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Gratuitous compliment thread
January 2008
So, I figured as GMs, we all enjoy an ego boost from time to time, and a thread like this could be appreciated. The idea is to post here and compliment someone else from the site on something- their game, their character, their writing, their con…
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Paper or Digital?
January 2008
Paper, because a tree totaled my car once after I accidentally drove into it. Since then, I find myself doing all I can to punish trees as a community. No, but in all seriousness, I vastly prefer paper, and I have no idea why. Paper is just more …
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Contributors wanted
January 2008
This is an interesting proposition. Is KA a D&D-specific publication?
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new to op
January 2008
Welcome to the site. bq. Gran March, from NC. Gran March has a little flavor of Nazi Germany mixed with American Imperialism. If you don’t mind military control then it’s actually not that bad of a region. You probably shouldn't write travel b…
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What exactly does friending someone mean?
January 2008
At the moment, nothing really. Adding someone as a friend merely places them in your Friends section on your profile, showing a sort of association with that user and allowing you to quickly access their profile. It has no bearing on your games, sin…
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Wiki Page is too narrow.
January 2008
bq. There isn’t much point in having a campaign site of any kind, if you can’t include all the relevant information in one place. Excuse me a moment of irritability, but what the heck? Would splitting it into two charts really have been that much…
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Chat-based games
December 2007
I have tried it before, and haven't ever been too satisfied with it. For starters, my computer seems to hate it, and I tend to use so many house rules and variants that it would require more work than I am willing to do, frankly.
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Chat-based games
December 2007
bq. Open up an IM window and send it that way, the letter limit is much higher. That thought had never occurred to me, making me feel all varieties of stupid at the moment.
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Chat-based games
December 2007
bq. P.S. If the dice code in AIM intimidates your typing skills and you feel you need to cut and paste, you may want to reconsider playing a chat game. Ideally, the GM should be the fastest and most accurate typist in the group, and 60+ words a minu…
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I should probably introduce myself
December 2007
I'm sure it will. Remember, the site is only in its beta. There are still going to be a lot of little interface changes and new features before it is all finished.
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Chat-based games
December 2007
AIM is a bitch with C&P, having used it in freeform RPGs in the past. I'm not sure if Yahoo does or not. Beyond that, I know a few web-based dice rolling programs that could be used, although it is a bit less elegant to have to be juggling three…
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Chat-based games
December 2007
Thanks for the advice and info. Prior to asking, I had decided to eschew the elements of the battle grid, shopping, and tracking gold (I had considered using the d20 Modern/True20 rules for Wealth bonuses, but decided for a 6 session campaign it was…
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Character Wiki
December 2007
I'm a little confused by your question. Do you mean, is there a way to make a page to detail information about a character? If so, you can always make pages for that in the Party Wiki, which really has a bit of a misleading name considering all it c…
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Multiple GMs
December 2007
Well, to be fair, aside from GM Wiki privileges, any member of a campaign can do what you have asked. Any member of a campaign can post items, NPCs, and the like- and as it stands, even non-GM members have editing and posting privileges to any part …
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A MOTD Entry
December 2007
Hey, my posts from 2012 ACTUALLY come from the future!
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How to get back to my NPC list
December 2007
If you click the name of the campaign on an NPC's profile, it will take you back to the NPC tracker.
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Campaign viewable by friends only?
December 2007
bq. So just to clarify any thing I put in the Party Wiki, or anything in the descriptions that is not in the DM space is freely available to anyone browsing the site. Even if I only want it to be available to my players that I invite? Yep. Anythi…
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I should probably introduce myself
December 2007
Welcome to the site. It's nice to see people that aren't afraid to use the forum, since it's really the only way for everyone to get to know one another at the moment. I also tried using Wikispaces for my campaign, but I found OP to be infinitely…
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DnD 4th edition
December 2007
bq. I’ve read a little about how feats are being reworked and whatnot and I did see the term “talent” come up. While WoW is the first thing that will pop into most people’s minds, a lot of old school RPG games on the SNES and PC had the same sort of…
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What Voting Criteria do you use?
December 2007
Oh, I know they do. I think the effect anonymity has on our inhibitions is pretty clear, already, given the topic of this and other recent conversations. Once again, though- if we all want to be civil and discuss things in a rational and respectful …
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Glad to be here!
December 2007
bq. I really do hate it when work interferes with my gaming time. Don’t you? Absolutely. bq. The name I use comes from one of my very first characters and should not be confused with the race of bovines that roam the lands of Azeroth. Shoul…
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What Voting Criteria do you use?
December 2007
bq. Also I was curious as to what everyone thinks about giving a 1 to a campaign that has obviously just started, i.e having absolutely nothing but a name and a brief description. Would it be considered poor etiquette, or deserving for not being tru…
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Chat-based games
December 2007
So, I'm thinking of running a chat-based game, because I can get a better pool of players for Freaking Elves from my friends who do not live in the area any longer than I could locally. I've done online games before, several times, but never run a c…
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DnD 4th edition
December 2007
Karl had better have a different color palette than the rest of the group.
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DnD 4th edition
December 2007
bq. The Gnome going away to sit in the MM I can understand, never in any of the games that I have played in or ran has someone played a Gnome This is off-topic a bit, but one of our oldest running D&D jokes is that no one has ever played a gn…
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What Voting Criteria do you use?
December 2007
bq. P.S. Would anyone have any major objections if I started a thread to list the names of people that systematically down-vote campaigns? (i.e. people that NEVER hand out votes in the 3+ category). I believe I would find that to be _highly_ ente…
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Another Introduction...
December 2007
bq. I’ll have to figure out how to include all of the character journals. I don't think I have seen a uniform way to do it, but there are a few ways to take care of it. Of course, if you just want the most simple solution, you can always just cre…
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DnD 4th edition
December 2007
Oh, I'm counting on that sort of liquidation sale aspect. I intend to grab as much 3.X after 4e arrives at the party. I also intend on buying the 4e supplements, though- I mean, even if I hate it and it ends up being terrible, I can always sell it o…
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DnD 4th edition
December 2007
That just seems like more of a nod back to its war-gaming roots than a connection to MMORPGs, if you ask me. I don't really see it as dumbing down in as much as I see it as much needed simplification. Trying to teach new players the d20 system can b…
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What Voting Criteria do you use?
December 2007
bq. So if everyone is using different criteria with which to rank, doesn’t that make the rankings even more arbitrary? Indeed, good sir! Well, maybe not so much arbitrary, but it definitely makes any given rating a bit questionable. After all,…
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