Post by Head Moderator on Dec 19, 2014 17:55:49 GMT -5
November 2, 2014
Update 3.44
Greetings, OH Members:
I'm back from vacation and I am grateful for those that kept things together while I was gone. A special thanks to
Mark (swordofatrophy) and J (iyieldtonone) for hosting quests during my absence! I'm in the process of finishing up a couple of my quests that need it, so you'll find that Tuesday, and Friday both my unfinished businesses should be completely and we'll start the Scarred Lands story arc next week.
Our Tech Mod suggested that I create a twitter for our storyline and so I have done so. @obsidianheartrp is the new twitter, and it will be used to send important information, including about quests and whether a quest has been cancelled or something is coming up. I've linked my lifestream to it, and when you post a lifestream you can choose to have it go through your twitter account as well that way if you follow this you won't be getting my personal lifestreams, only what is pertinent to the SL. If you wish to have access for quest or SL reasons to the twitter yourself, come to me. I will only give the password to Mods, and active DM's though.
HASHTAGS
A note from our Tech Mod, J
We have added [HASH]hashtags to the OH Boards. For those of you who aren't familiar with hashtags think of them as labels or keywords that help define and group together similar posts beyond using boards and sub-boards. When you click on a [HASH]hashtag in a post it will give you all posts on the forum that have that same [HASH]hashtag.
Some examples are: [HASH]brp (board rp), [HASH]gypsysl (gypsy sl), [HASH]slsa (scarred lands story arc)
You can make whatever [HASH]hashtags you want, just remember that in order for the hashtags to group posts together they must use the same [HASH]hashtag. All you need to do to add a [HASH]hashtag is type in, at the end of your post, #<hashtag name> just like the examples above.
Some [HASH]hashtags will be considered "Official" in nature in that they are used a lot or represent forum or game functionality. You will find Official [HASH]Hashtags linked in the main menu. You will know the link represents a [HASH]Hashtag because a # will be seen at the end. The first "Official" [HASH]hashtag will be found under Arith > Role Play > Board RP# which will return all threads with [HASH]brp in at least one of the posts.
If you want to start a RP thread for others to RP with you be sure to add [HASH]brp at the end of your post to show up in the results.
Two things to remember is that the results are handled by proboards search engine. As such there may be a delay of when you submit your post with a [HASH]hashtag and when it appears in the search results. This is a proboards situation, not a plugin or OH situation. Also, due to the functionality and spam prevention of the [HASH]Hashtags you must be logged into the forum for them to work correctly.
MEMBERS IN NEED
Some of you have heard that two of our members had a catastrophe happen about a week or so ago. The family farm of (howlingember) and (delusionalbite)'s family burned down. They were not hurt, they did not physically live at the farm but they did lose things that meant a lot to them not to mention their family lost everything. There is a fund set up here so please consider donating, or if you cannot donate, please share this link if you can anywhere possible such as facebook and twitter. There are a lot of very nice folks in the world who like helping others that might donate a few dollars just because you share it somewhere!
CRAFTING POINTS
Don't forget, if you have crafting skills it's time for you to ask for your 10 crafting points from (psionicwanderer) . If you have skills or items that give you more points, you need to claim that on your email. If you have Entrepreneur, it's time to send that in as well. It is also the start of a new month so skills like Pecunia should be rolled and claimed as well!
THE COSTUME CONTEST
Last week's [HASH]challenge was to choose a Halloween (Thinning of the Veil!) costume for your character and describe it as thoroughly as you possibly can to paint a picture of it in our minds. NO PICTURES!! This is text only.
STARTING WEDNESDAY - I need you all to go to this thread, read all the costumes, and vote for the following:
Best Costume Overall
Best Male Costume
Best Female Costume
Most Original Costume
Scariest Costume
Prettiest Costume
Sexiest Costume
Least Recognizable Costume (What are you again?)
Email me (tesarikone) with your votes in one email, and I'll give you a bit of an incentive bonus for taking the time to do so, a roll on the Minor Loot List!
I will disregard any emails with votes sent to me before Wednesday because I am allowing those that did not post costumes last week a few days to post up a costume (text only) to be considered for the costume contest. You can post for one, two or even all of your characters. Make sure we know who the character is so we can vote.
DO NOT VOTE FOR YOUR OWN CHARS. Sorry.
NOTE: If you posted up your costume LAST WEEK for the challenge but did not email me the link or otherwise let me know you did so, please do so ASAP so you can get that bonus (5XP per character). Those posting costumes today through Tuesday do NOT get the bonus though, merely consideration for the costume contest.
WEEKLY CHALLENGE
Your challenge this week is to post an introduction for your character in our sad little barely used section of the board labeled INTRODUCTIONS! It doesn't have to be long, just a brief look at your character, perhaps what they are interested in, where they hang out, or anything pertinent. What you post here will be things that are known IC, so don't post secrets or anything of that nature that you don't want our characters to know. I've also changed it into more of a welcome board where new characters can come, introduce themselves, and get some interaction from other players.
Post an introduction for your character and earn 1 Reputation for that character. You may do this for each character. After you post your introduction, email the link with the subject reading, "Weekly Challenge" to me at (tesarikone).
FALL NEW CHARACTER BONUS & RECRUITMENT INCENTIVE
This is our incentive to new characters! New characters will start at Crystal Adept with 30XP and 2d32 dice. They will also be given 5,000gp to outfit their character, as well as one roll on the low-level magical loot list.
Recruiters, if you recruit a new player (not just someone's new character), then you will receive 15XP & 5000gp per player that actually fills out an application correctly and is accepted! You may put this xp & gp on any character you wish.
CALENDAR
Be sure to check our Calendar for listings of activities each week. IF YOU ADD A DATE, connect it to a board called "Event Calendar" and you can link all your posts there, so if you are hosting a mission or quest, or other activity please use the calendar to let us know what's going on.
Please sign up for activities right on the boards, so the DM knows you will be there! Click the links below to sign up for each event.
WEEKLY QUESTS & ROLEPLAY NIGHTS
• Sunday, November 2 @ Midnight (est) -- Quest Night - Leader: Mark / swordofatrophy
(Novice Level - Sapphire or Lower Only!)
• Tuesday, November 4 @ 11pm (est) -- Quest Night - Leader: Pam / tesarikone
(Halloween Quest Part 3, Legendary Level)
• Friday, November 7 @ 9pm (est) -- Quest Night - Leader: Pam / tesarikone
(Final part of our Haunted Keep quest)
• Saturday, Nov 8 @ 8:00pm (est) --Quest Night - Leader: J / iyieldtonone
(Part 2 of his Return of the God Titan quest)
WORD OF THE WEEK
Don't forget the Word of the Week! It's easy 2XP you can earn once a week on every character just within your normal roleplay! Check the message board. Learn it. Use it. Send it in.
HOMAGE
1 : something done or given as an acknowledgement of a vassal's duty to his lord
2a : respect b : tribute
UPDATES, PATCHES, CLARIFICATIONS
1. RETRAINING STILL IN PROCESS
I'm still in development with an idea for retraining that will allow someone to change their class/profession in the event they build a character, like the character but do not like the direction they've chosen. So keep an eye out for that.
2. REDIRECT CHANGE
Redirect has been rewritten into a reflect that anyone can take at Sapphire Rank.
Redirect : Once per combat, you may take advantage of a foe who has attacked you by any means, by reflecting that damage back upon them. It must be the same type of damage; in other words ranged attacks are reflected by ranged, melee by melee, and magic by magic.
Prerequisite: Sapphire Rank
COMBAT
3. DEFENSE vs DEFENSE DC (DDC)
We've had a small problem with some folks reading skills and thinking that when it says it adds to DEFENSE that it adds to your DDC or Defense DC (10 + QCK). Unless it says "defense DC" then if it says "defense" then it adds to your armor type defense, the defense that has caps based on Light, Medium and Heavy. Just a quick reminder!
to treat as an object of great interest or importance
Read more at www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2014/05/07/#HQZFKLtMtVisPbID.99to treat as an object of great interest or importance
Read more at www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2014/05/07/#HQZFKLtMtVisPbID.99to treat as an object of great interest or importance
Read more at www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2014/05/07/#HQZFKLtMtVisPbID.99to treat as an object of great interest or importance
Read more at www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2014/05/07/#HQZFKLtMtVisPbID.99: a small dainty usually ornamental piece of delicate workmanship : jewel
Read more at www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2014/05/16/#pSEtz05ztC3LvZAw.99
WELCOME TO OH!
Furen Lun Lun
fayelangtenma
Member of the OH Adventuring Company
New Player
Maximus Shaw
thelonenord
Member of the OH Adventuring Company
New Player
Last Week's Answer: Hissing Cockroach
This Week's Extra Credit: Answer a question for 2XP. Remember, one per player. Tell me where you want the 2XP when you reply! This question can always be found somewhere on our OH message board.
In the Rayyan Peninsula, name the town that was built out of timbers salvaged from shipwrecked ships?
Anyone know anything?
suspicioushex@aol.com - This is not a known member.
suffertheflames@aol.com - This is not a known member.
thelunarbeacon@aol.com - This is not a known member.