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• Announcements

  This is mostly for maintenance and board-wide stuff from admin.

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  Banned for antisemitism.

  Discussion thread: https://brandmuday.mythicus.net/topic/428/bingus69-ban-thread

• Game Ads

  This is a place for game runners to post about their games. Discussion on those games will happen elsewhere. Please respect this!

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  @sonata The Grand Opening for Ascension Sojournes is December 8th! Now accepting group applications. Some bonus chargen dots will be given to each person applying in the group. This offer ends on December 8th!

• Game Gab

  Conversations and questions about current, upcoming, and advertised games and the hobby as a whole.

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  I was thinking about this earlier today (literal shower thoughts), or a little bit in parallel. About what characterized the games I’ve felt the most success on. Disregarding basic things like “I need there to be people around to RP with whose RP styles and schedules generally mesh with mine” and “I need staff to not be creepers and not allow creepers” – those will go without saying. But I realized that one of the biggest things for me in the DNA of a game is:

  A sense of discovery.

  This is achieved on a small scale with just characters getting to know each other, because that’s two people on a lifelong discovery of new details about each other. But what really thrills my brain is when there are mysteries and unknowns to the world on some level, and part of playing on that particular game is figuring out more about those.

• Helping Hands

  When you want to talk about HOW to do something when running a game, bring it here: Code, Theme, Policies, Game Design.

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  So I discovered this a couple years ago and it still seems to be the case. Basically: WhenIsGood premium is free (and has been for at least a couple years). If you have an account and click on the option to buy a year of Premium, WhenIsGood will tell you: “We’ve got a little problem with our billing system at the moment and can’t process your payment. There will be no charge for this year’s upgrade.” So basically you get a year for free. I just extended mine again and it’s still the same thing, so. Free premium for WiG.

  The main benefit of premium is that it allows you to make polls with three levels of response options: “perfect for you”, “fine for you”, and “possible, but not ideal.” Which can be very helpful for scheduling!

  Since I know this is a fairly common RP tool, I just thought I’d throw up an FYI!

• Pals and Playlists

  Please post a playlist if you feel comfortable doing so, and if you are looking for old friends -- try here! If you are looking for old enemies, consider a nap.

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  Giving Concordia a try, hopefully RL doesn’t gobble me up too soon.

• Rough and Rowdy

  Gloves off, but don't be a total asshole.

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  @Roz flashes orbs

• Comments & Feedback

  Comments, criticism, suggestions, feedback?

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  I’m glad they’re mad.

• No Escape from Reality

  The place to put non-game things.

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  @junipersky i’m sure you’ve tried something similar to this so I’m not sure if it would work but I’ve now trained (for the most part) the preschoolers to 3rd graders at my school to hand me their name strips (everyone has a laminated first and last name strip of paper they can put on their table/on floor work they’re leaving in place, ect) when they need me. It helps me a lot too, as I have people in order and I don’t forget (which in the children’s defense I did do a lot before instituting this). One of the lower elementary teachers does this in her class and I was skeptical but I’m a believer now. Once the kids realized that I would not get sidetracked (except for blood, poop, or vomit) and they could trust me to come to them, it worked well and I didn’t have to constantly say “give me two steps back/mind my bubble/I don’t want anyone’s hand in my pocket but mine” or accidentally bootybump some poor child to the ground or step on them if i took a step back or turned around.

• Other Games

  Video games, tabletop, etc.

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  @Roadspike said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

  @Roz Thankfully, Patch 5 has provided another way to recruit her loot a new camp outfit for Shadowheart.

  FTFY. 😄