Dragon Age RPG?

[fkirenicus]

Hi, just wondering if anyone knows if FGU supports Dragon Age RPG, and if not - how difficult it is to create the needed resources myself (e.g. character sheets)?

[FG_Dave]

Hello FK and welcome.
We do not have an official Dragon Age ruleset. We do have a CoreRPG generic ruleset which will allow you to create and customize your own character sheets for any game.
Here is a video link on the basics for using the CoreRPG ruleset.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sQeiJ0Rl6Y

Welcome again.

[Smiteworks]

A list of community rulesets is maintained here:
https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FGCP/pages/996642486/Community+Rulesets

Unfortunately, it does not appear that there is one for Dragon Age at this time.

[Kronovan]

As a FGC/FGU GM that's coded an extension that modified to 2 character sheets, I'm going to have to say that undertaking a project like creating a character sheet isn't for those without at least some basic knowledge of computer scripting languages (FG uses LUA) and a decent familiarity with XML files. It's not so much the difficulty of the actual task, but having enough knowledge to actually comprehend and locate the files that need to be modified. There's no comprehensive guides for doing this sort of thing and any wikis or tutotrial documents you find, will likely be out of date to the point of obsolescence. It's possible to get some assistance from fantasygrounds.com forum members, but in my experience questions for such custom extensions get ignored as often a they're replied to.

I don't recommend attempting to create an extension based upon the CoreRPG ruleset that FG_Dave mentioned, but instead use MoreCore, which is a fan-made ruleset created specifically for these type of rules and characters sheet customizations. MoreCore does provide some capability to create a custom character sheet without touching a single XML or script file, and AGE is fairly rules light as far as P'n'Ps and their character sheets go. You might be able to cobble something functional via MoreCore without modifying files. Creating a character sheet that actually looks like the one in the back of the Dragon Age crb though, wouldn't be possible without editing some script and XML files.

I don't want to sound too discouraging here; just trying to be honest about the task and skills required.

[fkirenicus]

OK, thanks guys. I've some experience with the bastardized versions of C that the NWN and DA toolsets use, and also some javascripting through work, but I am not a programmer. Will most likely stay @roll20 then, which does have support for DA RPG.

[Kronovan]

I found this while out and about browsing the Intertubes. It's an announcement from Green Ronin form February about their forming a VTT team[greenronin.com]. I'm admittedly a bit jaded about GR and these sorts of announcements, because I remember in the past announcements about things like in-store league play, that never really went anywhere.

Anyhow, GR's Mutant & Masterminds is already available on Fantasy Grounds, so perhaps they're considering porting the AGE system over to FGU. If so, I can't imagine it would be available in 2021, but perhaps next year.