Does anyone think my autopogrification commandline is worth a question?

using imagemagic in a bash script, I run: convert $1 -gravity center -thumbnail 39x39^ -extent 39x39 -unsharp 0x.5 -compose DstIn circle.png -matte -composite -stroke black -fill none -draw 'circle 19,19, 37,19' -stroke red -fill none -draw 'circle 19,19, 36,19' -colors 256 -depth 8 -quality 90 pog.png

(that was fun trying to figure out...)

Good evening Sohum.

:5625 Sounds like a superuser question

@BrianBallsunStanton While it would likely be useful to the audience here, it would probably be thrown out.

it would be

superuser.com

Eh, not fussed.

Just to have it permanently documented, we're changing the half-elf to elf for balance reasons

Well, because it violates requirement of primary or secondary stat linked with class.

In order to preserve optimal spirit of choices, race changed to elf. Okay, now I'm going to go fall-over unless anyone has any last-minute explosions.

@BrianBallsunStanton Just last-minute question... what's your hard cutoff for my buddy to have his rep up? Can we agree to 1800 Eastern?

:5693 um

(2200 GMT, Tuesday)

+10 hours from now. Mark.

er, 10 hours and 5 minutes from now

+9 Actually

As a point of order, however

no, I'm not going to be fussed if it's between 9 and 10 AM for me

so +10 hours from now, whever that maps to.

Spiffy. Thanks. I'll let him know. He is definitely interested.

as I was saying, as a point of order, as I'll be allowing group input on action, if he doesn't get his rep up, he just misses this phase of the playtest.

...then comes in later? Ok.

g'night all.

g'night

Wait... what?

Yay for the delete button.

Okay, given that I'm squelching myself. g'night properly.

Oh... right, the Shardmind. I'm sure we'll be fine.

Kedearian just hit his 20 rep. Should be joining the chat shortly.

Hello

@Kedearian Hey. When you have some time, read through the chat log a bit - especially the starred posts on the right - and get caught up.

Then, your current assignment for character work seems to be the Shardmind. You'll have to pick from one of the two suggested classes, give the character a rank and name, and throw in some flavor for the background/personality.

okay i'll look into it

Brian is our DM. He's DenubisX in the doc. We're looking to move on to the next phase around 1800 Eastern, 2200 GMT.

I'm out for now. Back to work. See you all later tonight.

Oh hey people.

Hey

Hmm, I like the H̶a̶l̶f̶elf.

Just a clarification, step 4a is just character name, description and relationships?

Name, rank, and short blurb, is all that's necessary

but 4a is "where the essential party dynamics are formed."

so we're sorta running with the idea of dropping in IC comments all over.

I've just found the "comment" feature in Google Doc. Perhaps this is where we should post "suggestion" material going forward, instead of in the actual doc?

I dunno. I'm okay with either, really.

Comments kinda annoy me because I have to move out of my frame of vision to read them, but that's really minor.

@Iszi it might be more clear

and you wouldn't have to type your name everywhere

To clarify: By "suggestion" material, I'm referring to Brian's Have You Considered, Iszi's Theme Suggestion, etc. Inline IC posts are fine where they are, I think.

Yeah, I agree

the IC posts are part of the document. The other stuff is meta

We have a pretty good delineation as it is. I just... don't see the need?

on a completely different note, GDocs' natural inclination to not immediately show who made what change is really helping to make the characters distinct as separate from the players.

@Sohum Nice point. I like it.

The need (comments) is to distinguish from intended, actual changes to the character and suggestions. Inline text looks more firm and decided, whereas a side-note comment looks more like a suggestion. Also, the separation from in-game and meta that C. Ross mentions is another good reason.

Eh. If it says "Suggestion", it looks like a suggestion.

Anyway, I'm not too fussed. You lot seem to like comments, so I'll run with that.

is psionics as broken in 4.0 as it was in 3.5? i'm looking into the classes that were proposed for my current step

Not nearly as broken from what I've seen

alright, i just didnt want to do something that break the game, that makes it a bit less fun.

remember, this is to have fun, but the explicit purpose of this game is

A) a test of running a game in chat

B) a test bed for character ideas, builds, and other stuff from the site

so a little outlandishness is ok

yeah but that's different from 3.5's psionic warrior.. which was like a gestalt character for free.

which is why i was making sure it wasnt the same thing in 4, that's a bit tomuch

no, definitely not

I always hated how psions in 3.5 could use all their pp on high level powers

they fixed that

i'm going to probably take a bit longer while i read up on the shardmind and new systems, should have something done by 1800 est tho

you don't have to have a whole character sheet, just a name and a concept

but i want some background on the race/class before i get into that

Do i have to pick the same role as in the previous step, like could i select telepathic psion instead of telekentic?

that's a question for Brian

@Kedearian There's a reason Telekinetic was chosen, over Telepathic.

The Shardmind gets a bonus to INT and choice of CHA/WIS.

We've already got a lot of CHA bonuses, and characters with INT & CHA bonuses in the group.

Telepathic Psions lean on CHA, Telekinetic Psions lean on WIS.

So, it made sense to go with Telekinetic for party balancing.

@Iszi I reworked what I had listed, and I'm happy with this as well, same basic idea, just less "your mind is weak" and more "my mind will crush you".

I'm going ahead and establishing that Serai has some sort of a history with His Royal Highness and a Shardmind that wasn't exactly positive.

:)

I figure now's the time to make stuff up about each other, gives a bit more depth than "so you meet 3 other humans in a bar, what are you doing?"

Sure!

Do we need to keep the class suggestion around?

Heeey, Brian's done stuff with the map!

morning.....?

@BrianBallsunStanton Howdy

yes, all enemy pogs for the encounter are prepped

wow, I'm only 25 away from being capped.

@BrianBallsunStanton Could you update the room description to include links to the Google Doc and map? This way, it's always in the same place. (Instead of shifting order with other starred posts.)

Ooh, what do you need voted on?

:5826 Nothing? I'm not trying to beg rep.

You weren't begging, I was offering.

ugh

huh. that's... usable.

dude, just woke up, is all good

Nah, you're just all screwed up because your toilets swirl the wrong way.

Good morning @Kedearian

it's like.. 6pm.. morning has long since past

crazy other-side-of-the-worlders

As DM, I declare 9:06 AM to be morning, and therefore it is. ::nails sun to the sky::

sun's still up here

bows to DM

i fear not your golden rule, what are you gonna do? drop a piano on me?

I'm loving the pre-game character interaction we're getting so far.

@Kedearian Wrong RPG. You must be thinking of Toon.

(I want to try that one sometime, too.)

or shadowrun.. i've dropped piano's on people in shadowrun

::blink:: ::blink::

Y'know, it's been so long since I've had someone taunt me as a GM...

::smiles sweetly:: I do believe we'll get along like a house on fire.

i'm brash.. and you know.. far enough away to not get smacked.

so we will be warm and cosy till it collapses?

:5848 Yes, you will indeed be warm and cosy...

I love google docs.

@Kedearian I'm really glad you were able to join us, now. :-)

@BrianBallsunStanton "character and theme you've chosen"? I thought we were still in rotation?

Oh, it's another part of Phase 4 - no rotation yet. Right.

I mean, with the development you folks have done, I should rotate, but... eh

and I just remembered, it should be "randomly shuffle" instead of rotate

meh. rotate works.

I would love it if someone actually tried to answer my bounty...

::sigh::

I thought it was rotate from the get-go...

bounty?

Which bounty? I see that there should be one, but it's not listing any.

click featured

I did... turns out I have Ars Magica ignored. Know nothing of it. Sorry.

::nod:: Is possible to answer without Ars

but no worries.

OKay, 4b prepped. time to actually face the world. Ugh.

@Kedearian It'll be interesting having you.

Ewwww... worlds are scarey.. imma steal all my companions gold and buy a small inn in a crap town.

?

Interesting may not begin to aptly describe it.

:5870 Well, if it goes too far beyond interesting... the problems will be brief.

i have a +40 to saves vs gm intervention, cause i bought the t-shirt for gary gygax

:5872 ::sigh::

i'll be less disruptive in game

@BrianBallsunStanton Just roll with it, you'll like it better that way.

:5874 Good.

Okay, I think I've got Master Chief's backstory for Dragonborn - Dishonored figured out. But, I need help trimming it down to a summary.

type it out and we can hack it apart on the dark

He was ordered to assault a royal convoy of his enemies'.

Since then, he's lived in isolation, shame, and mourning.

that's a pretty good background, expect he doesn't feel dishonored by that since he did what he felt was more honorable

The point is, he abandoned his post.

Not to mention, the slaughter of the women and children on that boat.

(except for the one)

Still atleast from what i'm seeing he feels like he did the more honorable thing.

We could scrap the survivor, if that would help.

if he ran away from the horror of what he did he would be a coward, or atleast able to view himself as one... thus the dishonor

ho, that's solid

he broke his oath

that's all that matters.

Looks solid to me. Also, have you heard "The Fall of Lebendia" it has a song about... basically what you just wrote

Never heard of that.

thewizardsapprentice.net

NSFW music, though...

Not seeing a song-title match.

Oh, it's the album.

The album is called the fall of legendia

Which song? Think it would be okay to (at least partial) quote?

3rd battlehymn

oh sure. if it fits.

Definitely fits, except that it's a land battle.

:5905 Yeah. But hey, marines! :)

Nah, I was kind of specific about Navy...

Think I'm going to stick with that, too.

Still, gives me more ideas for the summary text. Thanks!

::nod::

Mind if I upgrade his rank to Specialist? Going to add to the story, that he was found in hiding in (what's the current kingdom's name?) and conscripted by the king, under threat of extradition.

He's still a rusty old nail, but the king would be a fool to recruit such a veteran as Private - presuming he knows who he was.

Go for it :)

ranks are flavour

i'm good with private, still a freshly awoken shardling, picking on things only slightly bigger than himself

Oh, I thought you would have gone for something a bit more mature. Shardminds are immortal, after all.

@BrianBallsunStanton So, what's the name of the land/kingdom we're in?

:5920 No idea :)

oh, wait, no

you'll be heading to the chaos scar

but yeah, in my mind it's still GenericFantasyKingdom

Oh. Was kind of wanting to say "Master Chief fled to..." XYZ.

Go for it.

Or just say The King's Armies

or something equally generic