Posts made by WildBaboons

I've done exactly one VTT and it's pretty awesome. We use Roll20 though, but it's pretty smooth. Tracks character sheets and stuff. No idea how the DM interface is though

There are quite a few games out there that have no MSB presence too

"Go take the hamburg out of the freezer to dethaw." - New Englanders

@TheOnceler said in General Video Game Thread:

Cyberpunk 2077 Cloud Edition

Stadia will have it. Some of the others too I bet.

@Kanye-Qwest yeah, that's why it isn't advertised. They're in process

There is also Age of Alliances for Star Wars and I think a Saga star wars game too?

There are a few smaller games running around too

If you're looking for "tent pole" with dozens of characters (maybe no players) logged in you're probably looking at Arx, Age of Alliances or Fallcoast on the MUSH side of things. MUDs are a different story

Newer vehicles have warnings built in to check the back seat when you turn it off because people forget their offspring back there. Other things are bound to be forgotten too

But..

@Arkandel

Seriously. That's a lot of reading

Recent events prompted me to bump this. Didn't work less time.. but eh.

Among our features: Spears

Just for @deathbird

The Disney+ version really isn't that great. It's better than not seeing it I guess but definitely didn't get that "wow, this is amazing" that people seem to feel about the live show.

We are still very much pre-alpha but there was a scene!

And the scene system worked!

Something else broke. But you know.. the scene system worked!

First actual PC made it through chargen and the game didn't explode or catch fire.

It's the little victories. Progresssss

@Vixanic said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):

With the caveat that @WildBaboons is the ultimate owner and decider of such things, from conversations I've had with him, I don't think Aes Sedai are going to be locked behind any kind of barrier to entry, other than perhaps knowing enough about Aes Sedai to play one.
There will be balances to be made across 'how much do I want strength with the five elements of the Source' vs 'how much do I want to have other abilities and advantages', but that in and of itself is a decision for the player to make.

This. Aes Sedai available right out of chargen.

If people want to come in as Novice/Accepted they are welcome to but the storyline itself is only going to last a year or two so would not be enough time to be Raised from start to finish

I think we are actually roughly on the same page here.

For example, Cairhien will absolutely have a wiki page. They are a playable faction and a lot of the plot starts there.

The entry would be setting the current situation, big name NPCs, plot hooks, etc. Game relevant information.

Culture, history, fashion, general knowledge? Link to existing well written, researched and indexed sources that have all there is to know.

@bear_necessities said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):

your game is not the entire world, is it?

A lot of it, actually or at least representatives of a lot of its people

At least for the alpha period the intended audience is definitely going to be folks familiar with the series while the primer is meant for someone that at has an understanding of generic fantasy to get them pointed in the right direction so they could create some Lady or soldier and go from there knowing that elves, orcs and D&D style magic weren't a thing.

The wiki itself will definitely grow as things progress, especially once officially open and get people in so I know where the weak points are for play... and I also am not above bribing players with Luck/XP for wiki work.

I do not intend for the wiki to be another Wheel of Time encyclopedia though. In my opinion that is the wrong place to put effort where such good, easily searchable resources already exist and that time could instead be spent on the game itself.

Seriously, I did a random wheel of time question into google. "What type of hats do they wear in cairhien" and got several responses. I can't beat that, nor do I want to.

@krmbm said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):

If you're selling the game as "no canon knowledge needed," then your wiki needs to support that.

I'm not. It's very much going to be a canon knowledge suggested sort of place, but the primer is meant for folks that just need a little something.

The setting is so big and vast that trying to make wiki pages for everything would quickly become overwhelming. Where do you draw the line on the etc?

There will definitely be entries on some thematic things though, such as the One Power and big name positions, but more in the context of how they interact with the game itself and not deep thematic knowledge

In my town at least, partially thanks to COVID but also to long term planning this year is the first year that every student from 1 to 12 will get a device. Might be an old iPad, old chromebook or new chromebook but everyone will have something.

Whether or not students all have internet at home for some sort of cloud hosted textbook or whatever is a different story but everyone will have a device at least

@Auspice covered in grocery store paper bag book covers too so they last a few more years