Book Case

[Nick]

I still can't picture chaining a note.

[Sunni Daez]

I read in a post once, suggesting a bulliten board with locked glass doors, so notes could be read but not stolen...well, not easily anyway..

[Nick]

That, I'd like.

[Lumin]

I still can't picture chaining a note.

But you can picture magically pulling a pen and sheet of paper out of your ass whenever you need one?

[Nick]

Fine, keep talking about this suggestion like Jos would like it.
But I'll bet money he won't... any takers?

[Lumin]

Do you mean the useable bookshelf suggestion or the note chaining one?

Like I said, the former would be awesome, but the latter I would consider pretty low priority, but just fine as long as a reasonable level of work and resources was required.

I just thought the conversation about what would be realistic or not was getting a little silly, is all.

[mortaine]

I mean, if we want notes to be treated so realistically, chars should have to gather wood, shred it, treat it with chemicals, boil it, and then make ink and a writing implement before even being allowed to write one.

Uh, why? Because a note is necessarily written on paper? I mean,yeah,the fact that you can make a note even if you have nothing is unrealistic, but that's okay. I'm okay with that, because it means I don't have to haul a notebook around to keep track of all 10 characters I have (10 now.... 1 died).

[Lumin]

Well, it's got to be written on something, and that something has to be be able to hold large amounts of text, if my characters' diaries are any indication.

And it's not like I'm not saying we should all have to manufacture notes from now on; that would be a awful! I was just using it as an example of how you can take talks about realism too far in a game, at least if you expect that game to still be playable...

[Sunni Daez]

The bookcase is a good idea...or even just the shelf....you can build a shelf, you just can't use it! But chaining of notes? pretty extreme use of iron to make the chain...to chain a note?

[Lumin]

I still say we should be able to carve permanent messages onto stone slabs...

[Nixit]

That, I'd like.

That's what I was talking about basically before, but Nightfyre opposed it, because we should be able to break it with practically anything.

[nitefyre]

I actually like the bulletin board idea too (I may've suggested that in the past).

I didn't say I opposed your book case idea, but I was just pointing out some problems with it.

Edit: I've never built a mailbox, but perhaps we're suggesting ideas that are already in game?

[Nixit]

I actually like the bulletin board idea too (I may've suggested that in the past).

I didn't say I opposed your book case idea, but I was just pointing out some problems with it.

Edit: I've never built a mailbox, but perhaps we're suggesting ideas that are already in game?

Well, yeah, but the bulletin board would have the same problems and the bookcase.

[nitefyre]

I admit I don't really have a solution for this, except this one:

That there be a cover that protects the glass cover from being broken into?

But if it was made of iron or something, it would defeat the purpose of the bulletin board in the first case.

Since in real life there are ways to pick a lock, but we can only break locks in cantr, I suppose we could be restricted in the methods we can break into bulletinboards/bookshelves, which I'm for. For instance, we can only break into bookshelves with a certain tool. But then we get those complainers on how we can only break a lock with a steel tool. Oh, such an ever ending cycle those people who accept such designs have to listen to-I pity them.

[kinvoya]

I don't think it needs to be impregnable, does it? Just something to keep the newly spawned looters from grabbing everything in the library and running off with it.