I propose at some point to have another event in Uadjet's memory: For all the "footprints" his events left on the map of Yliakum I think it would be really nice to have a visual collection of the structures and buildings he created as a backdrop to his countless stories. How about we take one Saturday night to scout the map for all his creations and take screenshots which we can put onto custom drawings and collect them in a nice chest at the foot of the statue?

I love this idea, Daevaron! Would be nice to have an event like this.

Uadjet spent countless of hours to build fantastic structures for some of the events he came up with. I am all for honoring that dedication.

Now knowing that Uadjet has also been playing Gova this becomes more interesting even. Back then I had no idea. Not even close.

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.