Creating Your Account & Setting Up Your Profile

This guide walks through registration, logging in, and the first round of profile setup that makes you legible to GMs and fellow players.

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; they're not casual, so it's worth getting close to right the first time.)
• Email address — Used for login, password recovery, and email notifications.
• Password — Strong is good. 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, not a CV.

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's appended 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 — 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 — 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 three editor modes, switchable per-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 correctly, and you can still write in BBCode if that's your home — it's just not one of the three default mode toggles. See The Post Editor for the 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 is the default.
• Available — kept in the editor's mode switcher so you can switch to it per-post, but it isn't your default.
• Hidden — removed from the mode switcher entirely. Set the modes you never use (say, Markdown and BBCode) to Hidden to declutter the toolbar.

You can't hide your default mode, and hiding a mode never affects existing posts — editing a post always offers whatever mode it was written in, so you can still open and tweak an old BBCode or Markdown post even if that mode is hidden.

Quick Reply

Also in Account Settings > Editor: "Open the Quick Reply box automatically when a topic loads." On by default — the Quick Reply box at the bottom of a topic is open and ready. Turn it off if you'd rather it start collapsed (it then expands when you click its header, or when you quote a post), which keeps long topics from pushing the reply box down the page. Either way, expanding a collapsed box drops your cursor straight into the editor.

Mode-switch warning

Switching a post between modes can change some formatting — most notably, going from HTML to Rich Text drops markup the visual editor can't represent. By default, switching pops a confirmation that lists what may be affected. If you switch modes constantly and don't need the reminder, tick "Don't show this again" in that confirmation, or toggle "Don't warn me before switching editor modes" in Account Settings > Editor. Switches then happen immediately. Re-enable the warning any time from the 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.