The Szenarion V 2.0 ------------------- This mighty Tool was designed to help the dungeon-master handling his party. Sorry, at this time there is no english version. Most of the buttons are titled in english, but text and menu is totaly in deepest ``Sauerkraut''! Once (upon a time) I began this project (3 long years ago), I only had in mind to write a tool for providing getting a headache after each fantasy-session. So here it is, the Szenarion, the simulator of the field of honour. It enables you to construct your floor-plans with the Rollgame-Field-Editor (RFEditor), to describe them in the allfile (in the allfile-directory) and to simulate them with the RKSim. Hardware -------- To run the tools, you must be able to display NTSCHIRESLACED or EURO72 in 16 colors, have >=AmigaOS2.0, need a harddisk (>=5MB free), and >=1MB CHIP >=2MB FAST RAM. SHAREWARE -> REGISTRATION (outside from Germany) ------------------------------------------------ This sofware-package is shareware. The difference between that and the commercial version is the following: Both tools, the RKSim and the RFEditor are present, but gametime is limited, so after a while the light will fade away. To register, write to the address below and send 15 DM to the following konto: Volksbank Braunschweig BLZ: 27090077 K.Nr.: 337.928.006 If you wish to get the german documentation (Szenarion.dvi, but as a book and with all missing pictures), send additional 20 DM (inside Germany) or 25 DM (outside from Germany). At this time, there is only the german version available. See below... -------------- RKSim ----- Here is a translation of the menu, use joystick in port 2, toggle through menu by pressing it UP, or use the following hot-keys: next select ------------------------------------ player 1: q a player 2: i k player 3: 7 4 player 4: 9 3 Abwarten wait, pass this turn Statisches Man"over special actions, see below -Selbst look at yourself (I) -Sieh an look at person or object -nimm take ore use things, weappons.. .Fernkampfwaffe take new long range weappon (bow..) .Nahkampfwaffe take new hand to hand weappon (sword..) .aufheben get something from the ground .benutzen use item from characters item-list -Befehl give order to NPC's as below: .Sende Getreue send followers to person/object .halt! order followers to wait where they are .folgt! order followers to follow .greift ein! order followers to interfer .haltet ein! order followers to stop attacks and wait -rede mit talk with person -ruf Hilfe cry for help (affects only friends) -steige mount/dismount horse Bewegung movement, see below -gehen walking to a target -laufen running to a target -ann"ahern moving one field closer to a target -schleichen trying to move quiet to a target (two fields). It might fail -verstecken try hiding. It might fail Nahkampf fighting enemies max. one field away -angriff attack with your weappon (depends on your attack-value) -abwehren defend as good as you can (depends on your attack-value) -Rundumschlag risky strike at all surrounding fields (depends on your attack-value DIV 8) -abdr"angen try to push back your opponent (strength needed) Fernkampf fighting with long range weappons -zielen aim at enemy (increases attack value for next round) -feuern auf fire at enemy (depends on your attack-value and used weappon) Zaubern casting magic -konzentrieren concentrate (increases chance of invoking a spell) -zaubern invoking spell How to interfer as a master: ---------------------------- alt q quit alt M request master menu alt p pause alt s end round By the way, the Szenarion wasn't created to change fantasy-game, to enable your party slaughtering a hundred monsters more, but to give these poor creatures a fair chance of surviving and acting intelligent! Keep in mind, that you are still responsible for the quality of your queste. If there is good response, I will program an english version, but I don't have the time to translate my 114 sided rulebook. If someone is willing to do that and TeX it, I will think about sending him the german one. There are some small projects, which could make this package more comfortable. For example a tool for access on character-files outside of encounters. But before starting to write programs or draw own graphics, contact me for coordination! Address ------- If you're interested in the Szenarion or in case of questions, write to Stefan Waschk Siegfriedstr 119 Germany 38106 Braunschweig e-mail S.Waschk@rz.tu-bs.de Some last Words --------------- At last I want to correct some words, Noah Gordon wrote in his book ``The Medicus''. For someone, whose history starts at 18th century, the struggle of kings in Europe during the middle age is hard to understand. I read ``The Medicus'' or ``Der Medicus'' as it is called in german. It is a nice and bloomy written book. But it is more fantasy than history! The author did'nt care of fundamental historical facts. Between the ``heiliges r"omisches Reich deutscher Nation'' and the Kingdom of France there have been many small kingdoms (as for example Burgund) in the west of the Rhein. Everyone, who is interested in the real facts, should read the secret policy of the Kingdom of France from the end of the middle age till the French Revolution. I'm tired of authors, who relay on easy black and white, good and evil stories. It makes books easy to read, but has nothing to do helping people from different nations to understand each other! The problem of most of the middle age people where to get enough food to survive under the hard law and duties of their ``Lehnsherr'', might it be in England, France, Germany, Russia, Venetia, Florence... Citizens, knights and territories at that time were exchanged like goods between their souverains. There was small space for common people to develop stupid ideas for a clean race or being supperior over another one!