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paulatpingu August 15 2005, 16:39:28 UTC
Quick point about your new layout - clicking on the cut from my friends page takes me to your LJ, where your little navigate and interesting stuff boxes are obscuring your post. Follow the link to the comment from your frontpage however, and it's ok.

Maybe it's just me - latest version of Firefox if it's any help.

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matgb August 15 2005, 16:46:37 UTC
Yeah; I get that on occasions, it's a table rendering error, appears to be gecko related; if you hit refresh it goes correct most of the time, but it's not good.

I'll have to fix it; I really like the overall look of it, but it looks like I'll need to programme a new style in from scratch to get the same effect without the error. I'll likely contact LJ; you're the first to say it's not just me, I was thinking it might just be my crappy PC.

The Mozilla/Firefox gecko rendering engine does have problems with some tables; the AEG site messes up for me one time in ten as well. Ah well.

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shadow_exe August 16 2005, 02:50:28 UTC
"So, we need to find an new rules set for medieval gaming"
DBM? - quick, simple, low-effort.

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matgb August 16 2005, 12:12:17 UTC
De Bellis Multitudinous?

Tried it first; consensus was 'bloody awful', with a few votes for 'playable but dull'.

It has a lot of fans, but as many if not more detractors, and we're not in the fans side. I think Fire and Fury is the problem; compared to that set of rules, pretty much everything else jst doesn't seem as good, but it's very period specific.

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shadow_exe August 17 2005, 00:55:40 UTC
Fire and Fury? Never heard of it. Elucidate, please.

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matgb August 17 2005, 10:54:52 UTC
American Civil War system, system and flavour are excellent. Rules are full of loopholes but as long as you don't try to abuse them (which, um, I've done) it's a great enjoyable system that gives good results and reflects the period.

Also, combat is nice and simple, it's more about command and control, which unfortunately isn't of major importance in medieval, which was all about lining up well and marching forward...

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