Whirtlestaff's Wizards' Academy Revisited, OOC01

[Leif]

Think of it this way, Scotley: Imagine that you are a monk/wizard with an active Shocking Grasp spell going, and you're making an open-hand attack against a goblin. If you score sufficiently high on your attack to make contact with his metal breastplate, but not enough to, say, hit him in the throat, why shouldn't you have THE OPTION of discharging your Shocking Grasp into his metal breastplate to zap his little goblin nipples off?

 

[Scotley]

Just trying to uphold the rules. I agree as a player it would be better for me to argue for the partial success. Tylara will almost certainly face a similar situation in the future. Further, there is sound logic to your nipple zapping arguement. I'm just not sure how allowing the partial success will effect game balance.

 

[Leif]

Just trying to uphold the rules. I agree as a player it would be better for me to argue for the partial success. Tylara will almost certainly face a similar situation in the future. Further, there is sound logic to your nipple zapping arguement. I'm just not sure how allowing the partial success will effect game balance.

Ok, fair enough. I think, for now, we'll go ahead and allow the partial success in a case like this. I mean, come on, you guys need every edge in combat that you can get at this point! I have a feeling that this fact is going to become PAINFULLY obvious to some characters in the very near future as we continue the Ogre battle....

And, this whole game is something of an experiment, anyway, to see if a party of all wizards can really be successful! So, I'm inclined to give you guys the benefit of the doubt, at least for now.

 

[Scotley]

Cool, believe me I won't complain about the extra edge, as you say we are gonna need it.

 

[rossrebailey]

I'm happy to get the ruling as well. I don't like my odds against an ogre as it stands, so I'll take what I can get!

 

[Leif]

The problem is that these ogre are wielding big ol' clubs, so smashing a wizard who has an active Shocking Grasp with a tree trunk will not discharge the spell.

 

[rossrebailey]

Could someone point me to an accurate reference on the bulletin board codes for hiding sections and other fancy stuff?

 

[Leif]

Text Effects

I don't know if there's a reference on the board or not. There probably is, but I don't know it. But let me tell you about the tricks I've learned: I'll substitute the first Bracket with a Brace, so that you can see what I've done:
{color=red]text to appear in red.[/color] See that syntax? That's what is used for many things, "[text effect] text to be affected [/text effect]. Works for text colors, as above, italics {i],[/i], underline {u],[/u], bold {b], [/b], and strikethrough {s], [/s]. There may be others, but that ought to get you started. Oh yeah, and to see the available colors, just look at the pull down menu in the Reply to Thread window, by clicking on the arrow. NO SPACES BEFORE, AFTER, OR WITHIN A COLOR NAME! So, Dark Slate Blue is entered as darkslateblue.

If you see something that you don't know how to do, but want to learn how to do it, all you have to do is reply to the message and quote the message in your reply, and when the window opens for your reply you'll be able to see all the codes embedded in the original message.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Could someone point me to an accurate reference on the bulletin board codes for hiding sections and other fancy stuff?

[sblock=coding info]if this is what you were looking to know it is cakked a spoiler block. if you open with square brackes ([) type sblock and then close with square brackets (]) to start and do the sme but with the /sblock then you have the spoiler block. if you have a particular thing you want to print with it, such as getting the dm's attention you would open the printing with sblock=hey leif! this is for you to see only and close with the normal /sblock all with the appropiate square bracketing then it would look like this:

[sblock=hey leif! this is for you to see only ]

this is only a test [/sblock]

[/sblock]
cheesy cheat tip:

somtimes i will hit quote just to see what was the coding text on someone's post ... hey! it works, ok?!

 

[Leif]

[sblock=rossrebailey]Scott DeWar gave you the same help that I tried to give you. Maybe between both descriptions you can figure it all out? hehe[/sblock]