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Wesnoth on Liberapay
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Pentarctagon » April 5th, 2019, 2:09 pm
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Greetings!
We are happy to announce that Wesnoth is now able to accept donations on Liberapay . While Wesnoth does rely on the work of dedicated volunteers, no project can function completely cost-free. Revenue from the Apple App Store and from donations goes towards maintaining our servers,...
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[Policy] Community Guidelines — Updated July 28th 2019
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Write clearly, be nice to others, and be very careful when posting anything related to politics or religion. When asking for help, remember that everyone here is a volunteer. Prefer editing your previous post over double posting. No animated avatars or graphical signatures. Don’t plagiarize other’s...
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Welcome to the Writers’ Forum
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Forum Moderators Team » April 8th, 2009, 11:07 am
Welcome to the Writers’ Forum. This is the place to coordinate with other writers on all sorts of Wesnoth-related wordsmithing. Relevant topics include:
The game manual
Storyline prose in the mainline and UMC campaigns
Wesnoth Wiki maintenance
Wesnoth fanfiction
Promotional material
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Poll: do orcs eat humans?
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sergey » April 2nd, 2019, 4:12 pm
There was a discsussion in this topic regarding that orcs in the Wesnoth universe do (or don't) eat human meat. This poll is created to understand what community thinks about that.
Link to a similar poll regarding drakes eating humans
Link to a similar poll regarding dragon eating drakes
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Last post by Tad_Carlucci
Today, 4:45 pm
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An Orcish Incrusion: some questions and ideas
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Aldarisvet » December 4th, 2019, 10:39 am
I want to discuss some issues about An Orcish Incrusion here.
The campaign represents the first direct elvish clash with orcs so this probably important to save this moment of Wesnoth history and not to demainline it but rather rework it.
The campaign has almost no storyline, the only plot line in...
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Last post by gnombat
December 4th, 2019, 4:37 pm
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How is the Kingdom of Wesnoth organised?
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Tom_Of_Wesnoth » July 19th, 2019, 9:45 pm
The Kingdom of Wesnoth is the centre of the Battle for Wesnoth universe, however we actually don't know all that much about how the Kingdom is organised and ruled. The majority of campaigns take place far from the heart of the Kingdom. The South Guard, Liberty, Eastern Invasion and Descent into...
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Last post by AOW
November 27th, 2019, 7:39 pm
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Poll: do drakes eat humans?
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sergey » April 2nd, 2019, 4:17 pm
There was a discsussion in this topic regarding that drakes in the Wesnoth universe do (or don't) eat human meat.
Link to a similar poll regarding orcs eating humans
Link to a similar poll regarding dragon eating drakes
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Last post by AOW
November 27th, 2019, 1:13 pm
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a funny dialect: request for comments
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denispir » November 3rd, 2019, 5:39 pm
Hello, I am presently revamping a short campaign originally written by Elven. My native language is not english (french), Elven's neither (slovakian I guess). I have written a new prelude piece of story, plus a few lines of a new initial scenario (to be completed). An interesting point, also for...
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Last post by lhybrideur
November 12th, 2019, 2:23 pm
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Dunefolk Rework - Unit Descriptions
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ghype » May 27th, 2019, 7:36 pm
As we know have an idea of what the new units are to be called, we now reach the phase to think about their unit descriptions.
Here we provide the final names of the units and marked which of them need descriptions. We also want to investigate, wether some descriptions of the base unit still fid,...
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Last post by Aldarisvet
November 2nd, 2019, 6:50 pm
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Battle for Wesnoth: Heir to the Throne Novel Release
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JamesRichey » October 12th, 2019, 12:27 am
Hello Everyone,
I've enjoyed playing Battle for Wesnoth over a number of years and most notably enjoyed playing the Heir for the Throne campaign, so much so, that I wrote an actual open-source novel based on the campaign. The source code (manuscript) is posted for free as a download on my website...
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Last post by JamesRichey
October 22nd, 2019, 2:30 am
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Need Some People To Make A Campaign
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DEAD-HEAD » August 28th, 2019, 7:52 pm
I want to write story for 17 Scenario(12 Battles,3 Scenes,1 Puzzle as intended) Campaign about Drakes(Nagas+Saurians+Humans) of Morogor(Island between Green Isle and Great Continent) about resettlement just like Prince Haldric said in Peoples In Decline Scenario and also did himself
But I need...
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Last post by Elvish_Hunter
September 2nd, 2019, 9:34 pm
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The Succession in Heir to the Throne
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Tom_Of_Wesnoth » July 19th, 2019, 10:38 pm
I just put together a family tree of the Garardine Dynasty, who ruled the Kingdom of Wesnoth during the events of Heir to the Throne, and realised that the succession seems a little off.
I've put together a version of the family tree that shows the children and grandchildren of Garad I....
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Last post by Tom_Of_Wesnoth
August 11th, 2019, 12:55 pm
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The Fall vs the Great Fall
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sub2pewds » July 27th, 2019, 3:41 am
I was chatting with Octalot and wanted to clarify whether the destruction of Weldyn should be called the Fall or the Great Fall . In the Under the Burning Suns campaign, it is only referred to as the Great Fall , as is found in Across the Harsh Sands , Out of the Frying Pan , and Speaking with the...
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Last post by sub2pewds
July 27th, 2019, 6:59 pm
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The kings of Wesnoth
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Vilebeggar » July 15th, 2019, 8:30 pm
My knowledge of the rulers of wesnoth its pretty vague. So for now we have a spam of kings starting from Haldrick I to all the way to Konrad II (he is the latest king i suppose i don't think there's anyone pass him.) I also know some of the other kings like Gararad I Haldrick the 4th 2nd but thats...
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Last post by Tom_Of_Wesnoth
July 19th, 2019, 10:18 pm
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The Sleepless Sea
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BTIsaac » March 27th, 2018, 9:11 am
So I've just noticed this while looking at the new and old maps in wake of the recent discussions surrounding the Dunefolk, and trying to match them with the plot of Soldier of Wesnoth, one of Revansurik's campaigns, in which the Dunefolk play an important role. This is what I noticed: The story is...
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Last post by Read12
July 13th, 2019, 9:45 am
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Dunefolk Rework - Unit Naming
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ghype » April 3rd, 2019, 9:58 am
Dune Herbalist, Dune Apothecary, Dune Luminary
Dune Herbalist, Dune Alchemist
Dune Soldier, Dune Captain, Dune Emir
Dune Skirmisher, Dune Strider, Dune Harrier
Naga Stabber, Naga Slasher, Naga Executioner
Naga Stabber, Naga Ringcaster, Naga Bladewind
Burner:
As mentioned in the thread,...
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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
July 6th, 2019, 1:08 am
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Elf Inconsistency
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gweddeoran » May 6th, 2019, 2:35 am
In TRoW, Lord Elsomithir is an Elvish Marshal. In LoW, which happens a while after this campaign, he is demoted to an Elvish Hero without 'Lord' as a title. Further, the Council of Elves has glaring inconsistencies when one compares its composition from TRoW to LoW. It can't be that so many of them...
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Last post by sub2pewds
July 5th, 2019, 1:01 am
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Poll: Do dragons eat drakes?
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EarthCake » June 3rd, 2019, 6:24 pm
Hello! I have decided to create this poll to see what people think about this subject! Thanks for some of this go to sergey, who inspired me with his polls!
Links to these polls are here:
This is a poll: Do orcs eat humans?
This is a poll: Do drakes eat humans?
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Last post by josteph
June 12th, 2019, 5:59 pm
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Descent into Darkness revision
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nemaara » January 7th, 2019, 6:37 am
This thread is to discuss dialogue revisions to Descent into Darkness, which is part of a project that can be found here: Any feedback/comments can either be posted here or in this thread: Suggestions are welcome!
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Last post by Vilebeggar
June 3rd, 2019, 8:25 am
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Saurian genders
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Imperios » January 4th, 2019, 10:00 pm
When did the piece of lore that says saurian society is sex-segregated surface, and why hasn't that been taken into account in official campaigns?
If we go by the lore from the wiki, then the Saurian Skirmisher unit line is all female, while the Saurian Oracle line is all male. However, nowhere in...
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Last post by The_Gnat
May 30th, 2019, 9:55 am
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Save the green trolls
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by Argesilao » April 23rd, 2019, 9:24 pm
Is it really a good thing to change the Burin's sentence about the troll in the starting dialogue of the scenario 17c of The Rise of Wesnoth campaign?
The old sencence I indeed do. They are green and mean, and will try to crush you like a bug. They heal very quickly. is the last remaining...
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Last post by Iris
May 10th, 2019, 11:04 pm
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Errors in Mainline Campaigns
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gweddeoran » February 17th, 2019, 3:54 pm
Hello everyone!
It's been a long time since I have posted anything on the forums. Anyhow, after having played a few of the mainline campaigns on harder difficulties than before, I came across a few issues.
The Rise of Wesnoth
1) Several scenarios feature Orcish Warlords with the portraits that...
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Last post by EarthCake
April 23rd, 2019, 9:45 pm
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tfw to stupid to get the plot of the battle for wesnoth
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GiletteAbdi » March 30th, 2019, 2:38 pm
So I recently started playing this game again, and there are a few things about the story, which I don't get.
Where does the great river emerge?
What happened to the Green Island after Haldric I left, did the Orcs stay on the Island or did they went to Wesnoth after him?
What happened to the old...
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Last post by GiletteAbdi
April 21st, 2019, 12:46 pm
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Faerie World
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Elfarion » February 18th, 2013, 6:24 pm
I tried to find a tread with similar content, but I failed. So if this was discussed before, please tell me.
I happen to find references to the Faerie World in canon (like unit description). In some UMC's (IftU, RotW, dunno which else) you can recruit faeries. Derived from what I read, the common...
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Last post by GiletteAbdi
March 30th, 2019, 2:25 pm
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THoT Forbidden Forest objective
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josteph » July 7th, 2018, 12:36 pm
The objective of the THoT scenario Forbidden Forest is Move both Aiglondur and Angarthing to the eastern signpost
I find that unclear since while there is a signpost on the map, the signpost occupies a hex and two units can't occupy the same hex at once. I had to check the WML to figure out what...
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Last post by josteph
March 16th, 2019, 8:54 am
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DiD S12 Easter Egg Poll
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josteph » February 7th, 2019, 7:59 pm
(This thread contains spoilers for the last scenario of DiD.)
nemaara is currently revising DiD (her work will soon be on the add-on server for beta testing). In the last scenario of DiD, Endless Night , Mal Keshar (now a lich) can win in one of two ways: either by letting the Foolish Hero kill...
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Last post by The_Gnat
March 7th, 2019, 6:12 am
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The Grey Eminence - outline for a hypotetical campaign
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BTIsaac » June 9th, 2018, 2:14 pm
So, I've been outlining the story for a possible campaign I might try to make in the future. Of course I need to learn WML for that to happen, but until then, I'd also like to sort out the story and the characters because they're the main reason I'm even considering this.
Background:
The story...
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Last post by BTIsaac
January 5th, 2019, 8:37 am
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Wesnoth Fanfic with Replay
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Aumpa » January 1st, 2019, 7:49 am
The Raid on Clearing
By Vaylon Kenadell
Commissioned by Aumpa Lumlor
Kugdosh and his orcs all laughed when they first heard the challenge.
Emerging from the northern wildlands on one of their raids, the orcish warband had been met by a company of elves and academy mages. A brutal fight ensued....
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Last post by Aumpa
January 1st, 2019, 7:49 am
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Are Dunefolk human?
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Imperios » December 26th, 2018, 12:28 pm
Yeah, this may sound a bit racist, but I am honestly confused. They look exactly like humans, but are considered to be a different race in-game and have non-human vulnerabilities. I am pretty sure that if I smack my Arab groupmate from university, he wouldn't be hurt more than anyone else.
I think...
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Last post by Iris
December 29th, 2018, 3:47 pm
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DiD S1 dialog change
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josteph » December 15th, 2018, 4:55 pm
In Descent into Darkness, at the end of S1 the town sergeant Drogan banishes the protagonist Malin from Wesnoth for having raised Walking Corpses. I submitted a change of dialog, does it look good?
Note the line Goodbye, commander that's being removed isn't in 1.14.5. It was added to have a...
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Last post by josteph
December 23rd, 2018, 3:56 pm
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In-Game help (encyclopedia) - Feedback
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shevegen » May 25th, 2018, 10:28 pm
Not sure if this is the (a) right place to put - if not, please feel free to move this to a corresponding entry.
I have noticed that the in-game encyclopedia is quite nice; in particular clicking on stuff to get more information.
I noticed that there is no explanation for a Zone of Control .
In...
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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
November 14th, 2018, 4:45 am
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Indifference
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eurydike » October 5th, 2018, 11:14 pm
Indifference, that is the cardinal sin of the vampirekind. With the passing times most lose their interest.. in everything. At first, there's all this ordeal about coping with a newly born existence, acquiring sustenance, avoiding the sun, hurrying and rushing from one thing to the next, fear, lust...
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October 8th, 2018, 9:41 am
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