Guides

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Guides

This thread covers guides, which are created to help players see how playable submissions are meant to be utilized and as a reference for the players using the lore in case they need assistance with emotes. Guides are required for Feats, Creature Submissions (CAs), and Magic Submissions (MAs). On rare occasion, other pieces require guides too, subject by Story Management. Typically, the more widespread or complex a piece, the more required a Guide may be.

 

Guides are made post-acceptance of a piece, and are solely reviewed and accepted by Story Management.

 

 

What is a good guide?

A good guide is a resource that helps a player understand how the lore can be used/changes a character and for the creator of the lore to help point things out that might not have been obvious before/help provide assistance in more than just the lore. For example, let's take frost witches. Their lore would cover how everything functions and give us a good understanding of what people will be utilizing. But the guide isn't meant to just regurgitate the lore info, a good guide would instead have things like tips for how to deal with being hunted or descriptions for how a frost witch would rp in the heat, examples for how a frost witch might rp their mental instability, maybe a few scenarios for how to hunt for “food”, et cetera. A guide should be able to instruct not only the player, but the ST, on exactly the ins-and-outs of the magic and its interpretation, rather than it’s exact wording. Always should guides have Emote Counts, which are detailed guides on what emotes of casting, conjuring, crafting, some form of part of the Magic or CA which are easily understandable. Other things useful to a guide are signed-item examples, build examples, suggested character traits both physical and mental, use-cases for spells or rituals, and so on.

 

 

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Guide Information

Due to the variety of different types of magic and creatures and ways you can write a guide for them, there is no set in stone format for this. A guide focuses on how to RP the lore piece, so it is not required to cover things such as the piece’s origin or other fluff. Instead, it should focus on providing help on how a player should emote and RP the piece. Generally, following the format of the standard lore piece is acceptable. 

 

Things to include:

- Minimal “fluff”, there should be little to no fluff within the guide. No flowery wording or thematic flavor, a guide is practically an OOC-only explanation of the lore, and an informational guide.

- A guide should have zero discrepancy between itself in the lore. A guide which has differences from the lore (Such as differing emote counts, spells, etc.) is one which will be denied. 

- Brief summary of the lore (its theme, its direction, etc.), including a link to the lore page. (It is recommended past-posting, you should link the guide to the lore as well.) 

- Description of any physical changes and examples/suggestions of how to RP them, as well as options for unique flair one may interpret, take on, or perform themselves.

- Description of any mental changes and examples/suggestions of how to RP them, as well as options for unique flair one may interpret, take on, or perform themselves.

- Description of any abilities, briefly covering the RP behind it with an in-depth focus on the mechanics and restrictions of it. Describe it like you are explaining the ability to someone, what it does as example.

- Emote examples for the abilities. If there are changes in how the ability works over time (e.g. tier progression), you should include examples of that as well (e.g. providing an emote example of a t1 version of a spell followed by its t3 and t5 version).

- An overview of the piece’s progression system. This is not limited to tier progression, but also things like creature progression. Each stage of the piece’s progression system should be described in detail so a player understands what changes at each stage.

 

Guides

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/forum/1228-guides/ 

 

Suggested Guide Format

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/218741-guide-submissions/