I don\'t know old this post is but i can tell that you that i agree whit those who say that this is good for those who never use magic

Originally posted by Harwen
I am constantly reminded of some games that do not deserve to cross my glowing keyboard, and a feature where you could type something out on a peice of paper, and well, mainly it was used for fooling newbies out of some money. I was thinking that it wouldn\'t be a bad idea really with some enforcement, or some way of checking that it wasn\'t totally full of gibberish.

Then I thought:
You\'re a skilled crafter, or a teacher, a ministral(to you uncultered heathens, bards ), pharmacist or a writer even better!

Decision:  

You buy a few slips of paper, or if you are willing to spend a little more, you can buy blank books, choose your cover color, cover icon, e.t.c.

You decide you want to make a cook book with some recipies, write down a potion recipie, a song, or a story of a legendary hero that will be a series, so you think you could make some money out of it and perhaps help some newbies out with some basic tips. Okay good.

Content:  

After you write your story/recipie list/whatever. Make the title text, choose the icon that\'ll go onto the cover. The date will be added when you complete the book for things such as rarity. Also, you get to write the description for the book, like reading the back cover or dust jacket of a book. (What, the server is going to summarize your book for you?)

But now, you have a book or a piece of paper full of writing that no one can read until they own it. This is what happens in other crappy games more or less.  This is how people get to be cheated out of their money (sometimes its deserved, most of the time not) Well.

Limbo:  

Until you go \"publish\" your book, or \"leaflet\", I\'ll call it. It will have the words (Unpublished) next to its name and in its description it will say (This book has not been published) This is to tell the buyer and the writer that the book has not been verified as being authentic as to its title and description.

Publishing:  

This is the tricky part really, because the player must go to a publishing guild that is npc controlled and submit their unpublished book or manuscript, for inspection. Now, the publishing is just a person GM or otherwise to check that the description matches the content. The title doesn\'t have to, cause, hey, its a title.

Also, perhaps things such as foul language and er, minor-sensitive subjects should be warned about (cause of freedom of speech or whatever, but I prefer it not be allowed at all UNLESS used with tact)

Then the GM can do a few things, (this through a simple form-type menu interface of some sorts, if anyone wants drawings, i\'ll be happy to \'blige)

One, let the writer know that some things need work, by sending it back to the office with \"Flags\" because only a few things can be wrong with it, this can be a simple as a checkmark button on the interface :

Red Flags:
1) Your title is inappropriate (foul language or a just stupid phrase \"I have sex with cantalopes\" or \"Kiss me I\'m not retarted\" , I can think of worse, but I like to keep the boards more or less clean )

2) Your Description Does not match the content (Bad description of the content, example: (its a book about the crystal mines) Description: Meh. My head hurts.

3) Your Description is Misleading: (You\'re saying its a book of spells and the nessecary runes, but its really just a description of what you were wearing at the moment)

4) Your Content is Inappropriate: (You\'ve given away quest information, are trying to pass along possible cheats and/or exploits (idiot), or are saying very nasty things about someone, or are trying to publish a script of a harcore pornography movie )

5) Your Content is incomplete: Faliure to add a \"To be continued\" at the end of the story if it was meant to, or trying to pass off three sentences as a book.

6) Bad grammar/Formatting: You type with the ball of your heels and do not understand english. Your indentations and line breaks are whacked out, whatever.

Loose Strings:  

A bad book, or a book with red flags is sent back to the publishing office, and awaits the pickup of the author for re-editing. Perhaps a fee for checking the book could keep jerks from re-submitting bad books to mess with the GMs, or the Publishing fee would be given upfront. Incentive for spell-checking!

If the Publisher GM wants to add suggestions or comments he may do so, but must leave his/her name. Though with the possible large amount of books, this will be rarely used except maybe with really good stories and such.

When approved, the GM sends it back to the publishing office with a green flag. When the author wants to pick it up he must pay a publishing fee. Then, he can make copies of his published book (only published books can be copied) for the price of the printing material. Then the (Unpublished) text is gone, and (This book has been published by \"GM Name\") is now in the description.

This is of course, if there is some sort of text editor in PS that allows you to either import .txt files or to save in some other format to your harddrive (cause I doubt many people could write an entire short story at one go)

Also, your \"original\" can be sold, but it cannot be destroyed or thrown away, and there will be an (original) status in the book description.

Hmm?

I wonder if this is plausable, in accordance to volume of books to be inspected, but with cost of printing material, book or leaflet, the writing skill maybe? and the cost of publishing it will be kept down.

Wow dude , great idea ,it would be quiet cool if i could write a story and it would be published in the Library , but some players are scum and they would write sick and sex storys which might be a problem i think a good player should be the Libraryan and he should look the storys and publish the good ones , but stop the bad storys from being published. Know what i meen?

This racial wars suck , i think we sould brin religion to this world , there could be multiple religions which would fight against each other , you could join a religion a fight for its honor , a we should pick the leader for each religion , a player leader ,  and they could start wars , we would fight for our religion. If you want to start a war you should , start it whit a reason , and religion is a good reason.

To the Fight my Friends

Name: Oshin\'Gul
Classweight: Middel class Players

The Legend says that the Oshin\'Gul eats gems and stores them in his belly.

Look:It would have metal shoes and slowes and a leather armor whit iron breast , shoulder and knee plating.His flesh would be like flesh of a peach , watery but hard and not orange but dark blue whit sleepy\\sad looking blue eyes and sharp teeth and long black hair
and wielding a long sword and shield

Physical Traits:The Oshin\'Gul has a high percent of water in its body so when hiting him , your weapon rusts (but not the mug , the swords and axes) which lowers your attack for some time but addes poison which dosen\'t effect the Oshin\'Gul

Physical Attacks:Slash and cut whit sword and hit whit shield

Magical Attacks:Fear (His eyes begin to glow red and lowers the players attack and defense)
                       
Items Dropped (if you need an idea):
Long Sword (Rare)
Ruby (Used for buying or other-common)
Emerald (Used for buying or other-uncommon)
Dimond (Used for buying or other-rare)
Iron (Used for smithing or other-very common)
Life/Hit Points: Medium