SoI

Congrats to Shadows of Isildur for Radioactivejesus putting in a strong tolkien inspired orc concept into our contest for July.

He took 3rd place.

http://optionalrealities.com/forums/ind ... opic=262.0

Quick Additional Note Someone pointed out to me "Jeshin managing player expectations makes staff accountable to players and opens up rule lawyering." I was like well I should probably make a note explaining this aspect and Nimrod popped on and made a comment to the same affect. Managing Player Expec...

1. All analogies are poor but they provide an alternative explanation of a situation for ease of understanding. 2. I feel no pain but it is clear some players (most?) do in such situations because of unwritten rules and double standards. The only take away from my post is that as long as player expe...

It all comes back to player expectations. As long as people are not surprised they are less likely to be angry. There is a reason that informed consent is part of the medical world for example. If people understand or at least given a token choice to opt into something they are far more willing to a...

This poll assumes Icarus wants control of SOI and hasn't moved onto another project. You may want to contact him first. Not to mention it's highly unlikely that staff will just up and give control of the game to someone else because of a poll.

Hey, Haven't played here in a long time but when I did I played Elan Morin of that family app that ran the Inn for awhile. Full disclosure aside just a couple of points. 1. Jaunt's Badge System is this post specifically. 2. I can understand Nimrod's problem with "over-engagement" as I call it. It ca...

Hey, I'll go ahead and answer this in numbers format just for ease of reading. 1) The short story can be in any of the previous settings that Shadows of Isildur has operated in. The intent of the contest is to engage community members in our listed games if they haven't already tried them out. 2) As...

Last post I'll make since I don't play :P and I don't want to pretend even for a second to speak for the staff. Any policy that is listed is presumed to be for the health and maintenance of the game. You can justify it without descriptors which are designed to shame or invoke a feeling of guilt in t...

Minor suggestion if the above is adopted in any way shape or form. There is no need to specify rude, selfish, or other terms in the guidelines of a policy. You describe an action or situation which violates policy. You state that it is a violation of policy. You don't need to elaborate further than ...

Hey, Cola I know I am not staff on SOI. I know I do not play SOI currently and have not for over a year. I am however lucky enough to have over 10 years of staffing experience! And so I thought I might chime in here regarding your concerns about why an RPI staff member would nogain a player without ...

Do you enjoy writing? Do you love the Tolkien setting? How about money do you like money? Well we have an exciting opportunity for you! Optional Realities is running its June 2015 contest and it is a short story contest (600-2500 words) and the stories must be set within the game setting of a game l...

Are you to cool to check out Optional Realities? Don't think anyone submitted a game proposal worth looking at? Well aha we've converted our 1st place winner (Usurper by Griatch of the Evennia codebase) into an article to remove all obstacles of viewing it. http://optionalrealities.com/may-2015-desi...

On May 29th Optional Realities wrapped up our May 2015 contest for 600 word game pitches. We had 10 entries in all and we were very pleased with all of the entries. Even some people from the SOI community submitted! You can check out the results right over here: May 2015 Contest Results And if you d...

OR Staff aren't allowed to participate. SOI staff can though!

Don't forget you can also help represent your game by assisting us (me really) in keeping your sub-forum full of up to date plots and rolecalls! http://optionalrealities.com/forums/index.php?topic=20.msg67#new EDIT - Please note that if you do not want to 'doublepost' or sink time into a forum that ...

While I would agree from a purely game play aspect that a skill or perhaps more mainstream stat might be good. I would want to point out that in Tolkien presence is a rather crucial stat in heroic deeds. It's what allows the goodly folk to be inspired by their nobles and captains and face the unspea...

Theoritically yes, because wielding two weapons that give you skill penalties stack.

If you could provide roughly the times you were doing it and which crafts either in the thread or in a support ticket. I reckon on of the staff will make sure everything is working as intended or perhaps the ratios need to be tweaked. Sadly I don't have an excuse to try out the training arena, how d...

MUD players almost always try and put their characters in positions with the least amount of NPC/staff/PC authority over them. A good example is the orc division early in the game and freetown currently. Slave roles being the height of restrictions and being under authority are thus the least entici...

Ava is an artist and shouldn't be starving. Someone fall in love with your character enough to commission her to make a character sketch/painting/piece for you.

We have hunting crafts that spawn NPCs, so that isn't surprising.

Over abundance is an issue, but it's not particularly an issue we have right now. It has a lot to do with IC realism as well as player ratios and yada yada yada. Lets make a list! 1. Every OOC day is 4 IG days. 2. A significant majority of the human playerbase are combatants or hunters. Game design ...

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Actually Armageddon (not someone we want to emulate but worth examining) has a hardcoded safety net for newbs. If you die within 1 hour of your PCs creation you just respawn at the nearest tavern. This is primarily to save newbs who create and run out exploring not understanding how deadly things ar...

There is nothing inherently wrong with stating that a new feature to a game will cause you to quit. As long as it is a sincere assessment of your continued enjoyment of the game that is literally the most important bit of information you can provide. It's like saying, in poker we will allow you to t...