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Revision as of 08:01, 6 August 2007

This is the page for our general adminly/staffly duties. Feel free to add things using the template below. When you've completed a task, make sure to put the day you completed it, and strikethrough the whole thing using <del>this</del> style.

Tasks should be laid out like:

''Task:''  Write a description for the [http://editthis.info/shahara/Anthropomorphic_Animals anthros] page.
''Description:'' We need a Monster-Manual style description for this page including general physical
characteristics and a small amount of detail about culture and personality.
''Assigned To:'' Raeft and Morgan
''On:'' July 30th, 2007
''Completed:''

Cosmetic, Coding, and Building

• Code a +finger system
• Create a plot room off the OOC nexus to run things in (or, preferably, several), with (hopefully) customizeable descs.
• Redo the ooc nexus. Write an actual description, take down the to-do list.
• Write a newbie area and make a description and intro to the world for new players/guests, to be hosted there. Include details of how the game works OOCly, and what the world's like ICly.
• Create "OOC Discussion", "Seeking RP", "DMs", and "OOC Chat" channels.
• Modify who command to display status flags for 'seeking rp' and 'DM'.
• Code an interim item system.
• Place sheets of all characters on the wiki, with an eye to eventually develop a coded system for +sheet.
• Code a way to submit character sheets and have them mailed to Raeft from the room where Newbies log on. Possibly do it as a step by step prompt, or similar. (Raeft can provide examples of similar systems if Jules needs them.
• Make a "Guests/Newbies" channel.
• Build some iconic IC areas (Dungeons on the outskirts of town? Something with personality, even if it's only a few rooms, that can be used for gridded adventure. Maybe a general "Wilderness" room, or some temp rooms the descs of which can be changed?)

Theme Information and Rules

• Write "general theme" overview in detail, for everything different in this world as compared to "normal" D&D. Examples include Ashcrow Mountains and Quay'luan forest.
• Write page on skills added or changed in this modern setting.
• Write page on prevalence of technology
• Write anthro page introduction/physical details.
• Create dinosaur anthros.
• Write Hinterlands and Telces pages.
• Write "Civilized and Uncivilized Races" page.
• Write a page on "Alignments" and our handling of creatures with unusual alignment predelictions. (EG: How players can app to play members of races that're almost always a certain alignment, as a conflicting alignment)
• Write a DM Primer stating things DMs should know about how we run things here, and what we want standardized across the board; for example, crafting, treasure tables, temporary custom PRCs for NPCs and experience rewards.
• Add a glossary for terms such as Foreigner, Unification War(s) and the Upheaval.

General Documentation and Organization

• Create IC help system listing all commands and also some IC details about theme.
• Assign specific roles to staffers and make sure it's clear to players as to who is best to contact about which thing, without implying that all admins decisions aren't to be given the same weight. Determine best modes of contact with staffers, such as by their e-mail addresses out of the game, by in-game mail or by page.
• Organize wiki with all character pages and sheets
• Check IC policies and add ones concerning IC "ratings", consent-based, and similar, which newbies must both have read and agreed to before being flagged to enter the grid.
• Figure out a process to delineate the application methods for: Characters with exceptional or odd alignments, people who want to run plots, and special/temporary characters to be used on the grid for durations of plots.

Plot Development

• Write an introductory plot for the world.
• Create some ongoing "rumor-style" plots that anyone can pick up and run at whim.
• Delineate the system through which one becomes eligible to DM real plots, and ensure people know about it.
• Write a primer for DMs.