The Selgaunt Campaign - OOC

[haiiro]

Welcome to the OOC thread for the Selgaunt Campaign PbP game.

The campaign website is at 3d6.org, and the IC thread can be found in the Playing the Game forum here on EN World.

This game is a continuation of our tabletop campaign, which started in September of 2003. As such, we're not recruiting new players.

 

[Xen]

Rock over London - Rock on Chicago!


"You find yourself in a small dark room, with writing barely visible on the walls. The room smells musty. What do you do?

>read wall

I do not understand "read wall."

>look wall

You see writing, barely visible.

>read it

I do not understand "read it."

>read writing

The writing says: "You've just entered the zombie pit of hell. Stand on one foot and sing a song, or prepare to die." What do you do?

>stand on one foot and sing

I do not understand "stand on one foot and sing." A smelly zombie grabs you from behind and pummels you to death. The End.

 

[haiiro]

"You find yourself in a small dark room, with writing barely visible on the walls. The room smells musty. What do you do?

Ahh, Zork and its related offspring. I loved Zork.

I've just made the first DM post in the IC thread. Ladies and gents, get ready to rumble.

 

[glincaelin]

Speaking of languages….(ha!), whaddya think about a standard way to convey speaking in another language, such as “<goblin>I’m afraid of smurfs and clowns </goblin>”

Thoughts?

 

[haiiro]

Speaking of languages….(ha!), whaddya think about a standard way to convey speaking in another language, such as “<goblin>I’m afraid of smurfs and clowns </goblin>”

Thoughts?

I think that's a pretty cool idea, though slipping it into the narrative (like you did in your first post) or putting "(in Goblin)" before it should also work. I'd say try it a couple of ways and see what reads the best.

Excellent choice of avatar, BTW! I still haven't found the right spot on 3d6 for those three little ravens, though I've tried a few times. If you're interested in giving them transparent backgrounds for me, I'll happily award you 250 bonus XP for this session.

 

[Xen]

Speaking of languages….(ha!)

So does this mean that Marduke is like a celestial smurf or something?

 

[Artemis Blade]

I'm finding the white & light text on black a little hard to read in the PBP. Any suggestions? I tried switching skins, but the white text goes "poof."

 

[haiiro]

I'm finding the white & light text on black a little hard to read in the PBP. Any suggestions? I tried switching skins, but the white text goes "poof."

Hrm. One of the reasons I chose white is because it affords fairly high readability on the black background. It's also not that different from the default "vaguely tan" color -- does that one give you trouble? Do they give you trouble in the default skin?

 

[Artemis Blade]

How about just using the default color for your posts? Maybe a size larger or bold or a different font to highlight your main posts? The black on white is mostly readable, part of the problem is the rainbow of other colors we've chosen, part of the problem is that I find threaded discussions harder to read in white on black.

The default color changes to black on the light Enworld skins, but the white stays white.

 

[haiiro]

The default color changes to black on the light Enworld skins, but the white stays white.

Interesting. I've never played around much with the other skins. I'll throw this one out to the group:

- Should the DM narrative posts be different in some way?
- Assuming they can't be in white, what do you suggest?
- Should all posts (DM and player) just be in the default text color?

I'll state up front that larger and bold are not options, at least from my perspective -- the first will make posts huge, the second will (IMO) make them irritating to read. I also like the freedom to use bold and upsized text for effect -- booming demon voices, etc.

As far as the rainbow of colors, I'm actually surprised it's been a common theme so far -- I figured everyone'd pretty much stick to the basics. I've read through other PbP threads where everyone uses multiple colors -- sometimes not the same multiple colors -- and I find them hard to read.

That said, the muted reddish color for OOC text is actually pretty pleasant, at least to me.