RagingHobo

Character stats drive pretty much every aspect of a game. Personally, the DnD standard of Str, Dex, Con, Int, Wis, and Cha form a solid basis from which to generate other attributes. Depending on what version of DnD (or offshoot like Pathfinder) you're currently running the meta changes, but I think 5th edition has done a good job balancing most of it. My least favorite have to me anything that implements a stat system where one stat fill some singular purpose and the others have multiple roles. This quickly creates a meta around cranking a specific stat for most benefit and ruins the ability of the player to play how they want to play. What are some of your most/least favorite systems?

Sorry for the outage. The host took the server offline to perform security patching and after everything came back up the db crashed the users table. This took some time to restore. Everything should be working normally now.

Please post any issues you notice with the forum after the upgrade here. Before doing so please clear out your browser cache and close out your browser completely to rule out any caching related issues.

The ROI (in terms of time adjusted for testing in case of a possible failure that causes another issue) to write the script to perform this operation vs having the affected user make the change is heavily in favor of the latter. This is most likely a mapping issue in the current charset since part of the update was to convert the db. This was done with an IPB provided tool and may possibly be addressed in a future version of IPB.

Yeah they did, everything is moved around or just gone. Search still works though, somewhat helpful.

Yup these things seem to go in cycles, Opera Neon is looking promising at the moment

You may have noticed that the URL of the site has recently changed. Rather than chasing the latest version of RPGMaker we as a team decided it would be beneficial to open the community to all of the RPGMaker versions and even include other makers that aren't a part of the Enterbrain/Degica family. This is the first of many upcoming changes. The next major change will involve upgrading the board to the latest and greatest or quite possible a new board software. Right now we are on the upgrade path but that may change. We'll keep you posted. Things that are coming up but haven't been fleshed out yet: -New forum integrated front page -Game/Asset marketplace -Board RPG - We're a community of RPG enthusiasts, why not create a browser (or client) based game that lives and breathes with the community? We will be making announcements as the new features get closer to release and see what you as our community would like to see in said new features.

Trust me I saw plenty of these last night It's just your browser caching the site, if you clear your browser cache and go to any rpgmakervxace.net link, it should redirect you to the same link but use rpgmakercentral.com now. Mobile browsers are pretty terrible at caching and persisting data, so it is less of an issue there.

Please, I beg of you, do not upgrade to IPS 4. It's an absolute trainwreck. (See RMW) (Well I mean you can if you want, I just don't like it lol) Speaking of new board software, Xenforo is really good., much better than IPS 4 in my opinion. Anyways, good luck with the upgrade! Can you elaborate on this? I dont really frequent that forum so I'm not sure what you mean. What about IPB 4 dont you like?

I instinctively selected the space between 'and' and 'breathes' only to find nothing. XD My mistake, a typo, fixed now.

This is strange. I cant get any of this behavior to occur for me on any browser I've tried, desktop or mobile (no banner of mangoes for me =( ). We did have some intermittent nameserver issues but those appear to have resolved themselves. Can you try using another browser and let me know if you are still seeing this?

Hi thanks for the offer, but at the moment we are not changing or re designing the forum. In the future yes, but for now no. Well, I don't think he was asking because he had any plans of implementing them. Some people just get enjoyment out of that like i get enjoyment out of writing long walls of text nobody with a lack of patience wants to read! (Which I'm okay with, guys, really, it's cool!) Just giving my two cents, wouldn't be bad to give him those details, would it? I dunno, it might be! I'm just a regular forum lamb here not anyone relevant or important. (at least not yet but shhhh! :0 ) Also if people can apply client side skins I think that'd be neat. I guess being the creative fella I am I just don't think we should waste a member's chance to contribute! Even if they are never used it's pretty clear he's enthusiastic about it. As Kaz mentioned above, this is something we will be looking for in the future but right now have no need of. Right now we're waiting for Invision to release a new version of the forums which from what I've been reading is completely rearchitected. Meaning, that everything is different under the hood and will not be compatible with anything from the previous version. dbchest, if you are still interested, be aware that skinning a forum can get pretty involved and has many moving parts. It is all mainly CSS and HTML with relatively few actual images. Below is a pretty decent resource but it is out dated. http://www.smartestcomputing.us.com/topic/37422-ipb-3-how-to-skinning/

I am showing 8 birthdays today. Theyre not calendar events so the wont show under the Upcoming Events section but if you click on the calendar and then the birthdays it will show you everyone that is celebrating today. Edit: Ah you must mean the Today's Birthdays block on the forum index. Edit2: Fixed.

HTML posting is disabled by default for pretty much everyone below an Admin. This is essentially this is what you are pasting into that window from word. It can and will render it for viewing purposes but once you go to post it any and all elements will be stripped from it.

You may have an IE plugin installed that is interfering with its normal operation. Within browser options there is an ability to reset the browser to default settings. Internet Options > Advanced tab > Reset button. Give that a shot.

I'm showing it got delivered at 12:11pm on 10-27-14. I resent it and I'm seeing that one was delivered as well. Have him check again for the title 'New Registration at RPG Maker VX Ace Forums'

Did you one better than trying to decipher a 5 year old post meant for VBulletin. I've added it under the media tag so using a soundcloud url in it will result in the below:

A decent example of this can be found in World of Warcraft... just sayin.... Go to wowhead.com and look through some of the raid boss fights, they usually have multiple phases that the boss goes through as the party progresses through the encounter. Might give you some more ideas.

It has to serve a purpose, it shouldn't be something random since that will just detach you from the story, it has to be a driver for something else. You want to avoid the TV series way of dealing with a cast member that left by killing them off or making up some lame excuse for their departure. For example, George R.R Martin kills off characters in the Song of Ice and Fire series to showcase how unforgiving the world around them can be.

You're right, it is rather generic. That is only because it isn't fleshed out yet. What you have is the most basic outline of a story you want to tell. You are also on the right track by writing it all out. The trick is that you have to keep writing. When you flesh out your characters you will need to give them motivations and reasons for those motivations. Why is one hungry for power? Why is another scared of something or someone? Why does this one guy in particular hate the other one? Don't make them perfect, make them flawed. This will make them come to life on their own. This is where everything starts to take shape. Eventually you will delve into the world you are writing about and do the same to flesh out cities, the landscape, and political relations. At this point worry less about where to take the story and more about exploring the story. Not sure where to go, start heading in a direction and see where it takes you. If you decide you don't like it then change it, or scrap it, or put it aside, it might be useful somewhere else. Then follow another idea you had. If you have ideas for specific scenes, write them down and then try to string them together while filling out the details. If you cant make them fit, file them away for later or even another story. Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts here and it just takes time to develop a story. If you're having trouble with it, put it away for a few days and come back to it. Try reading some books by an author you like, I recommend Brent Weeks. Other then that its just about writing more and more about this thing you are trying to bring to life so have fun with it.

There are no ads active on the site, try disabling any tool bars that might have been loaded onto your machine (typically new os installs come pre-packaged with a whole ton of bloatware). Try downloading another browser as well to test to see if you get the same results.

They ported an ARM hypervisor for a raspberry pi last May, but I think that's defunct now. I assume performance would be terrible and you run the risk of starting a fire, at least that's what I imagine happens to an ARM processor when you ask it to virtualize another os. It does run Mame and FinalBurn pretty well =)

Check your IE Add-Ons to see if anything weird or out of place is loading with them. use the Tools > Manage Add Ons menu to get into them. Sometimes toolbars and other activex controls get added by accident.