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PC Character Sheets - "Email Notifications" not saving

Harliquinn — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:06:03 +0000

For PC Character Sheets, the "Email Notifications" for all the characters always has the same player checked and even after I (as GM) go in and change it to another player, it doesn't save and always reverts.

In addition, I can't seem to get the "Change Owner" to show the owner I've changed it to.

Another Gaming Poll

cgregory — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:53:58 +0000

The last poll seemed to garner some interest, so I figured I'd try another one.

Q1. I had asked my own group at one point and was surprised by some of the answers, so I figure I'll ask it here.

Q2. People might be interested in what software you use if you don't play in person.

Q3. One of the questions I've seen come up over the years is player interaction with the site.

Q4. Just interested in what the spread will be.

Huge Detailed Maps- GM Resource and Campaign Supplement

heinaseth — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 14:35:05 +0000

Hi all!

I'm a Cartographer who has a long term project. Essentially it's to provide a huge amount of map space to give the players in your game the experience of some new exploration mechanics. The files allow you the ability to print the maps at home and to tile them on your wall. Since this is a world free of established points, you can populate it with your own.

This is the base of a much larger project, check out the project here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1898212818/tabletop-cartographer-large-scale-fantasy-maps

Enjoy!

Calendar - RSVPs now go away.

PhoenixMark — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 23:29:19 +0000

I use a reward system for the players who RSVP. I used to check at the start of each session in order to give out the rewards. But now the RSVPs are erased the moment the session ends. Not sure what to do about this.

Do I just need to accept it.

~PhoenixMark

Shimmering Kingdoms (my current campaign)

CRIMSON SKIES ~ COTM June 2012

Also Sactown Blues

Your Gaming Group

cgregory — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:56:40 +0000

This was mostly to test out the polling fuction of the forum, but I'm actually interested in what other gaming groups consist of. My group has been a fairly constant 6-7 people with 3-4 GMs with a mix of male and female players over 30 of the 32 years I've been gaming. And that has been pretty constant even when I moved from city to city and needed to establish new gaming groups.

Shadows Over New York Hits 250 Fans!

Keryth987 — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 02:55:04 +0000

2013 Campaign of the Year, Shadows Over NEw York, just hit 250 Followers and from myself, the GM, and all of the players both Past and Present, thank you.

Ownership of the Campaign Intellectual Propery

MorbenDK1 — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:06:41 +0000

Greetings! I'm certain this has come up before, but in my quick search of the forums I could not find anything definitive- also the Terms of Use does have an IP section, but it only states that KSG's content and Third Party content is not transferred to us as users.

What I'm very interested in knowing is who has the IP rights for my campaign? I'm running a game that uses a home brew gaming system, and the story/characters have been an original creation of mine/the rest of my gaming group. Since we may at a later time compile the info and package it as a purchasable product I would need to know that I still retain the IP rights for what I have posted here.

Good Support Sites for information

weasel0 — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 14:25:13 +0000

So I've got the Shadowrun 5e, 4e, and a smattering of 1,2,3 books. Got all the rule books for Hackmaster 4e, and the new "Hackmaster"(it's not "Advanced" or "5e"), a couple of Aces and Eights, some GURPS 4th, quite a number of D&D 3.5 with three or four 3e and a few 2E for good measure. What winds up difficult is finding various tables to try and cross-reference things.

I bring all this up as I'm building Shadowrun 5e characters(cyber right now) and my concept is "starts out basically unaltered but ends a super bio-engineered street samurai" which is too much for a normal character to start as but I haven't seen any Essence Therapy in any of the 5e books yet so that's how I want to go with it. However, leaving that run-on behind, trying to compare cyber to bio is such a major PITA due to no comparison charts nor have I found any resources online. I know of some for a number of these other systems which makes char gen a bit easier. I've got Chummer 4 and 5 so tracking char gen is easy. Figuring out what I want to gen my char with is the issue.

General topic for this thread('cause I'm sure reference material is something we can all use) is what resources do you use(and can share) to aid in your games?(And helping me out is good too.)

[Kickstarter] Luminous Echo : The World Compendium - a systemless RPG fantasy settings book

yalgog — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 02:50:17 +0000

Hello, World! This is the team behind Luminous Echo : The World Compendium, a new system neutral RPG setting from the world famous Wen-M, well known artist of Anima: Beyond Fantasy!

To start it off, Luminous Echo began as a concept MMO back in 2001, called Lux Aeternia. Over time the project was put on hold for financial reasons, but was never completely buried, work continued in fits and starts over the last decade or so with a lot of evolution to the basic ideas.

For much of his career, Wen primarily worked as an artist for a variety of other games, but Luminous Echo is a world of his own design and creation, not merely his own vision of someone else’s world. A world he’s filled with an amazing selection of unique characters, brutal weapons, mysterious artifacts, and breath taking locations all lavishly illustrated by Wen and written by the writing team.

Luminous Echo : The World Compendium is an RPG Setting that is entirely system neutral, but includes some recommended stats for characters, meaning you can take it in whole, or piece meal, and use it for you campaign in any system. All it’ll take is a little comparison between our generic stats and your preferred games system to make our materials useable.

We’d like to invite you to have a look at our Kickstarter Campaign, as well as take field any questions you might have about us or our setting!

Our Kickstarter Campaign

Our Facebook Page

How do I unsubscribe from a group?

Krunchyfrogg — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 21:39:48 +0000

I'm still subscribed to a campaign that I do not play in. I have no interest in receiving further messages from this group, but I can not figure out how to unsubscribe from receiving updates.

Tha ks.

Find Friend

Merrybeth48 — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 16:29:56 +0000

Ar we able to send friend requests and how do we search for players?

Signature Issues

Keryth987 — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 03:28:50 +0000

So, putting this here to see if i cna get some assistance

So, I've modified thew font size on my signature and saved it repeatedly, yet every time the changes dont seem to take. Any idea why?

[Blog] Sneak Peek Thread

Kallak — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:34:43 +0000

This thread will serve as the housing area for links to the various Sneak Peek articles that appear on the blog (I think the original one got lost during the migration to the new forum software or something, as I can no longer find it).

Anyway, as mentioned previously in other threads, there are some changes coming up with respects to the Main Site Editor, so stop on by and stay informed.

Stellar Cartography

Tau_Cetacean — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:30:57 +0000

two discoveries this week:

interactive Star Wars galactic map:
http://www.swgalaxymap.com/
(admire this as a GM, and a survivor of ArcMap from grad school... while I'm not fully on-board with some of the Expanded Universe, and Disney just Deep-Sixed it... and I do sort of miss the mid-1990s when you had West End Games saying "there are thousands of sectors, we won't tell you about all of them, go make your own"... after the expanded universe had it's say, it seems there are merely dozens of sectors... it is undeniably cool to have this and wookipedia at your fingertips if you are doing a bounce-around-the-galaxy style campaign)

freeware 3D galactic atlas of a galaxy not so long ago, and not so far away:
http://www.thinkastronomy.com/M13/index.html
(I was struggling to program an excel spreadsheet that would convert Right Ascension and Declination of stars/nebulae/clusters/whatever and put it into galactic coordinates and then into X,Y,Z... but this puppy has already done that for you... still playing with it, but definitely seeing its potential for my main campaign: a hard sci-fi setting using real galactic geography)

Favorite Combat System

Lxcharon — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 10:07:58 +0000

So while I was out of commission this past month (hi again everyone) I started putting thought to something I feel a lot of GM's start moving to at some point in life, and that is making my own game system. I have quite a bit of tabletop rpg experience and have a world I want to create, but haven't found a system that I like for it yet, so I'm making my own! (I mean this will be a slow side project when I'm not working on my other more important projects) I think I have a pretty decent character creation and magic system down, but I'm having difficulty with the combat system.

So what are your favorite combat systems? Which one sets itself up as really fun? Or really thematic? Let me know!

(And don't worry Killervp, I actually looked to see if there was already a topic on this and couldn't find one.)

Service Impacting Event 7-24-16 Midnight EST (Resolved)

OPSupport — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 04:22:22 +0000

FYI that our site monitors suggest that OP main site appears to be down at this hour in most locations. Initial triage suggests the outage is unrelated to our servers. Our technical support team is aware of the issue and investigating. Thank you.

Allow players to edit specific wiki page

Krothos — Mon, 02 May 2016 16:23:44 +0000

I want to allow my players to be able to edit a specific wiki page, to allow them to track "party" treasure they find in campaign. Can this be done without making them co-GMs?

Urban fantasy game help

JaymesBolton — Sat, 21 May 2016 17:57:10 +0000

So I have been thinking about a city game for over 5 years now and slowly designing it over that time in the shower and other free thinking time. I have started a OP for it now but I have it still set to private until I get some more stuff in there. I am making this thread as a place I can ask for some assistance when needed and to keep a record of that assistance. The game will be a hybrid 3.5 and Pathfinder game (set mostly in 3.5 rule set).

So the first thing I could use some help on right now is coat of arms building. I have a bunch of organizations and royal families (based off of metallic dragons) for the city and I want to make symbols/emblems/coat of arms type thing for them and was wondering if anyone had a good suggestion of a program, website, etc. that would help me?

-Jaymes

"Changing History":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/l5r-changing-history
"COTM Feburary 2013":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/changing-history-februarys-campaign-of-the-month/

Community Forum Software Update

OPSupport — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 01:24:50 +0000

I am excited to accounce that the new OP community forums are now up and running! In terms of user experience and ease of use- the new modern forums should be a substantial improvement over the legacy forums. You can find a few of the high-level details below:

A few missing recent posts from June/July have since been restored by the tech team.
A long requested feature, Personal forum signatures should now be working!
Another requested feature, the forums were configured specifically to be fully compatible with HTTPS
The forums utilize a new wysiwyg editor, which will also be available as an option through-out the site soon. In this way you can expect a consistent user experience across the site. Once the new multi-editor feature is released, users will have the ability to toggle the editor of their choice in campaign settings. Both the classic editor and new enhanced CK Editor will be made available for the WIKI and adventure log per user preference.
The new editor packs tons of features, and should be self-discovering for the most part. You can find common hot keys here and a general user guide here (the doc maybe slightly outdated but should be fine)
The new forums support rich content such as images and video. You can link-offsite content, or utilize files from your media library of course. The team is also currently working to enable file upload capabilities in the coming days, so that new images can be dragged an dropped into the editor, or uploaded/selected without having to navigate away from the editor. Uploaded files would be placed in the user's media library, with space used as maybe available per the user's account quota.
A question came up today on TEXTILE support for the community forums. The short answer is that our support options for the community forum are limited but the team is looking at all options. A complete response can be found here. The general direction for OP is going to be to embrace responsive design and move toward HTML 5/6 so we can all create more immersive content and adventures.

Last, I would like to mention that the team is fully open to feedback with respect to forum features. The team is looking into plugins/options which may provide enhanced functionality (polls, gamification, etc.). If there are subtle things which can be done to improve the new forums moving forward (layout, colors, features, etc.) please let us know. We are always looking to improve.

Thank you

OP Support

Ascendant Membership and GM switching

Sandro_XVII — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:49:26 +0000

Hey guys, so my GM and I agreed to co-gm our current campaign and I got the ascendant membership for that but I don't want to be the titular GM on our page. I'm just the assistant. If I promote him back to his position and I get demoted, that means we lose membership? And what if the promotes me as co-gm, does that mean I have to sign up again for that?

I should've just found a way to gift it or some other option prior but has anyone had experience with this kind of situation?

Your help is much appreciated!

Vocal of bad and good

weasel0 — Thu, 26 May 2016 20:43:36 +0000

So for a while there, there was a bit of vitriol going around (ahem) and I'd like to point out on this side of "the events we shall not mention," that I just noticed:

No more errors when conducting searches on these forums under any of the categories! Kudos and praise to whomever(person, group, or otherwise) got that fix going. :)

Travel Across The Sea....

twiggyleaf — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 23:52:49 +0000

!https://db4sgowjqfwig.cloudfront.net/campaigns/62661/assets/503184/Nuria_Natal.jpg?1441589682!

Mysteria Phase 2 will soon be upon is.
The Merry Minstrels they call *ARCAEL AND THE OOOZE* are emigrating SOUTH on a dwarven airship, there to begin a new catalogue of adventures in "The Garden City of Siwal":https://mysteria.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/the-garden-city-of-siwal
Have a look, my friends.... Explore the city....
Get a feel for the lands of "Nuria Natal":https://mysteria.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/nuria-natal
....but remember that with great wealth comes great danger. Before "rushing in" with your PLUS ONE TWO HANDED SWORD, take time to reflect on the consequences of those actions by first visiting "The Halls of the Honoured Dead":https://mysteria.obsidianportal.com/wikis/halls-of-the-honoured-dead

_Join in the fervour by liking this campaign or leaving a comment in the "COMMENTS" section of the Front Page._

twiggyleaf
CURRENT CAMPAIGN: "Mysteria":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/mysteria - set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: "Shimring":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring

Anyone else struggling with image embed?

Haligaunt — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 08:38:00 +0000

Hey all!

I'm updating one of my wikis and I might have encountered an issue with a new change. In the process of placing a picture on the page via the "Image Embed" command, it gave me a click or drag prompt to do so. Having not encountered this in quite the same way in the past, I dutifully did so but found no "OK" or other command to complete the process.

Is anyone else having the same problem?

Cheers.

Recruitment for User-Led Initiatives

Kallak — Thu, 26 May 2016 07:01:47 +0000

Greetings OP Community,

The members behind the user-led initiatives here on Obsidian Portal are currently seeking interested candidates to step up and help these great projects continue to grow and thrive. These initiatives are key elements of the site and its important that we maintain them and ensure that no matter what happens, they will always be there.

At present, there are the following open slots:

- 2 seats for the COTM selection committee

- 3 contributing authors for the blogger's association

Interested parties should please post here or message me directly via private message. If you've got the desire to contribute to the future of OP, we'd like to hear from you.

6500 Character Limit on Wiki Pages

goonalan — Thu, 19 May 2016 14:16:37 +0000

Hi there,

I've just been updating my Campaign Wiki page-

http://the-european-union-d-d-5th-edition-campaign.obsidianportal.com/wikis/034e

For last night's session when I stopped being able to type into the page.

After a bit of experimentation I figured that the page has a 6500 character limit on it.

I've never had this happen before and I have other pages with many more characters on them, I know this for a fact because I tried copying text from an old page that I did earlier today onto the page- it only copied over the first 6500 characters...

Has something changed, or am I an idiot- I know which my money is on.

Thanks in advance.

PDR

CSS code to change headers

JaymesBolton — Sat, 21 May 2016 19:08:11 +0000

I was wondering if there is a simple CSS code to change the headers (h1,h2, etc) to a specific type of font and size to make editing easier. Right now I use html div around each txt I want to change but would love to just hit the headers and have it be what I want...

Star Wars Saga Edition: Vibroblade vs Lightsaber Question

Yorach — Tue, 24 May 2016 12:57:54 +0000

As I have been preparing for a new Star Wars Saga Edition campaign, I have come across a issue with which I can not find a definitive answer to within the rules. The issue: what happens when the lightsaber talent block is used to negate damage from a vibroblade?

The campaign is set during the dark times. As such it is assumed that vibroblades and their variations do not possess a cortosis weave or other lightsaber resistant materials. Because I anticipate both NPCs and PCs utilizing both weapons, I foresee an issue when they "lock" blades.

I have formulated a few solutions to the problem (some more drastic than others):

1. On contact with the lightsaber, the vibroblade is cut in half (disabled) without any rolls being necessary. I dislike this solution as stats do exist for the item HP and Damage Reduction. This leads to...

2. When a lightsaber is used to successfully block a vibroblade, damage is dealt to the vibroblade as per the attacking an object rules found in the core rule book.

3.When a lightsaber is used to successfully block a vibroblade, damage is dealt based on the damage value of the lightsaber. No strength modifier or 1/2 heroic level is added.

Thank you for your help concerning this topic.

OP Site Updates

OPSupport — Thu, 19 May 2016 15:51:12 +0000

Various website updates were deployed today. A high-level list of new features and bug fixes can be found here:

5/19/16 Site Update
http://blog.obsidianportal.com/about/change-log/

Community Forum Migration

OPSupport — Thu, 12 May 2016 13:44:24 +0000

The first step in the migration & software update process, the OP community forums were moved this morning to a new higher performance web server this morning. Service should not have been impacted. Please send an e-mail to the support@obsidianportal.com alias if you have any issues. The team is working towards a full update of the community forums at this time.

Small council

NikMak — Fri, 06 May 2016 01:49:35 +0000

Does the small council still exist, and does it still have the ear of the management?

Perhaps we could have a sticky thread talking about who is on the small council, and use it as a means of q&a about the sites future?