Tragedy at Silvergard OOC Thread

[Amaury]

See my color post above.

All, especially those with more PBP experience: What is the point of having characters' dialogue color coded?

It simply helps with the reading, especially with long posts, people will tend to miss stuff and you get into stupid situations.. So I'd recommend you choose one colour for Common as well.

For other languages, you can use another colour but also place tags to confirm what language it is, i.e.:
[draconic]"Yes I speak draconic, I'm a mage!"[/draconic] or get the characters to specify what languages they talk as all the colour coding is soon forgotten.

Then 'thoughts' are usually in Italic.

This is what I've seen in my pbp experience.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Okie dokie.

Here's what we'll do. If you guys want to keep the color coding for your characters we'll do it that way. As for languages, we'll just note what language is being spoken if it is other than common. For example,

The creature says in Orc, "Back off!"

Or something like that.

 

[Voda Vosa]

I think a unanimous color for spoken words could be a good idea.

 

[Helfdan]

If we choose colors, I pick green

 

[Yttermayn]

If we choose colors, I pick green

I beat you to it by posting in it first. Just kidding, I'll roll you for it though... Hehehe.

 

[ethandrew]

I think a unanimous color for spoken words could be a good idea.

This might be best, for simplicity's sake.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

On the other hand, the individual colors do seem to add a bit of flavor. I really don't care either way.

 

[Helfdan]

No, friend. I am sorry i missed that. I shall use brown

 

[Arkhandus]

I don't have prior PbP experience exactly (closest I've done before is the freeform stuff on the old Beyond Dominia Roleplaying Mill), but on OpenRPG folks generally use different text colors to denote their 'voice' since it's just text, and helps keep folks' posts to the chat window distinct. Frex, I always have blue as my text color when DMing in OpenRPG, but use other colors when I'm 'voicing' a significant NPC, or when I'm playing a PC in someone else's game, choosing a color that seems to suit that character.


Generally, it's just easier to notice speech when it's in a different color from the general text in a post, rather than possibly missing it or not noticing where the character stopped speaking.

I'm fine with either method; colors denoting language used, or colors denoting particular speakers. On OpenRPG I always have to put stuff like (Draconic) just before a character's speech to denote what language they're using, if it's not Common or similar.


Though.... Ethandrew, considering that Amaury and I already called two different shades of blue, you may want to go with a different color for speech.

 

[ethandrew]

Though.... Ethandrew, considering that Amaury and I already called two different shades of blue, you may want to go with a different color for speech.

Damn! I'm striking out left and right. We should make this thread a poll and have people vote for my color, I think I'd have an easier time if it was chosen for me.