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Subject: Re: RPG system's in IF
From: argus@see.the.sig (T Raymond)
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Chancellor was overheard typing about:

>> > I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried this. I have no
>> > doubt that it would be somewhat difficult to implement but I
>> > would like to hear from anyone that has tried it.
>
> I've actually done something like this in Inform, implementing a
> Dungeons and Dragons system of combat with dice, Armor Class,
> THAC0, and so forth.  The real problem with this sort of game is
> the immense space a good RPG requires, far more than Inform (or
> most other languages, I'm guessing) were made to handle.
>

What about the expanded Inform compiler, errm glulx is it? I use TADS
myself, I think it could probably handle a decent sized game of this
sort. I believe there are some settings to set the memory stack or
something like that?

Tom
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