Playing TOR using Fantasy Grounds II

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Playing TOR using Fantasy Grounds II

Post by HorusZA » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:43 am

I've been looking at using FG2 http://www.fantasygrounds.com/ to play TOR online, but my Google-Fu isn't turning up any information on a rule-set for it.
Does anyone know if such a thing exists or will it be a DIY job?

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Re: Playing TOR using Fantasy Grounds II

Post by Rubycon » Tue Jan 28, 2014 6:25 am

For me, it doesn't look like you need an implemented rule set for playing TOR with fantasy grounds. Although it would be nice to have the dices and Charakter sheets. Maybe it is possible to adapt these things.
I personally would prefer roll20, I like the option to actually speak during gaming.

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Re: Playing TOR using Fantasy Grounds II

Post by HorusZA » Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:12 am

Rubycon wrote:For me, it doesn't look like you need an implemented rule set for playing TOR with fantasy grounds. Although it would be nice to have the dices and Charakter sheets. Maybe it is possible to adapt these things.
I personally would prefer roll20, I like the option to actually speak during gaming.
You're 100% right but I believe that good aesthetics add to the game experience and I have a vague memory of seeing screenshots of a TOR rule-set which looked really, really nice...

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Re: Playing TOR using Fantasy Grounds II

Post by Hermes Serpent » Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:35 am

The one player here who has been promoting FG play has had his home brewed interface rejected by FG possibly over confusion between the interface for an RPG and a video game with the licensing people.

Sounds like M-e E has raised it's ugly lack of knowledge about our niche industry again.
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Re: Playing TOR using Fantasy Grounds II

Post by StuartJ » Tue Jan 28, 2014 9:21 am

Valarian has posted screenshots of his TOR rule-set to the One Ring Google+ community, and they do indeed look really, really nice. Check the comments on the photos for details about access, or perhaps he will chip into this thread too!
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Re: Playing TOR using Fantasy Grounds II

Post by Matchstick » Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:28 pm

There's also a "Fantasy Grounds RPG Group" Community on Google+ that Valerian was nice enough to invite me to. More information about downloading the ruleset can be found there.

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Re: Playing TOR using Fantasy Grounds II

Post by Valarian » Wed Feb 05, 2014 10:03 pm

Be aware that this is a community ruleset (an official one was ruled out) and, therefore does not contain any of the rules libraries a Fantasy Grounds commercial set would have. It has a Character Sheet, NPC Sheet and the combat tracker will handle The One Ring combat stances for initiative. I've made some recent changes to the character sheet to separate out the weapon skills and weapons.

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Re: Playing TOR using Fantasy Grounds II

Post by Valarian » Sat Jul 26, 2014 2:41 pm

There's an update (version 4) to the Foundations Core extension for The One Ring. The extension adds Eye of Sauron check marks against the common skills for those who have Rivendell and want to play High Elves.
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Re: Playing TOR using Fantasy Grounds II

Post by shipwreck » Sat Jan 30, 2016 1:59 am

So I got an online game going with some friends and we really like FG. The problem is that no one can pick a portrait! Has anyone else bumped into this problem?
Elfcrusher wrote:But maybe the most important difference is that in D&D the goal is to build wtfpwn demi-god characters. In TOR the goal is to stay alive long enough to tell a good story.

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Re: Playing TOR using Fantasy Grounds II

Post by Valarian » Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:01 pm

Portraits are selected from the player's side, from the icon in the top right that looks like a single person head/shoulder. Clicking on that shows the images in the player's portraits folder. They can add their own images to the folder.
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