Portius · Likes big books, cannot lie
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We can fit more than that, if more people are interested! Roles can be added. Or subtracted, but I would prefer additions!
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Alright, people. @Sylandra has appeared in game in the past couple of days. This means that I feel obliged to check for mafia interest. Chime in if you're i…(Quote) Pretty thrilled with this change. Like, you could have just done this one, skipped all the others, and I would still be thrilled with it. The rest is good too, but nothing competes with this for me.
(Quote)Ah, but is it truly blasphemous? Are not birds the noblest of creatures? It is so! Then why should any god be angered by the comparison? Perhaps because pigeons are vermin? Well, that is no insult to the gods. After all, I'm not …Dear whichever admin decided to have us upload text files instead of copying and pasting:Thank you. This is better.(Quote) There are two sets of library scores, recent and total. You can see them both on LIBRARIES. Recent should only include the past 50 years, total should be all books ever approved. Most literary and most scholarly go off of the recent s…Personally, I'm a big fan of double dipping. Or even triple. Go wild, get bardics, library, and stage with one thing. Make out like a bandit and get those sweet sweet culture credits.The option to double up was also extremely useful …(Quote) It took me halfway through reading it that you might be aiming that way, and then I realized that I'm not in the swan-lover branch of Halli. What you need to do is design a roasted skylark platter to get me.
Credits aside, bardics also had their own title progression on honors. The library technically also has that, but it is much easier to cap out the library's version. Bardics credits also help to equalize orgs a little, in that some are much mor…This is just my best guess, I wasn't there when they were planning it:Six designs per cartel is 30 points per cartel. Multiply it by 7 cartels to get 210 potential points if it goes uncapped. Relying on the natural cap from lim…I'm pretty torn on this. I think I mostly agree with the others.I like it being supported and I like it being competitive. But the current tournament structure for scoring just doesn't seem to work. Xenthos is definitely right that y…(Quote)The credibility penalty isn't the biggest problem with it. Rejections don't contribute to library scores at all (assuming HELP 16.1.1.1 is accurate, anyway. LIBRARY INFO X doesn't display a change, so the help file might be wrong…I'm fully in favor of both of those solutions, I've just accepted that neither of them are likely to happen. I think they're both better. Scholarly even has precedent for some speculative elements already, since people have a history of publishing i…That is a blast from the past. I think all I wanted was a set of items that add a line to the bottom of the beast's probe description, just like the hair curios do for a player's examine. I'm guessing that is an appendage. Emotes are cool too, …I have basically no horse in this race. Frankly, I think that Lusternia is doomed because you don't have the resources to do any of the projects that could save it. On the other hand, this is interesting enough to draw me out to comment.<…Well, that Gala was a delightful way to end my time in Lusternia, but I think it is time to move on. Lots of reasons for that. Some burning out, mostly objecting to policy. Not just in the library, either, but in many areas of the game. I'm sur…(Quote) Rage is not very Hallifaxian. Assuming the fluff isn't in use with another skill, I might retheme the skill to be aging people to death (since aeonics already has a non-combat aging ability) and call it "senescence" or some such thing…(Quote)I'm going to poke at this more because I really, really don't understand this. Seriously, this is straight from the book. Emphasis mine."It should be emphasized, however,
tha…I've decided I have a better articulation of all that, if you want the tl:drnot to be taken as a precedentThat's the bad part. If a ruling does not set a precedent, th…I think we are arguing over two distinct issues here and they are blending together.Leaving aside the merit of pulling any specific book, I think this is the crux of the issue regarding rule clarity:…(Quote)Then I'd like to direct you to my previous post about Curwa's book, the one with the excerpt in it. Clarifying why that one had inadequate labeling would be a good start.It'd also help us to know why t…Re: pulling books, there was some conflict over it ages ago and there was a promise of producing actual content guidelines to prevent surprise rejections for being inappropriate. Never materialized.Further thing:This is a change of policy. There were -years- of not having this standard, and the library seemed a lot healthier at that time. If you'd like, I can pull up books with divine scholar comments along the…This is the end of the first page of that book:"It should be emphasized, however,
that these theoretical interpretations are not in any way proven - these
essay serves more as a pre-registration of my hypot…Because the correct strategy is to bank on other orgs not having submissions for the weak category, which is often the case, and churning out a quick filler book. Sure, the book will lose if it's contested, but if you do that every time, you'll…Mytheomagical: The Kabbalistic Narrative of Tarot written by Curwa, off the top of my head. I could probably find one or two others.
(Quote)That's the impression that i had before the rules changed! With that in mind, why did the library add the canonicity requirement for scholarly books?To be clear, I mean this one from HELP CRITIQUING: <…My problems with the scholarly rules:-Science, which is distinct from scholarly, becomes largely non-viable. We do not have the mechanics to do experiments in the game, so we have to fabricate conclusions on most sci…I will be the first to admit that I haven't been paying attention to combat numbers and such, so this might be widely off base, but:If you want more points for combat, why not add some (presumably capped?) number of …From the bottom of HELP CRITIQUING:"NOTICE: Any big changes of this system will be posted on Announce, but small ones will just be added
without further notice."I think this one state…(c) Iron Realms Entertainment 2012.