e data is not anywhere near done. While many of the core mechanics and components are done, I still have to overhaul and simplify some things. It won't be finished anytime soon, I am not sorry to say.

[Rone]

RavenX, all that you do is so very much appreciated.

[Paragon]

Raven, I'm saying my statement had nothing to do with anything you are doing.

It was specifically a side comment on OSR people wanting to stake out "Old School" for older versions of D&D and nothing more. It was in response to your side comment about Vampire as a springboard, nothing more.

You seem to be reading things into my statement that are simply not there. It was not about you. At all.

[RavenX]

Not really. I know people want their "Dead System" source code to play with, but it is a lot of work to do. And its nowhere near finished. I won't release unfinished code, ever. I don't have time to finish it and even if I did, I might not make it available to the community. Hasbro still sells old school pdfs on drivethrurpg, and this is not a licensed data file. I don't know if I can release it anyway. Hounding me about it isn't going to get it finished any faster.

And that's not a message specifically directed at paragon but to everyone. I see all the threads inquiring about this datafile. I get your messages in my inbox too. I will get it done when I get it done. Pressuring me will not get me to start working on it any sooner than I have planned to do so.

[DeltaMasterMind]

Originally Posted by Aaron

Sorry, the Necromancer position was cut when we discovered 90% of the applicants were just posers and/or Marilyn Manson.

Originally Posted by RavenX

Marilyn Manson is a great bard though. Plus you missed golden opportunities to have his dad show up to work dressed like him just to embarrass him.

Got me some chuckles out of this!

[RavenX]

Originally Posted by DeltaMasterMind

Got me some chuckles out of this!

Glad you enjoyed. I have been a fan of Marilyn Manson's music for a long time. His version of Tainted Love won me over. I love watching his shenanigans, but his reaction to his dad dressing like him is one of the best moments ever. He gets so embarrassed over it.