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Moderators

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:06:50 -0500

I'm going to start selecting a new wave of moderators soon.

Nominate someone here.

I'll be promoting people likely by June.

More details to follow...

Racial Profiling

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:35:24 -0500

Human:
Size: Build:
Culture
Subraces

Elf:
Size: Slightly shorter than the average human Build: Very lean, lightly muscled
Appearance: Long straight hair, no facial hair. tight clothes for ‘work’, loose for art, natural material
Culture: Warrior Race, Highly Artistic (Battledances etc…) Affinity for nature
Subraces:

Dwarf:
Size: About two thirds the average human Build: Stocky, strongly muscled
Appearance: Kinky long hair, long beard, generally hairy. Layered clothes,
Culture: Artisans and craftsmen. Affinity for materials (wood, stone etc…)
Subraces

Yarin:
Size: About half the size of an average human Build: Very slim, youthful
Apperance: Bright eyed, hair can very, light facial hair if any. Loose clothes
Culture: Highly spirited, emotional, energetic, hard to control. Affinity for emotion
Subraces

Gnome:
Size: About half the size of an average human Build: Small and muscled
Appearance: Moderate to no facial hair, often balding, many many pockets.
Culture: Lovers of learning and discovery, curious and inventive
Subraces

Shyrr:
Size: Slightly smaller than an average human Build: Slim with well defined muscles
Appearance: Hairless, scaled, lizard men. Very lean, humanoid face.
Culture: Sneaky and treacherous to outsiders, absolutely loyal to clan.
Subraces

Kogari:
Size: Somewhat larger than an average human Build: Wall of muscle
Appearance: Large tazmanian-devil-like predator. Often naked, nothing visable
Culture: Warrior Hunter Race. Mistrustful of outsiders aka prey.
Subraces

Trogkh:
Size:10ftish tall at adult, grows through life Build: Armor plating, spikey
Appearance: Rhino/Armadillo burrowing creature, 4 arms at adulthood, nictating membranes , large spikes form armored plates when relaxed
Culture: Open to outsiders, live deep underground. Friendly until provoked
Subraces

Sarlin:
Size: Abuot two thirds an average human Build: Very slim, lightly muscled
Appearance: Mostly hairless, large eyes, large head, 4 fingers 2 thumbs ‘knob/lump’ on wrist. Small slit mouth
Culture: Wear sleeved robes that tie in the back, covering wrists, chest usually exposed. Explorer race. Psychic.
Subraces

Tarnair:
Size: Somewhat larger than an average human Build: Very strongly muscled, spikey
Appearance: Large and covered with bone ridges. Dark skinned, slightly metallic.
Culture: Genetically engineered warrior race. Primitive culture. Tribal
Subraces

Bloggery

Tue, 05 May 2009 01:03:17 -0500

My blog on the site appears to have been eaten. This is highly distressing. Anyone know anything about Wordpress?

Banners

Sat, 02 May 2009 16:14:21 -0500

Do I have any enterprising graphic artists in the crowd who want to help me design a simple banner for the site? Very similar to the ones we have now, actually I'd rather like to have a couple different sizes to advertise for different people.

Anyway, if anyone has any problem with the current ad banners, let me know I can see to it that they're fixed. I, myself enjoy them and have found a few really cool sites from them.

A fate worse than death

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:27:32 -0500

Is this site getting dreadfully stagnant.

I would hate for that to happen, unfortunately, I need people's help to get it up and running.

So.... does anyone have any suggestions for how to make this site more interesting?

Magic

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:51:07 -0500

I just spent most of my day at work tweaking new magic systems. I'm very excited with what I came up with.

I reinvented the Alchemy system, it needs a lot of work, but now it at least looks like alchemy, with things flowing into each other instead of the puzzle it was before. There are about 14 elements to work with there, I'll see what I can tweak out of it later.

Shamanistic Magic has taken a huge advance. I went a bit crazy with teh 12 element concept for a bit, but I scaled it back and made it it's own system of magic. It can now be used to replicate ninjitsu, glyph magic, basic alchemy, and all sorts of ritual magic. It's become the foundation of magic within the history now.

Psionics got massively upgraded. I made a branch for each of Mind, Body and Spirit, they all kinda need names at the moment. Psionics, Faith and... something physical. Anyway... it'll be really cool and will actually simply combat quite a bit.

Basically Combat and movement feats are now considered the Physical magic, they'll cost a few CP each, and you'll get the relevant skill and there you go. You can now run up walls, or cut people in half or whatever. This will make things much easer when writing combat rules since now (I can say if you don't have the tech you can't do it (or at least get a penalty) it'll make combat easier for those who *don't* want to worry about being extremely fancy, or those who get easily confused by the limitless options available.

Your basic combat options are now Ready Weapon, Parry and Strike with Melee and Aim and Fire with Ranged weapons. You still get response actions but they're pretty much limited to dodge and block. You can buy Combat Feats to enhance your character if you want to have combat training or go and do something else with all your CP if you can't be bothered.

Finally I restructured Arcane magic, it's not very much branch oriented, you pick out spell branches individually, making it very easy to customize your mage or add a few spells to your character without having to completely overhaul and dedicate tons of CP to magic.

Of course I'll be adding Archtypes, templates and groups of skills and abilities to be purchased at a discount to make it easier for people who want to do something quick and basic.

Skills

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:41:16 -0500

I currently have two or three skill lists.

One has 60 skills grouped into 5 groups of 12. The other is the other way around and is grouped into 12 groups of around 4, plus two generalized skills.

With the first one, you buy into a group, it would cost about 10 character points or so, then you buy the skills in that group. They'd be about 1 CP each.

The second one, you can buy individual skills for 3 CP each. Or you can buy a cluster of 4 for 10 CP. The Hobby skill costs one and is a vague knowledge of something, Profession costs 5 and is the same thing but more in depth.

I like the second one a bit better, mostly becuase it's easier to add more groups of four as needed than add groups of 12.

There is also the Massive Skill tree that currently holds about 1200+ skills. I need to restructure it in a bit, but in that one the skills basically branch out and cost less based on how far out they are from the core. That one is intentionally in depth with most of the skills being tangles up in explicitly defining each type of craft and tinkering skill. There are 600 craft, design, build, repair, etc skills, the list can be reduced considerable by recursion, but I expanded it mostly to see exactly how big it was.

So.... any suggestions on which system would be better?

Avatars

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:42:17 -0600

You *really* don't want me to draw them.

*SO*

Anyone wanna help me get some? I'd rather they not be some generic avatar pack. I have some ideas in mind and if people are interested we can discuss them here.

I'm looking for about 10 of each:

Generic Human
Generic Sarlin (Gray Alien)
Tarnair (Cardassian/Jem Had'ar)
Kogari (Taz/Catbear-thing)
Trogg (Armadilarhinocerous)
Shyrr (Lizardmen)
Mystic (techno elves, Eldar)
Generic Elf
Generic Dwarf
Gnome (tinker style preferable)
Yarin (Halfling/Kender)
Clockwork/Steamknight
Wizard
Wizard using Crystals
Fighter
Knight/Dragonrider
Rogue (Thief, Treasure Hunter)
Merchant
Expert (Craftsman, Guild/Union stuff)
Dragon, Drake
Harpy, Naga
Nethacker
Pilot
Mechanic
and some other category.

That'll bring about 250 avatars, of course not of them will be available to start. And there might be some more in some categories and less in others, but that's a good start.

Shinies and Perks to anyone who helps me with this. They should be around 100x100 and all the art work should be yours to distribute. While I like pirates, I dislike plagerism. So no.

A Brief History of Rakthallos

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:01:49 -0600

http://www.gunnerrpg.com/wiki/index.php?...Rakthallos

It still needs a ton of information put into it, but I detaled the Creation Mythos of Rakthallos and the events leading up to it's destruction.

I still need to put stuff about Elric and Grumby, Rathnekkar and the war of the Changelings and the Changed. The Artifact Weapons. Ahn Zayne and a lot of the doings of the Archmages, specifically Skulrillion.

Not to mention some of the campaigns with Rasch, Abin, and others, the last campaign I ran (kongol was a part of to the end) focussed heavily on the end of Rakthallos.

I'll get more as time permits.

Any questions or clarifications or more details wanted on something feel free to ask here.

Code Monkey

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:18:45 -0600

Ok, I do know how to program, just not very well. I can follow instructions and modify code all damn day, I just suck at writing it myself.

So, does anyone out there *cough* tux *cough* know how to help me out here? Help would be very much appreciated.

Referrals

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:49:02 -0600

Ok people, we need more people in here. We're officially open for business, the site is stable, and registration is free.

Turns out I have a way to track referrals with the admin panel. So I can see who brings in who.

So, a reward to the person who brings in the most referrals. This will probably be a monthly reward, becuase, well, I can. The reward is currently one wish.

The wish can be a custom title, a story, your own section, or pretty much anything that it is within my power to grant. So go forth and bring people into our shining happy community.

Starting place

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:23:14 -0600

Ok, I did a quick survey...

I have about 25 stories ready to go.

7 For Ecyler Saga
7 for Alamansthara Chronicles
6 for Rakthallos
and 5 for Sharagnarok

This is just in the gunner universe, also have several collaborations with Michael, and some other side projects.

Where should I start? Should I go with what's there or go somewhere entirely new?

I do have several stories for Revelation Era stuff. That could be fun, and would essentially include all the previous material as background to be later produced.

So... start in the future or the past? You decide!

Ideas

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:45:30 -0600

This is probably a bad way to start things off, but I need ideas for my rants. Much like Dirty Jobs, I'm not so much fresh with my own topics. So, this is me begging and pleading, give me some topics to go on.

It doesn't need to be much, Rants are going for about 500 words right now. And they'll be weekly, but I want to get plenty written to get me a backlog going.

So please, for the love of Ix, give me some ideas.

Tips for editing the wiki

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:35:59 -0600

Ok, the biggest gripe about the wiki (other than it's apperance) is the fact that it's not heirarchical. This seems to bother some people to no end and they can't wrap their head around it. What this basically means if you can't have directories like Universe.Waredisite.Characters.AlecEcyler or Gunner.Rules.Skills.List turns out that this isn't nearly as painful as it looks. First of all pmwiki includes the wonderdful include page function. Trust me it's an amazing thing. Second, pmwiki only cares about the last page, the stuff before it is all considered one group. Now here's how I do it.

Universe.Waredisite contains all the information about the Waredisite universe. It also contains a link to (among other things) Waredisite.Characters which has all the major characters (and minor ones eventually) from Waredisite. In the case of AlEcyler who is a known 'verse jumper. the we include only the relevant Waredisite data (in fact that's about all the page contains for Alec, a simple include fucntion) from Characters.AlecEcyler See? It's not really that hard.

Same with Gunner.Rules which is an index of the various rules you might need to play Gunner. From there you go to Rules.Skills describing how skills work within the Gunner universe, which leads to Skills.Skills which links to SKills.List

The only problem with this approach is remembering where the core page is. It's usually on the very end of the pages. SO we'll probably end up with a ton of groups and a bit of redundancy at first until we figure it out. Also, don't forget to tag things with categories, it'll make group reorginization and finding things easer. I hope this helps anyone who is trying to mess with the wiki. Comment below with your tips and suggestions

Content

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:21:57 -0600

Yes, I know the content is lacking right now. These forums literally opened up like... last night. So give me a break. I've started a kind of kicker thread in each forum to get things rolling, feel free to ignore them and start your own. Michael posted a very good one.

Next up, I'm going to be focussing on the wiki. PMwiki is still a bit confusing. I have my spiffy shiny logo up that Kevin will be messing with soon. I'm going to try to make out a content layout, define categories and whatnot. I would really like to put a theme up there and make it nice and spiffy as well, but I fail at that sort of thing.

So, that aside, what are people looking for in terms of content. I'm saving the blog for last (although it's gonna need a lot of work too, maybe that's why) I have some really good plans for it. I really hope everyone will like them as much as I'm looking forward to doing them.

Rules

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:29:18 -0600

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you will be warned or suspended. Thank you for cooperating.

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plugins

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:31:17 -0600

http://mods.mybboard.net/mods for the Forums
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook for the Wiki and if anyone wants....

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ for the blog.

Make suggestions, tell me which one and why and I'll probably throw it on here for now.

Theme!

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:31:29 -0600

Right now we're using a theme I grabbed from the mybboard site. Feel free to suggest others.

However what I'm *REALLY* after is for someone to help design one. Something that could be ours and unique. Of course the designer would get tons of credit and forum perks.

If anyone's interested post some ideas and or links here.