L4W Discussion Thread III

[Atanatotatos]

ARGH!! We need magic weapons!! Magic armors!!! MAgic flying ships!!!!!! Take cover, run from the homebrews!!! AAAAAHH!!!

 

[Rapida]

And, rapida, you can indeed join the tavern before being approved, and there's only two characters in, with a recruiter waiting for more to come, so we're feeling lonely

I know but I haven't got my background fully written out and that at least needs to be done before tavern crawling (at least IMO).

EDIT: Is there a description for the holy symbol of Palladys? At least for the aspect worshipped in The Imperium.

 

[Lord Sessadore]

Hmm ... that's a good question, haha. I thought about that for Raiyek, but then I ended up too poor to buy a holy symbol, so I forgot.

To go with the Greek/Roman analogue, I could see it being an image of a woman with spear, shield, and helmet (a depiction of Palladys herself), a shield with medusa's head on the front (her Aegis), or an owl (the bird associated with her), or any combination thereof. There's probably other symbollism I've forgotten as well.

Actually, I'm interested to know why Brenwar worships the Imperial version of Palladys, but is from Daunton ... get that backstory together!

 

[Rapida]

Heh, a bit of a retcon is in order. He is going to be stranded on Nova Imperia from the gate malfunction. I should have the rough draft of a back story I threw together on the sheet shortly.

 

[Lord Sessadore]

Sounds good - I think that's what has happened to about 90% of the PCs from the Imperium, mine included

To answer the question in your character submission email, the capital of the Imperium is Isolate Prime.

 

[Atanatotatos]

...Really? I always thought that was the main "continent"...

 

[covaithe]

Going out of town again this weeked. Please NPC my characters as needed.

 

[pathfinderq1]

So, having retired my initial character (after at most 1-2 posts in the Tavern thread), I've been working on a new character. The wiki template has been giving me fits on a couple of points, and when I attempt to find the "template assistance and bugs" thread mentioned in the character creation guide, the link takes me back to the main forum page instead. Of course, I'm not convinced I've found bugs- it is more likely my inexperience with the templates and/or coding.

1. When filling out the summary section for the Lightning Clash encounter power, it won't display the secondary attack lines. They show up when I pull up the edit screen, but not in the main page.

2. When I edit the Equipment section, it moves the actual equipment list down to the bottom of the page, after the tracking sections. Again, if I pull up the edit page, the list is in the right place- but on the main page it isn't.

Aside from the issues, the character is basically ready- any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Rapida]

I realize that the character verifiers are probably busy, but who should I start bugging as to make sure my character is correct?

 

[Lord Sessadore]

I realize that the character verifiers are probably busy, but who should I start bugging as to make sure my character is correct?

Err ... that would be me, the other four judges, and a bunch of other people who are character checkers. The best way to bug us all at once is by emailing the judge account (make sure you have "L4W Character" in the subject so it gets sent to the non-judge character checkers too).

I'm going to start looking over the rest of you guys now, and hopefully I'll have enough time to plow through in one sitting. I really apologize for how long it's taken for this last batch of characters. I can't really speak for anyone else, but I've been pretty busy the last couple of weeks in RL.

So, having retired my initial character (after at most 1-2 posts in the Tavern thread), I've been working on a new character. The wiki template has been giving me fits on a couple of points, and when I attempt to find the "template assistance and bugs" thread mentioned in the character creation guide, the link takes me back to the main forum page instead. Of course, I'm not convinced I've found bugs- it is more likely my inexperience with the templates and/or coding.

1. When filling out the summary section for the Lightning Clash encounter power, it won't display the secondary attack lines. They show up when I pull up the edit screen, but not in the main page.

2. When I edit the Equipment section, it moves the actual equipment list down to the bottom of the page, after the tracking sections. Again, if I pull up the edit page, the list is in the right place- but on the main page it isn't.

Aside from the issues, the character is basically ready- any help would be much appreciated.

I'll take a look and see if I can figure out what's going wrong. Easiest approach, though, is to find a character sheet that has whatever it is you want on yours, hit "edit", and do the ol' copy & paste

Alright, I've figured out what went wrong.
1. The fields the template recognizes are "|SecondaryTarget=", "|SecondaryAttack=", and "|SecondaryHit=". It might look the same to us, but to a computer, "|Secondary target=" just isn't the same as "|SecondaryTarget="

2. At the end of the code for the table, the last line should be "|}" instead of "|-". It thinks you forgot to end your table, and apparently that means it puts it at the end

That should work. I could make the edits myself, but I figured I'd let you do it so you can learn Oh, and I'll try to fix the link in the character creation guide; thanks for telling us.