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Adding levels of strength and weaknesses.
Instead of having a flat strength or weakness power level you could instead have it as a level system in terms of:
-Major
-Normal
-MinorThese cards would help to give more options to players and narrators with how they react to situations. These levels would also have different impacts on challenges, for example playing a major strength card would fill in two or three pips instead of just one since its a major card while a minor card would only act as either an equalizer to negative cards or fill in one pip.
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Have separate sections for Narrator and Player Play Preferences
The addition of play preferences to profiles is great, but it would be more useful we could separate "how we run games as narrators" from "what games we're willing to play."
For example, as a narrator I pretty much always run as a single narrator with custom house rules and a flexible collaboration style. On the other hand, as a player, I'm completely to open to trying games with rotating narrators, or that emphasize character and plot over gameplay (or vice versa), and with various collaboration styles.
So I'd like to have the option to say "This is how I…
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Add an Inactive Category for Cast
Our longtime game has had some retired characters but some people drift off for for long periods. I don't want to retire them without their request but would like to sideline them so they aren't cluttering the active list of cast members. It could also move them out of the activity summary.
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create a filing or tagging system for cards.
I'm running a pretty detailed story, and I'm finding that even though I've only set up for the first two scenes, I have more cards than is easy to keep track of. Right now I'm maintaining them in a spreadsheet, but it would be nice to have some kind of filing or tagging system where, when I'm setting a scene, I can search for all the cards that belong to that "group" rather than having to manually figure it out from the pile in my narrator screen.
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Add functionality buttons to the mobile site
Hi! Because of my work schedule, I often find myself using my phone to play Storium rather than a computer. I've noticed that when using a mobile, long scenes can become quite frustrating to scroll through. It would be extremely convenient if there were two buttons at the top, middle, and bottom of the page. At the top of the page, one would take you to the most recent move while the other takes you to the most recent comment. Similar buttons for the middle and bottom of the page, except the appropriate button is swapped with one that takes…
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Visiting private games while not signed in should present the sign-in screen.
Today if you follow a link from your email while not signed in, you get a 404 which 1) is not very helpful and 2) should probably be a 401 or a 403 instead.
I think this would be less startling if it either redirected you to log in or presented a better error code. Seeing the 404 makes me assume the link is broken.
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Stay on and display challenge card you just saved & date cards
When I create and save a challenge card on the game page in a narrator move it goes into the deck and the card display is cleared. Then I have to go hunt the (large long!) deck of challenge cards and try to remember what I just named that card to find it, select it for re-display in order to edit further or play it. Please leave the current card displayed.
Perhaps some kind of indicator of the date a card was created and the ability to sort by date as well as alphabetically would be super useful. Then I…
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add more photo storage.
Our characters are from an MMO that allows an almost infinite number of character costumes and appearances. It'd be great fun to be able to add multiple "looks" for our characters: work, play, and so on. AND to be able to see more than the tiny avatars.
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There should be more profile settings
There should be a way to update your age range for when you "graduate" from one into another. As of now it seems you would have to make a new account to update your age range.
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Improve wild card creation on mobile devices
I find that on Android phones (this problem may exist on other types of phones, but since I don't own one, I can't verify this) creating or editing a Wild card is impossible, as the "Confirm" button is so far to the right that it is off the screen, leaving a sliver of a button visible, but not big enough to actually allow you to hit it. Rotating the phone doesn't help, as it just keeps the same framing and increases the resolution. If the Confirm button were left-aligned rather than right-aligned, that would probably be enough to fix this.
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Implement Competitive Challenges
There are some parts of Storium that use fights between two player characters as a way to push the story a bit. However, it is clear that the narrator has to create some sort of system in order to implement this system.
So I suggest this: what if we assign cards "points"? Let's say that each strength and weakness card has 2 points. Weakness subtracts two points from the character who played the card, while strength does the opposite. The points of goal, subplot and asset cards are left up to the narrator. Whoever puts up the most points wins…
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Add options to change text/text box colour
Or something to allow for more accessibility with posts. Something to help people with dyslexia, colour blindness and light sensitivity.
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Forever Offline Characters
If a character is offline for more than about 2 months without vacation mode on, you should hand off all the characters in the games that they were in, that way the hosts/narrators can continue the game. I've had several of these issues, and I'm sure many other people have too.
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Allow players to attach a location card to a post
In this way if there are multiple things going on at different locations, each one having a card, a player can easily mark their post as taking place at a certain location in a visual way that other players and narrators can tell at a glance, rather than the narrator having to force players to use certain headers in their posts and go around hand-slapping all the time.
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Provide for uploads via URLs as well as local files
It would be nice if there was an option to paste a URL instead of always uploading an image. (I've gotten comfortable with Imgur's ease of pasting.)
3 votesGreat idea, we’ll figure out a way to do this. Thanks!
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Make the purpose of card stacks clearer.
When adding cards to a scene, it's difficult to understand what the number of cards in a stack means -- either as narrator or player.
As a narrator, I thought my players would be able to split the stacks. As players, they thought they'd be able to take as many as they wanted. Seems like the reality is between, where a player must take an entire stack if they take anything?
3 votesThanks for this feedback. We used to have more language in the product explaining this but removed it because users complained it was too much. Guess we took it too far. :) We’ll figure out a better way to explain this!
As for the specifics, a stack of cards can’t be divided. Each card in the stack is a time that the player can use it in a scene. So an Asset with 5 cards can be used 5 times before it is no longer available.
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Provide more guidance about narrative contributions
I know it's early days, so I'm thankful for as much help as you already have. That said, it's really hard to play without some guidance about what sort of authority or liberty individual players are supposed to take with the narrative on their turns. It feels like a good way to play would be to make some short moves without playing cards to get a feel for a scene ("free roleplay" if you will) and then start making moves with mechanical punch. In any case, telling us how you play, or how you intend the game to be played…
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provide option to include your own comments/moves in Notifications.
Sometimes there is so much activity shown in my Notifications that it's difficult to keep track of when certain comments or moves happened in relation of my own comments and moves. It would be nice to have the option to show my own comment/move notifications among all of the others in my feed.
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Replace Icons with Thumbnails
Storium does a great job encouraging you to find evocative images to add to cards. But you can't see the image unless you click on the card. I put the effort into finding the right image, I want that image to replace the little target/bag/flag icon so I know the players won't miss it and will see that there's something new when I make an update.
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Private story notes
Describing reasons for existance, future plot ideas, in general things that should be hidden from players.
3 votes
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