Just wishing some clarification

[sylvyrdragon]

It was my understanding that if posting a "letter" or "responce" to a post on the "Public board", your character actually had to go there, especially if they are exiled or wanted by the village / area it is being posted in.

Is this still true?

I'm seeing a LOT of letters floating around from and to people that should not be able to easily get them or leave them.

I just need to know so I know what I'm doing.

[Pup]

That's how I have always understood it.  Most likely the DMs haven't had time to do a lot of forum policing.

[Silverfox]

I would assume that they had a lackey of some description put the notice up, or paid a courier to deliver a letter. There're ways & means around everything if you put your mind to it.

[Cerberus]

"Pay" pft... If everybody that wrote a letter actually paid the 60d for ink or even the 39d for all the pretty colors they use and 1d per piece of paper they'd be broke with the amount they write. Let-alone pay a person to deliver the letter.

Lets not even talk about the multi-colored posters they put up that one would think they'd have to get an artistic bard to draw/paint for them...

IMO the DM's should watch for those that send letters places they can't get or leave them places others can find them and simply destroy them for shits and giggles. After all, there are chaotic PC's about that'd just get a kick out of first reading then either trashing or changing wording to letters left laying randomly around. I think DM's should just randomly change wording in those letters occasionally.
:twisted:

But what do I know:rolleyes:

[Gotham]

Invis pots?

[Big Orc Man]

There is a lot of common sense to be used here.

Obviously there's no in-game e-mail, so all message should require some kind of input cost to deliver, but for the sake of game enjoyment, we can hand wave that.

However!  If you are doing public postings, or commenting on public postings, please make sure you can A) ICly be there without NPCs crushing your face (i.e. an exile shouldn't be posting in Mistlocke square without grabbing a DM), and please make sure the message would not have a similar effect (example: posting on Caermyn's front door a message about how Caermyn's men are all cowards without a DM overseeing).

IC forums correspondence allows those with limited playtime or time zones that don't match to maintain connections, etc., but please don't use them in lieu of in-game actions (which are infinitely more interesting).  The IC forums should be a matter of record and convenience, not your primary strategy.

[VanillaPudding]

It's a fantasy world, hundreds of commoners go unrepresented via tangible character models in the game as it is, and certainly a handful of those children (see old stones for a tangible version) or others working as messengers. That's how I've always imagined the personal letters being delivered myself, and the same could likely be applied to public posts. However, common sense should certainly be used as BOM stated, and these people would not likely post city-wide death threats or foolish things for a criminal in the middle of the village.

In that case I think something only mildly imaginative can be applied such as letters floating around the outskirts of the village, handed out by poor children from old stones, or whatever else you might describe in the title / mini emote in the thread to add some flavor.

[Cerberus]

Of course, how silly of me to forget about using the children. I can see them running past the big cats, malar beasts and ogre bandits now... Oh wait, that's right they have invis pots by the score to use to get your letter delivered for free. Or was it that you gave them how much coin for this simple romp through the woods? Or are you saying you pay yet more coin per letter. How much do invis potions go for again? But now I get back to how much each letter would cost to get from point A to point B. And some people abuse it to no end with writing a half dozen replies in twenty minutes RL time.

Sorry, I've just never understood it. IMO it takes away from things that would be better off done IGIC. I've come to terms with it and use it occasionally myself, but it is still a blatantly abused system that I think the DM's could/should use against the players in evil DM ways.

All sarcasm aside I think paying artistic bards to doodle up the "posters" players post would be a fine thing to happen IG. But it'll never happen, because people can do it for free with the system the way it is.

[NetherGonnaGiveYouUp]

For long distance correspondence I think it can be pretty easily assumed you'd use a bird.  Its not all that strange to imagine you could train a raven/hawk/pidgeon or whatever else to fly from X location to Mistlocke and it makes perfect sense.  Also, if you think bards should make cool posters for people, then do it, even when I've offered large rewards for that sort of thing in past its not been met with wild enthusiasm.