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Battle Related Forums => Battle Related Topics => Topic started by: Veldanya Venalla on September 09, 2010, 10:46:28 PM
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Well, it was suggested in another thread that maybe a wiki should be created for the Board Battles and so....here you go....
(Please see below the rules for the link to the wiki.)
Pretty bare bones right now so feel free to put up any suggestions as to stuff you want to see on it, or even better join the wiki and start editing and what not.
UPDATE (07/21/14)
Since it sounds like people are interested in the Wiki seeing activity again, I feel it would be best to lay some groundwork for some basic rules in regards to activity on/with the wiki. By posting/editing on the wiki you are acknowledging that you have read and understand the below rules.
RULES FOR THE WIKI
1) If you wish to participate on the Wiki please create a profile and join the wiki. This is in place to better track/monitor who is editing what, and also hopefully prevent/reduce vandalism.
2) DO NOT post character concepts or unapproved characters on the wiki. Only after a character has been approved for use on the boards is it authorized to be added onto the wiki. Any violations will be deleted.
3) DO NOT edit other characters information. If you feel a characters information is wrong/misleading/etc. then please contact the owner of the character or the Administrator/Inquisitors to look in to it. Any signs of "trolling" or otherwise troublesome edits made to a character not your own will not be accepted.
4) Authorized character sheets on the Administorum trump any and all character info on the wiki. What this means is that if a character suddenly starts using XYZ power and claims "it says he/she/it has the power on the wiki" but said power is NOT listed on the approved character sheet, then the power is not allowed. Extending character backstory and further explaining a characters (approved) powers is more then acceptable though.
5) At this present time the Board Battle Wiki is for the Epic Board Battle "storyline" only. Due to the possibility of many "side" battles running and the multitude of characters involved in said battles as well as the general "volatility" and lifespan of these battles, attempting to keep information up to date and accurate would be extremely difficult (PLEASE NOTE: This rule may be changed/removed in the future)
Thank you for reading the above rules. Any questions or concerns please contact the Administrator or one of the Inquisitors.
http://boardbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Board_Battles_Wiki (http://boardbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Board_Battles_Wiki)
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Created. John greymore, same as this one.
I tried describing the Epic BB, but I have no idea why it's named epic. Is it because it's on-going or has characters with phenomenal powers or because it's set in a multiverse with many settings 0.0
The possibilities are endless!
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its referred to as Epic to kind of denote its the...."main" board battle and yes also prolly cause the characters in it are well...."epicly" powerful (but im sure more just to denote that its the main board battle)
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Wow... um...
I seem to recall saying something about not really having time for current projects. And now you are forcing my hand. :P
We'll need to get some of the veterans over there to start typing things up. For now, let's just make sure we're not posting things regarding the settings or history without Admin approval. K?
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sorry I guess i mistook that statement as "I'm not gonna be in charge of it cause im busy enough as it is". Well if you would like, I can temporarily freeze the wiki so we can brainstorm or what not about what to have on there and so forth.
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Not necessary. In fact, you don't even need to run things by me before they get posted. I'll just keep an eye on it and probably register an account so I can add and edit things as needed. Definitely want to try and get some more of the veterans involved, though.
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Ok, working on it right now. I've added in specific section for characters, split between Epic BB and Non-Epic BB, a section for the Multiverse and added in Mortal Plane and the Warp currently, and even placed a section for To The Bitter End up there for Soul Reaver. For anyone that isnt interested in dealing with the Wiki I would still appreciate it that if you have any suggestions for stuff to go on there to post it here and I will add it in when I can.
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Awesome. I don't know when I'll get time to do some stuff on there, but I'm certainly going to. Wikis rule.
Wow... um...
I seem to recall saying something about not really having time for current projects. And now you are forcing my hand. :P
We'll need to get some of the veterans over there to start typing things up. For now, let's just make sure we're not posting things regarding the settings or history without Admin approval. K?
Clutch, you don't have to contribute. Furthermore, you don't have to do anything now. I personally don't think it matters terribly much if people post up partially (or wholly) incorrect info on a wiki, as long as someone at some point finds and fixes any errors in it. That's why wikis are good.
Furthermore, I don't think it's reasonable to have to get admin approval for every post relating to the epic BB setting or history. If you end up not liking it, then feel free to change it at a later date - no harm done.
That said, if someone isn't sure about something, they probably should refrain from typing up a huge article about it.
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I wouldnt be too worried about it Soul. Figure worse comes to worse if something is in question I can either IM, call, or chat in person w/ Clutch and figure it out. Biggest thing is that the wiki is NOT an area to put up character concepts or ideas. Only characters used in previous BB's or currently active (and thus admin/battle master approved) characters are allowed.
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I think it's perfectly admissible to need administrator approval. Character concepts have to be approved here, so why not on a wiki? If a player really wants to post their own material, there are plenty of other outlets they can use for that, but I do not think it is unfounded to have the courtesy to run it by the administrator.
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Clutch, you don't have to contribute. Furthermore, you don't have to do anything now. I personally don't think it matters terribly much if people post up partially (or wholly) incorrect info on a wiki, as long as someone at some point finds and fixes any errors in it. That's why wikis are good.
Furthermore, I don't think it's reasonable to have to get admin approval for every post relating to the epic BB setting or history. If you end up not liking it, then feel free to change it at a later date - no harm done.
That said, if someone isn't sure about something, they probably should refrain from typing up a huge article about it.
Woah, woah woah. First of all, I never said I didn't WANT to contribute. I just said I don't have time at this juncture. I don't think it's a bad thing.
Second of all, Allow me to clarify. I don't need Administrator approval for Battle Setting or History posts. What I need, is Admin approval for CHARACTER posts. And what I mean by that, is that if someone posts a NEW character on the wiki that hasn't been approved for use in a Board Battle over here, it is a strict violation of the Board Battle rules. If someone wants to make an article about a current character (which would have been approved already) or a past character (which was made before the approval process existed) then that's perfectly fine.
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Clutch, you don't have to contribute. Furthermore, you don't have to do anything now. I personally don't think it matters terribly much if people post up partially (or wholly) incorrect info on a wiki, as long as someone at some point finds and fixes any errors in it. That's why wikis are good.
Furthermore, I don't think it's reasonable to have to get admin approval for every post relating to the epic BB setting or history. If you end up not liking it, then feel free to change it at a later date - no harm done.
That said, if someone isn't sure about something, they probably should refrain from typing up a huge article about it.
Woah, woah woah. First of all, I never said I didn't WANT to contribute. I just said I don't have time at this juncture. I don't think it's a bad thing.
Second of all, Allow me to clarify. I don't need Administrator approval for Battle Setting or History posts. What I need, is Admin approval for CHARACTER posts. And what I mean by that, is that if someone posts a NEW character on the wiki that hasn't been approved for use in a Board Battle over here, it is a strict violation of the Board Battle rules. If someone wants to make an article about a current character (which would have been approved already) or a past character (which was made before the approval process existed) then that's perfectly fine.
Ah, ok. I misunderstood. I fully agree that peple shouldn't post new character concepts and things on there - only stuff that's 'canon', so to speak.
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What would be considered canon, considering how there's so many rewrites of characters and the like?
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I would think "canon" would be defined as anything specifically related to the setting, or as previously mentioned, characters who have taken part, or are currently involved in any of the BBs. I would assume that if you are posting one of your characters, you might include a section regarding any revisions or any form of evolution that your characters has undergone through their tenure.
Characters that have not been approved for use in any of the BBs, or who have not taken part in the BBs, would be excluded from the wiki. At least that is my understanding. Is this correct, Clutch?
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Yes that's correct Faidth. Only past characters (was involved in a previous board battle and retired at some point) or currently active (and thus admin approved) characters are authorized to be posted on the wiki. Pretty much to make it easy...the wiki rules are the same as the Administorum rules.
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I would think "canon" would be defined as anything specifically related to the setting, or as previously mentioned, characters who have taken part, or are currently involved in any of the BBs. I would assume that if you are posting one of your characters, you might include a section regarding any revisions or any form of evolution that your characters has undergone through their tenure.
Characters that have not been approved for use in any of the BBs, or who have not taken part in the BBs, would be excluded from the wiki. At least that is my understanding. Is this correct, Clutch?
Since the wiki is editable, any 'rewrites' can also be put into the wiki once they occur.
And like Faidth suggests, keeping a record of past/historical iterations of a character would certainly be interesting too.
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I wrote up a shitton of stuff at work about the Mortal Plane and thought I saved it onto the wiki...
...looks like I was wrong. :'(
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Kawanua's been incomunicato for a while. But I was wondering if I could write up an article at least concerning the Order of Guardians. Unless someone else took that task first.
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If it was originally Kawanua's creation, then at least let him know. Facebook would probably be easiest. If he doesn't care, I don't care.
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Would it be possible for the link to be stickied, like the IRC chat system? It just seems appropriate that way
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Why am I the only person who has put anything on this wiki?
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I've barely had time to post in the Eye of Terror thread. Until I get that under control, do not expect any contributions from me.
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I would post something....But I really don't know anything aside from my character, who I can't implement until Clutch puts up the skeleton for the Epic Battle chars, so he's technically not even real yet.
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When are people going to start writing articles for their own characters? When I see others contributing to that section of the wikia, then I'll start on other articles as well. I figure I would write an article about the Imperium Sanctus, but I was also wondering if I can help with the content of the various realms the companions have visited. If not, I'll just stick to my own stuff so it's all good one way or the other.
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I would post something....But I really don't know anything aside from my character, who I can't implement until Clutch puts up the skeleton for the Epic Battle chars, so he's technically not even real yet.
Good idea Shadow Chorus, until a character is approved (regardless of what BB it is to be used for) it can not be posted to the wiki. Danyael if you have stuff to post on the wiki then please do it, waiting "for other people to post to help them" will leave us all sitting twiddling our thumbs. You have stuff to put up then please by all means put it up :)
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When are people going to start writing articles for their own characters? When I see others contributing to that section of the wikia, then I'll start on other articles as well. I figure I would write an article about the Imperium Sanctus, but I was also wondering if I can help with the content of the various realms the companions have visited. If not, I'll just stick to my own stuff so it's all good one way or the other.
I'd recommend checking my entry for The Mortal Plane. It's essentially 'complete', and I wrote it with the intent of creating a good format template to use for posting about other Planes (even if the Plane being written about is very different form the Mortal Plane).
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Argh, it looks like Wikia are changing their 'look'!
It looks like some sort of metrosexual facebook ripoff now. It's hideous compared to what it used to look like, and it was pretty ugly to start with.
What to do?!
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Well, for starters, we could change the colors to something less boring. 8)
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Well, for starters, we could change the colors to something less boring. 8)
done
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Well, for starters, we could change the colors to something less boring. 8)
done
That's certainly an improvement. Wish we still had our sidebar though. That drop-down menu at the top is pretty stupid.
I wonder what possessed them to completely discontinue the Monaco skin? Why not just leave it in as an option for those that want it? Is it really that hard to keep it available?
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well it works pretty much the same as the sidebar except its now a topbar *shrug*
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well it works pretty much the same as the sidebar except its now a topbar *shrug*
Topbars! *shakes fist*
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Holy crap, I forgot this was even a thing. We really need to flesh this out. It was definitely one of the cooler ideas from 2010.
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I just added Gulgrim to the wiki's list of Active Epic characters, because we can't leave the Warboss out of it.
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Holy crap, I forgot this was even a thing. We really need to flesh this out. It was definitely one of the cooler ideas from 2010.
Really? I kinda abandoned it since there didnt seem to be any real interest in it lol.
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Really? I kinda abandoned it since there didnt seem to be any real interest in it lol.
Let's unabandon it.
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Ok, well I will work on it when I can then.
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Now, with that being said, I think feedback is needed. Right now the two main pages are of course a list of characters (both active, inactive, and major NPC's) for the Epic Board Battle, as well as locales that have been encountered during the stories. At present none of the "non Epic" board battles are mentioned presently. Do we want to keep it that way (as over time that could get quite difficult to try and keep up to date as the side BB's go inactive/cancelled and then come back (Legion, Calling, and Shadowstorm...though Shadow never made it past character gen). Outside of that, what does everyone feel needs included outside of those two main pages for the Epic BB? Do we want to have characters getting their "own" pages where backstory and whatnot is posted or not, since such info is available on here, and could possibly lead to misinformation if "changes" are made to a character on the wiki but are not properly handled on here?
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I feel like a wiki-style character page allows for a bit more depth than a character sheet does. You can separate important details into separate paragraphs/segments and if you've got artwork of your character made by one of the handful of skilled artists we have here, or even by somebody else, then you can have that to accentuate some of it.
For instance, I go on about gulgrim's abilities for about a paragraph each, but I could put a bit less 'this is exposition of his powers, this is what this power does' and a bit more 'some background of these powers and how Gulgrim tends to use them in a regular situation' in a wiki page than a character sheet.
I wouldn't say information on a wiki page would necessarily be misinformation unless vital things were changed, like the roster of powers that character has. A character sheet is mostly just the crunch of the character, the vital bits that the Game master needs to know. A wiki page can be much more general, including history and strategy and other general details that are up to the character's creator.
You might know from Gulgrim's character sheet that he has a cybernetic third arm attached to his armor, but you probably wouldn't get much more. From a wiki page you might learn that Gulgrim likes to arm wrestle people with that third arm just to show that he's so Big an' Strong he doesn't even need to use his own arms to krump gits.
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People can be as elaborae as they want with their character descriptions on the wiki. But the character sheet is what's used in battle. So if someone has a power on their character's wiki page, but it 's not on their character sheet, then that's not allowed. The owner of the character can put whatever they want about the character in the wiki article, but they can only USE what's actually on the character sheet. Fair?
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I've updated the crap out of the wiki.
You guys should too! Do I have to do everything?
Maybe start by adding your settings/Planes to the list at the bottom of The Multiverse page (here: http://boardbattles.wikia.com/wiki/The_Multiverse#List_of_Known_Locations). There's already a couple in there that are filled in, so you've got a nice template to go by if you want to explain your own!
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I'll have to get around to finishing the backstory i've been working on for the Seraphs (and actually create a name for their universe now that I think of it) and try to get that all put up there.
Also finishing working on developing Jharm's "new" backstory as the one currently posted on his character sheet is completely wrong with what he is right now (pretty much the only thing still "accurate" is that he is an angel....and his powers lol).
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Now I've added a character page for Soul Reaver too, consisting of a slightly edited version of his character sheet here. So if you were all holding back because you needed a character template, here you go: http://boardbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Soul_Reaver
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Lol....not sure how I would go about attempting to recap Jharm's actions in some of the previous battles....what with him having gone through multiple iterations leading up to his present "form" which I do not forsee (nor quite frankly....have any desire to) changing any time soon.
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http://boardbattles.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Epic_Board_Battle_Stories
Holy shit, Soul... are you... are you actually posting wiki articles that summarize the plot of each Epic Battle arc?
It's... it's beautiful. It's all I ever wanted...
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I swear to god man....you start crying and I'm gunna slap you....:-p
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Well....we now have a second Epic BB characters page officially made :) Slowly working on putting stuff in, then will have to go back through and work on the pages I link to in Jharms page lol
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Looks like good o'l Gulgrim is now the third Epic character to receive his own wiki page. Let see who gets to be #4!
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http://boardbattles.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Epic_Board_Battle_Stories
Holy shit, Soul... are you... are you actually posting wiki articles that summarize the plot of each Epic Battle arc?
It's... it's beautiful. It's all I ever wanted...
Yeah, I'm trying my best. Some of this old stuff was a long time ago and my memory isn't the greatest - for example, I can't for the life of me remember WHO asked me to help them in the Godslayer arc, and some other details are hazy too. There's no archive of this stuff (I even checked with the Wayback machine etc with no luck).
It's a wiki, so if you see anything that's wrong or needs adding or there's something you remember better than I, then please get to fixing it!
Good to see some other character pages up!
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I've completed 3 of the plot arcs now, including the HUGE details section for 'The Ancient Vampire Lords' plot arc, which is the first one to have actual archives available. I've tried to write it as a summarized narrative - sorry if there are spelling or tense errors (I'm far too used to writing in the present tense), but it's a wiki, so if you spot 'em you can also fix 'em. I've filled in various other links and things too, mostly at random.
Could someone take the time to have a look and give me some feedback if this is good, bad, or ugly? Took me a long time to make and don't want to do the same for all the others unless I'm on the right track.
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Seriously, anyone?
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Looks fine to me.
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Sorry. I did look at this before and forgot to reply. It looks great.
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Ok, I'll (try to) move onto the other plot arcs then. It requires quite a bit of effort to write these up in a coherent way so I wanted to make sure the format and sheer quantity of text were ok.
Also Starblade, I emailed you some questions about one of the character pages, hope you get a chance to reply because it's confusing as heck and any help would be appreciated.
It only gets worse when you try to tie it in with some of the stuff mentioned in the Vampire Lords plot arc.....
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I go part time as of the 25th of this month. I am going to try to contribute what i can to the wiki once i have some more time! :)
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In order to continue filling in details, I am now making the assumption that the Plane that Cameron Aileron (and I think also Jihon) are from is called 'The Imperial Plane'. If you have a better name for it, please correct me soon as it'll save me having to go back and fix a whole bunch of stuff later.
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I've been lurking -_-
And I just read through the wiki for the three plot arcs. They are summarized nicely. Well done.
I think Kelvack belongs to 'The Imperial Plane' too, since he and Jihon had some history before the storyline. But you never really know with Kelvack.
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Reading this kind of makes me wonder if we'll ever have another epic battle after the eye of terror has finished. :/
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Reading this kind of makes me wonder if we'll ever have another epic battle after the eye of terror has finished. :/
As long as there are still willing participants, the Epic Battle will continue.
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Here's an update, people!
In terms of plot arcs, I've gone through the entirety of the TFWO archives now - I'm finally up to the Yuku ones. Feel free to have a look at the wiki. I've been busy.
I once again note that I seem to be the only one doing edits...
You can check out some of the categories I've created. The articles already there can be used as templates for new articles. Off the top of my head, some of the categories we've already got articles for include:
Characters
Groups (of characters/people etc)
Artifacts
NPCs
Plot Arcs
Locations