How does one make a poll? Because I want to decide whether to have an Egyptian dude or a radioactive Space Marine. (I have one char. set and one wondering...)

>Post new thread
>Add a poll
>Pick number of options
>Submit

You won't actually be able to fill in the poll until you submit it, for some weird reason, and I've heard myths of adding polls to existing threads but couldn't find how to.

You could also bring it up here and not the poll. We've had a few character related polls, but I'm not sure how much attention they got. What sorta powers we talkin' about here?

And thanks for asking here and not the Hall!

I've heard myths of adding polls to existing threads but couldn't find how to.

It's possible and quite easy ; Go to your thread, at the top of the page above the first post there's a little gray bar with "thread tools" on the right. Click it and four options should be presented to you, one of them being "Add a poll to this page".

Click that one and you should get the poll creation screen. After that it's as easy as setting up a normal poll.

K thanks guys.
As for Vern, btw I (kinda) agree with it. I am removing basically everything (except the name because I like it).
As for Crank, they will have pretty damn similar powers, excepting weapons (two was staffs with blades in the shape of the top of the thing, and black, metallic sand, for the Egyptian, and a one sided hammer with the other side being a blade, and two guns).

Yep, decided on not doing a poll anyways. Also, can we please give it up to Sneferka, the Jackal of War (yes we are going to do parodies of quotes now) and Al.ice, the Fae Dancer!

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Sneferka

Totally misread that as "smurfka" for a second...

Not saying you have a bad name there (not being an Egyptologist I'd say it looks pretty Egyptish), just that I tend to misread things in the morning.

Tell me if this suggestion is a bad idea: What if we made a Strawman with the most basic of abilities. Let's say:

- Has a sword. And a gun. Is moderately proficient with both.
- Takes significant punishment but is otherwise human wearing regular armor.
- While knowledgable about the system, does not have knowledge of whatever he's facing.
- Is no stranger to magic, mystic, alien, demonic, etc. things and has basic competence.
- Assume normal flat arena.

And the prerequisite for creating characters is that this guy^ has to be able to logically win/lose 50% of the time. We can't puppet Strawman, we can't say "But what if he..." or "Well if it was set in a place like..." The only thing that gauges us is if you ask yourself directly with full confidence CAN THIS GUY WIN AS MUCH AS HE CAN LOSE.

And if the quick answer is yes, then the character has a bigger chance of being acceptable.

We'll call it the Straw test. And then we'll put this guy in the character rules thread so everyone can reference him. IF you think its a good idea. I'm pretty sure acute can be convinced too.

There's actually something being enacted behind the scenes as we speak, which is at the moment will be written out by me and looked over and refined by Luna. Once it's up, feedback will be appreciated, but it's a change that we've agreed will likely be for the best.

I do find your idea to be interesting though, Hew.

I'm just curious.

Did she ask or suggest you to write these rules or is this of your own initiative.


I'm just confused, because if the demeanor is the latter, then it contradicts with your stance in the Discord. NOT that I'm not glad something is being enacted. At least, that's progress.

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I'm just curious.

Did she ask or suggest you to write these rules or is this of your own initiative.


I'm just confused, because if the demeanor is the latter, then it contradicts with your stance in the Discord. NOT that I'm not glad something is being enacted. At least, that's progress.

It's not particularly my own initiative, I simply suggested Luna look into a way to end the conflicts involving the current ruling. Only reason I'm writing up the initial draft is because there are conflicts time-wise for her at the moment. I still think that she should have final say in things involving her section, that's not changed at all.

Ack...just made a post regarding these changes in the OTHER thread, and didn't realize the discussion had been carried over here.

Well, I'm sure whatever changes that are being created will be an improvement -- after all, you guys (Azzy and Acute) aren't mods for no reason.

I do like Hew's idea, but I don't really see that being useful to the wRHG considering the current status of things.

I mean, Strawman couldn't beat Zalgo, probably not Omega, not Zoe, not The Master, not Zhelan, not Altaer, not Handy, etc. Honestly, there are not a lot of chars used by even some of the most senior members here that could be beat by Strawman. Think about it -- the wRHG functions on a level more or less along the lines of Marvel. Normal-ish grade powers are the exception to the rule.

That's why I said I believe that there is a certain level/kind of OPness that is tolerable because in a realm where there are plenty of well-designed OP chars, it's not a kill-all. The problem comes when a char cannot be reasoned to "lose" to anyone (just because the design of other chars might make it possible to find loopholes to exploit or just exploit pocket-dimensions of hands is not what I'm referring to here).

So... While I'm not against debate, I'm getting, tense(?), I wanna say, vibes.

I propose a game of tag. If you get tagged, just 'tag' someone else's story. Preferably story, not profile, because let's be real, we neglect them like the puppies in those depressing commercials. To tag someone, just comment something nice there, just a simple sentence is fine, and something story specific. Doesn't even need to be CnC.

Let's get some good vibes going, huh? We can be spooky in a couple weeks, let's just leave some lights on in the meantime.

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Let's get some good vibes going, huh?

CUPCAKES, PUPPIES, KITTENS, BACON, PIZZA

I'm allergic to all of those