@Sammi said:
@Roz I can tell. It would definitely save the effort of having to (occasionally, but repeatedly) explain why the fact that line 32 looks different from every other line has told the computer to display things differently. I enjoy helping people, but when the non-techie has a "what is this sorcery" response to something that I see as a simple and abundantly obvious pattern, it causes unnecessary stress.
Oh man I feel yoooooooooooooou
@bobotron Ooooooh, I get you!
@deadempire said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@sparks said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
And if there's a specific storyline that intrigues you, ask staff to help refresh your clues with ones focused on that specific storyline
I had no idea that was even an option!
Well, I don't think it's a general action, I think that it was more @Sparks saying, "If you really want to ask staff for a bit of a refresh because you're an investigative character, do so in a more focused rather than general way." But not that the request would necessarily be granted.
@lithium I was a little confused at first too with attributes. I eventually just googled "king arthur pendragon rpg chargen" for suggestions, and got an excerpt of a PDF that helped with suggestions of how to, say, stat a decent combat character, and it kind of gave me permission to lower some stuff that I was worried about. I don't even know if 12 is meant to indicate "average." There might be a range around it that's average. Like, the book says that recommended minimums for a PC who's going to see combat are like - Size 11, Strength 10, and Constitution 8. Seeing that really adjusted my expectations in what was meant to be considered "average."
@arkandel I've never understood the hate Last Action Hero gets. I've always loved it!
Wtf did my double post turn into a single post. That is annoying.
Anyways what I was TRYING to say is that I usually look at wikis on my Macbook, which has a resolution of 1440x900, but I also sometimes look on my phone. When I was building my last wiki, I put mobile-friendliness towards the top of my list when considering skins and eventually settled on one built to be responsive from the ground up. I'm not a particularly fancy designer, but I do feel like I did a good job doing clean template layouts that was easy to read across devices. Also, when I was feeling particularly stressed about some other part of the wiki not fixing, I would sit and resize my browser for a while to enjoy the responsive design moving around. It's very soothing.
Yeah, I'm a little confused by "there is too much focus on combat characters" but also "I don't like the idea of social systems based on my assumptions of what they are."
@kay Also a house of ILL REPUTE that has a less scandalous front parlor for gambling and the like.
But I agree that I'd love more hangout spaces.
Ant-Man and the Wasp totally a bunch of fun! Really enjoyed it. Some nice lighter fare from Marvel after the intensity of Infinity War.
@wildbaboons said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@kitteh said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@wildbaboons I had a similar eye-opening moment when during uh, some kind of Q&A session they ran on public channel, @Apos mentioned the (fairly large, though I forget the exact) # of secret orgs. With neither of my characters being in any, it was a little perception-changing.
Yes! this! I knew there was a couple. A handful maybe. Apparently there are tons and that is where a lot of plot seems to be.
Not really. Like to a large amount. Both from my experience outside of them and from what I've heard in passing from those with PCs in them.
I mean, I for one am not really doing things yet because I have no idea what's going on or what to do! Which is fine, I'm mostly here to relax. It's super hard to keep track of all the names, though.
I haven't worn a real bra (with underwire and everything) in at least six months. It's amazing.
Sparks isn't checking on MSB anymore at this point, BUT she has started a Discord server for Atlantis help and development. So anyone who is interested or who has questions is free to join! https://discord.gg/pkq5D5e
@oldfrightful said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@fortydeuce One thing to keep in mind is just because you have a clue doesn't mean it's true. That took me way too long to wrap my head around. <.< Historical accounts can be inaccurate or get details wrong, there could be red herrings, stuff like that. But it's a good RP motivator to link up with other people and try to figure out how stuff fits together.
I think staff did say at one point that they stopped doing purposeful red herrings early on, because they saw the sorts of troubles they caused OOCly.
But yes, @fortydeuce there's a reason that the clues are written as narratives. They're snippets from journals in a world where history has been stolen from the characters, and not being sure how they all fit together is, in fact, purposeful. We're putting things together OOCly as much as our characters are ICly. And if some sort of connecting structure was made visible -- well, it would actually be kind of a spoiler in and of itself. There are clues that are narratively connected that PCs wouldn't be able to see the connection between without further context. To indicate the connection OOCly would basically be giving players answers before their PCs had the ability to really figure it out. And the game tries to build systems to avoid those sorts of OOC spoilers.
@cobaltasaurus said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@kanye-qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
The short answer is, we are trying to design a system where ignoring the social status of yourself (your rep) and your house will begin to impact what Combat Joe the Voice wants to do. If you ignore prestige and never do anything diplomatic or work social angles, when you go to call your banners for war....well...
When you go to manage your domain and see the productiveness of your NPCs is shit and it's affecting your bottom line, you might start to think about delegating to and involving the social characters in your house.
Erhm, does this mean that people (me) who are playing combat focused voices and who have tried to stay in our lane (e.g I have leadership but haven’t gone too far into other social skills because I’m. Not sheeted that way), will start hurting our houses by being voice without being social?
I think it just means that your combat Voice couldn't do everything on his own. Like, if he doesn't have much social skill or prestige and tries to do big social stuff without help, he won't get too far. Certainly not that all leaders suddenly need to be socially-focused.
@thenomain said in Crescent Moon Mux / New Orleans CoD Mux:
@roz said in Crescent Moon Mux / New Orleans CoD Mux:
ALL YOUR ABBREVIATIONS ARE CONFUSING.
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):<
I'm honestly sorry it's not something that all of my fellow women can enjoy. 
I'm, uh -- medium-sized, I guess? But i just wear camis or bralettes or just freaking go braless because I can't give any more fucks, and I don't have support issues.
If you like robots in your sci-fi, I staff on Transformers: Lost and Found which will, in fact, eventually have Firan's combat system installed (with permission). Our code-wiz Pax (Sparks on here) has just been crazed with RL.
I'm also working on a future Marvel mutants game on a general movieverse timeline that'll be using Faraday's system which will be open in a couple weeks.
@surreality I just mean that if folks can say they hate Daario #2 I can say I hate Daario #1!
FREEDOM OF DAARIO OPINION
