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Athyonn Ursidae
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 Posted: Sat, Nov 06 2010, 20:17 PM |
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Joined: 19 Oct 2008
Location: UK
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Lally wrote: D&D isn't really period, it just has that feel as do most fantasy settings. So I'd use your best judgement. Like, calling someone a douchebag is probably pretty OOC, but calling someone a "simpering lambskin full of genital cleansing fluid" is...well..it's something I just made up. So try making stuff up. Here's a wizards thread on the subject. http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/ ... n_DD.?pg=1Not period I know, but I always think of the setting as slightly medieval so tend to take inspiration from there. I was rather thinking of period medieval swear words. But difficult to find any serious sources on it. _________________ Siggy by Maryn
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Grymia
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Posted: Sat, Nov 06 2010, 20:19 PM |
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Joined: 14 Dec 2004
Location: Kohlingen, and a Basement in Canada
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Oddly, the Two-fingered variant of the finger is medieval (at least in Origin)
It was an insult used especially if not exclusively by archers saying 'We can Still pluck you' .. you can imagine where it went from there.
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BlackDahlya
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Posted: Sat, Nov 06 2010, 20:20 PM |
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Joined: 17 Aug 2005
Location: Land of the Scorching Sun, Empowered by Global Warming
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boobookittyscrew wrote: Dev Disco wrote:
[*]I want to steer Amia back to an RP-heavy server. That means we will spend less time on the arcade part of the game, and more on the story side.
Curious...when you say this does this mean you'll spend less time on things like spawns and more on mod changes storywise and such?
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Once Upon A Time Played
Adr'ael Ken'rahel, Auron Teken’ath, Aurora Mesodias, 'Daniel' Daoskinaxarijikkym, Eilin'ira, Helena Rios, Layla Faircurrent, May'Une Do'Ndar, Mellinda Tellus, Michael of Cliffside, Rizzen of Twilight, Valkirya d'Claddath
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boobookittyscrew
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Posted: Sat, Nov 06 2010, 20:34 PM |
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I don't see how the requests forums have to do with the "Arcade" feel he described but ok
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RaveN
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Posted: Sat, Nov 06 2010, 20:40 PM |
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Administrative Developer
Joined: 08 Jun 2010
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The first one sounds fucking awesome. But the other three sound like something that won't happen easily.
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Hrothmus
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Posted: Sat, Nov 06 2010, 23:52 PM |
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Joined: 08 Jan 2010
Location: Virginia
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I bite my thumb at thee!!!
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Fel'Brin - I am one with the shadows
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Selvec Darkon
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 2:59 AM |
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Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Location: On a Disk, carried by four elephants, which stand on a gigantic turtle.
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Sounds interesting, I don't foresee much change in my RP or behavior regardless. I still swore like a sailor IC even when we had the Pg-13 rating. Can't play a War Knight without swearing far as I'm concerned.
Well depending on how the server changes will depend on if I stick around or not I guess, I imagine that's probably the same boat a lot of people are in now. If the server becomes less fun and to much work due to being so Rp-Heavy, I can't see myself sticking around after February, but if not much in that department changes, I'll probably stay.
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Wolfking6116
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 3:32 AM |
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Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Location: -5 GMT
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I presume that 'RP heavy' means less about killing billions of monsters and more about moving the story that is our world along more quickly, with more happening on the way.
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MoshingChris
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 4:05 AM |
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Joined: 04 Sep 2007
Location: Down South and Bent Edge
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It also means sort of restructuring the creatures and item drops to make it more rewarding to party.
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762
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 4:38 AM |
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Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Location: Florida
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It would be a wonderful thing if loot actually scaled linearly to party size, and didn't encourage soloing.
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Araxus Balmor
Gurth Balmor (retired)
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TormakSaber
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 4:44 AM |
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Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Location: Somewhere
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You would inject a bazillionty more gold into the economy and make that all worse, though.
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Korthan Isharnos - Dragon Shaman of Thunder Spirit Zamasham
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MoshingChris
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 5:50 AM |
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Joined: 04 Sep 2007
Location: Down South and Bent Edge
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I say no to economy balancing discussions.
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Socially and recently politically Inept Knight of Xymor
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Selvec Darkon
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 6:14 AM |
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Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Location: On a Disk, carried by four elephants, which stand on a gigantic turtle.
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MoshingChris wrote: It also means sort of restructuring the creatures and item drops to make it more rewarding to party. That could be bad or good, depending on your timezone.
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"Do ye know where the Holy-Flamin' Frost-brand Gronk-slayin' Vorpal Hammer o' woundin' an' returnin' an' Shootin'-Lightnin'-out-yer-bum is?"
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Mobile Disco
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 8:14 AM |
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Joined: 01 Jul 2010
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Putting a lot of time in balancing is exactly the opposite of what I want. We have too little time to do what we want and if I need to make a choice between something that affects gameplay and something that adds rp opportunities I'll go for the latter.
In general my vision is: more dms online doing events and promoting rp. Less administrative tasks for dms and less focus on the forums. Less time for moving numbers around in the game, more time to make the world come alive. It looks like we're playing phpBB lately and not NWN.
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Strikeclone
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 12:30 PM |
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Joined: 21 Apr 2010
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Dev Disco wrote: Strikeclone wrote: Angry Dev stompy foot of woe and pain for the win, about time too  SC There's no anger, though, and the request for more active leadership came from the DM team itself. I offered to take my responsibilities as the factual owner of this place, and I don't see much need for a Head DM job that's basically stripped from all power because I picked the biggest eggs out of the basket. I meant it in the best possible way, a motivated DM team has to be better at dealing with getting things back to RP basics is all I meant, sometimes you have to mix things up and changes up a gear and get a little aggressive in order to get things done, and your post says to me you have had enough with some stuff and your obviously serving notice to do something about it. I was merely expressing my approval as there are to many wet monkeys (a reference to an example of inherited social behaviour) on this server following bad OOC habits and presuming that its acceptable both by the server RP rules and by those of us who still try to remain in character as befits an RP server. SC
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Grymia
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 17:10 PM |
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Joined: 14 Dec 2004
Location: Kohlingen, and a Basement in Canada
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There's one thing of particular note, Disco I'd like to add though:
Sometimes, forum posts can aid in helping spread and encourage the ambience. They aren't the be-all and end-all , but there's some situations where it's really hard for an individual or group of individuals to be directly witnessing, BUT the events might have an impact, or larger scale interest.
An example:
Christophan Warrick's final end, while he could have just went to his house and ended up hemmoraging violently from whatever ended him, it'd have been difficult for any follow up RP to have occured without some idea of what was going on and sometimes, just contacting a single DM wouldn't have worked so well.
Yossi followed up on my post of it BRILLIANTLY and made good use of it to generate follow up, and it generated between forum activity and in game activity a fair deal of RP interest.
So long as the oppritunity for that kind of solid blending of RP and forum activity can still occur, hey great that the DMs will be focusing more on running the story!
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Dev Disco
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 17:34 PM |
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HRM Chicken I of Amia
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: Amsterdam
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That's not what I mean... RP posts are fine. This forum was meant to facilitate out game, though, and it started to become a task in itself. I'd like to divert resources into the game.
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Fierene Havenstar
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Posted: Sun, Nov 07 2010, 17:58 PM |
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Joined: 03 Nov 2008
Location: Hopping around the space time continum
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Thanks for all your work and thought into this Disco.
I would like to request that we all remember to get permission from those involved before any torture. The drow players did this exceptionally well, starting with a disclaimer before any torture RP. Making sure everyone was of acceptable age (18 or older) that they are ok with torture RP and asking what was out of bounds to the players. (ie. One player was fine with anything but messing with the mouth, pulling teeth etc.). We were able to accommodate everyone and the RP was excellent. Thanks in advance everyone!
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Clarette Feohn ~ Magic is Art.
Victoria Marrs ~ "I have an herb for that."
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Dramatic_Prince
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Posted: Mon, Nov 08 2010, 4:36 AM |
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Joined: 11 Sep 2008
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Regarding the IA forum, if this has not already been discussed, perhaps some clampdown is necessary. Considering the Devs have been asking people not to spam all the time, a lot of people don't see the need to respect this request. MoshingChris wrote: I was polite and asked you not to spam. You guys didn't listen, if you want forum behaviour to improve start looking at yourselves as to the reason some of us snap.
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Mobile Disco
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Posted: Mon, Nov 08 2010, 6:52 AM |
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Joined: 01 Jul 2010
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IA is in its own little universe where Mosh is god. I think he is doing a good job and perfectly capable of expressing his wishes. I don't see me posting more about that here helping anyway.
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drahgon
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Posted: Mon, Nov 08 2010, 6:59 AM |
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Joined: 30 May 2009
Location: Idaho
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Dramatic_Prince wrote: Regarding the IA forum, if this has not already been discussed, perhaps some clampdown is necessary. Considering the Devs have been asking people not to spam all the time, a lot of people don't see the need to respect this request. MoshingChris wrote: I was polite and asked you not to spam. You guys didn't listen, if you want forum behaviour to improve start looking at yourselves as to the reason some of us snap. In my defense, I put forth a suggestion that I genuinely thought would be a good change, but I cannot control how some of the people reacted
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Nekhy
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Posted: Mon, Nov 08 2010, 9:41 AM |
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Joined: 29 Dec 2009
Location: A beautiful fowl house in A'dam
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We can banish people from IA forum if they spam too much. Just lemme know who needs to be banished. And yeah, it's the playing ground of the devs so they set the rules.
I did mention this before but didn't get any requests to block people so far, so I dunno if it's been forgotten as an option.
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Prod me for development-related stuff.
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MoshingChris
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Posted: Mon, Nov 08 2010, 10:23 AM |
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Joined: 04 Sep 2007
Location: Down South and Bent Edge
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I don't want to ban people for going off-topic. I partially agree with Iron in that regard. I don't think banning people from discussion, when they are just posting their thoughts is conducive within what amounts to a work environment. Its easier for me to be lock heavy rather than foster resentment towards myself, and as the most visible member of the development team, the rest of the Dev's by banning people outright from having an opinion.
That said I will not hesitate to point out what I believe you are doing wrong and I will do it publicly, though I will do it in the politest manner I can possibly muster. Nor am I unapproachable, if given a decent reason I will re-open topics.
I am fine with how IA is currently operating Dramatic, if it gets to the point its no longer working I can voice my concerns to the player-base without the need to tie up DM resources. An example of my voicing my concerns is the post you are quoting.
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Dwagin
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Posted: Mon, Nov 08 2010, 17:09 PM |
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Joined: 08 Aug 2006
Location: The Land of Nod
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I've found that simply illustrating that bad behaviour is unacceptable pointing it out as Mosh does is all that is needed to correct the behaviour usually; if the person cares.
If they do not care then that is a different basket. That will become apparent in time and you folks have the tools needed to rectify that already.
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-Extraordinarily ordinary in the mostest of ways.
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Galenson
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Posted: Mon, Nov 08 2010, 22:22 PM |
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Joined: 26 May 2006
Location: Down Under, calculating your demise with blunt expressions.
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If I get banned after five years running for calling 95% of the people here an arse, I'll be so surprised I'll throw a party.
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Lally
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Posted: Tue, Nov 09 2010, 4:14 AM |
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Joined: 16 Jun 2007
Location: Leather chair, USA. Tell me about your mother.
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Just a quick FYI to you guys, I'll be handling player/DM disputes and issues now. Not all disputes, just the ones regarding DM vs player. I'll be handling it like this. If you have an issue with a DM or Dev, you'll be asked to chat with them about it first, or for them to chat with you. If after you've chatted there are still issues, I'll try and take it from there. I'm hoping my Inbox will stay pretty empty. Direct communication with folks you have issues with is extraordinarily valuable in solving problems, so that's what I'm going for. I hope I don't hear from any of you  Reference this thread and PM me if you have any questions. Thanks guys, Lally
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Ulir
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Posted: Tue, Nov 09 2010, 11:56 AM |
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Joined: 09 Mar 2009
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Neat!
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Dev Disco
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Posted: Tue, Nov 09 2010, 15:39 PM |
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HRM Chicken I of Amia
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: Amsterdam
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Galenson wrote: If I get banned after five years running for calling 95% of the people here an arse, I'll be so surprised I'll throw a party. I banned him (for two days to make sure he notices). Who lives nearby and likes a party? This is such an obvious and gross abuse of executive power that it's almost a work of art.
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dayfer
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Posted: Tue, Nov 09 2010, 16:18 PM |
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Joined: 17 Aug 2010
Location: England
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it appears no one is safe anymore...
now back on topic I think everyone of these changes are brilliant BRAVO!
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Fabian
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Posted: Tue, Nov 09 2010, 17:49 PM |
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Joined: 16 Aug 2009
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It all boils down to less logistics and more story. The forums are an important aspect of RP for both players and DMs; I think Disco is hoping for this to be their primary function. Let me know when the party starts. 
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Bruce Kesselson: [Talk] Channeling a different color.. Vyashir!
Vyashir lndrire: [Talk] Purple?
Bruce Kesselson: [Talk] Prepare for purple!
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jimbono1
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Posted: Tue, Nov 09 2010, 19:04 PM |
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Joined: 30 Sep 2007
Location: England
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I, aswell as others i know, do not use Forums much for RPing, mostly just for sending/posting messages to and from places.
_________________ Khaldun Menetnashte KhalfaniVictor WilkinsonSilent2001 wrote: Jimbono1 is my favourite. ^totally not a lie or anything.
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corypx
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Posted: Tue, Nov 09 2010, 20:38 PM |
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Joined: 14 Oct 2006
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Harm potions going to be one of the few changes  _________________ ================-<Cory ShadowFlame>-================ Risenlord-Shifter(OMG a Non-Dragon Shifter that can hold his own in PvE) 
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erroch
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Posted: Tue, Nov 09 2010, 21:05 PM |
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Joined: 22 Jul 2010
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corypx wrote: Harm potions going to be one of the few changes Sure, I think I can change them do positive damage. (kidding) _________________ 
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corypx
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Posted: Tue, Nov 09 2010, 21:15 PM |
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Joined: 14 Oct 2006
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erroch wrote: corypx wrote: Harm potions going to be one of the few changes Sure, I think I can change them do positive damage. (kidding) good they can go with the 5 "potions of harm" the DM team gave me with DM slay on them. _________________ ================-<Cory ShadowFlame>-================ Risenlord-Shifter(OMG a Non-Dragon Shifter that can hold his own in PvE)
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Galenson
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Posted: Fri, Nov 12 2010, 4:51 AM |
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Joined: 26 May 2006
Location: Down Under, calculating your demise with blunt expressions.
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Dev Disco wrote: I banned him (for two days to make sure he notices).
Who lives nearby and likes a party?
This is such an obvious and gross abuse of executive power that it's almost a work of art. You're an arse. I'm now $200 poorer!
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Dev Disco
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Posted: Fri, Nov 12 2010, 10:03 AM |
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HRM Chicken I of Amia
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: Amsterdam
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I assume you had a good time, though?
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Galenson
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Posted: Sat, Nov 13 2010, 23:57 PM |
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Joined: 26 May 2006
Location: Down Under, calculating your demise with blunt expressions.
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Yes. But $200 poorer.
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