Creating Your Account & Setting Up Your Profile

This guide walks through registration, logging in, and the first round of profile setup that allows you to sign up for games or run your own.

Registering

Click Get Started or Register on the landing page. You'll provide:

• Username — Your identity on Myth-Weavers. It appears on every post you write, your profile, and everywhere else you show up. Pick one you can live with for a while. (Rename requests are possible later via the username change flow; it is important to pick a good one the first time though, name changes can be lengthy.)
• Email address — Used for login, password recovery, and email notifications.
• Password — A strong password is recommended. For added security, you can layer two-factor authentication on later — see Account Settings.

Once registered you're logged in and dropped at the home page.

Logging in

Click Login in the navigation bar. Username or email, plus password. If you've set up two-factor authentication, you'll be prompted for a TOTP code after the password.

Forgot your password? Forgot Password on the login page sends a reset link to your registered email.

Setting up your profile

Hit Account Settings from the nav menu and select the Profile section.

Profile picture

Three paths, in priority order:

1. Upload an avatar — Recommended. Click "Upload New Avatar" and pick a square image (at least 200×200px, 2 MB max). Faces, character portraits, or memorable symbols all work; pick what feels like you.
2. Gravatar fallback — If you don't upload anything, Myth-Weavers looks up your email on Gravatar.
3. Generated initials — If neither is available, an avatar is generated from your username's initials.

"Remove Avatar" reverts you back down the fallback chain anytime.

About Me

A few sentences in the About Me field goes a long way for GMs evaluating applications. Hobbies, what games you've enjoyed, what kind of stories pull you in, how patient you are with scheduling. It's a vibe-check, so that others can see if they match up with your interests.

The About Me uses the rich text editor, so you can drop in links, lists, and basic formatting.

Signature

Below About Me, the Signature card lets you write a short block that appears below every one of your posts. The signature editor supports all four editing modes, (Rich Text, Markdown, HTML, or BBCode) so you can pick whichever you're comfortable with. Whichever mode you save in is the format the signature stays in until you edit it again.

Some etiquette:

• Keep it short. Long signatures repeat on every post you make and quickly become visually noisy. A line or two is plenty. Readers can turn signatures off entirely in their Content preferences if they find them distracting.
• Don't put critical information in your signature. Anyone with signatures disabled (or anyone reading on a narrow mobile viewport that collapses them) won't see it.
• Imported signatures from the old site are preserved. If you had a signature on Baldr, it's already loaded, and you can edit it from the same card. Imported BBCode signatures will open in BBCode mode by default; imported HTML signatures in HTML mode.

If you'd rather not see your own signature on every post you make, the Hide my signature on my own posts switch in Content preferences hides it from you alone, and other readers still see it normally.

Choosing your editor mode

Still in Account Settings, the Editor section is where you pick your default posting mode.

Myth-Weavers ships with three editor modes, and you can switch between them on any given post:

• Rich Text (default, recommended) — A WYSIWYG editor with toolbar buttons for formatting, images, tables, and the PBP-specific blocks (OOC, spoilers, whispers, fieldsets). Best for most writing.
• Markdown — Standard Markdown syntax with a live preview pane. Comfortable if you've been writing for GitHub, Reddit, or Discord for years.
• HTML — Raw HTML in a textarea, for when you want full control over the markup. Sanitized on submit.

Legacy BBCode posts carried over from the old site still render perfectly, and you're free to keep writing in BBCode if that's where you feel at home. It just isn't one of the three default mode toggles. See The Post Editor for the full BBCode reference.

In Account Settings > Editor each mode has three settings:

• Default: the mode every new post, reply, and edit opens in. Exactly one mode holds this spot at a time.
• Available: kept in the editor's mode switcher so you can flip to it on a per-post basis, even though it isn't your default.
• Hidden: taken out of the mode switcher altogether. Set the modes you never touch (Markdown and BBCode, say) to Hidden and your toolbar gets that much tidier.

You can't hide your default mode, and hiding a mode never touches your existing posts. Editing a post always offers up whatever mode it was written in, so you can still open and tweak an old BBCode or Markdown post even when that mode is hidden from the switcher.

Quick Reply

Also tucked into Account Settings > Editor is "Open the Quick Reply box automatically when a topic loads." It's on by default, so the Quick Reply box at the bottom of a topic sits open and ready for you. Turn it off if you'd rather it start collapsed, in which case it expands when you click its header or when you quote a post. That keeps long topics from pushing the reply box way down the page. Either way, expanding a collapsed box drops your cursor straight into the editor, ready to write.

Mode-switch warning

Switching a post between modes can shift some of its formatting. The clearest example is going from HTML to Rich Text, which drops any markup the visual editor can't represent. So by default, switching pops up a confirmation that spells out what might be affected. If you switch modes constantly and don't need the nudge, tick "Don't show this again" in that confirmation, or flip "Don't warn me before switching editor modes" over in Account Settings > Editor. Switches will then happen instantly, and you can bring the warning back anytime from that same setting.

Next steps

Now that your account is in shape, Finding and Joining a Game is the next page. If you're returning from the old site, Welcome Back from Baldr covers the migration specifics.