Ellri

Subject: The Relics

One issue we can see with the concept. The society is more medieval than anything, thus clocks aren't readily available. This isn't steampunk or gearpunk, but rather relatively low fantasy. The only known source of magic are the Relics. everything else operates on a standard medieval basis with normal laws of physics. The few clocks that might exist would be situated upon massive structures, typically things like great universities. Solar clocks and water clocks could exist all round, though. Oh, and this isn't earth. The clocks, if they exist in reliable fashion at all, probably won't be base 12.

The relic concept's ability to disintegrate objects seems too easy, with no real restrictions. Like we're doing in the criticism on another sheet, we'll suggest exploring the idea of a single primary ability rather than the numerous ones here.

One quick question: how controlled would the object disintegration/aging be? If he can't quite control the level of aging or exactly what is aged, it would be more acceptable to have it powerful. Kinda like the ability of the character Alessia by Sundered Echo (see CS thread). She can for example create a hemisphere of knee-shaking fear, but she can't control who it affects. It affects everyone in range except herself, allies and foes alike. As such, it is a double-edged sword.
The more powerful an effect is (especially ones that are physical), the shorter the range is.

Moving outside of time can too easily be abused, thats how we feel about it.

Still, we see much potential in a time-messing relic concept.

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Pathfinder:
That appearance seems a bit impractical. Many of the things hanging from that armor are a threat to him more than anything, hindering his own movement.
No matter how strong our armor, we would not want to have a multi-kilogram spiked ball hanging freely at our waist by a short chain.
That sword there can't possibly be balanced. Its far too heavy a blade. We know that from our own (very unbalanced) sword. Too large blade, not nearly enough pommel.
still, despite those obvious issues, We've seen a lot worse. The base armor itself looks good, and the human inside it has more or less correct body proportions. use description to remove a couple of weapon errors and such, and the appearance should be good-to-go.
Plate armor is fairly rare in the Kalesian empire, as they tend to go with scale mail armor, but thats a minor hurdle compared to the other ones above here.

As for the relic:
Changing into a lance is pretty impractical. once used, a lance is discarded. Mostly because its stuck deeply into another person's body. Unless it has a means for returning magically to its sheath, that is. That would make it a very interesting relic.

Subject: The Relics

Fair enough. We won't be on to check it till tomorrow in any case. we should've been asleep two hours ago.

Anyone out there?

there's just been a bit of guild downtime. People are still here, don't worry.

Subject: The Relics

Of course. its changed a bit from back when you were in (different GM and such, but the concept is essentially the same.

About the character limit.

we have another option you could use... cheat a little. Take a screenshot of a big block of text. upload said image and post it in. If that doesn't match your parameters, creating a lore thread in the CS subforum tends to do the trick.

Can rarely connect to the guild using wifi?

we're guessing you get a white page with some funny error messages (including one about "a spy sapping my server")?

If so, then it is not on your end. See the first hider in this topic: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/2272002

RPGN 12.19.14 (Special Announcement)

Hmm... to hopefully spark things off, we'll answer the thought experiment.

"RPGN" said How would your character react and do if they were to wake up one morning as the opposite sex with no given explanation? How would a situation like that play out?

Well, the character would have a -5 due to confusion, that's for sure. It would probably cause all sorts of havoc, probably somewhat different depending on what gender change it was. We imagine our characters would have all sorts of confusion with having new hormones flowing through the body, as well as a few different organ setups. It would probably not be pleasant. One factor we'd think as affecting the confusion is whether the sense of own gender is affected. If (S)he thought of self as the new gender in mind, it would be less confusing, but if say, a he still thought of it as himself, rather than herself, it would be harder to accept.

Then there is the issue of how the body is shaped and how to clothe it. Males-turned-female would probably have a bit of trouble adjusting to feminine clothes. This would of course be affected by era. In a medieval society, it would be very different from a modern/futuristic era.
Another important factor to consider is body size/weight and balance. If the male-turned-female has the type of boobs that many of the less mature males salivate over (i.e. huge ones, if you were in doubt about reference), the character would have a lot of balance issues. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that huge boobs are heavy.

We could probably go on quite a lot further, but we think we covered the basics of our characters' probable reactions on a general basis.

Server downtime and community solutions

The problem with crowd funding isn't finding people willing to fund. Its a known fact that they exist and are most willing. The problem is that Mahz as of yet has not been willing to let others help him fund it.

so far as we know, adblockers don't affect the server... they're on the user side.

From what we've heard, the core of the current issues was a semi-recent tweak to the server cache that didn't do as it was meant to. He knows about the issue and has identified it, but has as of last we heard not found the solution. We do know the mods don't have as much communication as they'd like with Mahz on occasion.

EDIT: see notice herein: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/73463/posts/ooc

Star Wars: Revanchism [Knights of the Old Republic/Mandalorian Wars]

it makes sense to group first to coordinate, then split somewhat again, in a more thought-out fashion. Figure out who can deal with what and all, taking into account the casualties.

The Relics

drop by the IRC, maki. in #aftermath. the people there can help ya fix that.