- Location
- Brazil
Yes but there are actual nonsense rolls that tell you to move forward but you automatically die the next round regardless of the number you roll, so...? Needs editing.
A Play of Steel and Powder (ASOIAF NG)
- Thread starter Mina
- Start date
- OOC
Yes but there are actual nonsense rolls that tell you to move forward but you automatically die the next round regardless of the number you roll, so...? Needs editing.
- Location
- Canada
Does it? I'm only seeing progressively +5 per roll.
- Location
- Brazil
If you get a "Minor Failure" on Step 1 (resulting in a +10 to your subsequent roll) you automatically hit "Failure" in Step 2, even if you roll a "1".
1+10=11: Mod decides who survives, about your half your team.
You might as well die in Step 1 and not bother with the extra rolling.
- Location
- Canada
Well...a minor fail is still a fail. If you have failed, even if only by a little, the plotting or such to get to Valyria then it seems reasonable that your expedition is dead right there and then.
- Location
- Brazil
Fair enough (sorta), but then that needs to be on the table.
- Location
- Luton Airport
5 a year then. 10 a year now. They would replace Leopard ships. Bear in mind everything I say can be overruled by Mina.
Theravis
A Knight for those Suffering
- Location
- West Michigan
Can I do 5-8 between them? Probably replacing Swans likewise, since I think Tigers are a coastal/riverine patrol boat IIRC.
Most likely but what do you mean "Between them?"
Theravis
A Knight for those Suffering
- Location
- West Michigan
Have the arsenal building 5 galleons and 8 leopards a year, to replace 13-16 swans.
Alright.
So I just recently got an access code for a program called ArcGIS. A very useful system for working with maps and geographical data. I am still working on how to use it. So far we have used data from census and satalite data. However a quick google of Westeros in GIS provided some ArcGIS ready maps of Westeros.
If this information is accurate, I could have the tools to make some cool maps. And maybe provide some stuff that we don't get from online maps. Like a scale bar for instance.
This is all very new to me, but I think practicing with Westeros would be a good way to get ahead with the material.
Edit: Again, this is just me experimenting with stuff. Chances are some stuff might not work as Planetos is not Earth.
If this information is accurate, I could have the tools to make some cool maps. And maybe provide some stuff that we don't get from online maps. Like a scale bar for instance.
This is all very new to me, but I think practicing with Westeros would be a good way to get ahead with the material.
Edit: Again, this is just me experimenting with stuff. Chances are some stuff might not work as Planetos is not Earth.
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- Location
- Australia
Fuck yeah ArcGis is the bomb, really expensive but awesome.
I studdied GIS in my undergrad course at Uni, flick me a message if you need a hand.
I studdied GIS in my undergrad course at Uni, flick me a message if you need a hand.
Nice! What coincidence. I'm a Geoscience major with a minor in GIS!
I've only just started studying it. My class is only on the basics of it so everything is brand new to me. Just about to install it to my computer about now. Going to research if I can apply stuff to it to Westeros. Must of the stuff I do in labs is made with preexisting data. Making data from scratch in GIS would be... tricky I think. I stayed behind after today's lecture to ask my instructor about editing or capturing data to use in ArcGIS. She told me that's end of course material, so I dunno.
Anyways, I got a long ways ahead before anything concrete shows I think. I'll let you know if I need some help. Thanks!
Theravis
A Knight for those Suffering
- Location
- West Michigan
Good reminder!
Also, she's watching you play with the kids over in the RP.
Edit: Son
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Theravis
A Knight for those Suffering
- Location
- West Michigan
Really? Tarot
- Location
- Australia
My degree was in Town Planning i took a few classess in GIS but i didn't have the option to take it as a minor. ArcGis is the industry standard, you will find heaps of tutorials online if you're stuck or yur instructor won't help.
Dovahsith
Lost on the road of life
- Location
- Manchester
House Tarly/Other 266/267 Births
Randolf- Failed once more.
Mercenary Brats.....i'm going have think of a name for the mother, aren't i?
Dammit Not-Oliver. Why did you steal the entirety of the Tarly fertility?
3 sons, 1 daughter....thats alot of flowers.
@Theravis i think i've figured out where my decent rolls have run off to.
Randolf- Failed once more.
Mercenary Brats.....i'm going have think of a name for the mother, aren't i?
Dammit Not-Oliver. Why did you steal the entirety of the Tarly fertility?
3 sons, 1 daughter....thats alot of flowers.
@Theravis i think i've figured out where my decent rolls have run off to.
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So I found some stuff to play around with with ArcMap. A guy called cadei made the shapefiles that I played around with. Just did a basic map of the North that looks horrible.
Here is the link to his files and post in the Cartographer's guild : Westeros & Essos as Shapefiles
Would probably need to check that place out for tips and tricks.
But anyways, the files do provide a good starting position to get some stuff done. The detail on the files are quite extensive. It even has a landscape layer that defines Mountains and Forrested areas. The only problem is that the map is not to scale exactly, and should not be used for distance, as the author of the shape files said in the readme file. I'll need to see how to adjust it. For example, the Wall is supposed to be 300 miles wide. According to the bar scale, the Wall is 400 miles wide.
I'll see what I can do to fix that issue. Maybe by the end of the semester I will learn how to fix the scaling issue. Because as it stands, a 100 miles margin of error is kinda a big thing.
But then again, I am a total neophyte when it comes to stuff like this.
Edit: Actually, I was measuring just the line to the North of Queenscrown. The actual wall length more to the North is 240 miles long, according to the readme file from the author. Actually less than previously stated.
Good news is that the margin of error is 60 miles now.
Edit 2: Actually scratch that. Please give me a second to figure something out. The previous measurement might be wrong I think.
Edit3: It's weird. The Wall is exactly 300 miles wide. Exactly like in cannon:
The Wall is the blue line along the blue dots. Dunno why he said it was 240 miles, it is not.
Here is the link to his files and post in the Cartographer's guild : Westeros & Essos as Shapefiles
Would probably need to check that place out for tips and tricks.
I'll see what I can do to fix that issue. Maybe by the end of the semester I will learn how to fix the scaling issue. Because as it stands, a 100 miles margin of error is kinda a big thing.
But then again, I am a total neophyte when it comes to stuff like this.
Edit: Actually, I was measuring just the line to the North of Queenscrown. The actual wall length more to the North is 240 miles long, according to the readme file from the author. Actually less than previously stated.
Good news is that the margin of error is 60 miles now.
Edit 2: Actually scratch that. Please give me a second to figure something out. The previous measurement might be wrong I think.
Edit3: It's weird. The Wall is exactly 300 miles wide. Exactly like in cannon:
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