- Remember that in order to claim another character, you need to have fight stats in the post. Without them, the claim will be non-enforceable and not official!
- We have an ongoing contest to create a new trade for the site, so check it out and please share any of your ideas. We look forward to this new addition and to see what you guys come up with!
- We also have a banner contest going on right now! Take a look at what our talented community has already made, and consider entering your own work of art, if it interests you!
- Staff Applications are open, as well as BWP Team Applications - if you're interested, make sure to get in before the closing date!
- Moving forward, you will be able to add multiple names to IC awards (i.e. Best Friends with Bob, Joe, and Susie) if it has been earned multiple times, with proof. Each award will still only counts as 1 for afterlife requirements, and this can be applied retroactively for anyone who would like to make these edits.
- To keep things a little more consistent, we are providing some clarity on IC/OOC title guidelines. The maximum width per line is 200px, and each title can be a maximum of 2 lines long. This will apply on a moving-forward basis (i.e. if you have a title that is 3 lines long, it can stay as-is), and these parameters will be added to the Shop.
The time has come again for our bi-annual posting raffle!
Whether or not you were around for our previous posting raffles, this event is a good way to expand your writing circle, develop some fun and exciting plots, and get the muse flowing as we move into summertime! There are also several tiers of prizes that you could win from by participating, so be sure to check it out.
The posting raffle will count all of your posts, from across all of your characters, between June 1st (12am EST) to June 30th (5:00pm EST).
If you are interested in participating, please see the full event details here and make sure to sign-up!
In order to balance out large hunting parties with the prey that they receive, we will be making a small modification to how Staff roll the results for requested hunts. Please note that the method for pride hunts will not be changing, and the difficulty of prey received for those will remain completely randomized.
Moving forward, any requested hunts that have 5 or more members in the hunting party will only receive medium-level prey or above. This means that they are not able to roll easy-level prey, and are guaranteed something from between the medium and extra-hard tiers.
We understand that, when bringing in an older character, it is assumed that they, ICly, would have some sort of expertise in their trades. At the same time, Staff strive to balance this assumption with incentivizing the use of the trade system, in addition to the fact that some of our trade level perks come with dice buffs.
Given both of these factors, we will be making a small change to how our joining trade experience works. As of this announcement, characters who join at 2 years of age or older can claim the following age-related experience:
- 2 years - 20 exp
3 years - 30 exp
4 year - 40 exp
etc.
This does not apply to characters who were accepted prior to this announcement. Characters who join as yearling do not receive any trade-related experience.
We know that members work very hard to increase their characters' dice through the use of the trade system, and that they want to enjoy these benefits while their character is ageing and evolving. So, in order to increase the prime window for the IC dice system, we will be making an adjustment to the age modifiers in the Guidebook.
Currently, the ages that do not occur a dice penalty (either for being too young or too old) are 5-7 years old. Moving forward, this window will be expanded to encompass characters that are aged between 5-10 years old. This means that once a character hits 11 years old, they will incur a dice penalty as a result of old age.
If you have a character that needs to have their dice adjusted to align with these changes, please post in Trade & Dice Updates and we will get it sorted for you.
Under the fatigue system, the Guidebook currently states that pride challenges, death matches, and maims must happen within their own independent threads. We are removing this stipulation and replacing it with the following:
- Characters can engage in up to 3 fights per thread. This can be any mixture of fight types.
- Spars, as per the guidebook definition, are unlimited.
- If your character wins in a pride challenge, maim, or death match, they can only be in another fight if they are the ones who initiate it. In other words, winning one of these types of fight means that they can not be attacked again in that thread, and that it is your choice to have them fight more or not.
- This does not apply in the context of a raid or war. In raids and wars, this stipulation is reduced to only cover death matches - meaning that maims and pride challenges are free-game and do not come with additional protection. Please see the Raid and War tab of the Guidebook for more information.
These changes only apply to threads started after this announcement. The Guidebook will updated shortly, and if you still have questions after that point, please reach out to a Staff member for clarification. We hope that these adjustments will improve the flow of things ICly, and feel less restrictive!
After some discussions with our Designer Team, we will be adding a new swatch to our Tier 3 pelts -- Mahogany! This will cover the gaps we have been seeing with red-tinted browns that do not quite fit into Clay.
If you think that your character falls within this new swatch, you can request that their pelt color be switched to Mahogany, for free, by posting in General Maintenance and linking to this update.
- If you are unsure, please reach out in the design-pricing channel of our Discord server, and one of our team members will verify the pelt with you!
- Please also note that this is not mandatory, and that pelt colors can also stay as they are/what they were categorized as before the introduction of this swatch.
— The Staff Team