OOC Chatting

This thread is mostly used for general reactions to events in game, out of character discussions, basically anything that doesn't directly go into another forum.

Okay you all will be going through an taking notes on what has come before now. Try to get that soon-ish. Once that is done I will get things under way as it appears only the character creation was done.

BTW do any of you know how to set up permissions on a Sub-Forum ... I have done it before but it has been a while and I have forgot

Hey folks, just giving everyone a heads up that I'm going to bow out of this game in the interests of managing my time better. Hope everything goes well!

Another GM from another game tried to do this but sadly we didn’t find a way to do it so we just went with using notes instead. No one else can read notes except GMs and those they address.

Anyway, Thanks :)

I can help with subforum permissions. What kind of permissions are you trying to make?

I was trying to basically make a group that if you did not belong to it you could not even see the posts within that subforum

And while I can make a Group -- I could not figure out how to add someone to nor how to give it rights and/or how to get the subform restrictions -- of course maybe the simplest way would be to only give access to that sub-forum to folks with GM status but I did not see how to do that either

I'll try my best to explain it. I could also do it for you if you want.

Click on the Administrative Control Panel (ACP).

Add a new subforum if you haven't already. It should pop up in the list.

Click on the key icon next to the relevant subforum. You should end up with a page that has three tabs, Subforums, Groups, and Permissions.

In the permissions tab, I believe there should be a group with the same name as the game. If there isn't, go to the groups tab and make a new group, and add everyone to the group.

Anyways, click create next to the group name, then edit. Turn everything off. That should stop anyone who's not a GM or an admin from viewing the forum.

If you want to add a person to the forum permission, click create next to their name like you did with the group name, and edit their permissions so that they can read and post and that kind of stuff.

Okay I think I did that can you look to see if you can see the subform GM Collaboration and/or the thread within called General Collaboration and/or its contents ??

It worked. I can’t see the sub forum now.

Ah cool but can remspeedwagon see that subforum now ;)

My apologies for the delay was planning on working on this over the weekend but got laid out due to overheating on Friday

No worries.

Just checking in. No rush DeJoker, I know you have a lot on the plate here

Still have this slated to be addressed and have much of the preliminary stuff out of the way will be digging into more of the meat here shortly hopefully I will not get laid out this weekend and I will have more time to pick up all the remaining details

So while Joker gets his stuff together. I hope I thought, just ideal chitchat might be good to keep this active a little?

Anyone have any favorite Mecha anime/stories?

Honestly, I was introduced to it like most 90's kids with Gundam Wing on Toonami. Though my guilty pleasure has really been Zoids (I swear if someone made a Lancer/Zoids-homebrew I would be so quick to jump on it)

Man I had forgotten about Zoids until you mentioned it. That was some cool stuff. I had a Zoids game, I don't remember the name of it, on Gamecube back in the day and I played it like crazy.

When I was a young fella I loved Exo Squad. That probably started me on mecha. I watched Toonami as well but I've actually never seen Wing. As much as I like mechs there's a lot of stuff I haven't seen. I did love G Gundam on Toonami though. I think I'm more of a super robot guy than real robot. My favorite show is TTGL. That one really grabbed me.

While we're at it, does anyone enjoy the Arthurian legends? I don't know a great deal about them but I did have a book with some of the more popular stories as a kid. I was probably in the 5th grade and they had been rewritten for that age group. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the only one I still kinda remember. It was a cool story.

Gundam Wing for me also. Enjoyed a few books in the MechWarrior universe but didnt play it much.

Arthurian legends influence or copies are pretty much everywhere :P But my favorite appearance of Arthur and Lancelot is in the Fionavar Tapestry from Guy Gavriel Kay

I don't really remember watching any particular mech media. I just think large robots with large weapons is an inherently cool theme.

I've read some of the Arthurian legends as a kid. There's also a satirical kid's version I read about Sir Balin, which I thought was funny. Overall, they're okay. Feels like once you've read one tale of chivalry, you've read most of them. Also, Galahad is totally a Gary Stu, even more so than his dad Lancelot.

My earliest mech shows were probably watching Zoltron or Robotech at my Grandmother's house, as neither show was on a local network.

My first mech RPG was a copy of the Mekton Zeta technical manual. I never got to play it, but I still have that technical manual, though I have to be careful handling it because it's spine glue is completely gone.

I've never directly read on of the Arthurian works, though I love the way Overly Sarcastic Productions covered them.

Favorite Mech game was Xenogears, it's a PS1 game.

I watched Voltes V, Transformers, Daimos, Gundam, Ninja Robots and Brain Powered as a kid.