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1. Add a highlighter you can use to point out parts of a post

   As part of Storium's learning process, some sort of highlighter would be useful to have in order to point out bits and pieces you're talking about in the commentary. It wouldn't be a way to be mean, but a way for people to improve and learn.

   I've wrote "Please work on your grammar." in the commentary before and they haven't been able to fix everything after multiple edits without me just pointing out every single flaw and feeling mean about it. I'd rather just highlight the parts with a highlighter and say "Fix these please.".

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2. The setting picture doesn't allign properly when the narrator is making, editing or previewing a post

   Is this a bug? It has always happened for me, where the picture is offset lower than it should be and looks weird.

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3. Provide Active Plot Point Reminders

   In some games it is difficult to keep track of everything that a character needs to respond to in their next move and across scenes. It would be helpful if there were some space visible to only the players and narrator and separate to the commentary that maintains a list of all the things that players expect to happen soon.

   As part of a move players would add bulletpoints to this list and mark for removal ones they feel have been addressed or are outdated. (The narrator takes on the responsibility of actual deletions/ marked points are greyed out)

   E.g. @Player1 has been thrown a torch by @Player3

   The team needs to find a place to take shelter.

   @Player2 needs to return from the other world before the sword can be removed.

   In some games it is difficult to keep track of everything that a character needs to respond to in their next move and across scenes. It would be helpful if there were some space visible to only the players and narrator and separate to the commentary that maintains a list of all the things that players expect to happen soon.

   As part of a move players would add bulletpoints to this list and mark for removal ones they feel have been addressed or are outdated. (The narrator takes on the responsibility of actual deletions/ marked points are greyed out)

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4. View character info by clicking on the avatar/name on a move

   In a large scene, it would be useful to be able to access character info by simply clicking on the person's character image/name on one of their moves. This would be a very useful shortcut rather than having to scroll all the way up.

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5. Add RSS feed to the Looking For Players forum

   Title says it all. It'd be a handy way to track what's going on in there as timeliness in responding to a new post might be the key to getting into a game.

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6. Meta-Challenges

   I had a sort of similar idea to what Tacronicus posted as "Opposing Outcomes," only I was thinking of it at a different angle -- as a 'meta-challenge.' In a few games I've played, the narrator has posted a series of challenges which must be completed to alter the outcome of a larger idea, each of which piece had a part to play. What if we could post the whole idea as a challenge (IE: Get off Planet X) with subchallenges within it to which the characters actually play (IE: Bribe an Official, Acquire a Ship, Meet at These Coordinates). Each of these challenges are as normal ones, able to be given however many boxes the narrator feels appropriate and have a strong/weak/neutral outcome. However, the metachallenge itself has only the number of boxes as its number of contained challenges, and the s/w/n outcome of those are what play directly into the metachallenge's completion -- by completing the normal challenges, the metachallenge boxes are also filled in and influenced toward its own s/w/n outcome.

   I'd thought that it would be good to use for PvP challenges also, but Tacronicus raised a point in Opposing Challenges about having players unable to play against more than one challenge in his idea. That's a very valid point, but it wouldn't work so well for a metachallenge, since it isn't necessarily directed at PvP.

   As for how would would look ... similar to what's already there, perhaps, just with the metachallenge card's outline enclosing the others. Maybe tint it a little to make it more distinct, if necessary. The challenges and metachallenge would all click to expand for details, same as they do now.

   Another variation is a metachallenge that requires its steps to be done in a certain order (ie, you can't play on the Acquire the Ship challenge until you've done Bribe the Official), but this almost seems like it would be another type of metachallenge entirely (it may not have an outcome of its own, if all you're doing is requiring play order). If I had to pick one or the other, I'd stick with the first one. I know that some narrators do (both of) these now, by hand. This might just make it a little cleaner.

   I had a sort of similar idea to what Tacronicus posted as "Opposing Outcomes," only I was thinking of it at a different angle -- as a 'meta-challenge.' In a few games I've played, the narrator has posted a series of challenges which must be completed to alter the outcome of a larger idea, each of which piece had a part to play. What if we could post the whole idea as a challenge (IE: Get off Planet X) with subchallenges within it to which the characters actually play (IE: Bribe an Official, Acquire a Ship, Meet at These Coordinates).… more

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7. Invite other player(s) to review move draft and suggest edits

   Sometimes we have to "take control" of another player's character in our moves... it would be nice to be able to invite specific players to review the move draft and allow them to suggest edits. We should allow unlimited iterations of drafts/review/edits.

   This feature will also allow two players to build a dialogue.

   I've previously used Google Docs for this, but I think it's better if I don't have to share my Google account to every Storium player I have to collaborate moves with. :)

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8. Finished obstacles as playable cards

   I had the idea that players should be able to use challenge they have finished as a one-time card (of weak or strong nature depending on how it was finished) later in the game to play against another challenge.

   For example, I finish a challenge with a strong outcomes, which then grants me a "strong" card with the name of the challenge.

   For the sake of balance, I'd also suggest that the narrator would have to mark challenges specifically to be able to played after they're finished. That would prevent over-use of that feature.

   Playing a finished challenge as a card would allow players to not only control the outcome of that challenge, but use their (narrative) success to built out the story further.

   Having a Character Challenge in the form of an Argument, for example, and finishing it strong, the player can later use that win (in the form as the challenge card (strong) to play against another, fitting challenge (Hey, I beat that NPC in an argument, so I play that as a card against the challenge to gain respect from his friends).

   Optionally, instead of giving the won challenge directly to the player, the narrator could put down the card for pickup in a following scene.

   I had the idea that players should be able to use challenge they have finished as a one-time card (of weak or strong nature depending on how it was finished) later in the game to play against another challenge.

   For example, I finish a challenge with a strong outcomes, which then grants me a "strong" card with the name of the challenge.

   For the sake of balance, I'd also suggest that the narrator would have to mark challenges specifically to be able to played after they're finished. That would prevent over-use of that feature.

   Playing a finished challenge as a… more

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9. Allow Narrator-Player communication from the moment a character is *started* rather than *complete*.

   I definitely appreciate the new private commentary sections that we have on the player character pages--very nice. But I'd like to ask for one adjustment...it'd be nice to have that become available from the moment a player starts a character rather than when the player submits a character.

   Sometimes as a player I've had questions about a Narrator's world that I need resolved, and the only way to do it at the moment is to complete a temp character and send a note to the narrator with approval.

   And as narrator, I can see if people I have invited have begun a character, but I can't actually speak to them to find out if they are having any trouble in the process unless I happen to have an external way to contact them.

   If the comments became available the moment a player started a character, these might be resolved.

   I definitely appreciate the new private commentary sections that we have on the player character pages--very nice. But I'd like to ask for one adjustment...it'd be nice to have that become available from the moment a player starts a character rather than when the player submits a character.

   Sometimes as a player I've had questions about a Narrator's world that I need resolved, and the only way to do it at the moment is to complete a temp character and send a note to the narrator with approval.

   And as narrator, I can see if people I have invited have… more

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10. Detailed Tabbed Browse Game Entries

    Each game in the Browse game section (and its game entry) should have a bunch of tabs for information. Tabs for the following info:

    • game narrative for feel and flavor
    • game meta info including links to game's wiki and forum
    • campaign/game info
    • character creation info with character profile template
    • history
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11. Notification email choice

    It would be great to be able to check what types of notification emails you get - I don't want to be notified every time someone edits a move, but I would still like comments and moves to be emailed. Customisation of emails would be great and save me from having to make a million different Gmail filters!

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12. Gamma Issue: Narrator-Provided Cards no longer editable?

    It seems with Gamma character creation, we're no longer allowed to edit cards that are provided by the narrator, not even to add images. In fact, in order to add an image to such a card, you have to recreate the whole card, which is quite frustrating.

    Not sure if this is intentional or just a bug, but in any case, can we go back to the way it was before?

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13. Edit Log

    Add a way for users to see WHAT was edited in abother user's edit, be it to a character, move, etc. Users could more easily tell if an edit fixed a typo or made an actual difference to the plot.

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14. Visibility of games on player profile

    It would be good to be able to choose the visibility of suspended games and retired characters in one’s profile, probably? This isn’t an issue for me but it seems like a logical thing to include.

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15. The "Opposing Outcome" Challenge Card

    One way of promoting player vs. player interaction would be to introduce an "Opposing Outcome" Challenge Card. Unlike conventional challenge cards (with strong or weak outcomes), an Opposing Outcome Challenge would be used by players to determine which of two mutually exclusive outcomes take place. The accompanying image shows what two of these cards might look like.

    The challenge presents two alternative Courses Of Action. These COA’s might be in the form of two choices (administer conventional medicine or an untested experimental vaccine in a medical game; reason with a creature/monster or attack it in a sci-fi/fantasy game; voting for or against impeachment in a political game, etc.) Instead of just one set of boxes which tallies the strength/weakness/asset cards the players use, the challenge has two sets of boxes—one for each alternative COA. Once the characters have played their cards, the COA with the strongest outcome prevails.

    Mechanics:
    Once a player uses a card for a given COA, he/she can NOT play a card against the alternative COA (should be restricted from doing so by the gaming software). This prevents a player for playing a strength card against one COA and then playing a weakness card against the opposing COA (in effect sabotaging the alternate outcome).
    
    2. A positive card is worth +1, a negative card is worth -1; asset/goal/subplot cards (nominally considered neutral under the current system) are worth +0.25.
    
    3. Although both outcomes might be positive overall, the COA with the highest net “score” wins. (Example: Players favoring COA-A expend a strength card and two (neutral) asset cards for a net score of +1.5. Players favoring COA-B expend two strength cards and one asset/goal/subplot card for a net score of +2.25, thus winning the challenge)

    If the two Outcomes receive numerically identical scores, the technical result is an uncertain outcome, though the types of cards played and the strength of the accompanying posts may still allow the Narrator to declare that a particular COA appears to have the upper hand.

    Game Play Implications:

    This type of card would allow characters to work together in most situations (as they do now in Storium), but would allow the Narrator to force them to perhaps work at cross-purposes (or perhaps in direct opposition to one another) at certain critical points when an Opposing Challenge Card is introduced in a story. It would also allow for the Narrator to set up a “Faction vs. Faction” style of play when designing a game (Loyalists vs. Rebels; Abolitionists vs. Slave Owners; Vampires vs. Werewolves, Hatfields vs. McCoys, etc.). Players might find themselves holding their strength cards in reserve for use in some future potential challenge rather than expending them willy-nilly (how many times have we seen a player use a “Charismatic Leader” strength card in the largely throw-away “getting to know you” challenge of a first scene??). At some point in the game, one faction/player may find that they are in possession of only weakness cards and may realize that they are in a really bad situation when that critical Opposing Challenge finally manifests itself.

    Of course, there will be times when all the players are in substantial agreement on an important decision. In that situation, the Narrator might find that all the squares for “Outcome A” are filled with strength cards, but nobody is interested in supporting “Outcome B” with its still empty squares. In that situation, the Narrator has still given the group to opportunity to choose between two distinct courses of action, and they have done so. At that point the Narrator should end the scene and move on in the new direction indicated, even though there are still empty squares remaining for the second outcome. As noted above, in the case of “tied scores,” the Narrator would still have leeway to declare a given outcome based on the types of cards played and the quality of the player posts accompanying each COA being supported.

    One way of promoting player vs. player interaction would be to introduce an "Opposing Outcome" Challenge Card. Unlike conventional challenge cards (with strong or weak outcomes), an Opposing Outcome Challenge would be used by players to determine which of two mutually exclusive outcomes take place. The accompanying image shows what two of these cards might look like.

    The challenge presents two alternative Courses Of Action. These COA’s might be in the form of two choices (administer conventional medicine or an untested experimental vaccine in a medical game; reason with a creature/monster or attack it in a sci-fi/fantasy game; voting for… more

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    under review  ·  AdminStephen Hood (Co-founder, Storium) responded

    This is a super interesting idea, thank you for sharing it! We will put it in the mix ideas we’re experimenting with.

16. Allow players to see which of the players in their scene are online

    In game it would be like getting the attention of someone in the room as opposed to those who might be lost in thought or paying attention to something else. In Gmail or Facebook there is the ability to see who of your friends are online right then. I don't know how complicated that would be, but it's an ideal.

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17. Three Issues I found.

    I accidentally hit edit instead of approve for a pending character, then could not go back and change to approve. As a narrator, I should be able to comment, recommend and approve characters at my discretion, not wait for them to notice I hit the wrong button.

    2nd item - In the beginning write up about the game, it would be nice to have a separate notes section that is separate than that which describes the world. If you look at my star wars game, youll see I have appended time stamps with game updates that really don't belong there. So a notes or forum area for players and narrators for a specific game would be nice.

    Third - I made a custom game and didn't populate all the pictures on cards. As players created their characters, they picked these cards. I later updated those cards with images but they are not yet reflected on the pending characters but do show in my game setup. Find that odd.

    I accidentally hit edit instead of approve for a pending character, then could not go back and change to approve. As a narrator, I should be able to comment, recommend and approve characters at my discretion, not wait for them to notice I hit the wrong button.

    2nd item - In the beginning write up about the game, it would be nice to have a separate notes section that is separate than that which describes the world. If you look at my star wars game, youll see I have appended time stamps with game updates that really don't belong there.… more

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    planned  ·  AdminStephen Hood (Co-founder, Storium) responded

    Thanks for this feedback! Issues 1 and 3 will be resolved in our upcoming Gamma, and issue 2 will be part of our public launch!

18. Allow narrators to be user-blind

    It'd be good to have an option to be unable to tell what user created what character. A lot of narrators have friends probably, and it'd help remove bias towards characters because of friends and just focus on how good the character is.

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19. Private Scene Continuation

    One of my characters has just met a tragic fate, or so it seems. I would like to be able to give her a scene continuation that only she can see about where she finds herself, before revealing her cards later if they decide to leave her or if they try and look for her.

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20. Add a true wild card

    I'm finding in one game that having wild strengths as goal rewards is strangely limiting. I know there'll be more reward options in the future, but what if one of those options was a true wild card? The player could set it as strong or weak (or possibly neutral, I suppose) when it's played. That would allow for a LOT more flexibility.

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