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Are Images borked?

Is it just me, or did all the user uploaded images disappear? As seen in my article, Chained Sword (3.5e Equipment), the main picture is gone, and I made a second picture which the thumbnail does not show up on the page.The Dire Reverend 07:40, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

They failed to get transferred over. Re-upload yours if you have the permission to use the file. --Havvy 08:00, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Is there no way the images can be transferred like the articles were? Losing them would be a significant handicap here, transferring them manually will be quite some work, I expect. Daranios 18:28, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
They can be. The problem is (from what I've heard) that most of the images are not properly cited, and we wish to avoid legal issues. --Havvy 19:57, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
If I find legitimately cited images, should I port them over? Or just go on a spree and mark all the pictures with proper citations with some note? I could run around and do that, you know. - Aelaris 05:34, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
By all means, go ahead. --06:27, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Did I get it right?

I woke up today with the intention of finishing up some of my creature sheets, but ended up making some Artifacts instead. I've never made Artifacts before, so I want to see if I overdid it. Could someone take a look at it and tell me how I did. This isn't the only one I made today but it was the first. It is also my favorite one out of the ones I made. It's my first Artifact ever so go easy on me >.< Here is the link:

http://www.dnd-wiki.org/wiki/User:FiddleSticks96/FS96_Sandbox:Items

Sorry for the long link but I don't know how to hyper-link stuff. I'm allowed to post a link to my sandbox here right? FiddleSticks96 02:49, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

There are some ways to improve the formatting that can be remedied by making a table, but that's not really an issue. As far as its power is concerned, I would be inclined to say that it may even be a bit weak for a major, one-of-a-kind artifact (it's probably more acceptable if it's of the minor variety). In any case, I should post a full response on that page, not here. In line with actually answering the query on how to make a Wiki link, you use brackets to make them. So your same page would appear like so: Voila! (with whatever text you desire replacing "Voila". But as I said before, if you wish to discuss the balance of the artifact further it would probably be best to do so on the talk page for the article itself. - TG Cid 04:12, 2 January 2011 (UTC)


Edit to "Chat" Section

Since I cannot edit the front page, could an admin add IRC://irc.mibbit.net/dnd somewhere to the section so that users who don't want to use Mibbit and know how IRC works can figure out where to go without getting on Mibbit? And yes, it seems odd for me to say this...but I'm looking for less join/parts and increased user satisfaction. --Havvy 18:01, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

I don't know what you mean with that last line, but meh. Edit made. - Tarkisflux 18:05, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Good vs Evil

I'm DMing a campaign right now and my players are making preparations to reforge an ancient blade called "Demonbreaker" in order to stand a chance against Nightshade, a powerful demoness, and her host of demons and save the peninsula from a literal hell on earth. Classic and unoriginal, I know, but the battle of Good vs Evil is just too epic to pass up. I am currently making exact statistics for Demonbreaker and Nightshade. The Fiendish Codex: Hordes of the Abyss has been a most useful book in this regard. While I was making stats I began to wonder...we have the Fiendish Codes I and II respectively and together they cover all things demonic, but why is there not a corresponding book for heavenly machinations? Maybe something like "Brilliant Divine: Hosts of the Heavens" or something like that? Hasn't anyone attempted to make such a book as of yet? Sure sure, the PCs are usually the good guys and won't pass up a chance to fight back against the forces of the Abyss and the Nine Hells...but...sometimes...the players are outright evil. Such players WORK with demons and devils and are more suited to messing with Heaven rather than Hell. You get me? FiddleSticks96 18:00, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

People here are working on all sorts of sourcebook projects. Actually they are kind of unsatisfied with the Fiendish Codices and other similar works in 3.5, so a while ago (before the codices, actually) two people on a message board I visit made the Tome of Fiends, whereas people here are working on Liber Demonica. Now, you'll aptly note those are more for demons and devils...
There has certainly been interest in creating equivalent works for the upper planes, both from the people on the first link and the people from the second. It hasn't been done though, for a number of reasons I won't get into here. If you're interested in seeing what's done so far, the reasons mentioned, or want to pitch in and help make something with the rest of us for the upper planes, I recommend you visit us in our real-time chat: click the link on the sidebar under "Community" titled "IRC Chat", or just click here. Surgo 19:07, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Just chiming in (as one of the contributors to Liber Demonica) that Cid and I would LIKE to cover angels and their friends at some point in the future. However, how FAR in the future is questionable at present. - MisterSinister 23:56, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
There's a community project on the subject matter at hand over at the Giant in the Playground forums. Beyond its existence, I know nothing about it with regard to completeness, balance, et cetera, but it does seem to have garnered a fair amount of attention. -- Jota 06:40, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Cool, thanks for the quick responses guys. I was certain I wasn't the only one thinking about something like this. I would like to help; unfortunately, my expertise is more AD&D than anything else. To top that off, if left to my own devices, I tend to get carried away when making high HD creatures, like angels and demons, as I have a much higher standard for what is considered power than most everyone else. As an aside, I have never gotten over the fact that they went as far as to make NPC sheets, very weak if you ask me, for the GODS. Even a lesser deity should be WAY stronger than that, but I digress. I will be watching both the Tome of Fiends and the Liber Demonica with great interest. By the way, the puns made in the Tome of Fiends were quite amusing. Always nice to see that not everyone's humor is dry and boring. FiddleSticks96 17:42, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
I wouldn't worry too much about high power, seriously. We'd be happy to see any of your creations and maybe work them into a new book! Surgo 18:13, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
That's good to hear. As far as I can tell, my friends and I play at the Wizard Tier level. Don't play in one of our campaigns if you can't take the heat. FiddleSticks96 20:01, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Link to Wikia

Wikia does link here, but not on the main page: The main page does link to a forum page from where they link here. In my opinion, the link to Wikia is still useful, because those images that we still want to transfer are there (and someone might want to check on stuff there). That's why I personally would prefer to keep the link. Daranios 18:49, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikia doesn't want links to spin-offs on the main page, which is why it was changed. -- Jota 21:00, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


Reading the Preloads

I attempted to add the "Classes" portion of my sandbox today. When I went in to put up my Vampire Hunter class, I dutifully went to the preloads page as per the rules. This is were everything began to fall apart. I copy and pasted the preload and erased the appropriate lines. That was about as far as I was able to get. In terms of imagination, I am an A+ student, but I only got a C in Visual Basic, and I tried really hard to earn that C.

I tried to make heads or tails of the preload but it is extremely difficult to read. The Vampire Hunter class I am making is a Prestige class. It was so much easier to start building it in MS Word. Is there some kind of tutorial for using the preloads, because, in all honesty, I had no idea what I was doing. FiddleSticks96 20:01, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Most of the preloads work the same way. Find the "<- Stuff goes here, and often there are instructions here as well ->" and replace that with the relevant bits of text, brackets and all. The brackets are just there to make it stand out. You can also remove sections entirely if you need or want to. But if you just replace that stuff / follow those directions you should be basically set, as the rest of the stuff there is formatting instructions.
You might see some "<!---"s floating around. Those are comment brackets, and are used to hide things on a page rather than indicate a place where you need to do some replacing. They should probably be ignored unless the section is inapplicable and you're deleting the whole thing. - Tarkisflux 21:24, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Feedback

I have just added 2 more major artifacts to my items section of my sandbox. The Fang of Nosaia and The Mail of Invincibility. Someone looked over my first one, The Trumpet of Crackling Glory. Their feedback was most insightful and helped me work the kinks out of it. I request that someone tell me what they think about the two artifacts I have added so I can get the kinks out of them as well. Here is the link:

User:FiddleSticks96/FS96 Sandbox:Items

Thank you so much for your feedback. FiddleSticks96 16:49, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Usually the best way to get feedback quickly is to use our website's chat, which almost always has people in it talking. To do so, just click on the "IRC Chat" link on the sidebar under the "Community" header. Surgo 16:50, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
You already know about the chat of course, but I want anyone who reads this to know about getting the best feedback. Surgo 17:02, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I hadn't thought of that. FiddleSticks96 17:07, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
This probably isn't the best place to announce new things that you'd like feedback on actually, as this page is used more as a discussion of the main page itself and other larger wiki issues. Aside from asking in chat or waiting for users to find it in the Special:RecentChanges, you could also add the {{Help Wanted}} template to your sandbox, which will make the page show up in a special list for articles specifically requesting feedback. Hope that's a helpful option for you :-) - Tarkisflux 17:20, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Sorry about that, I am still new to this site and don't know where to find everything. FiddleSticks96 17:41, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Task?

What does this mean, in layman's terms? "Migrate the 4e section away from DPL querries, and update the semantic properties of the 4e templates and preloads." -- Techpriest88 15:19, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

The programming language this Wiki uses is being updated/modernized, and one of the results is making 4e articles less ugly-looking. There's a lot of carry-over from the older sites that these were transferred from, including a lot of categories and properties that are meant to assist in Wiki navigation but don't work here because we are using the different language (there may be another more technical reason, but I don't know it). At least, I'm pretty sure that's the gist of it. - TG Cid 15:47, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
More or less Cid. The old stuff is still supported, we're just trying to move to a setup that does everything we cared about with the old stuff did as well as allow us to make better nav tables and do on-the-fly custom searches. So in layman's terms it means replace one set of code with another that lets us do more. - Tarkisflux 21:23, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Mibbet's FUBAR

As I'm sure most of us already know, Mibbet is totally borked at the moment. I for one cannot even get a chat screen when I log in. If this is a persistent problem for others, I'm wondering if we have an alternative until Havvy and his people get whatever ailment it is currently suffering settled. - TG Cid 19:13, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

I actually have no real power to stop what is happening, and axod has very little. We aren't exactly sure what it going on. If irc.mibbit.net fails for you, try the following:
  • Log in through Mibbit. I'm not quite sure why, but the attacker usually cannot block www.Mibbit.com -> irc.Mibbit.net connections.
  • Use one of the following:
    • irc.uk.mibbit.net
    • irc.nj.us.mibbit.net
    • irc.ca.us.mibbit.net
--Havvy 00:59, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Wait wait wait... the ATTACKER? You mean this isn't Mibbit being down but someone trying to DoS us? Wow, I wonder who got butthurt, or if it's related to the spamwave we got. Oh well, egos on the internet and all. Still I'm curious now, tell me more. -- Eiji-kun 02:05, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
No, it's an attacker on Mibbit's side, not DnD-Wiki's. --Havvy 02:22, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Ooooo. Ok, still butthurt, but an unrelated butthurt. Hopefully Mibbit kicks them to the curb soon. -- Eiji-kun 02:25, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

What happened?

Was I the only one who wasn't able to access this site for a week? If not, than what happened? Was the site down for maintenance? FiddleSticks96 20:06, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

It was down for everyone this weekend due to issues on the hosting side. - Tarkisflux 20:13, 16 May 2011 (UTC)