1.  What do the stars under the names mean?
2.  Some people have little ribbon things under their name that correspond to the campaign their involved in.  How do you set that?
3.  How does one go about creating a new forum section for a campaign?
4.  Where's the keg?

beyonder wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2010 at 6:41pm:


The first thing to understand about this forum is I started it as a non-commercial alternative to sites like meetup.com.  I don't want ads and I get nothing from the site other than the use of it for my own interaction with the local gaming community.  In the past we had occasional meetups and I try to stop by the various games when locations are published just to meet people.   I've put aside a certain amount of money (not much) to host and run the site and as long as I don't have to spend a lot of time or extra money I will respond to requests to help others with their games and contacts.

Note that while I intend the site to be non-commercial I don't mind on topic posts of a commercial nature.  That is, posts about cons, sales at local or internet gaming stores, mini or card game competitions, etc.  While all of these are commercial I think they would be of interest to gamers so that's fair game.

I could argue politics or religion ad nausium too but I remove such threads when I see them.   If enough people really wanted to talk about that stuff I'd make another forum.  This forum is for gaming and gaming related activities.

Given the focus I am happy to make a forum area for any gaming store (RPGs, minis, CCG) to post ads.  I'd be a little less open to making a comic book area.  Commerical but of interest to gamers seems fair, but only because its of interest to the gamers.   I'd be happy to make an area for discussion of minis or LARPing.   Its fair for the local LARPers to post their meeting times in the open games area.  I'd make an area for war gamers or for discussion of old-school painting of minis if people would post about it.   Anything gaming is fair game.

1.  By default the forum will give you stars based on number of posts.  I made the forum ranks from posting sort of D&D based.  For posting it is:

500 Third Level 
250 Second Level 
100 Adventurer 
001 Townfolk 
000 Fodder 

for number of posts and title.  Each level gives you another star.   But the default stars and colors can be overridden with titles I can associate with your account.  You can't do it.  But its not arbitrary.  Those titles are used for forum permissions.  There are 'hidden' areas of the forum that can only be seen if you have the right title.

In addition to being a place for all gamers to meet and talk this is also the place where my buddies post and talk about our game.  We have different sections for the various games we've played in the last 3 years, in character areas, random chat areas, places where one player can talk to the current DM and no one else can see it.  Basically for each game we have a forum area for communication during the week.

Everyone can see the Wyverndale area because that was there choice.  That was the first area for a gaming table that I am not involved in.  More recently the Meetup Game Group got added for their game and I have a pending request to setup another area.  These areas can be public or private depending on what the DM wants.  Wyverndale is open to the public for reading and posting I think.  MGG is open to read but only the group members can post.  To enable that I have to give them titles and that may or may not affect the color and number of stars.   Generally I also give the DM a title as part of setting up the permissions and access.

2.  I just answered that in #1.

3.  You have to talk to me.  I don't actually log into this account much so its best to post something saying you want to discuss it.

4.  I don't drink beer.  If I am going to drink alcohol, its going to be something much stronger.


Does that answer your questions?

I heard some guys at Z'otz talking about it last year.  There's some guy named Krazy that's advertised here (again, last year) as well.

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Yeah, I went and met up with those folks. They seem like very nice, experienced players. I know a lot of people here are looking for games or fellow gamers, so you may want to check them out. They're on meetup (which you can get from the links above), and I'll be making them a legit website in the near future. They're on a recruiting drive and are avidly trying to find new players who may be interested in giving live action RP a shot. Their current games are Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost, and Vampire: The Masquerade (Sabbat). If you're not familiar with any of those, just PM me or something, and I can give you a lot of useful summaries (I've played a LOT of White Wolf games).

If you've never tried LARP before, you should really do it at least once. I know it can seem silly, weird, intimidating, or any number of other things--but keep in mind that we all thought the same stuff about tabletop gaming until we tried it for ourselves 

I haven't played with them yet, but I can vouch for them being nice, sociable, fun people who were extremely nice to the new guy (me). I'll probably stick some stuff in the WW section of this forum when their site gets up and running. Just let me know if you have any questions or would like to come try them out with me 

I'm with Sean on that one. I never thought tabletop games were weird in the least. Then again I predate most of the public perception of D&D by several years. I remember the "your invoking satan" years well but by the time D&D was fit for mocking I was well above hearing any such nonsense.

Now Larp on the otherhand seems too much  like playing "Cowboys and Indians" or "cops and robbers."  I'm sure its a good time if your into it but meh... Im not into it.