https://forum.obsidianportal.com/categories/general-archive/p3/feed.rss Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:24:01 +0000 General Archive Discussions on Obsidian Portal Community Forums en-CA https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3571/differences-between-preview-and-actual Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:48:29 +0000 Craig_the_Lucky 3571@/discussions
The Title settings do not seem to correspond between the preview and the actual.

I have .jpgs of the differences, can I post them here somewhere so someone can explain what I am doing wrong?]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3540/looking-for-a-dedicated-player-to-join-an-ongoing-play-by-post-campaign Fri, 13 Dec 2013 04:56:59 +0000 Ashpin 3540@/discussions
I am the current GM of a Pathfinder Campaign - Reclamation the Stolen Lands (https://reclamation-the-stolen-lands.obsidianportal.com/). This is our version of the Paizo Kingmaker Campaign and has been running steadily for almost 7 months now (with a small hiatius due to the confusion created by the re-forging).

We have a healthy gaming group of myself and three other players, all based in Canberra or Sydney, Australia. All of us are gaming buddies that either through time or distance, have found it difficult to find sufficient time to do face to face gaming, so have been playing via posting. It has been slow, steady and yet rewarding.

Anyway, we are looking for a new player to join our group. We are looking for a mature person, that is friendly, knows the Pathfinder rules pretty well (but isnt a hardcore rules lawyer) and is happy to post on a regular 2 to 3 day schedule. as this is a play by post game, we would also expect that this person is literate and able to write in a clear, imaginative and descriptive manner.

The current group is made up of a human cleric, half-orc bard and shadeling ranger. So there is a plenty of room for a front row fighter, druid, mage, sorceror, witch, summoner or whatever you want!

If you believe you are this person, please drop me a line here. Please tell me a bit about yourself, your gaming experience, preferred style of play and so on. Also happy for you to direct me to any previous posting or gaming online you have participated in.

Look forward to hearing from you!

Ashpin]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3405/fixed-missing-tags-after-edit Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:17:18 +0000 Baard 3405@/discussions
When I edit an existing page, the tags dissapear. When editing a second time and writing up new tags, they stick until I edit the page again.
Can anyone else confirm this behaviour? Is the devs aware of the issue?

I really like the reforge! There is always issues with such a complex CMS, and they are often very hard to spot before publishing.
Keep up the good work OP!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2994/css-not-allowed Mon, 06 May 2013 11:50:24 +0000 KevinThomsen 2994@/discussions
h2.description-header{
display:none;
}

to get rid of the giant "Description" header at the top of character pages, but the uploader rejects this css every time. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3535/does-anyone-play-truth-justice Sun, 08 Dec 2013 08:40:39 +0000 ninjazombie42 3535@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3542/looking-for-a-pathfinder-grp-in-nyc-area Sun, 15 Dec 2013 14:03:09 +0000 Fydon17 3542@/discussions
im a experience player too ..




mike]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3532/function-request-leave-a-campaign Wed, 04 Dec 2013 23:07:17 +0000 JayJay 3532@/discussions
Those campaigns then sit, taking up space on your profile, and there's no way to remove them.

I don't know about other end users opinions, but I feel it would be a useful ability to be able to "opt out" of them, so they are removed from your profile.

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Never Mind - I found it (Click on Edit Profile, then all the Campaigns have a "Leave Campaign" option)]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3517/know-anything-about-europe-and-the-world-in-1947 Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:41:34 +0000 ninjazombie42 3517@/discussions They start off in Norway and will probably be based there, because of the nazis interest in the country and their obsession with norse mythology and the occult.
But I think I might want the players to eventually venture into other countries on missions to encounter more foreign threats than summoned nazi-trolls, evil übermensch, and panzer-men.

It`s a superhero universe, so history is more or less alternative, but how was the world in 1947? What happened in different countries that year? How did people look and act like in france or spain as an example? Or even in Cairo and Tibet?

To begin with I`m mostly interested in knowing Scandinavia and the closest countries, like Russia, UK, Finland, Germany and such, but that might change.

If you have any info or interesting fact, trivia or description of a country and its culture and people in 1947, I would be really Grateful!
If you want to, you can suggest cultural superstitions or mythological threats the heroes could encounter aswell:)]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3484/post-opportunities-humor Sat, 09 Nov 2013 08:11:48 +0000 SkidAce 3484@/discussions
Because when I get home there's dozens of posts, but oddly on Sat and Sun, very few indeed. But weekends and evenings are when we have free time right...right?

How am I supposed to strike up a conversation if you all leave just as I get the time? Either you're posting at work, and do other things on Sat, OR...

You're not posting because you are still asleep after a night of debach..debachery..debauchery!

For shame...


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lol]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3518/how-do-i-prevent-my-adventure-logs-from-auto-collapsing Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:58:16 +0000 onsilius 3518@/discussions
Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3454/actual-banner-size Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:11:01 +0000 smiler127 3454@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3515/campaign-setting-in-norway-1947-prices Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:22:30 +0000 ninjazombie42 3515@/discussions However, there are a few things I would like to know more about. Like what things costed back then! How do I find out? Google hasn`t been much help...]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3382/superheroes-rpg-s-tips-for-the-gm-and-players Sat, 26 Oct 2013 07:42:02 +0000 ninjazombie42 3382@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3505/ignore-feature Fri, 15 Nov 2013 05:41:35 +0000 Bret_ 3505@/discussions
Thank you. :)]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3501/what-happened-to-the-mobile-site Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:43:32 +0000 EugeneGM 3501@/discussions
But it is gone now. Just...gone. Now my phone and tablet loads the entire desktop site, which takes forever, and doesn't seem to work correctly either (I have an Android). When I zoom in, any number of things (dividers?) move into the area I was trying to click with large gorilla hands, taking over the whole screen, meaning I must click things many times before I get the result I like, as I click at least two links when it isn't zoomed in. Also, when I type, it takes a long time for the text to appear. This happens on two devices so far, my Galaxy Note II and my Kindle Fire HD.

Why did you get rid of the fast loading, clean, concise, and easy to use mobile site? Is there ever going to be a mobile version of OP, or will it forever be the slow and clunky desktop site? Unlike some who've complained, I have found great use for OP, and it is a great place to store my campaigns' data, so I'm not going to 'leave' because of this, but it was nice to be able to pull up the site on my Kindle and show everyone a picture of a character while they passed it around, instead of having to flip my laptop back and forth, and just before the relaunch, the mobile site was running even better than before, and I figured that that was because of the relaunch; I guess I was wrong.

Is there any plans to get the site to run better than it currently does on mobiles?]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3480/referring-to-variables Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:33:58 +0000 ChrisH 3480@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3475/forum-question Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:44:32 +0000 smiler127 3475@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3473/what-do-you-like-about-the-reforge-not-sarcastic Wed, 06 Nov 2013 23:51:16 +0000 kenurion 3473@/discussions
I’m feeling pretty good about the forums now that I've gotten used to interface. It’s fewer clicks to hop across forum topics, and it’s much easier to manually scan the posts since you don’t have to keep clicking to get to the next batch of ten. Big usability improvement over Preforge. Caveat: my campaign did not and does not use sub-forums.

I like the "last login" tracker on the dashboard. We're PbP. During Preforge, I had to manually search for a player's most recent forum post to figure out if I should send a participation warning. The "last login" tracker is a big time-saver and gives me confidence I haven't missed a more recent post.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3474/character-page-sorting-by-pc Thu, 07 Nov 2013 09:10:06 +0000 morethanbob 3474@/discussions
I noticed there a lot of quality users out there capable of creating custom CSS that gets the job done where the reforged site has failed us.

I have a request concerning the character page.

I love the new layout visually, save for two major failing points:
1. The main concern is that the characters listed as Player Characters are no longer sorted in any fashion at the top. This was a very useful feature that allowed you to prioritize you PC's in a sorting fashion, without having to use the tags.
2. The character pages no longer contain the picture provided in the preview window.

If anyone is willing to put in the time, I could really see value in custom css that:
- Sorts the Character Page by PC or not PC, potentially with Headers designating both.
- Adds the uploaded character picture in the individual Character Page itself.

Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3470/editing-fourm-posts Wed, 06 Nov 2013 07:15:49 +0000 Viehmagnat 3470@/discussions
Anyone else have this issue?]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3457/items-page Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:24:14 +0000 SkidAce 3457@/discussions
I use the items page for items (duh).

I read about someone using it for locations, which sounds intriguing (filter by country etc).

Got me to thinking...instead of my complex table/list of the alphabet, and coding/putting spells or rituals in alphabetical order, why don't I just use "new item" and give it a tag of "spells".

Is there any limit to the number of items in the item list, or any down side I'm not thinking of?]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3464/music Tue, 05 Nov 2013 10:59:26 +0000 ZombieDragonPrincess 3464@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3460/are-the-modifications-complete-mainly-about-natural-editing Mon, 04 Nov 2013 23:22:22 +0000 JayJay 3460@/discussions
Also is there going to be a way of using more than the middle of the page for campaign stuff? The Dashboard, and User Profile pages seem to use all the screen, but when I go to one of my (pre-existing) campaigns, I have about 1/3 to 1/2 of the screen space used, and that's including "removing the left column down to just Icons". Plus, it's cut off the edges of the banners I made to fit the old site.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3453/slow-to-load Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:29:38 +0000 Ruhar 3453@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3445/login-please Sun, 03 Nov 2013 07:15:46 +0000 SkidAce 3445@/discussions

Granted a small thing in comparison...but its driving me MAD...mad I tell you....muhahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

ahem..]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3448/weird-error-in-adventure-journal Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:55:45 +0000 Keryth987 3448@/discussions
Help would be greatly appreciated

Keelah Se'lai,
Keryth
"Shadows Over New York":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shadows-over-new-york
"Campaign of the Month - July 2013":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/shadows-over-new-york-julys-campaign-of-the-month/]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3443/what-is-happening-here-and-why-is-anyone-paying-for-this Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:41:59 +0000 goonalan 3443@/discussions
I don't understand CSS, although I can copy and paste, but if it goes wrong- and it sometimes does, or else I C&P it wrong- or in to the wrong place, then I've no understanding of why or how to fix it.

The site looks... horrible, I've tried changing colours and playing about with the size of the banners, and... and I don't really know what I'm doing, I'm reading forum threads and trying to make sense of them- trying to get OP to look kinda like it did before the reforge- but I can't get it right.

I can't get OP to upload images, or embed images, or even allow me to do the stuff that I did last week, every day last week- as in prior to the reforge I happily whiled away an hour or so most every day on my campaign site- just adding things, writing up stuff for my players (with pictures etc.), now- I just don't get it.

So, why am I paying for something that doesn't do what it did last week?

More's the point why is anyone paying for this?

One stage further- why are we being charged for this?

I get that things will get better, but why release something that patently doesn't work? Isn't there a way to test things prior to running them?

I apologise I'm not a computer guy, I figure there are lots of people (probably) behind the scenes trying to fix things- or at least I hope there are. I've done my best to go through the forums- trying to find an official 'this is what's happening', or 'this is where we're at', or anything- maybe I'm just not looking in the right place. Is there anything?

Prior to the reforge OP was a god send, a place I could go- click a button, make a new page to use in or out of game- upload images and other files; and generally show off- if only to myself and my players, all the cool things we've done together.

Now... it's broken.

I apologise again for sounding so negative but I regularly access only maybe 5 or 6 sites on the internet, is this normal?

Is there an announcement somewhere I'm missing- help?]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3439/forums-top-and-bottom-buttons Sat, 02 Nov 2013 13:01:00 +0000 SkidAce 3439@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3415/overview-of-reforge-failure Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:01:48 +0000 Belrathius 3415@/discussions
Meagoinc rather succinctly pointed out the purpose of OP to most every gamer here - a tool to improve the game, most often as an immersive tool to help you feel like you are really in the setting. It's not just an overglorified notepad for tracking notes, it's meant and used as a medium to support the game; whether as the primary vessel (like with PBP through the forums) or as an adjunct to table-top games. This core purpose seems to have been lost in the Reforge - at least in terms of UI changes. I love a lot of the discussed back-end changes, although much of it seems to be broken (tags) or stretch goals not yet gotten to (natural editing). What we are faced with instead are drastic UI changes seemingly meant to hype OP (gargantuan OP header? Really?) or make it look like a smart-phone app instead of a simplified canvas that allowed even the free members some decent modicum of creating their own masterpiece to accompany and enhance their game. Now, the usable space is drastically diminished (both width and height), and we can't get away from certain elements always looking like they just stepped out of an I-phone. Not exactly immersive when your setting is medieval fantasy, old west, WWII, or any other number of settings that aren't strictly modern-day. Even for ascendant members, the options to change things boils down to undoing what was changed as an "upgrade", giving us the freedom to downgrade the UI changes to get back to a campaign focused on delivering content rather than a pretty, modern UI with lots of clean, unused space. It feels like the horrible violin player that hangs out by your table who you pay to go away. If this is meant as incentive to free members to upgrade, I doubt that it is having that effect. It's not even about specific campaigns needing to be redone (I haven't even looked at my most heavily CSS'd campaign yet, and probably won't for at least a week), it's about the members feeling like their needs were ignored. Will OP lose members over this? I'm afraid they will - you can do quite a bit of modding on a GuildPortal.com site to give the feel you want and the forum (and subforum) structure you need. Heck, even Wikia.com may serve better for providing an immersive experience now, at least in terms of free access. Again, I sincerely doubt driving people away was the objective, but sadly the UI changes seem likely to do just that if the forums are any indication.

Devs: I can appreciate the desire to make a bright, shiny app that looks like modern apps today (at least for smart phones). That said, you also need to understand your target audience, and in this case it feels like this really wasn't done in terms of the UI. The decision to limit beta testing to a select few who paid for the privilege was an exceedingly poor decision as well, as it limited feedback before roll-out. There is a reason why professional software companies (game, app, whatever) have closed (but free) betas followed by open betas - more feedback BEFORE you are judged on results is always better. By choosing to have a paid beta program, you not only limited your feedback and shot yourself in the foot, but you also changed your beta demographics, which skews results and ends up with the uproar you have now. While this can't be undone, I do believe there is a step that can be done to help address the frustration.

I would heavily suggest that you restore the old OP structure, then open up a beta on a sandbox server with access to all ascendant features (for anyone, ascendant or otherwise). Don't stress that it's October and your original target was August, focus instead on "getting it right". Let people make as many campaigns as they want, with the understanding that it is temporary for testing purposes only and will all be wiped at least every two weeks. Work with beta feedback, which will be far less fueled by emotion than folks having their hard work (often months of effort) go down the drain (at least by perception). This also gives the devs time to address issues calmly rather than in emergency mode, which is better for everyone. From a business standpoint, I also think this will do wonders for damage control and prevent a great deal of potentially lost business. Again, I'm not saying go back to the old OP permanently, but the new stuff simply wasn't ready for distribution, and your paying customers are the ones suffering for it.

There is no shame in saying "we jumped the gun, we're not ready, but we will put things back and want everyone's help going forward to make this the best gaming tool possible". The gaming community is generally pretty good at helping when needed (from my experience), but they are also quick to react when they feel they have been victimized.

Just my two cents, and I hope it is taken in the constructive manner in which it is meant.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3404/some-character-portraits-not-displaying Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:20:02 +0000 Blitzburger 3404@/discussions
All my portraits use the same dimensions and file format.

Happening for anyone else?]]>