User talk:Tarkisflux

Adoptions

• Sup Tarkis. Listen, I never really thanked you for adopting those old drafts of mine. So let me try to fix that. ...Thank you. Really. It's nice to think that a smart guy like yourself took an interest into making those better. I appreciate the effort. Good luck. Peace. --Jay Freedman 10:33, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

No problem Jay, I liked where you were going with them. A less religious paladin and a more civilized ranger, the ideas appealed to me. I hope you will continue to be happy with how they are taken care of, and can still see your creative spark in them later when I make changes to fit them into the Tome of Prowess :-) - Tarkisflux 15:19, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Template

Hey Tarkis. Just curious about the template you were working on for me, and how it's coming along. MisterSinister 05:26, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

The template that you made is excellent, thanks! There's just one little thing - the Component line doesn't register the Slot component (Sl) for short. Could you add it, please? MisterSinister 18:48, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

This was a limitation of the Component property to avoid nonsense. Added it in. - Tarkisflux 18:57, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Upgraded to Optimus Eiji

Thanks! My golden pants return! -- Eiji-kun 08:51, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Call to Arms!

Your fine suggestion has made you the first to hear my request. I would like to extend that hospitality even further, by asking if you could look at either my: Sith/ Jedi (3.5e Class), Uongo-mijusi (3.5e Race), or Improved Slow Heart Beat (3.5e Feat). Thank you, kind sir, for rational advice and promptness. --Franken Kesey 00:35, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Promptness. Pfft. - Tarkisflux 01:11, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

A Favor

I know I used up all my favors a long time ago, so I only ask of one more. I am personally requesting this favor from Tarkisflux, Eiji-kun, NameViolation, and Ganteka Future - but if any hospitable user wishes to answer the call I am open. I had incorrectly understood that this wiki (meaning the last one as well) was intended as a community work space, and everyone had a voice. One that was not to be squandered over trivial matters. But have found over time that name and name alone separate it from the paleo-wiki. You changed the address, but the bankers are all the same. Most of the users here are not schmucks, but it only takes a few. So I have grown tired of these "rational thinkers", these couch potatoes who don't know squat. So I will be formally leaving this wiki. And am asking if someone could look after what little work I leave behind. You four seem to be the wisest of the lot. Not using this wiki as a front for acting smart. I can take a certain amount abuse - and have played the mad for some time. But the stuff here is utterly intolerable. Thank you, and good luck - the madness has been the only way I've stayed sane. --Franken Kesey 06:15, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Tark's you were more than right about rating requests. The old wiki was a lot more hospitable - should have listened.

For what it's worth, I'm sorry. I don't want anyone to feel pushed out. Good luck to you as well; I'll try to keep your spirit alive in your work. - Tarkisflux 06:23, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, remember madness is bliss. What goes down must come up --Franken Kesey 22:44, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Wiki-Code

Heya, mind helping me create a template for G4e classes? Basically it's similar to 4e classes, but the following need to be in the startup box:

• Role
• Key Ability
• Armor Proficiencies
• Weapon Proficiencies
• Bonus to Defense
• HP per level
• Trained Skills
• Class Skills
• Universal Class Features

Everything else in the 4e box is unneeded; TK showed me this, but I've got no idea where to start. Mind helping me out? Thanks! --Ghostwheel 22:44, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Nevermind, TK helped me out--though if you don't mind, please keep an eye on the work and let me know if anything can be expanded on, thanks! --Ghostwheel 22:48, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Some Help With Breadcrumbing

As you have noticed, I've (finally!) done all the updates for Chapters 1 and 4. This has led to multiple subpages, for which I believe breadcrumbs would be good. However, I don't know how to write them (I only wrote the basic TOToM one with a lot of instruction), and would appreciate some help if you could. Thanks. - MisterSinister 19:27, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I actually wanted to talk to you about some of those. If you're happy with the current org I can breadcrumb them, but I think you may have gone a bit overboard on the subpaging. While spell list subpages are good, I'm not sure that anything is gained by requiring people to click through to sub-sub-subpages to find tag stuff. - Tarkisflux 20:21, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I suspect I may have gone a bit overboard, but at the same time, they take up a lot of space, and the pages end up being horribly long if I include them. Ideally, I'd prefer to only have one 'tier' of subpages on my pages, as it would not only make breadcrumbing easier, it would also be a lot less user-end annoying. How do you think I should do it? - MisterSinister 21:13, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm with you on the length, but I think you also have stuff in places that feels weird to me. I think you may want to split SRP4 into two chapters, "Magic Overview" and "Spell Descriptions", and merge a fair bit of SRP1 into them. The "Schools and Tags" stuff really should be together with the spell descriptions stuff since that's where they show up, though schools could possibly be folded into magic overview if you wanted. I see no reason to have the tags split into two different subpages like they are now; if you want them on their own sub (which might be necessary even if I'm not overly fond of that setup) they should be all together. I'd split "Important Ability Elements" into those two sections as well, with any section name that also appears in the spell description being in that section (so, components, duration, etc.). Looking in two places for rules on components is not cool. The rest of the sections there look like they'd play better in the magic overview as either explanation before the process (ability types) or steps in the process (SR, saves, etc). - Tarkisflux 23:31, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

In terms of schools and tags, the reason I dragged them out of the spell chapter is that they apply to many different kinds of abilities now (not just spells and spell-likes - I plan to use them more with class abilities, for example), which means I wanted to have them put in a place that wasn't tied to spells. Putting the tags all on one page does make sense, so I'll give it a go.

In general, though, I am having organisational issues with most of my content, so I'll get onto addressing those as soon as I can figure out how I want them arranged. - MisterSinister 01:10, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Applying more tags to class abilities and whatnot makes sense. If that's the intent you might want to just make them their own chapter / page / whatever instead of tied to any of the specifically magic bits since it'll be referenced outside of spells. And maybe make it clear that they apply to abilities of all types, not just spells.

And I know org issues. I just resorted ToP because the order was unwieldy. If I have time later / tomorrow I might try to work up some mashups of your stuff in alternate order to help things along. - Tarkisflux 01:34, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Check out the new TOToM pages

You can find them in their own section on my userpage here. I decided I'll let you and Havvy edit them a bit before I upload them.

MisterSinister 20:20, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Black Lion Powers List

Dude, what is up with my list. I can't figure out why all the powers refuse to show up. Any ideas on what I did wrong? The asked categories should match up perfectly with the desired fetched powers? Man. I am lost. *shakes head* --Jay Freedman 02:53, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

I assume you mean the higher level powers? Server just hadn't updated the query results. Sometimes it does it right away, sometimes it does it after a day or two. You can manually refresh it by using the wiki refresh page option (not the browser refresh) or by editting / saving without changes. I think they're all there now though. - Tarkisflux 05:05, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh thank goodness. I was twisting myself into hexagons trying to figure out what the problem was. Well, all better now eh. Sheesh. *stalks off to find food* --Jay Freedman 09:46, 17 November 2010 (UTC)