Mac users have a few Windows options: dual boot into Windows and Mac OS X using Apple's Bootcamp utility, run virtualization software like Parallels (which runs Windows within a virtual machine on the mac) and CrossOver, which allows you to run Windows-based programs without installing Windows (think WINE; actually, it's based on WINE).
Now that Macs run on Intel processors rather than PowerPC ones, Mac users have a huge number of solutions to this particular problem. I'd likely dual-boot into Windows and run the D&D tool natively; the other option usually involve a hefty performance hit.
As far as dumbing down systems, from what I've seen I don't know that 4E will be any easier than 3E; streamlined, yes, but still pretty damn complicated in its own way (as opposed to Savage Worlds, which really is a much lighter system).
That said, I do love crunchy games, but I don't have nearly as much time for them as I'd like. I could spend a Saturday building the perfect villain in Mutants & Masterminds and have a blast doing it ... but I don't have many of those. Savage Worlds, on the other hand, let's me build NPCs in 15 minutes, if not less.
Tue, 04/15/2008 - 1:30pm
No problem; rants are welcome. :)
Mac users have a few Windows options: dual boot into Windows and Mac OS X using Apple's Bootcamp utility, run virtualization software like Parallels (which runs Windows within a virtual machine on the mac) and CrossOver, which allows you to run Windows-based programs without installing Windows (think WINE; actually, it's based on WINE).
Now that Macs run on Intel processors rather than PowerPC ones, Mac users have a huge number of solutions to this particular problem. I'd likely dual-boot into Windows and run the D&D tool natively; the other option usually involve a hefty performance hit.
As far as dumbing down systems, from what I've seen I don't know that 4E will be any easier than 3E; streamlined, yes, but still pretty damn complicated in its own way (as opposed to Savage Worlds, which really is a much lighter system).
That said, I do love crunchy games, but I don't have nearly as much time for them as I'd like. I could spend a Saturday building the perfect villain in Mutants & Masterminds and have a blast doing it ... but I don't have many of those. Savage Worlds, on the other hand, let's me build NPCs in 15 minutes, if not less.
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