Anyone working on a Descent: Journeys in the Dark module? I would think this system could run it well but I could be wrong.
Descent module is already out but no-one ever plays it on vassal.
Its too bad.
To get the module you have to google it and find it.
Since its not licensed I don’t think vassal can post it on their website.
I see it listed on the server stats almost every time I look, but yeah, it’s definitely not a publisher-authorized module, and you won’t find it listed.
Too bad, really - like many, many people I’ve seen discussing it over the years, I’m in the group that is more likely to buy a game when I’ve had a chance to try it out first online, not less. Unfortunately there are still many publishers who haven’t figured that out yet and sit firmly in the “why would they buy it if they can play it on the computer for free” camp (because a pixel on a screen isn’t the same as having the actual game, that’s why…)
On a related tangent… Speaking of games listed on the server that aren’t listed here…
can someone explain that to me? or rather why are some games listed that have been removed by publisher request, for example, and other games not listed at all ?
Is there an unofficial list somewhere (not where to get the module, but even which modules exist)? i.e. anvil horror, games in japanese, europa universalis and on and on…
Thus spake matttutor:
On a related tangent… Speaking of games listed on the server that
aren’t listed here…can someone explain that to me? or rather why are some games listed
that have been removed by publisher request, for example, and other
games not listed at all ?
What appears in the server status is what’s reported by the clients
who are connected. That is, if you see a module called “Foo” being used,
all that means is that there’s a client connected to the server which is
reporting that the name of the module it has loaded is “Foo”.
Seeing “Foo” in the server status does not guarantee that the clients
have a module for the game Foo—this is because clients simply report
what appears in the name field of the module they load.
Furthermore, the appearance of a module named “Foo” in the server status
is a completely different thing from us providing a Foo module for
download in our module library. The latter is something that Foo Corp,
the publishers of Foo, could legally request that we remove (depending
heavily on where they are, where our server is, and what the laws are
like in those places), while the former is just a string.
Is there an unofficial list somewhere (not where to get the module, but
even which modules exist)? i.e. anvil horror, games in japanese, europa
universalis and on and on…
Not that I know of, sorry. There’s no good way for us to keep a list of
modules people make for personal use. If you’d like to keep a list,
though, that’s up to you.
–
J.