@Problematic Tech stack? I'd be putting together a client-side version because I'm most interested in working out the interaction, but that would be with just... html5, javascript, css, maybe with some assistance from bootstrap.
Server-side... I'm not sure! Asp.net MVC with C#? Ruby? Python? I haven't done much server-side programming before. I've read plenty about it and picked up a lot but never really sat down and made anything.
(I'm also a relatively recent graduate, and only in my first few months of real IT work, though I'm more skilled than the average graduate because I fiddled around with programming all the time prior to Uni)
@Problematic Bootstrap and jQuery are ones I've used before, and I'm only recently getting exposed to others, like Knockout and Node.js. A friend of mine is using Knockout with the client side of an MVC project, and apparently it's very useful for that purpose?
I'm mostly happy with the API I'm working up in Django; I'll open source it once I'm done rebasing the shame out of it and you can use it as a base if you want
@BrianBallsun-Stanton I'll take half the shipping since there's 2 of us, and I'll pay for my share of the dice. The default is enough for 6 $15 sets, though we can add more and split it any way we like as long as it goes over $90, and I'm considering getting a fourth set.
Second Batch is aimed for early 2014. If you order sets from both batches without paying extra money, you get ALL of them when the Second Batch is ready.
I'll be happy to take the order then post it out if they can send out a shipping address survey just before shipping, in any case. But if you're going to be in a different country, that means one of us will have to deal with international shipping costs :P
So I'll find my Eldritch dice at a game store instead
> In Fate, you can treat anything in the game world like it’s a character. Anything can have aspects, skills, stunts, stress tracks, and consequences if you need it to.
@BESW Ok, that's excellent. I get it. And that's some great use of vocab, since calling it a "Character" is confusing when you come across the fact the Sun or a stick or a house can be a character.
@BESW What was the circumstance? I do it when the word is just there, and not even part of the following/preceding sentence. Like "Pathfinder How do I do a thing?"
(I would avoid it for tags at risk of being automatically deleted, but this isn't one of those)
On another topic, you can probably do a lot better yourself, but if you'd rather not re-invent the wheel, this is the spreadsheet I'm using to track my players' dice orders.
In 3.5 D&D, paladins have severe restrictions on multiclassing:
Like a member of any other class, a paladin may be a multiclass character, but multiclass paladins face a special restriction. A paladin who gains a level in any class other than paladin may never again raise her paladin level, t...
@BrianBallsun-Stanton If I ship you your dice (possibly internationally) when they arrive, do you mind if we place an order that includes Second Batch dice?
The only reason I remember ORGATES is that I re-learned them when trying to build a D&D campaign based on the old Doctor Who episode "Tomb of the Cybermen."
> People who traveled there were always getting changed into flowers or trees or animals or rocks, or doing something careless and having their heads turned backward, or being carried off by ogres or giants or trolls, or enchanted by witches or wicked fairies. It did not sound like a good place for a casual, pleasant visit.
Unfortunately I seem to have misplaced the second book, which is really the one I need.
> The Enchanted Forest comes in two parts, the Outer Forest and the Deep Woods. Most people don't realize that. The Outer Forest is relatively safe if you know what you're doing[...]. I'd never gone more than an hour's walk from our cottage, and nothing particularly interesting ever happened, but I'd always known that something might.
@Sohum Welcome! Did he say why he did such a thing?
I think of the Forest somewhat like the One Ring, especially that scene from the movie where Frodo tells Gollum "the ring is treacherous, it will hold you to your word"
> I waited for a couple of minutes, but nothing happened. Somehow, I wasn't reassured. Being lost in the Enchanted Forest does not do much for one's peace of mind.
This is largely new territory for me: a system I've never run before, a setting I've always sublimated instead of making explicit, and play-by-chat is totally new.
I chose it because while its ethos is rather unique, the setting is very open. There's no sense of canon here. Even if we establish something as True, like "Wizards can't cast without their staves," you're free to come up with a wizard who comes from a different tradition.
And then overlaying the ethos that while mashing fairy tales together is necessarily going to result in silliness, for the people involved it's very serious.
Put it this way: There's a witches' gardening club that gets upset if their members grow un-poisoned apples, because then people will think witches aren't mean and nasty, and they'll get plagued by requests for love spells and teeth-whitening charms, and the witches will have to go live in remote out-of-the-way dead-ends like the sorceresses do; you never see a sorceress around anymore, do you? And why? They got good press.
These are people, not tropes, who live in the Forest and wander through it. Their smallest troubles don't seem so small to them. I think EF 002: Quest for Pants captured it very well.
I chose it because while its ethos is rather unique, the setting is very open. There's no sense of canon here. Even if we establish something as True, like "Wizards can't cast without their staves," you're free to come up with a wizard who comes from a different tradition.
I have... ideas... about what hasn't been seen yet, and I'm drawing from the novels that inspired the setting, but I'm not attached to anything that hasn't hit the pavement.
@Sohum I'd like to be part of the process, please. Adventurer Princess sounds fun, and very much in line with the setting, but she's going to need some specific goal to work toward.
In 3.5 D&D, paladins have severe restrictions on multiclassing:
Like a member of any other class, a paladin may be a multiclass character, but multiclass paladins face a special restriction. A paladin who gains a level in any class other than paladin may never again raise her paladin level, t...
