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#1 1337DnDMTCn3rd Oct 07, 2011 12:56:50	Social networking is a major part of the Crimson Demon's life. So naturally he has a profile on the outernet. But as the DM I came up with a way to bring the social networking craze to the medieval times. It's a creature that is a book with a face on the cover I call it the Facebook. Inside are blank pages that you can write in what's on your mind and share it with friends who have a book too. To use the Facebook, you tell it a verbal password. This prevents other people from reading and altering it. Say the correct password and the book opens, wrong and it attacks you. a built in organic computer connects the book to the outernet for sharing content. This book is compact enough to carry any where you go. To use it you simply write what's on your mind and your friends can see what you write. It pretty much is Facebook on paper. What do you think?
#2 Fedosu Oct 07, 2011 14:50:51	Why?
#3 Langrishe Oct 07, 2011 16:23:38	The description of this book you have written is stupid. There is a book that does the same thing in the TV show The Legend of the Seeker. In the show a villain has an enchanted book, which he uses to speak with his generals who are across the land on missions. Blood must be used as ink as payment for messages to be written into the books. What appears in one book appears in the other books. 1. Don’t call your book facebook. It’s stupid and unless you’re running a silly game don’t make silly items. 2. You could always change the books so that what is written in one is spoken by the face on the cover of the other book. 3. Are these books intelligent items, brothers perhaps? You could totally make a really cool backstory for the books. If they have been around for ages they could hold valuable information as they passed from King to commoner throughout history. These books would be great in a war storyline. As spies needing to send messages or planning an attack of some kind. Good idea, bad name. Please don't call it Facebook!
#4 Krusk Oct 08, 2011 9:45:59	I don't know that you need to bring the outernet into this. (I forget if you have that intergrated into your entire world or not) Simply say he writes in it, and it magically updates to everyone elses.  To help people who aren't familiar with your setting, have you considered a link in your sig, so people keep it in mind when responding to you?
#5 yronimosw Oct 08, 2011 11:46:40	I think there was a similar device in... I'm wanting to say the TV show Legend of the Seeker - books that the villain could write in to instantly communicate with anyone else holding a similar book, as the words would appear on the pages of both linked books.  I never watched the show very much, but it seemed like that came up as a useful plot device more than once, since it allowed the characters to get a peak into the Big Bad Evil Guy's communication network.  (EDIT:  Langrishe beat me to it!) There also sounds like a bit of Terry Pratchett meets Piers Anthony in the magical version of mundane technology, and a literal Face-Book - it's sort of wacky and would be played up for its magical wackiness in the hands of those authors, and I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work in the right sort of D&D campaign.
#6 yronimosw Oct 08, 2011 12:04:12	...a built in organic computer connects the book to the outernet for sharing content. This book is compact enough to carry any where you go.... ... 2. You could always change the books so that what is written in one is spoken by the face on the cover of the other book. 3. Are these books intelligent items, brothers perhaps? You could totally make a really cool backstory for the books. If they have been around for ages they could hold valuable information as they passed from King to commoner throughout history. Perhaps they are the creations of Necromancers who have bound the magical books in re-animated humanoid skin, giving the undead living faces the power to speak and remember things... I picture something like the Necronomicon Ex Mortis from the Evil Dead film series:
#7 Houndstooth Oct 09, 2011 1:29:21	Why? +1
#8 1337DnDMTCn3rd Oct 09, 2011 16:38:24	I don't know that you need to bring the outernet into this. (I forget if you have that intergrated into your entire world or not) Simply say he writes in it, and it magically updates to everyone elses.   The reason I bring the outernet into this, is so that the denizens of the world can make friends and interact with other intelligent lifeforms across the universe. I personally believe in free interaction amongst all intelligent entities regardless of what they have,what they are, what there class is, or where they live.