Guides

If you've never heard of Kanka before, it's really neat!  Here is a youtube video that gives an overview!

I can see your full name!

If you signed into Kanka using an account that shows your full name, then your full name might be displayed here.  To change that, you can get to your user profile by clicking the button that looks like a little guy in the top right of your screen.

The best way to learn Kanka...

... is to click around and explore and see where things are!  Mobile users, be sure to hit the three-line button in the top left to bring out the sidebar.  

The Explore page tells you all about the different places on the island.  That link can also be found in the #information channel and in the sidebar here on the Kanka site.

If you would like to describe a character's house, business, favorite tree to climb, favorite stream to swim in, or really any location whatsoever, we highly encourage that and even provide rewards for it! All you have to do is provide either a) a picture and 50+ words, or b) 150+ words. Just drop it in the appropriate thread in #submissions. Once it's approved, we'll then put it in Kanka for you so that anyone can find or use that location!

Scene Circumstances

If a scene meets both requirements, they don't stack. It does stack with anything not on this list.

• Join an open scene.  This one's very easy.  When someone throws their character out there somewhere and marks their scene as "open," meaning anyone can join on a whim, hop into their scene! 1xp for the character you used. 
• Do a scene with a player that you've never RPed with before.  Whenever your character does a scene with another for the first time, please make a note of it in your journal.  Only RP threads (within the RP category, or in an event RP thread) count, phone/internet communication does not count.  1xp for a character of your choice. 

Staff: If your NPC starts or joins and open scene, or helps someone introduce their character, then you can apply the reward to a PC of your choice. 

Tasks you can do

• Make a Backstory Connection. Each character must make at least 3 connections. 1xp each. 
• Make or join an Organization. It doesn't have to be something formal, just anything that gives three or more PCs a reason to regularly meet up. 1xp per join.
• Offscreen Actions can give xp, and certain effects can give others xp.  Failed rolls for offscreen actions also give xp as normal. 
• Advertise. If you're a member of a community where you can advertise for us, show us a screenshot.  Please respect all rules and etiquette that other communities might have with respect to advertising.  We have some pre-written ads for your convenience, but if you prefer to write one yourself, feel free! (Any medium would qualify: discord, reddit, etc.) 1xp per ad.
• Refer a friend. Claim this reward once they finish making their first character.  5xp divided between your characters however you wish. 
• Describe a location.  It can be anything: where your character lives or works, a spot in the wilderness, somewhere within one of the towns, a nice spot for a date, a place everyone is afraid to go.  Please provide either a) a picture and 50+ words, or b) 150+ words.  Once it's approved, we'll then put it where it needs to go so that anyone can use that location.  3xp to a character of your choice, if approved. Admins don't qualify. 

Things that happen within scenes

• Apply or yield to Leverage. typically 1xp
• Some Features award experience for certain circumstances. typically 1xp
• Some failed rolls. If your margin of failure with a skill is 5 or more, (even on an opposed roll), you learn from your mistake and immediately gain one XP to put toward the skill you just rolled.  If you fail by 8 or more, you also learn something about yourself, so you also gain an additional XP that can be spent on anything now or later. 
• RPC. Earn experience for random challenges! 3xp. 
• Scene Reflections. Click here for information. 1xp. 

Roleplaying is fun, but it can be taxing or even stressful. Take a break if you need it, and remember that you only need to play if you Can and Want To. 

We recommend using good grammar and spelling for ease of comprehension, but we have no strict style requirements. Just have fun with it, and make sure other people can read it too.

To communicate tone of voice, we recommend using discord's formatting features. *Italics* are used by some players to represent non-dialogue actions, and often to emphasize euphemistic dialogue. **Bold** text is used for emphasizing loud or powerful dialogue or actions. ||Spoilers|| can be used to denote speech that not everyone in a scene can hear or understand. If it's spoken in another language, make sure to mention what language. 

(Parentheses) and [Brackets], as well as ((doubles)) of [[either]], are general use for Out Of Character comments made during a scene or during another discussion. Treat it like a sidebar, and use the OOC channels for major discussion. A quick question or comment or bit of extra information is okay in the RP channels as long as it's clear that it's OOC, but anything beyond that needs to go to another channel, likely #rp-commentary.

There are three pieces to a good post. If you're ever wanting to add more, these are some good things to consider adding.  Some posts might skip one of these, some posts might have a sentence or more for each one, and some posts might even have a paragraph for each one, depending on your style! 

1. Your character notices what is going on around them or what others are doing, whether it's details in the environment or something that happened in someone else's recent post. 
2. Your character has thoughts or feelings about what is going on around them or what others are doing/saying. 
3. Your character does or says something that gives your scene buddy something to respond to. This is the most important piece.

You can add images to Kanka in multiple locations. You might want an image for your character, or to describe a location in a post. Kanka has a file size limit of around 8 MB, so make sure any images you upload fit under that.

In order to add an image to your character or add a post, you select either "Edit" or "New Post" from the top right selection. 

Enter the file or URL for the image you want to use for your character. If inserting an image into a text field, look for the BBcode tools at the top of the field, then enter the file or URL you wish to use.

Sample character page

How to add images while editing a character

How to add images while editing a post

You are always welcome to unarchive threads that were archived.  If they had an option to keep them open forever, we'd use that, but Discord doesn't do that. =[ 

Questions and Help

• Any questions
• Lore and Setting
• Discord
• Kanka
• FAST Mechanics

Submissions

• Bad Features
• Other
• Locations
• Templates

Journals

Join the journal threads of any characters you're interested in! 

Character Creation

We recommend staying in the Backstory Connections thread forever, so that you are aware of new players looking for connections. 

Backstory connections

Texting

Join any threads here that you want to OOC listen in on! 

Social Media

These channels work best if everyone joins them! 

• IC memes
• Image Uploads & Comments
• Newsfeed

Discord

Join the ones that are relevant to your character for sure, but also join any that you want to OOC listen in on. 

• SBU Dobar-chu GF Team
• OBrien 2&3
• D&D Group

RP Channels

Join any threads you want to OOC listen on. Some people like to just join them all! 

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Dash Delta

Dash Delta has some useful things stored in it via the -tag command.  For example, you can see at the bottom right of this post that you can find it again later by doing -tag bots. Tags have to be added to the bot before they can be used in this way.  You can use the command -addtag tagname content to store a tag at any time. You can also see what tags exist in the server by doing -taglist. 

You can quickly pull up information on how to use Dash to do dice rolls by typing -tag rolling.  

Dash Delta commands.

Dice Maiden

This bot was added because Dash Delta currently doesn't work in threads.  If you wish to roll dice within your scene thread, you can use Dice Maiden to do so.  For example, to roll with a skill level of 10, do this: 

!roll 10-3d6

Probot

Probot does a variety of things, but players don't need to worry about it. 

Ub3r

Ub3r does a lot of cute fun things.  The .quote command is also handy and we'll be using that for RPC.  Ub3r commands.

Modmail

Use this bot if you would like to speak to staff about something that can't be handled in a public channel.  Simply send a DM to the bot itself to get started, it will walk you through the process. 

Each time you make a consume an alcoholic beverage, make a Poison Tolerance roll with a penalty equal to the number of drinks you've had!  If you fail, you move onto the next step:

• (None)
• Buzzed
• Tipsy
• Fluthered
• Shitfaced

These can be found under Templates as Statuses.  When you move from one step to another, leave the previous one checked. They are meant to be stacked on top of each other!  And by the way, the penalty to Poison Tolerance that the status gives you increases each time...

The next day, there is also a status for Hungover, which you can select and deselect when you decide it makes sense for your character. 

Cheers!

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Basics

An "Organization" doesn't necessarily have to be a formal entity.  It can be really any group of people that has some kind of reason to be in the same place somewhat regularly.  If you create an organization, you and anyone who joins it gain 1xp, and you may want to create a thread in #discord to represent a discord server for it.  Here are the requirements:

• Describe the organization.
• There must be at least three characters (including yours) that want to join it. 

Now, what if your character is the only one with any interest in being a member of an online stamp-collecting club, but there aren't two other characters wanting to do that?  Of course you can still say that you character is a member of some online stamp-collecting club, you just don't get the XP for it.  Any type of organization can exist in the story, but it only awards xp if there are at least three characters wanting to be a part of it. 

Cliques

Cliques are a special type of organization.  They have more stringent requirements, and there are benefits to being in them. A clique represents a tight-knit group of people who have a deep bond, can finish each other's sentences, think on the same wavelength, and will do anything to look out for each other. Like other organizations, you gain 1xp when you join a clique.

RPC is not ready to go yet, but we will get it up and running shortly.  Click the spoiler below to find out (more or less) how it's going to work.