User talk:Luigifan18

Welcome Aboard!

Hello Luigifan, and welcome aboard. Just wanted to let you know that we're doing a lot more with semantic mediawiki (and associated data) than wikia is, so we prefer to avoid user categories like the one you made for your work. We try to keep them for broad types (spells, feats, tracks, etc.) rather than slightly more specific things like your Slavic Spells category. So I'd like to remove your user category from your pages, and see if there's another way to keep your slavic spells grouped nicely that would fit your needs. What was your goal for the category?

I'll take care of the backend stuff for the user category, so nothing to worry about there. - Tarkisflux ^Talk 20:33, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

The goal for the "Slavic Spells" is basically that they're based upon Slavic mythology, especially the Slavic gods. The antagonists of my campaign are basically Slavic pagans trying to restore their pantheon's glory by destroying its opponents (namely the Abrahamic religions), and the Slavic Spells are their trump card - spells that only they can use. (The Slavic gods themselves aren't evil - it's just that this particular sect of their followers is very, very pissed off about the injustices their people have suffered over the years. In fact, they're angry enough to commit genocide.) --Luigifan18 (talk) 20:38, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Just so you know, the user category is unnecessary because we keep track of "a user made these articles" another way. See the source code for my user page to see how you can do it for yourself. Surgo (talk) 21:10, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Yup, we can do some stuff with SMW so that you can search by author, and have automatically generated lists that show all the articles you've written. There's also navboxes if you wanted links to your work at the bottom of each of your pages. Lots of lovely options, but they make the user categories a bit redundant. If you could stop putting them on the bottom of articles, I'd appreciate it.

Thematic linkage for the Slavic spells isn't something that we can duplicate with other bits, so that's probably fine. It also sounds like an interesting campaign setting. Any chance of it getting added? - Tarkisflux ^Talk 23:01, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

I'd prefer to handle the navbox thing once I've transferred all of my projects. As for the campaign setting... I'll need to make sure I know what I'm doing before I try to design a campaign. --Luigifan18 (talk) 23:07, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Wow man, you are a machine! ...I can certainly appreciate it, good sir! -- Eiji-kun (talk) 01:41, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Heh, thanks. Anyways, all of my projects are up, so I'd like to know what you think of them. --Luigifan18 (talk) 01:44, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

It's probably a bad idea to add lines to SRD pages. I think we're trying to keep the SRD as just a reference document, here. --Foxwarrior (talk) 04:28, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

I made sure to precisely quote the PHB. --Luigifan18 (talk) 04:31, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Oddly enough, I don't think the PHB, MM, or DMG are actually the Open Game content which we're allowed to copy. Things like Beholders aren't in the SRD, after all. --Foxwarrior (talk) 04:39, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Here is the SRD, in case you're wondering. --Foxwarrior (talk) 04:42, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Oh, does it have that line in the PHB? I suspected that might have been. Yeah, there are some things that are in Core which are curiously not OGL. Beholders, sure, but also the name's on spells like Bigsby and sometimes entire class features (Illithid Slayer became the somewhat different Slayer). No harm no foul. -- Eiji-kun (talk) 04:43, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

By the way, I reverted your change to Arrow to the Knee because it made the feat 4 or more times more powerful, which was probably a bad idea. --Foxwarrior (talk) 02:06, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

I think I'm ready to try the navboxes now. But I looked at Surgo's page, and... well, it didn't really help. --Luigifan18 (talk) 02:16, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

I saw you made grammar check on my articles, you have my thanks. --Leziad (talk) 03:24, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Your work is much appreciated. --Franken Kesey (talk) 15:16, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

You are a beast when it comes to editing. I must bow deeply in respect. I do have one request with regard to editing. It would be nice if my articles were to remain gender neutral.

Your work looks all encompassing, the armies of slang and dialect surround you – but this does not stop the Advent of Proper English! With each swing of wit and slice of rhetoric you banish the dark forces and bring lucidity to this world. --Franken Kesey (talk) 00:15, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

...That sounds strangely poetic and hilarious. Thank you. --Luigifan18 (talk) 00:16, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Epic Spells

Please do not add the Spell category to them. The intent is to separate them from non-epic spells for navigation and list generation purposes by having them occupy different categories. Similarly, we have a separate Epic "X" categories for everything else and we want to keep them out of the "X" categories. - Tarkisflux ^Talk 15:31, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

References

I just noticed that you were doing references in standard wikipedia fashion. You're welcome to keep doing that if you like, but I wanted to point out that we did a cite template for homebrew that looks a bit more like published citations. It works by looking at the common book abbreviation and edition, so {{cite|SpC3}} would turn into a link to the spell compendium like this^SpC, for example. Just wanted to make sure you knew about it :-) - Tarkisflux ^Talk 19:21, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Spell Request

What are your thoughts on crippling spells that disable opponents – for the more passive? Sadly, most players do not get to play with 9th level spells; which might preclude the uniqueness of your pantheon. The average player will be lucky to get as high as 9th level in a campaign; at this level even a wizard is stuck with 5th level spells. I would love to see more low level spells from you. Fait Accompli - all wish to be gods, someday, but it takes wisdom to find the small bites. --Franken Kesey (talk) 16:52, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

I have trouble with holding myself back in spell design, but I did deliberately design Light Steps to be usable by low-level characters. --Luigifan18 (talk) 16:54, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Does this mean you will be bowing out of the Challenge! --Franken Kesey (talk) 17:12, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

So what sort of level do you play your campaigns at, Luigifan18? --Foxwarrior (talk) 17:19, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

I haven't played any in a while... ^_^; --Luigifan18 (talk) 17:39, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

What campaign level ranges have you played in ages past? Also, would you mind if I asked where you live?--Franken Kesey (talk) 20:49, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Have you really seen the positively Greek or Norse level of mythic ridiculousness that level 10-14 characters get up to? --Foxwarrior (talk) 04:49, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Navbox

Want a navigation box for your articles? I can even make them appear automagically (Using {{Navboxes}}) on all the articles you've already written. --Havvy (talk) 00:49, 25 October 2012 (UTC)