In your TTRPGs are "re-dos" of a scene/action allowed? If yes how & why is a 2nd chance permitted?
 
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Nice one thanks Lazvon and thanks for fighting the good fight for us against the spambots!

Quote from: Lazvon on July 02, 2025, 11:26:15 AMYou're fine, Chris! Not a problem at all! No, the spam I'm talking about and getting hard to control is the random AI posts... heck, if it was BETTER and actually LOOKED like it was on topic for these forums, would probably slip by even if it sent you to some spam website.

Quote from: Horrors & Heroes on July 01, 2025, 02:29:40 AMHi admins - for ages now I have been posting links to our Rolemaster Actual play YouTube channel, one of the few RM actual plays I am aware of online, into the forums.

I keep posting over the same original post and don't pester anyone else in the forums. Yes for sure I do it to promote our own channel but absolutely its also about trying to show how good the RM system is (the only RPG I play).

Noone has asked me to stop and I hope I'm not being a nuisance but admins please let me know if you want me to can it. I do the same on the RM Facebook page, after first checking with the admins there too.

Let me know if this is considered spam and you want me to stop.

Thaanks

Chris

How long is the longest campaign you have run or played in?

• The following is lore I created for my homebrew rolemaster campaign. i have 4 players and we are part way through 8 seasons and 10+ years and 100+ sessions of gameplay.
• The current season has the party helping defend a city under siege. The city holds a book of magic which when used with the 5 Soul Stones will allow the BBG to complete his goals.

• Creating the backstory for the campaign began a decade ago. Initially set in the city of Sanctuary from the Thieves World setting the campaign has expanded to include regions and places in the further reaches of the continent. The campaign is steering towards an epic showdown with a BBG/renegade magician who is collecting the Soul Stones for the purpose of freeing the Vampire Lords (mentioned below) and summoning a Dark God that will bring Eternal Darkness to the Known World.

The Legend of the Soul Stones

The Vampire Lords were corrupt kings and princes of darkness, clad in obsidian mail, their gaunt faces carved from centuries of cruelty. Beneath them swarmed beasts of nightmare, blood knights armored in gore-slick plate and demons whose stare could turn men to stone. These dark legions moved like a swarm across the land, devouring all who dared oppose them.

The Order of the Blue Star, a faction of good magicians and masters of the arcane arts stood against the Horde. They forged the Soul Stones and rallied the Army of Light, an alliance of paladins, clerics, monks and knights whose banners bore the weight of kingdoms. Among the forces of good were the legendary Heroes of Light - Sir Caelin the Flame of Justice, Rydan the Sunborn Avenger, Tirian of the Seventh Light, Sir Maldran Pureheart and their leader Lyssia Last of the Bright Seers.

The battle was fierce and brutal. Men fell by the hundreds, trampled beneath the weight of the Horde. The Heroes of Light sacrificed themselves so that the Blue Star Adepts could strike at the vampire lords, trapping their essence in The Void. Even their Lich King—the ancient architect of the dark alliance—howled in defiance as his spirit was wrenched from his crumbling bones and bound forever.

The cost of victory was great. The field was strewn with the dead, and the adepts of the Blue Star were decimated. The few surviving magicians scattered the Soul Stones throughout the Known World, their locations kept secret. In the forgotten corners of the Known World, in tombs untouched by time and in vaults sealed by wards, the Soul Stones wait.

Quote from: nash on July 01, 2025, 12:45:59 PMThe spam in question is hundreds of Temu signup spam messages.  The mods have done an amazing job of deleting them.

Videos of RM actual play is as on topic as you can possibly get.

Thanks! I'm trying! I never get to play anymore, but for the decades of enjoying Rolemaster brought me, is the least I can do to try and keep the forums spam free.

We need the forums upgraded too. Couple of weeks ago was the first release in a couple of years to fix some vulnerabilities that MIGHT be how all the spam if getting through.

You're fine, Chris! Not a problem at all! No, the spam I'm talking about and getting hard to control is the random AI posts... heck, if it was BETTER and actually LOOKED like it was on topic for these forums, would probably slip by even if it sent you to some spam website.

Quote from: Horrors & Heroes on July 01, 2025, 02:29:40 AMHi admins - for ages now I have been posting links to our Rolemaster Actual play YouTube channel, one of the few RM actual plays I am aware of online, into the forums.

I keep posting over the same original post and don't pester anyone else in the forums. Yes for sure I do it to promote our own channel but absolutely its also about trying to show how good the RM system is (the only RPG I play).

Noone has asked me to stop and I hope I'm not being a nuisance but admins please let me know if you want me to can it. I do the same on the RM Facebook page, after first checking with the admins there too.

Let me know if this is considered spam and you want me to stop.

Thaanks

Chris

Okay (phew) ... Thanks Nash. I didn't want to annoy anyone in the RM community (which I certainly consider my community).

I'll keep on posting then ... Its game night tonight!! Yay!!

Quote from: nash on July 01, 2025, 12:45:59 PM

Quote from: C.Tozer on July 01, 2025, 02:29:40 AMLet me know if this is considered spam and you want me to stop.

The spam in question is hundreds of Temu signup spam messages.  The mods have done an amazing job of deleting them.

Videos of RM actual play is as on topic as you can possibly get.

Quote from: C.Tozer on July 01, 2025, 02:29:40 AMLet me know if this is considered spam and you want me to stop.

The spam in question is hundreds of Temu signup spam messages.  The mods have done an amazing job of deleting them.

Videos of RM actual play is as on topic as you can possibly get.

The last time I was able to play my first PC was 1992.  Since then, he's only been used as an NPC a couple of times here and there and only seen in passing as background hints to the theme of the session.  e.g.: He was seen as the only human to be allowed into the Dwarfen mourning gathering while all other non-dwarf mourners only left their tributes with the honour guard.

No one knows how to GM RM but my son loves the game and I have been teaching him the minutiae of the mechanics because he would love to GM a session.

On the bright side of all this spam, it's nice to know that the spammers think RoleMaster/ICE is popular enough and reaches a large enough audience to make spamming us worth their while!

Hi admins - for ages now I have been posting links to our Rolemaster Actual play YouTube channel, one of the few RM actual plays I am aware of online, into the forums.

I keep posting over the same original post and don't pester anyone else in the forums. Yes for sure I do it to promote our own channel but absolutely its also about trying to show how good the RM system is (the only RPG I play).

Noone has asked me to stop and I hope I'm not being a nuisance but admins please let me know if you want me to can it. I do the same on the RM Facebook page, after first checking with the admins there too.

Let me know if this is considered spam and you want me to stop.

Thaanks

Chris

Quote from: Lazvon on June 27, 2025, 08:09:44 AMTook care of the last batch of reports for last couple of days. Thank you folks.

Just case a Full Admin reads this one... if we can turn on user and new topic moderation for a while, would probably be good. I guess not that user moderation will help much, but perhaps if they have to wait a few hours until I approve, they won't be able to post and their bot will just give up.

New topic moderation, hopefully I can handle pretty quickly at least for a few weeks at least and see how it goes.

Though we have had at least one batch that were replies in known good topics... those were harder to remove due to not be able to select the posts for deletion across multiple pages or something. I can't remember why it was harder now... I certainly don't want to go to Reply Moderation. That's not sustainable for forums... though maybe until a person is manually moved from "New User" to "Accepted User" or something after we've seen non-spam posts... if that's possible...

Hmmm, looks like we really need a 2.1.6 upgrade too. Just came out yesterday.