Greetings.

I think I missed this Dev Q&A. Interesting discussion you had about rolls. Thanks for posting, Gonger.

I think if used wisely and in a balance rolls could add to RP. It would add a bit of randomness a char might need to react to.

I agree to take imagination over strict adherence to some kind of rules. And maybe not all rolls would need to be against a fixed value for success or failure. If you have to think beforehand on what fixed value to use, this distracts from immersion I think.

But for example I can roll for Damola when she casts a spell and then take it into account for RP. Also GM can take it into account. I'd trust Uadjet on that and not require a set value beforehand. One example: Damola casts Analyze Dweomer to find out more about some magic in an item. When the roll is high, then GM can tell me more details and if its low, maybe Damola only receives a general, but blurry sense of what magic might be involved. And if its is really low, maybe it can be fun to play out the occasional failure to accomplish something. Just considering Damola as a master in blue doing some water spell and then play out how it fails in a funny way spreading the water all over Anysu's precious fur. Damola would then just look at the result with astonishment and depending on her current mode take it with ease and tease Anysu about it or be annoyed with the failure. 

I bet many chars of seasoned players are overpowered with a lot of skills and stats. Adding a bit of randomness can add to the sense that they are not perfect either. On the other hand, it may also be fun to play out an exceptional success. Like 20+ or even 25+ with bonuses. Or for a new player with a new char like 16+ or 18+ and then playing out a surprise at how good something went while being ICly aware not being all that skillful in that area yet.

I think I might experiment with that without overthinking it. And I may not do a roll on every attempt to do something, but maybe on some attempts.

So my suggestion would be: Use an occasional roll as additional input, yet not sole determination on how to RP something. Does that sound reasonable to you?

Love,
Damola

Haha, I were not aware of those. I enjoyed browsing through them. Thanks! 

Thanks dearly, Gonger! It is always good to be able to read some of the previous dev q&a at a later time.

And to see the ideas we came up with. 

Thanks a lot for all the new developer Q&A posts, Gonger! I appreciate it.

Hi.

@Gonger: I basically agree with what you say. I am not sure about good alternative web pages to go to, but I will ponder over this a bit more. I follow a German language based site called Holarse Gaming. Their page about PlaneShift is highly outdated, but quite detailed¹. And their last news items is also a time ago². But they do care about free games as well and they certainly do not do this for money³. I can try to ask them on IRC on what would be required in order to help updating those pages and probably giving out a up-to-date news item about.

@Volki: Have you been playing PlaneShift recently? While a challenge is to have enough other people to play with when logging in at some random time, during the regular GM events hosted by Uadjet each Saturday there is a very good quality RP going on between player based characters and GMPCs (Game Master Played Characters) as well as other player based characters. Consistently so! I really look forward to those Saturday evenings!

[1] https://holarse.de/wiki/planeshift
[2] https://holarse.de/search/node/PlaneShift
[3] https://holarse.de/wiki/%C3%BCber_holarse

While I came up with nice names for Damola's familiars I did not think of a lore behind them.

The names just sounded nice, there was no other criteria for them other than to fit the gender I imagined for each familiar.

Thank you a ton for the new update, Talad! 

I truly appreciate the new locomotion system which fixes those various annoying issues we had with 0.7.45!

Have a Happy and Peaceful New Year Talad and everyone else!

I like the new harvesting animation! 

Regarding "Changed all Guildhouses to have ground as real mesh (may fix the fall through on login?)": Unfortunately does not appear to be fixed there on Linux. So I need to guide Damola through DR once again as unfortunately "/unstick" does not work in this case: "Moving back to valid position in sector (null) sector…". I find that "null" suspicious. Will "park" here outside of buildings for now, when I log out.

As an interesting observation: Once I type "/die", Damola briefly appears at the right location within the guild house before being teleported to DR.

Quote from: Damola on September 01, 2024, 02:44:13 pm

For me the new idea still does not accommodate for people who have been born in Yliakum.

Did you create a Kran or Lemur in PSUnreal? The gods are asking you to go to the Dryken Plane and help other people coming to Yliakum. Similarly for other people born in Yliakum it will happen the same thing. Practically it's hard for me to create a different storyline/char creation only for that. If I change the Dryken Plane significantly, I will have to adapt again for Kran and Lemur.

Hmmm, that may work as a lore for visiting Dryken Plane even if you are born on Yliakum. Although your char probably won't be asked to go there as a new born, but rather when your char has grown up to an adult. I gotta create a Kran or Lemur to see how that works for me. As for other races… if one decides to be born in Yliakum, they just have to override the initial story with what they see fit. Maybe it can work this way…