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Beluaterra / Re: What did we lose? What did we gain? 4th Inv aftermath

« on: March 11, 2011, 09:39:14 AM »

Quote from: Chénier on March 09, 2011, 04:45:14 PM

Unlike some others, the Blood Cult did *not* want the continent to fall to any of the factions, and preffered to make them fight each other whenever possible. The Cult had grand ambitions, and the daimons taking everything over would have ruined that. Cultists were hardly the greater evil around.

Except for the Xerotl sect, that is. Our stance didn't change much from the third to the fourth...

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Yeah, until Valachi decided to badmouth Sherilynn. Then the Blood Cult pretty much got slaughtered. Valachi Stefanovic obviously was executed. Vistuvis Adriddae was fed to minor daemons, Malfurion Stormrage, am I missing anyone?

Valachi had always viewed himself as an "avatar" of his god, and in the dogma of Xerotl's sect, Xerotl was a god who guarded the border between chaos and order. His rulership of the Netherworld was an attempt to prevent the sleeping beast from stirring. That is, to protect Man. Fun character.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Exotic realm cultures

« on: March 08, 2011, 01:58:48 AM »

Quote from: Bedwyr on March 08, 2011, 01:37:09 AM

I heard it was the Far East Island. From what I understand, it didn't last long.

No, he's talking about Old Grekh.

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Other Games / Re: Dwarf Fortress

« on: March 06, 2011, 12:38:30 AM »

Quote from: Foundation on March 05, 2011, 11:27:39 PM

Hehe, anyone thinking about playing a bloodline game? ( I forget the technical term)

ftfy

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BM General Discussion / Re: Religions

« on: March 05, 2011, 10:54:26 PM »

Quote from: Shenron on March 05, 2011, 12:03:25 PM

http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/The_Blood_Cult

...and that took a *great* deal of work to make it into what it became, and even then we discovered the "state religions" such as Order of the Golden Feather and that sham of a religion Enweil came up with were very, very, very difficult to penetrate.

Quote from: Vellos on March 05, 2011, 08:58:50 PM

Qyrvaggism, in Beluaterra, used to have holidays that were periodically celebrated, as well as rules on when wars were allowed to be fought. Not so anymore, at least as far as I can tell.

Qyrvaggism used to have a lot that it no longer does, so far as I can tell. It's somewhat disheartening to have seen such a well fleshed-out religion diminish like Qyrvaggism has.

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I've always enjoyed Way of the Warrior Saints in Atamara as well, though I felt it was underused.

Which reminds me of the Barony's Hörgr of Makar, which is something I've always intended to flesh out myself or come up with a replacement... maybe it's time I got around to that...

Edit: Good lord, the page still has the filler text I used when I first created it!

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Other Games / Re: Dwarf Fortress

« on: March 05, 2011, 07:14:50 PM »

It's not fun without the Fun.

"Back, vile [censored]! Shatteredmountain shall not fall OH GOD FIRE!"

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Other Games / Re: Dungeons and Dragons

« on: March 05, 2011, 07:12:54 PM »

Quote from: Anaris on March 04, 2011, 08:16:27 PM

That's why I was considering something along the same lines as BM—or, perhaps more accurately, like WI. Something where each player can log on, do what they have to do, and when everyone's gotten their stuff in, things can move along.

The basic idea would be that the DM has control over everything but the characters' own persons—and that includes having control over the characters' positions, so they can't go gadding about without him being able to react—and players essentially "propose" actions, which the DM can then confirm, modify, or deny. Everyone, of course, can talk all the time. Talking is a free action

So if all the people are online at once, things can move pretty quickly, with everyone moving, the DM confirming actions, and the whole play flowing fast. If people can't get online together for a while, they can still play at their own pace, and the DM can make an executive decision to just let people who don't show up for a week follow the party mutely.

By the way, this is exactly how Fantasy Grounds 2 and MapTool work (two popular tools for dnd-over-the-net).

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Other Games / Re: Dungeons and Dragons

« on: March 04, 2011, 07:32:09 PM »

I've had mixed experiences as far as groups go; actual pen and paper groups have been difficult to find in the area I live, so much of my experience has been in play-by-post forum games. Of perhaps ten, two of those campaigns were what I would call anything even near "succesful", with only one still ongoing. And then there was that group Anaris tried to put together where everyone else buggered off...

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Other Games / Dungeons and Dragons

« on: March 04, 2011, 07:56:23 AM »

Forget that online crap!

We're talking about real Dungeons and Dragons here, with the wizards and the wacky and everything in between.

How many here play?

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This Forum / Re: Forum page rendering issue

« on: March 04, 2011, 07:45:25 AM »

Quote from: De-Legro on March 04, 2011, 05:45:12 AM

Can you confirm it happens on a browser that isn't from an unstable testing branch?

I actually cannot. All the browsers I have installed are dev branch installations :-/

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General Talk / Re: Last.fm profile thread

« on: March 04, 2011, 05:45:55 AM »

I've had an account for years, but stopped scrobbling a few years ago and recently started again. Interesting to see how my tastes have changed.

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This Forum / Forum page rendering issue

« on: March 04, 2011, 05:40:13 AM »

It seems as though every page I go to only half-renders the first time I view it, but renders fully if refreshed.

Using Chrome 11.0.686.3 dev.

Additionally, post preview creates a large amount of whitespace between the top of the page and the beginning of the actual preview.

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This Forum / Re: Extension Requests

« on: March 04, 2011, 05:24:24 AM »

Some ideas:

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Multi Quote Mod - Allows for cross-board quote linking, which is the sort of thing that would prove useful in OOC discussions or for referring to material.
Remove images from quotes - Prevents "quote trains" of posts containing large images.
Spoiler BBC functionality (or this alternative) - Always useful for compressing large blocks of text into easy-to-read sections, offer others a chance not to read something, or to hide large images in a thread to speed up page rendering.
Auto merge double posts - Prevents users from doubleposting.
BCC functionality in PM's - For those diplomatic discussions.
Resize large images - Resizes images in posts based on screen size. (SMF might actually have this functionality already...)
Toggle image embedding - Allows users to choose between embedded images or only links to images.
View single posts - Allows linking to single posts (like Giant in the Playground).
Embedded Youtube Videos - Allows users to embed youtube videos into posts via BBC.