David's Notebook:Critical Hit Inn

The place to ask your questions etc.

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Remember, to sign your messages with ~~~~. Delphine 00:46, 22 Nov 2005 (GMT)

How to keep the thread of a conversation...

Use colons at the start of paragraphs (like I have) to indent replies. -- David 21:48, 10 May 2006 (BST)

Creating Pages

Creating new pages is simple: Just create a wiki link to the (as yet) non-existant page and click on the |edit| link at the top of the page to start editing the new page.

For example: Huerney's Bag of Holding -- David 17:58, 23 Dec 2005 (GMT)

Fate points

Added to the House rules -- Craig 12:32, 3 Jul 2006 (BST)

Table of Contents

Is there a way of suppressing the TOC for individual pages? -- Craig 13:07, 11 May 2006 (BST)

Use __TOC__ to place a table of contents or __NOTOC__ to supress it. Please don't go overboard removing them though; I find them useful. -- David 17:08, 11 May 2006 (BST)

General Stuff

• Location of the IRC server: irc.freenode.net; channel = #criticalhit

• Some important 3.5e errata in the PDFs on the WOTC pages here. -- Craig 11:02, 3 May 2006 (BST)

Whispers

Is there any chance that we can change the way that we play so that whispers made to players who have gone off to reconnoitre etc. can be seen by all? If we were around a table we would all get to hear what's going on, and it helps those of us a bit bored in the waiting. I think that this should be OK provided that the players not there don't use the information that they read in their character roleplaying - e.g. "Maybe we should go and see what's going on over there". Opinions? Craig

I supppose if its something the player is immediately going to tell the rest of the party then there's no real reason to keep it quiet. In the case of a sneaky rogue the situation is a bit more grey. A bit of personal judgement would go a long way. Bert 21:57, 21 Aug 2006 (BST)

I guess you can mix the two. For things that the other players are going to see anyway, or that the scout is going to tell, you can do the describing without whispering. For things that require the use of a skill by the player where he makes a succesfull roll (search and such) whisper should be used to allow the player to do what he wants. I like the use of whispering for short actions (spot, listen) so that the player can use and rephrase in their own words and choose how they tell the others. But it's true that for longer actions, it gets boring for those not playing. Delphine 22:06, 24 Aug 2006 (BST)

Another Meet

Anyone fancy another meet up this year? I was thinking of something like November time. I'd be happy to host, or go to wherever.
As you may have seen if you watch the changelog, I've been quite busy making up some exotic example characters. I've had an idea that I'd like to run an exotic game at the next meet. All the characters on the exotic PC page have a level 12 Effective Character Level (ECL), yet as you can see they are all a bit different. One thing about the examples is that I'm not sure on the starting gold, and hence the equipment given... I've assumed that starting gold is based on total ECL rather than actual level.
Anyway, what do people think about the idea of a meet, and of a game with exotics. -- Craig 20:11, 28 Aug 2006 (BST)

I wondered what all those exotic characters you were doing were for. Sounds good to me. -- David 00:25, 29 Aug 2006 (BST)

I was wondering myself why they were for. I'd be up for a meet myself. Talk about dates tonight before the game? -- Bert 13:25, 31 Aug 2006 (BST)

I can do any weekend in November except the 17th-20th. -- Bert 14:23, 1 Sep 2006 (BST)

OK, I know you'll all remind me that I said any weekend in November was OK, but we're going out on the 11th. So I'll say - How is everyone with the 3rd-10th? Let's add stuff to the Meeting at Craig's page. -- Craig 12:53, 2 Sep 2006 (BST)

The weekend of the 3rd is fine by me. It would be nice to know as soon as possible, because there's an offer by easyJet if I book no later than the 5th of September. Still, a bigger problem is that I have to know now when to take time off, as work is being difficult about that. The exotic characters look nice, Craig, Did you have a centaur there already or have you just added that for my benefit? You're right about the gold, money and xp depend on ECL, not on CL, see: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monstersAsRaces.htm for details. -- Hannele 20:25, 2 Sep 2006 (BST)