https://forum.obsidianportal.com/categories/campaign-portal-building/p44/feed.rss Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:51:32 +0000 Campaign Portal Building Discussions on Obsidian Portal Community Forums en-CA https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1463/can-players-see-the-npc-s-crunch Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:49:25 +0000 Peter_Vande_Weyer 1463@/discussions
sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm new on this forum.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/881/question-about-premium-accounts Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:04:49 +0000 Annadeus 881@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1457/table-background-help Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:17:30 +0000 praxisnz 1457@/discussions
I'm having some issues with HTML that refuses to behave.

I'm trying to get a "torn parchment" edge to overlay over a repeating background parchment pattern. I've noticed that in most cases, image borders are usually done as a table with the sides and corners as separate cells. I made something like this in Dreamweaver, and it seems to display properly, but after copying the text to the wiki's HTML editor, it doesn't work as expected.

This is the "wiki page":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/luren/wikis/lorum-ipsum I've been testing it on.

I've already noticed that the background image attribute for tables doesn't work, so i've had to add it via a div tag. The html's included below. It should give a better idea of what it's SUPPOSED to look than the mess that is the wiki page. The white space in the border images is meant to cover the background of the div completely, with the transparent centre giving the parchment a torn appearance. But for that to work, the images would need to sit flush with one another.

So the main issues I'm having are:
Cell spacing seems remain, giving a border along the outside and between the cells. I've stated cellspacing="0" but the spacing refuses to go.
Secondly, since the "background" style doesn't work within tables, would anyone have any ideas on how I could get the horizontal and vertical borders to tile properly?

I would just use a single image as a background in a div, or for that matter a top, repeating middle, and bottom, but I would like to apply this basic template to other pages of various height and width.
This way seems a little more versatile, I think.
If anyone knows of any campaigns that got this to work, just a link would be more than enough to start me on the right track and would be much appreciated.

Thanks, everyone.















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You see, I have that image (the parchment with writing already in it) that I want to make the WHOLE background. I have read the existing forum posts (kudos and thanks to ChainsawXIV, Sandman, Ahsheesh, Gnunn, et al) and have learned a LOT.

However, there is a bit more lacking. First, I think, is my knowledge. I do not know CSS and my HTML is sorely lacking. Textile is pretty easy, but not strong enough to do what I need it to. I have examined the potential of "slicing" it, with little luck. Also messing with the paddings and so forth yield little. The best I've been able to do is fill the body with about 12 of the following:

TEST




Hardly an elegant solution, though it does allow me to see more of the background.

Any solutions?

Also, my Wiki page. I am attempting to convert the table (courtesy Gnunn) to IMAGES. Again, no love. Any ideas? Also, whomever it was that provided those free buttons, THANKS!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/442/changing-the-font-color-in-the-wiki Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:13:21 +0000 Taria 442@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/421/calling-on-all-css-savvy-web-designers-create-your-own-campaign-theme Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:32:37 +0000 Micah2 421@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1402/textile-help Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:28:01 +0000 Fluke 1402@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1424/publishing-character Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:37:55 +0000 Frogger 1424@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1422/implementing-player-journals-other-questions Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:59:18 +0000 dragnsteph 1422@/discussions
To that end, some of my players would like to keep in-character journals on the site. I'm not sure of the best place to implement this. Can all my players edit the wiki? Would it be simplest to just put a link from the wiki home page, by the names of the ones that want it, that just says "Journal" and let them go to town and keep it there? Or are the forums better suited? I'm not entirely clear on how the Adventure Log is different from the forums, however I had intended to use it as sort of a DM Summary area.

Still trying to wrap my head around all the options we have here! I signed up for Ascendant so I could have forums, those seem invaluable. Also, if someone has a minute or two to explain the "Dynamic" character sheet stuff, and if that's available to me (4E D&D campaign) that would be great - what exactly does that do for me?

Last question (for now) -- is there some way to import files from the WotC character builder or monster files? I saw Chainsaw's D&D Tools and those look great, but it looks as if I would need to create all the characters by hand, then level them by hand, is that accurate? If that's the best way to keep them on the site I will do it, but if there is another option I'd love to know :)

Thanks, sorry for all the questions - Still learning my way around and stumbling a bit.

Stephanie

My campaign: http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/day-of-fates]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1409/character-tab-help-required-please Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:50:21 +0000 atem55 1409@/discussions
I have created my campaign, added a intro ,updated the log a couple of times etc.

I've also added my 5 PC's to the characters section and changed ownership to the registered individual, however, the player is unable to see the character sheet 'crunch' that i have added for him. I, as the GM, am also unable to see the sheet unless i paste it into the 'Secret GM only' section, is this right? Or am i doing something wrong? The exact same code is pasted in the player section as is in the GM section, but he can see nothing :(

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

I have reposted this from General discussion section, apologies, should have posted here first.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1407/commented-html-or-textile-code Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:30:56 +0000 Gravedigga 1407@/discussions
On to my question: in order to help organize and parse my piles of HTML, I wanted to add comments to the code. You know, like this:

@@

Instead, my comments are appearing on my wiki pages as strike through text. You know, like -this-. I'm guessing it is something with the Textile parser the site uses, but I don't know what I am talking about. I checked my page source, and this:

@@

was turned into this:

@- This is a comment and should be invisible when the browser parses the HTML ->
@

Which is obviously not what I want. Other than using text that is the same color as the background (a shameful super hack), does anyone have any ideas how to get properly commented code to show up without its comments on the page? Oh, I also tried the CSS comment syntax:

@/* This is a comment and should be invisible when the browser parses the HTML */@

And that didn't work either. Thanks for the help.

-Gravedigga

PS: the page with the problem is my "creature catalog":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/new-campaign/wikis/creatures that has some obvious help from ChainsawXIV's "monster card tool":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/sanction/wikis/templates-and-tools. Thanks!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1379/campaign-home-page-problem Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:53:01 +0000 Fluke 1379@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1388/how-to-delete-maps Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:20:44 +0000 Abaddon 1388@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1363/making-column-widths-equal Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:06:21 +0000 Kurayami 1363@/discussions
I appreciate any help or tips.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1375/new-shard-system Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:48:52 +0000 Fluke 1375@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1368/can-i-stay-logged-in-with-openid Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:04:50 +0000 pateras 1368@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1360/problem-with-bulleted-lists-in-safari Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:48:13 +0000 BiggerBoat 1360@/discussions
My campaign site is in beta/building mode so I've had it private, but I've made it public if anyone would care to give the wiki a look and help me sort out a solution. It's not a deal-breaker, but it's bothersome.

"http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/18415/wikis/main-page":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/18415/wikis/main-page

Here's a screenshot of how it looks in Safari:

"http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2050/safariu.jpg":http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2050/safariu.jpg

Thanks!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1356/best-way-to-put-stat-blocks-from-ddi-monster-builder-into-my-wiki-page Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:37:58 +0000 Firesnakearies 1356@/discussions
Thanks!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1355/css-for-forms Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:06:37 +0000 brainycat 1355@/discussions
I've looked at some of the HTML and tried to use the UserStyles plugin to change the colors to something usable, but so far no dice. I have too much going on right now to spend a lot of time on trying to make it work.

If you can't specify the font color for text inputs, could you please enumerate the classes and/or ids you use to color the fields?

Thanks!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1354/more-tag Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:17:47 +0000 gaaran 1354@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1347/image-lightbox-possible-on-wiki Thu, 27 May 2010 18:46:59 +0000 henrik 1347@/discussions Is it possible to use some sort of lightbox-like feature in the wiki? Using the script for the image upload dialog maybe? Ideally I would like to click an image thumbnail in the wiki and see a larger image without leaving the page.

Thanks.

-Henrik]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1170/changes-to-pcs-npcs-characters-can-t-figure-out-how-to-make-a-character Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:13:01 +0000 Micah2 1170@/discussions
*To Make A Character*

Go to the "Characters" tab in one of your campaigns and click on the "Create New Character" button. Easy to do, even if it is different from before.

If you'd like to know more, read "the full description on our blog.":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/?p=13

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1348/side-by-side-tables Fri, 28 May 2010 06:22:12 +0000 Joettle 1348@/discussions
Thanks!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1340/scheduling-issues Thu, 20 May 2010 20:51:36 +0000 munkybut 1340@/discussions
The best part of Doodle is that you don't have to sign up for anything! Just click schedule event and get to planning!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1331/linking-to-characters Mon, 17 May 2010 06:53:25 +0000 Hedron 1331@/discussions
Is there a way to have a link to a PC's page using his character image as a link?

Ideally, the wiki page references the PC's page, looks for an image, then has that there, and if the image is clicked, it loads the PC's page.

This is for an idea I have had rolling around for awhile, just need some help with the implementation

Cheers]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1328/good-artwork-repositories Fri, 14 May 2010 17:21:41 +0000 JimTriche 1328@/discussions
I need images for....

Alright, easiest way would be to explain the background here:

EDIT - CENSORED - EDIT

So, can anyone help a struggling GM?]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1321/how-to-find-face-to-face-players Tue, 11 May 2010 04:25:24 +0000 daddystabz 1321@/discussions
Thanks in advance!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1300/co-gm-can-see-gm-only-npcs-but-cant-edit-them Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:15:52 +0000 Sabotender 1300@/discussions I promoted him to Co-GM, and now he can see the GM stuff, and the GM NPCs, but he cant look at them or edit them, it says he is not Authorized.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1298/online-gaming Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:16:13 +0000 jemmasmum 1298@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1296/looking-for-critiquing-constructive-criticism Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:52:55 +0000 JimTriche 1296@/discussions
Basically, I'm asking what I can do to make this better. Right now I've tried to tie everything together with a theme, I've gotten some massive html help from the illustrious ChainsawXIV, some massive Textile help from Gnunn, and various tidbits from others.

After looking at a few people's campaigns here and a lot of thought, I've simply decided to ask.

GMs: What would you do, to enhance this or whatnot?
Players: Is there enough general fluff and entertainment for your personal tastes? What do you like to see? Maybe my players will like some of the same things.

Shadowrun experience a plus.

If this isn't the right place for this, let me know where or tell me I'm a bad, bad person.

Cheers!
-Jim]]>