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Hopefully nobody's going to decide now, after over 16 years of development, that this was done in the name of "political correctness" and that it's holding us back. If you don't want me - and others - to make that judgment, perhaps you should stop speaking and behaving exactly as though i...

I got a message on IRC about the deletion of these campaigns. I was involved in the adaptation of AOI for mainline and wrote much of the background lore for WOV, so I have some stake in the matter. As a general thing, I don't necessarily object to campaigns being removed for low quality. I produced ...

Forty years ago, the ultimate ancestor of Wesnoth first shipped. Colossal Cave Adventure, the very first text adventure game. Primitive but groundbreaking and memorable, it has never quite been forgotten since. It was the direct inspiration for Zork, and for Nethack and the whole family of roguelike...

wmllint's author speaking:

Congratulations - you are now the maintainer of wmllint. Do you have commit access to the repo?

Campaign author here. All the suggestions for symbols made so far work for me. These dwarves are racist xenophobes. Artists should think of them as a dwarven equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan and design symbols appropriately. For example, a blazing torch would also work. Also bear in mind that by choos...

Good points have been raised here. I have patched EI so Konrad is present and has the Sceptre in the EI siege scenarios.This shouldn't even really be a balance issue as the player will already have had access to high-level mages; to make players a little more careful I have made death of the King an...

Hmmm. I named the Listra, and you're probably right that the Paratime books were behind it. But, happily, I know H. Beam Piper's literary executor slightly - not FTF but we've exchanged email. I think I can keep him off the project's neck.

Thanks, I've incorporated those suggestions.

Elves are faerie and apparently from a faerie dimension. No. Elves are in contact with faerie, and not all of them. It is nowhere written that they are "from" faerie; there are no in-canon hints about their origin. My speculation (which is not canon) is that they're descended from a group...

K is for kilo, the metric term referring to one thousand of something. I think that was what he was trying to say. Then you also have "Gs" which is American slang for a thousand dollars (from one thousand "grand") Mountain_King is correct, 1 Kyear = 10^3 years = 1000 years. In c...

Depends whether you want half-elves to have unique sprites or not ;) I know this was half a joke, but the serious answer is "no". Except for the pointed ears, elves and humans don't actually look very different. I had an IRC conversation with someone about this a while back. The following...

I doubt it's particularly unrealistic for elves and humans to be attracted to one another, given how similar they are in appearance and secondary sexual characteristics, but making them interfertile seems the wrong decision to me. For world-continuity purposes, there's not much distinction between ...

OK, I'm putting on my Mr. Continuity Guy hat.... I think everyone agrees that lots of half-breeding in Wesnoth is a bad idea. I think the world would look noticeably different if it were common, like with a significant population of human/orc halfbreeds in regions where orc raids are common. Nobody ...

OK, I've done the text merge. Your new backstory - the tension between the brothers and the debacle at Toen Caric - has gone in whole. That was good thinking and good storytelling. With some very nice touches - Arne's echo of Bjarn's early line "You be the right hand, I'll be the left" jus...

Lord of Prose here. This rewrite is good stuff. I'll probably merge it into TB, adding archaisms and rephrasing where needed.