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I'm interested in finding out if this hack for Dungeon World (DW) works well or not. Asking "Hey, what do you guys think about X?" is definitely not a good fit for this site. Instead, maybe I could ask questions like:
Would this rule work well in DW?
What repercussions would this rule have in...
Does anybody here use Discord, and if so, do you know if it automatically connects you to the voice channel when you join a new room? It does so when I create a room, but I'm wondering if it's when you join someone else's, too.
"Telegram is about privacy and security!" "Yay!" "So your contacts know your phone number!" "Y...what?" "And your contacts on your phone who also have telegram will appear on your friends list!" "Whaaaaaaat????"
I really hope they add a setting for you to disable yourself autojoining voice channels when you connect to a server in Discord, but otherwise, lots of nice features.
@doppelgreener Hadn't heard of that. It looks nice, but since it's a paid platform, I'm not sure it'd be great for general communication for me.
It does have a free tier, but I'm a little unclear on what the limitations are.
@doppelgreener still you are in control of who will see your messages, when you're using secret chats. And AFAIK contacts that wasn't added from your phonebook won't see your number.
@Magician Likely free. It does seem to be pretty usable on the free tier. I just can't tell exactly what the limitations are, and the site overall is really business-oriented.
As I see it: at the moment Durov try to grab piece of market from mobile messengers: whatsup, viber and such. I hope later he will try to make Telegram viable replacement for Skype too :)
My ideal is something that does text chat primarily (though voice and video are nice options), has a desktop client, utilizes usernames or numeric IDs rather than personal information like real name/phone number, performs decently, and preferably allows some level of theming or adjustments.
Or at least keeps the text reasonably large. Because Skype has no program theming, my boyfriend hasn't been able to update it in a really long time... because they made the contact font list smaller, and he can't read it.
I will research this topic later, but I'm pretty sure that apart from mandatory exposing your phone to Telegram and notifying people who have Telegram and have your number on their phones, your phone number is not exposed that much and wouldn't be shown to people who added you not via search by phone number.
@Pixie I'm playing a cleric in my 3.5e game, so of course he's the primary healer. But he doesn't specialise in it - his domains are fire & sun, and his chosen feats boost turning & summoning.
@Pixie I understand that. Of course It's major inconvinience(or we may say downside) of the Telegram. Apart from that it satisfies every other condition you mentioned earlier.
it doesn't support voice/video at all, but there are plenty of decent clients.
:)
@Magician it's actually a good idea, because desktop client doesn't bother to check authentification regularly. I can't remember if I ever needed to enter my credentials after first login.
@Pixie Raidcall? It's not perfect but it has pretty good voice chat, it has decent chat, channels with configurable access.
> Take this katamari. Roll it over everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species.
Update on the messenger situation: I actually like Discord. I think I could use this. BetterDiscord should let me fix the font size/color, and (thus far) it doesn't seem to automatically add you to voice channels if you join someone else's server. Maybe just a weird thing it does when you make one.
i think he means use the pointy arrow thing for direct message replies if it wouldn't be immediately obvious what you're responding to, which is a good thing to do in general
@Polyducks hmmmm.... i am not sure. i'm not sure i WOULD do it as an RPG. the fun of the game is in the curve balls the developers threw at you, making you collect on all sorts of scales, in different circumstances, sometimes with different balls or different obstacles ("once you collect a cow, you've finished" for instance)
@eimyr I think it's a big topic for another discussion. It depends on what do you mean by "Slavic". We can use some historian references as basis and build terminology from there.
See, Wikipedia base it's definition of Slavs on some aggregated historian works. It's just somehow was acepted as general. There are many theories that can also be based on the same works/artifacts, but in which authors came to diffirent conclusion.
"General" just have much greater support among historians, I think.
@eimyr I'm flattered. Thank you. But I'm not well knowledgeable really. At the work I need to support every decision with arguments and I try to follow this way in real life too. And in discussion this way demands to not only support my statements with logical conclusions and facts, but also research and understand arguments behind other's statements.
You see I could say "No-no-no! Russians are Slavs. Period. Read wikipedia!"
but even though this statement has some basis, it could just be wrong to use
because your point of view may be in different scope and can be perfect from arguments and logics inside this scope.
And it's not a rare ocassion when a little misunderstanding and ignorance leads to useless debates.
I have so far a list of possible places with faces.
I'm trying to assign them narrative functions that I can safely predict and the other way around - see what else I need to have a narratively functional steup.
So far I have 1. safehouse/downtime place 2. Mainline quest place/macguffin with "progress bar" 3. Social/faction hub 4. Knowledge dump/resource trading place
I tend to come up with factions, their resources and general motivations/desires and how they relate to eachother and then let the PCs loose to cause mayhem
But for faction-heavy games it becomes difficult to track everything and at times I end up with outliers whose current attitude I haven't accounted for. I run the risk of having a minor NPC becoming a cornerstone of confusion.
E.g. where should the players go if they need information? Or equipment? Where can they catch up on current events? Where would they run to in trouble?
@Grubermensch hopefully. We'll be more regular once AX goes live and I can get back to a more normal work schedule. (hopefully the 11 if not then hopefully the 25th)
E.g. A meteor with an eldritch beast will fall on the capital city. That's cool as hell! Now, sadly, players will try to stop it. Bummer.
How about: A meteor with an eldritch beast will fall on the capital city. If the players succeed, they will be there to fight it. (yay!) If not, it kills my two favourite characters before it's put down by local militia. (bummer)
I'll be sure as hell to give players the freedom to stop it!
@eimyr Any chance you can link to that? I really like Justin Alexander's work, but hell if I can find my way around his site. (Damn him for Jaquaying the Blog!)
@nitsua60 What do you need? Layer Cake design on his blog?
@nitsua60 thealexandrian.net/wordpress/7949/roleplaying-games/… this is the beginning of his Node Design thing. Apart from a lot of technical conceptualisation of techniques we all know and love and have been using for a long time, he offers some great end results. I'm actually using the Layer Cake alternative from Part 6 of this serie.
@nitsua60 Unfortunately narrative-function-based design is not from his site- that's my own approach which I haven't tested enough to be as authoritative as JA.
@eimyr That approach sounds good. The only suggestion I might have would be to draw some interesting slices and rearrangements. What's the setting like, that I could give you an example?
@eimyr So then maybe the local watering hole is the place to catch up on current events, but it's also the place to buy pretty-mundane weaponrywhile staying "off the grid". (The bouncer disarms people when they get rowdy, and runs himself a nice little side-business out of a storeroom.)
Or if a university library is a go-to for researching, it's also frequented by one of the factions such that one could carefully do some eavesdropping. At a risk, of course....
It will serve to show player's their progress in the plot, as they know there are 8 floors to unlock, as they go about it they will have a sense of how quickly it goes.
Resources: energy to cast the magicks (called Quintessence), information, knowhow about magic leylines, info about who's who, some adventuring gear, money, weapons, contacts and allies
the first 4 in that list are quite limited, and PCs are newcomers to the area
So when I say "slicing and rearranging," I might have mixed and matched some elements of your safehouse with a social hub. Let's say someone's providing them cover/protection/alias, but the "front" is of a working produce distribution center. The players can "rest" by taking eight-hour shifts unloading ships (perhaps discover some faction-specific info?) or making deliveries (interact with lots of people in an unseen way).
Or it's just known that the vampires have the best equipment, so obtaining gear is also a light-touch interaction with that faction.
Oh, I don't mean these distinctions to be definitive.
I mean for them to be enabling - the vampires might have best weapons but if the players don't know what to do or how to obtain vamps' favour, they can always default to the Poly Sanctum and get something reasonably appropriate.
It's not supposed to rigidly funnel player activity into known places, but prevent a situation of players saying "we need X and there is nowhere to look for it!"
Anyway, that was really my only thought when I saw you listing narrative nodes--"well, what about making something 80% social but 20% gear?" &c. Gotta run and do the kids' bath now. (My son got pretty dirty this afternoon, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)
@nitsua60 It will inevitably happen (e.g. werewolves hang out in the Social Hub, not only in their hidey hole, Sanctum can under certain circumstances be a safehouse) but these should provide a framework of agency to the players.
I'm interested in finding out if this hack for Dungeon World (DW) works well or not. Asking "Hey, what do you guys think about X?" is definitely not a good fit for this site. Instead, maybe I could ask questions like:
Would this rule work well in DW?
What repercussions would this rule have in...
