Just some brief guidelines, which I accidentally deleted with fat-fingers...
A general-discussion room is always good, but please feel free to create more subject-specific rooms (a single room with every possible discussion isn't very helpful)
I was born in the 80s, got to this 'internet' thing in the 90s, found usenet was this interesting hub of chat slowly being overtaken by spambots.
And then ISPs decided 'well now you can only get so many MB of usenet a month' and eventually 'This is no longer a part of service. There will be no discount'
It was a metric that tried to scale everything on a similar basis, what AC 0 is. Makes sense. Getting people to think about their THAC0 on the fly? Not always successful.
Has anyone here put together a "Sleep" spell in the Dresden Files RPG yet? One of my PC wizards (we're playing a "Submerged", or high-powered game) has a sleep spell as a Rote, and I wanted to see if my implementation made sense to anyone else. Here's how it works:
She's got a Conviction of 4 an...
Pick one characteristic that is unique to your character and mark it on your card, for example:
a physicality: the henchman's hunched shoulders
an action: the shopkeep who plays with his earlobe
a held object: the duke who always is petting his cat
a verbal distinction: the knight with a stutte...
:1306 I disagree, I see each answer as needing to fight for survival. Hopefully by the time the question stops getting much traffic, the best answer has risen to the top
I don't think folks googling for answers in the coming months are going to want to read 8 answers for every question
(I could be wrong)!
:1307 Still reading, but I like the sounds of the Back it Up principle. I think I've been a believer in that long before it had a catchy name
:1313 It will be interesting to see how it goes. I think more people need to actively edit their answers. Or the rest of us need to feel better about editing them ourselves
I can see going back to change an answer that is no longer correct, but I'm not exactly going to keep every single answer up to date. Though there are folks with the ability to do that in my place.
Following up on the blog post. That's not a bad metric for subjective questions.
but I think if several of us that are here a lot use those guidelines and make prompt comments that hopefully we can get the ball rolling and develop better community standards
I think one of the worst things we can do is close a new person's first question without giving them any guidance
I'm cool with that for the most egregious questions, but questions that I think can be fixed with relatively minor edits I'd be hesitant to vote to close without giving them a chance to edit it.
:1334 I think there has been some of that going on here, and it seems crazy to me to not cultivate new members when there aren't all that many of us to begin with.
People behave in different ways. It is not that they intend to act against you, it is quite possibly they simply do not know (or did not read) what is expected.
For some reason that reminds me of an image someone photoshopped nicely of a man with a heatsink and a fan attached to his head. He's overclocked, you see.
:1335 <necro>On the other hand people on this site get touchy about people editing their posts ... I think we have to edit things to make the palatable, but for goodness sake, use a light hand
:1355 I appreciate the sentiment, as I've noted, I don't want anything to do with driving people away. However, the quality of the q's and a's are suffering
:1368 Ah, sorry. I'm not sure, I did consider voting to close it, but have so far refrained
Trying to refine my answer, I've come up with this test - Does the RPG encourage and provide guidance for designing new elements?
Not knowing Dresden, I can't answer that. Whereas for D&D4, I can say with some certainty that it does not (in most cases - Monsters being an exception)
I'm not trying to promote that as a general rule, its just where my head is at currently.
I think there is a good question hidden in there, but it isn't there yet. I've commented twice hoping to get some clarification, but it should get even more IMHO
the problem I see, is that there are now several answers to it. If the question is significantly revised, then are the answers still valid?
Hmm. Trying to think of an analogy of how you should express questions here. It's a help desk, not a fast food counter. "Can you help me with X?" not "Can someone give me X?"
Hmm...I'm fine answering some short questions. To my mind, if you can't find a rule in the book and want to come here, that's cool. Someone can point you to p84 or whatever
But for subjective type questions, you may be on to something.
A polite way of saying "If you need help understanding something or finding a specific game reference, we can help you. If you want to find something general, use google."
Pick one characteristic that is unique to your character and mark it on your card, for example:
a physicality: the henchman's hunched shoulders
an action: the shopkeep who plays with his earlobe
a held object: the duke who always is petting his cat
a verbal distinction: the knight with a stutte...
What good, popular setting you have used for "Pirates of the Caribbean" types of adventures? What makes it good for running a pirate game?
