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Class 2011Oct22: Dice rolling for larps realms
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[10:12] Faith Diesel: Am trying to post a notice about class - Am doing one for Realm owners and admins starting at 11am SLT.
[10:12] Faith Diesel: Third time lucky
[10:12] ThomasK Andel: it is great to hear when it will be
[10:17] Faith Diesel: YES!!! I posted
[10:18] Faith Diesel: so how are you doing Thomas?
[10:45] Faith Diesel: Class in 25mins
[10:49] Faith Diesel: ooo - should say 15mins and now its about 10
[10:50] Faith Diesel: looking forward to some interesting questions
[10:52] Faith Diesel: did anyone have any problems with the megaprim issue?
[10:53] Sandi Grut: what megaprim issue?
[10:53] Faith Diesel: just wondering - nothing to do with larps
[10:53] Mordeth Morgwain: what would the megaprim issue be?
[10:53] Faith Diesel: lindens returns a lot of megaprims - just wondered if anyone lost bits of their sims
[10:53] Mordeth Morgwain: ahh no I've not
[10:54] Mordeth Morgwain: that would suck terribly though LOL
[10:54] Mordeth Morgwain: that'd be like 3/4s of witch hill gone ROFL
[10:54] Faith Diesel: think it was just a certain type
[10:54] Faith Diesel: so not every megaprim
[10:54] Mordeth Morgwain: ok good that'd be worrysome
[10:55] Faith Diesel: okies 5mins to go
[10:55] Mordeth Morgwain: hehe
[10:56] Mordeth Morgwain: enough time to refill my tea
[10:56] Faith Diesel: oh yes
[10:56] Faith Diesel: the five minute warning is good cup refill moment
[10:56] Faith Diesel: are you sitting comfortably?
[10:56] Mordeth Morgwain: mhmm hehe
[10:59] Mordeth Morgwain: back
[11:01] Faith Diesel: ok let us begin
[11:02] Faith Diesel: I am Faith and I am a Storyteller in legacies. That is similar to an admin - my job is to help players with their IC rp.
[11:03] Faith Diesel: I am also one of your main contacts if you want to set up a global or game realm
[11:04] Faith Diesel: you can also talk to Leigh Huet, AmandaBrook Wirefly & Nicolie Luv - i hope i havent missed anyone
[11:04] Faith Diesel: or just post a question in here
[11:05] Faith Diesel: I was planning today to talk a little bit about the new dice rolls and if needed a little about admin pages in larps
[11:06] Faith Diesel: but does anyone have something in particular you would like me to address?
[11:07] Mordeth Morgwain: well one of the things I was wondering about was when the game realm gets set up does it come with the api for things like food and such? I'm sure I might have already asked this but buggered if I can remember lol
[11:07] Faith Diesel: All those things are available to both global and game realms in the larps room in Vamporium
[11:08] Mordeth Morgwain: ahh ok
[11:08] Mordeth Morgwain: I did get the example api but I think that was just a test device or no?
[11:08] Faith Diesel: i expect its useable
[11:09] Mordeth Morgwain: alrighty.
[11:09] Faith Diesel: Everything you need to set up your larps realm is in the larps room in vamporium - the basics you can get from the blue larps box in there
[11:10] Mordeth Morgwain: ok then we've pretty much got everything then at least in that regards hehe.
[11:11] Faith Diesel: All the essential things are free or about L$10 but there are also come cute npcs and things which are just for fun which cost a little more
[11:12] Mordeth Morgwain: yeah we were taking a look at some of those. unfortunately alot of them wouldn't necissarily fit the feel of the sim but there are some that do we might look at after a while hehe
[11:12] Faith Diesel: The larps philosophy is to give a means of providing quality rp free from metagaming without charging the earth to play.
[11:12] Faith Diesel: The toys are extra
[11:13] Mordeth Morgwain: mhmm that's what I've always loved about the LaRPS system since the inception
[11:13] Faith Diesel: If they dont fit your sim you dont have to buy them and you can still play
[11:14] Faith Diesel: weapons for example need only be a prim attached to an arm for example - the hud does the damage
[11:14] Mordeth Morgwain: which was one of the more interesting features. I mean it makes sense in the end I think
[11:15] Faith Diesel: so you can make your own or use most other weapons - they are just props as far as larps is concerned
[11:16] Faith Diesel: anything else anyone wants to raise
[11:16] Faith Diesel: ?
[11:17] Faith Diesel: how is everyone finding the new dice rolls?
[11:17] Mordeth Morgwain: none that I can think of off the top of my head. I believe most of the things have been covered during the last class. Unless there's been any updates since then?
[11:18] Faith Diesel: no recent updates
[11:18] Faith Diesel: what about you Thomas - are you there?
[11:19] Faith Diesel: have you tried the new dice rolls Mordeth?
[11:20] Mordeth Morgwain: yeah we were exploring the system a little bit kind of deciding exactly what and where we wanted to impliment them in the day to day RPs that go on
[11:20] Faith Diesel: i think they are much more intuitive than the old meter
[11:21] Faith Diesel: the abilities stay the same - they are specific rolls and mostly temporary states
[11:21] Mordeth Morgwain: mhmm they certainly seem to be which is good to see. it saves alot of the faffing about that the old system had where there was jumping here and there checking stats and all that
[11:22] Faith Diesel: if you want to do something more permanently and the attempt is not included in the ability description you need to press the blue gem on your hud
[11:23] Faith Diesel: which takes you directly to the dice rolls
[11:23] Faith Diesel: you can ignore all the ones which start with a d and end in a number
[11:23] Mordeth Morgwain: yep we found those pretty much right off the bat there hehe
[11:24] Faith Diesel: you need to focus on the top 3
[11:24] Faith Diesel: target, self & environment
[11:24] Mordeth Morgwain: right right
[11:25] Faith Diesel: these are pretty obvious - target is doing something to another character or npc with meter - ie you can target them
[11:25] Mordeth Morgwain: right right
[11:26] Faith Diesel: self is doing something to yourself and environment is an attempt on anything that you cant target. like a table or a cream pie
[11:27] Faith Diesel: then you have to decide if the attempt is physical, mental or magical
[11:28] Faith Diesel: and the third stage has 6 options - this is the most difficult to get to grips with but even that isnt hard once you know
[11:29] Faith Diesel: grapple is about holding someone or something without any harm
[11:30] Faith Diesel: harm is obvious
[11:30] Mordeth Morgwain: yep
[11:30] Faith Diesel: influence is about persuading
[11:30] Faith Diesel: assist is about helping another character
[11:31] Faith Diesel: discovery is about finding something out
[11:31] Faith Diesel: and perhaps the least obvious is presence
[11:31] Mordeth Morgwain: a use of your presence to influence persons or environments?
[11:31] Faith Diesel: presence is about movement or manipulation of something
[11:32] Mordeth Morgwain: kind of like the vampire power of the same name that can either put a person in awe of you or be used to scare them away from you?
[11:32] Faith Diesel: you need influence to influence
[11:32] Faith Diesel: presence to move something
[11:32] Faith Diesel: or someone
[11:32] Mordeth Morgwain: ahh ok so it's morel ike a telekenetic thing?
[11:33] Faith Diesel: can be magical
[11:33] Faith Diesel: you can also use it to push someone physically
[11:33] Mordeth Morgwain: ahh ok so it's kind of a catch all category
[11:34] Faith Diesel: not really catch just everything to do with moving or changing shape
[11:34] Mordeth Morgwain: no not literal catching
[11:34] Mordeth Morgwain: like catching a bal
[11:35] Faith Diesel: i forgot the all
[11:35] Mordeth Morgwain: hehe np
[11:35] Mordeth Morgwain: catch all basically means something that is a category for all somewhat related items and abilities
[11:35] Faith Diesel: i know what you meant and its not everything else forgotten by the other other no
[11:35] Mordeth Morgwain: ahh ok
[11:35] Mordeth Morgwain: gotcha
[11:36] Faith Diesel: now what you choose depends on your rp attempt
[11:36] Faith Diesel: and there will be times when more than one fits
[11:36] Faith Diesel: its then your choice which fits your character best
[11:37] Faith Diesel: the other new thing is skills
[11:38] Faith Diesel: you can now focus your characters mind on a particular skill while you are doing something
[11:39] Faith Diesel: and if that thing involves that skill your hud will learn that skill best rather than spread across all the skills
[11:40] Faith Diesel: to do that you need to focus on a skill: /9use <skill name>
[11:41] Faith Diesel: and all the skill names are listed in the larps.net in the about larps dropdown
[11:42] Faith Diesel: oops - gone on a bit - any questions
[11:42] Mordeth Morgwain: lol no worries you pretty much covered it
[11:42] Faith Diesel: are there any questions that admins of game realms would like to ask?
[11:43] Faith Diesel: thats something we dont teach in legacies except to STs
[11:45] Faith Diesel: well if thats it - i will call it a day - but happy to answer questions if there are any
[11:47] Faith Diesel: okies - enjoy your rp everyone
[11:47] Faith Diesel: and take care
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