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[SealyStar]

Actually, does el Gato translate into anything other than cat?

It apparently means "servant", but only in Mexican Spanish.

[Detrevni|inverteD]

I'd like to get in on this game, but it seems a little slow and confusing. I don't have that much time to commit, so I'd much rather help someone's plight on bay12. Any information on where I should join and what I should do if I want to help out my fellow dwarves?

[sambojin]

Ok. It appears my spanish is even worse than I thought. Actually, that does make it somewhate amusing though. It does mean cat as well, and in it's feminine form can even mean female wildcat. Strangely, Shanti, and it's base root Sha means peace or peaceful in Sanskrit. Often used in sutras and meditation, as well as in yoga.

So, putting all that together, I'm going for the very dodgily, double translated meaning of Sha'Shanti el Gato as meaning "The peaceful, flexible, servile, female cat." Which portrays her well as a generally self-possessed character. I'm sure her unstated middle name probably means "dumb as a post".  Perhaps an even closer meaning could be the "peaceful, peaceful servant" or "peaceful sutra of pussy" or any number of combinations, depending on context and inflection. The things you learn off google.

Anyway, I might write up a quick doc for the wiki sometime soon on a few of the advanced adventurer things that have come to mind with the recent changes. Some of them also just a standard part of BM.

Stuff like:
Sea exploration.
Army discovery.
Selling information for favour, not gold.
The importance of guilds to adventurers.
Money running for army resupplies.
Ticking unpayable services off a guild's treasurey, and how to repay them later.
The universal currency of magic items, so gold can change hands from noble->adventurer and advy->advy, for things outside the normal payment system.
The use of non-hunting adventurers for a realm.
The extreme hatred that should be directed at hunt-poachers.

Can anyone think of anything else I should add to the write up? Most people are probably unaware of how flexible advy's have become, and how to actually get payed for doing things other than hunting or magic item finding, nor how effective even a small guild of advy's can be at halting monster invasions in an area. Like everything with BM, co-operation and communication is the only true way to advance any particular cause.

[ConscriptFive]

I'd like to get in on this game, but it seems a little slow and confusing. I don't have that much time to commit, so I'd much rather help someone's plight on bay12. Any information on where I should join and what I should do if I want to help out my fellow dwarves?

The best way to think of Battlemaster is to think of it as a Play-By-E-Mail (PBEM) game: you play it once or twice a day for a few minutes, and through teamwork over many days, you get to watch it all play out.  Create a noble, claim an estate, and follow your realm leadership.  Just ease into in gradually.

Alot of us Dwarves are setup in Luria Nova on the Dwilight continent.  Right now, there are some really wealthy estates ready to be given away in Askileon, that I strongly recommend a new noble take.  Giask too has some rather wealthy estates available as well.  Both cities also have very friendly and active Duchesses who am I certain would gladly assist a new player.

[Ehndras]

I'd much appreciate it if someone in Dwilight could please tell my men in Terran I've disappeared for the last 5 days because I have no power after the hurricane pounded my town into oblivion. No idea when well get power back, some folks were caught I the sub station as it flooded so they had to undergo a whole rescue op and now, well, pumping water, repairs... Transformers and lines down all over, a friend of the family apparently died, and who knows what else.

I have barely any cell battery left but can anyone tell me how things are going on Dwilight? Oh, almost forgot. I'm Alura Aurea, Ruler of Terran. Please tell General Kale Perth of Terran, and Rynn JeVondair, Ruler of D'hara, I'll be offline for possibly a few more days until power is restored. Wouldn't want everyone to think I bailed in the most crucial part of my invasion, heh.

Cheers folks, and stay safe. It's pretty bad here, just got cell towers back online yesterday. Gas is scarce, some places have no heat, we have no power, and the local sub stations apparently got hit hard.

[SealyStar]

I'd much appreciate it if someone in Dwilight could please tell my men in Terran I've disappeared for the last 5 days because I have no power after the hurricane pounded my town into oblivion. No idea when well get power back, some folks were caught I the sub station as it flooded so they had to undergo a whole rescue op and now, well, pumping water, repairs... Transformers and lines down all over, a friend of the family apparently died, and who knows what else.

I have barely any cell battery left but can anyone tell me how things are going on Dwilight? Oh, almost forgot. I'm Alura Aurea, Ruler of Terran. Please tell General Kale Perth of Terran, and Rynn JeVondair, Ruler of D'hara, I'll be offline for possibly a few more days until power is restored. Wouldn't want everyone to think I bailed in the most crucial part of my invasion, heh.

Cheers folks, and stay safe. It's pretty bad here, just got cell towers back online yesterday. Gas is scarce, some places have no heat, we have no power, and the local sub stations apparently got hit hard.

I can do it for you, but what exactly should I say? OOC message, obviously, but how could I avoid making it sound suspicious?

[Zangi]

Ah well, Asylon is sitting around prepping for on-coming events.  Might be a few key military members have been swept up in Sandy's embrace.... probably the same for many of the many other realms of Dwilight.

I've sent a message to the D'haran player.  Don't have any means to speak to your general.

[danaris]

I can do it for you, but what exactly should I say? OOC message, obviously, but how could I avoid making it sound suspicious?

I don't think anyone would have a problem with you just copying his post there into an OOC message, with a brief note saying, "Hey, just copying this from Alura's player's post on the Bay12 forums."

[Ehndras]

Woo! Power's back! HA! I'm so glad they restored my part of town, I would have gone insane if I had to be in the dark 'til Friday like they figured we'd be.

[Zangi]

Hmm... Colonies, feels like I can sit in a foodless/starving region for 5-8 days, before having to run back to a region with food for 10 days to replenish.  It really needs the buy provisions option in Dwilight or loot allied granary for full replenishment.

[Talfryn]

I admit to finding Dame Gato a little annoying. Just a lot. Still, it's different.

[danaris]

Yeah...the modern colloquial quasi-Valley-speak is just really grating.

Especially on Dwilight. Y'know, where we're supposed to be talking like Medieval nobles would have talked.

[SealyStar]

Ignoring RPing, I have a gameplay-mechanic question: why do you have to recruit a minimum of five men? Why can't I round out my 21-man force to its maximum of 24?

[danaris]

Ignoring RPing, I have a gameplay-mechanic question: why do you have to recruit a minimum of five men? Why can't I round out my 21-man force to its maximum of 24?

Hm. Recruiting enough to max yourself out should be possible, regardless of how few men it takes. I'll have to look into that bug.

[SealyStar]

Ignoring RPing, I have a gameplay-mechanic question: why do you have to recruit a minimum of five men? Why can't I round out my 21-man force to its maximum of 24?

Hm. Recruiting enough to max yourself out should be possible, regardless of how few men it takes. I'll have to look into that bug.

It says "or the maximum possible", but that refers to the number of men available to recruit, not how many your noble can recruit.

For example, let's say there are fifteen men available, the noble can field 32, and has 29. The maximum given refers to the fifteen, not the three.