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[atomicbomb]

ummmmmmm.....here?

Guys, if you found something that interesting or funny about the forums, feel free to post it in this thread. Please insert the reference too.

[Zaroth]

Don't forget to make a strict HODOR opponent! (he may be accompanied by a casual HODORist who will actually understand and possibly translate what the strict one's saying for increased comedy value ).

Bonus points if you twist the plot in such a way that some kind of negotiations or truce with him - choosing dialogue options between several intonations of HODOR to get him to understand you (after casual HODORist translator is mysteriously gone, dead, whatever) could be fun and randomly rewarding.

[atomicbomb]

Don't forget to make a strict HODOR opponent! (he may be accompanied by a casual HODORist who will actually understand what he's saying for increased comedy value ).

Bonus points if you twist the plot in such a way that some kind of negotiations or truce with him - choosing dialogue options between several intonations of HODOR to get him to understand you (after casual HODORist translator is mysteriously gone, dead, whatever) could be fun and randomly rewarding.

What's HODOR?

[Alarantalara]

This is HODOR!

It was linked in the previous post, but I couldn't resist

[Zaroth]

@atomicbomb
To appreciate how awesome it is, watch at least a few replays from the linked topic (the recent ones should be from 1.8 release) or some replays by our strict HODORist on the ladder.
Well, maybe not strict by the original topic's definition, because he doesn't rename all his units to HODOR... But it's pretty troublesome to do. However, in WML it's not troublesome at all to make our strict HODORist AI have all his units named HODOR - so you should definitely do this!

A sketchy idea for a scenario (just a random one-shot encounter, to put in campaign during a long travel or between big battles): (these are the events the scenario is based on)

Spoiler:

Noy is angry and afraid that his precious in-joke will get out of the underground he and his friends are trying to contain it in. So, rather than allowing anybody else join the fun, he prefers to destroy his creation - the pure HODOR essence entirely. However, the battle won't be easy, since HODOR already gained supporters - the casual HODORist (Doc Paterson? ). Since the player wants to pass (it's just a random encounter in the wesnoth forum universe, not a big battle such as this holy element discussion), he'll have to truce with either of the sides to get this conflict solved quickly. Both choices of allies should have benefits to make campaign more balanced - although I prefer that moderator's side should be much stronger (and with even more gold to recruit if the player chooses to join HODOR side).

It could result either with loyal HODOR joining your side (and you gaining outlaw recruits, or joined by HODOR unit ) or with Noy/other developer angry that his in-joke is trying to get out to masses By the way, if a loyal HODOR unit (he should probably an ogre/giant to stay true to the original) joined your side, he could really provide you with some insightful comments later in campaign

If you decide to join both HODOR unit and outlaws, make sure that your ability to recruit outlaws disappears if you lose him. Something like that is done in the Sojournings of Grog (maybe part 2) campaign - you have a loyal gryphon king. Should he die, you can't recruit gryphons anymore. Nice idea IMHO. Extreme - you can take away all his recruits and give him only outlaws instead for the later scenarios! (you feel that touching HODOR essence changed you forever)
(of course if Noy/whoever else involved doesn't agree to have their names used in such a way, you can use "angry developer" or something instead)

PS To have the whole picture, you should probably also include confused people asking "what is HODOR?" (players are not always explain it, they'd rather reply simply "HODOR") and trying to work out this "acronym" (I saw/heard an attempt somewhere of Hordes Of Dauntless Outlaws and Rogues ). I don't have a fully grown idea how to include it in the scenario, however. Maybe a confused user faction forced to join the evil moderators if player decides to help HODOR side?

Damn, I can even write the map & WML of this scenario, if you include it in the campaign afterwards

And as for big events in Wesnoth world: however unofficial, foundation of wesnoth ladder is IMHO a big event. After all, it's the home to the best 1v1 competetive Wesnoth players right now. It would probably be an overkill to make a whole scenario based on it - however, e.g. Dauntless can be a powerful neutral force if you need one

Well... I'm probably going a bit off-topic, since it's not about a campaign, but wesnoth forum history. So that's it from me for now, if you like it, I can post more of my ideas later in the correct thread.

[atomicbomb]

And as for big events in Wesnoth world: however unofficial, foundation of wesnoth ladder is IMHO a big event. After all, it's the home to the best 1v1 competetive Wesnoth players right now. It would probably be an overkill to make a whole scenario based on it - however, e.g. Dauntless can be a powerful neutral force if you need one

Thanks for your information!

Well... I'm probably going a bit off-topic, since it's not about a campaign, but wesnoth forum history. So that's it from me for now, if you like it, I can post more of my ideas later in the correct thread.

Discuss history in this thread, and discuss about the campaign there.

EDIT: Wow, your scenario Idea's awesome! I'll try to implement that(of course if I can and if it would not unbalance the campaign)

[Thrawn]

Other memorable things:

Assasin, creator of Dark Elfs, and frequently banned for behavior

Dave being like God from The Dark Materials trilogy [used to be around doing things directly, but now he's kinda faded away, letting others run his kingdom (no word whether or not he is trapped in a big crystal though)].

Cuyo Quiz, a true class (website) clown

Religion threads in OT (see: crushmaster for more recent examples)

Doc Paterson/JW and their many alternate accounts.

[Zaroth]

Dave being like God from The Dark Materials trilogy [used to be around doing things directly, but now he's kinda faded away, letting others run his kingdom (no word whether or not he is trapped in a big crystal though)].

It didn't occur to me until now that Wesnothians should be deists then - a supreme being created the universe and walked away.

Doc Paterson/JW and their many alternate accounts.

Wait... just wait. But Doc and JW are not one person, right? Could you elaborate/give links, please?

[Zerovirus]

Fmunoz's Great Art Revamp as part of the Creation Myth!

And Dave said, "There shall be Light-" When Fmunoz butted in and said "Your Lighting Sucks, Let me do this."

And he did this, and it was good. Until Jetryl showed up. Then it was better.

(Wesnothian Creation Myth, Chapter 1:1)

[Noy]

The final blow came when the Council [of Developers] harnessed their power and banished Turuk's general [Noy] and his lieutenants [irrevenant, Maeglin Dubh, and such].

Wow... when did this happen?!?!?! I'm so in the dark about these things as I'm clearly not a developer and I guess someone forgot to give me the memo...

[Gambit]

Banning you would make a great April fools joke some year.

[neki]

I suggest for this year's first of April you announce me as the new moderators' moderator : that means I should have no power in moderating the players, but I should have unlimited powers in checking the mods are doing their job in a just way. That would be a bigger blast (for the people not having read this post already) than just simply banning Noy4 - that would only be my first step in the continuation of the joke .

And I like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to Noy4 for calling him arrogant. I think a punishment was fair but a 3 weeks ban is a way overzealous decision considering also my involvement with the Wesnoth community. But no hard feelings, Noy, I'll happily wait out the whole 3 weeks ban.

Cheers!

neki

[Iris]

Moving on...

Until Jetryl showed up. Then it was better.

That was much later in Wesnoth’s history IIRC. At least in Wesnoth 0.4.x I see no signs of Jet(h?)r[ey]l’s hand.

Also, you can’t talk about art advances without mentioning Jason Lutes, West, kitty and Eleazar!

[Thrawn]

Doc Paterson/JW and their many alternate accounts.

Wait... just wait. But Doc and JW are not one person, right? Could you elaborate/give links, please?

JW and Doc are different people. They each had alt accounts, like Croc Paterson, a host of "24" characters and other famous figures.

[Zerovirus]

Moving on...

Until Jetryl showed up. Then it was better.

That was much later in Wesnoth’s history IIRC. At least in Wesnoth 0.4.x I see no signs of Jet(h?)r[ey]l’s hand.

Also, you can’t talk about art advances without mentioning Jason Lutes, West, kitty and Eleazar!

And thus my ignorant sprite-focused myopia is revealed as the taint it is!