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Sunday, July 18, 2021

The Encyclopedia Gets Some Attention

I've concluded the first template entry for the encyclopedia regarding the playable classes. You finally get to learn more about the Warrior's perks. During the next week, I will create another entry for the rogue classes - there are still some aspects I need to consider for their perks and they will probably end up being different from what I originally described.

Apart from putting some effort into the encyclopedia, I've continued with the integration of the new characters' generator UI. It's about 75% done at this point and it has suffered some unscripted improvements. Also, the cooking skill has been replaced with camping.

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14 comments:

  1. Yay, news!

    Browsing the encyclopedia, many new things to see. :)

    Looking at those class perks, some questions:
    - What is the "hit score"?
    - What are damage levels?
    - +2 to an ability seems like an awful lot - and essentially, this makes heroic strength (7) for a warrior actually less useful since the +2 would raise that to 9 which is probably not a valid number in your system.
    - Fate attribute, on the other hand, seems a bit weak when each point in it (in the case of the Titan perk) only raises stats by 1%.
    - There should be a perk called "Fortify" for the basic Warrior class according to your news post, but it's not mentioned in the encyclopedia.
    - I'm still horribly annoyed some of your nomenclature! ;)

    Steady progress here. Looking forward to seeing some of it implemented in your prototype!

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  2. - The Hit Score is basically the resulting score after rolling the attack vs defense. The formulate is still being designed.

    - You can see more about damage levels here (last response):
    https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4099888690861900544&postID=6079796288131945546

    - As mentioned, the +2 strength bonus is for carrying shields only.

    - The fate attribute plays a major role in leveling up system, which is already available in the encyclopedia. But I agree, it should weigh more in the Titan perk. Perhaps I will lower Titan's perk base bonus while increasing the fate bonus or simply increase the fate bonus. I think 2% per point is more interesting.

    - Ahh yes. The fortify perk is definitely missing; I will need to add it.

    Let me know what nomenclatures I could use instead. Nothing is in stone yet. These names are acting more like placeholders than anything else. :)

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  3. Looking good!
    Creating this encyclopedia at this stage will help you formalize things better as well as cut out the work of presenting information to players later on.

    Incidentally, I dropped you a mail just a couple of days ago about a tool for creating such wikis.

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  4. @shoTgun, absolutely! And it will speed up inputting information on the game itself since it will be ready for copying and pasting.

    I didn't receive a mail from you. Can you give me it's the day and time?

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  5. Send to your hotmail account on Sat, Jul 17, 12:43 PM (2 days ago)

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  6. Can't find any e-mail from you on that date :/

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  7. I'll just copy-pasta then :)

    I recently found a tool which I thought you might be interested in.
    It's called Arcweave and if you like mapping your ideas (and I think you do ;) then this is highly recommended!

    Originally, I just wanted to make flowcharts, but Arcweave supports referrals to charts or components outside the one you're working on, essentially creating a sort of Wikipedia.
    It also has a good UI and a bunch of extra features for free.

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  8. I've seen a few tools like this one before, but this one seems to eclipse them all.

    Thanks a bunch for sharing it. :)

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  9. Honestly, I've been looking for a tool like this for years. I wanted to make one for a place where I worked once (and potentially even sell it as a product), because nothing out there came close. hey would either lack features or have a convoluted UI. Someone finally did it :D

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  10. Indeed! It's super easy to use!

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  11. Another great tool I came across, somewhat related: https://www.wordtune.com/

    It rewrites sentences, offering a variety of options for different tones, synonyms and grammar. Surprisingly, it's able to handle complex paragraphs as well.

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  12. Wow! I just tried this one and immediately replaced it with Grammarly. Grammarly is nice but I have to pay to access more advanced features that WordTune offers me for free.

    Oh man, thanks a lot for sharing it!

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  13. Yup! the algorithm is great. The main page "runs out" of uses, eventually, and you're sent to the Editor. There, I couldn't find a way to rewrite paragraphs as a whole, like on the main page. Instead, they get written into separate sentences :\

    This issue doesn't seem like a service provided in their subscription plan either so I haven't tried it. I did wrote them feedback about it, though. Meanwhile, the main page can be used further with private browsing :)

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  14. I see. Thanks for mentioning it.

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